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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses and no one in that country has memorized them all. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing and "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. A 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. 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." There are only four words in the English language which end in"-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 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. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. 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. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. Tigers have stripped skin, not just stripped fur. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. 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 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. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. It's Paul Reiser that is playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme. 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." 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.
Heard on the radio this morning: A man bought a parrot, only to find that it was vile in both temper and language. Every word from it's beak was profane. It kept him up at night with it's expletives and embarrassed him whenever he had visitors. The man tried every form of reward and punishment he could think of to tame his parrot's wilder ways, all to no avail. Finally, in an act of desperation on a particularly bad day, the man grabbed the parrot, thrust it into the freezer, and slammed the door. After several minutes of some of the worst invective the man ever heard, the freezer suddenly grew quite. The man, fearing that he may have made a tragic mistake and somehow killed his parrot, rushed to the door and opened it. The parrot meekly stepped out of the freezer onto his arm and said, "I humbly apologize for my language and behavior. I assure you that I have mended my ways and will be the pentultimate example of civilized behavior in the future." The man is astounded at the sudden change in his bird's demeanor and asks what could possibly have brought about such a rapid reversal. The parrot in turn asked, "Might I inquire as to what the chicken did?"