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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
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'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.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have stripped skin, not just stripped fur.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
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 lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
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.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator,
Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw AN, and OZ, hence "Oz"
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.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
The word "Samba" means "to rub navels together"
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
People Do Not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart!
Only 7% of the population are lefties.
40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
The average housefly lives for one month.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
A group of cows is called a murder.
Scopophobia is a fear of being looked at.
The radio-active substance, Americanium-241, is used in many smoke detectors.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.
Michigan has a shoreline of 3,100 miles -- longer than the entire eastern seaboard from Maine to the tip of Florida.
Amazon will gross $1.5 billion in 1999.
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Jimmy Carter was the first president born in a hospital.
To sleep in every room in the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas you would have to stay there 13 years, 8 months.
There is about 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.
The surface area of the lungs in an adult is 90 sq. yards.
A rainbow can only occur when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
If you go blind in one eye you only lose about 1/5th of your vision but all your sense of depth.
A donkey will sink in quicksand, but a mule won't.
Napolean conducted his battle plans in a sandbox.
The rapids below Niagara Falls last for over a mile.
The $1 bill has 13 stars, 13 stripes, 13 steps, 13 arrows and an olive branch with 13 leaves on it.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
A baby eel is called an elver.
The indentation on the bottom of a wine bottle is called a Punt.
Louisa May Alcott, author of the classic "Little Women," disliked children. She only wrote the book because her publisher asked her to.
Against Army regulations, George Armstrong Custer often wore a blue velvet uniform.
40% of the American population has never visited a dentist.
In 1991, 6,000 golfers were injured by their golf carts.
The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box is Bingo.
When a piece of glass cracks, the crack travels at over 3000 miles per hour.
Americans spend more on dog food every year than on baby food.
Online Christmas shopping was up 400% from 1998.
Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through air.
A group of officers is called a mess.
Zip code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y.
Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 400 ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.
Silicon Valley California has just surpassed Anchorage, Alaska as the American city with the biggest percentage of unattached men.
Left-handedness is extremely common in twins. It is unusual, however, for both to be left-handed.
The zoo in Tokyo closes for two months of the year so animals can have a holiday from visitors.
Only 5% of salt produced end up on the dinner table. The rest is used for packing meat, building roads, feeding livestock, tanning leather, and manufacturing glass, soap, ash and washing compounds.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Fish do not have scales when they are born.
Roger Woodward, age 7, went over Niagara Falls without a barrel...and survived!
If the population of the world continues to expand at its present rate, in the year 2100 there will be 60,000,000,000,000,000 people on the face of the earth.
Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.
Coffee is the world's second largest item of international commerce. Petroleum is number one.
In 1970 only 5% of the American population lived in cities.
Gene Sarazen recorded the fastest golf drive ever: 120 mph.
The biggest frog is the appropriately named Goliath frog of Cameroon. They reach nearly a foot in length and weigh up to 7 pounds.
Per capita consumption of potatoes in 1995 was 84 pounds, highest since 1930.
The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.
The 12 days of Chistmas are the 12 days that separate Christmas day on December 25 from Epiphany, which is celebrated on Jan 6.
An insect has six legs, four wings, and two antennae.
Shirley Temple always had 56 curls in her hair.
Alaska is the only state without a state motto.
The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins "Aladdin was a little chinese boy."
Before 1863 postal service in the United States was free.
Niagara Falls are 20 times as wide [3,400 feet] as they are high [170 feet].
There are 12 ounces in a troy pound.
In South Korea, Green Giant's canned sweet corn is advertised as a topping for ice cream.
The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
It takes moonlight over a second to reach the earth.
When you tie a noose, the rope is wrapped twelve times around because it's the same length as a person's head.
Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink".
Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks.
The Earth weighs 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
Americans eat 2,000,000,000 pounds of potato chips per year.
The only person to decline a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was Sinclair Lewis for his book Arrowsmith.
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are humans on earth.
Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated two years after his death.
One-fifth of all the fresh water in the world flows over Niagara Falls.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
An insect has an exoskeleton -- the skeleton is on the outside of the insect's body.
The Pap smear is named for Dr. Papanicolaou, a greek physician.
Anagram: Snooze alarms - Alas! No more z's
According to the Journal of American Medical Association, as of 1998, more than 100,000 Americans die annually from adverse reactions to prescription drugs.
The smallest frog is the Gold frog of Brazil, at 3/8 inch.
In 1266 A.D., English bakers were ordered to mark each loaf of bread so that if a faulty one turned up, "it will be knowne in whom the faulte lies." The bakers' marks were among the first trademarks.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, silver, and purple.
There are more than 36,000 stones weighing more than 90,000 tons in the Washington Monument.
Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham University.
In-grown toe nails are hereditary.
The can opener was invented 44 years after canned food was.
A garter snake can give birth to up to 85 babies.
One in four Americans have appeared on television.
Bananas do not grow on trees, but on rhizomes.
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."
It takes 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon.
The average American eats about 12 pounds of cereal per year.
Fish scales grow under their outer layer of skin in order to provide waterproofing.
Niagara Falls has receded 1/3 of a mile in the 300 years since first being sited by non-natives.
Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe.
A golden razor removed from King Tut's Tomb was still sharp enough to be used.
30% of Americans are blonde.
Christmas was once illegal in England
Mount Everest, at 29,028 feet, making it almost 50% taller than Mount McKinley. Mount McKinley is taller than Africa's Kilimanjaro, Japan's Mount Fuji and any of the Alps.
Sir Issac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England
Alaska is the only state without a state motto.
If you unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes from inside a dog's nose, the membranes would be larger than the dog itself.
The Dallas Cowboys franchise is worth $663 million.
7.5 tons of gold is used each year in US to make class rings.
