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.
Friday, December 29, 2006
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.
Interesting human facts
ü This is weird but true! While sitting at your desk make clockwise circles with your right foot. (go ahead no one will see you) While doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction.
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ü Grapefruit scent will make middle aged women appear six years younger to men. The perception is not reciprocal and the grapefruit scent on men has no effect on women's perception.
ü Women blink twice as many times as men do.
ü Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
ü We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.
ü There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
ü The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
ü The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
ü The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
ü The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
ü Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
ü Kidney stones come in any color--from yellow to brown.
ü Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
ü Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
ü The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
ü If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
ü The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
ü A baby is born every seven seconds.
ü You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000000000000071 ounce of its spray.
ü You breathe about 10 million times a year.
ü The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
ü The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
ü The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.
ü The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
ü The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
ü The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
ü The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.
ü After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
ü A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating dinner.
ü Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.
ü There are more people alive today than have ever died.
ü The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
ü A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000 hairs.
ü A beard grows an average of 140mm a year
ü A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes
ü Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair
ü During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble
ü 4.5 million people have their health 'adversely affected' by air pollutants each year.
ü 4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and Dung
ü 4 million people die annually from diarrhea infections, caused by poor sanitary conditions
ü The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
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ü Grapefruit scent will make middle aged women appear six years younger to men. The perception is not reciprocal and the grapefruit scent on men has no effect on women's perception.
ü Women blink twice as many times as men do.
ü Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
ü We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.
ü There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
ü The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
ü The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
ü The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
ü The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
ü Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
ü Kidney stones come in any color--from yellow to brown.
ü Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
ü Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
ü The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
ü If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
ü The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
ü A baby is born every seven seconds.
ü You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000000000000071 ounce of its spray.
ü You breathe about 10 million times a year.
ü The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
ü The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
ü The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.
ü The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
ü The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
ü The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
ü The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.
ü After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
ü A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating dinner.
ü Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.
ü There are more people alive today than have ever died.
ü The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
ü A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000 hairs.
ü A beard grows an average of 140mm a year
ü A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes
ü Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair
ü During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble
ü 4.5 million people have their health 'adversely affected' by air pollutants each year.
ü 4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and Dung
ü 4 million people die annually from diarrhea infections, caused by poor sanitary conditions
ü The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
Language interesting facts
Ø The first word spoken on the moon was "okay."
Ø Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language
Ø The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with
Ø The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator
Ø The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want
Ø In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value
Ø Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States
Ø The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial
Ø TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard
Ø "Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when you're talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil"
Ø The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means, "the King is dead"
Ø The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language
Ø The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Ø Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village"
Ø Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand
Ø The most common name in the world is Mohammed
Ø The longest non-medical word in the English language is FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION, which means "the act of estimating as worthless".
Ø Mafia in Old Arabic means 'sanctuary.'
Ø The longest word in the Old Testament is "Malhershalahashbaz."
Ø Karoke means 'empty orchestra' in Japanese.
Ø The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: "What hath God wrought?"
Ø The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: "Watson, please come here. I want you."
Ø Papaphobia is the fear of Popes
Ø The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. One day Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made a remark that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and the name stuck.
Ø The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: "Mary had a little lamb."
Ø The three words in the English language with the letters "uu" are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.
Ø A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James
Ø 'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'
Ø There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
Ø The word 'Bye' is used in both English and Spanish meaning the same thing
Ø Pogonophobia: The fear of beards
Ø In Chinese, the words crisis and opportunity are the same
Ø The infinity character on the keyboard is called a "lemniscate"
Ø Good bye came from God bye which came from God be with you. So-long came from the Arabic salaam and the Hebrew shalom
Ø The word 'nerd' was first coined by Dr. Seuss in 'If I ran the Zoo'
Ø before Jets, Jet lag was called Boat lag
Ø The word "monosyllable" actually has five syllables in it
Ø There are no words in the English language that rhyme with silver and orange
Ø The letter "n" ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.
Ø It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
Ø 'Zorro' means 'fox' in Spanish
Ø You won’t find a "6" in Cameroon phone numbers--the native language has no sound for "x."
Ø The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
Ø Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down--hence the expression "to get fired."
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Super Silly Quiz
Super Silly Quiz
1.The maker doesn't want it; the buyer doesn't use it; and the user doesn't even see it. What is it?
