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Coca-Cola was originally green.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
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.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue of a person in the park 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.
What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laserprinters all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Ans. - Honey
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A snail can sleep for three years.
All polar bears are left handed.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
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-The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
-Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
-It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
-Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collie; 2) Poodle; 3) Golden Retriever. Dumbest: Afghan hound.
-The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
-Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
-City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
-State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
-Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
-Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
-If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33, and she would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
-Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
-Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%
-Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%
-Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
-Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
-Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World:70%
-Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
-Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage"
-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.
-Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
-First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
-A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
-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 (of course, this was pre-cable TV).
-The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
-The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
-Hang On Snoopy is the official rock song of Ohio. (Note: Real title is "Sloopy")
-Did you know that there are coffee-flavored PEZ?
-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.
-The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (hence the name of the Don McLean song.)
-When possums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
-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.
-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.
-The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.
-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.
-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."
-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.
-"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
-The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II 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."
-Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
-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.
-An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
-The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
-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.
-In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
-The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
-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.
-The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
-The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
-Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
-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.
-No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.
-The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
-The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports events (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
-Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
-The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
-How about this.... The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosey..."), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of poseys..."), People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")
-The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
-"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
-Almonds are members of the peach family.
-Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
-The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
-"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
-Los Angeles' 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."
-Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
-Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
-Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
-The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
-Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch.'
-The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children (too little too late, huh?).
-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, ere, therein, herein.
-Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
-John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
-A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully-ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
-To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
-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."
-Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
-There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
-Emu's and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
-The first episode of "Joanie Loves Chachi" was the highest rated American program in the history of Korean television. "Chachi" is Korean for "penis."
-Pearls melt in vinegar
-The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: MARLBORO, COCA-COLA, BUDWEISER, in that order.
-Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
-Thirty-Five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
-The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" movie was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
-Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
-The fingerprints of Koala Bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
-Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
-James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott (Scotty) on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger on his right hand (he lost it on D-Day).
-A sick pig rarely curls its tail.
-A woodpeckers tongue is long enough to wrap it around his head 2 times (eat your heart out, Gene Simmons!).
-Ants prefer not to walk through baby powder.
-Snakes can't blink.
-A rat can tread water for 3 days.
-A snail takes 33 hours to crawl 1 mile.
-The bigger the navel, the sweeter the orange.
-The dot over the lower case "i" is called a Tittle.
-In an average lifetime the human heart circulates 55 million gallons of blood.
-It is illegal in the state of Kentucky to marry your wife's grandmother.
-If a frog's mouth is held open too long the frog will suffocate.
-Kokomo, Indiana is the home of canned tomato juice.
-Peanuts are used in the manufacture of dynamite.
-In an average lifetime the average American receives 31 prank phone calls (hopefully not per day!).
-Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
-At the first Thanksgiving dinner, Lobster was one of the main entrees.
-A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
-The ashes of an average cremated person weighs 9 lbs.
-Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
-Oak trees do not have acorns until they are 50 years or older.
-All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5.00 bill.
-Shirley Temple always had 56 curls in her hair.
-Corduroy comes from the French, meaning "cloth of the king".
-The dial tone of a normal phone is in the key of F.
-Easter Sunday is always the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 21. (the first day of Spring)
-An office chair with wheels travels 8 miles a year.
-Howdy Doody has exactly 48 freckles on his face.
-33 million Hershey Kisses are made each day.
-Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die. (Guess some of us are in sad shape!)
-An animal epidemic is called a epizootic. (True! This was so silly I went and looked it up!)
-If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
-Camel's milk does not curdle. (Who wants to drink it anyhow?)
-A cat has 4 rows of whiskers.
-In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer name is Yensid which is Disney backwards.
-Maine is the toothpick capital of the world. It is also the only state whose name is one syllable.
-The space between the 2 front teeth is called a Diastima.
-Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
-A group of owls is called a parliament (so what do they call a group of "White Owls"?).
-The geographical center of North America is Rugby, North Dakota.
-Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.
-The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.
-Giraffes have no vocal chords.
-The dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
-Mister Rogers was an ordained minister.
-Professional ballerinas use about 12 pair of toe shoes per week.
-"Race car" is a palindrome.
-The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as philtrums.
-Ralph Kramden made $62.00 a week.
-Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
-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."
-The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
-In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
-The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
-Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
-All dogs, no matter what size, scratch at the same speed.
-The term "Checkmate" comes from the Arabic meaning "the king is dead".
-The word TIP is an acronym for "To Insure Promptness".
-There are no turkeys in Turkey.
-There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
-A giraffe's tongue is blue.
-The average person blinks 313 million times in a lifetime.
-Robert E. Lee wore size 4 1/2 shoe.
-If a spider dismantles his web a bad storm is near.
-"Tug of War" was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
-Tony the Tiger will turn 50 in 2005.
-The right lung takes in more air than the left.
-There is no rice in rice paper.
-More than 25% of the worlds forests are in Siberia.
-Nearly all Sumo wrestlers have flat feet and big butts.
-Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee in his pants on the moon (you would too, if you had to go 106,000 miles before the next rest stop !).
-An eagles nest can weigh as much as two tons.
-Conception occurs more often in December than any other month (Happy Holidays!).
-"60 Minutes," is the only CBS TV show with no theme song.
-Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
-The most popular boat name requested is Obsession.
-If you were to spell out numbers, you would have to go to One-thousand until you would find the letter "A".
-There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
-40% of all people at a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.
-In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. 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. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon.
-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.
-Did you know......... It is impossible to lick your elbow?
-Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow!
-A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
-A shrimp's heart is in their head.
-People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
-Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabet Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
-On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
-Rats and horses can't vomit.
-The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
-If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
-Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
-Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
-If the U.S. 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?
-Cat's urine glows under a black-light (no doubt they figured this one out in the 60's!).
-The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
-No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
-Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
-You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
-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.
-A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
-Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
-Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
-The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
-Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
-The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer (poetic justice?).
-Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
-Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
-All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
-Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
-Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all of the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
-Turtles can breathe through their butts (I'm not touching this one!).
-Butterflies taste with their feet (aren't you glad you're not a butterfly?).
-In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
-On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
-On average, people fear spiders more than death.
-Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants (Nawww! Really???).
-No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
-Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
-In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
-"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
-Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
-"Weird" Al Yankovic received a Bachelor's degree in Architecture in 1981. He also served as valedictorian of his high school at age 16.
-The oldest business in the United States of America is the Avedis Zildjian Cymbal Company. which was founded by Avedis Zildjian in Constantinople in 1623.
-There are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building.
-The lightning that we see actually goes from the ground to the sky in what is known as the "return stroke" at 1/3 the speed of light. We can't see the initial "stepped leader" that passes from the sky to the ground.
-From space, the brightest man-made place is Las Vegas, Nevada.
-Janis Joplin's will called for a party for 200 people at her favorite pub in San Alselmo, California at a cost of $2,500.00.
-The most common invention of the 19th century was the washing machine. Between 1804 and 1873, at least 1676 patents were issued by the United States Patent Office for various forms of this device.
-The five most stolen items in a drugstore are batteries, cosmetics, film, sunglasses, and, get this, Preparation H. Apparently people are just too embarrassed to purchase the last item. And, just in case you are curious, one of Preparation H's main ingredient is Shark Liver Oil. The oil not only helps shrink hemorrhoids, but will shrink any tissue. As a result, many older women in Florida use the stuff to help reduce the appearance of wrinkles!
-Contrary to popular belief, only one alligator has ever been found in the New York City sewer system. The 125 pound alligator was pulled out by four boys way back in 1935.
-In four separate instances between October 1987 and February 1988, small pink frogs rained down from the sky on to various parts of Great Britain. Scientists are still uncertain as to where these frogs originated, although some have traced them back to the Sahara desert.
