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Rubber bands last
longer when refrigerated.
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Peanuts are one of
the ingredients of dynamite.
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The national anthem
of Greece has 158 verses.
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No one in Greece has
memorized all 158 verses.
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There are 293 ways to
make change for a dollar.
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The average person's
left hand does 56% of the typing.
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A shark is the only
fish that can blink with both eyes.
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There are more
chickens than people in the world.
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Two-thirds of the
world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
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The longest
one-syllable word in the English language
as "screeched."
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On a Canadian two
dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
Building is an American flag.
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All of the clocks in
the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
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No word in the
English language rhymes with month, orange, silver
or purple.
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"Dreamt" is the only
English word that ends in the letters "mt."
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All 50 states are
listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on
the back of the $5 bill.
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Almonds are a member
of the peach family.
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Winston Churchill was
born in a ladies' room during a dance.
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Maine is the only
state whose name is just one syllable.
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There are only four
words in the English language which end in
"-dous" tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and
hazardous.
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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."
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A cat has 32 muscles
in each ear.
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An ostrich's eye is
bigger than its brain.
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Tigers have striped
skin, not just striped fur.
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In most
advertisements, including newspapers, the time
displayed on
a watch is 10:10.
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Al Capone's business
card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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When the University
of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home,
the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
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The characters Bert
and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after
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Bert the cop and
Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's
"Its A Wonderful Life."
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A goldfish has a
memory span of three seconds.
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A dime has 118 ridges
around the edge.
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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.
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It's impossible to
sneeze with your eyes open.
(DON'T try this @ home!)
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The giant squid has
the largest eyes in the world.
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Who's that playing
the piano on the "Mad About You" theme?
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Paul Reiser himself.
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In England, the
Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
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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."
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The microwave was
invented after a researcher walked by a
radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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Mr. Rogers is an
ordained minister.
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John Lennon's first
girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
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The average person
falls asleep in seven minutes.
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There are 336 dimples
on a regulation golf ball.
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Stewardesses" is the
longest word that is typed with only
the left hand.
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Coca-Cola was
originally green.
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It is possible to
lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
-
Hawaiian alphabet has
12 letters.
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Amount American
Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served first class: $40,000.
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City with the most
Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.
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State with the
highest percentage of people who walk to work:
Alaska
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Percentage of Africa
that is wilderness: 28%
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Percentage of North
America that is wilderness: 38%
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Average number of
days a West German goes without washing his
underwear: 7 (I wonder how they discovered THIS?
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Percentage of
American men who say they would marry the same woman
if they had it to do all over again: 80%
-
Percentage of
American women who say they'd marry the same man if
they had it to do all over again: 50%
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Cost of raising a
medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
-
Average number of
people airborne over the US at any given hour:
61,000
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Percentage of
Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World:
70%
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Average life span of
a major league baseball: 7 pitches
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Intelligent people
have more zinc and copper in their hair.
-
The world's youngest
parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
-
The youngest pope was
11 years old.
-
Iceland consumes more
Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
-
First novel ever
written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
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A duck's quack
doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
-
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. That is why
your TV set
has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
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The San Francisco
Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
-
The only 15 letter
word that can be spelled without repeating a letter
is uncopyrightable.
-
Did you know that
there are coffee flavored PEZ?
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The reason firehouses
have circular stairways is from the days of
old 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.)
-
When opossums are
playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They
actually pass out from sheer terror.
-
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.
-
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.
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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.
-
Clans of long ago
that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people
without killing them would burn their houses down -
hence the expression "to get fired."
-
Only two people
signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th,
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John Hancock and
Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August
2nd, but the last signature wasn't added until 5
years later.
-
"I am." is the
shortest complete sentence in the English language.
-
The term "the whole 9
yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the
South 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."
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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 and old English law
which 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 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.
-
David Prowse was the
guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He
spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he
was going to be
dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the
screening of the movie.
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In every episode of
Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
-
The name Jeep came
from the abbreviation used in the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
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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 cruise liner,
Queen Elizabeth II,
moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that
it burns.
-
Cat's urine glows
under a blacklight.
-
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.
-
No NFL team which
plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever
won a Superbowl.
-
The first toilet ever
seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
-
The only two days of
the year in which there are no professional
sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day
before and the day
after the Major League all-stars Game.
-
Only one person in
two billion will live to be 116 or older.
-
The name Wendy was
made up for the book "Peter Pan."
-
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.
