American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

2% of Earth's people have red hair.

And trust me you do not want to be one of them!

William Shakespeare composed a curse for his tombstone.

Good friend for Jesus sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here!
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones.

Translation: "Leave my body alone!"

In New York, the penalty for jumping off a building is death.

...for now. In a pending bill, people who leap off structures more than 50 ft without a permit would face up to year in prison and a $1,000 fine.

A strawberry is not an actual berry, but a banana is.

By technical definition, a berry is a fleshy fruit produced from a single seed. The strawberry, however has its dry, yellow "seeds" on the outside (each of which is actually considered a separate fruit). True berries, such as blueberries and cranberries have seeds inside. However, the banana fruit is a berry for the same reason strawberries are not.

There is a theory that strawberries were named by 19th century children who picked the fruit, strung them on grass straws, and sold them as "Straws of berries".

When you kiss someone for a minute, you both burn about 2.6 calories.

According to that math, it would take about an hour of kissing to burn 156 calories. A person who runs for 45 at a 10mph pace burns 538 calories. Which one would you rather do?
I know what i would!

In the average lifetime, a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust.

Dust is made out of, among other things, dead skin flakes. Happy breathing!

First Fact-A toothpick is the object most-often choked on by Americans

Since 1900, 17,000 people have died from toothpicks. Among them was American novelist Sherwood Anderson.