Question:
Strange/weird/funny facts?
anonymous
2008-10-26 11:54:17 UTC
I need a lot! like how many little lines are on the ridge of a nickle. stupid weird things like that! The facts need to be somethings most people don't know. EVERY ONE KNOWS THINGS LIKE MEMORY OF FISH!

The person who comes up with the most I will give 10 pints :)

Things I already have...

-So basically one of the first typewriters was a qwerty typewriter and so if you look at the first letters on the keyboard it spells qwerty!

-Another is that the longest word in the top row of letters is typewriter.

-The man who played the tinman in The Wizard of Oz lived near the candy hearts factory. Ironic.

-The most expensive sunday has sheets of real edible gold in it.
21 answers:
Brontë Pink
2008-10-26 12:08:45 UTC
The longest word you can spell using the left side of a keyboard is "Stewardesses".



Australian Aborigines had over 30 words for "dust".



Almost 3% of the ice in glaciers int he Antarctic is made up of penguin urine.



Around one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.



If a cricket were the size of Mt. Rushmore, it could jump to the moon.



Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.



The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.



When an ant is intoxicated it will always fall over to its right side.



Pearls melt in vinegar.



Most lipsticks contain fish scales.



The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City.



A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.



There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.



Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.



The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."



Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.



Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.



The reported percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.



Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.



Women blink nearly twice as much as men.



Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.



In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds.



If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.
Jazz! :D
2008-10-26 19:15:21 UTC
oo ive got lots.. xD



1. A summers catch for a single toad=10,000 insects



2. Male Emperor Penguins survive 2 months without any food, to protect and warm a single egg.



3. Wacky word: Testophobia = the fear of taking tests



4.Your jaw, eye, and tongue muscles, are among the strongest in your body.



5. Roman coins have been dug up in America, suggesting that perhaps the Vikings or Columbus werent the first here.



6. The first food grown in outerspace was potatoes in 1995 aboard the apce shuttle Columbia



7. French was the official language for England for over 600 years



8. Baby rattlesnakes are born without rattles



9. Dandelion root can be roasted and ground as a coffee substitute



10.Wacky Word: Clinophobia = the fear of going to bed



11. Lemon Sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks



12. 50% of pizzas in North America are sol with pepperoni on them



13. The average person speeks about 5,000 words a day



14. A giant squid's eye is as big as a basketball



15. Ice hockey was first played in 1885 by British soldiers stationed in Canada.



16. Honey is the only food that doesnt spoil.



17. Hippopotomonsrtosesquippedaliophobia = the fear of long words



18.Your fingernails grow 4x faster than your toenails



19. When your stomach rumbles or growels, it is "rambling"



20. the average bed is home to over 5 billion dust mites.



21. Ancient Rome was the very first city to reach a population of 1 million people.



22. A stalk of celery has "negative calories"; digesting it takes more energy than it provides



23. logizomechanophobia = the fear of computers



24. The Goliath Beetle weighs more than 8 mice



25. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows



26. Gatorade was invented for, and named after, the University of Florida Gators football team



27. Snow Leopards cannot roar



28. Seaweed can be used to thicken icecreaam



29. Female grizzlies sleep through birth during hibernation



30. Women end up digestin most of the lipstick they apply



31. A group of crows is known as a "murder of crows"



32. A Jellyfish is 95% water



33. Toilet Paper was first marketed in the U.S in the 1880s



34. People who have eaten ants say they taste like salt and vinegar chips.



35. The hole in your clothing you put your arm through is an "armsaye"



36. Queen honeybees will lay up to 3,000 eggs in a day



37. It is said to be impossible to lick you elbow. (Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.)
Adrienn
2008-10-26 19:17:42 UTC
The giraffe has the biggest heart because it has to pump the blood all the way to the brain.



A cow poops 14-16 times a day.



Camel have to longest eyelashes to protect their eye from the sand.



Rice can absorb the most water, thats why people put it in their saltshaker to prevent the salt to stick together.



A sneeze can go up to 300 miles/hour.



The pigs have the longest orgasms in the animal world.



Thats about it and sorry about the misspelling (not native english speaker)
Rut Ro
2008-10-26 19:07:11 UTC
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!



The electric chair was invented by a dentist!



A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!



A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!



Slugs have 4 noses



There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses



Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy



Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!



Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
Summer ♥♪♫
2008-10-26 19:01:18 UTC
there is a name for a substance that acts both liek a solid and a liquid at the same time...it is called a Non-Newtonian fluid,



Some wine even has fish bladders.



You burn more calories while sleeping than while watching TV. Go figure.



The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo".



It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word is 'shake' and the 46th word from the last word is 'spear'



Your saliva is 98% water and 2% other materials, such as proteins and enzymes.





A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, while a dime only has 118.



Every single one of us disposes of about four pounds of trash each day.



Bananas, which are scientifically classified as berries, come in over 200 varieties. They are the most consumed fruit in America and can actually help you go to sleep.



You can't hurt your eyes by reading in the dark!



Queen Victoria was the longest reigning queen of England.





