COST IN TRANSLATION

Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car

Twenty nine percent of women spend more time shopping for shoes than they do looking for a life-long mate

In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off"

According to statistics gathered by the World Health Organization from various NGOs (Non-governmental Organizations such as non-profits), Australian women are most likely to have sex on the first date 

The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century 

Kampang School in northeastern Thailand is the first school to open a toilet for transvestite pupils

An example of a "gender-neutral" bathroom, this one at the high school in Thailand allows for males and females to use the same toilet/wash room

The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993

One in three snake bite victims is drunk - One in five is tattooed  

In 1895 Hampshire police handed out the first ever speeding ticket, fining a man for doing 6mph

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung

Object most Americans will choke on this year:  Toothpick

The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction

Cherophobia is a fear of fun

About 200 frozen corpses remain on Mount Everest

In the United States, 1 in 4 women will be hit or beaten by their husband or boyfriend this year

It would take 17,000 McDonalds strawfuls of water to fill a standard bathtub

Lawrence Richard Walters, nicknamed "Lawnchair Larry" or the "Lawn Chair Pilot", (April 19, 1949 – October 6, 1993) was an American truck driver who took flight on July 2, 1982 in a homemade airship. Dubbed Inspiration I, the "flying machine" consisted of an ordinary patio chair with 45 helium-filled weather balloons attached to it. Walters rose to an altitude of over 15,000 feet (4,600 m) and floated from his point of origin in San Pedro, California into controlled airspace near Los Angeles International Airport    

In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks washed off a ship. They were found thousands of miles away 8 years later

Globally, your statistical chance of being murdered is 1 in 20,000

Recent research from the Kinsey Institute reveals that women who went to college are more likely than high school dropouts to enjoy both the giving and receiving of oral sex  

Your home is ten times more likely to have a fire than be burglarized

Worms reportedly taste like bacon

Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone

The U.S. Army accidentally ordered an 82 year supply of freeze-dried tuna salad mix for troops in Europe

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven

The Saguaro Cactus, found in South-western United States does not grow branches until it is 75 years old  

This tree-size cactus may be as old as 100 years- some Saguaro live as long as 175 years.  Each arm helps the plant get more water from the air.

Robert Augustus Chesebrough, (January 9, 1837 – September 8, 1933) was a chemist and the inventor of petroleum jelly, which he trade-named as Vaseline.  The etymology of the word is believed to come from German wasser (=water) + Greek έλαιον (=oil).  Chesebrough earned knighthood in 1883. Upon knighting him, Queen Victoria extolled his product's usefulness, proudly claiming that she "used Vaseline every day." Chesebrough lived to be 96 years old and was such a believer in Vaseline that he claimed to have eaten a spoonful of it every day. He died at his house in Spring Lake, New Jersey. He also, reportedly, during a serious bout of pleurisy in his mid-50s, had his nurse rub him from head to foot with the substance. He soon recovered

NEWS FEED:      
Psychology professor Will Corbin, operating with National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism grants, conducts studies of drunk students' memories, response times, and decision-making processes through extensive questioning-- after he has raised their blood-alcohol level to precisely 0.08 percent (which Arizona regards as presumed-impaired for drivers). Students are served one type of vodka cocktail, three drinks' worth, in a bar-like room on campus, and after 15 minutes to let the alcohol be absorbed, the questioning and testing begin. (At the end of the night, taxis are called for the students)

Ryan Letchford, 21, and Jeffrey Olson, 22, were arrested in Radnor, Pennsylvania in July 2011 fter they had
broken into a police van for the purpose of taking gag photos of themselves as if they were under arrest. However, the men somehow locked themselves inside the van, and neither they nor a friend they had called to come help could figure out how to open the doors. Finally, they were forced to call 9-1-1. Police arrived, unlocked the van, arrested the men, and locked them back up-- inside a cell 

Georges Marciano, co-founder of the clothing company Guess? Inc. and ostensibly in no trouble with IRS, nonetheless demanded in 2009 that the agency audit him over the previous several years.  IRS turned him down, and he sued the agency in federal court in Washington, D.C., but in July, a judge rejected the case, declaring that federal law and the U.S. Constitution do not give anyone a "right" to demand that IRS collect more taxes from them. (Marciano perhaps hoped for IRS to uncover cheating by his former employees and accountants, who he thought were stealing from him. Paying higher taxes might have been worth it if the agency had made it easier for him to sue any cheaters)