Apple Computers
It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock.
CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.
Compaq
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.
Corel
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr.Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.
Google
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros.After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'
Hotmail
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world.When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.
Hewlett Packard
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Intel
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Lotus (Notes)
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Microsoft
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.
Motorola
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.
ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.
Sony
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SUN
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.
Yahoo!
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos
Friday, January 5, 2007
computer terms for women
HARD-DISK Woman:She remembers everything, FOREVER.
RAM Woman:She forgets about you, the moment you turn her off.
WINDOWS Woman:Everyone knows that she can't do a thing right, but no one can live without her.
SCREENSAVER Woman:She is good for nothing but at least she is fun!
INTERNET Woman:Difficult to access.
SERVER Woman:Always busy when you need her.
MULTIMEDIA Woman:She makes horrible things look beautiful.
CD-ROM Woman:She is always faster and faster.
E-MAIL Woman:Every ten things she says, eight are nonsense.
VIRUS Woman:Also known as "WIFE"; when you are not expecting her, she comes, installs herself and uses all your resources. If you try to uninstall her you will lose something, if you don't try to uninstall her you will lose everything............
RAM Woman:She forgets about you, the moment you turn her off.
WINDOWS Woman:Everyone knows that she can't do a thing right, but no one can live without her.
SCREENSAVER Woman:She is good for nothing but at least she is fun!
INTERNET Woman:Difficult to access.
SERVER Woman:Always busy when you need her.
MULTIMEDIA Woman:She makes horrible things look beautiful.
CD-ROM Woman:She is always faster and faster.
E-MAIL Woman:Every ten things she says, eight are nonsense.
VIRUS Woman:Also known as "WIFE"; when you are not expecting her, she comes, installs herself and uses all your resources. If you try to uninstall her you will lose something, if you don't try to uninstall her you will lose everything............
Definitions of a KISS:
Prof. of Algebra: a "KISS" is infinity, because it is two divided by nothing (not zero).
Prof. of Geometry: a "KISS" is the shortest distance between two lips.
Prof. of Physics: a "KISS" is the contraction of two mouths, due to the expansion of the heart.
Prof. of Chemistry: a "KISS" is the reaction of an interaction between two hearts.
Prof. of Zoology: a "KISS" is the interchange of friendly salivary bacteria.
Prof. of Physiology: a "KISS" is the juxtaposition of two orbicularis oris muscles in the state of contraction.
Prof. of Dentistry: a "KISS" is both infectious & antiseptic.
Prof. of Accounting: a "KISS" is a credit because it is profitable when returned.
Prof. of Economics: a "KISS" is that thing for which the demand is always higher than the supply.
Prof. of Statistics: a "KISS" is an event whose probability depends on the vital statistics of two minds and hearts.
Prof. of Philosophy: a "KISS" is persecution for the child, ecstasy for youth, and homage for the old.
Prof. of English: a "KISS" is a noun that is used as a conjunction; it is more common than proper; it is spoken in the plural and it is applicable to all.
Prof. of Computer Science: What is a "KISS"? It looks to be an undefined variable, whose possible value can equal love.
Prof. of Architecture: a "KISS" is a process which builds a solid bond between two dynamic objects.
Friday, December 29, 2006
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT WORMS
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT WORMS
ü An earthworm can grow only so long. A well-fed adult will depend on what kind of worm it is, how many segments it has, how old it is and how well fed it is. An Lumbricus terrestris will be from 90-300 millimeters long.
ü A worm has no arms, legs or eyes.
ü There are approximately 2,700 different kinds of earthworms.
ü Worms live where there is food, moisture, oxygen and a favorable temperature. If they don’t have these things, they go somewhere else.
ü In one acre of land, there can be more than a million earthworms.
ü The largest earthworm ever found was in South Africa and measured 22 feet from its nose to the tip of its tail.
ü Worms tunnel deeply in the soil and bring subsoil closer to the surface mixing it with the topsoil. Slime, a secretion of earthworms, contains nitrogen. Nitrogen is an important nutrient for plants. The sticky slime helps to hold clusters of soil particles together in formations called aggregates.
