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Little Known Facts
(and, perhaps best kept that way!)
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
The shortest poem in the world is, "Fleas"
There are only seven professional (MLB), (NHL), (NBA), (NFL) that do not end in "s" Colorado Avalanche, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Orlando Magic, Miami Heat, Tampa Bay Lightning, and the Utah Jazz.
The children's song "Ring around the Rosy" originated in medieval Europe during the time of the Black Plague. Ring around the rosy refers to dark rings that appeared on the skin of infected people. Pocket full of posies refers to the belief that if rose petals were carried in one's pocket they would not be infected. Ashes to ashes refers to the burning of the corpses. And of course, we all fall down meant that everyone infected died.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
What occurs more often in December than any other month?
Conception.
What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
No theme song.
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
Their birthplace. This is propinquity.
Grabatology is the collecting of ties.
In 1982, Englishman William Hall committed suicide by drilling holes into his head with a power drill...it took 8 holes!
There is no single word given to describe the back of the knee.
The average American has two credits cards.
The international telephone area code for Antarctica is 672.
The glue on postage stamps in Israel is certified kosher.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in W.W.II killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo.
A 'Jiffy' is actually a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years. Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6.
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
There are coffee flavored PEZ.
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. (How did they study this?)
"Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog" is a palindrome.
The Sun is moving l65 miles a second, the earth is moving l8.l miles a second, think about that when you are about to pee
The Atlantic Ocean is Saltier then the Pacific Ocean.
In medieval England, beer was often served with breakfast. (I love this one)
The right lung takes in more air then the left
At 90 degrees (F) below zero your breath will freeze in midair and fall to the ground.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the beaches in the world.
Everyday more money is printed for monopoly than for the US Treasury.
Men get hiccups more often than women.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men.
The percentage of American men who say they would wed the same woman if they had to do it all over again: 80%. The percentage of women who say they would wed the same man if they had to do it all over again: 50%
Percentage of men who say the are happier after a divorce or separation: 58%
Percentage of women who say they are happier after a divorce or separation: 85%
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
7% of Americans will eat McDonalds today.
The chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7.
The only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird.
Polar bears are left handed.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving.
Scientists say the average person eats about 2 pounds of bugs a year. That's mostly because insects accidentally get ground up in foods like peanut butter, strawberry jelly, and spaghetti sauce. They won't hurt you, they're actually full of protein.
If an insect flies in your ear, shine a light in you ear, chances are it will crawl or fly back out.
There are 240 white dots on a Pac-man video game.
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
"Race car" is a palindrome.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Pound for pound, hamburgers can cost more than a new car.
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
"Go!" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
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.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law that stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.
Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter
Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard
Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
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.
On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan.
While at Harvard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
Melanie Griffith's mother is actress Tippi Hendren, best known for her lead role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142
U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language are "Screeched, Scratched, Scrounged, Scrunched, Splotched, Squinched, and Squelched."
Most of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with: month, orange, silver or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"-and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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 "Its A Wonderful Life."
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
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.
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 A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz." Other reports indicate the story was really about changing from the gold standard to the silver standard. OZ is the abbreviation for ounce and the "yellow brick road" represents gold bars.
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.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in their head.
People say, "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops
for a millisecond. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so - apart from Bones).
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetic Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing - SCARY!!!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders. {Yuck!}
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Cat's urine glows under a black-light.
Only 14% of Americans say they've done this with the opposite sex. What is it?
-- Skinny dipping.
What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS, from every other TV show?
-- No theme song/music.
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
-- Their birthplace. This is propinquity.
Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
-- Obsession
More women do this in the bathroom than men.
-- Wash their hands. Women ~ 80% Men ~ 55%
What do 100% of all lottery winners do?
-- Gain weight.
In a recent survey, Americans revealed that this was their favorite smell.
-- Banana
If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
-- One thousand
What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
-- All invented by women.
Married men revealed that they do this twice as often as single men.
-- Change their underwear.
This stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals causing relaxation. Women seem to like it light and frequent, men like it more strenuous.
-- A kiss
This is the only food that doesn't spoil.
-- Honey
There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year.
-- Father's Day
What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is most ironic?
-- He was allergic to carrots.
40% of all people who come to a party in your home do this?
-- Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
3.9% of all women surveyed say they never do this.
-- Wear underwear.
What common everyday occurrence is composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen and 9% dioxide?
-- A fart.
About 1/3 of all Americans say they do this while sitting?
-- Flush the toilet.
85% of the guys who die while having sex are doing this.
-- Cheating on their wives.
