Little known amusing truths

• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
• The word "politics" describes the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures."
• People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
• Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
• In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
• Turtles can breathe through their butts.
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
• Most Zambians don't live to see their 40th birthday.
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
• In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
• Wearing headphones for just one hour will multiply the number of bacteria in your ear 700 times.
• The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Plants that are not cared for will cry for help, a thirsty plant will make a high-pitched sound that is too high for us to hear.
• A 25 year old man from Maine is auctioning off the back of his neck as advertising space. The winner bidder can put a permanent tattoo ad on the back of Mark's neck.
• It is impossible for a human to lick their elbow.
• Like fingerprints, every one's tongue print is different.
• Heroin used to be a cough medicine for children. A German company (Bayer) registered heroin as a trademark.
• The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
• Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
• The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
• Rather than bury or burn bodies after death, a Swedish company has come up with a chilling alternative; freezing them in liquid nitrogen, then using sound waves to smash the brittle remains into a powder.

More to come if this one turns out good... :)