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Most Amazing Facts..Feel free to add your own..Facts only..
Coca-Cola was originally green.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
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.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue of a person in the park 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.
What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laserprinters all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Ans. - Honey
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A snail can sleep for three years.
All polar bears are left handed.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
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-The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
-Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
-It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
-Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collie; 2) Poodle; 3) Golden Retriever. Dumbest: Afghan hound.
-The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
-Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
-City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
-State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
-Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
-Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
-If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33, and she would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
-Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
-Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%
-Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%
-Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
-Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
-Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World:70%
-Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
-Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage"
-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.
-Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
-First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
-A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
-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 (of course, this was pre-cable TV).
-The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
-The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
-Hang On Snoopy is the official rock song of Ohio. (Note: Real title is "Sloopy")
-Did you know that there are coffee-flavored PEZ?
-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.
-The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (hence the name of the Don McLean song.)
-When possums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
-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.
-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.
-The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.
-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.
-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."
-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.
-"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
-The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II 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."
-Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
-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.
-An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
-The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
-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.
-In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
-The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
-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.
-The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
-The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
-Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
-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.
-No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.
-The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
-The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports events (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
-Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
-The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
-How about this.... The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosey..."), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of poseys..."), People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")
-The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
-"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
-Almonds are members of the peach family.
-Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
-The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
-"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
-Los Angeles' 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."
-Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
-Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
-Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
-The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
-Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch.'
-The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children (too little too late, huh?).
-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, ere, therein, herein.
-Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
-John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
-A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully-ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
-To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
-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."
-Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
-There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
-Emu's and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
-The first episode of "Joanie Loves Chachi" was the highest rated American program in the history of Korean television. "Chachi" is Korean for "penis."
-Pearls melt in vinegar
-The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: MARLBORO, COCA-COLA, BUDWEISER, in that order.
-Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
-Thirty-Five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
-The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" movie was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
-Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
-The fingerprints of Koala Bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
-Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
-James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott (Scotty) on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger on his right hand (he lost it on D-Day).
-A sick pig rarely curls its tail.
-A woodpeckers tongue is long enough to wrap it around his head 2 times (eat your heart out, Gene Simmons!).
-Ants prefer not to walk through baby powder.
-Snakes can't blink.
-A rat can tread water for 3 days.
-A snail takes 33 hours to crawl 1 mile.
-The bigger the navel, the sweeter the orange.
-The dot over the lower case "i" is called a Tittle.
-In an average lifetime the human heart circulates 55 million gallons of blood.
-It is illegal in the state of Kentucky to marry your wife's grandmother.
-If a frog's mouth is held open too long the frog will suffocate.
-Kokomo, Indiana is the home of canned tomato juice.
-Peanuts are used in the manufacture of dynamite.
-In an average lifetime the average American receives 31 prank phone calls (hopefully not per day!).
-Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
-At the first Thanksgiving dinner, Lobster was one of the main entrees.
-A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
-The ashes of an average cremated person weighs 9 lbs.
-Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
-Oak trees do not have acorns until they are 50 years or older.
-All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5.00 bill.
-Shirley Temple always had 56 curls in her hair.
-Corduroy comes from the French, meaning "cloth of the king".
-The dial tone of a normal phone is in the key of F.
-Easter Sunday is always the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 21. (the first day of Spring)
-An office chair with wheels travels 8 miles a year.
-Howdy Doody has exactly 48 freckles on his face.
-33 million Hershey Kisses are made each day.
-Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die. (Guess some of us are in sad shape!)
-An animal epidemic is called a epizootic. (True! This was so silly I went and looked it up!)
-If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
-Camel's milk does not curdle. (Who wants to drink it anyhow?)
-A cat has 4 rows of whiskers.
-In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer name is Yensid which is Disney backwards.
-Maine is the toothpick capital of the world. It is also the only state whose name is one syllable.
-The space between the 2 front teeth is called a Diastima.
-Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
-A group of owls is called a parliament (so what do they call a group of "White Owls"?).
