1. All polar bears are left-handed.

2. The Empire State Building in New York City, New York of the country United States, has 6,400 windows.

3. 1961 was the most recent year that could also be read upside down. The next one is 6009.

4. All hospitals in Singapore use Pampers diapers.

5. The only KNOWN creature to have been hit by a meteor that crashed earth is an unlucky dog named Nakhla at Egypt in 1911.

6. There are 336 dimples on a regular golf ball.

7. Bats always turn left when flying out of a cave.

8. Charles Dickens, author of Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, and A Christmas Carol, always faced north when writing stories and sleeping. He believed this helped him tap into his dreams and to have better writing charactersitics.

9. The tallest lighthouse in the world is a steel tower at Yamashita Park, Yokohama. It stands 106 meters (348 feet) high.

10. J. Sterling Morton, a U.S. Secretary of Agriculture started Arbor Day in 1885.

11. A baseball has exactly 108 stitches.

12. The first e-mail sent was in 1971 from Ray Tomlinson (U.S.A.), an engineer at computer company Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., which was the letters "QWERTYUIOP".

13. Pablo Picasso's first word was the Spanish word for pencil. He also could draw before he could walk.

14. The fortune cookie were actually invented in America by Charles Jung in 1918.

15. Judo was devised by Dr. Jigoro Kano in Japan in 1882.

16. Another word for garlic is allium sativum.

17. The Bank of Vernal, in Vernal, Utah is the only bank in the world that was built from bricks sent through the mail. Way back in 1919 the builders realized that it was cheaper to send the bricks through the United States Postal System (seven bricks to a package) than to have them shipped commercially from Salt Lake City.

18. There are 296 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in its stairway.

19. The world's first stone lighthouse was the Smeaton Eddystone, built just south of Plymouth, England in 1756 by John Smeaton, the "Father of Civil Engineering." It was lit with only 24 candles.

20. The average lifespan of a cow is 7 years. The oldest cow ever recorded was Big Bertha. She reached 48 in 1993. She also holds the record for producing 39 calves.

21. In nine months, a housefly could lay enough eggs to produce a layer of flies that would cover all of Germany to a depth of 47 feet (14 meters).

22. There are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building.

23. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

24. In 1841, Oberlin College in the U.S. state of Ohio became the first U.S. College to award degrees to women.

25. The stegosaurus had a brain that weighed two ounces and was no bigger than a walnut.

26. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

27. The highest known score for a single word in competition Scrabble is 392. In 1982, Dr. Saladin Khoshnaw achieved this score for the word "caziques," which means an Indian chief.

28. The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age, and was named Fred.

29. Donald Duck comics were banned from libraries in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. (Finland is a country in Europe).

30. Benjamin Franklin signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution with his left hand.

31. The word "electric" was first used in 1600 by William Gilbert, a doctor to Queen Elizabeth I.

32. Albert Einstein's last words were in German. Since the attending nurse did not understand German, his last words will never be known.

33. When the first U.S. Congress set the president's pay at $25,000 per year, they also established the vice president's salary at $5,000.

34. If you were to drop a snowflake from the top of tall buildings such as the World Trade Center when it was up before September 11th, Empire State Building, Sears Tower, etc. (over 1,000 feet), it will take more than 10 minutes for it to hit the ground.

35. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

36. Volleyball was started by William G. Morgan in 1895 at Holyoke, Massachusetts. It became an international sport in 1947 and was recognized as an Olympic sport in 1964.

37. The first words that Thomas A. Edison spoke into the phonograph were, 'Mary had a little lamb'.

38. Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40,320 ways to rearrange the other eight reindeers.

39. If all the "Coca-Cola" ever produced were to erupt from "Old Faithful" at a rate of 15,000 gallons per hour, this geyser would flow continually for over 1,577 years.

40. The first 4-wheel drive car was made by Panhard in 1901.

41. Earmuffs were invented in 1873 in Maine by Chester Greenwood.

42. The sport volleyball was actually invented by William Morgan, a Y.M.C.A. instructor in Holyoke, Massachussets, in 1895. He originally called it mintonette.

43. Mocha, considered by many to be the best coffee in the world, comes from Yemen. The coffee was originally grown on the hillsides along the Red Sea.

44. The modern day yo-yo was invented by Pedro Flores of the Philippines.

45. Denmark was the first European country to legalize same-sex marriages and to offer gay couples/lesbian couples the same rights as heterosexual couples.

46. The only deceased jockey to win a horse race was Frank Hayes in 1923. Frank Hayes suffered from a heart attack in the duration of the race, and died while riding the horse. Nevertheless, his horse, Sweet Kiss, was the first horse to cross the finish line.

47. Tennis champion Charlotte Cooper became the first woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal in 1900.

48. The world's largest chimney is the number two stack of the Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan, power plant at 1,378 feet (420 meters) tall.

49. An atomic clock is accurate to within one second in 1.7 million years.

50. It takes about 40 minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.

51. The tallest building in the world in 1900 was the Park Row Building, in New York City, U.S.A., standing 391 feet high with 30 floors.

52. Austin is home to North America’s largest urban bat population. Up to 1.5 million Mexican free-tail bats fly at there at night.

53. Rainbow Bridge in Rainbow Bridge National monument is the largest known natural arch in the world. It is 290 feet high and spans 275 feet over the waters of Bridge Creek.

54. Baltimore was home of the first U.S. umbrella factory (1828) and the first ice cream freezer (1848).

55. Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza ranked as the tallest human-built structure on Earth for more than 43 centuries. Its original height was 481 feet.

56. The sweet potato originated in South America, where native Americans called it batata.

57. Tulips had been introduced into Europe from Turkey shortly after 1550. The craze, known as the Tulip Mania, reached its peak in Holland in 1633 - 1637.

58. The first color photograph was made in 1861 by James Maxwell. He photographed a tartan ribbon.

59. The U.S. nickname Uncle Sam was derived from Uncle Sam Wilson, a meat inspector in Troy, New York.

60. Big (1988) was the first film by a female director (Penny Marshall), to earn more than 100 million dollars at the box office.

61. The first orangutans to be raised in a zoo were Hella and Bruno, born on February 2, 1969 in Hellabru, the zoo in Munich, West Germany.

62. The electric chair was invented by American dentist Dr. Albert Southwick in 1881.

63. The first person to have been killed by an electric chair is William Lelmer, who murdered his lover Matilda with an ax.

64. The total length of wire used in the two main cables that support the Golden Gate Bridge is equal to approximately 80,000 miles.

65. The first person to fly an airplane over Antarctica was Sir George Hubert Wilkins (Australia) in 1928.

66. The first street lights appeared in Philadelphia in 1757.

67. Queen Liliuokalani of the Hawaiian Islands was America's only queen.

68. Chess was invented in northwest India around 570.

69. Fox hunting developed in England around 1420.

70. Greek writer Julius Pollux describes the game apodidraskinda at around the year 150, later commonly known as hide-and-seek.

71. The earliest known mental hospitals were established in Baghdad and Cairo, in 918.

72. Electric eels can deliver electric shocks with voltages as high as 1,000 volts, enough to jolt a human.

73. The first mango introduction to Florida in 1833 failed, but the second attempt in 1861 was successful.

74. Pineapples spread to India in 1548, the Philippines in Spanish galleons in 1558, and to South Africa in 1660.