-There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
-The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
-A study revealed that men that were born with a low birth weight were less likely to get married.
-Annually Americans eat 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving.
-The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off
-In the French court of Louis XI, the fine ladies lived mainly on soup because they believed that excessive chewing would cause them to develop premature facial wrinkles.
-Approximately one out of every 55 women from Canada give birth in their car on the way to the hospital or clinic.
-An average American child watches approximately 28 hours of television in one week.
-Approximately 100,000 people get married in Las Vegas each year.
-Approximately 50% of Americans admit they have ran a red light.
-February is the mating month for gray whales.
-Nearly 1/3 of U.S. women color their hair.
-53% of women will not leave the house without makeup on.
-33% of women lie about their weight.
-10% of us claim to have seen a ghost.
-57% have had deja vu.
-45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.
-27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras.
-3% of pet owners give Valentine's gifts to their pets on Valentine's Day.
-53% of women in America would dump their boyfriend if they did not get them anything for Valentine's Day. -American spends approximately $1,105 million on Valentine's Day candy each year.
-96% of people put the peanut butter on first when making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
-1 out of 350,000 Americans get electrocuted in their life.
-The world's largest alphabet is Cambodian, with 74 letters.
-The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
-Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
-The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
-The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
-When she was a young woman, TV Sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer lived in Isreal. There, she was a trained sniper. She was so adept at handling a Sten gun- that she could quickly assemble one while blindfolded.
-A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
-49% of us believe in ESP.
-54.2% of us always wash our hands after using the toilet.
-23.5% admit they don't always flush.
-The average girl starts her period at age 12.
-78% of people would rather die quickly than live in a retirement home
-A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
-Most lipstick contains fish scales!
-Fido means faithful in Latin.
-Finnish folklore states that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko instead.
-Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
-The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum
-No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
-Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
-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.
-Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
-Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
-Before all-porcelain teeth were perfected in the mid nineteenth century, dentures were commonly made with teeth pulled from the mouths of dead soliers following a battle. Teeth extracted from the cadavers of U.S. Civil War soldiers were shipped to English dentists by the barrel.
-A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
-Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
-The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
-Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on its runways to scare birds away.
-Citizens of 17th century England used ashes, bread, and urine to clean their clothes.
-Chevy Chase's Real 1st name is Cornelius.
-Dr. Samuel A. Mudd treated the leg of Abraham Lincoln's assasin, John Wilkes Booth. His actions produced the expression "his name is Mudd," signifying utter disgrace.
-The largest pig on record was a Poland-China hog named Big Bill, who weighed 2,552 lbs.
-A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.
-A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in relation to its size.
-A female ferret can die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
-45.2% of us pee in the shower
-The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
-Dictator is latin is "I have spoken."
-From the early Roman Empire until 18th-century Eurpe and America, urine was a main ingredient in toothpaste, because the ammonia in it is an excellent cleaner.
-44.9% of us pee in the ocean. -Cat urine glows under a black-light!
-28.1% of people will pee in the pool. -Over 50% of adults believe in spanking - but only a child over 2 years old.
-How far would you go for $10 million? 25% would abandon their friends, family, and church. 7% would murder.
-66% of us eat cereal regularly.
-14% of us eat the watermelon seeds.
-The typical shower is 101 degrees F.
-A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
-Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!
-A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
-On his way home to visit his parents, a Harvard student fell between 2 railroad cars at the station in Jersey City, New Jersey, and was rescued by an actor on his way to visit a sister in Philadelphia. The student was Robert Lincoln, heading for 1600 Pensylvania Avenue. The actor was Edwin Booth, the brother of the man who a few weeks later would murder the student's father.
-General George Armstrong Custer graduated at the bottom of his West Point class in 1861.
-By the end of the Civil War, 33%of all paper currency in circulation was counterfeit. So on July 5, 1865, the Secret Service was created as part of the Department of the Treasury to help suppress counterfeit currency.
-Emporer Commodus gathered all dwarfs, cripples, and freaks his guards could find and dragged them to the colloseum and given meat cleavers and were commanded to hack each other to death.
-The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
-Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
-29% of us ignore RSVP.
-Pepsi was created as a Coke imitation. -22% are functionally illiterate.
-Less than 10% are trilingual.
-56% of women do the bills in a marriage.
