| The French believed you could be cured from the enchantment by shedding the blood of a werewolf in animal form. Werewolves around the world: Africa: weretiger, wereleopard, werelion and werecrocodile. China and Japan: werefox. South America: werejaguar. European Tradition: If a cat jumps over the coffin at a burial, the corpse will become a vampire (unless the cat is captured and killed.) According to old witchlore, a young girl who falls in with a merry dance to fiddle-music may find she has unwittingly become a witch. Kappa: With bodies of a turtle, legs of a frog and a head of a monkey, the kappa (Japanese water-demons) eat humans underwater from the inside out. The creature draws its strength from the water-filled crater atop its head. One way to defeat it is to bow politely when approached by a kappa. Obliged to return the bow, the kappa will spill out his head-water and must swiftly return to the sea for "re-fueling",whereupon you have time to escape! Another way to elude the kappa's fury is to carve out your name in a cucumber and throw it into the water. Grateful for your gift (kappas love cucumbers) they will remember your name and spare your life. In Ireland, should fairy ghosts pass you on Halloween (Samhain), you can release any humans they've abducted by throwing dust from your footprint at them. It was widely believed in Europe that the index finger was poisonous, and that if it touched an open wound that wound would never heal. Thus the expression: "It's rude to point." The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows! Most lipstick contains fish scales. Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins. It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas! Here are some people with strange names. (some of these specific facts have not been verified) Ure A. Pigg (Portland, Oregon)! Ima Hogg (Houston, Texas)! Ima June Bugg (Chicago, IL)! Eura Fisch (Charlotte N.C)! Ima Fisch (Charlotte N.C)! menna pause (Indianapolis,indiana! Serious Misconduct (Welwyn, England)! General Error (Pueblo, Colorado)! Dr. Safety First (Tulsa, Oklahoma)! Pearl Harbor (Birmingham, Alabama)! Honor Roll (Birmingham, Alabama)! E. Pluribus Eubanks (San Francisco, CA)! Every 50 seconds some one dies. Every 65 seconds some one is born. Every 30 seconds a car is stolen. Think of five or six names of boys or girls you might marry, As you twist the stem of an apple, recite the names until the stem comes off. You will marry the person whose name you were saying when the stem fell off. If you cut an apple in half and count how many seeds are inside, you will also know how many children you will have. If you blow out all the candles on your birthday cake with the first puff you will get your wish. The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy." For it's size, the strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. 74-34-24 is the worst combination in china cause it sounds like 'i die my wife dies my child dies' most models weigh 23% below average a girl jumped out of a 8 story building and didnt break a bone (really) some kid said knew some1 who was fat and after school he eat six peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and a gallon of juice- thats just for ONE meal! chocolate is good for your teeth laughing is good for you and it helps your immunity to fight illness and colds when u r sick Instead of using sleds, the children of Africa slide down hills with cactus leaves! (That must've been painful!) Some guy from China was born with TWO pupils in his eyes! (He must see a lot of stuff) Some woman grew her hair so long, it reached her feet! (I wonder how she brushes it?!) In 1933, a man named Mr. McGregor led his wife on a wagon, which he PULLED with his EYELIDS! (Does he have super powers or SOMETHING?!) A woman named Joyclyen wanted to look like a cat. After a lot of surgeries, she really looked like one! (She must've spent A LOT of money for surgery!) A guy named Tim Cridland can allow a 3,000 lbs car to drive over him wile laying on a pile of needles! (I bet he's got a LOT of marks!) I HAVE A WHOLE PAGE OF FACTS ABOUT THE ASSASSINATIONS OF LINCOLN AND JFK. THEY'RE KINDA KOOL! HERE'S THE FIRST 5: BOTH WERE CONCERNED WITH CIVIL RIGHTS. LINCOLN WAS ELECTED IN 1860,KENNEDY 1960. BOTH WERE KILLED FRIDAY,IN FRONT OF THEIR WIVES. BOTH WERE SHOT FROM BEHIND AND IN THE HEAD. THEIR SUCCESSORS WERE BOTH JOHNSONS,SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS,AND IN THE SENATE. Name of Phobia-Name of what afraid of Geraschophobia- Aging Bacillophobia- Bacteria Coulrophobia- Clowns Oneirophobia- Dreams Panophobia- Everything Paraskavedekatriaphobia-Friday the 13th Spermatophobia- Germs Nosocomephobia- Hospitals Entomophobia- Insects Jcatapedaphobia- Jumping Epistemophobia- Knowledge Astraphobia- Lightning Carnophobia- Meat Noctiphobia- Night Spacephobia- Outer Space Belonephobia- Pins Ombrophobia- Rains Didaskaleinophobia- School Acrophobia- Ticks Cacophobia- Ugiliness Laucanophobia- Vegatables Traumatophobia- War Radiophobia- X-Rays Xanthophobia- Yellow Zoophobia- animals These are 4 mah friend Chuya 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. Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe. Catnip, or Nepeta cataria, is an herb with nepetalactone in it. Many think that when cats inhale nepetalactone, it affects hormones that arouse sexual feelings, or at least alter their brain functioning to make them feel "high." Catnip was originally made, using nepetalactone as a natural bug repellant, but roaming cats would rip up the plants before they could be put to their intended task. If You give a seagull an antacid its stomach will explode! Cows are the only mammals that pee backwards. (What idiot wants to see that?) Well, before WWII, Twinkies used to have bananna cream in them; but because of the battle at Pearl Harbor, we had a shortage of bananas and had to switch to plain vanilla. It's been that way ever since then. (Update- Recently Hostess re-introduced the Bananna Twinkie) During the Middle Ages, almost all beef, pork, mutton, and chicken were chopped fine. Forks were unknown at the time and the knife was a kitchen utensil rather that a piece of tableware. Brussels sprouts are called Brussels sprouts because they were discovered in Brussels. The Chuck E. Cheese franchise was created by Atari, a restaurant combining robotic animals and arcade games with family meals. They name the franchise a Pizza Time Theater. Chuck E. Cheese was first opened in 1977. Did you know that at Disneyland they have hundreds of wild domesticated cats running around the park? They never come out during the day because there's too many people, but the reason they're there is to catch the mice. Bamboo can grow up to three feet in a 24 hour period The number one cause of blindness in the United States is diabetes. The adult human heart weighs about ten ounces. People who laugh a lot are much healthier than those who don't. Dr. Lee Berk at the Loma Linda School of Public Health in California found that laughing lowers levels of stress hormones, and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds have it best - they laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day. People who have a tough time handling the stress of money woes are twice as likely to develop severe gum disease, a new study finds. Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light 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 The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid. You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five-pound flour bags. Your thumb is the same length as your nose. The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes How valuable is the penny you found laying on the ground? If it takes just a second to pick it up, a person could make $36.00 per hour just picking up pennies.(Kewl* Runs outside grabbing pennies*) The official soft drink of the state of Nebraska - Kool-Aid.(Hops on a plane and Flies to nebraska!) The issue of leap year and the weirdness of February is always worth looking at because, coming so infrequently, who can remember the explanation for it from the last time? The earth revolves around the sun every 365.24 days, not an even 365. That produces an extra day's worth of hours every four years. We could distribute them as a bonus to everyone: a one-day time-out every fourth year in which the clock is stopped and we stay in bed all day. But we don't. Instead we add an extra day onto February. Why February? It was originally the last month on the Roman calendar and a logical place to stick the extra day. But Julius Caesar changed the first month to January, stranding February and its little peculiarity in the second spot. Althaiophobia is the fear of marshmallows It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot. There is a tea in China called white tea which simply is boiled water. Tomatoes and cucumbers are fruits. Turnips turn green when sunburnt. The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red. The hair of women is about half the diameter of men's. James Earl Jones was the first celebrity to appear on Sesame Street. The semicolon, as it appears in English today, was used by the ancient Greeks as a question mark. Seventy percent of people fantasize about someone else while making love. Illegible handwriting is known as "griffonage." About six million tourists visit California each year. About 58,000 visit Mississippi. The first sperm banks opened in 1964�they were located in Tokyo and Iowa City. According to the Bible, there were two windows on Noah�s Ark. Rin Tin Tin was voted the most popular film performer of 1926. An average person laughs about 15 times a day. Ducks have six eyelids�three in each eye. Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 American states. The first victim of the electric chair took eight minutes to die. Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 American states. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego. The first man to be convicted on fingerprint evidence was Harry Jackson in 1902. According to Aristotle, wind direction determined whether a baby would be a boy or a girl. There is enough fuel in the tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car around the world four times. More than two billion pencils are used in the United States every year. It�s against the law to stare at the mayor of Paris. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers. It takes about 12 ears of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil. Chinese gooseberries didn�t sell well in the U.S. until grocers renamed them kiwis. The federal government owns 20 percent of the land in America. All 10 of the 10 largest hotels in the U.S. are in Las Vegas, Nevada. The average newborn cries 113 minutes a day. The phrase "What�s up, Doc?" was first spoken by Bugs Bunny a 1940 cartoon called A Wild Hare. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. Humans and giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae�seven. Chaetophobia is the fear of hair. A eunuch can't grow a beard. The average smell weighs 760 nanograms. Blue-eyed, white cats are often deaf. The population of the entire world in 5000 B.C., according to the National Population Council, was five million. It is a Hindu custom not to cut a child's fingernails before they are a year old. Federal law forbids recycling used eyeglasses in the United States. The asteroid believed to have killed the dinosaurs was named Chixalub. The inventor of chewing gum, a dentist named William Semple, intended it mainly as a means of exercising the jaws. Government by a woman or women is called a "gynarchy." There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia. The 52 cards in a standard deck represent the 52 weeks in a year�the four suits represent the four seasons. William Shakespeare had 11 different ways of spelling his surname. The word 'lethologica' describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. An atomic clock can be made accurate to one second in every 150,000 years. When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield consumable fruit. There are an average of 61,000 people airborne over the U.S. at any given hour. The chemical responsible for a cat�s reaction to catnip is nepetalactone. Every continent in the world contains a city called Rome. While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate #85. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. Abraham Lincoln held a liquor license and operated several taverns. Because steel expands when it gets hot, the Eiffel Tower is six inches taller in the summer than in the winter The Guiness Book of World Records lists a movie called The Cure for Insomnia as being the longest film ever. It's 80 hours long. Shakespeare invented the expression, "Laugh it off." According to the FBI, 70% of sports autographs are fake. There are 42 spots on a pair of dice. Every U.S. President that has had a beard has been Republican. Licorice can raise your blood pressure. Oprah Winfrey�s first name was the result of a typo. Her parents wanted to use the biblical name Orpah, but the midwife couldn't spell, so it became Oprah. There are seven loops in the curly design on the top of every Hostess cupcake. In early drafts of Margaret Mitchell�s novel, Gone with the Wind, the main character was named Pansy O'Hara, not Scarlett. The plantation we know as Tara was called Fountenoy Hall. More than a third of all adults hit their alarm clock's "snooze" button each morning�an average of three times before they finally get up. The show business group with the lowest rate of divorce? Comedians. There are 1,218 peanuts in a 28-ounce jar of Jif peanut butter. Psalms 118 is at the exact center of the Bible. America�s top three condiments�ketchup, mustard and salsa. In the days when people were tarred and feathered, the preferred combination was pine tar and goose feathers. The show business group with the lowest divorce rate? Comedians.(*makes cricket sounds*) A black eye, in medical terminology, is called a "bilateral periorbital hematoma." About fifty percent of female lawyers are married to other lawyers. The blood pressure of a healthy human is about the same as a spider�s. Volleyball is the most popular sport played in American nudist camps. Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women. The word "dude" was coined by Oscar Wilde and his friends. It is a combination of the words "duds" and "attitude." Most cats do not have eyelashes. Before surgery, ancient Egyptian doctors put their patients under by hitting them on the head with a mallet. The maximum federal penalty for "whale harassment" is a $10,000 fine. The mechanical shark used in the movie Jaws was nicknamed Bruce. The first and last time the Roadrunner spoke was in the 1951 Bugs Bunny cartoon, Operation: Rabbit. One out of every three snake bit victims is intoxicated. The Pacific island of Nauru�s economy is based almost entirely on bird droppings. During World War II, it was against the law in Germany to name a horse Adolf. The opening act for the 1967 Monkees Summer Tour was Jimi Hendrix. Klingons don�t have tear ducts. The size of your foot is approximately the size of your forearm. Under the law, you need at least three people to constitute a "riot." It takes an average of 345 squirts to get a gallon of milk from a cow's udder. Americans use more than 16,000 tons of aspirin a year. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it. Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible. The five favorite U.S. school lunches nationwide, according to the American School Food Service Association, are, in order, pizza, chicken nuggets, tacos, burritos and hamburgers. The District of Columbia has one lawyer for every 19 residents. Two-thirds of the world's eggplants are grown in New Jersey. |
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| An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Women blink nearly twice as men. In Switzerland, its illegal to mow your front lawn when your dressed as Elvis. Resturants serving Ice Cream on a piece of cherry pie in Kansas are breaking the law. In 1972 China sent 3 Pandas into space Banging you head aginst the wall burns 180 calories. Porqupines float in water. There are more chickens and cows on Earth than there are Humans. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. Its possible to lead a cow up stairs, but not down stairs. The longest recoreded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds. Males sweat more than Females. Goldfish have a memory span on 3 seconds. In Spain on New Years, they throw a goat off a church. Slugs Have four Noses. Polar Bears are left handed. A slug can sleep three years. Finches practice singing in their sleep. A shrimps heart is in its head. In Minnesota its illegal to mock a skunk. In Grenoble, France, a man ate 2 pounds of metal, and glass in one day. He also ate: a T.V., a computer, a Cassna airplane, a bike and a coffin. But he cut them into little pieces before he ate it. A sneeze travels your mouth at 100 miles per hour! Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out of your head. Reindeer like to eat bananas. Di Vinci spent 12 years painting the Mona Lisa's lips. Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes. Walt Disney was afraid of mice. Until the 1960's men with long hair wern't alowed itno Disneyland. Coconuts kill more people than sharks do. You are more likely to be killed by a champane cork than by a poisinous spider. If a candle flame suddenly turns blue, there's a ghost nearby. Mischievous elf spirits of the south-west of England. Dressed in green, often red-headed, and fond of dancing in the moonlight. They play pranks on humans, most commonly leading travellers astray (hence the expression:"to be pixie-led"). If a horse appeared exhausted,it was said it had been "pixie-ridden" overnight, and to prevent that from happening the horse owner would nail a horseshoe above the stable door. To own a black cat in medieval Europe was enough to be accused of witchcraft, and more than nine million men and women were burned at the stake as witches. The Childrens Ryme Ring around the rosie a pocket full of posies ashes ashes we all fall down Tells about the bubionic plague. "Ring around the Rosie" is this rash like thing that devlops on the skin. "Pocket full of posies" iswhat the people used to cover their noses from the smeal of dead people. "Ashes ashes" is when the streets were like so full of dead people they had to cremate them. "We all fall down" is when they died. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails! In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word! In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs! Did you know that of the just about 4,000 languages on earth, only 5% have a written form. Butterflies taste with their feet.(Amazingly enough, I knew that) A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. (Ooook)In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. (Dont tell Osama Bin Ladin that) On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. (Makes me think twice about chewing on a pen) On average people fear spiders more than they do death. (well, you swallow 8 of them in your sleep during your lifetime!)(betcha didnt know that!) Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. (no comment...) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. (now that's just wrong) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (And who figured this out?) Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. (Darn.) It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. (I'm gonna try that out now just to prove them wrong) 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. (I'm guessing they were blondes) No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH". (hmmm...I'll think of one eventually) Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. (We need to work together to save these baseballs before they become extinct!) Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. (Just what I need, a bigger nose) The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (That's it, I'm not going back to the dentist again) In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. (One word: OW!) TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (oook) "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. (Wow. That's the most amazing thing I've ever heard.) A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. (Crikey! Maybe someone should tell the Crocodile Hunter!) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. (Fire...) Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. (Ok... that's a lot of pizza) Tuatara lizards, from New Zealand, have two eyes in the center of their heads and a third one on top of their heads.(The amazing 3 eyed lizard!!) An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor 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.(Whats the word Iam looking for Oh yeah Ewwwwwww!!) Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. Only food that does not spoil: honey. The average McDonald's Big Mac bun has 198 sesame seeds on it. Before it was unsolicited email, Spam was a luncheon meat. It is so resistant to spoilage that, if kept in the closed can, it may well outlast eternity and will certainly live longer than you. Believe it or not it was first promoted as a health food. In Korea it comes in gift boxes, and placed end to end, all the Spam ever sold would circle the Earth more than ten times. (Eep I hate Spam!!) You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.(Uh.... Duh!!) In Lehigh, Nebraska it's against the law to sell donut holes.(how can u sell a donut hole??) Under the law of Mississippi, there�s no such thing as a female Peeping Tom. Anti-modem laws restrict Internet access in the country of Burma. Illegal possession of a modem can lead to a prison term.(Note 2 self, Don't move 2 Burma!!) Lawn darts are illegal in Canada. In Idaho a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds. Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.(I bet some people smell!) It is against the law to whale hunt in Oklahoma. (Think about it...) A Venetian law decrees that all gondolas must be painted black. The only exceptions are gondolas belonging to high public officials. Found on a box of Kellogg's Pop-Tarts: "Warning: Pastry Filling May Be Hot When Heated"(No Really!) Found on the instruction sheet of a Conair Pro Style 1600 hair dryer: "WARNING: Do not use in shower. Never use while sleeping."(Uhh..) Found on Bat Man The Animated Series Armor Set Halloween costume box: "PARENT: Please exercise caution, mask and chest plate are not protective; cape does not enable wearer to fly."(No Stinking Der!!) Found in a television set's owner's manual: "Do not pour liquids into your television set."(Unless the T.V. is a teen in disguise and the liquid is Soda!) Found on the handle of a hammer: "Caution: Do not use this hammer to strike any solid object."(* Hey Honey there's gold in the wall. hits wall with hammer. uhhhhhhhhhhh*) Found on a butane lighter: "Warning: Flame may cause fire."(Oh Mah Gosh No Duh!) Elizabeth Goose, who lived in Massachusetts in the late 1600's, is credited by some with the nursery rhymes read to us as children. However, most of those rhymes existed before her time in the form of satirical poems and drinking songs. Some were based on actual events or characters. Charles Perrault, a Frenchman, published a collection of these rhymes in 1697 and an illustration accompanying the text showed an old woman telling stories, with the words "Mother Goose" appearing behind her. The book was eventually published in England and the United States and more rhymes were added with each new publication. It wasn't until the 1800's that a relative of Mrs. Goose claimed the stories originated with Elizabeth The guillotine was originally called a louisette. Named for Antoine Louis, the French surgeon who invented it. It became known as the guillotine for Joseph Ignace Guillotin, the French physician who advocated it as a more merciful means of execution than the noose or ax. Malcolm Lowry had pnigophobia�the fear of choking on fish bones. Augustus Caesar had achluophobia�the fear of sitting in the dark. Androphobia is a fear of men. Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women. Pentheraphobia is a fear of a mother-in-law. Scopophobia is a fear of being looked at. Phobophobia is a fear of fearing. Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook. Papaphobia is the fear of Popes. Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive. Clinophobia is the fear of beds.