False Facts 10Polar bears can eat as many as 22 penguins in a single sitting.
You can get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.
The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 16 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.
A Wisconsin man was beaten by an angry mob because he asked for "no cheese" on his Whopper.
King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.
In the early 70s, McDonalds briefly offered customers a choice of French fries or consomme.
Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.
Human saliva has a boiling point twice that of regular water.
30% of women who apply makeup while driving have accidentally swallowed a tube of lipstick.
Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.
Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.
Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained small particles of real camel dung.
You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.
Labrador retrievers dream about bananas.
If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind.
Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.
Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."