Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.

Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.

In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.

Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.

The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.

The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard

A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.

The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.

The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.

Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.

You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly.

The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich

Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting

Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.

The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.

The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it

Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.

The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant

The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.

In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.