Did you know?

When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.

The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.

The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.

Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.

If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.

Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.

Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive two hours before you leave.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15 percent wider than normal.

The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.

The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.

Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses that escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.

Liberace Museum has a mirror-plated Rolls Royce, jewel-encrusted capes and the largest rhinestone in the world, weighing 59 pounds and almost a foot in diameter.

A car that shifts manually gets two miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

Children grow faster in the springtime.

On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonald's BigMac bun.

Paul Revere rode on a horse that belonged to Deacon Larkin.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired."

Nobody knows who built the Taj Mahal. The names of the architects, masons and designers that have come down to us have all proved to be latter-day inventions, and there is no evidence to indicate who the real creators were.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary, "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.

"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

February is Black History Month.

Jane Barbie was the woman who did the voice recordings for the Bell System.

The first drive-in service station in the U.S. was opened by Gulf Oil Company on Dec. 1, 1913 in Pittsburgh, P.A.

The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.

Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail-lights.