The Pacific Ocean fills nearly a complete hemisphere of the earth s surface

Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet

The first product to have a UPC bar code on its packaging was Wrigley s gum

Windmills always turn counter-clockwise Except for the windmills in Ireland

Lick your wrist and smell it This is what your breath smells like to others

The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol which is a term used in England

There are at least 3 recorded cases of people literally dying from laughte

At the Yunessun Spa in Japan a guest can go swimming in tea coffee and wine

Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers

Ten percent of the Russian government s income comes from the sale of vodka

Offered a new pen to write with 97% of all people will write their own name

Singapore Airlines have corpse cupboards to store people who die mid-flight

Ostriches stick their heads into the sand to find underground drinking wate

Rich people in China often hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences

Until the 1850s there were no left and right shoes - both pair were identical