-For 47 days in 1961, the painting "Matisse's Le Bateau (The Boat)" was hanging upside down in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Apparently none of the over 116,000 visitors seem to have noticed.
-Native Indians have been known to paint their doors blue, which they believe keeps the bad spirits out.
-One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
-You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
-A leech has 32 brains.
-A species of earthworm, "Megascolides australis," in Australia can grow up to fifteen feet in length.
-A squirrel cannot carry the rabies virus.
-A turtle can breathe through its butt.
-In ancient Greece, prostitutes wore sandals with nails studded into the soles so that their footprints would leave the message "Follow Me."
-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.
-The first soda pop made in the U.S. was Vernor's Ginger Ale, created in Detroit, Michigan in 1866.
-2 out of 3 of us wouldn't give up our spouse even for a night for a million bucks.
-Julius Caesar banned all wheeled vehicles from Rome during the daylight hours.
-The Roman Emporer Nero married his male slave Sporus in a public ceremony, while Emporer Caligula was so proud of his horse that he gave the animal a place as a consul before he died.
-Polar bears are left handed.
-The word "assassination" was invented by Shakespeare.
-20% of us have played in a band at one time in our life.
-40% of us have had music lessons.
-Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater to freshwater.
-Rodney Dangerfield's real name is Jacob Cohen.
-Mr. Rogers is an ordained Presbyterian minister.
-A rat can fall from a 5-story building without injury.
-The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
-Chameleon is derived from the Greek, meaning "little lion."
-During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles.
-According to scientific studies, a rat's performance in a maze can be improved by playing music written by Mozart.
-Thomas Custer, George's Brother, was the only soldier to win 2 congressional Medals of Honor during the Civil War. He joined his older brother's regiment and also died at Little Bighorn.
-Starfishes haven't got brains.
-16% of us have forgotten our own wedding anniversary (mostly men).
-Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
-Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
-The state of Florida is bigger than England!
-20% of women consider their parents to be their best friends.
-2 out of 5 people have married their first love.
-Only 4% asked the parents' approval for their bride's hand.
-1 in 5 men proposed on his knees.
-6% propose over the phone.
-12% of men never use their car blinkers.
-Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark!
-Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
-Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
-The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old -Slugs have 4 noses!
-A temple of Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of Love, was discovered coincidentally by American archaeologist Iris C. Love.
-4 out of 5 sing in the car.
-56% of men have had sex at work.
-60% of men and 54% of women have had a 1-night stand.
-There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
-A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
-America once issued a 5-cent bill
-45% of us believe in ghosts.
-29% of us are virgins when we marry. -Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
-Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
-After his death in 896, the body of Pope Formosus was dug up and tried for various crimes.
-The word testimony came from men in Roman times taking an oath before the court that they were telling the truth. To insure their statements were accurate, they swore on their testicles.
-The Men who served as guards along the Great Wall of China in the Middle Ages often were born on the wall, grew up there, married there, died there, and were buried within it.
-Back in the 1600s, thermometers were filled with Brandy, not Mercury.
-During the Middle Ages, murdering a travelling musician was not considered a serious offence.
-A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
-Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
-A male kangaroo is called a boomer, and a female is called a flyer.
-The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
-There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
-Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
-Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
-Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
-There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
-Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
-An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
-During the 19th century, Michigan was a key stop on the underground railroad, and many runaway slaves decided to make thier homes there.
-The average bra size today is 36C whereas 10 years ago it was a 34B.
-13% of us admit to occasionally doing our offspring's homework.
-82% of people believe in an afterlife. -If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
-A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
-Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
-Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
-Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions!
-The 1st gold brought back by Christopher Columbus from the Americas was used to gild the ceiling of the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. The ceiling and the gold are still there today.
-The shallow champagne glass originated with Marie Antoinette, from wax molds made of her breasts.
-The ZIP in Zip-code stands for "Zoning Improvement Plan."
-The phrase "sleep tight" originated when mattresses were set upon ropes woven through the bed frame. To remedy sagging ropes, one would use a bed key to tighten the rope.
-The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
-The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
-"Rhythms" is the longest English word without vowels
-The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
-A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court
-Men do 29% of laundry each week. Only 7% of women trust their husbands to do it correctly.
-40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
-67.5% of men wear briefs.
-A Pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
-The sound a camel makes is called nuzzing.
-Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
-Napoleon concocted his battle strategies in a sandbox.
-Duke Ellington was 7 when he started playing piano.
-Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
-Betsy Ross, the woman who designed the 1st American flag, had a completely developed set of teeth at birth.
-Billy Joel's CD, "52nd Street" was the first CD to be released to the public. This occurred in Japan in October of 1982.
-Harry Houdini died at the age of 88 in Detroit, Michigan.
-Napoleon Bonaparte was always depicted with his hand inside his jacket because he suffered from "Chronic nervous itching" and often scratched his stomach sores until they bled.
-The "naked recreation and travel" industry has grown by 233% in the past decade.
-The accent that Mike Myers used for the character Shrek came from the accent that his mother would use when she was telling him bedtime stories when he was a child.
-A violin actually contains 70 separate pieces of wood.
-For the blockbuster movie "The Terminator," O.J. Simpson was considered to play the role of the Terminator, but producers did not choose him as they thought he would not be taken seriously.
-"Second string," meaning "replacement or backup," comes from the middle ages. An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke.
-The are six fictional characters that have stars on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame."
-"Long in the tooth," meaning "old," was originally used to describe horses. As horses age, their gums recede, giving the impression that their teeth are growing. The longer the teeth look, the older the horse.
-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.
-Thomas Jefferson was an architect, inventor, scientist, and a collector of books and artifacts of American History.
-In 1945 a computer at Harvard malfunctioned and Grace Hopper, who was working on the computer, investigated, found a moth in one of the circuits and removed it. Ever since, when something goes wrong with a computer, it is said to have a bug in it.
-Kennedy was the name of a secretary who worked for Abraham Lincoln, while strangely enough, Lincoln was the name of a secretary who worked for John F. Kennedy.
-One of Napoleon's drinking cups was made from tghe skull pf the famous italian adventurer Cagliostro.
-Only 16% of able bodied males in the 13 original American colonies participated in the Revolutionary War.
-Benjamin Franklin owned the 1st bathtub in the colonies.
-The word "karate" means "empty hand."
-The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."
-On the night Lincoln was assassinated, he was carrying two pairs of eyeglasses, a lens polisher, a pocketknife, a linen handkerchief, a watch fob, a brown leather wallet with a $5 Confederate note, and nine newspaper clippings in his pocket.
-Tom Hanks is a decendant of Nancy Hanks, Abraham Lincoln's Mother.
-It physically impossible to lick your elbow, although 75% of the people who read this will try.
-Sadly, when the Allies dropped their 1st bomb on Berlin (in WWII), it wound up landing right in the Berlin Zoo, instantly killing the Nazi's only Elephant.
-The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "And the rest of the day to yourself."
-The Declaration of Indedence originally had a clause abolishing slavery but, because of Peer Pressure, Jefferson was forced to delete it.
-Catherine the Great of Russia kept her wig maker in an iron cage in her bedroom for more than 3 years.
-111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
-In ancient times the traditional color of bridal gowns was red. The wife of Napoleon III broke the tradition and wore a white gown. Then, brides began wearing white gowns (which were wore only once)as a symbol of their wealth.
-The good news in 1547 in Britain was that the law war amended to end the practice of boiling criminals to death. The bad news was thet the punishment was changed to burning them at the stake.
-Henry VIII's 2nd wife, Anne Boleyn, had 6 fingers on one hand. She wore special gloves all her life to hide her deformity. She also had 3 breasts.
-Matoaka's nickname was Pocahontas which meant playful or mischievous one.
-When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
-When Albert Einstein escaped Germany in 1933, the Nazis put a price of 20,000 marks on his head. The price was never marked down!
-Hitler was voted Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" in 1938.
-A shrimp has more than 100 pairs of chromosomes in each cell nucleus. Man has only 23.
-Although only 9 inches tall, an adult roadrunner can keep pace with a human sprinter.
-Ford Motor Company manufactured one million cars for the first time in 1922. It hit the two million mark in 1923.
-A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
-A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
-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.
-Red or pink grapefruit is higher in vitamin C than white grapefruit.
-Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
-Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
-The world's most widely spoken language is the Mandarin dialect of Chinese, with 500 million speakers.
-Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. -Goldie Hawn's father, Edward Rutledge Hawn, is a decendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
-Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War
-Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating. They sweat through the pads of their feet.
