· In the last five years, 24 residents of Tokyo died while bowing to other people.

· In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

· Fingernails grow nearly four times faster than our toenails.

· The monarch butterfly can discern tastes 12,000 times more subtle than those perceivable by human taste buds.

· The average adult eyeball weighs one ounce.

· Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of Girl Scouts, was nearly deaf. A grain of rice thrown at her wedding was lodged in her ear, and the infection destroyed most of her hearing in that ear.

· The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when you look at something pleasing.

· Hockey's Stanley Cup weighs 32 pounds.

· Leonardo DaVinci invented scissors.

· Albert Einstein did not know how to drive a car.

· Emerson Moser, a crayon maker at Crayola, revealed upon his retirement that he was blue-green colorblind. He molded more than 1.4 billion crayons in his 37-year career.