Dorky and Bunky's Collection of Useless Information
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Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
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 used to 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.
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 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.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
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".
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
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.
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
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.
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.
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The longest one-syllable word in the English languageis "screeched."
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters"mt".
The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element'.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi
built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies
now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock
tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
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.
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5etc) the total is 5050.
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835
when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When He died in 1910,
Haley's Comet came into view again.
Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is
a registered trademark of AT&T.
The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5 megabytes.
In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable
CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes,
63 minutes is 550 megabytes.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three
of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
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.
Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
The largest city in the United States with a one syllable
name is Flint, Michigan.
On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years
old and her daughter Judy is 15.
In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is
the only person who has a speaking role.
Only humans and horses have hymens.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.
We had 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.)
Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.
Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation,
was played by six different cats.
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape
Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...
The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th
Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language
that begins and ends with the letters "und."
A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop
goes to the production of Guinness beer.
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.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.
In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where
a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program
(played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake,
California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good
astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager
claiming they need someone who went to college. During
the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a
bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping.
General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as'Fred.'
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which
end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The longest word in the English language, according
to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, 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."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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.
There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the ParamountPictures logo.
Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
There is a word in the English language with only one
vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time
displayed on a watch is 10:10.
The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonantsis 'angstschreeuw'.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was
eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.
The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".
'Facetious' and 'abstemious' contain all the vowels in the correct order.
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.
Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furnituredealer.
The second longest word in the English language is
'antidisestablishmenterianism'.
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."
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."
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two
lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.
The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.
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.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted
in the book 'The Naked Lunch'.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
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."
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh
Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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.
Canola oil is actually grapeseed oil but the name was
changed in Canada for marketing reasons.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football
at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largestcity.
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 backvards is naive.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are calledaglets.
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, homerun.
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 radio's 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 cannon balls
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 and Rabbits 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 could key
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.
Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled
to death on the set by a raging elephant.
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 homerun
and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun
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 are the only birds with penises.
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.
Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
If you feed a bird 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.
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."
Abraham Lincoln's dog, Fido, was assassinated too (he was stabbed to death).
In Chinese, the Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan, "Finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off."
A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
European women didn't wear underpants until the early 1900s.
On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made of recieved a telephone call.
Janet Jackson gets coffee enemas.
We shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.
Yo-yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
Prince William once flushed his dads shoes down the toilet.
Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.
Mexico City sinks about 10 inches every year.
You blink your eyes about 20,000 times a day.
Girls see better than boys in the dark.
The average person has 696 muscles, a caterpillar has more than 4,000.
The typical bed houses two million dust mites.
Brains are more active sleeping than watching tv.
Ancient Romans and Egyptians used crushed tadpoles mixed with warm oil as hair dye.
Blue is the favorite color of 80% of Americans.
A giraffe cleans its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
Most bears are left handed.
When a person shakes their head from side to side in Sri Lanka, they are saying yes.
There are more chickens in the world than people.
It's against the law to have a dog in iceland, unless its a seeing eye dog.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail the fastest.
Rats cant vomit.
Every day, .5% of the worlds population visit a McDonalds.
Children grow faster in the spring.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Napoleon suffered from constipation.
Police in Texas offer a Marilyn Manson awareness seminar for educators and law-enforcement officials.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The only word with all vowels in reverse order is subcontinental.
Donald duck comics were once banned in Finland because Donald doesnt wear pants.
85% of people killed by lightening are male.
There are more telephones than people in Washington DC.
The back of the sock is called a gore.
Beethoven poured cold water over his head before he composed.
The "sixth sick sheiks sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
Carson Daly was OJ's golf caddie.
Add up all the numbers on a roulette wheel and the sum is 666.
In Pakistan, it's impolite to show the soles of your feet.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
There are more plastic flamingos in the US than real ones.
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 extraterrestrial or their vehicles?
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.
Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased
in the US is contaminated with bacteria.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats
could have over 1 million descendants.
You are more likely to be struck by lightning than to
be eaten by a shark. You are more likely to be infected
by flesh-eating bacteria than you are to be struck by lightning.
If you urinate when swimming in a South American River,
you may encounter the candiru. Drawn to warmth, this
tiny fish is known to follow a stream of urine to its
source, swim inside the body, and flare is barbed fins.
It will remain firmly embedded in the flesh until surgically removed.
When a pilot light in a gas barbecue fails to ignite
the gas jets properly, it is easy for you to inhale
gas accidentally while trying to light it by hand.
If this has happened, when the match does light, sometimes
a trail of flame will blaze from the jet onto your mouth,
filling your lungs with fire. Oddly enough, you would
suffocate before burning to death as the flame would
consume the oxygen in every breath you would take.
The soft plastic headphones used on airplanes create
a warm, moist environment in the ear canal that is ideal
for breeding bacteria. Wearing headphones for just
an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
On a plane, if the passenger in your seat on the incoming
flight had serious gas, then you are sitting on a cushion
full of disease-causing microbes.
Homely criminals get 50% longer jail sentences, on average,
than good-looking criminals.
Four sunken nuclear submarines sit at the bottom of
the Atlantic Ocean. One, a Russian sub resting in deep
water off of Bermuda, holds 16 live nuclear warheads.
Scientists and oceanographers are unsure what the impact
of the escaping plutonium will have, but warn that corrosion
could create the proper chemical environment for a massive
nuclear chain reaction.
In 1994, electromagnetic interference (EMI) from a nearby
cellular telephone captivated a power wheelchair at
a scenic vista in Colorado, sending the passenger over a cliff.
More people working in advertising died on the job in
1996 than died while working in petroleum refining.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 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%
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.
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.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
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
"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 ammunition belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammunition at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out of the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
On average, people fear spiders more they they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
A crocodile cannot stick out its 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.
Polar bears are left handed.
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 9 days without its head before it starves to death.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while it's head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish don't have brains.
When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown. BUT, it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and smack the fool upside the head.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time vision were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
Hong Kong is the city with the most Rolls Royce's per capita.
Alaska is the state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
It would cost about $6,400 to raise a medium-size dog to the age of eleven.
On average, 61,000 people are airborne over the US and any given hour.
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 was Tom Sawyer.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
The zodiac sign, Aquarius, is represented by a water bearer, however, Aquarius is not a water sign, it's an air sign.
"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."
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.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has
ever won a Superbowl.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.
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 posies..."), 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!")
Conception occurs more often in December than any other month.
"60 Minutes," on CBS, is the only TV show without a theme song.
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
Most boat owners name their boats. The most popular boat name requested is "Obsession."
If you were to spell out numbers, you could go to "one thousand" before you would find the letter "A".
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
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