Submitted By: Sarah StitzleinOn 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 The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill Almonds are members of the peach family The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz Charlie Brown's father was a barber Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actors' salaries A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer 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." A cat has 32 muscles in each ear An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth A pregnant goldfish is called a twit When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors 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 The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts." 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 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 Alexander the Great was an epileptic 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. A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't The average person falls asleep in seven minutes The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living Dartboards are made out of horsehairs There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing The only planet without a ring is earth Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks
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