2.There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?
3.What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?
4.Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
5.What is one thing that all wise men, regardless of their religion or politics, agree is between heaven and earth?
6.If an electric is going westbound and the wind blowing northbound, in what direction will the smoke from the train travel?
7.How could you rearrange the letters in the words "new door" to make one word? Note: There is only one correct answer.
8.Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg *are* white" or "The yolk of the egg *is* white"?
Scroll Down for answers!!
1.Coffin
2.incorrectly
3.Temperature
4.Mount Everest
5.The word "and."
6.Electric train has no smoke
7."new door" = "one word"
8.Neither, the yolk is yellow
1.The maker doesn't want it; the buyer doesn't use it; and the user doesn't even see it. What is it?
2.There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?
3.What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?
4.Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
5.What is one thing that all wise men, regardless of their religion or politics, agree is between heaven and earth?
6.If an electric is going westbound and the wind blowing northbound, in what direction will the smoke from the train travel?
7.How could you rearrange the letters in the words "new door" to make one word? Note: There is only one correct answer.
8.Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg *are* white" or "The yolk of the egg *is* white"?
Scroll Down for answers!!
1.Coffin
2.incorrectly
3.Temperature
4.Mount Everest
5.The word "and."
6.Electric train has no smoke
7."new door" = "one word"
8.Neither, the yolk is yellow
Fun Personality Test
Fun Personality Test
Imagine yourself driving along on a wild stormy night. You pass by a bus stop, and you see three people waiting for the bus:
1. An old lady who is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect man (or) woman you have been dreaming about.
Which one would you choose, knowing that there could only be one passenger in your car. This is a moral/ethical dilemma that was once actually used as part of a job application. You could pick up the old lady, because she is going to die, and thus you should save her first; or you could take the old friend because he once saved your life,and this would be the perfect chance to pay him back. However; you may never be able to find your perfect dream lover again.
Answers could vary depending on the personality. However; there is a perfect answer. If you are a person who would think "out of the box" you would answer: "I would give the car keys to my old friend and let him take the old lady to the hospital. I would stay behind and wait for the bus with the woman (or man if you are a woman) of my dreams."
Imagine yourself driving along on a wild stormy night. You pass by a bus stop, and you see three people waiting for the bus:
1. An old lady who is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect man (or) woman you have been dreaming about.
Which one would you choose, knowing that there could only be one passenger in your car. This is a moral/ethical dilemma that was once actually used as part of a job application. You could pick up the old lady, because she is going to die, and thus you should save her first; or you could take the old friend because he once saved your life,and this would be the perfect chance to pay him back. However; you may never be able to find your perfect dream lover again.
Answers could vary depending on the personality. However; there is a perfect answer. If you are a person who would think "out of the box" you would answer: "I would give the car keys to my old friend and let him take the old lady to the hospital. I would stay behind and wait for the bus with the woman (or man if you are a woman) of my dreams."
fun with numbers
Numbers Fun Facts
# Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number. For example: 37,037*5=185,185. 185,185*3=555,555.
# If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111 you get 12,345,678,987,654,321.
# Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits. The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
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This only takes about a minute.......
Work this out as you read.
Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out! This is not one of those waste-of-time things, it's fun ...
First of all, pick the number 1 to 7 of the week
Multiply this number by 2. (Just to be bold)
Add 5.
Multiply it by 50. I'll wait while you get the calculator...
If you have already had your birthday this year, add 1752...
If you haven't, add 1750...
Now subtract the four digit year that you were born. e.g. 1978
(If you remember!)
You should have a three digit number:
The first digit of this was your original number
The next two numbers are your age.
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Now this equation would prove that any value is equal to the other
(a - (a+b)/2) ^ 2 = (b - (a+b)/2) ^ 2
when a-b doesn't equal zero. Now plug in any two different values for a and b and see how they would equate each other.
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Open a blank Word document and type the following:
=rand(200,99)
Press 'Enter' afterwards... Wait 5 seconds! Foxy huh!?
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Succession:
1 x 8 + 1 == 9
12 x 8 + 2 == 98
123 x 8 + 3 == 987
1234 x 8 + 4 == 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 == 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 == 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 == 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 == 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 == 987654321
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# Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number. For example: 37,037*5=185,185. 185,185*3=555,555.
# If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111 you get 12,345,678,987,654,321.
# Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits. The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
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.
