November 30 -

• Sarah Josepha Hale is credited as the person most responsible for making Thanksgiving a national holiday in the United States. She also authored Mary Had a Little Lamb.
• In 1939, Franklin Roosevelt changed Thanksgiving to a week earlier than usual so the Christmas shopping season would last longer. There was a tremendous outpouring of public disapproval over the next two years so, in 1941 he admitted his mistake and officially declared the fourth Thursday in November a national holiday for Thanksgiving.
• According to the National Turkey Foundation, when Armstrong and Aldrin sat down to eat their first meal on the moon, their foil food packets contained roasted turkey.
• Electric lights for trees were first used in 1895.
• Holly berries are poisonous. 
• Traditionally, Christmas trees are taken down after Epiphany.

November 9 -

• 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
• No president of the United States was an only child. 
• "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.  
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

November 2 -

• Shanghai, China boasts 4,000 skyscrapers - double the number in New York City. 
• An inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain water is equivalent to 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) of dry, powdery snow.  
• About 1/3 of American adults are at least 20% above their recommended weight. 
• 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour. 
• The word "democracy" is banned in online chat rooms in China

October 26 -

• No president of the United States was an only child. 
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• Walt Disney was afraid of mice. 
• The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

October 19 -

• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. 
• The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock 3 times each morning.
• The name Wendy was created for the book "Peter Pan". There was no recorded name "Wendy" before this book.
• Dalmatians are born without black spots.
• Most adults have between 2 and 4 colds a year.

October 12 -

• According to the latest polls, 32% of American are thinking about starting own home-based online business.
• Country with the highest percentage of internet users (75% of all population) is Sweden!
• Mothers day is the third largest card sending holiday after Christmas and Valentine's Day.
• The average male will spend 2965 hours shaving during his lifetime.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 0,1 of a calorie.

October 4 -

• Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
• There is a city called Rome on every continent.
• You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
• Slugs have 4 noses.

September 28 -

• Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.

• Jupiter's Great Red Spot is 25,000 miles wide.

• A little under one quarter of the people in the world are vegetarians.

• In one gram of soil, about ten million bacteria live in it.

• Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer.

• 45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.

September 21 -

• One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water! 
• The life expectancy at birth in Swaziland is estimated to be only 33 years old (as of 2005)! 
• The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.  
• Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale. 
• Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. 

September 7 -

• Watermelon is actually a VEGETABLE! It is from the botanical family Cucurbitaceae and is most closely related to cucumbers, pumpkins and squash. The watermelon is composed of 92% water and early explorers often used hollowed out watermelons as canteens.
• $40,668 and $30,724 - The annual median earnings, respectively, for male and female full-time, year-round workers in 2003.
• There are approximately 4.5 million people that work from home. 
• Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate. 
• On average people fear spiders more than death.
  
  

• All polar bears are left handed.
• No work in the English language rhymes with "Month."
• The Average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head.  Each hair grows about 5 inches every year.
• Rats are incapable of puking.
• Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!

• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• Sitting too close to the TV will not ruin your eyesight. 
• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. 
• You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. 
• Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum! 

• Coca-Cola translated to Chinese means, "To make mouth happy".
• The human brain is 80% water. 
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.  
• It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
• Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. 

• Toilet paper was invented in China in the late 1300s. It was for emperors only.
• According to the Central Intelligence Agency, average life expectancy for a person in the U.S. is 78.11 years
• In the average adult, the skin covers 12-20 square feet and accounts for 12% of body weight
• There are approximately 60 nutrients which are placed in six major categories: proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water.
• McDonald's is one of the largest owners of real estate in the world and it earns the majority of its profits from collecting rent, not from selling food