ü Charles Darwin spent 39 years studying earthworms more than 100 years ago.
ü Worms are cold-blooded animals.
ü Worms can grow a new tail, but not grow a new head if they are cut off.
ü Baby worms are not born. They hatch from cocoons smaller than a grain of rice.
ü The Australian Gippsland Earthworm grows to 12 feet long and can weigh 1-1/2 pounds.
ü Even though worms don’t have eyes, they can sense light, especially at their anterior (front end). They move away from light and will become paralyzed if exposed to light for too long (approximately one hour).
ü If a worm’s skin dries out, it will die.
ü Worms are hermaphrodites. Each worm has both male and female organs. Worms mate by joining their clitella (swollen area near the head of a mature worm) and exchanging sperm. Then each worm forms an egg capsule in its clitellum.
ü Worms can eat their weight each day.
ü An earthworm can grow only so long. A well-fed adult will depend on what kind of worm it is, how many segments it has, how old it is and how well fed it is. An Lumbricus terrestris will be from 90-300 millimeters long.
ü A worm has no arms, legs or eyes.
ü There are approximately 2,700 different kinds of earthworms.
ü Worms live where there is food, moisture, oxygen and a favorable temperature. If they don’t have these things, they go somewhere else.
ü In one acre of land, there can be more than a million earthworms.
ü The largest earthworm ever found was in South Africa and measured 22 feet from its nose to the tip of its tail.
ü Worms tunnel deeply in the soil and bring subsoil closer to the surface mixing it with the topsoil. Slime, a secretion of earthworms, contains nitrogen. Nitrogen is an important nutrient for plants. The sticky slime helps to hold clusters of soil particles together in formations called aggregates.
ü Charles Darwin spent 39 years studying earthworms more than 100 years ago.
ü Worms are cold-blooded animals.
ü Worms can grow a new tail, but not grow a new head if they are cut off.
ü Baby worms are not born. They hatch from cocoons smaller than a grain of rice.
ü The Australian Gippsland Earthworm grows to 12 feet long and can weigh 1-1/2 pounds.
ü Even though worms don’t have eyes, they can sense light, especially at their anterior (front end). They move away from light and will become paralyzed if exposed to light for too long (approximately one hour).
ü If a worm’s skin dries out, it will die.
ü Worms are hermaphrodites. Each worm has both male and female organs. Worms mate by joining their clitella (swollen area near the head of a mature worm) and exchanging sperm. Then each worm forms an egg capsule in its clitellum.
ü Worms can eat their weight each day.
PAPER FOLDING-ORIGAMI
PAPER FOLDING-ORIGAMI
Most of us will remember folding paper cups, salt cellars (we called them 'cootie' catchers or 'fortune tellers') and paper balloons as children in elementary school. There is more to origami than these simple models would lead us to believe. Origami comes from the Japanese words for folding, ori, and the Japanese word for paper, kami.
History of OrigamiSince about the first century AD, the time when it is believed that paper was first invented in China, people have been folding paper into various shapes. The Chinese developed some simple forms, some of which survive down to this day. When the secret of paper was carried to Japan in the sixth century AD by Buddhist monks, it was quickly integrated into their culture.
Origami: Fold art, geography and cultural studies into one lessonOrigami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, can be an interesting way to combine art lessons with units on social studies, culture and even history and geography.
The Ten Commandments of Origami1.Choose suitable paper and cut to required form and size.2.Fold paper cleanly and carefully, especially at the small points of corners.
Origami USAWelcome to the OrigamiUSA web site. OrigamiUSA is a not-for-profit, tax exempt educational and cultural arts organization which is dedicated to the sharing of paperfolding in America and around the world.
About OrigamiThe Japanese word "Origami" is now an internationally recognized word and is synonymous with the art and craft of paper folding. "Origamido", the way of origami, is a personal journey of learning, creating, teaching, using, and appreciating origami.
