That space from your nose to the center of your lips is called the PHILTRUM.
The average person eats 86-million calories in their lifetime.
If you have "swollen glands", your glands aren't swollen...your lymph nodes are.
St. Valentine is the patron saint for plague, travelers, young children, and beekeepers.
Spiders don't get caught in their own webs because they have self-oiling legs.
In Japan, only women give Valentine's gifts and cards. Men give gifts and cards a month later, on March 14th.
A starfish isn't a fish...it's something called an echinoderm.
When he was an NBA player, Charles Barkley used to keep Vaseline in his belly button. He would put it on his lips during the game.
A full-grown pumpkin has about 15 miles of roots.
Peanuts aren't really nuts, they're legumes.
"The Price is Right" host Drew Carey had a GPA of 0.5 after his first semester of college at Kent State, and got kicked out. Years later, they gave him an honorary degree.
It takes, on average, 345 squirts from a cow's udder to get one gallon of milk.
In the new Disney movie "Oz: The Great and Powerful", there are no ruby slippers. Disney can't use them because Warner Brothers owns the rights.
There are 31 people in the U.S. listed in the telephone whitepages with the last name "Cucumber"...and they all live in North Carolina.
The U.S. city that is home to the zip code 12345 is Schenectady, New York.
The sculpture of the naked guy on the tricycle that used to be in the center court of Merle Hay Mall was named "UpDown".
Director Penny Marshall wanted Demi Moore to be the star of the movie "A League of Their Own", but Demi got pregnant, so the part went to Geena Davis.
The average cat sleeps 16 hours a day.
Unlike Looney Tunes cartoons, coyotes are actually more than twice as fast as roadrunners.
Disneyland does not sell chewing gum. Walt Disney didn't want guests inconvenienced by stepping on gum purchased in the park.
A palm tree isn't actually a tree...it's a type of grass.
Ronald Reagan was the only president inaugurated on Super Bowl Sunday.
Super Bowl-bound San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has a 115-pound pet tortoise that he's had since he was 10.
A Koala bear isn't a bear, it's a marsupial (like a kangaroo).
To date, the University of Florida has received more than $150 million in royalties for lending their school nickname "Gators" to Gatorade.
When astronauts return from space, they are usually about 2 inches taller.
Insects don't feel pain. They don't have nociceptors, which are essential to experience pain and carry the feeling to the brain.
The longest coma ever recorded is 37 years and 111 days.
The cost to build a Death Star like the one in “Star Wars” would be about $15 septillion.
In “The Wizard of Oz”, the Wicked Witch of the West is on screen for less than 12 minutes. She scared children in the test screenings, so producers slashed her screen time.
In Thailand, it is customary to GIVE presents on your birthday rather than receive them.
A pound of dimes is worth exactly the same as a pound of quarters ($20).
The seed drill was invented in the 1700’s by an agricultural pioneer named Jethro Tull.
A pelican can hold about 25lbs of fish in its' pouch.
Reindeer can run 50-miles per hour and swim 6 miles an hour.
In the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas”, the calling birds in the song are a mispronunciation of “colly bird”…which means blackbird.
According to a David’s Bridal survey, an estimated 7,500 couples will marry today…12/12/12
According to the latest survey, 15-percent of all holiday shopping is done on the toilet.
They came up with the idea of Lucky Charms cereal by mixing Circus Peanuts into a bowl of cereal, looking for a new twist on Cheerios.
An acre of Christmas trees provides enough oxygen each day for 18 people to breathe.
The average Christmas tree has 150,000 needles on it.
The snow scenes in the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” were shot during a record heat wave in Southern California, with temps in the 90’s.
