Coffee contains 1,000 chemical compounds. 26 of these compounds are found to cause cancer in rats.

Breath analyzers in NYC charge $125 and hour to give you a thorough "Breath Analysis": they use a gas sensor and gum thermometer to detect sulfur compounds in the mouth and then give you a so-called "breath makeover".

Bill Gates formed a company to sell a computerized traffic counting system to cities, which made $20,000 its first year. Business dropped sharply when customers learned Gates was only 14 years old.

The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.

The waste produced by one chicken in its tiny chicken lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100-watt bulb for 5 hours.

Some Chinese typewriters have 5,700 characters. The keyboard is almost 3 feet wide on some models, and the fastest one can type on these machines is 11 words per minute.

The average American depends on about 264 computers a day.

The last words of Albert Einstein will never be known. They were spoken in German and the attending nurse did not understand German.

Engineers recently created a device called the "Aludium 936 Pumpkin Modulator" to shoot a pumpkin 2,710 feet into the air at 600 mph without the use of explosives.

Astronomers believe that the universe contains one atom for every 88 gallons of space.

A 1999 survey of 25,500 standard English-language dictionary words found that 93 percent of them have been registered as .coms.

At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.

7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.

Crocodiles can run very fast. If you are being chased by one of these creatures, stand still. Their mouths can only open vertically, and they can't turn their heads sideways.

One ton of iron turns into three tons of rust.

It rains sulfuric acid on Venus.

Flamingo tongues were a common delicacy at Roman feasts.