Most of us will remember folding paper cups, salt cellars (we called them 'cootie' catchers or 'fortune tellers') and paper balloons as children in elementary school. There is more to origami than these simple models would lead us to believe. Origami comes from the Japanese words for folding, ori, and the Japanese word for paper, kami.
History of OrigamiSince about the first century AD, the time when it is believed that paper was first invented in China, people have been folding paper into various shapes. The Chinese developed some simple forms, some of which survive down to this day. When the secret of paper was carried to Japan in the sixth century AD by Buddhist monks, it was quickly integrated into their culture.
Origami: Fold art, geography and cultural studies into one lessonOrigami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, can be an interesting way to combine art lessons with units on social studies, culture and even history and geography.
The Ten Commandments of Origami1.Choose suitable paper and cut to required form and size.2.Fold paper cleanly and carefully, especially at the small points of corners.
Origami USAWelcome to the OrigamiUSA web site. OrigamiUSA is a not-for-profit, tax exempt educational and cultural arts organization which is dedicated to the sharing of paperfolding in America and around the world.
About OrigamiThe Japanese word "Origami" is now an internationally recognized word and is synonymous with the art and craft of paper folding. "Origamido", the way of origami, is a personal journey of learning, creating, teaching, using, and appreciating origami.
Interesting facts about Japan
Interesting facts about Japan
Japan is an Asian country that has many interesting facts concerning it.
Did you know that it is considered quite rude to blow your nose in public?
Did you know that in 1192 Yortomo was named the first shogun by the emperor? His family ( the Minamoto clan) governed Japan. Did you know that the Japan`s National Anthem`s name is Kimigayo? It means "His Majesty`s Reign." Did you know that there is a meaning for that boring little red dot on Japan`s flag? The boring little red dot stands for the sun. Did you know that in Japan they have Poke'mon cards? They call them Poke'monsters.
Japan is made up of
· Japan is 70% mountains
· Japan is made up of over 6000 islands
· Kris and Jessica live in Japan
· There are wild monkeys in Japan
· Wild monkeys don’t like to be looked at in the eye
· The Japanese Prime Minister is elected by the legislature, not the people
· Legend says that the Japanese monarchy began in the 7th Century BC
· In Japan they eat squid, octopus, eel, all fish, crabs, prawns, etc…
· A traditional Japanese breakfast consists of rice topped with natto (fermented soy beans)
· The Japanese say that the Chinese will eat anything
· Golden Retrievers are the most popular pet
· The Japanese use four different writing systems
· In Japanese, the word for “wrong” and “different” are the same
· American shows shown in Japan are: Ally McBeal, Dharma and Greg, Beverly Hills 90210, Full House, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Boy Meets World, Animal Rescue Kids
· In Japan, Ally Mc Beal is called “Ally My Love” because McBeal when said in a Japanese dialect sounds like McBeer
· Junior High and High School students wear uniforms
· Elementary school students wear yellow caps
· In Japan, the teachers move from class to class and the students stay in one room
· At McDonalds the hamburgers are the same size as in America, but the drink sizes are one size smaller
· “McDonalds” in a Japanese dialect sounds lilke “Ma-ku-do-na-ru-do”
· Japanese is hard (Nihongo wa muzukashi des)
· In Japan it is not uncommon to see women wearing platform shoes that are 4 to 6 inches high
· Instead of “Ohayo Gozaimasu” (good morning), Japanese youngsters often say “Oha!”
