Facts
1-Monkey has two brains <one for it`s tail and other is for it`s body>
2-Eagle can see directly to sun rays
3-Shoe horse crab is the only animal which eat their food with their legs
4-Untill a babies aresix months old they can breathe and eat at the same time
5-Most people loose the ability to smell is 40% by the age of 60
6-Arctic turn is the longest flying bird
7-African grey parrot is heighest spoken bird
8-Albatross is widest wing bird
9-First submarine was invented in 1620.It was basically two roboats with a skin tight covering.It could stay underwater for 3 hours.
10-Arms of eyeglasses were invented 400 years after the glasses themselves.Until then people had to balance their glasses on nose.
11-Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.
12-It is impossible to lick your elbow.
13-A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
14-A shrimp's heart is in their head.
15-People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a mili-second.
16-In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).
17-It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
18-A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
19-Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
20-By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at Primary school.
21-On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
22-More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
23-Rats and horses can't vomit.
24-The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
25-If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
26-Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
27-Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
28-If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
29-In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
30-The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
31-Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
32-A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.
33-23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
34-In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
35-Most lipstick contains fish scales.
36-Cat's urine glows under a black light.
37-Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
38-If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out.
39-Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
40-US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
41-The “57″ on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
42-Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually. On average, that’s 3 pounds a day per person.
43-Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
44-The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
45-Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
46-Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
47-What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
48-"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
49-"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
50-In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
51-A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
52-Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
53-You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
54-There is a city called Rome on every continent.
55-Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
56-Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
57-The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
58-Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
59-Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
60-The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
61-One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
62-Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
63-The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man
64-Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
65-Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
66-The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
67-Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
68-Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
69-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.
70-Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
71-Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
72-On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
73-More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
74-The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
75-More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
76-Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
77-The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
78-The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
79-Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
80-It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
81-You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
82-Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
83-Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
84-It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
85-The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
86-The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
87-Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not
88-Slugs have 4 noses.
89-Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
90-A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
91-A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
92-The average person laughs 10 times a day!
93-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
94-The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
95-111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
96-The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
97-"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
98-A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
99-The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
100-A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
101-Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
102-More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
103-Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
104-If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
105-Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
106-The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
107-The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
108-TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
109-If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
110-The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
111-A snail can sleep for 3 years.
112-China has more English speakers than the United States.
113-The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
114-Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
115-The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
116-Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
117-Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
118-Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
119-Cat's urine glows under a black light.
120-Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
121-Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
122-Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
123-If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
124-If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
125-The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
126-On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
127-The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
128-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
129-A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
130-The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
131-Polar bears are left-handed.
132-The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
133-A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
134-Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
135-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
136-Starfish haven't got brains.
137-Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
138-Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
139-The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
140-A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
141-There are more chickens than people in the world.
142-Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
143-The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
"screeched."
144-No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
145-"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
146-Almonds are members of the peach family.
147-There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
148-A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
149-An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
150-Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
151-In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time
displayed on a watch is 10:10.
152-A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
153-A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
154-The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
155-In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
156-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."
157-The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
158-The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
159-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
160-The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
161-It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
162-One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
163-Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
164-TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
165-Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
166-Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
167-The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
168-According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed —- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.
169-Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses.
170-Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.
171-Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
172-Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
173-Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
174-Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
175-If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
176-Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.
177-Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
178-Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
179-The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula, however, only works in warm weather. (Try it!)
180-In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
181-Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.
182-A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
183-Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
184-You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
185-The two longest one-syllable words in the English language is "screeched. & strengths."
186-All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
187-A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened.
188-"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
189-The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
190-The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element'.
191-Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
192-Cat's urine glows under a black light.
193-The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
194-The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
195-Chrysler built B-29's engines that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
196-On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
197-The vignette on the reverse of the five-dollar note depicts a likeness of the front of the Lincoln Memorial as it appeared in 1922 when it was first dedicated. At that time, there were only 48 states that made up the United States of America. The names of 26 states were engraved on the front of the Memorial. This is why only the names of 26 states appear in the vignette on the reverse of the five-dollar note. In the upper frieze of the façade in the vignette the states are from left to right: Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado, and North Dakota. In the lower frieze from left to right the names of the states are: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Carolina, Hampshire, Virginia and New York.
198-All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
199-Almonds are members of the peach family.
200-If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050
201-The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
202-The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 Oz.
203-The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
204-Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
205-Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
206-Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
207-The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes.
208-In many cases, the amount of storage space on a record-able CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.
209-Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
210-Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
211-Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
212-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.
213-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.
214-Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
215-The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
216-Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
217-The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
218-On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.
219-In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
220-Only humans and horses have hymens.
