Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Everything

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• Oxford Street in London is named after the Earl of Oxford, and it is only coincidence that it is the start of the main road from London to Oxford.
• In British Monopoly sets, the most expensive property (Mayfair) is not a street, but a district of little streets near Hyde Park.
• The official name ofJesus College, Cambridge, is 'the college of the Holy Trinity and the most Blessed and Exalted Virgin, St. Rhadegund".
• The patron saint of Oxford is St. Frideswide, and many (female) children in Oxford arechristened 'Friday' after her nickname.
• Zip code 12345 is assigned toGeneral Electric in Schenectady, N.Y.
• There is an Ides in every month, not just March.
• Try dividing 81 into 99999999999.
• Bowerbirds of Australia and New Guinea decorate their courting grounds with everything from beetle wingsto car keys.
• Since 1600, 109 species and subspecies of birds havebecome extinct.
• The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
• Rita Hayworth's realname was Margarita Casino.
• The cells which make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.
• The official, neutral name of Switzerland, which has multiple official languages, is the latin
• "Confederatio Helvetica", or the Helvetic Confederation, thus the"CH" on license plates and stickers.
• There were ten Johns, out of 102 people, on the Mayflower.
• Tina Turner's real name is Annie Mae Bullock.
• Hydrangeas produce pink and whiteflowers in alkaline soil and blue ones in acidic soil.
• Dallas, Texas was named after George M. Dallas, President Polk's veep.
• Mr. Peanut was invented in 1916 by a Suffolk, Virginia, schoolchild who won $5 in a design contest sponsored by Planters Peanuts.
• WACO is the only radio station in the United States thatspells out it's location city.
• Jackals have one more pair of chromosomes than dogs or wolves.
• The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
• To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
• Al Capone's business card said that he was a furniture dealer.
• 7'1" Basketball star Wilt Chamberlain's parents were 5'8".
• The average person looks at 8 houses before actually buying one.
• The Jolly Green Giant is 68 years old.
• The average child will eat 15 pounds of cereal in a year.
• "The Chief" in BC, Canada is the worlds second largest rock.
• In Boston, it is illegal to take a bath unless one has been ordered to by a physician.
• In Japan, 20% of all publications sold are comic books.
• The average adult male grows1 pound of facial hair in 10 years.
• The sale of vodka makes up 10% of the Russian government's income.
• A red-headed man is more likely to go bald that anyone else.
• November 19 is Have a Bad Day Day.
• Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
• In Vermont, USA, it is illegal for women to wear false teeth without the written permission of their husbands.
• Pigs can become alcoholics.
• Lard has more calories than any other food.
• The average fingernail grows 4 times as fast as the average toenail.
• Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.
• Basenji dogs and Australian dingoes are virtually identical.
• Did you know that a painting once hung upside down in a gallery for 47 days without anyone noticing?
• Did you know that the best man used to accompany the bride? His original duty was to protect her.
• Did you know that the joining of hands while praying originated when prisoners would pray with handcuffs on? It has no religious derivation.
• Did you know that the diameter of a golf cup is 4 and 1/4 inches?
• Did you know that there was once a Society for the Prevention of People Being Buried Alive?
• Did you know that guards at the jail at Alamos in Mexico have to serve out the sentences of any prisoners who escape while they are on duty?
• Did you know that you share your birthday with at least 9 million others?
• Did you know that organized crime in the U.S. represents 1/10 of the national income?
• Did you know that New Yorkers drink 2 million cups of coffee every 20 minutes?
• Did you know that the lives of 70% of the world's population are unviolated by newspapers, radio, television, or telephone?
• Did you know that if you subtract 40 from the number of times a cricket chirps a minute, divide by 4, and add 50 you will have the temperature Farenheit at that particular moment?
• Did you know that only 7 men in history have known the formula for Coca Cola and only 2 are alive today?
• Did you know that 90 million bottles of Coke are drunk every day in 158 countries?
• Did you know that a few miles north of the Panama Canal Zone there are square trees?
• Did you know that bees communicate using a special language?
• Did you know that there is a species of crocodile that only becomes ferocious and will kill people after it is dead?
• Did you know that there is a species of insect that is born pregnant?
• Did you know that a Russian woman named Rosa Kuleshova, when blindfolded, can place her 3rd and 4th right hand fingers above a book page and read exactly what is there without hesitation? This is called dermo-optics, but no one can figure out how it works.
• Did you know that your arm span is the same as your height?
• Did you know that one side of everyone's body is larger than the other side, i.e. hands, feet, legs, etc.
• Did you know that not only in KY but also in IN it is illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket.
• Did you know that the length from elbow to wrist is the size of your foot?
• Did you know that Mickey Mouse's original name was Mortimer?
• Did you know that in the movie "3 Men and a Baby" there is the ghost of a small boy in the window of the opening scene. He supposedly fell out of the window and now haunts the building.
• Did you know that the human head weighs 8 lbs? :) j/k
• Did you know that the sentence "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy sleeping dog." uses each letter of the alphabet?
• Did you know that everyone has psychic powers in varying degrees?
• Did you know that everyone's hair will come to a point where it will not grow anymore?
• Did you know that a Brooks sailed to America on the Mayflower?

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