This only takes about a minute.......
Work this out as you read.
Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out! This is not one of those waste-of-time things, it's fun ...
First of all, pick the number 1 to 7 of the week
Multiply this number by 2. (Just to be bold)
Add 5.
Multiply it by 50. I'll wait while you get the calculator...
If you have already had your birthday this year, add 1752...
If you haven't, add 1750...
Now subtract the four digit year that you were born. e.g. 1978
(If you remember!)
You should have a three digit number:
The first digit of this was your original number
The next two numbers are your age.
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Now this equation would prove that any value is equal to the other
(a - (a+b)/2) ^ 2 = (b - (a+b)/2) ^ 2
when a-b doesn't equal zero. Now plug in any two different values for a and b and see how they would equate each other.
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Open a blank Word document and type the following:
=rand(200,99)
Press 'Enter' afterwards... Wait 5 seconds! Foxy huh!?
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Also, check out this. http://mr-31238.mr.valuehost.co.uk/assets/Flash/psychic.swf
Tell me if you know the underlying reason by emailing me at NAUGHTY007@BOSS.LA
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Succession:
1 x 8 + 1 == 9
12 x 8 + 2 == 98
123 x 8 + 3 == 987
1234 x 8 + 4 == 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 == 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 == 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 == 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 == 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 == 987654321
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INTERESTING FACTS ON ANIMALS!!
Animals Interesting Facts
Ø Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Ø Bulls are color blind.
Ø A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
Ø Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Ø The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2,200 people.
Ø Emus can't walk backwards.
Ø A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Ø A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
Ø A group of owls is called a parliament.
Ø A group of ravens is called a murder.
Ø A group of bears is called a sleuth.
Ø Twelve or more cows is called a flink.
Ø A baby oyster is called a spat.
Ø Some fleas have split penises like a Y shape
Ø An elephant can be pregnant for up to 2 years
Ø Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
Ø The average garden-variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Ø A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
Ø A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
Ø More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
Ø Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
Ø Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
Ø India has 50 million monkeys.
Ø By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.
Ø Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
Ø Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.
Ø The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.
Ø A squid has 10 tentacles.
Ø A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.
Ø When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from its eyes.
Ø The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.
Ø The ostrich has a 46-foot long small intestine.
Ø A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
Ø A swan is the only bird with a penis
Ø The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.
Ø The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.
Ø Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.
Ø The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
Ø Zebras can't see the color orange.
Ø There are more insects in ten square feet of a rain forest than there are people in Manhattan.
Ø It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
Ø The smartest dogs are the Jack Russell Terrier and Scottish Border collie. Dumbest: Afgan hound.
Ø A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
Ø The fat molecules in goat milk are 5 times smaller than those found in cow milk. It takes 20 minutes for the stomach to breakdown as opposed to the hour that it takes to break down cow milk.
Ø Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Ø Bulls are color blind.
Ø A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
Ø Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Ø The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2,200 people.
Ø Emus can't walk backwards.
Ø A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Ø A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
Ø A group of owls is called a parliament.
Ø A group of ravens is called a murder.
Ø A group of bears is called a sleuth.
Ø Twelve or more cows is called a flink.
Ø A baby oyster is called a spat.
Ø Some fleas have split penises like a Y shape
Ø An elephant can be pregnant for up to 2 years
Ø Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
Ø The average garden-variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Ø A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
Ø A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
Ø More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
Ø Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
Ø Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
Ø India has 50 million monkeys.
Ø By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.
Ø Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
Ø Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.
Ø The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.
Ø A squid has 10 tentacles.
Ø A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.
Ø When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from its eyes.
Ø The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.
Ø The ostrich has a 46-foot long small intestine.
Ø A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
Ø A swan is the only bird with a penis
Ø The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.
Ø The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.
Ø Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.
Ø The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
Ø Zebras can't see the color orange.
Ø There are more insects in ten square feet of a rain forest than there are people in Manhattan.
Ø It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
Ø The smartest dogs are the Jack Russell Terrier and Scottish Border collie. Dumbest: Afgan hound.
Ø A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
Ø The fat molecules in goat milk are 5 times smaller than those found in cow milk. It takes 20 minutes for the stomach to breakdown as opposed to the hour that it takes to break down cow milk.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
AN AMAZING EYE TEST?
