Post by honeybee on Apr 27, 2007 12:55:47 GMT -4
Some you know, SoOme you don't, still great information
* The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were
Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
* Coca-Cola was originally green.
* Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
* Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
* The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to
work:Alaska
* The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
* 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: Tom Sawyer.
* Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National
Monuments.
* Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a king from history:
Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
* 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321
* 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.
* 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.
* Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them
looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
* No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever
won a Super bowl.
* The only two days of the year in which there are no
professionalsports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the
day after the Major League all-stars Game.
* Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?
A. Conception.
* Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
A. No theme song
* 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
laser printers 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. 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. 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.
* 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.
Did you know?
* If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
* If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is
produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
* A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
* Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
* Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
* The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own
weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
* Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
* Butterflies taste with their feet.
* An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
* Starfish don't have brains.
Amusing facts
* 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.
* Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
* Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served first class: $40,000
* City with the most Rolls Royce cars per capita: Hong Kong
* Barbie's measurements if she was life size: 39-23-33
* Average number of days a 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
* In 1500's England, most people got married in June because they took
their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However,
they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide
the body odor.
* Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/DisneyWo rld: 70
* Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
* Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for Profiles in
Courage
* Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
* 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.
* Hang On Snoopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
* Did you know that there are coffee flavored Pez?
* The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days 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"; thus the
name of the Don McLean song.
* When opossums 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.
* The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
* David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He
spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed
over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
* In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
* 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.
* The first toilet ever seen on television was on Leave It To Beaver.
Little Known Facts
* In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting
license.
* Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
* On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
* In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's
nuclear weapons combined.
* Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
* Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years.
Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6.
* Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
* Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building
it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls
off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat
to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself. (How did they study
this? Ummmm?)
* The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
* The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War
II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
* More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
* The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
* Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
* The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
Fascinating Facts
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100
people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look
something like the following. There would be:
* 57 Asians
* 21 Europeans
* 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
* 8 Africans
* 52 would be female
* 48 would be male
* 70 would be non-white
* 30 would be white
* 70 would be non-Christian
* 30 would be Christian
* 89 would be heterosexual
* 11 would be homosexual
* 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6
would be from the United States.
* 80 would live in substandard housing
* 70 would be unable to read
* 50 would suffer from malnutrition
* 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
* 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
* 1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the
need for both acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly
apparent. — Phillip M Harter, MD, FACEP, Stanford University, School of
Medicine
Things to know that are "really" significant in our lives
* 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.
* A 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.
* On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
building is an American flag.
* 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 whose name is just one syllable.
* Los Angeles's 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 & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert
the cop & 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. (DON'T try this at
home!)
* 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 is an ordained minister.
* There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Strange Trivia
* The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the
shutter on backwards.
* Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian
coat of arms for that reason.
* Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about
ten.
* Camel's milk does not curdle.
* An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
* Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean
elephants.
* The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
* Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
* All porcupines float in water.
* If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town
hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
* Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
* Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag
at the same height as the U.S. flag.
* The only nation whose name begins with an "A," but doesn't end in an
"A" is Afghanistan.
* Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first
baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
* 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. Same thing with the
library at the University of Massachusetts.
Fun Facts to Know and Love
* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out of the
body to squirt blood 30 feet.
* On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
* Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
* You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a
poisonous spider.
* Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.
* In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
* Polar bears are left handed.
* The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. That makes the catfish #1
for the animal having the most taste buds.
* The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human
jumping the length of a football field.
* A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves
to death.
* The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached
to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off
* A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
Trivia
* Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
* Pearls melt in vinegar.
* It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a
year's supply of footballs.
* Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating
are already married.
* The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and
Budweiser; in that order.
* Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of
their hands.
* Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale
of vodka.
* The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses
every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to test
telex/two-way communications)
* A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
* Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people
without killing them used to burn their houses down; hence, the expression
"to get fired."
* The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
* Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
* The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was
actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
* If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating
to the top and sinking to the bottom.
* Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
* Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman
roommates at Harvard
* 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.