· Christianity comprises less than 10% of the Japanese population
· Normal Japanese kitchens don’t have ovens
· The bathroom is not where the toilet is found in a Japanese home
· In Japan, when you move into an apartment, you have to bring your own light fixtures
· There’s no such thing as central heat and air in Japan
· A futon is not what you think it is…
· One US dollar is approximately 120 yen
· You don’t wear shoes in the house, you wear slippers
· There are special slippers for the toilet
· You don’t wear your slippers into a tatami mat room
· In Japan, a night at the movies will cost you $18 per person
· In Japan you get really good (annoying???) service when shopping
· Japanese department stores are usually multiple stories, with a grocery store on the bottom, clothes and bedding in the middle, and restaurants on the top
· Japanese pizza has mayonnaise, corn, and seaweed on it
· Japanese salad has corn in it
· The Japanese think that Americans eat corn and potatoes every day
· Fruit is very expensive in Japan
· Watermelons in Japan can cost up to $100
· Peaches are $2.00 a piece
· There are Japanese people in Japan
· The second highest population is Chinese, followed by Korean, Brazilian, Peruvian…
· There are very few public trashcans in Japan
· A traditional Japanese toilet looks like a urinal lying on the floor
· In Japan, they know more about Chinese food than Americans do
· In Japan even local calls are charged by the minute
· In Japan you eat your soup with chopsticks
· In Japan many people wear uniforms i.e. bank tellers, grocery store clerks, postal workers…
· In Japan, most people say that they are Buddhist, but don’t believe in the Buddha
· Aspiring young Japanese musicians play on street corners and in subway stations hoping to get discovered
· The “WALK” lights on Japanese street corners make a chirping sound so that the blind can know when to cross the street
· Japanese subways are very clean and safe
· People sleep on their way home on the subway and the train
· Japanese cars are mostly the same size as American cars
· In Japan they drive on the left side
· Japanese streets are very narrow
· Streets in Japan don’t have names
· Pokemon is not popular in Japan
· Rice cookers are great and easy to use
· In Japan, fair skin is regarded as beautiful
· Many Japanese women dye their hair brown
· Refrigerators in Japan are tiny
· There are very few original castles in Japan because of bombing during WW2
· Whale is a delicacy
· Everyone hangs their clothes outside to dry
· Japan is the world’s largest consumer of tropical rainforest timber
· Japan has 28 National Parks and 55 Quasi-National Parks
· Japan is divided into nine large regions and further divided into 47 smaller prefectures
· Japan has the seventh largest population in the world
· You can catch a train to and from Nagoya every 15 minutes
· You can catch a subway train every three minutes in Nagoya
· The Shinkansen (bullet train) passes Kris and Jessica’s house every fifteen minutes
· The Japanese know more about American politics than Americans do
· Popular Japanese bands are: Glay, Smap, Hana Hana, Shingo Mama, The Yellow Monkey, Luna Sea, Whiteberry, Arc~en~Ceil, Da Pump, Kinki Kids, etc…
· Popular Japanese music is terrible
· Western celebrities in Japanese commercials are: Catherine Zeta-Jones for Lux Super Rich Shampoo, Cameron Diaz for Aeon Language School, Ewan McGregor for Aeon Language School, Nicholas Cage for Pachinko (what a dork), Brad Pitt for both Roots canned coffee and jeans, Tiger Woods for Wonda canned coffee, George Clooney for Toyota, Naomi Campbell for Lipton Canned Tea
· In Japan you can buy canned coffee, hot or cold, in vending machines
· In Japan, Pert shampoo is called Rejoy
· In Japan, 20 capsules of cold medicine cost $15
· Because Japan has a socialized medical system, if you get the tiniest bit sick people think you should go to the doctor so you can get your medicine for free instead of paying $15 for cold medicine
· Kyoto and Nara were consciously spared from bombing during World War 2 because of the cultural significance of their architecture and way of life
· The name “Tokyo” when broken down into kanji means “east” and “capital”
· The name “Kyoto” when broken down into kanji means “capital” and “capital”
· Noh, a type of Japanese theatre, can be up to eight hours long
· In Japanese, languages all end in –go : Nihongo, Eigo, Spango, etc…
· In Japanese, citizen terms end in –jin : Nihonjin, Amerikajin, Perujin, etc…
Japan is an Asian country that has many interesting facts concerning it.
Did you know that it is considered quite rude to blow your nose in public?
