DID YOU KNOW THAT...

* The abbreviation for 1 pound (lb.) comes from the astrological sign
Libra, meaning balance?

* If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87
feet?

* 1/100th of a second is called a "jiffy?"

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

Charlie Hill 
UGA Humor List 
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DID YOU KNOW?

America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her
coffee.

Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine.  His parents thought
he might be retarded.

In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out
of toast.

In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.

An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.

Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.

The condom -- made originally of linen -- was invented in the early
1500s.

The first-known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in
2000 B.C.

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.

Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard
Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless
existential hell."

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.

Zany Humor 
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In just one day, 6.8 billion gallons of water are used to flush all of
the toilets in the United States.

The Pentagon building has 685 water fountains.

The life-span of a one dollar bill is about eighteen months.

Americans spend more money on cat food than baby food ... about two
billion dollars annually.

The first Post Office in the American colonies was in a tavern!

Literally translated, the Italian word "linguine" means "little
tongues."

Attempted suicide used to be a capital crime in England.  Those
convicted usually got a death sentence.

An old Virginia ordinance, still in force, prohibits putting bathtubs in
the house.  They can only be kept in the yard.

You're breaking the law if you fall asleep in a bathtub in Detroit,
Michigan.

When J. C. Penney (middle name Cash) opened his first department store
in 1902, it was called the Golden Rule.

The average worker in the US in 1905 made $523.12 per year.
 

The Sunday Independent (a Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania newspaper) recently
reported a story about a woman who returned home after a hospital stay
and found the first floor rear door to her home forced open.  In a
search, the only item found missing was a four-pack of Charmin toilet
tissue.

The average person will exhale enough air during a lifetime to inflate
more than 30 Goodyear blimps.

You can't sneeze with your eyes open!

The average American will spend five years of his life waiting in lines,
either on foot or at the wheel of his car.  He will take almost 26,000
showers.  He will spend 30 months reading newspapers.  He will laugh
about 400 thousand times and he will save about 26 thousand dollars by
using coupons.

A Florida law makes it illegal to fall asleep under a hair dryer.

Nancy M. Carson 
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