Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.
The term "bank teller" originated in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, when banks began hiring low-paid workers to "tell" throngs of frantic depositors that their money was gone.
The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
Scandinavian berserkers used to cut out their eyes before battle to spare themselves the sight of the carnage they invariably wrought.
Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they've been removed.
The Yanomami tribesmen of the Amazon basin can track game birds by the slight difference in warmth their shadows create on the forest floor as they fly by, for up to an hour after the birds have departed.
Contrary to the popular saying, 99 percent of the time you lead a horse to water, it'll drink on its own.
The first Ford Excursion was actually designed and built in 1951. It was never marketed because the then-current braking technology required a drum 3 feet wide on each wheel.
Rapid deforestation has decreased the friction of the surface of the Earth, causing it to spin infinitesimally faster and thereby cool the air, combating global warming.
The flush toilet was invented in Flushing, NY.
The inner core of most standard golf balls is made of nougat, which helps the balls remain aloft longer.
On occasions when the sun is shining brightly on falling snowflakes, they contain enough ionic charge to stun insects. Observation of this phenomenon inspired the invention of the bug zapper.
Over the last two decades, more Americans died of heart attacks while watching horror movies in movie theaters than died while sky-diving.
A common misconception is that the term "salsa dancing" derives from the food condiment called salsa. Actually, the dance was invented in the 1930s by a dance teacher named Frankie Salsa.
Every common food product, with the exception of fish and veal, contains some traces of peanut enzymes.
The number of words in the Bible divided by the number of verses equals exactly 666.
An 18th-century law still on the books in Vermont makes it illegal for a woman to lick a stamp in a public place.
Anthropologists have discovered a tribe of South American monkeys with a rudimentary system of government analogous to our own three-branch form of government.
Constipation kills nearly twice as many people as diarrhea, mainly because the former mostly afflicts the old and weak while the latter mostly affects young, strong children.
It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.
If you fill a standard 750ml wine bottle with live hornets, their angry buzzing will resonate at precisely the right frequency to shatter the glass.
During his famous "Blue Period," Pablo Picasso invented the substance that eventually became known as Play-Doh.
Every year in the fall, Niagara Falls is shut down for maintenance for 24 hours. The flow is diverted using a massive series of pipes and spigots built for this purpose in 1837.
The rare Chilean hummingbird has been known to suck blood from animals like a giant mosquito.
Tap dancers frequently forget to breathe normally during difficult routines, resulting in an average of 200 tap dancing-related tragedies per year.