Incredible Eye Test
Quick Eye Exam...
This will blow your mind...!
Just do it - don't cheat!!!!!!!!!!!!
Try this its actually quite good.
But don't cheat!
Count the number of F's in the following text:
Managed it?
Scroll down only after you have counted them!
OK?
How many?
Three?
Wrong, there are six - no joke!
Read again!
The reasoning is further down...
The brain most likely wasn't able to process the "F" in "OF".
Incredible or what?
Anyone who counts all six F's on the first go is a genius; three is normal.
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READ THE FOLLOWING TEXT:
Quick Eye Exam...
This will blow your mind...!
Just do it - don't cheat!!!!!!!!!!!!
Try this its actually quite good.
But don't cheat!
Count the number of F's in the following text:
FINISHED FILES ARE THERESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFICSTUDY COMBINED WITH THEEXPERIENCE OF YEARS
Managed it?
Scroll down only after you have counted them!
OK?
How many?
Three?
Wrong, there are six - no joke!
Read again!
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFICSTUDY COMBINED WITH THEEXPERIENCE OF YEARS
The reasoning is further down...
The brain most likely wasn't able to process the "F" in "OF".
Incredible or what?
Anyone who counts all six F's on the first go is a genius; three is normal.
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READ THE FOLLOWING TEXT:
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BIRD
IN THE
THE BUSH
This is a great trick. It works everywhere. When you read the the above box, did you say the - the or did you see the "double the". If you you did, did you catch it
This is a great trick. It works everywhere. When you read the the above box, did you say the - the or did you see the "double the". If you you did, did you catch it
in this little blurb???
You can do this at the office, in school, or even at a bar. Write down a phrase and repeat words like the - at -or - and. You'll see that most people are fooled.
You can do this at the office, in school, or even at a bar. Write down a phrase and repeat words like the - at -or - and. You'll see that most people are fooled.
COMPUTER TRICKS
$ Copy and paste the java script code in the following red lines to the address bar of your browser
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2: Press enter and watch your window's "shaking it". You can change the value of i if you wish :-)
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2: Press enter and watch your window's "shaking it". You can change the value of i if you wish :-)
IDEAS TO KEEP IN MIND!!
IDEAS TO KEEP IN MIND
ü Pursue Achievable Goalsü Keep Genuine Smiles
ü Share with Others
ü Help your Neighbors
ü Maintain A Youthful Spirit
ü Get Along with the Rich, the Poor, the Beautiful, and the Ugly
ü Keep Cool Under Pressure
ü Lighten the Atmosphere with Humor
ü Forgive the Annoyance of Others
ü Have a Few Pals
ü Treasure Every Moment with Your Love Ones
ü Cooperate and Reap Greater Rewards
ü Have High Confidence in Yourself
ü Respect the Disadvantaged
ü Indulge Yourself Occasionally
ü Surf the Net at Leisure
ü Take Calculated Risks
ü Understand "Money Isn't Everything"
MORE THAN 1000 INTERESTING FACTS
Interesting Facts
Ø No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
Ø The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
Ø Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
Ø A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
Ø Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Ø The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.
Ø Fingerprints of koala bears are similar (in pattern, shape and size) to the fingerprints of humans
Ø Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Ø The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
Ø All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
Ø The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
Ø Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Ø The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
Ø The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
Ø The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Ø The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
Ø Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (Makes you think about ambidextrous people)
Ø Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\'t be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount.
Ø Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
Ø The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one.
Ø During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
Ø The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
Ø The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
Ø Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
Ø Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
Ø The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
Ø The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.
Ø Men can breastfeed babies
Ø There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.
Ø Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to other plants.
Ø In some (maybe all) Asian countries, the family name is writtenfirst and the individual name written second
Ø Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860
Ø A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
Ø Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.Long Beach, WA
Ø The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
Ø The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named "El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula"
Ø 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.
Ø Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
Ø The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.
Ø Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
Ø Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."
Ø Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is not considered an insult! Despite the expensive food, tipping is welcome as in any other country.
Ø Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
Ø The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.
Ø The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds.
Ø Pinocchio was made of pine.
Ø Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
Ø A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
Ø A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Ø Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
Ø The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Ø Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
Ø New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
Ø There was once a town in West Virginia called "6."
Ø The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
Ø Napoleon made his battle plans in a sandbox.
