Emus cannot walk backwards.
*Andrea & John Day have written me that
the kangaroo AND emu are two native animals on the
Australian coat of arms. Apparently,neither of them are
able to take a backward step!
There are only 13 blimps in
the world. Nine of them are in the United States.
Cats have over one hundred
vocal sounds,while dogs only have about ten.
Our eyes are always the same
size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop
growing.
Most Americans' car horns
honk in the key of "F".
Camels milk does not
curdle.
Many hamsters only blink one
eye at a time.
In every episode of Seinfeld
there is a Superman somewhere.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the
chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
Barbie's measurements if she
were life size: 39-23-33.
Giraffes have no vocal
chords.
Cats'urine glows under a
blacklight.
Leonardo DaVinci invented
the scissors.
It takes about a half a
gallon of water to cook macaroni and about a gallon to
clean the pot.
Michael Jordan makes more
money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory
workers in Malaysia combined.
The first toilet ever seen
on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
One of the reasons marijuana
is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30's
lobbied against hemp farmers--they saw it as
competition.
Prince William & Prince
Harry are uncircumcised.
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.
Libra,the Scales,is the only
inanimate symbol in the zodiac.
The most common name in
Italy is Mario Rossi.
Shirley Temple had 56 curls
in her hair.
Assuming Rudolph was in
front,there are 40,320 ways to arrange the other
reindeer.
No word in the English
language rhymes with orange, silver and purple.
There are two credit cards
for every person in the United States.
Only two people signed the
Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and
Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but
the last signature wasn't added until five years later.
"I am" is the shortest
complete sentence in the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards"
came from World War II fighter pilots in the South Pacific.
When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber
machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet before
being loaded in the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their
ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards".
The most common name in the
world is Mohammed.
The glue on Israeli postage
stamps is certified kosher.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit
of time for 1/100th of a second.
The average person falls
asleep in 7 minutes.
The phrase "rule of thumb"
is derived from an old English law which stated that you
couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your
thumb.
Coca-cola was originally green.
The average life span of a major league baseball is 7 pitches.
Chances that a burglary in the U.S. will be solved is 1 in 7.
The only food that does not spoil: honey.
The only animal besides the human that can get sunburned: pig.
Polar bears are left handed.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months two rats could have over 1 million descendents.
If you urinate while swimming in a South American river, you may encounter the candiru. Drawn to warmth, this fish is known to follow a stream of urine to its source, swim inside the body and flare its barbed fins. It will remain firmly embedded in the flesh until surgically removed.
A ducks quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bit off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom".
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie", (the name of the Don McLean song).
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
35% of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
90% of recently arrived cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
On average,100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Five Jello-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple and chocolate.