The letter 'E' doesn't appear at all in E.V. Wright's 50,000-word 1939 novel "Gadsby".

Underground is the only English word that begins and ends in UND.

Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties in climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

Only two states' names begin with double consonants: Florida and Rhode Island.

On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons,' Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.

In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.

Only humans and horses have hymens.

Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.

"Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when you're talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil."

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

The oldest word in the English language is "town."

There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.

In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it's smiling.)

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards.

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'.

Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.

Andy Warhol created the Rolling Stone's emblem depicting the big tongue. It first appeared on the cover of the 'Sticky Fingers' album.

Chris Ford scored the first ever NBA three-point shot.

Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.

Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons."

Harvard uses "Yale" brand locks on their buildings.

Filipinos are the only foreign nationals that can serve in the United States Armed Forces.

The only Major League Baseball team to have both its city's name and its team name in a foreign language is the San Diego Padres.

Everyone is familiar with the RCA logo with Nipper the dog listening to the RCA grammaphone. But the original picture had both the dog and the grammaphone sitting on his dead masters casket. The idea being that the closest thing to his dead master's voice was the RCA grammaphone. The ad was considered too morbid - so they removed the casket.

The icecream sundae got its name by a law set in Illinois in the 1800's, stating that you can't buy fountain sodas on Sunday. So the ice cream parlors got together and came up with a new invention -- the sodasyrup on ice cream minus the soda water. They sold this on Sundays and called it the ice cream sundae.

A "jiffy" is a unit of time: 3.3357 times 10 raised to the -11 (3.3357x10^-11) seconds. So named for the length of time it takes light to travel a cm in a vacuum.

The song American Pie has the lines "Drove my Chevy to the Levy, but the Levy was dry... Them good old boys were drinking whisky in Rye.."

The Levy was a bar and Rye is a small city in New York. Most people think the levy is a thing that holds water back and Rye as the liquor.

Don MacLean's song "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens. The three died together in a plane crashed.

The longest English word consisting entirely of consonants (and not including "y" as a vowel) is the word "crwth" which is from the fourteenth century and means crowd.

The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight.

The flag of the U.K. is properly known as the Union Flag. It is only called the Union Jack when it is flown from a ship.

South Africa used to have two official languages. Now it has eleven.

In 1848, Niagara Falls stopped flowing for 30 hours because of an ice jam blocking the Niagara River.

The first product to have a UPC bar code on its packaging was Wrigley's gum.

It takes eighteen minutes to cool hot chocolate into a Hershey's Kiss.

The football huddle originated at Gallaudet University (the world's only accredited four-year liberal arts college for the deaf) in the 19th century when the football team found that opposing teams were reading their signed messages and intercepting plays.

The way you can usually tell whether a chicken will lay white eggs or dark eggs: If the chicken has white ear lobes, she will lay white eggs. If the chicken has red ear lobes she will lay brown eggs.

In 1920 Ray Chapman a shortstop for the Cleveland Indians, is the only player ever killed as a result of a major league baseball game. He was hit in the temple with a pitch and died the next day.

In every deck of cards the King of Hearts is sticking his sword through his head. That's why he's often called the "Suicide King"

The King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache.

In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.

Quebec and Newfoundland are the only two Canadian provinces which do not allow personalized license plates.

The actor who played the T-1000 in Terminator 2 (Robert Patrick) and the lead singer of Filter are brothers.

Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and gold.

Pluto, the astrological sign for death, was directly above Dallas, Texas when JFK was born.

Zip code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y.

Try dividing 81 into 99999999999 = 1234567.8

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 that spells out its location city.

If Brooklyn, New York became independent of New York City, it would be the third largest city in the United States, after the remainder of New York and Los Angeles.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The province of Alberta in Canada has been completely free of rats since 1905.

Illinois has the most personalized liscense plates of any state.

Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize witchcraft.

The distance between an alligator's eyes, in inches, is directly proportional to the length of the alligator, in feet.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.

The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.

Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is called a harp.

John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

Point Roberts in Washington State is cut off from the rest of the state by British Columbia, Canada. If you wish to travel from Point Roberts to the rest of the state or vice versa, you must pass through Canada, including Canadian and U.S. customs.

