On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
72
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
927
An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
32
All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
38
It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
-11
Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
29
A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over.
170
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
348