Strudel and sopaipilla are Texas' state pastries. (Who knew we even HAD state pastries?)



Ouija boards are a common superstitious way of telling the future. But did you know that the word ouija come from the French and German words for yes? The words are oui (pronounced like 'we') and ja (pronounced like Arnold Schwarzenegger saying yeah) respectively.



1 out of 100 Americans are in jail.
med
2008-10-26 19:04:37 UTC
-a ducks "quack" does not echo

-there is a law in minnesota stating that no child can talk on the telephone without a supervising parent

-coca-cola would be green if color wasnt added to it

-an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

-there is a city called rome on every continent

-the elephant is the only mammal that cant jump

-80% of dust particles you see floating in your home are really from dead skin

-giraffes can clean their ears with their 21-inch tounge

-a human head remains conscious for 10-20 seconds after being cut off
anonymous
2008-10-26 19:08:39 UTC
babies are born without knee caps





if you keep your tungue without touching anything in your mouth,you will fall asleep withing 7 minutes.





its impossible to sneeze without closing your eyes.





crickets have ears on there knee caps.





in some brands of cheese curlz,there are earth worms as an ingredient







some resterants in japan will eat aborted babies.(sick!!!)



the dog breed chow,got there name from the japanisse,because they use them in alot of dishes



holly trees can not grow berries unless there is a male or female in the area(weird...tree sex.)





cows have 3 stumichs.



diabetics get there insulin from pigs.



a sheep and a human can reproduce(ewww)



in the 1800's if one was possesed,and died,they would barry them under the rodes to prevent the spirit from returning.



the longest case of hick ups lasted 68 years



i cant think of anything else..
sisi :)
2008-10-26 19:01:44 UTC
here's some Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy facts..





Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.Both were shot in the head.

Here is an interesting one...

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.Both were succeeded by Southerners.

Both successors were named Johnson.Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln was born in 1839.Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy was born in 1939.Both assassins were known by their three names.Both names compromise fifteen letters.Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
Queila
2008-10-26 19:01:40 UTC
Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!



In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!



There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!



Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!



Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!



The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!



There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos



There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!



The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!



Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!



The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!



Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!



Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!



The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye



Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!



The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!



When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!



A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!



A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!



The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!



A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!



A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!



It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!



It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!



Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!



Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!



The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!



Most lipstick contains fish scales!



Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!



One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!



It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!



The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!





No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!



A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!



Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!



There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!



If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!



Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!



A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!



The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!



Clinophobia is the fear of beds!



A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!



Porcupines float in water!



Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!



The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!



The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!



The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!



The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!



The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
anonymous
2008-10-26 19:00:17 UTC
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
giddy penguin
2008-10-26 19:18:55 UTC
it is legal to shoot a welshman within the walls of york after midnight with a crossbow, what came first the chicken or the egg,
FallingMagic
2008-10-26 19:01:50 UTC
Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!



In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!



There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!



Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!



Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!



The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!



There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!



There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!



Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!



The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!



Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!



Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!



One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!



The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!





Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!



The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!



When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!



A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!



A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!









The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!



The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!





A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!



A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!



It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!



It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!



Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!



Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!



Basketball is a famous American sport invented by a Canadian who was working at a YMCA in the U.S.



The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.



The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk.



The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.



Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.



Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".



No president of the United States was an only child.



Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.



Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.



Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales.



Ants never sleep.



No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".



The human brain is 80% water.



Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.



The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.



Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.



There are 86,400 seconds in day.



A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.



Singapore has only one train station.



The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.



Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.



Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.



Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million.



Buttermilk does not contain any butter.



By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors.



Canada is an Indian word meaning ''Big Village''.



Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats!



Cleopatra married two of her brothers.



Common pesticides such as roach, termite, and flea insecticide can be found in the bodies of majority of Americans.



Crayola is a French word that means ''Oily chalk.''
butterfly68
2008-10-26 19:08:48 UTC
a gecko cant blink so it uses its tounge to wash its eyes



the deadliest creature on earth is a little frog called the arrow poison frog
anonymous
2008-10-26 19:02:08 UTC
320 usless facts you'll never need to know.

Yes, I've read them all. Try it!!







1. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.

2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.

3. The '57' on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.

4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person.

5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.

6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.

7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.

8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

10. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

11. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.

13. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.

14. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).

16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

17. The ZIP in 'ZIP code' means Zoning Improvement Plan.

18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.

19. A '2 by 4' is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.

20. It's estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.

21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar

22. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

23. Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.

24. The 'spot' on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

25. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

26. The 'save' icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively).

28. Camel's have three eyelids.

29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.

30. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.

31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.

32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.

33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.

34. 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.

35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.

36. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

37. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name 'soyce'.

39. Slugs have four noses.

40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

43. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMBASS)

44. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.

45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.

46. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.

47. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun's magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called 'Solarmax'.

49. There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.

50. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.