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

The only city in the United States to celebrate Halloween on the October 30 instead of October 31 is Carson City, Nevada. October 31 is Nevada Day and is celebrated with a large street party.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

"Evian" spelled backvards is naive.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)

White-Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith, formerly of the Monkees.

It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.

The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue.

Moisture, not air, causes superglue to dry.

Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969.)

Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser himself. And Greg Evigan sang the "My Two Dads" theme.

Kelsey Grammer sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.

Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show Growing Pains wrote the theme songs for The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes.

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

Lynyrd Skynyrd was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, "You boys ain't never gonna amount to nothin'."

M & M's were developed so that soldiers could eat candy without getting their fingers sticky.

Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never- aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.

The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.

The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.

Libya is the only country in the world with a solid, single-colored flag -- it's green.

Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language.

Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.

The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

Crickets hear through their knees

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.

One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

"Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.'"

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.

Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.

"Video Killed the Radio Star" was the very first video ever played on MTV.

The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.

AM and PM stand for "Ante-Meridiem" and "Post-Meridiem," respectively, and A.D. actually stands for "Anno Domini" rather than "After Death."

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle

A whale's penis is called a dork.

A pound of armadillo meat contains 780 calories.

If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.

Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."

A group of frogs is called an army.

A group of rhinos is called a crash.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

A group of whales is called a pod.

A group of geese is called a gaggle.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

A group of officers is called a mess.

A group of larks is called an exaltation.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

Starfish don't have brains.

Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.

There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts until 1989.

Barbie's full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding or milling.

Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.

Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

The Pentagon in Washington, D. C. has five sides, five stories, and five acres in the middle.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired."

In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)

The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.

A coat hanger is forty-four inches long if straightened.

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.

Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.

If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.

The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have one syllable, it has three.

Michael Di Lorenzo, who plays Eddie Torres on New York Undercover is one of the lead dancers in Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video.

A forfeited game is baseball is recorded as a 9-0 score. In football it is 2-0.

The most common name in Italy is Mario Rossi

Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.

Easter is the first Sunday after the first Saturday after the first full moon after the equinox. (The equinox is quite often March 21, but can also occur on the March 20 or 22.)

The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F".

Months that begins with a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for Lord of the Flies, and this is where the books title comes from.

October 10 is National Metric Day.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

There are fourteen blimps in the world.

Ten of the fourteen blimps are in the United States.

The existing biggest blimp is the Fuji Film blimp.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."

Pinocchio was made of pine.

If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.

Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.

The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular. Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils also.

"Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

Spencer Eldon was the name of the naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's album Nevermind.

All three major 1996 Presidential candidates, Clinton, Dole and Perot, are left-handed.

Dracula is the most filmed story of all time, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is second and Oliver Twist is third.

The silhouette on the NBA logo is Jerry West.

The silhouette on the Major League Baseball logo is Harmon Killebrew.

The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was a spin-off of the Danny Thomas Show.

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin. However, every stamp carries a relief image or a silhouette of the monarch's head instead.

Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.

Tweety used to be a baby bird without feathers until the censors made him have feathers because he "looked naked."

When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the U.S. Treasury.

The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs, because a cows' knees can't bend properly to walk back down.

More Hollywood films have been made about boxing than about any other sport.

Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.

Hudson Bay is the largest bay in the world, (larger than England) bordering only one country Canada, and only two provinces and a territory.

Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.

John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theatre.

Dismas and Gestas were the names of the two thieves crucified with Jesus.

There are 2,598,960 five-card hands possible in a 52-card deck of cards.

There are 1,929,770,126,028,800 different color combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube.

Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.

In 1986 Danny Heep became the first player in a World Series to be a designated hitter (DH) with the initials "D.H."

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

Kermit the Frog is left handed.

In the game Monopoly, the most money you can lose in one travel around the board (normal game rules, going to jail only once) is $26,040. The most money you can lose in one turn is $5070.

A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.

The hammer throw is illegal as a high school sport in all states except Rhode Island.

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.

It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breath- alyzer to read 0.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

In Psycho, the color of Mrs. Bates' dress was periwinkle blue.

Until at least 1980 the country of Bhutan had no telephones.

In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up but no channel 1.

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times

Prince Harry and Prince William are uncircumcised.

Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.

The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.

Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.

The word "robot" was created by Karel Capek. It came from Czech/Slovak "robotovat," which means to work very hard.