221-The state with the longest coastline in the US is Alaska.
222-We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)
223-Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.
224-Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats.
225-The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California…
226-The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827.
227-"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
228-A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
229-If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
230-The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.
231-Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
232-There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
233-The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopics- ilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovol- canoconioses, its plural.
234-The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatan- gihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai- whenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
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 size, "L.A."
235-A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
236-An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
237-Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
238-After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for damages that were caused by them building ships for the Confederacy. We originally asked for $1 billion but settled on $25 Million.
239-There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.
240-Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
241-There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
242-The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is 'angstschreeuw'.
243-Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
244-The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.
245-The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".
246-Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
247-Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distribution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being.
248-Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
249-The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmentarianism".
250-When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."
251-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."
252-The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
253-In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.
254-The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.
255-Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement.
256-The only real people to be a Pez head are
Betsy Ross, Paul Revere and Daniel Boone.
257-Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons."
258-Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
259-A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
260-The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
261-There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
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.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
"Evian" spelled backwards is naive.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni- frid.)
What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same number with the digits in reverse order?
21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969.)
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser himself.. And Greg Evigan sang the "My Two Dads" theme. Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show Growing Pains wrote the theme songs for The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes .
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.
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 radios newscast about the wreck.
The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
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."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry, founder of Blues Inc. They were the first electric white blues band ever seen in England- -1961
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.
Horses cannot vomit.
S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" — It was just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone couldkey it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..
Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Dart-boards are made out of horsehair.
Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Octopi have gardens.
"Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.'"
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever home run and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever home run where thrown by the same man.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
During conscription for WWII, there were nine documented cases of men with three testicles.
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticeably shorter than his right.
Swans and Ducks are the only birds with penises.
in fact, the longest bird penis on record belongs to a duck
A whale's penis is called a dork.
Some carnivores, rodents, bats and insectivores have a penis bone, called a baculum.
A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.
Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would and therefore forestall curses.
The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.
The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
Medieval knights put sharkskin on their sword handles to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
The only planet without a ring is earth.
Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Starfish don't have brains.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
Did you know that the actor Jane Seymour's birth name is:
Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg.
Roy Rogers name was Leonard Slye
Dale Evans was Frances Octavia Smith.
The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streets in Rome, they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of"trivia."
Henry VIII only had two of his wives executed;
Anne Boleyn (#2) and Catherine Howard (#5).
Catherine of Aragon (#1) died after he had divorced her,
Jane Seymour (#3) died after childbirth (of Edward),
Anne of Cleves (#4) died after he divorced her
Katherine Parr (#6) actually outlived Henry.
Jellyfish have no brains, yet they can tell light from dark, and sence movement.
The term 'flying on cloud 9' originates from military flights. Cloud types are classified as numbers… with 'cloud 9' being a very tall thunderstorm. Jets have to climb to an extremely high altitude in order to fly over 'cloud 9.
A dogs sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew. In fact, if you unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes from inside a dogs nose, the membranes would be larger than the dog itself.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. I keep my toothbrush in the living room now.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
The wingspan of the B-36, a retired USAF bomber, was twice as long.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
So did the first 'Marlboro Man'.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
All U.S. presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like to be seen wearing them in public.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
Turtles can breathe through their butts
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
When we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc., how many of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real mirror, or actually a two-way mirror?? Just conduct this simple test: Place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective surface and if there is a GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is a GENUINE mirror. However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the image of your nail, then BEWARE, for it is a two-way mirror
The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska!
The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this…) The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter:o?=o?= Tom Sawyer.
Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
In Massachusetts - It is illegal to put tomatoes in clam chowder
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Diamonds - Julius Caesar
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.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month? A. Conception.
Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? A. Their birthplace
Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? A. Obsession
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? A. One thousand
Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laserbprinters all have in common? A. All invented by women.
Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil? A. Honey
Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year? A. Father's Day
Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic? A.o?= He was allergic to carrots.
Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party? A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.o?= When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "Goodnight, sleep tight".
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink.o?= Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month we know today as the honeymoon.
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"
Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden…. and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly poop
Totally Useless Facts
Courtesy of
The Freeman Institute
"Dealing With People Who Drive You Crazy!"
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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.
A snail can sleep for three years.
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (hmmmmmmm)
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches
tall.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
The "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.
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Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. What about milk you say? A
cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Michael Jordan makes more money from NIKE annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia
combined.
The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster than the rest of us.
Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be
right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand
which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would
have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that
they were descendants of the devil.