(Who could fear a bed??) Killer Whales Are Really Dolphins!! About 10% of people believe Elvis is still alive(Well Duh!) About every 30 min, someone has commited Suscide. Residents of the United Kingdom consume more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined. The first word spoken on the moon was "okay." Before 1850, golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers. The five most popular dog tricks in the U.S. are sit, shake (paw), roll over, speak and lie down. The Ouija board got its name from the combination of the German and French words for "yes"�oui and ja. The average person can live 11 days without water. In Idaho, is forbidden by law to give someone a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds. The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer. Male patients fall out of hospital beds twice as often as female patients. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. Every regulation baseball in the world is sewn by hand. The smallest frog in the world is the Eleutherodactylus iberia. It measures a mere 3/8 of an inch. The Titanic was never christened. The bark of the redwood tree is fireproof. Fires in redwood forests take place inside the trees. According to a recent survey, 80 percent of British college students have never washed their own clothes. A "coward" was originally a boy who took care of cows. Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn�t smoke unless it�s heated above 450 degrees The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's. A Skittle candy fresh from the production line could break your teeth. The more educated people are, the more likely they are to drink alcohol. The costume of Sesame Street's Big Bird is made of turkey feathers, dyed yellow. The word "bozo" derives from the French slang term bouseaux (meaning "hick or yokel"). However, bouseaux literally means "cow turds." In the adult human body, there are 46 miles of nerves. Gorillas purr.(Ookkee) The first episode of Sesame Street was sponsored by the letters W, S and E. The blinking warning light on top of the Capitol Records tower in Hollywood spells out "Hollywood" in Morse code. Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west. The smell of Crayola crayons has been proven to lower blood pressure. There were five Jell-O flavors that flopped�celery, coffee, cola, apple and chocolate. (Hey Cola would have tasted good!!) Mexico City has more taxicabs than any other city in the world. Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982. Fifty percent of pizzas sold in the U.S. have pepperoni on them. One out of every three people can�t snap their fingers. Houdini was 5�1" tall. Colgate faced a an obstacle marketing its toothpaste in Spanish-speaking countries�Colgate translates as "go hang yourself." The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint. Plants are 90 percent water. According to researchers, eating is the favorite pastime of American adults. Sex is eighth on the list�after fishing. The shortest "ology" (study of) word is oology�or the study of eggs. The forward slash character on your keyboard is also known as a slant, virgule or solidus. Sesame Street�s Snuffle-upagus' first name is Aloysius. The average Las Vegas resident spends $846 on gambling each year. About 50% of the world�s scientists are working on military projects. The California ground squirrel is immune to rattlesnake bites. Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator. The average Las Vegas resident spends $846 on gambling each year. On The Simpsons, the mouse is Itchy and the cat is Scratchy. The stall closest to the door in a public bathroom is the cleanest, because it is the least used. McDonald�s milkshakes contain seaweed.(Ok thats it Iam never eating those again!) The motto of the American people, "In God We Trust," was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956. Americans spend more than $630 million a year on golf balls. Dogs that reside in cities live about three years longer than dogs that live in the country. Magnetic ants are so-named because they always build their nests pointing north and south. The title role of Beetlejuice was written for Sammy Davis, Jr. The language of Taki, spoken in parts of French Guinea, consists of only 340 words. Dogs that reside in cities live about three years longer than dogs that live in the country. The Yequina Indians of Amazonia consider it normal to have infants present during lovemaking. For a while Frederic Chopin, the composer and pianist, wore a beard on only one side of his face. "It does not matter," he explained. "My audience sees only my right side." The medical term for the condition known as writers' cramp is "chirospasm." Smokers eat more sugar than non-smokers. The idea of painting fingernails originated in China, where nail color indicated their social rank |
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