Did you know that Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital?
Or that Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing?
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Uses every letter in the alphabet. (developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications)
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. MYTH Read report
In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile Services(two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not Pre-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
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 airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.) MYTH Read Proof
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
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 highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
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.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver".
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-star Game.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." Is False, the name can be traced backed to the early 1800's. The name was very rare and only became popular after the book was written.
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola,
and Budweiser, in that order.
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per
year.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of
their hands.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's
nuclear weapons combined.
Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years.
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
According to one study, 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament
in their yard.
Internationally, Baywatch is the most popular TV show in history.
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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.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in he 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.
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."
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.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the 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."
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law that stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
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.
David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the General Purpose" vehicle, GP.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
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The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
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.
No NFL team, which plays its home games in a domed stadium, has ever won a Superbowl.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver".
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-star Game.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola,
and Budweiser, in that order.
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per
year.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
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Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than Left-handed people do.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.( I always fell on my face)
Polar bears are left handed.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, more than any other animal.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
A roach will live nine days without it's head. The only reason it doesn't live longer is it's unable to eat.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (Real Quickies, They should talk to the pig)
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that can'tjump.(thankfully)
The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
Pacing yourself with your finger allows you to read faster.
10% of all woman registered for computer dating are teachers.
7 in 10 Americans have some kind of fear of the dark.
More people have a phobia of frogs than rats.
More people have a phobia of vomiting than death.
The human brain only accounts for 2% of your body weight, but takes up more than 20% of your blood flow.
The human brain holds between 1 and 7 terabytes (1 and 7 million megabytes) of data.
Males sweat 40% more then females.
Testosterone in males decreases 10% every 10 years.
Deep breathing gives you health benefits similar to aerobics.
Plain grain products lower your IQ, while whole grain products increase your IQ.
Cows milk gives 8 in 10 people coronary heart disease.
Every 100g of Corn Flakes has 1 mg of fecal matter.
Eating lemons make you live longer.
Broccoli is the food with the best anti-cancer properties.
Eating half an orange a day reduces your chances of getting a heart attack by 50%.
Eating one meal of fish a week reduces your chances of getting a heart attack by 50%.
When pressured for grazing space, kangaroos have been known to kill competing sheep.
Cows sleep only 3 hours a day.
Sloths sleep up to 20 hours a day and get attain by eagles a lot because of it.
One third of all land spices are beetles.
Aardvarks are the only ant-eaters with teeth.
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
Over 50% of a elephants diet becomes waste.
Camels can survive in the desert without drinking for almost 3 months.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
Pigs are the only animals other than humans that can get a sun burn.
Cat night vision is 6 times better than human night vision.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
Dogs mouths are 200 times more cleaner then human mouths.
Rats can't vomit - that's why rat poison works.
Jaws is the most common name for Goldfish in the U.K.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The parrots intelligence is comparable to a 5 year old child.
If a wolf gets its leg caught in a trap, it will chew it off.
Lobsters have blue blood.
Moths have white blood.
Another name for putty root is "adam and eve".
The monkey flower, looks like a monkeys face.
Rock Music kills plants.
The United States has never lost a war when donkeys were used.
Hawaii is the only U.S. state that ever had a king.
Up to 1920 Canada was planning on invading the United States.
Dominica has the highest crime rate on earth, more than 1/5 of the population is involved in criminal activities.
Switzerland has the highest number of car thefts per capital.
The Russian embassy in the U.S. has 3.8 million dollars of unpaid parking tickets.
Czechoslovakians consume more Bear per capital then anyone else on earth.
Costa Rica had a army of 400 in World War 2.
Canada's peace keeping force has only 426 less soldiers than the U.S. despite being 1/10 its population.
Germany has a negative population growth.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres.
The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
The Soviet flag was the first one on the moon.
The state of Vermont has produced twice as many presidents as hockey players.
Warren Buffet the 2nd richest man on earth, started out as a Pinball repairman.
The location of the Mars face on Mars matches the location of Stone Henge in England.
Venus's day is longer then its year.
The rotation of the Earth will eventually slow down to match the moon.
Sound doesn't travel in space.
The height of Mount Everest is 8.9 km (5.5 miles).
The height of Mount Olympus on Mars is 25 km (15 miles).
The diameter of the earth is 12 756 km (7 926 miles).
The diameter of Jupiter is 152 800 km (88 700 miles).
The diameter of the sun is 1 390 000 km (865 000 miles).
The average temperature of the sun is 6000 degrees C (11 000 degrees F) .
On new years in Spain they throw a ghoat off a church.
The name Adam is believed to have come from the Assyrian word adamu: "make" or "produce".
In Hebrew Adam means dirt.
The last name in the Toronto phone book is Zzyzzer.
Hot water will turn into ice faster then cold water. Read More
Assuming current population growths remain constant: by the year 3550 the total human population will have the same mass as the earth; assuming the average person is 60 kg (132 pounds).
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
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!
Slugs have 4 noses!
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
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!
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. - A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Polar bears are left handed.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.- Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
It takes 42 muscles in your face to frown. It only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and smack someone upside the head.
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