• It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
• One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
• Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
• The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
• In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
• Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
• All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
• Chrysler built B-29's engines that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
• Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. (Bush...Ostrich...birds of a feather)
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.
• Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
• A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly poop (Chew on THAT)

Useless because they aren't all true.

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.asp

Gilligan's first name was not mentioned in the pilot.