91% of the 866 millionaires created by the English lottery continued to buy tickets.
Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman and child in the world.
Two researchers at Columbia University calculated the value of pi to 2,260,321,336 places.
Nondairy creamer is flammable.
The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.
The railway bridge built over Niagara Falls was the first railway suspension bridge in the world.
Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.
An iguana can stay under water for half an hour.
25% of Europeans are now online.
Jet lag was once called boat lag, when travelling by ship could induce the problem.
The term "the Boogey man will get you" comes from the Boogy people who still inhabit an area of Indonesia. These people still act as pirates today and attack ships that pass.
Professional ballerinas use about 12 pairs of toe shoes, per week.
The cicada takes 17 years to mature.
A group of whales is called a pod.
In Brazil, Christmas is celebrated with fireworks.
80% of Americans sing in the car.
You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult you only have 206.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
There is no such thing as blue food, even blueberries are purple.
A two hour motion picture uses 2 miles of film.
Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.
Your hair grows an inch in 100 day.
In the 60's Michael Sangster recorded tennis' fastest serve: 154 mph.
Kangaroos can hop up to 40 miles per hour.
In 1983 about 3,000,000,000 Christmas cards were sent in the United States.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
Tomb robbers believed that knocking Eygptians sarcophagi's noses off would stall curses.
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
According to ceremonial customs of Orthodox Judaism, it is official sundown when you cannot tell the difference between a black thread and a red thread.
Over 90% of the calories you burn are used to maintain your body temperature. A good way to lose weight is, therefore, to expose your body to the cold...but not too much cold.
The Soviet Sukhoi-34 is the first strike fighter with a toilet in it.
The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.
After the US acquired Alaska from Russia in 1876, the Alaska territory was placed under military command and a law was passed prohibiting the sale of liquor to native Alaskans. The Alaskans learned to make their own liquor out of flour, brown sugar, and fruits. This home-made concoction was verystrong, and was first produced in a small village called Hoochinoo, near Sitka, Alaska. The Alaskans called this liquor "hoochinoo." During the Klondike Gold Rush, the name was shortened to "hooch."
Small cockroaches are more likely to die on their backs than large ones.
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.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
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.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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 nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to itsbody. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish don't have brains.
Remember, 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 asshole upside the head.
3M's first product was Sandpaper.
Internet start-up Half.com wanted to literally buy the name of the Oregon town of Halfway and change it to Half.com. On Jan 19, 2000, Half.com got its wish. The town wanted to wait for Half.com to launch, so it knew what it was getting into. When half.com, the site, went live as a place for people to sell used goods at half their original price, the town took the deal. The deal is worth more than $100,000 in Internet and computer hardware for the town of Halfway. The agreement is good for just the year 2000, after which Halfway can become the city formerly known as Half.com.
Super Bowl Sunday is the slowest weekend for weddings.
There is one Web page for every 6 people on the planet.
Welsh mercenary bow men in the medieval period only wore one shoe at a time.
The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
Elephants often communicate at sound levels as low as 5 cycles per second.
Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremeties develop faster than the rest of us.
A wedding ring is generally exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy estate. That means that a wedding ring can't be seized by creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.
"OK" is the most recognized word in the world. Next is "Coca-Cola."
Although most people think that Napoleon was short, he was actually 5' 6", average for a Frenchman in those days.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
Placed end to end, all the Spam ever sold would circle the Earth more than 10 times.
One study estimated San Diego third year medical students average 25.8 minutes of daylight a day.
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food.
Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for Lord of the Flies, and this is where the book's title comes from.
Early Spaniards realized in the 300 BC wild bulls could be made to charge people and used this for military purposes against the invading armies from Carthage -- Hannibal's father died this way.
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.
In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death.
In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman's genitals, but is prohibited from looking directly at them during the examination. He may only see their reflection in a mirror.
Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a corpse. This also applies to undertakers; the sex organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or piece of wood at all times.
The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.
There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time. Reason: under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins to marry.
In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. The husband's lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired.
Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England - but only in tropical fish stores.
In Cali, Colombia, a woman may only have sex with her husband, and the first time this happens, her mother must be in the room to witness the act.
In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, it is illegal for a man to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time.
In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only "in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises." Is this a great country or what? Not as great as Guam, though.
It last snowed in the Sahara desert on February 18, 1979.
The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII refers to the actual queen.
There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, MA until 1989.
The top downhill speed of a Model T Ford was just 50 mph.
At one point the Tennessee Valley Authority had 11 dams under construction at once. Producing 6 tons of conrete per minute, the Norris dam took 1,000,000 cubic yards of concrete and was the first constructed. It is 265 feet high and 1,860 feet across.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9,000 years old.
The lowest road in the world is 1,290 feet below sea level.
The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is, "and the rest of the day to yourself."
The Washington Monument is constructed of stacked granite and marble and contains no metal structural support.
Sumerians thought that the liver made blood and the heart was the center of thought.
When opossums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing." They actually pass out from fright.
Medical researchers contend that no disease ever identified has been completely eradicated.
San Francisco is the first and last city in the world to operate cable cars. Almost 100 other cities around the world have had cable cars, but all have discontinued use. The cable cars began operation on August 2, 1873. Designed by London born engineer Andrew Hallidie, they are controlled by a subterranean loop that travels at a constant 9.5 miles per hour. Today, they are the only mobile national monument.
Pearls [and eventually teeth!] melt in vinegar.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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.
A snail can sleep for three years.
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left handed.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the
English language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be
39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
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.
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%
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
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.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National
Monuments
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a 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
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes
them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
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 name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for
the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for
each gallon of diesel that it burns.
No NFL team that 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!")
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 bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers
and laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
Q. This is the only food that doesn't spoil.
A. Honey
Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day
ofthe 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.
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