-Singer and TV personality Andy Williams's full name at birth was Howard Andrew Williams.
-Johnny Carson's reply to a reporter when asked what he would like his epitaph to be was "I'll be right back."
-In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
-The last thing to happen is the ultimate. The next-to-last is the penultimate, and the second-to-last is the antepenultimate. (thus the Penultimate step)
-When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
-John Lennon joined Elton John onstage at Madison Square Garden in 1974 to perform the song they co-wrote, "Whatever Gets You Through the Night." This was to be Lennon's final live performance.
-Studies have confirmed that men who are exposed to a lot of toxic chemicals, high heat, and unusual pressures, such as jet pilots and deep-sea divers, are more prone to father girls than boys.
-The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
-During the Civil War Harriet Tubman was a spy for the federal forces in South Carolina as well as a nurse.
-Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
-Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years. Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6.
-The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum.
-The human nose has 5 million olfactory cells with which to smell, sheepdogs have 220 million, enabling them to smell 44 times better than men.
-You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
-Birth-control campaigns in Egypt in the late 1970s failed because village women ended up wearing pills in lockets as talismans.
-The cigarette lighter was invented before the match
-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.
-Before Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) became well known as a writer, he held a variety of odd jobs including piloting a steamboat up and down the Mississippi River.
-The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie".
-The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser in that order.
-"It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified is to poke someone's eye out.
-There are coffee flavored PEZ.
-Buffalo Bill Cody, the champion buffalo hunter, was the hero of many "dime novels."
-The leech has 32 brains, 31 more than a human.
-The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History houses the world's largest shell collection, some 15 million specimens. A smaller museum in Sanibel, Florida owns a mere 2 million shells and claims to be the worlds only museum devoted solely to mollusks.
-The ancient Egyptions worshped a shy goddess called nut.
-Muscles can live in polluted water because they can purify it.
-In September 1919 General John Pershing received great news: he had been promoted to general of the armies, a rank bestowed on only one other American-George Washington.
-For the 1994 box office hit Speed, starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, 12 buses were used total in the film. Two of the buses were blown up, and a specially rigged one was used for the famous freeway jump.
-In ancient China and certain parts of India, mouse flesh was considered a great delicacy.
-Rebecca Elizabeth Marier was the first woman to graduate 'top of the class' at West Point, the US Military Academy. The rankings are based on academic, military and physical accomplishments.
-In 1939, Elizabeth Taylor moved with her family to Los Angeles, from London, to escape the havoc of World War II.
-No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.
-A dolphin produces notes 100 times higher than the highest note a human sopranno can reach.
-When Michael J. Fox 1st auditioned for "Family Ties" he was $35,000 in debt and living on Macaroni and Cheese.
-Before "Dallas" went on air, the working title of the TV series was "Houston."
-Pigs, dogs, and some other animals can taste water, but people cannot. Humans don't actually taste water, they taste the chemicals and impurities in it.
-There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
-Dave Thomas never knew his birth mother, and was adopted by a couple from Kalamazoo, Michigan, at the age of six months.
-Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
-The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
-The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
-President George Bush named Dave Thomas a national spokesman on adoption issues.
-Koala Bears and humans are the only animals that have unique finger prints. Koala's prints cannot even be distinguished from human's.
-Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
-The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
-John Travolta became a full-fledged teen idol in 1978 when he starred in the film version of Grease opposite Olivia Newton-John.
-Mr. Rogers Neighborhood was viewed by more than eight million people in the United States alone.
-1 of the 7 wonders of the ancient world was a lighthouse, the Pharos of Alexandria in Egypt. Pharos was the 1st lighthouse in history and is still the tallest on record.
-Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
-In Most TV milk commercials, a mixture of white paint with a little thinner is used instead of milk.
-The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
-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.
-Britney Spears auditioned twice to the Mickey Mouse Club, she was only 8 the first time and they said she was too young.
-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.
-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.
-Glenn Miller played the trombone and went to the University of Colorado. He had 2 bands, the 1st was a failure. He died in a plane going from England to France that disapeared over the English Channel.
-Amelia Earhart was the first female piolot to successfully fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
-Unlike humans, the oyster is usually ambisexual. It begins life as a male, then becomes a female, then changes back to being a male, then back to a female.
-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.
