100 facts you can't live without.

1. Barbie Doll's measurements if she were life-size: 39-23-33

2. Coca-Cola was originally green.

3. Every day, more money is printed for the game 'Monopoly' than for the U.S. Treasury.

4. The Hawaiian alphabet has only got 12 letters.

5. First novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.

6. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but it will not follow downstairs.

7. American Airlines saved $440,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

8. Hong Kong is the City with the most Rolls Royce motor cars. Many Hotels here also use them as taxis

9. In Alaska more people walk to work than any other state in the US.

10. At any given hour at least 61,000 people are airborne over the U.S.

11. 70% of Americans have visited Disneyland or Disney World.

12. James Buchanan was the only President of the USA who remained a bachelor.

13. Eleanor Roosevelt was the only first lady to carry a loaded revolver.

14. President Jimmy Carter discovered a new proof for the Pythagorean Theorem.

15. The Hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.

16. In the Caribbean, there are oysters that can climb trees.

17. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

18. Eskimos never gamble or play games of chance in their igloos.

19. The youngest pope was 11 years old.

20. Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.

21. Your nose and ears never stop growing.

22. The parachute was invented by Leonardo de Vinci in 1515.

23. They grow square watermelons in Japan, as they stack better.

24. Nearly 4,000 people are injured by teapots each year.

25. At birth, a baby has 305 bones instead of the 206 of an adult.

26. Many eighteenth-century sailors tattooed a crucifix on their back in hopes of deterring the Captain from having them flogged with the cat 'o' nine tails.

27. If all the veins, capillaries, and arteries, in your body were stretched out end to end, they would cover 62,000 miles.

28. The code name for Coca-cola's secret ingredient is 7X.

29. Most fatal car accidents in the United States occur on Saturday.

30. According to superstition, if your palms itch, you will soon receive unexpected money.

31. A foreign visitor may have difficulty counting American coins because they have no numerical markings on them.

32. A bishop is allowed to have seven crosses on his tomb, a priest five, and an ordinary person one.

33. During the Vietnam War, the Pentagon commissioned the Ace of Spades playing card to G.I's The cards were placed every where, especially on the dead; the Vietcong had a morbid fear of this card.

34. Your nose humidifies and filters about 500 cubic feet of air each day.

35. The elephant is the only animal with four knees.

36. A person must be missing for 7 years in the U.S. before they can be pronounced dead.

37. Big Ben is neither a clock nor a tower. It is the largest and heaviest of the clock's bells.

38. Walt Disney's first cartoon character was Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and not Mickey Mouse.

39. The German award that is equivalent to the Oscar is called the Otto and is annually given to the country's most popular actor.

40. There wasn't a single pony in the 'Pony Express' only horses.

41. Clark Gable's wife, Carole Lombard, was the first American woman killed in World War II.

42. The airplane that dropped the bomb at Hiroshima was named after the pilot's mother, Enola Gay.

43. The password for the D-Day Invasion of 1944 was Mickey Mouse.

44. During the Vietnam War, the talks were postponed because of a debate over the shape of the bargaining table.

45. Bamboo can grow up to 35 inches in a single day.

46. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

47. At Henry the death bed of VIII, his competent physicians did not report him as ill because it would have been considered as high treason.

48. Franklin Roosevelt always slept with a loaded gun under his pillow.

49. Marco Polo introduced pasta to Italy from China in the 13th century.

50. F.B.I head, J. Edgar Hoover never let anyone walk on his shadow.

51. Fidel Castro tried out for the Washington Senators (now the Minnesota Twins) and was rejected.

52. Shirley Temple received 135,000 presents on her eighth birthday in 1936.

53. When Clark Gable removed his shirt in a 1934 scene of "It Happened One Night," he was not wearing an undershirt. Because of this, undershirt retail sales plummeted.

54. As a boy, Cary Grant was expelled from school from trying to sneak into the girls' bathroom.

55. The odds against a golfer sinking a hole-in-one are 300,000 to 1.

56. The word "set " has the most definitions; 58 noun uses, 126 verb uses, and 10 uses as an adjective.

57. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel just to take off.

58. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water, from a mile away.

59. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

60. Singer MC Hammer has spent $68,000 on mirrors.

61. Constant blows strengthen a hammer.

62. 6,000 adults each year are injured by their pajamas

63. Joseph Stalin wore platform shoes. He was only 5 feet 4 ins tall.

64. Skunk spray can glow in the dark.

65. Butch 'Hop-a-Long ' Cassidy only drank milk, he hated alcohol.

66. The reason that the Ford Model T was only produced in black was because black was the only color paint available that would dry fast enough to keep up with production.

67. Every year about 4,000 people are injured by computers.

68. Captain Kirk's middle names is Tiberius.

69. There is a 68% chance that the average hockey player will lose one or more teeth.

70. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel called 'Gadsby', containing over 50,000 words, without using the letter E at any time apart from in his name.

71. Charlie Chaplin once anonymously entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest...He lost !

72. Centuries ago, Noah Webster rewrote the Bible, changing all of the words he thought were naughty.

73. The first telephones did not have bells and were connected all the time. In order to summon someone to the phone, the caller would yell "Ahoy" into the open line.

74. A Rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

75. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. They surrendered after 38 minutes.

76. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

77. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

78. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without using the same letter twice is 'uncopyrightable'

79. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump".

80. Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.

81. If you keep Goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

82. During a naval battle in the 1880s, a Uruguayan ship ran out of cannonballs and began firing Dutch cheeses at an enemy ship. Several of the cheese balls scored direct hits, killing several sailors and forcing the other ship to retreat.

83. Sean Connery has a tattoo on his right arm that reads, "Mum and Dad."

84. Before becoming an actress, Mia Farrow wanted to be a nun.

85. Paul Newman normally eats watermelon in the shower.

86. Count Dracula movie star Bela Lugosi was dressed as Count Dracula when he was buried.

87. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

88. You share your birthday with at least 10,000,000 other people in the world.

89. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 years or older.

90. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough energy to heat one cup of coffee.

91. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out blood to the body to squirt it out 30 feet.

92. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

93. In 1861 the America state of North Carolina once issued a 5-cent bill

94. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

95. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's description of religious freedom: "Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses."

96. More people are afraid of spiders than they are of death.

97. Elvis Presley advertised burgers in 1954.

98. Boomerangs only travel in one direction.

99. Cowboys never notched their kills on their handgun butts.

100. There are only 99 facts in this list.