Did you know that in 1192 Yortomo was named the first shogun by the emperor? His family ( the Minamoto clan) governed Japan. Did you know that the Japan`s National Anthem`s name is Kimigayo? It means "His Majesty`s Reign." Did you know that there is a meaning for that boring little red dot on Japan`s flag? The boring little red dot stands for the sun. Did you know that in Japan they have Poke'mon cards? They call them Poke'monsters.
Japan is made up of
· Japan is 70% mountains
· Japan is made up of over 6000 islands
· Kris and Jessica live in Japan
· There are wild monkeys in Japan
· Wild monkeys don’t like to be looked at in the eye
· The Japanese Prime Minister is elected by the legislature, not the people
· Legend says that the Japanese monarchy began in the 7th Century BC
· In Japan they eat squid, octopus, eel, all fish, crabs, prawns, etc…
· A traditional Japanese breakfast consists of rice topped with natto (fermented soy beans)
· The Japanese say that the Chinese will eat anything
· Golden Retrievers are the most popular pet
· The Japanese use four different writing systems
· In Japanese, the word for “wrong” and “different” are the same
· American shows shown in Japan are: Ally McBeal, Dharma and Greg, Beverly Hills 90210, Full House, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Boy Meets World, Animal Rescue Kids
· In Japan, Ally Mc Beal is called “Ally My Love” because McBeal when said in a Japanese dialect sounds like McBeer
· Junior High and High School students wear uniforms
· Elementary school students wear yellow caps
· In Japan, the teachers move from class to class and the students stay in one room
· At McDonalds the hamburgers are the same size as in America, but the drink sizes are one size smaller
· “McDonalds” in a Japanese dialect sounds lilke “Ma-ku-do-na-ru-do”
· Japanese is hard (Nihongo wa muzukashi des)
· In Japan it is not uncommon to see women wearing platform shoes that are 4 to 6 inches high
· Instead of “Ohayo Gozaimasu” (good morning), Japanese youngsters often say “Oha!”
· Christianity comprises less than 10% of the Japanese population
· Normal Japanese kitchens don’t have ovens
· The bathroom is not where the toilet is found in a Japanese home
· In Japan, when you move into an apartment, you have to bring your own light fixtures
· There’s no such thing as central heat and air in Japan
· A futon is not what you think it is…
· One US dollar is approximately 120 yen
· You don’t wear shoes in the house, you wear slippers
· There are special slippers for the toilet
· You don’t wear your slippers into a tatami mat room
· In Japan, a night at the movies will cost you $18 per person
· In Japan you get really good (annoying???) service when shopping
· Japanese department stores are usually multiple stories, with a grocery store on the bottom, clothes and bedding in the middle, and restaurants on the top
· Japanese pizza has mayonnaise, corn, and seaweed on it
· Japanese salad has corn in it
· The Japanese think that Americans eat corn and potatoes every day
· Fruit is very expensive in Japan
· Watermelons in Japan can cost up to $100
· Peaches are $2.00 a piece
· There are Japanese people in Japan
· The second highest population is Chinese, followed by Korean, Brazilian, Peruvian…
· There are very few public trashcans in Japan
· A traditional Japanese toilet looks like a urinal lying on the floor
· In Japan, they know more about Chinese food than Americans do
· In Japan even local calls are charged by the minute
· In Japan you eat your soup with chopsticks
· In Japan many people wear uniforms i.e. bank tellers, grocery store clerks, postal workers…
· In Japan, most people say that they are Buddhist, but don’t believe in the Buddha
· Aspiring young Japanese musicians play on street corners and in subway stations hoping to get discovered
· The “WALK” lights on Japanese street corners make a chirping sound so that the blind can know when to cross the street
· Japanese subways are very clean and safe
· People sleep on their way home on the subway and the train
· Japanese cars are mostly the same size as American cars
· In Japan they drive on the left side
· Japanese streets are very narrow
· Streets in Japan don’t have names
· Pokemon is not popular in Japan
· Rice cookers are great and easy to use
· In Japan, fair skin is regarded as beautiful
· Many Japanese women dye their hair brown
· Refrigerators in Japan are tiny
· There are very few original castles in Japan because of bombing during WW2
· Whale is a delicacy
· Everyone hangs their clothes outside to dry
· Japan is the world’s largest consumer of tropical rainforest timber
· Japan has 28 National Parks and 55 Quasi-National Parks
· Japan is divided into nine large regions and further divided into 47 smaller prefectures
· Japan has the seventh largest population in the world
· You can catch a train to and from Nagoya every 15 minutes
· You can catch a subway train every three minutes in Nagoya
· The Shinkansen (bullet train) passes Kris and Jessica’s house every fifteen minutes
· The Japanese know more about American politics than Americans do
· Popular Japanese bands are: Glay, Smap, Hana Hana, Shingo Mama, The Yellow Monkey, Luna Sea, Whiteberry, Arc~en~Ceil, Da Pump, Kinki Kids, etc…
· Popular Japanese music is terrible
· Western celebrities in Japanese commercials are: Catherine Zeta-Jones for Lux Super Rich Shampoo, Cameron Diaz for Aeon Language School, Ewan McGregor for Aeon Language School, Nicholas Cage for Pachinko (what a dork), Brad Pitt for both Roots canned coffee and jeans, Tiger Woods for Wonda canned coffee, George Clooney for Toyota, Naomi Campbell for Lipton Canned Tea
· In Japan you can buy canned coffee, hot or cold, in vending machines
· In Japan, Pert shampoo is called Rejoy
· In Japan, 20 capsules of cold medicine cost $15
· Because Japan has a socialized medical system, if you get the tiniest bit sick people think you should go to the doctor so you can get your medicine for free instead of paying $15 for cold medicine
· Kyoto and Nara were consciously spared from bombing during World War 2 because of the cultural significance of their architecture and way of life
· The name “Tokyo” when broken down into kanji means “east” and “capital”
· The name “Kyoto” when broken down into kanji means “capital” and “capital”
· Noh, a type of Japanese theatre, can be up to eight hours long
