At the top of the risk list from mosquitoes is malaria. Even after decades of battling against the mosquito carrier, an amazing 40% of the world's population, mostly those living in the world's poorest countries, is still at risk of malaria. The disease causes more than 300 million acute illnesses each year and over a million deaths annually, mainly children under five.

There are only four MBAs in the top 50.

Low-fare carrier AirTran charges companies as much as $50,000 a month to advertise on napkins.

The flea when jumping accelerates 50 times faster than a space shuttle. Without its outer shell it would get smashed by the velocity of the jump.

As a result, his full salutation is Prof. Dr. Michael Griffin BSc,MSc,MEng,MBA,Ph.D!

What's the old NASA adminstrator doing? Running Lousiana State University according to an old FactMe! fact.

1st orbital spacecraft, Sputnik
1st spacecraft to carry an animal (a dog Laika), Sputnik 2
1st spacecraft to reach another celestial body, Luna 2
1st spacecraft to photograph the far side of the moon, Luna 3
1st spacecraft to land safely on another planet, Venera 7
1st manned spacecraft, Vostok 1, which carried the ...
1st human into space (Yuri Gagarin)

Well in 1792, France (home of the metric system or "SI") established a much better system: 100 seconds in a minute. 100 minutes in an hour. 10 hours in a day. (These "seconds" were .864 of our "seconds" but that's not too important). 10 days in a week. 3 weeks in a month.

Just like the metric system ("1000mL=1L" instead of "2 cups in a pint, 2 pints in a quart, 4 quarts in a gallon"), this time system makes so much sense. However, just 13 years later, Napoleon took over and returned France to the Gregorian system to please the Pope.

Death will occur after about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

Indian Railways transports over 6 billion passengers each year and has over 1.6 million employees! Everyday, it runs over 14,000 trains!

NASA's robotic space explorers, the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, have survived for a full Martian year (687 Earth days) on the red planet! When Spirit first landed on Jan. 3, 2004, scientists hoped that the rovers would last 90 sols, a Martian days which is just a few minutes longer than an Earth day.

Children across the world spend 5 billion hours every year playing with Lego bricks, available in 90 different colors, according to the company’s Web site.

More than 1.5 million personal bankruptcies were filed this year (Illness and medical bills accounted for half of these). A sidenote -- more families with children will file for bankruptcy than divorce.

That's about 100 pieces of mail to every person in America!

If the USPS was a private company, it would be the tenth largest in America, with 234,033 mail carriers delivering mail each day.

In both elections, partisan Florida Republicans gave the state's electoral votes to the Republic candidate, and the Democrats challenged the result. Both challenges were decided by a single vote cast by a Republican Supreme Court justice in favor of the Republicans.

Too bad an old fact says you can only fold a sheet of paper 7 times.

The Lunar Module from the Apollo missions required less computer power to land on the moon than today's average cellphone!

Over the past four years, stocks that the Street has been telling you to sell have risen 19% per year on average. Meanwhile, the "buys" and "holds" have risen just 7%.

More than 2 million Americans underwent laser vision correction procedures last year.

The average fee for merchants accepting AMEX is $2.50 per $100 charged, while it is only $2.00 per $100 charged for Visa or MasterCard.

There are 7.73 million small and medium-sized business, of which the majority (76%) have fewer than 10 employees!