-A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
-Sandra Bullock got her big break in 1989 with a part in an independent feature.
-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."
-Julia Roberts' parents divorced when she was four and her father died when she was nine.
-Catherine Zeta-Jones moved to London at age 15 and lived with castmates while pursuing an acting career full time.
-Richard Gere became proficient on the piano, guitar, and trumpet, as well as composing music for school theater productions.
-In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
-In 2003, Renee Zellweger earned her second Goden Globe for her performance in Chicago, the film adaptation of the 1970s musical costarring Richard Gere and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
-When Dana Owens (Queen Latifa) was eight years old, a Muslim cousin gave her the nickname Latifah, which means delicate and sensitive in Arabic.
-Harrison Ford was fired from Columbia after only 18 months and immediately signed a contract at Universal.
-The term "dog days" has nothing to do with dogs. It dates back to Roman times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dog Star, added its heat to that of the sun from July3 to August 11, creating exceptionally high temperatures. The Romans called the period dies caniculares, or "days of the dog."
-If you pass gas consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
-Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
-The phrase "raining cats and dogs" originated in 17th Century England. During heavy downpours of rain, many of these poor animals unfortunately drowned and their bodies would be seen floating in the rain torrents that raced through the streets. The situation gave the appearance that it had literally rained "cats and dogs" and led to the current expression.
-You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
-Trivia is derived from the latin word Tri+Via, which translates to 3 Streets.
-The first paved streets were laid out in 170BC in Rome. -Vinylocity: The strange atmospheric force that makes the shower curtain blow towards you while trying to shower.
-Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
-The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
-Deer can't eat hay.
-Gopher snakes in Arizona are not poisonous, but when frightened they may hiss and shake their tails like rattlesnakes.
-Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
-There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.
-The odds of seeing three albino deer at once are one in seventy-nine billion, yet one man in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, took a picture of three albino deer in the woods.
-A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
-Cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory. They do it this way, as opposed to the way dogs do it, because they have scent glands in their faces.
-President Teddy Roosevelt died from an "infected tooth."
-At last check, the governor of Arkansas makes $60,000 a year. His salary is the lowest of all 50 states. A dozen or so states pay their governors more than $100,000 year, generally the more populous states. California pays its governor $131,000. Illinois comes in second at $130,000 and change, with New York, a close third at $130,000 even.
- Julius Caesar was self-conscious about his receding hairline.
-When the Hoovers did not want to be overheard by White House guests, they spoke to each other in Chinese.
-George Washington had to borrow money so he could travel to his inauguration.
-An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell.
-In South Africa, termites are often roasted and eaten by the handful, like pretzels or popcorn.
-Table salt is the only commodity that hasn�t risen dramatically in price in the last 150 years.
-Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness.
-Spam stands for Shoulder Pork and hAM.
-As much as 50 gallons of Maple Sap are used to make a single gallon of Maple Sugar.
-When Gerber baby foods began to sell in parts of Africa, they continued to use their usual packaging, with the cute baby on the front. They didn't realize until later that where they were selling it, it was a common practice to help illiterate people buy things by putting pictures on the wrapper of what was inside.
-Wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence tinted bottles.
-Fanta Orange is the third largest selling soft drink in the world.
-The number 57 on a Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the company once had.
-According to NASA, the U.S. has the world's most violent weather. In a typical year, the U.S. can expect some 10,000 violent thunderstorms, 5,000 floods, 1,000 tornadoes and several hurricanes.
-The U-S Park Service says the older Old Faithful gets, the more the geyser at Yellowstone National Park slows down. In the 1950s, it erupted every 62 minutes. Lately, it's been erupting every 77 minutes. Some experts say Old Faithful may someday just stop.
-At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is 3 times the size of Texas. By comparison Iceland is only 39,800 square miles.
-There are more psycho-analysts per capita in Buenos Aires than any other place in the world.
-The ancient Egyptians recommended mixing half an onion with beer foam as a way of warding off death.
-John Hancock was the only one of fifty signers of the Declaration of Independence who actually signed it on July 4.
-Escape maps, compasses, and files were inserted into Monopoly game boards and smuggled into POW camps inside Germany during W.W.II; real money for escapees was slipped into the packs of Monopoly money.
-Values on the Monopoly gameboard are the same today as they were in 1935.
