• An average household has 300,000 items.
• UPS drivers will make a left turn only 10 percent of the time.
• China cuts down 20 million 20-year-old trees annually to produce 80 billion disposable chopsticks.
• In 18th-century Europe, pineapples were so rare and exotic that they were often reserved for royalty. Sometimes, people would rent them out for special occasions.
• Play-doh was originally used to clean soot that furnaces often left on walls in the 1930s.
• People actually sigh 12 times an hour, a vital and life-sustain- ing reflex that keep lungs func tioning.