· In Japanese, languages all end in –go : Nihongo, Eigo, Spango, etc…
· In Japanese, citizen terms end in –jin : Nihonjin, Amerikajin, Perujin, etc…
USELESS BOT INTERESTING FACTS
Interesting Facts
For Your Warehouse of Useless Knowledge
ü 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
ü 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
ü 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
ü 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
ü 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
ü 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
ü 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
ü 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential hell."
ü 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
ü 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
ü 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
ü 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
ü 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
ü 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
ü A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
ü A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
ü A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
ü A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
ü A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
ü A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
ü A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
ü A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
ü A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
ü A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
ü A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
ü A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.
ü A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
ü A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
ü A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
ü A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
ü A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
ü A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
ü A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
ü A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.
ü A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
ü A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
ü A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
ü A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
ü A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
ü A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
ü A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
ü A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
ü A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
ü A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
ü A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
ü A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
ü A whale's penis is called a dork.
ü About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
ü About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
ü According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
ü Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
ü Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
ü All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
ü All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
ü All porcupines float in water.
ü Almonds are a member of the peach family.
ü Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
ü America once issued a 5-cent bill.
ü America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
ü Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
ü An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
ü An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
ü An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
ü An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
ü Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
ü Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
ü Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
ü Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
ü Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.
ü Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
ü Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
ü Back in the mid to late 1980's, an IBM-compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
ü Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
ü Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
ü Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
ü Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
ü Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
ü Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
ü Bubble gum contains rubber.
ü Camel's milk does not curdle.
ü Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
ü Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
ü Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
ü Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
ü Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
ü Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
ü Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
ü Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
ü Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
ü David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
ü Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
ü Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
ü Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
ü Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
ü Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
ü Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
ü "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
ü Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
ü During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
ü Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
ü Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
ü Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
ü Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
ü Every person has a unique tongue print.
ü Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
ü Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
ü Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
ü February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
ü Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
ü Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
ü Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
ü Giraffes have no vocal cords.