Ø Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
Ø The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
Ø Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
Ø There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
Ø The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
Ø "Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
Ø On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
Ø Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
Ø 2,500 lefties die each year using products designed for rightists.
Ø Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
Ø On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
Ø Blue and white are the most common school colors.
Ø Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
Ø In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
Ø A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
Ø America's best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.
Ø Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
Ø Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.
Ø The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
Ø The bulls-eye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
Ø The doorbell was invented in 1831.
Ø The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
Ø Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
Ø There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
Ø Napoleon was terrified of cats.
Ø The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
Ø The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
Ø The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.
Ø The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
Ø Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
Ø The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
Ø The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
Ø France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
Ø The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback."
Ø The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
Ø George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
Ø Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.
Ø The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
Ø Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
Ø The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.
Ø The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
Ø The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.
Ø Goldfish swallowing started at Harvard in 1939.
Ø Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.
Ø The stall closest to the door in a bathroom is the cleanest, because it is the least used.
Ø Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
Ø Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
Ø Before Prohibition, Schlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic church.
Ø If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Ø Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
Ø Nondairy creamer is flammable.
Ø The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.
Ø If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.
Ø 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.
Ø It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer to read 0.
Ø The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.
Ø The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
Ø Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
Ø When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Ø Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
Ø When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.
Ø The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
Ø The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
Ø The most common speed limit sign in the United States is 25 m.p.h.
Ø At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United States.
Ø The world's record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours.
Ø The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in seven months. They died of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning and being thrown from a horse.
Ø You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.
Ø Sir Isaac Newton, who invented Calculus, had trouble with names to the point where he would forget his brothers' names.
Ø In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses. The type was made from baked oxen dung.
Ø By law, employees do not have to wash hands after sneezing.
Ø The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.
Ø More American workers (18%) call sick on Friday than any other day of the week. Tuesday has the lowest percent of absenteeism (11%).
Ø Enough beer is poured every Saturday across America to fill the Orange Bowl.
Ø A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.
Ø Whales die if their echo system fails.
Ø Florida's beaches lose 20 million cubic yards of sand annually.
Ø Naturalists use marshmallows to lure alligators out of swamps.
Ø It takes a ton of water to make a pound of refined sugar.
Ø Weevils are more resistant to poisons in the morning than at night.
Ø Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is the most pest-ridden tree in the jungle.
Ø In deep space most lubricants will disappear.
Ø America once issued a 5-cent bill.
Ø The average person can live 11 days without water.
Ø In 1221 Genghis Khan killed 1,748,000 people at Nishapur in one hour.
Ø There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.
Ø In 1800 on 50 cities on earth had a population of more than 100,000.
Ø More steel in the US is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
Ø It is possible for any American citizen to give whatever name he or she chooses to any unnamed mountain or hill in the United States.
Ø King Henry III of France, Louis XVI of France and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia--fear of cats.
Ø Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.
Ø Clocks made before 1687 had only one hand, and hour hand.
Ø The motto of the American people, "In God We Trust," was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
Ø More Americans have died in automobile accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
Ø The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
Ø The principality of Monaco consists of 370 acres.
Ø There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.
Ø During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required to pay a special tax.
Ø The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Ø Coca-Cola was originally green.
Ø Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.
Ø The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters (I was thankfully corrected by a friend: The Hawai'ian alphabet has 13 letters, A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W, ' (which is called an okina).
Ø Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
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Ø The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.
Ø City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.
Ø State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
Ø Percentage of Africa that is wilderness--28%. Percentage of North America that is wilderness--38%.
Ø Average number of days a German goes without washing his underwear: 7.
Ø Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%.
Ø Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%.
Ø Cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of 11: $6,400.
Ø Average people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Ø Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Ø The only President to win a Pulitzer Prize: John Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage."
Ø The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
Ø Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
Ø First novel ever written on a typewriter: "Tom Sawyer."
Ø A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. (This was challenged and proved wrong by the TV show "Mythbusters")
Ø 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.
Ø Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades--King David, Clubs--Alexander the Great, Hearts--Charlemagne and Diamonds--Julius Caesar.
Ø 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 leg front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all 4 legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Ø Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. The last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
Ø The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
Ø The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
Ø The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
Ø The first airline, DELAG, was established on October 16, 1909, to carry passengers between German cities by Zeppelin airships. Up to November 1913, more than 34,000 people had used the service.
