• Only 30 percent of coffee beans grown end up as coffee. The other 70 percent are lost to rot, shipment errors, spillage, or are consumed in another fashion.
• In 2005, more square yards of pleather were manufactured than real leather.
• More spam email comes from the Bahamas than Nigeria.
• The average combined energy of radio, televisition, cellphone, and satellite signals passing through the human body at any given moment is estimated to be equivalent to 10 food calories.
• More people die from infections originating in the toenail than from skin cancer annually.
• Masking tape was originally developed during WWII as a non-reflective alternative to duct tape for British troops fighting in the desert.
• Rutgers college at one point had an underwaster basket-weaving class as an elective during the 1910s.
• Buzz Aldrin is rumored to have dropped a tube of toothpaste on the moon.
• Legal pads are so-called because Oliver Wendell Holmes was known to complain about the short length of ordinary paper.