ü Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
ü Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
ü Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
ü Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
ü Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
ü Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
ü Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
ü Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
ü "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
ü If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
ü If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
ü If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
ü If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
ü If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
ü If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.
ü In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
ü In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
ü In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
ü In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
ü In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
ü In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
ü In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" were considered a dirty word.
ü In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
ü In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.
ü In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
ü In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
ü In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
ü In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
ü In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
ü In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
ü In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
ü In the movie "Casablanca," Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
ü In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
ü In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
ü Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
ü It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
ü It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
ü It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
ü It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
ü It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
ü It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
ü It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
ü It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don't try this at home!)
ü Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
ü John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
ü "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
ü Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
ü Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
ü Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
ü Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
ü Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
ü Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
ü Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
ü Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its original size: "L.A."
ü Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
ü Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
ü Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
ü Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
ü Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.
ü Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
ü Montpelier, VT is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
ü More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
ü More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
ü More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
ü Mosquitoes have teeth.
ü Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
ü Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
ü Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
ü Most lipstick contains fish scales.
ü Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
ü Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
ü No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
ü Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
ü Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
ü On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
ü On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
ü One in every 4 americans has appeared on television.
ü One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
ü One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
ü Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
ü Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
ü Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
ü Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
ü Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
ü Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
ü Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
ü Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
ü Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
ü Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
ü Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
ü Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws.
ü Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
ü Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
ü Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
ü Reindeer like to eat bananas.
ü Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
ü Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
ü Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
ü Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
ü Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
ü Slugs have 4 noses.
ü Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
ü Some toothpaste's contain antifreeze.
ü Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
ü "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
ü Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
ü Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
ü Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
ü The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
ü The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
ü The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
ü The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
ü The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
ü The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
ü The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
ü The average person laughs 15 times a day.
ü The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
ü The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
ü The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella.
ü The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.
ü The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
ü The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
ü The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
ü The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.
ü The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.
ü The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
ü The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
ü The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
ü The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
ü The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
ü The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
ü The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
ü The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
ü The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
ü The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
ü The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
ü The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
ü The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
ü The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
ü The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
ü The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
ü The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
ü The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
ü The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
ü The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
ü The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year. Do the math and you will clearly see that 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosours; the tallest ones, anyway.
ü The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
ü The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
ü The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
ü The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
ü The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
ü The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
ü The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
ü The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
ü The only nation whose name begins with an "A" but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
ü The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
ü The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
ü The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
ü The phrase, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.
ü The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
ü The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
ü The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
ü The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
ü The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
ü The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
ü The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
ü The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... thus the saying.
ü The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
ü The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
ü The state of Florida is bigger than England.
ü The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
ü The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
ü The United States Government keeps its supply of silver at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
ü The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
ü The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
ü The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
ü The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
ü The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate." (MOdulate DEModulate)
ü The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
ü The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
ü The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
ü There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
ü There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
ü There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
ü There are more chickens than people in the world.
ü There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
ü There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
ü There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the United States.
ü There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
ü There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
ü There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
ü Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
ü Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
ü To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
ü Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
ü Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
ü Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.
ü When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
ü When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
ü When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
ü White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (formerly of the Monkees).
ü Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
ü Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
ü Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
ü Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
ü Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
ü You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
ü You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
ü You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
ü You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
ü You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
ü Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
ü Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
ü Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
ü Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
For Your Warehouse of Useless Knowledge
ü 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
ü 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
ü 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
ü 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
ü 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
ü 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
ü 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
ü 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential hell."
ü 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
ü 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
ü 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
ü 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
ü 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
ü 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
ü A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
ü A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
ü A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
ü A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
ü A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
ü A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
ü A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
ü A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
ü A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
ü A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
ü A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
ü A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.
ü A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
ü A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
ü A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
ü A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
ü A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
ü A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
ü A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
ü A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.
ü A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
ü A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
ü A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
ü A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
ü A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
ü A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
ü A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
ü A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
ü A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
ü A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
ü A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
ü A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
ü A whale's penis is called a dork.
ü About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
ü About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
ü According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
ü Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
ü Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
ü All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
ü All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
ü All porcupines float in water.
ü Almonds are a member of the peach family.
