The following nuggets, drawn from various sources, are unquestionably strange, weird, bizarre, trivial, outlandish and occasionally even a little upsetting. They’re also all true. We offer them as a possibility for a fun (or serious) offbeat inspiration or an ingredient in one or more of your upcoming promotions. Your counselor can help you select appropriate or related products.

Every time you lick a stamp, you consume one-tenth of a calorie.

On average, right-handed people live nine years longer than left-handers.

The average person takes seven minutes to fall asleep at night.

A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time, representing 1/100th of a second.

On an average day, $1,507,858,905 worth of goods/services are charged to credit cards.

There are no English-language words that rhyme with “month,” “silver,” “orange” and “purple.”

Humphrey Bogart never said “Play it again, Sam.” Same with Jimmy Cagney and “You dirty rat.” Also: Sherlock Holmes and “Elementary, my dear Watson,” General John Pershing and “Lafayette, we are here,” and Cary Grant and “Judy, Judy, Judy.”

Pain travels at 350 feet per second.

Thomas Edison (inventor of the lightbulb) was afraid of the dark.

In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, several English insurance firms sold policies offering protection against going to hell after you died.

The average American or Canadian eats 11.9 pounds of cereal each year.

The United States has more plastic flamingos than real ones.

On an average day, 4,100 Americans suffer heart attacks; 1,482 will die.

The Pony Express never used ponies, but full-grown horses.

The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.

Just like humans, dogs and cats can be either right- or left-handed (pawed?). Polar bears, however, are all lefties.

Due to the absence of atmosphere, the footprints astronauts have left on the moon will remain visible for a minimum of 10 million years.

A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut, but a bean.

The number of bacteria found on the average healthy person’s skin is almost equal to the number of people on the planet.

On a typical day, 8,838 Americans become teenagers; 9,951 turn 18; 10,951 turn 40; 6,000 turn 65; and 35 turn 100.

Starfish lack brains entirely, but are the only living things that can turn their stomachs inside-out.

A single square inch of the sun has a light intensity equal to 300,000 candles.

Why raise your voice and stress yourself out? If you yell continuously for eight years, seven months and six days, the sound energy produced would only be enough to heat a single cup of coffee. Is it worth it?

Title 14, Section 1211 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations notes that it’s illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.