An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
Barbie's boyfriend Ken was not sold in India until recently because it clashed with the traditional arranged marriage.
Frisbee got its name from William Russel Frisbee, who was a pie baker. He used to sell his pies in a thin tin pan, which had Frisbee written on it. When Walter Frederick Morrison thought of the idea of making saucer like disks to play catch, he visited the campus of Yale and noticed people there were using the pie pan to play catch so he therefore renamed his invention to Frisbee.
On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
The spray WD-40 got its name because there were forty attempts needed before the creation of the "water displacing" substance.
When telephone companies first began hiring telephone operators, they chose teenage boys for the job. They switched to women because the teenage boys were wrestling instead of working and pulling pranks on callers. new
93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women.
98% of houses in the United States have at least one television set.
A Connecticut Toy maker, Herobuilders, sells action figures of President George W. Bush, Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which are all major figures tied to the September 11, 2001 WTC attacks.
A common name for pincurls is also spitcurls because woman sometimes wet their hair with their saliva before curling it.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
A washroom that was built by Lam Sai-wing is the world's most expensive washroom. He built the washroom for his shop and everything in the washroom is made out of gold and jewels. It cost $3.5 million to build.
About 26 per cent of all indoor water used by households in Sydney, Australia are for laundry.
About 85% or product warning labels on household products are inadequate.
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis invented a special diaper for babies that has a pocket.
America's favorite Crayola crayon color is blue.
Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
Americans on average use about 580 pounds of paper per year per person.
An average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
Ancient Egyptian women used to wear perfume cones made of wax that would melt in the heat letting out a nice fragrance.
Approximately 10.5 gallons of water is used in a dishwasher. Washing the dishes by hand can use up to 20 gallons of water.
Approximately 18 billion disposable diapers end up in landfills each year. These diapers can takes as long as 500 years to finally decompose.
Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers, and lawns.
Arthur Giblin was the inventor of the first "flushable" toilet.
Austria was the very first country to use postcards starting in 1869.
Avery Laser Labels are named after company founder R. Stanton Avery.
Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
BluBlocker sunglasses were developed with lenses that were used in the NASA space program for American astronauts.
By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors.
Children who live in homes that are heated with wood are more likely to develop respiratory illnesses than children who don't.
Chopsticks originated from China approximately 4,000 years ago.
Common pesticides such as roach, termite and flea insecticide can be found in the bodies of majority of Americans.
Cotton crops can be sprayed up to 40 times a year making it the most chemical-intensive crop in the world.
Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.
Crayola Crayons currently has over 120 different crayon colours.
Crayola is a French word that means "Oily chalk."
Doctors in Canada (and the USA) use an adhesive similar to Krazy Glue (Dermabond) instead of stitches, lowering the possibility of bacterial infection and minimizing scarring.
Due to the shortages of lead and metals during World War II, toothpaste was packaged in plastic tubes and have been ever since.
Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.
Every second, two Barbie dolls are sold somewhere in the world.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's boyhood home was built from plans purchased from a Sears catalog.
Former U.S. President William Taft converted the White House stable into a four car garage in 1909.
