What are you teaching me this time?

Facts

The majority of our brains are raging on overload. Nevertheless, this learning curb promises to be more entertaining than painstaking!

• If you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Cheops, you would get enough stones to encircle the earth with a brick wall twenty inches high.
• Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.
• The Nike swoosh was designed by a Portland State University student, and purchased by Nike for $35.
• Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
• 72% of Americans sign their pets' names on greeting cards they send out.
• There are between 5,000 and 7,000 tigers kept as pets in the United States.
• 32 out of 33 samples of well-known brands of milk purchased in Los Angeles and Orange counties in California had trace amounts of perchlorate.
• The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
• Worms are hermaphroditic, they have both sets of sexual organs on their bodies.
• The largest ocean liners pay a $250,000 toll for each trip through the Panama Canal. The canal generates fully one-third of Panama's entire economy.
• The leading cause of on-the-job deaths in workplaces in America is homicide.
• The prison system is the largest supplier of mental health services in America, with 250,000 Americans with mental illness living there.
• The chicken is one of the few things that man eats before it's born and after it's dead.
• Newest trend in the Netherlands: Tiny jewels implanted directly into the eye.
• There has been no mail delivery in Canada on Saturday for the last thirty five years.
• Every year, 2700 surgical patients go home from the hospital with metal tools, sponges, and other objects left inside them. In 2000, 57 people died as a result of these mistakes.
• The world's smallest winged insect is the Tanzanian parasitic wasp. It's smaller than the eye of a housefly.
• About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
• Percentage of men and women who say they are happier after their divorce or separation is: Men - 58% and Women - 85%
• The longest words in the English language with only one syllable are the nine-letter "screeched" and "strengths".
• According to the United Nations F.A.O. yearbook 1991, Australia had a population of 17,800,000 people compared to 162,774,000 sheep (9.25 : 1), and New Zealand had 3,400,000 people compared to 57,000,000 sheep (16.75 : 1).