While going through some old diskettes I'm about to dispose of, I found this...

DID YOU KNOW...?

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All polar bears are left-handed.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until he reaches two to six years of age.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over 100 vocal sounds; dogs have only about 10.

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand 7 feet, 2 inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930s lobbied against hemp farmers. They saw it as competition.

Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our noses and ears never stop growing.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

Shakespeare coined the words "assassination" and "bump."

Starfish do not have brains.

The average human eats eight spiders in his lifetime at night.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth 2 moves only 6 inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The names of all of the continents end with the same letter they start with.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as are necessary. When it was built, in the 1940s, the State of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.

Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

The words racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

Women blink nearly twice as often as men.

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.