We all enjoy having our eyes gently massaged by awesome and pointless images, but our mothers would prefer we read an encyclopedia. Being that we are the smartest generation yet, I am going to kill two birds with one post.

Be prepared to have your brain entertainment while expanding your knowledge at the same time. Let’s start this off lightly. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

To get your learn on, hit the jump…

There was no punctuation until the 15th century.

The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.

The word ‘News’ is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points – North, East, West, and South!

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C

The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.

The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.

The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop.

New York’s Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.

It’s estimated that millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.

It takes 492 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth.

In many countries, urine was used as a detergent for washing.

Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide.

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.

Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.

The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.

Pageant Models often smear Vaseline on their teeth so their lips won’t stick when smiling.

One punishment for an adulterous wife in medieval France was to make her chase a chicken through town naked.

It is now possible to print human skin with an inkjet printer.

In Albania, nodding your head means ‘no’ and shaking your head means ‘yes’.

A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine.

In Venezuela, fuel costs around $0.02.

The volume of the Earth’s moon is close to the amount of the Pacific Ocean.

If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there’s no air pressure.

Having sex can reduce a fever because of the sweat produced.

An elephant can die from a broken heart.

The song “3″ by Britney Spears is 3 minutes 33 seconds long.

A DAY is longer than a YEAR on Venus.

Homosexuality was listed as a mental illness with the American Psychiatric Association (APA) until 1973.

A fly that appears to have drowned can be revived with the use of everyday table salt.

The word “queue” is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only one testicle.

The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.

Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

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