-The geographical center of North America is Rugby, North Dakota.
-Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.
-The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.
-Giraffes have no vocal chords.
-The dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
-Mister Rogers was an ordained minister.
-Professional ballerinas use about 12 pair of toe shoes per week.
-"Race car" is a palindrome.
-The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as philtrums.
-Ralph Kramden made $62.00 a week.
-Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
-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."
-The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
-In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
-The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
-Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
-All dogs, no matter what size, scratch at the same speed.
-The term "Checkmate" comes from the Arabic meaning "the king is dead".
-The word TIP is an acronym for "To Insure Promptness".
-There are no turkeys in Turkey.
-There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
-A giraffe's tongue is blue.
-The average person blinks 313 million times in a lifetime.
-Robert E. Lee wore size 4 1/2 shoe.
-If a spider dismantles his web a bad storm is near.
-"Tug of War" was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
-Tony the Tiger will turn 50 in 2005.
-The right lung takes in more air than the left.
-There is no rice in rice paper.
-More than 25% of the worlds forests are in Siberia.
-Nearly all Sumo wrestlers have flat feet and big butts.
-Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee in his pants on the moon (you would too, if you had to go 106,000 miles before the next rest stop !).
-An eagles nest can weigh as much as two tons.
-Conception occurs more often in December than any other month (Happy Holidays!).
-"60 Minutes," is the only CBS TV show with no theme song.
-Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
-The most popular boat name requested is Obsession.
-If you were to spell out numbers, you would have to go to One-thousand until you would find the letter "A".
-There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
-40% of all people at a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.
-In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. 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. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon.
-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.
-Did you know......... It is impossible to lick your elbow?
-Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow!
-A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
-A shrimp's heart is in their head.
-People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
-Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabet Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
-On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
-Rats and horses can't vomit.
-The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
-If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
-Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
-Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
-If the U.S. 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?
-Cat's urine glows under a black-light (no doubt they figured this one out in the 60's!).
-The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
-No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
-Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
-You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
-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.
-A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
-Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
-Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
-The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
-Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
-The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer (poetic justice?).
-Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
-Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
-All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
-Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
-Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all of the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
-Turtles can breathe through their butts (I'm not touching this one!).
-Butterflies taste with their feet (aren't you glad you're not a butterfly?).
-In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
-On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
-On average, people fear spiders more than death.
-Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants (Nawww! Really???).
-No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
-Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
-In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
-"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
-Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
-"Weird" Al Yankovic received a Bachelor's degree in Architecture in 1981. He also served as valedictorian of his high school at age 16.
-The oldest business in the United States of America is the Avedis Zildjian Cymbal Company. which was founded by Avedis Zildjian in Constantinople in 1623.
-There are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building.
-The lightning that we see actually goes from the ground to the sky in what is known as the "return stroke" at 1/3 the speed of light. We can't see the initial "stepped leader" that passes from the sky to the ground.
-From space, the brightest man-made place is Las Vegas, Nevada.
-Janis Joplin's will called for a party for 200 people at her favorite pub in San Alselmo, California at a cost of $2,500.00.
-The most common invention of the 19th century was the washing machine. Between 1804 and 1873, at least 1676 patents were issued by the United States Patent Office for various forms of this device.
-The five most stolen items in a drugstore are batteries, cosmetics, film, sunglasses, and, get this, Preparation H. Apparently people are just too embarrassed to purchase the last item. And, just in case you are curious, one of Preparation H's main ingredient is Shark Liver Oil. The oil not only helps shrink hemorrhoids, but will shrink any tissue. As a result, many older women in Florida use the stuff to help reduce the appearance of wrinkles!
-Contrary to popular belief, only one alligator has ever been found in the New York City sewer system. The 125 pound alligator was pulled out by four boys way back in 1935.
-In four separate instances between October 1987 and February 1988, small pink frogs rained down from the sky on to various parts of Great Britain. Scientists are still uncertain as to where these frogs originated, although some have traced them back to the Sahara desert.
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