| Fun Facts |
| Okay this has nothing to do with Ewan but they are just some everyday facts. :) |
| Before Prohibition, Shlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic church. If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom. Kermit the Frog is left-handed.- Nondairy creamer is flammable.- The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile. - If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it. 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 dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F." The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene. In the four major US professional sports (baseball, basketball, football, and hockey), there are only seven teams whose nicknames do not end with an "S." Basketball: The Miami Heat, The Utah Jazz, The Orlando Magic. Baseball: The Boston Red Sox, The Chicago White Sox. Hockey: The Colorado Avalanche, The Tampa Bay Lightning. Football: None. Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for Lord of the Flies, and this is where the book's title comes from. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear. Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city. In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run. 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. The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia. Every second, your senses send about 100 million different messages to your brain. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? *Obsession |
| *Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. *Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. *There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. *The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. *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. *The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched." *On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. *All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. *No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. *"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". *All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. *Almonds are a member of the peach family. *Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. *Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. *There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. *Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" *A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. *An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. *Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. *In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 *Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. *The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life." *A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. *A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. *A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. *It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. *The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. *The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. *There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. *"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. |
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| *Source of the name "Indiana Jones" - It was the name of producer George Lucas' pet Malamute. *Muppets creator Jim Henson first created Kermit in 1955 - as a lizard. He was made from Henson's mother's coat and two halves of a Ping-Pong ball (no flipper feet or eleven-point collar). *The person who performs the Muppets - Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Animal, and Grover is Frank Oz. Oz is also the voice of Star Wars Yoda. By the way, his real name is Frank Oznowicz. *The writers of The Simpsons have never revealed what state Springfield is in. *An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavour are caused by their smell. To prove this - pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet. *In South Africa, termites are often roasted and eaten by the handful, like pretzels or popcorn. *The Giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair. *Small cockroaches are more likely to die on their backs than large cockroaches. *Fleas can jump more than 200 times their body length. *You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather. *Spiders have transparent blood. *A housefly can transport germs as far as 15 miles away from the original source of contamination. *Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. *Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced. *Hot water is heavier than cold. *If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure. *Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air. *You can't plough a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina. *The English-language alphabet originally had only 24 letters. One missing letter was J, which was the last letter to be added to the alphabet. The other latecomer to the alphabet was U. *The custom of saying "Bless you" when someone sneezes was first used by ancients when they believed that breath was the essence of life, and when you sneeze a part of you life is escaping. Evil spirits rush into your body and occupy the empty space. By saying "God bless you" the speaker is protecting the sneezer from the spirits. *On average, there are 333 squares of toilet paper on a roll. *The numbers on opposite sides of a dice always add up to 7. |
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| 1. Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal. Scientists at a University in Ontario, Canada have discovered that the part of Einstein's brain thought to be related to mathematical reasoning - the inferior parietal region - was 15 percent wider on both sides than a normal brain. 2. While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate #85. 3. Sheryl Crow's front two teeth are fake -- she had them knocked out when she tripped on the stage earlier in her career. 4. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts 5. The queen of England has two birthdays. 6. Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana 7. All US Presidents have worn glasses some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public. 8. President John F Kennedy could read 4 newspapers in 20 minutes 9. Walt Disney was afraid of mice. 10. A Zebra is white with black stripes 11. An average mattress contains 2 million house dust mites 12. If a shark's mouth is open to long it will suffocate 13. If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room it will turn white (eventually) 14. An oyster can change it's sex a number of times during its life 15. Bats always turn left when exciting a cave 16. Bees have five eyes 17. A snail can sleep for 3 years 18. Dolphins sleep with one eye open 19. A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute 20. There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones 21. Owls are on of the only birds that can see the colour blue 22. You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself. 23. The average woman consumes 6 lbs of lipstick in her lifetime. 24. It only takes 7lbs of pressure to rip your ear off 25. 26 Billion dollars in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the past 20 years. 26. On average there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds Big Mac bun. 27. Odds of dying while in the bath tub- 1 in 1,000,000 28. 13 people each year are killed by Vending Machine's falling on them 29. At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing. 30. One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children. 31. In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters. 32. More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products 33. It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk 34. The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth 35. Nearly 25% of Americans think that the Bible predicted the 9.11 attacks. 36. You cannot kill yourself by holding your breath 37. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton. 38. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. 39. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself 40. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why. 41. Every person has a unique tongue print (just like their thumbprint!) 42. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled 43. Montpelier, vermont is the only US state capital without a Mcdonald's 44. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad 45. Wile E. Coyote has only caught the Roadrunner once (May 21, 1980) 46. Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure 47. If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion! 48. Most lipstick contains fish scales 49. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung 50. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows 51. In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere 52. Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows! 53. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds 54. 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. 55. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 56. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910 57. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. 58. China has more English speakers than the United States 59. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour 60. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death 61. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. 62. 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." 63. More people are killed by falling coconuts than sharks. 64. In California, it's against the law to use your dirty underwear as a dust rag. 65. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. 66. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. 67. The portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the penny shows him facing to the right while all other portraits of presidents on U.S. circulating coins face left. 68. In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license. 69. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos 70. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult 71. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher 72. The Roman emperor Caligula once made his horse a senator 73. The White House was originally gray. The mansion was burned during the War of 1812. When it was rebuilt after the war, it was painted white to hide the smoke stains. 74. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros! Puts a whole new light on the search engine doesn�t it. 75. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die. 76. Did you know that it is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open? Did you know that everytime you sneeze you die for one second? 77. The sky is shrinking and has been doing so for the past 40 years, scientists have discovered. About five miles of sky have been lost since 1958, and that figure may double over the next century. Researchers studying the Earth�s upper atmosphere, 56 miles up, said the contraction is probably a result of the greenhouse effect. 78. Most cell phone antennas have no purpose other than to make people believe that flipping up a 2 inch antenna just gave them better reception. They are not connected to any circuitry. 79. The bible has been translated into Klingon 80. A candle lit in a gravity free environment will have a flame shaped like a sphere. This is because the air around the flame is all the same pressure and there is no "Up". The flame is very weak and can go out if you touch it with your finger. |