Here are some interesting facts to break the ice, to fill in those awkward moments of silence, or to lighten up the conversation.

A million dolloars worth of $100 bills weighs 22 pounds or 10 kilos.

It takes 7 gallons of crude oil to produce a single car tire.

North Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.

China has a population over a billion people, but only about 200 family names.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

According to the American Solar Society enough sunlight falls on the earth's surface each minute to meet the world energy demand for an entire year.

Right handed people live on average 9 years longer than left handed people do.

A diamond is the hardest natural material on earth, but if it is placed in an oven and the temperature is raised to about 763 degrees Celcius (1,405 degrees F) it will simply vanish without even leaving an ash, and only a little carbon dioxide will have been released.

Annual global spending on education is $80 billion.
While the top military spenders are:
United States $528.7 billion
United Kingdom $59.2 billion
France $53.1 billion
China $49.5 billion
Japan $43.7 billion