A person who is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.

           A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

              A piano leg went through the floor of the white house in 1948 during President Truman's term.

              A pied-billed grebe is called a peebeegeebee by birdwatchers.

                 A pig is the only animal than can get sunburned.

                A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

                A pineapple is a berry.

               A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.

               A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.

              A pole vaulter, when he lands, may absorb up to 20,000 pounds of pressure per square inch on the joints of his tubular thigh bones.

               A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.

               A poll of 3,000 Americans found that for 41 percent, the thing they're most afraid of is speaking before a group of people. 32 percent stated they were afraid of heights.

               A porpoise swims slowly in a circle as it sleeps.

                A Portsmouth, Ohio law ranks baseball players with "vagrants, thieves and other suspicious characters."

              A pound of grasshoppers is three times as nutritious as a pound of beef.

                  A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

                 A quarter of raw potato placed in each shoe at night will keep the leather soft and the shoes smelling fresh and clean.

                A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.

                   A queen bee lays about 1,500 eggs on an average day.

                 A  raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

                 A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.

                 A rattlesnake's fangs fold inward when its mouth is closed so it doesn't bite itself.

                      A recent study indicates when men crave food, they tend to crave fat and salt. When women crave food, they tend to desire chocolate.

                 A Red Giant(a kind of exploded star) has a lower density than any vacuum here on earth

                  A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

               A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

               A scientific report form the University of California found that the steam rising from a cup of coffee contains the same amounts of antioxidants as three oranges. The antioxidants are heterocyclic compounds which prevents cancer and heart disease. It's good for you!

               A scientist who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21 gms.

               A scrum in rugby is equivalent of a hockey face-off, except that it involves all playing the forward position on both teams.

               A SEAL's weapon of choice is the Heckler and Koch MP-5 submachine gun.

                 A  shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

             A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.

                  A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

                A shrimp's heart is in its head.

               A single drop of water contains one hundred billion billion atoms.

                A single share of Coca-Cola stock, purchased in 1919, when the company went public, would have been worth ,500 in 1997.

                A snail can actually glide over the sharp edge of a knife or razor without harming itself. This has something to do with the mucus it produces.

                A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.

                 A snail can sleep for 3 years.

                    A  snail can travel over a razor blade without cutting itself.

                 A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.

                   A soccer ball has 32 panels.

                   A speleologist studies caves.

                  A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.

                   A spremologer collects trivia.

                   A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.

                       A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.

                   A strand of spider web may be stronger than an equal diameter of steel.

                A study of pet owners found that 66% claimed they allowed their pets to remain in the bedroom during intercourse.

                A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.

                  A ton of potatoes will yield 28.6 gallons of absolute alcohol. Potatoes are an important source for commercial alcohol.

                   A total of 63 errors were made in the 1886 World Series.