* The man who played Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek is
missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
* 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.
* All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck at 4:20.
* The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were
Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
* Coca-Cola was originally green.
* Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
* Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
* The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to
work:Alaska
* The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
* 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: Tom Sawyer.
* Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National
Monuments.
* Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a king from history:
Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
* 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321
* 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.
* 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.
* Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them
looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
* No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever
won a Super bowl.
* The only two days of the year in which there are no
professionalsports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the
day after the Major League all-stars Game.
* Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?
A. Conception.
* Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
A. No theme song
* 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
laser printers 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. 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. 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.
* 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.
Did you know?
* If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
* If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is
produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
* A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
* Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
* Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
* The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own
weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
* Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
* Butterflies taste with their feet.
* An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
* Starfish don't have brains.
Amusing facts
* 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.
* Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
* Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served first class: $40,000
* City with the most Rolls Royce cars per capita: Hong Kong
* Barbie's measurements if she was life size: 39-23-33
* Average number of days a 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
* In 1500's England, most people got married in June because they took
their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However,
they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide
the body odor.
* Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/DisneyWo rld: 70
* Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
* Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for Profiles in
Courage
* Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
* 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.
* Hang On Snoopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
* Did you know that there are coffee flavored Pez?
* The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days 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"; thus the
name of the Don McLean song.
* When opossums 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.
* The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
* David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He
spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed
over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
* In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
* 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.
* The first toilet ever seen on television was on Leave It To Beaver.
Little Known Facts
* In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting
license.
* Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
* On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
* In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's
nuclear weapons combined.
* Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
* Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years.
Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6.
* Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
* Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building
it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls
off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat
to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself. (How did they study
this? Ummmm?)
* The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
* The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War
II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
* More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
* The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
* Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
* The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
Fascinating Facts
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100
people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look
something like the following. There would be:
* 57 Asians
* 21 Europeans
* 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
* 8 Africans
* 52 would be female
* 48 would be male
* 70 would be non-white
* 30 would be white
* 70 would be non-Christian
* 30 would be Christian
* 89 would be heterosexual
* 11 would be homosexual
* 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6
would be from the United States.
* 80 would live in substandard housing
* 70 would be unable to read
* 50 would suffer from malnutrition
* 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
* 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
* 1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the
need for both acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly
apparent. — Phillip M Harter, MD, FACEP, Stanford University, School of
Medicine
Things to know that are "really" significant in our lives
* 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.
* A 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.
* On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
building is an American flag.
* 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 whose name is just one syllable.
* Los Angeles's 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 & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert
the cop & 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. (DON'T try this at
home!)
* 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 is an ordained minister.
* There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Strange Trivia
* The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the
shutter on backwards.
* Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian
coat of arms for that reason.
* Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about
ten.
* Camel's milk does not curdle.
* An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
* Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean
elephants.
* The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
* Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
* All porcupines float in water.
* If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town
hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
* Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
* Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag
at the same height as the U.S. flag.
* The only nation whose name begins with an "A," but doesn't end in an
"A" is Afghanistan.
* Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first
baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
* 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. Same thing with the
library at the University of Massachusetts.
Fun Facts to Know and Love
* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out of the
body to squirt blood 30 feet.
* On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
* Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
* You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a
poisonous spider.
* Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.
* In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
* Polar bears are left handed.
* The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. That makes the catfish #1
for the animal having the most taste buds.
* The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human
jumping the length of a football field.
* A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves
to death.
* The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached
to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off
* A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
Trivia
* Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
* Pearls melt in vinegar.
* It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a
year's supply of footballs.
* Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating
are already married.
* The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and
Budweiser; in that order.
* Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of
their hands.
* Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale
of vodka.
* The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses
every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to test
telex/two-way communications)
* A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
* Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people
without killing them used to burn their houses down; hence, the expression
"to get fired."
* The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
* Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
* The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was
actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
* If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating
to the top and sinking to the bottom.
* Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
* Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman
roommates at Harvard
* 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.
* The man who played Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek is
missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
* 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.
* All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck at 4:20.
