Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Everything

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• Before the invention of fashion in 1350 A.D., tailors were unnecessary: Clothing didn't acknowledge the body's shape. Pants had no front or back and shoes could be worn on either foot.
• Though rudimentary toilets date back to 2000 B.C., the toilet didn't become practical until
• 1861 when British plumber Thomas Crapper invented an advanced watersaving flush system.
• By the 1920s the toilet had become a standard fixture in most newly built homes, though in developing nations 2.9 billion people still don't have access to one.
• Spanish moss is related to the pinapple.
• Every 7 min. in a conversation there is some length of time that there is no sound.
• There are more plastic flamingos in Amercia than real ones.
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
• William Howard Taft had to have a special bathtub built when he became president because he was too large to fit into his old one.
• The Russian version of the humvee was designed in the 1960's. It was made to run on 54 octane gasoline, or vodka in emergencies.
• Not having webbed hands or feet is in fact a genetic mutation, as well as being lactose tolerant.
• In Kentucky, it's illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket.
• 1 out of every 300 Americans has a fear of pink flamingos.
• Pigs orgasms last 30 minutes.
• St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland was not Irish.
• The plastic bit on the end of a shoelace is called an aglet.
• The dzo is the offspring of a yak and a cow.
• A pig's snout is called a gruntle
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
• The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel.'
• 9 out of 10 people in the chatting world have at some time adopted the nickname Mulder.
• The average mouse pad size is 71\2 inches by 8 inches
• George Washington was an excellent dancer. French nobility visiting America were incredulous at his mastry of the minuet.
• You can determine the sex of a lobster by examining the first pair of swimmerets. The females are broader.
• The city of Buffalo was not named after the animal. When it was controlled by the french, it was a fort named Le Boeuf.
• When people say they "Smell Rain" what they are actually smelling are the chemicals on the inside of plant cells. The Stomata of plants open up under low pressure and allow us to smell them. Low pressure is often followed by rain.
• The average flea can jump up to 150 times it's own length. To match that a human would have to leap 1,000 feet.
• 43 million adults claim that they take showers or baths with another person.
• A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn in a day!
• On average, an iceberg weighs 20 million tons.
• You must be 19 to purchase cigarettes in Utah.
• Rats can't vomit.
• The average person farts 14 times per day.
• 4 out of 100 American women go pantyless every day.
• If you squeeze an egg sideways between your palms it cannot be cracked/broken.
• Mosquitos have teeth.
• A normal dial tone is in the key of "F".
• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• Most american car horns beep in the key of "F".
• The world's largest penis is 18.5 inches long.
• The longest one-syllable words in the English language are "strengths" and "screeched."
• On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
• All of the clocks in 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 members 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.
• Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiw en uakitanatahu, is a New Zealand hill.
• 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.
• Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
• The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
• The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
• 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 goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• 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.
• The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
• 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."
• 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.
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
• 'Stewardesses' and 'reverberated' are the longest words that are typed with only the left hand.
• Humans are the only animals that cry tears.
• Abraham Lincoln's son's life was once saved by John Wilkes Booth's brother.
• In LA, USA, a man may legally beat his wife with a leather strap, as long as it is less than 2 inches wide.
• In 2000 BC, Egyptians used crocodile dung as a contraceptive.
• Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his book If I Ran the Zoo.
• The condom is named after Dr. Charles Condom.
• 1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions includes a stripper.
• The Statue of Liberty's mouth is only 3 feet wide.
• The only contemporary words that end in "gry" are angry and hungry.
• King Louis XIV bathed only once a year.
• The Hundred Years War lasted for 116 years.
• In Michigan, USA, a man legally owns his wife's hair.
• The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre.
• The is a 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.
• Luke Skywalker's last name was changed at the last minute from Starkiller, in order to make it less violent.
• A camel's backbone is just as straight as a horse's.
• 95% of food-poisoning cases are never reported.
• One billion seconds is about 31.7 years.
• The words "assassination" and "bump" were invented by Shakespeare.
• 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of "Happy Meals".
• The dolphins that live in the Amazon River are pink.
• Vanilla is used to make chocolate.
• In Idaho, USA, the law states that all boxes of candy given as romantic gifts must weigh more than 50 pounds.
• The elephant is the only animal with four knees.
• Melting an ice cube in your mouth burns about 2.3 calories.
• Most raindrops are round or doughnut shaped, not "raindrop shaped".
• American astronauts must be under 6 feet tall.
• Ringo Starr was born during a WWII air raid.
• Toads don't have teeth, frogs do.
• Kentucky produces more whiskey than any other US state combined.
• Napoleon Bonaparte was afraid of cats.
• Thomas Edison ws afraid of the dark.
• It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon.
• Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries do.
• The jugular vein is an artery, not a vein.
• In Baltimore, USA, it is illegal to wash or scrub a sink, regardless of how dirty it is.
• Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand.
• The world's longest game of Monopoly lasted more than 660 hours.
• The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
• 50% of bank robberies take place on Friday's.
• In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
• Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
• Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
• In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
• About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
• You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.
• An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
• Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
• Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
• A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
• The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.
• A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
• The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
• The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
• In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.

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