2. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
3. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
4. 2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
6. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
7. As of July 2005, the smallest country in terms of population was Pitcairn Islands with 45 inhabitants!
8. Licking a stamp leads to the consumption of 1/10 of a calorie.
9. Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
10. Mosquito's are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
11. Abraham Lincoln faces to the right on a penny while all the other presidents face to the left on US coins.
12.On average people fear spiders more than death.
13. Did you know that there are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
14."Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
15.Soccer is the most attended or watched sport in the world.
16.A short time before Lincoln's assassination, he dreamed he was going to die, and he related his dream to the Senate.
17.Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
18.The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
19.To prevent evil spirits from entering the bodies of their male children, parents dressed them in blue. Blue was chosen because it's the color of the sky and was therefore associated with heavenly spirits. Girls weren't dressed in blue, apparently because people didn't think that evil spirits would bother with them. Eventually, however, girls did get their own color: pink. Pink was chosen because of an old English legend which said that girls were born inside of pink roses.
20.The first MTV video was "Video Killed the Radio Star," by the Buggles