* Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
* Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
* The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all
158 verses.
* There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
* The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
* 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 worlds eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
* The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
* 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 a member 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.
* A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
* An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
* Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
* In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is
10:10.
* 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 states third largest city.
* The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after the cop and Ernie the
taxidriver in Frank Capra's "It's A. Wonderful Life."
* A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
* A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
* 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.
* The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
* 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" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
* A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
* A snail can sleep for three years.
* All polar bears are left handed.
* American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad
served in first-class.
* Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
* An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
* Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6
years of age.
* Butterflies taste with their feet
* Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.
* Cats urine glows under a black light.
* China have more English speakers than the United States.
* Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear any pants.
* Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
* February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
* Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
* I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
* If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven
feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
* If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end
because of the rate of reproduction.
* If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the
energy of an atomic bomb.
* If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound
energy to heat one cup of coffee.
* In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their
eyebrows and eyelashes.
* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
* Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
* Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
* Michael Jordan has more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory
workers in Malaysia combined.
* No word in the English language rhymes with month.
* Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
* On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
* One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's
lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
* Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop
growing.
* Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
do.
* Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
* Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
* Starfish haven't got brains.
* The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
* The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.
* The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
* The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel
that it burns.
* The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood
30 feet.
* The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The
female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
* The most common name in the world in Mohammed.
* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
* The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.
* The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as necessary. When
it was built in the 1940's, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring
separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
* The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to
left.
* There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row
of the keyboard.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
* You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
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