Ham radio operators got the term "ham" coined from the expression "ham fisted operators," a term used to
describe early radio users who sent Morse code (i.e., pounded their fist).
The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." These license plates are manufactured
by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.
Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc.
Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc. (A reader of this page stated that this statement is not true: Aerogel is the densest solid in the world at 1mg/cc.)
Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man woman and child in the world.
The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.
The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one end point is P.
The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun.
The longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteat uripukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua kitanatahu
— a New Zealand hill. (See if your spell check has this word)
Los Angeles's full name is: "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de losAngeles de Poriuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "LA."
Only 1 in 2,000,000,000 will live to be 116 or older.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than
light, but it is impossible to go the speed of light. Also, there is a particle called tackyon, which is supposed
to go faster than light. This means if you fire a tackyon beam, it travels before you fire it.
When you tie a noose, the rope is wrapped twelve times around because it's the same length as a person’s
head.
Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.
A cat's jaw cannot move sideways.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one
cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it)
If you passed gas consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an
atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. ( In your next life do you want to be a pig?)
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Do not try this at home ..maybe at work)
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates mating
by ripping the male's head off.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What can be so tasty on the bottom of the pond?)
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Butterflies taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know)
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump. (OK, so that would be a good thing….)
A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out.)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)
Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.)
Polar bears are left-handed (Who knew…? Who cares!)
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Maine is the only state (in USA) whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A 2" X 4" is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily (I knew it!).
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, and silver. What about "month?"
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." There was never a recorded Wendy before.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist that discovered this??)
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down while shooting so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
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.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
An old law in Bellingham, Washington made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them. (The suits or the astronauts?)
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Some American Colloquialisms their origins! In George Washington's days, there were no cameras. One's
image was either sculpted or painted. Some paintings of George Washington showed him standing behind a
desk with one arm behind his back while others showed both legs and both arms. Prices charged by
painters were not based on how many people were to be painted, but by how many limbs were to be
painted. Arms and legs are "limbs;" therefore, painting them would cost the buyer more. Hence,
the expression, "Okay, but it'll cost you an arm and a leg."
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As incredible as it sounds, men and women took baths only twice a year! (May & October) Women
always kept their hair covered while men shaved their heads (because of lice and bugs) and wore wigs.
Wealthy men could afford good wigs. The wigs couldn't be washed so to clean them, they could carve out
a loaf of bread, put the wig in the shell and bake it for 30 minutes. The heat would make the wig big and
fluffy, hence the term "big wig." Today we often use the expression "Here comes the Big Wig" because
someone appears to be or is powerful and wealthy.
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In the late 1700's, many houses consisted of a large room with only one chair. Commonly, a long wide
board was folded down from the wall and used for dining. The "head of the household" always sat in the
chair while everyone else ate sitting on the floor. Once in a while an invited guest would be offered to sit in
this chair during a meal whom was almost always a man. To sit-in the chair meant you were important and
in charge. Sitting in the chair, one was called the "chair man." Today, in business, we use the expression/title "Chairman."
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Needless to say, personal hygiene left much room for improvement. As a result, many women and men had
developed acne scars by adulthood. The women would spread bee's wax over their facial skin to smooth
out their complexions. When they were speaking to each other, if a woman began to stare at another
woman's face she was told "mind your own bee's wax." Should the woman smile, the wax would crack,
hence the term "crack a smile." Also, when they sat too close to the fire, the wax would melt, and therefore, the expression "losing face."
Ladies wore corsets which would lace up in the front. A tightly tied lace was worn by a proper and
dignified lady as in "straight laced".
Common entertainment included playing cards. However, there was a tax levied when purchasing playing
cards but only applicable to the "ace of spades." To avoid paying the tax, people would purchase 51 cards
instead. Yet, since most games require 52 cards, these people were thought to be stupid or dumb because
they weren't "playing with a full deck."
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Early politicians required feedback from the public to determine what was considered important to the
people. Since there were no telephones, TV's or radios, the politicians sent their assistants to local taverns,
pubs and bars who were told to "go sip some ale" and listen to people's conversations and political
concerns. Many assistants were dispatched at different times. "You go sip here" and "You go sip there."
The two words "go sip" were eventually combined when referring to the local opinion and thus, we have the term "gossip."
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Some More Things You May NOT Have Known
1. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
2. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickle the company once had.
3. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks -otherwise it will digest itself.
4. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
5. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
6. Every person has a unique tongue print.
7. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.
9. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
10. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
11. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
12. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
13. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
14. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing
the shark to explode.
15. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
16. American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
17. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
