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--If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

--If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

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

--Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

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

--You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

--The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

--The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910

--No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple

--If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

--Women blink nearly twice as much as men

--The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

--"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

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

--The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.