ü Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
ü America once issued a 5-cent bill.
ü America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
ü Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
ü An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
ü An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
ü An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
ü An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
ü Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
ü Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
ü Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
ü Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
ü Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.
ü Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
ü Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
ü Back in the mid to late 1980's, an IBM-compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
ü Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
ü Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
ü Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
ü Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
ü Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
ü Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
ü Bubble gum contains rubber.
ü Camel's milk does not curdle.
ü Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
ü Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
ü Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
ü Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
ü Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
ü Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
ü Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
ü Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
ü Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
ü David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
ü Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
ü Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
ü Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
ü Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
ü Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
ü Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
ü "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
ü Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
ü During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
ü Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
ü Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
ü Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
ü Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
ü Every person has a unique tongue print.
ü Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
ü Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
ü Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
ü February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
ü Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
ü Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
ü Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
ü Giraffes have no vocal cords.
ü Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
ü Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
ü Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
ü Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
ü Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
ü Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
ü Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
ü Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
ü "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
ü If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
ü If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
ü If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
ü If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
ü If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
ü If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.
ü In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
ü In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
ü In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
ü In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
ü In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
ü In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
ü In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" were considered a dirty word.
ü In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
ü In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.
ü In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
ü In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
ü In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
ü In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
ü In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
ü In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
ü In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
ü In the movie "Casablanca," Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
ü In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
ü In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
ü Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
ü It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
ü It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
ü It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
ü It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
ü It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
ü It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
ü It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
ü It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don't try this at home!)
ü Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
ü John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
ü "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
ü Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
ü Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
ü Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
ü Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
ü Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
ü Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
ü Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
ü Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its original size: "L.A."
ü Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
ü Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
ü Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
ü Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
ü Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.
ü Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
ü Montpelier, VT is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
ü More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
ü More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
ü More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
ü Mosquitoes have teeth.
ü Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
ü Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
ü Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
ü Most lipstick contains fish scales.
ü Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
ü Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
ü No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
ü Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
ü Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
ü On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
ü On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
ü One in every 4 americans has appeared on television.
ü One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
ü One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
ü Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
ü Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
ü Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
ü Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
ü Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
ü Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
ü Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
ü Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
ü Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
ü Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
ü Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
ü Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws.
ü Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
ü Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
ü Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
ü Reindeer like to eat bananas.
ü Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
ü Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
ü Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
ü Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
ü Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
ü Slugs have 4 noses.
ü Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
ü Some toothpaste's contain antifreeze.
ü Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
ü "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
ü Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
ü Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
ü Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
ü The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
ü The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
ü The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
ü The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
ü The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
ü The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
ü The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
ü The average person laughs 15 times a day.
ü The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
ü The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
ü The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella.
ü The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.
ü The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
ü The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
ü The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
ü The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.
ü The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.
ü The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
ü The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
ü The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
ü The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
ü The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
ü The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
ü The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
ü The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
ü The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
ü The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
ü The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
ü The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
ü The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
ü The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
ü The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
ü The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
ü The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
ü The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
ü The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
ü The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
ü The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year. Do the math and you will clearly see that 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosours; the tallest ones, anyway.
ü The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
ü The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
ü The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
ü The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
ü The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
ü The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
ü The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
ü The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
ü The only nation whose name begins with an "A" but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
ü The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
ü The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
ü The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
ü The phrase, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.
ü The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
ü The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
ü The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
ü The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
ü The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
ü The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
ü The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
ü The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... thus the saying.
ü The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
ü The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
ü The state of Florida is bigger than England.
ü The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
ü The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
ü The United States Government keeps its supply of silver at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
ü The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
ü The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
ü The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
ü The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
ü The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate." (MOdulate DEModulate)
ü The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
ü The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
ü The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
ü There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
ü There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
ü There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
ü There are more chickens than people in the world.
ü There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
ü There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
ü There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the United States.
ü There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
ü There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
ü There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
ü Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
ü Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
ü To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
ü Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
ü Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
ü Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.
ü When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
ü When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
ü When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
ü White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (formerly of the Monkees).
ü Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
ü Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
ü Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
ü Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
ü Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
ü You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
ü You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
ü You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
ü You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
ü You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
ü Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
ü Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
ü Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
ü Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
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