(and, perhaps best kept that way!)
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
The shortest poem in the world is, "Fleas"
There are only seven professional (MLB), (NHL), (NBA), (NFL) that do not end in "s" Colorado Avalanche, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Orlando Magic, Miami Heat, Tampa Bay Lightning, and the Utah Jazz.
The children's song "Ring around the Rosy" originated in medieval Europe during the time of the Black Plague. Ring around the rosy refers to dark rings that appeared on the skin of infected people. Pocket full of posies refers to the belief that if rose petals were carried in one's pocket they would not be infected. Ashes to ashes refers to the burning of the corpses. And of course, we all fall down meant that everyone infected died.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
What occurs more often in December than any other month?
Conception.
What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
No theme song.
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
Their birthplace. This is propinquity.
Grabatology is the collecting of ties.
In 1982, Englishman William Hall committed suicide by drilling holes into his head with a power drill...it took 8 holes!
There is no single word given to describe the back of the knee.
The average American has two credits cards.
The international telephone area code for Antarctica is 672.
The glue on postage stamps in Israel is certified kosher.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in W.W.II killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo.
A 'Jiffy' is actually a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years. Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6.
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
There are coffee flavored PEZ.
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. (How did they study this?)
"Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog" is a palindrome.
The Sun is moving l65 miles a second, the earth is moving l8.l miles a second, think about that when you are about to pee
The Atlantic Ocean is Saltier then the Pacific Ocean.
In medieval England, beer was often served with breakfast. (I love this one)
The right lung takes in more air then the left
At 90 degrees (F) below zero your breath will freeze in midair and fall to the ground.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the beaches in the world.
Everyday more money is printed for monopoly than for the US Treasury.
Men get hiccups more often than women.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men.
The percentage of American men who say they would wed the same woman if they had to do it all over again: 80%. The percentage of women who say they would wed the same man if they had to do it all over again: 50%
Percentage of men who say the are happier after a divorce or separation: 58%
Percentage of women who say they are happier after a divorce or separation: 85%
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
7% of Americans will eat McDonalds today.
The chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7.
The only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird.
Polar bears are left handed.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving.
Scientists say the average person eats about 2 pounds of bugs a year. That's mostly because insects accidentally get ground up in foods like peanut butter, strawberry jelly, and spaghetti sauce. They won't hurt you, they're actually full of protein.
If an insect flies in your ear, shine a light in you ear, chances are it will crawl or fly back out.
There are 240 white dots on a Pac-man video game.
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
"Race car" is a palindrome.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Pound for pound, hamburgers can cost more than a new car.
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
"Go!" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
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.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law that stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.
Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter
Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard
Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
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.
On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan.
While at Harvard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
Melanie Griffith's mother is actress Tippi Hendren, best known for her lead role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142
U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language are "Screeched, Scratched, Scrounged, Scrunched, Splotched, Squinched, and Squelched."
Most of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with: month, orange, silver or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"-and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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 "Its A Wonderful Life."
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
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.
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 A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz." Other reports indicate the story was really about changing from the gold standard to the silver standard. OZ is the abbreviation for ounce and the "yellow brick road" represents gold bars.
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.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in their head.
People say, "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops
for a millisecond. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so - apart from Bones).
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetic Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing - SCARY!!!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders. {Yuck!}
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Cat's urine glows under a black-light.
Only 14% of Americans say they've done this with the opposite sex. What is it?
-- Skinny dipping.
What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS, from every other TV show?
-- No theme song/music.
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
-- Their birthplace. This is propinquity.
Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
-- Obsession
More women do this in the bathroom than men.
-- Wash their hands. Women ~ 80% Men ~ 55%
What do 100% of all lottery winners do?
-- Gain weight.
In a recent survey, Americans revealed that this was their favorite smell.
-- Banana
If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
-- One thousand
What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
-- All invented by women.
Married men revealed that they do this twice as often as single men.
-- Change their underwear.
This stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals causing relaxation. Women seem to like it light and frequent, men like it more strenuous.
-- A kiss
This is the only food that doesn't spoil.
-- Honey
There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year.
-- Father's Day
What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is most ironic?
-- He was allergic to carrots.
40% of all people who come to a party in your home do this?
-- Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
3.9% of all women surveyed say they never do this.
-- Wear underwear.
What common everyday occurrence is composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen and 9% dioxide?
-- A fart.
About 1/3 of all Americans say they do this while sitting?
-- Flush the toilet.
85% of the guys who die while having sex are doing this.
-- Cheating on their wives.
