Every once in a while, we at Haypenny like to take a break from the funny business to offer our readers something they can actually use: knowledge. Packaged into delectable little packages, they're nourishment for the mind, nutrition for the soul and tacos for the body. We call them Fact-Snacks. Dig in.

1. Because of a simple typo, Puerto Rico received 176 electoral votes in 1980.
2. For the first six weeks of their lives, baby elephants can speak French.
3. The homeless were originally invented to cure Athlete’s Foot.
4. Tina Turner has 18 toes.
5. What’s the most popular sport in Portugal? You guessed it: Jogging.
6. More people are shot with guns than any other object.
7. I’m going to eat your soul.
8. 75% of nickels are counterfeit.
9. There are over 600 miniature tigers roaming around on your scalp right now.
10. There is no word in the English language that rhymes with "myth".
11. In the movie SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, the word "the" is never uttered by any character.
12. The world’s youngest-ever oldest person was only 71 in 1903 when he gained that title.
13. Lettuce is a fruit.
14. Easter is not celebrated on Easter Island. But Arbor Day is!
15. Before becoming a nun, Mother Teresa was treasurer of the Calcutta chapter of the Hells Angels.
16. When this movie ends, we’re going to go smoke a fat one in the parking lot.
17. The H in H2O isn't actually hydrogen, but ham.
18. Origami is more popular than Tetris or shoes—by almost 25%!
19. Panda Bears are not bears at all; they’re actually a type of bird.
20. Neil Simon has never learned to read.
21. In Chinese, there are seven words for ‘thunder,’ but there is no way to make an interesting point by expressing another language’s lack of a particular word.
22. Mice don’t masturbate nearly as much as they think they do.
23. The recipe for tennis balls was lost in 1987. Once we run out, that's it.
24. Everyone loves Bette Midler.
25. Gerald Ford is the only person to ever have the number-one album while president.
26. The age of consent in Iceland is 45.
27. The proper word for a collective of dogs is 'dogrageous,' as in, 'There was a dogrageous of dogs running around outside.'
28. Rock 'n' Roll was invented by the ancient Greeks who sought an explanation for the changing of the seasons.
29. The answer to the very first crossword puzzle clue, published in the New York World in 1912, was 'bikini wax'.
30. Irony predates Sarcasm by almost four million years.
31. The loudest noise ever recorded by scientists was the sound of a scientist dropping her science microphone.
32. The human body excretes between 11 and 14 gallons of urine per day.
33. Richard Maxwell House Nixon was our nation’s first four-name-having President.
34. Charles Lindbergh was retarded.
35. My ex-girlfriend is a total bitch.
36. Macaroni and Cheese is the only edible palindrome in the English language.
37. Alan Alda has a license to kill.
38. Before saline replaced silicon, rats were used as breast implants for a short time.
39. John Wilkes Booth had a secretary named Oswald and Lee Harvey Oswald was bi.
40. Thomas Edison was allergic to light bulbs.