odd facts

A list of odd facts i found

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death.

Jim Morrison (of the 60's rock group 'The Doors') was the first rock star to be arrested on stage.

The "ZIP" in Zip Code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."

Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts"

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

Betsy Ross is the only real person that was the head on a Pez dispenser.

The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier; the crack of the whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class

Toto was paid $125 a week during the filming of the Wizard of Oz.

The Sears Tower in Chicago has its own zip code.

We know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the bottom of then ocean.

There are as many chickens on this planet as humans.

A sneeze leaves your mouth a 100 miles per hour.

You have enough micro-organisms in your mouth to equal a cockroach.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist. And the first one was built partly by a prison inmate. He later died in it for murder.

The oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.

Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.

"Pants" used to be considered a bad word in England.

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

Di Vinci spent 12 years painting Mona Lisa's lips.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Most Americans' car horns beep in the Key of "F".

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime-time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'

Two-thirds of the people in the world have NOT made a phone call.

Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

Einstein's brain is owned by scientist John Harvey. Harvey was a pathologist at a small hospital in Princeton, N.J., when Einstein died in 1955 at the age of 76. Harvey performed the autopsy, determined Einstein died of natural causes and took the brain home with him.

Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.

Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain were all 27 years old when they died.

Cats have a third eyelid, called a haw, which is rarely visible. If it is visible, it could be an indication of ill health.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

One of every 11 boxes of cereal sold in the U.S. is Cheerios.

There are no photos in existence of Abe Lincoln smiling.

The first e-mail was sent over the Internet in 1972.

Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald. He was also the first Bozo the clown.

Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.

A person living to age 75 will have slept about 220,000 hours -- or about 23 years.