Expand your mind...

1.  cats are Whenhappy or pleased, they squeeze their eyes shut.
2. Some Chinese believe that swinging the arms cures headaches.
3. Diamonds are not that rare, De Beers creates an artificial scarcity by stockpiling mined diamonds and selling them in small amounts.
4. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
5. Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.
6. Married men tip better than unmarried men.
7. The tradition of brides carrying a bouquet of flowers started with the brides trying to hide their body odor.
8. 'Jedi' is an official religion in Australia with over 70,000 followers.
9. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
10. Hugo Boss designed some of the Nazi SS uniforms.
11. The largest hummus dish was prepared in Lebanon. It weighed 10,452 Kg.
12. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America (not China), in 1918, by Charles Jung.
13. If you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall continuously.
14. The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat,” which means “the king (shah) is dead (mat).”
15. All swans in England are the property of the queen or king.
16. Adding a drop of olive oil and lemon juice to an ice cube then running it over your face gives you better results than some expensive skin care products.
17. You will weigh less if you weigh yourself when the moon is full.
18. Benjamin Franklin was offended about putting a bald eagle as the national bird because he thought that other people were trying to make fun of him, since he was bald.
19. The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.
20. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
21. The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
22. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
23. The Pope’s been known to wear red Prada shoes.
24. Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.
25. The best-value consumer purchase in terms of the price and usage is an electric kettle.
26. Native Hawaiian women were not allowed to cook.
27. The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth’s surface.
28. A “lost world” exists in the Indonesian jungle that is home to dozens of hitherto unknown animal and plant species.
29. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.  
30. A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
31. The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
32. 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn’t true; Joseph Swan did.
33. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
35. On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day. (How exhausting for pre-school teachers).
36. The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
37. The snake can see through its transparent eye lids when they are closed.
38. A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows.
39. The X’s that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000’s when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X.
40.  It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world’s population are drunk.
41. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
42. The correct response to the Irish greeting, “Top of the morning to you,” is “and the rest of the day to yourself.”
43. When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” being played on the radio.
44. Sir Isaac Newton, who invented Calculus, had trouble with names to the point where he would forget his brothers’ names.
45. King Henry III of France, Louis XVI of France and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia—fear of cats.
46. During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required to pay a special tax.
47. Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%. 
48. Percentage of American women who say they’d marry the same man: 50%.
49. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne and; Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
50. There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘-dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
51. The stall closest to the door in a bathroom is the cleanest, because it is the least used.
52. Whoopi Goldberg was a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer before becoming an actress.
53. Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.
54. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he didn’t wear pants.
55. More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
56. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one leg front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.  George Washington statues have one leg in the air, for example.  If the horse has all 4 legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
57. India never invaded any country in her history.
58. France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
59. Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.