-When airplanes were still a novel invention, seat belts for pilots were installed only after the consequence of their absence was observed to be fatal - several pilots fell to their deaths while flying upside down.
-Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
-The first words that Thomas A. Edison spoke into the phonograph were, "Mary had a little lamb."
-The waffle iron was invented August 24, 1869.
-The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
-Medical researchers contend that no disease ever identified has been completely eradicated.
-The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
-The number one cause of blindness in the United States is diabetes.
-In 1815 French chemist Michael Eugene Chevreul realized the first link between diabetes and sugar metabolism when he discovered that the urine of a diabetic was identical to grape sugar.
-Approximately 16 Canadians have their appendices removed, when not required, every day.
-In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot.
-Retlaw was Walt's own personal company which took in his income for the rights to his name, stock income and other income paid to him, hence the name "Retlaw" - "Walter" spelled backwards. It was never a subsidiary of the Disney corporation. As most people know, Walt was an avid train buff, and when he built Disneyland, he wanted complete control over the steam trains, so that he could take them out when ever he wanted. Thus, he placed the steam trains, and then later the monorails under the ownership of Retlaw and leased them back to the park. In 1982, the family decided to sell the assets of Retlaw, including the rights to Walt's likeness and name to the Disney Company, and a holding company, Walt Disney Incorporated was formed. Eventually, the steam trains and monorails became "officially" Disneyland's property.
-Walt Disney used Margaret Kerry as a model for Peter Pan's Tinkerbell.
-"Disney" is actually a changed version of Walt's family's original name. The original name was D'Isigny. Can you imagine going to D'Isignyland?
-Walt Disney attended Metropolitan Junior College, MO.
-In 1945 Walt Disney designed the insignia for Fighter Squadron VF-84 while the squad was getting ready for the attack on Japan.
-Walt Disney ate a hot dog in Disneyland and counted how many steps it took to finish it. It took him 17 steps, which is the spacing used in every Disney park today.
-Goofy was Walt's favorite character.
-Disney did produce educational films for sex ed classes, but not just for the women. In fifth grade we got to see two films, one geared toward female growth and development, one geared toward males. Both of these were produced by Disney.
-Walt Disney was so passionate about trains that he built a 1/8-scale railroad running through his backyard and the rose gardens of his Holmby Hills home, much to his wife's dismay.
-Smoke Tree Ranch. Walt Disney had a vacation home at this ranch, located in Palm Springs, California, and he often wore a necktie emblazoned with a stylized STR emblem.
-It was Ub Iwerks that gave Walt the idea for a mouse character after he lost his other cartoon, Oswald the Rabbit.
-Someone mentioned that Ub Iwerkes was the one who created Mickey Mouse. This is not true! Walt did create the mouse, based on inspiration from a little mouse he named Mortimer that lived in the garbage cans in the small studio where he made his Alice shorts. Ub was the animator who did all the Mickey shorts until he quit the partnership.
-Mickey Mouse's original name was Mortimer but Lillian convince him to change "Mortimer" to "Mickey. Disney later used a character named Mortimer Mouse as Mickey's Rival in 1936.
-Yes Mickey's name was changed by request of Walt's wife, BUT the name of Mickey was actually taken from Mickey Rooney.
-The password to the invasion at Normandy was "Mickey Mouse."
-The angle of Mickey's Ears is exactly 105 degrees, the same angle as the bonds in water.
-Mickey in the parks can now wiggle his nose!
-In all Mickey Mouse cartoons, no matter which way Mickey is looking his ears are always facing forward. You never get an ear profile.
-Mickey Mouse's girlfriend also made her debut in Steamboat Willie on November 18, 1928.
-The first voice of Minnie Mouse was Marcellite Garner.
-Goofy's first name was Dippy Dog then became "Dippy the Goof" and finally "Goofy."
-In order to play the role of the beloved mouse you must be between the heights of 4'6" to 5'2".
-Walt wanted the park to be like a "show", so the Walt Disney Railroad Station acts like the curtain hiding all the contents of the "show".
-Walt designed the parks so when you pass from land to land, you don't see the others. If you where in Liberty Square, you can't see Fantasyland, trees, buildings and distractions like the water wheel, the noise keeps you from looking to your left and seeing the other lands.
-Although McDonalds is showing up on property, the employees are not McDonalds employees but Dinsy Cast Members. Disney didn't believe that McDonalds employees could provide the level of service and civility to its guests!
