WEIRD TRIVIA
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
"Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing. 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.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. A whale's penis is called a dork.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: mint oreo.
Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down – hence the expression "to get fired."
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
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.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
Hang On Snoopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
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.
In the park, if a statue of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."
Maine is the only state that borders on only one state.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for Profiles in Courage
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 5 years later.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%. Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%. Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%
Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70%.
Physicist Murray Gell-Mann named the sub-atomic particles known as quarks for a random line in James Joyce, "Three quarks for Muster Mark!"
Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collie; 2) Poodle; 3) Golden retriever. Dumbest: Afghan hound.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song).
The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella."
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin," pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." as a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "star trek" lore.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
The longest U.S. highway is Route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary
, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses
, its plural.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosey..."), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of poseys..."), People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!").
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sport games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.
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.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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.
The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.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 into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
The term the "boogey man will get you" comes from the boogey people, who still inhabit an area of Indonesia. These people still act as pirates today and attack ships that pass. Thus the term spread "if you don't watch out the boogey man will get you."
The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and in lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs – it will let you go instantly.
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.