• 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.
  

• Bill Clinton claimed to never have gotten drunk in college.
• Nine-tenths of bandwidth are consumed by computers running the Linux operating system.
• Thirteen tsunamis have hit the tiny island nation of Micronesia in the past century.
• A recent survey found that 66 percent of women are aware that fish scales are an ingredient of lipstick.
• In one year, the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin consumes enough beer to fill Lake Michigan one and a half times over.
  

• People call a coin flip as "heads" approximately 75 percent of the time.

• Two out of five Americans surveyed dislike Canadian cuisine.

• There is twice as much money granted to universities for disproving global warming than for neither proving nor disproving it.

• A koala appears to have zebra-like stripes when viewed with only ultra-violet light.

• The word "duct tape" is the most recently invented 8-letter phrase according to The Oxford English Dictionary.

• According to the National Bureau of Police Statistics, the average police officer will 'misplace' and be reimbursed for 17 sets of handcuffs over the course of an 28 year career.

• An average person in New York City showers 1.8 times every day.

• A hand-written note attached to the flag left on the moon declares Neil Armstrong to be President for Life of the "Republic of Lunatious".

• Elephants have the world's largest ankles.

• Despite two extreme outliers -- Oregon on one side, New York City on the other -- an average American bathes more often than an average person of any other nationality except France.

• Authors whose names start with an A have their books checked out 62 percent more often at public libraries.

• In his youth, U.S. President George Washington was an accomplished Irish dancer.

• In his high school years Albert Einstein scored an 73 on an IQ test, In his adult years he was asked why his score was so low, he replied that he "never took tests too seriously."

• One in every 5,000 emperor penguins carries a rare gene that makes its beak bright blue.

• In 1896, the Georgia State Legislature declared the color name 'puce' to be in violation of anti-obscenity laws. The color itself was declared acceptable on a probationary level, but the probation has never been lifted to this day.

• It is estimated that only 3 percent of insurance fraud attempts go unnoticed.

• The ratio of left-handed people to right handed people is decreasing. If the present trend continues, "righties" will outnumber "lefties" by 800 to 1 in the year 2456.

• Nearly six times as many ketchup packs are discarded in the U.S. every year as are consumed in the same period.

• The second most common word in the King James version of the Old Testament is "goat." After "begat."

• 45 percent Chia Pets die prematurely due to neglect by the owner because of its common label as "the care-free plant."

• Law students spend less time in ethics training than any other professional students.

• The average age of first-time cell phone owners has decreased from 17 to 9 since the year 2000.

• Memorizing and quoting trivial information can increase a person's score on standardized IQ test by 21 to 39 points.

• When cornered, a lemur can jump over twenty feet straight up.

• According to MSN Search, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, searches for "porn" more than any other city, worldwide.