-From 1972 until 1994, the Walt Disney World resort was the number one tourist vacation destination in the world.
-McDonalds signed with Disney, first they will have a simple stand that it will be near the indycar stadium. Then they will be in charge of all Disney`s park food.
-As of April 1997, the flag of Spain worn by Cast Members to indicate they are fluent in Spanish was wrong!!! The flag they wear is yellow-red-yellow. The real flag of Spain is red-yellow-red.
-Disney is home to the worlds largest working costume shop. As well as the costumes for stage and film production, all Cast Members are wearing Disney costumes, not street clothes.
-For that every topiary that they have in place there are at least seven that can replace it in case something happens to it.
-Ever wonder why the Disney lakes or waters don't rise when it rains or lessens during a long time without rain? It's all computer controlled. You will never see the waters above or below their desired mark. NEVER!
-Most Attractions Cast Members know of the Hidden Mickeys in and around their attraction - just ask someone!!
-You can ask to be put in any seat in any ride. The only exception is Splash mountin, where if you have a group of three guys and you don't want to lap-sit, you have to go one a car instead of getting a whole car.
-Tokyo Disneyland is the only park that still has an "E" ticket. However, Disney World has institued an "after the park closes" pass called and E-Ticket.
-You'll never hear a "fire" being reported on any Cast Member's walkie talkie. A fire will be reported as a 904, based on the "don't yell 'fire' in a crowded theater" rule.
-You will never hear a castmember ask for someone to get and ambulance or call 911, instead they will call for an Alpha Unit. Disney was the one of the first to implement a 911 system.
-Disney does not sell gum in any of its theme parks. This is because it is a total nightmare to scrape up every night.... which is done, by the way
-Disney does not sell newspapers in any of its theme parks. You came here to get away from it all... remember?
-In general, Disney places the majority of the film stands on the right as you enter a park and the majority of the souvenir shops on the right as you leave.
-The money people throw into the wishing wells is all given to charity, as is the money thrown any-/everywhere in the park.
-Disney does not have employees, only Cast Members.
-In addition to strict height requirements, all Disney characters (face and mask) are given guidelines for "autographs" so each autograph resembles the same one written by your predecessor a few years ago. Actors come in all shapes and sizes, but a name is a name!
-No Disney Cast member at the Disney reservation center has the same name. If there are more then two with the same then they are given a name.
-Next time you see a Disney Cast Member looking bored, frustrated, mad, etc., try this. Make eye contact, put your index finger and thumb together, pull the top of your head up from an imaginary string, and smile sheepishly. Chances are their attitude will change, at least until you're out of sight. You might not want to know any more beyond that . This is a stupid little signal that Cast Members and undercover orientees are supposed to give each other when someone is not being what I like to call "Too Cute to Live!"
-Next time you visit any of the Disney Theme parks, I dare you to find a theme park Cast Member with facial hair, a visible tattoo, too much makeup, or too much jewelry. In fact, the only jewelry you'll find on men, is a wedding ring. On women: one set of earrings max (single ordinary gold posts), 1 conservative gold necklace max, a wedding and/or engagement ring. Costumes don't count. Only the beautiful people are allowed to be seen by the public.
-MAPO is the old name for the construction arm/company of Imagineering. Before it was all folded into one. Walt Disney used the profits from Mary Poppins to start it up, hence MAPO. FYI, anything with MAPO on it is very collectable.
-Three of the "Sky Buckets" that were removed from Disneyland are on the patio near the WDI cafeteria and are being used as "chairs".
-Disney mist effects are made by taking a fluid (Glycoral, water, etc.) heat it, and it vaporizes, add some smell to it and viola, fog!
-The fluid (Glycoral, water) is commercially known as "Roscoe." I have seen Roscoe, fine nozzle misting (just well-misted water vapor) and dry Ice in water (heavier than air, so it sinks and hugs the ground) effects used.
-Disney holds more firework manufacture and launch patents than than any other organization.
-There are two monorails systems at WDW. The first (and obvious one) is the concrete-beam Bombadier transporation system around the property. The second is the pirate ships of Peter Pan's Flight.
-The monorail is kept at 45mph in regular service because of wear and tear (anyway the rides already bumpy imagine it faster).
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