* Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
* Coca-cola was originally green.
* Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treas.
* Smartest dogs: 1)border collie; 2)poodle; 3)golden retriever
* Dumbest: afghan
* Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
* First novel ever written on a typewriter was "Tom Sawyer".
* There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the
year.
* Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
* It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
* Men get hiccups more often than woman.
* Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
* Chances that an American lives within 50 mi of where he/she grew up: 1 in
2
* Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each
salad served in first class: $440,000
* City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong
* State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
* Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4
* Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12
* Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28
* Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38
* Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44
* Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36
* Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43
* City with the highest per capita viewership of TV evangelists: Wash., DC.
* 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 would marry the same man: 50
* Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or
separation: 58
* Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85
* Number of different familial relationships for which Hallmark makes
cards:105
* Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
* Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World:70
* Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
* Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3
* Portion of potatoes sold that are French-fried: 1/3
* Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7
* Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90
* Percentage of mammal species that are: 3
* Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are
above national average: 50
* Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
* Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7
* Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
* Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanan
* Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt
* Only president to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy, for "Profiles in
Courage"
* Only president awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for a system of buoying
vessels over shoals
* Only food that does not spoil: honey
* Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
* Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica
* Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: Pig
* Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
* An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
* In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
* Polar bears are left-handed.
* Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
* Eskimos never gamble.
* The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
* The youngest pope was 11 years old.
* Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
* Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
* Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
* Your nose and ears never stop growing.
* Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
* Hot water is heavier than cold.
* The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515.
* They have square watermelons in Japan...they stack better.
* Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.
* Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation
* Armadillos can be housebroken.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood
donors.
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.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog
throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth.
Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents
and then swallows the stomach back down again.
Walter Cavanaugh, "Mr. Plastic Fantastic," has 1,196 different valid credit
cards.
The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
In 1987, a 1,400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed in
Ireland.
There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are
teenagers.
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
If an orangutan belches at you, watch out. He's warning you to stay out of
his territory.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he
mightbe retarded.
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting
on it.
In 1984, a New Jersey man opened a summer camp for Cabbage Patch dolls.
You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other
weather.
How can you tell when a gorilla is angry? It sticks its tongue out.
According to one poll, nearly 3/4 of all American women wear a bra that is
the wrong size.
In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary formally married her 50-pound pet rock.
The first sperm banks opened in 1964; they were located in Tokyo and Iowa
City.
In 1980, the Yellow Pages accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under
frozen foods.
Cold showers actually increase sexual arousal.
1,200 college students streaked at the same time in Boulder, CO in 1974.
In 1977, a 13-year-old boy discovered a tooth growing on his left foot.
In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of
toast.
In the early '80s, a toad was discovered that meows instead of croaking.
In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
About 96% of all American children can recognize Ronald McDonald.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently
eaten bananas.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
The average human has seven sex fantasies in a day.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
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.
Watch out for flying hockey pucks - they travel at up to 100 mph.
America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
98% of American drivers think they drive better than anyone else.
When he's feeling amorous, the male sea otter grabs the female's nose with
his teeth.
In 1681, the last dodo bird died.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her
coffee.
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
An Indian woman can legally wed a goat.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
What color was Christopher Columbus's hair? Blonde.
In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones -
Bhutan.
The most extras ever used in a movie was 300,000, for the film Gandhi in
1981.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.
Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in
their wallets.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
In high school, Robin Williams was voted "Least Likely to Succeed."
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
The sex organ on a male spider is located at the end of one of its legs.
Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
Chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac in the Middle Ages.
Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are. [Well, duh,
why do you think they go? The men drive them crazy!]
Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his
head.
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend,
Indiana.
About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The
rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
An estimated 6,000 American teenagers lose their virginity every day.
Someone paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore in Some Like It Hot.
Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as Pres. Bush in
1991.
Elvis's nickname for his sexual organ was "Little Elvis."
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the
western Pacific.
There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones. [And most of
them are in Parma!]
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
Mosquitos have teeth.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon,
and Elvis Presley.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
Captain Kangaroo won five Emmy awards.
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential
hell."
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients
would die.
An estimated one in five Americans - some 38 million - don't like sex.
Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of
excrement."
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at
a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.
If a statue in the park 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 recieved in battle; if the horse has
all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University. (but you knew that
didn't you)
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient
Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and used a term
which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many
places -- refers to "40 days," they meant many days.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and
purple.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without
killing them, used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get
fired."
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Only two people signed the Decleration 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.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII 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 original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a
little Chinese boy." Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a
dance. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. Captain Jean-Luc
Picard's fish was named Livingston. The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is
properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not
exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune
"thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the
character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the
lower case "y".
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are
radioactive--so much so that they will set off an alarm at a nuclear
reactor.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots
Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32.
So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is
estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction (2 is the smallest
that can be felt unaided.)
Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed
in the 1600s by a translator.
It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway,
when the prince tried to follow her.
Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The
conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped
as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents
where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to
realize *this* was the day of the changeover.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up,
Mr. Scott".
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood
donors.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
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 flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown
differently during times of peace or war. A portion of the flag is blue,
while the other is red. The blue portion is flown on top in time of peace
and the red portion is flown in war time.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode
past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign
language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the
signals he used and in turn huddled around him.
Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he
had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon
dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a
lightning strike.
The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from
Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging."
Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified is to poke
someone's eye out.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
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 Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby
daughter, Ruth.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks
like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the
great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of linen.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
* Coca-cola was originally green.
* Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treas.
* Smartest dogs: 1)border collie; 2)poodle; 3)golden retriever
* Dumbest: afghan
* Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
* First novel ever written on a typewriter was "Tom Sawyer".
* There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the
year.
* Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
* It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
* Men get hiccups more often than woman.
* Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
* Chances that an American lives within 50 mi of where he/she grew up: 1 in
2
* Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each
salad served in first class: $440,000
* City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong
* State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
* Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4
* Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12
* Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28
* Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38
* Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44
* Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36
* Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43
* City with the highest per capita viewership of TV evangelists: Wash., DC.
* 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 would marry the same man: 50
* Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or
separation: 58
* Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85
* Number of different familial relationships for which Hallmark makes
cards:105
* Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
* Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World:70
* Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
* Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3
* Portion of potatoes sold that are French-fried: 1/3
* Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7
* Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90
* Percentage of mammal species that are: 3
* Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are
above national average: 50
* Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
* Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7
* Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
* Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanan
* Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt
* Only president to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy, for "Profiles in
Courage"
* Only president awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for a system of buoying
vessels over shoals
* Only food that does not spoil: honey
* Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
* Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica
* Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: Pig
* Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
* An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
* In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
* Polar bears are left-handed.
* Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
* Eskimos never gamble.
* The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
* The youngest pope was 11 years old.
* Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
* Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
* Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
* Your nose and ears never stop growing.
* Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
* Hot water is heavier than cold.
* The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515.
* They have square watermelons in Japan...they stack better.
* Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.
* Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation
* Armadillos can be housebroken.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood
donors.
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.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog
throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth.
Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents
and then swallows the stomach back down again.
Walter Cavanaugh, "Mr. Plastic Fantastic," has 1,196 different valid credit
cards.
The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
In 1987, a 1,400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed in
Ireland.
There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are
teenagers.
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
If an orangutan belches at you, watch out. He's warning you to stay out of
his territory.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he
mightbe retarded.
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting
on it.
In 1984, a New Jersey man opened a summer camp for Cabbage Patch dolls.
You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other
weather.
How can you tell when a gorilla is angry? It sticks its tongue out.
According to one poll, nearly 3/4 of all American women wear a bra that is
the wrong size.
In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary formally married her 50-pound pet rock.
The first sperm banks opened in 1964; they were located in Tokyo and Iowa
City.
In 1980, the Yellow Pages accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under
frozen foods.
Cold showers actually increase sexual arousal.
1,200 college students streaked at the same time in Boulder, CO in 1974.
In 1977, a 13-year-old boy discovered a tooth growing on his left foot.
In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of
toast.
In the early '80s, a toad was discovered that meows instead of croaking.
In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
About 96% of all American children can recognize Ronald McDonald.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently
eaten bananas.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
The average human has seven sex fantasies in a day.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
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.
Watch out for flying hockey pucks - they travel at up to 100 mph.
America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
98% of American drivers think they drive better than anyone else.
When he's feeling amorous, the male sea otter grabs the female's nose with
his teeth.
In 1681, the last dodo bird died.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her
coffee.
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
An Indian woman can legally wed a goat.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
What color was Christopher Columbus's hair? Blonde.
In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones -
Bhutan.
The most extras ever used in a movie was 300,000, for the film Gandhi in
1981.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.
Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in
their wallets.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
In high school, Robin Williams was voted "Least Likely to Succeed."
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
The sex organ on a male spider is located at the end of one of its legs.
Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
Chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac in the Middle Ages.
Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are. [Well, duh,
why do you think they go? The men drive them crazy!]
Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his
head.
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend,
Indiana.
About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The
rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
An estimated 6,000 American teenagers lose their virginity every day.
Someone paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore in Some Like It Hot.
Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as Pres. Bush in
1991.
Elvis's nickname for his sexual organ was "Little Elvis."
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the
western Pacific.
There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones. [And most of
them are in Parma!]
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
Mosquitos have teeth.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon,
and Elvis Presley.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
Captain Kangaroo won five Emmy awards.
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential
hell."
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients
would die.
An estimated one in five Americans - some 38 million - don't like sex.
Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of
excrement."
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at
a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.
If a statue in the park 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 recieved in battle; if the horse has
all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University. (but you knew that
didn't you)
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient
Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and used a term
which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many
places -- refers to "40 days," they meant many days.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and
purple.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without
killing them, used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get
fired."
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Only two people signed the Decleration 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.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII 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 original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a
little Chinese boy." Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a
dance. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. Captain Jean-Luc
Picard's fish was named Livingston. The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is
properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not
exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune
"thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the
character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the
lower case "y".
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are
radioactive--so much so that they will set off an alarm at a nuclear
reactor.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots
Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32.
So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is
estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction (2 is the smallest
that can be felt unaided.)
Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed
in the 1600s by a translator.
It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway,
when the prince tried to follow her.
Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The
conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped
as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents
where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to
realize *this* was the day of the changeover.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up,
Mr. Scott".
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood
donors.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
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 flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown
differently during times of peace or war. A portion of the flag is blue,
while the other is red. The blue portion is flown on top in time of peace
and the red portion is flown in war time.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode
past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign
language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the
signals he used and in turn huddled around him.
Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he
had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon
dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a
lightning strike.
The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from
Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging."
Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified is to poke
someone's eye out.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
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 Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby
daughter, Ruth.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks
like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the
great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of linen.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
nice list though
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