Ø Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg
Ø The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. 'UP' indicated the direction of the bubbles
Ø Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem, 'The Star Spangled Banner', after being inspired by watching the Americans fight off the British attack of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem became the words to the national anthem
Ø Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated
Ø Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know your there
Ø The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836.
Ø It has been recommended by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (two meters) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush!
Ø In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose
Ø It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning' refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.
Ø The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In 1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common foxglove plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart medications, digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions and the amount of b lood pumped per heartbeat.
Ø Dry cereal for breakfast was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century
Ø During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back
Ø Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832,left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.
Ø Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
Ø Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produced by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud. There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.
Ø The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a 'motor' only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent.
Ø Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
Ø At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
Ø Pet superstores now sell about 40 percent of all pet food
Ø One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
Ø In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
Ø There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
Ø If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
Ø Less than 3% of Nestlé's sales are for chocolate.
Ø The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change
Ø More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products
Ø It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk
Ø The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
Ø Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air, respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.
Ø The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth
Ø The X's that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000's when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X
Ø Nova Scotia is Latin for 'New Scotland.'
Ø The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol. It's from England.
Ø The collecting of Beer mats is called Tegestology.
Ø Even though it is widely attributed to him Shakespeare never actually used the word 'gadzooks'.
Ø Only 2 blue moons (the saying 'only once in a blue moon ' refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month) are to occur between now and 2001. Those times are January 1999 and March 1999
Ø "Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed
Ø Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored smaller, 'lower case' letters In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'
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Ø General Interesting Facts
Ø No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
Ø The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
Ø Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
Ø A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
Ø Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Ø The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.
Ø Fingerprints of koala bears are similar (in pattern, shape and size) to the fingerprints of humans
Ø Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Ø The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
Ø All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
Ø The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
Ø Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Ø The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
Ø The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
Ø The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Ø The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
Ø Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (Makes you think about ambidextrous people)
Ø Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\'t be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount.
Ø Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
Ø The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one.
Ø During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
Ø The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
Ø The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
Ø Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
Ø Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
Ø The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
Ø The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.
Ø Men can breastfeed babies
Ø There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.
Ø Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to other plants.
Ø In some (maybe all) Asian countries, the family name is writtenfirst and the individual name written second
Ø Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860
Ø A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
Ø Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.Long Beach, WA
Ø The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
Ø The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named "El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula"
Ø 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.
Ø Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
Ø The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.
Ø Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
Ø Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."
Ø Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is not considered an insult! Despite the expensive food, tipping is welcome as in any other country.
Ø Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
Ø The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.
Ø The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds.
Ø Pinocchio was made of pine.
Ø Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
Ø A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
Ø A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Ø Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
Ø The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Ø Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
Ø New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
Ø There was once a town in West Virginia called "6."
Ø The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
Ø Napoleon made his battle plans in a sandbox.
Ø Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
Ø The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
Ø Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
Ø There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
Ø The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
Ø "Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
Ø On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
Ø Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
Ø 2,500 lefties die each year using products designed for rightists.
Ø Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
Ø On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
Ø Blue and white are the most common school colors.
Ø Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
Ø In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
Ø A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
Ø America's best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.
Ø Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
Ø Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.
Ø The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
Ø The bulls-eye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
Ø The doorbell was invented in 1831.
Ø The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
Ø Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
Ø There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
Ø Napoleon was terrified of cats.
Ø The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
Ø The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
Ø The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.
Ø The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
Ø Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
Ø The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
Ø The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
Ø France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
Ø The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback."
Ø The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
Ø George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
Ø Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.
Ø The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
Ø Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
Ø The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.
Ø The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
Ø The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.
Ø Goldfish swallowing started at Harvard in 1939.
Ø Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.
Ø The stall closest to the door in a bathroom is the cleanest, because it is the least used.
Ø Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
Ø Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
Ø Before Prohibition, Schlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic church.
Ø If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Ø Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
Ø Nondairy creamer is flammable.
Ø The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.
Ø If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.
Ø 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.
Ø It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer to read 0.
Ø The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.
Ø The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
Ø Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
Ø When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Ø Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
Ø When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.
Ø The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
Ø The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
Ø The most common speed limit sign in the United States is 25 m.p.h.
Ø At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United States.
Ø The world's record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours.
Ø The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in seven months. They died of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning and being thrown from a horse.
Ø You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.
