Fun Facts around The Globe

• Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
• 30% of Chinese adults live with their parents.
• 200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day.
• There are 100 million internet users in China. Some of the sites they can't access are BBC news, Amnesty International and Dalailama.com.
• China is the source of 70% of the worlds pirated goods.
• People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
• Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.
• The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side
• The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
• Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
• In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.
• In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
• Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run.
  Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
• In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
• Turtles can breathe through their butts.
• Pearls melt in vinegar.
• Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
• Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
• Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials.
• It took approximately 2.5 million blocks to build the Pyramid of Giza, which is one of the Great Pyramids.
• Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory.
• McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food heavy users.
• The Netherlands has built 800 miles of massive dikes and sea walls to hold back the sea.
• Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.
• The rat has been called the world’s most destructive mammal - other than man.
• The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
• US tops the world in plastic surgery procedures. Next comes Mexico.
• 22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.
• Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.
• Most Zambians don't live to see their 40th birthday.
• The ten most generous countries are all in Europe.
• 72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day.
• The top 8 most developed countries all speak Germanic languages. Every such country is in the top 20.