There are rather a lot of them!
It takes seven to ten days to make a jelly belly jellybean.
More than half of the different types of cheese in the world come from France.
Muffins spelled backwards is sniffum.
Ninety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decoration.
No two cornflakes look the same.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
One of the ingredients in ice cream is seaweed.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rice is the main food for half of the people of the world.
Salt is the only rock humans can eat
The amount potato chips Americans eat each year weighs six times more than the Titanic
The coconut is the largest seed in the world.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma in an emergency
There are 2,000,000 different combinations of sandwiches that can be created from a SUBWAY menu.
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
There are only two people in the world that know the secret recipe for Coca-Cola
There is no such thing as blue food, even blue berries are purple.
There was a molasses flood in Boston on January 15, 1919 that killed 21 people and injured 150 people.
When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within a period of 20 minutes.
You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells all while you have been reading this sentence.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sale of Happy Meals.
A can of Diet Coke will float in water while a can of regular Coke sinks.
A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
According to Scandinavian traditions, if a boy and girl eat from the same loaf of bread, they are bound to fall in love.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second. (Ill be willing to bet that's just the girls!)
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.(Oh wow!)
At McDonald's in New Zealand, they serve apricot pies instead of cherry ones.(And in the UK it's apple not apricot or cherry)
Bubble gum contains rubber.
The formula for coca-cola was created by pharmacist John Pemberton.
Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space.
Coke is used to clean up blood spills on highways.
During your lifetime you will eat 60,000 pounds of food, the weight of six elephants.
Great Britain has the highest consumption of ice cream than any other European nation.
Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures.
In Australia, the number 1 topping for pizza is eggs. In Chile, the favorite topping is mussels and clams. In the United States, it's pepperoni.
It is estimated that Americans will consume 10 million tons of turkey on Thanksgiving Day. Due to turkey's high sulphur content, Americans will also produce enough gas to fly a fleet of 75 Hindenburghs from L.A to New York in 24 hours.
By 65 years old, Americans have watched more than nine years of television.
In the next seven days, 800 Americans will be injured by their jewellery.
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
More than 10 percent of all the salt produced annually in the world is used to de-ice American roads.
Nobody yet has explained satisfactorily why couples who marry in January, February, and March tend to have the highest divorce rates.
Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
Statistically the safest age of life is 10 years old.
The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
The average person over fifty will have spent one year looking for lost items.
The average person speaks about 31,500 words per day.(how many would you guess I speak then!?)
The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime.
The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The highest flight by a bird was by a Ruppell's vulture at 37,000 feet. The bird hit a plane at this height.
The largest number of children born to one woman is 69 to a Russian peasant.
The percent of women who wash their hands after using a restroom is 80%.
The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.
There are three times as many households in the United States without telephones as there are without television sets.
Twelve babies will be given to the wrong parents each day.
Two out of five husbands tell their wife daily that they love them.
You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
1 out of 4 Americans do not know what their astrological sign is.
13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.
2,500 newborn babies will be dropped in the next month.
27% of Americans think billboards are beautiful.
4% of the U.S population are vegetarians.
40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.(you go girls!)
50% of bank robberies take place on Fridays.
51% of turns are right turns.
57% of British school kids think Germany is the most boring country in Europe.(we do?!)
7% of Americans think Elvis is alive.
90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
Fifty percent of all marsh mellows consumed in the U.S. have been toasted.
About 5% of Americans claim to have talked to the devil personally.
About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.
Americans spend more time at shopping malls than anywhere else outside their homes and jobs.
Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40320 ways to rearrange the other eight reindeer.
Did you know that you're more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider?
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Lassie was the first animal named to the Animal Hall of Fame in 1969.
Bats are the only mammals that can fly.
Most polar bears are left-handed.
Chinese Crested dogs can get acne
The brown myotis bats young when born are equivalent to a woman giving birth to a thirty pound baby.
Worldwide, bats are the most important natural enemies of night-flying insects.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
The Kodiak, which is native to Alaska, is the largest bear and can measure up to eight feet and weigh as much as 1,700 pounds.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
The whale must move its whole body to shift its line of sight because its eyeball is fixed.
At birth, a panda weighs about 4 ounces and is smaller than a mouse.
When North America was first settled, beavers there grew to the size of bears
A dog's nose is so sensitive that it can tell the difference between a tub of water and a tub of water with a teaspoon of salt in it.
Germany and Switzerland only have one dog for every ten families.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
The koala never drinks because it gets all the liquid it needs from the eucalyptus leaves that it eats.
A blue whale's test icles are as large as a Volkswagen beetle, and a small child could crawl through their major arteries.
A humpback whale's milk is 54 percent fat
The hippopotamus has skin an inch and a half thick, so solid that most bullets cannot go through.
okay...
We had a busy labor day weekend. My Dad's side of the family came over and we had a big family BBQ. There was 34 of us, all loud Italians. What a blast we had. We convinced two of my cousins and their families to book for our Halloween cruise next year. Now there is going to be 24 of us going. What a blast that will be. Is anyone else thinking about going again next year?
"a retired engineer on vacation." 
