Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space. The first to exercise this right to vote while in orbit was astronaut David Wolf, who cast his vote for Houston mayor via e-mail from the Russian space station Mir in November 1997.

I actually heard this is an urban myth. On that MTV show "The Big Urban Myth Show" they had a guy from Nike come on and say that Nike does not do this and that it's just a big huge urban myth and they don't know how it got started.

Are you sure you do this, or you just HEARD you could do it?

The united steates spends more money on its military then the next 12nations combined.

A study by Lifestyles Condom Co. shows that the average length of a American male erect sex organ is 5.877 inches — which might comfort men who previously thought they were less than average.

Thank god for being above average!!!

Zebras' stripes are like human fingerprints - no two patterns are alike.

I just found out that in the movie "Conan The Barbarian", Conan only says a total of five words to Valeria (Conan's love interest). That's pimp!

So is a Tarsier's

Baby Dolphins have moustaches.

A fully grown blue whale can weigh as much as 537,432 (plus or minus a couple hundred) average sized guinea pigs.

Aardvarks are not anteaters, but belong to an order all their own, that is most closely related to hoofed mammals
and cetaceans. (Anteaters are more closely related to carnivores.)

The closest relatives to the elephants are hyraxes, which are about the size of a large guinea pig.

The German word for nipple literally means "breast wart". And they say that the Germans are an unromantic people. ;)

Traditional Peruvian beer is made with a yeast cultured from the faeces of unweaned infants. I guess horespiss ain't so bad.

The word for the beverage Punch, is from Hindi <i>panch(a)</i> meaning 5, because, at the time of the Raj, the British thought that the perfect punch had 5 ingredients in it (what hey are I don not know.) It's the same root word as in Punjab (5 rivers.) Other Hindi words in English include jodhpurs, dungarees, thug, and pajamas.

Crocodilians have incredible strenght in closing their jaws, but not much in opening them. In fact, if you can keep them from shaking your hand off, you can hold a croc's jaws closed with one hand (of course, given the likely outcome if the croc did shake it off, you'd be a fool to use less than two.)

Sharks don't have scales. Their skin is covered with tiny teeth. It used to be used as sandpaper before carborundum grit sandpaper was mass produced.

Imperial Romans used to wipe their fundaments after defacating with a sponge on a stick.

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

stewardess is the longest word you can type only using your left hand.

also, at least 3 people are trying that our right now...