People who laugh a lot are much healthier than those who don't. Dr. Lee Berk at the Loma Linda School of Public Health in California found that laughing lowers levels of stress hormones, and strengthens the immune system - not to mention a good belly-laugh is great exercise!! Six-year-olds have it best - they laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

Most babies are born with 250 bones. However, adults typically have only 206 bones in their bodies

Pillows tend to gain weight as they grow older. Up to 25% of the weight of an old pillow is skin flakes, the mites which eat them, and their waste products (which are what most folks are actually allergic to when it is said they have a "dust allergy").

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side (i.e. the first 8 moves in total) in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

The pseudo-word "fishyculture" appears only once, in all the 30 billion pages Google currently searches (as of June 18, 2006).

The word "millipede" means "thousand legs" - but no millipede has more than 750 legs. Nobody knows why.

The only nations whose names begin with an "A", but don't end in an "A" are Afghanistan and Azerbaijan.

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off. They are also nearly immune to radiation: if there was a nuclear war with lots of very tiny shrapnel flying around, they would be the last animals alive

Anne Boleyn had six fingernails on one hand , but only five fingers on that hand. She had a small extra nail on the side of her finger that she kept hidden with long sleeves.