What? Really...?

• The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every
  year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into
  account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

• If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you
  have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money
  in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

• It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time
  that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In
  Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and
  the 46th word from the last word is spear.

• The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile
  in every five must be straight. These straight sections are
  usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

• 1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

• The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).

• There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.

• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

• Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

• The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

• The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

• Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"

• The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

• The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees and the only mammal that can't jump.

• "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you." .