More cool stuff..

1. The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours ( ~11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1965 (Nevertheless; Michael Corke of Chicago suffered from rare genetic disease that affected his ability to sleep.   The disease, Fatal Familial Insomnia, led to his death in 1992 after going 6 months without sleep)
2. Registered in 1985, symbolics.com is the first ever internet domain registered
3. The people in Bali only have one of four names: Wayan, Made, Nyoman, and Ketut
4. There are more pyramids in Peru than in Egypt
5. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king (shah) is dead (mat)."
6. Your thumb is the same length as your nose. (Yes, its true again. TRY IT!)
7. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like as if it's kissing the conveyor belt
8. The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum
9. As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates
10. The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon’s bedroom.