Heh, the booklets I bought for school have alot of facts in them. Like the screaming and coffee cup heating thing.
I'm going to go take my booklets now. *takes booklets* Let's begin, shall we?
1)At the beginning of the 19th century, there lived a dog in Germany who could pronounce ~100 words in the German language.
2) If you count from numbers 1 to 1 billion, it would take you 36,2 years of time.
3) If we presume that Rudolf is the reindeer that's at the front, then the other 8 reindeers can be put to their places in 40 320 different ways.
4) If you lose only 2% of your body-water, you could get concencration difficulties with math or while working with a computer.
5) A sleeping human's body is half centimeters longer than an awake human's body.
6) The cubage of the moon is equal to the cubage of the Pacific Ocean.
7) The 100-year-war actually extended over the period of 116 (it began on the year 1337, oh yeah *winkwink*)
8) Earth is the only planet in our solar-system that hasn't gotten it's name from a heathen god.
9) Every year, moon departs from the earth by 3,82 centimeters.
10) Only 55% of Americans know that the Sun is a star (ha!)
11) If you break a glass, the shards of glass fly with the speed 4800 km/h.
12) You can hear a lion's roar from 9 kilometres away.
13) There are 2 earthquakes on Earth every minute.
14) A cat sleeps 16 hours a day.
15) When a gorilla is angry, he shows his tongue.
16) Dew worms have 5 hearts.
Oh yeah, they mention it, "A normal sized paper can't be folded more than 7 times. Take that, Myhtbusters!