Ø Sir Isaac Newton, who invented Calculus, had trouble with names to the point where he would forget his brothers' names.
Ø In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses. The type was made from baked oxen dung.
Ø By law, employees do not have to wash hands after sneezing.
Ø The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.
Ø More American workers (18%) call sick on Friday than any other day of the week. Tuesday has the lowest percent of absenteeism (11%).
Ø Enough beer is poured every Saturday across America to fill the Orange Bowl.
Ø A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.
Ø Whales die if their echo system fails.
Ø Florida's beaches lose 20 million cubic yards of sand annually.
Ø Naturalists use marshmallows to lure alligators out of swamps.
Ø It takes a ton of water to make a pound of refined sugar.
Ø Weevils are more resistant to poisons in the morning than at night.
Ø Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is the most pest-ridden tree in the jungle.
Ø In deep space most lubricants will disappear.
Ø America once issued a 5-cent bill.
Ø The average person can live 11 days without water.
Ø In 1221 Genghis Khan killed 1,748,000 people at Nishapur in one hour.
Ø There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.
Ø In 1800 on 50 cities on earth had a population of more than 100,000.
Ø More steel in the US is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
Ø It is possible for any American citizen to give whatever name he or she chooses to any unnamed mountain or hill in the United States.
Ø King Henry III of France, Louis XVI of France and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia--fear of cats.
Ø Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.
Ø Clocks made before 1687 had only one hand, and hour hand.
Ø The motto of the American people, "In God We Trust," was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
Ø More Americans have died in automobile accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
Ø The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
Ø The principality of Monaco consists of 370 acres.
Ø There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.
Ø During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required to pay a special tax.
Ø The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Ø Coca-Cola was originally green.
Ø Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.
Ø The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters (I was thankfully corrected by a friend: The Hawai'ian alphabet has 13 letters, A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W, ' (which is called an okina).
Ø Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
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Ø The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.
Ø City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.
Ø State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
Ø Percentage of Africa that is wilderness--28%. Percentage of North America that is wilderness--38%.
Ø Average number of days a German goes without washing his underwear: 7.
Ø Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%.
Ø Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%.
Ø Cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of 11: $6,400.
Ø Average people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Ø Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Ø The only President to win a Pulitzer Prize: John Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage."
Ø The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
Ø Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
Ø First novel ever written on a typewriter: "Tom Sawyer."
Ø A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. (This was challenged and proved wrong by the TV show "Mythbusters")
Ø 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.
Ø Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades--King David, Clubs--Alexander the Great, Hearts--Charlemagne and Diamonds--Julius Caesar.
Ø 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 leg front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all 4 legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Ø Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. The last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
Ø The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
Ø The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
Ø The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
Ø The first airline, DELAG, was established on October 16, 1909, to carry passengers between German cities by Zeppelin airships. Up to November 1913, more than 34,000 people had used the service.
Ø Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg
Ø The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. 'UP' indicated the direction of the bubbles
Ø Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem, 'The Star Spangled Banner', after being inspired by watching the Americans fight off the British attack of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem became the words to the national anthem
Ø Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated
Ø Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know your there
Ø The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836.
Ø It has been recommended by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (two meters) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush!
Ø In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose
Ø It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning' refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.
Ø The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In 1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common foxglove plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart medications, digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions and the amount of b lood pumped per heartbeat.
Ø Dry cereal for breakfast was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century
Ø During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back
Ø Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832,left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.
Ø Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
Ø Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produced by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud. There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.
Ø The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a 'motor' only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent.
Ø Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
Ø At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
Ø Pet superstores now sell about 40 percent of all pet food
Ø One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
Ø In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
Ø There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
Ø If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
Ø Less than 3% of Nestlé's sales are for chocolate.
Ø The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change
Ø More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products
Ø It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk
Ø The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
Ø Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air, respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.
Ø The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth
Ø The X's that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000's when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X
Ø Nova Scotia is Latin for 'New Scotland.'
Ø The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol. It's from England.
Ø The collecting of Beer mats is called Tegestology.
Ø Even though it is widely attributed to him Shakespeare never actually used the word 'gadzooks'.
Ø Only 2 blue moons (the saying 'only once in a blue moon ' refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month) are to occur between now and 2001. Those times are January 1999 and March 1999
Ø "Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed
Ø Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored smaller, 'lower case' letters In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'
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