51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

52. The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincol
circa 1980
2008-10-26 18:58:36 UTC
I heard a long time ago that a cockroach runs the equivalent of 80mph!!! AHHH!!! So imagine if they were human size.....we'd be sharing the highway with them...YUCK! lol
jsull837
2008-10-26 18:59:51 UTC
most people are more afraid of spiders than death

butterflies taste with their feet

about 100 people per year die choking on ballpoint pens
anonymous
2008-10-26 18:57:48 UTC
Here's one for you:



Nickels don't have ridges.
shaynakaderr
2008-10-26 18:57:16 UTC
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anonymous
2008-10-26 19:26:24 UTC
In the movie Aladin, Aladin's nationality is Asian

Pigglet is a boy

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food heavy users.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

Almonds are members of the peach family

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per

side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin

look-alike contest

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book

most often stolen from public libraries.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

Its impossible to lick your own elbow. 75% of people try to lick their elbow after they hear this

If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.



President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.



In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.



Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.



The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.



In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"



The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.



According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.



Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.



The most common name in the world is Mohammed.



It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.



Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.



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



Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."



When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.



There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.



Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.



The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.



It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.



The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927.



The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.



It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".



The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.



On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.



Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.



The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.



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 sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.



Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, [when he could find it!]).



The pancreas produces Insulin.



1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.



There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).



A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.



The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.



The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.



Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.



Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.



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



Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.



Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.



The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.



World Tourist day is observed on September 27.



Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.



The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).



Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.



There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.



When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.



American car horns beep in the tone of F.



Turning a clock's hands counterclockwise while setting it is not necessarily harmful. It is only damaging when the timepiece contains a chiming mechanism.



There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.



Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.



The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.



St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.



The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.



Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.



If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.



Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.



Charlie Brown's father was a barber.



Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.



Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.



You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.



A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.



The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.



Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.



The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.



The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.



The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.



Beatrix Potter created the first of her legendary "Peter Rabbit" children's stories in 1902.



In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.



The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."



A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.



The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.



The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.



Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.



Liberace Museum has a mirror-plated Rolls Royce; jewel-encrusted capes, and the largest rhinestone in the world, weighing 59 pounds and almost a foot in diameter.



A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.



Cats can hear ultrasound.



Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.



The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.



The United States has never lost a war in which mules w
Nutgobbler
2008-10-26 18:58:41 UTC
Man, I wish I knew some to give you but I don't have any. :( However, I love the longest word that you have because it literally made me look on the top row of my keyboard and gasp when typewriter could be spelled.



EDIT>>Found some!



If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.



President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.



In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.



Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.



The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.



In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"



The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.



According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.



Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.



The most common name in the world is Mohammed.



It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.



Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.



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



Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."



When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.



There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.



Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.



The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.



It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.



The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927.



The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.



It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".



The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.



On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.



Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.



The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.



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 sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.



Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, [when he could find it!]).



The pancreas produces Insulin.



1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.



There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).



A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.



The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.



The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.



Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.



Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.



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



Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.



Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.



The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.



World Tourist day is observed on September 27.



Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.



The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).



Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.



There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.



When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.



American car horns beep in the tone of F.



Turning a clock's hands counterclockwise while setting it is not necessarily harmful. It is only damaging when the timepiece contains a chiming mechanism.



There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.



Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.



The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.



St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.



The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.



Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.



If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.



Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.



Charlie Brown's father was a barber.



Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.



Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.



You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.



A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.



The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.



Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.



The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.



The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.



The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.



Beatrix Potter created the first of her legendary "Peter Rabbit" children's stories in 1902.



In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.



The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."



A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.



The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.



The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.



Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.



Liberace Museum has a mirror-plated Rolls Royce; jewel-encrusted capes, and the largest rhinestone in the world, weighing 59 pounds and almost a foot in diameter.



A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.



Cats can hear ultrasound.



Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.



The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.



The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.



Children grow faster in the springtime.



On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.



Paul Revere rode on a horse that belonged to Deacon Larkin.



The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.



Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.



Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"



Nobody knows who built the Taj Mahal. The names of the architects, masons, and designers that have come down to us have all proved to be latter-day inventions, and there is no evidence to indicate who the real creators were.



Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.



7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.



The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.



A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.



The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.



"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."



February is Black History Month.



Jane Barbie was the woman who did the voice recordings for the Bell System.



The first drive-in service station in the United States was opened by Gulf Oil Company - on December 1, 1913, in
anonymous
2008-10-26 18:58:28 UTC
Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!



In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!



There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!



Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!



Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!



The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!



There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!



There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!



The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!





Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!



The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!



Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!



Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!



One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!



The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!



During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!



Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!



Dolphins sleep with one eye open!



The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!



In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!



There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!



About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!



More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!



A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!



Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!



In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!



Slugs have 4 noses!



Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!



Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!



Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!





The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!



It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!

There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!



Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!



There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!



Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!



Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!



Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!



In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!



Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate



A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!



The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!.. More fears...



There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!



Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!



There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!



Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!



Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!



Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!



In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!



Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate



A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!



The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!.. More fears...



There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!



Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!







An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!



A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!



Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!



One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!



More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!



In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!



Rice paper does not have any rice in it!



Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!





In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!



Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!



The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!



The average person laughs 13 times a day!



Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!



Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!



It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!



Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!



Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!



A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!



Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!



The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!





















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