Fact 11

• The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
• Walt Disney was afraid of mice.  
• The first known marketer of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
• The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
  
• The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
• The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.  (This fact and the one prior to it have been judged as urban legends by many)
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.  (Makes you think about ambidextrous people)  This fact is based on a study that had errors in it, thus it might not be a fact.
• Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\'t be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount.
• Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
• The US national anthem actually has four verses, but everyone just knows the first one.  When the whole anthem is sung, the third verse is usually omitted.
• During World War II, IBM built counting machines the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
• During World War II, the British Intelligence used the Colossus Machines (precursor to computers) at Bletchley Park to help decode the enigma code of the Nazis.
• The first Computer was ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, unveiled on February 14, 1946  (Thanks D.B. of AU)
• The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
• The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
• Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
• Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
• The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
• Men with a certain rare medical condition can breastfeed babies
• There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.
• Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to plants.
• In some Asian countries, the family name is written first and the individual name written second (Filipinos and people from near by Asian countries have their individual names first and surnames last)
• Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860
• A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.