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Interesting Facts You Should Know
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T
Pearls melt in vinegar.
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.
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.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled
without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed
with only the left hand.
No word in the English language rhymes with month,
orange, silver, and purple.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the
English language.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7
pitches.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
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.)
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."
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 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.
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-Star Game.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116
or older.
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.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore
were freshman roommates at Harvard.
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.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are
stuck on 4:20.
The first couple to be shown in bed
together on prime time television
were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for
Monopoly than the US Treasury.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
City with the most Rolls Royce's per
capita: Hong Kong.
State with the highest percentage of
people who walk to work: Alaska.
Percentage of Africa that is
wilderness: 28%.
Percentage of North America that is
wilderness: 38%.
Barbie's measurements if she were life
size: 39-23-33.
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to
the age of eleven: $6,400.
Average number of people airborne over
the US any given hour: 61,000.
Intelligent people have more zinc and
copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8
and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
First novel ever written on a
typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the
only mobile National Monuments.
Each king in a deck of playing cards
represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander
the Great Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds -
Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111
=12,345,678,987,654,321
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.
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.
"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."
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 which
stated that you couldn't beat your
wife with anything wider than your
thumb.
The Eisenhower interstate system
requires that one mile in every five
must be straight. These straight
sections are usable as airstrips in
times of war or other emergencies.
The name Jeep came from the
abbreviation used in the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II,
moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.
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.
How about this....The nursery rhyme
Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme
about the plague. Infected people
with the plague would get red circular
sores ("Ring around the rosey..."),
these sores would smell very badly so
common folks would put flowers on
their bodies somewhere
(inconspicuously),
so that it would cover the smell of
the sores ("...a pocket full of
posies..."), People who died from the
plague would be burned so as to
reduce the possible spread of the disease
("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")
The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more
poisonous than a Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse,
but they cannot bite humans because their jaws won't
open wide enough.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do
death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or
older.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to
carrots.
The pop you get when you crack your knuckles is
actually a bubble of gas bursting.
101 Dalmatians & Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only 2
Disney cartoon features with both parents who are
present and don't die throughout the movie.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls
froze completely solid.
There's no Betty Rubble in Flintstones Chewable
Vitamins.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories
an hour.
Did you know that you are more likely to be killed
by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
In Minnesota it is illegal to cross state lines
with a duck on your head.
In Indiana it is illegal to ride public
transportation for at least 30 minutes after eating
garlic.
Right-handed people live, on average, 9 years
longer than left-handed people do.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Polar bears are left-handed.
A cockroach will live 9 days without its head
before it starves to death.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in
it.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar &
England in 1896.- Zanzibar surrendered after 38
minutes.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime
at night
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both
parties are registered blood donors.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because
he doesn't wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than
are killed in plane crashes.
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will
eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not
being able to remember the word you want.
If the population of China walked past you in
single file, the line would never end because of the
rate of reproduction. (assuming they could still do
it standing up)
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
China has more English speakers than the United
States.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The longest town name in the world has 167
letters.
You share your birthday with at least 9 million
other people in the world.
The longest word in the English language is 1909
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