· Obsessive nose picking is referred to as rhinotillexomania.

· In New York City, approximately 1600 people are bitten by other humans each year.

· There is enough water in American swimming pools to cover the whole city of San Francisco seven feet deep.

· Buckingham Palace has more than six hundred rooms.

· Google.com's company headquarters is nicknamed the Googleplex, which houses more than 270 employees.

· In 1962, the first Wal-Mart opened in Rogers, Ark.

· Mexico City boasts the world's largest taxi fleet with more than 60,000 taxis running every day.

· The first ever "World Summit on Toilets" was held in Singapore in November 2001.

· The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks and spectator sports combined.

· The United Parcel Service shipped the killer whale Keiko (star of Disney movie "Free Willy") from Mexico City to Newport, Oregon in 1998.

· There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of two hundred people.

· The risk of having a heart attack is 50% higher on Mondays.