Fun Facts & Trivia
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1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

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

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

5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.

10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

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

13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).

14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he dosn't wear pants.

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

16. 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 smaller, 'lower case' letters.

17. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time ... hence, multi-tasking was
invented.

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

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

20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!

21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

25. 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.

26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

27. 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 (sign of a true civilized society?)

28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin
with. It's the same with apples!

30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

32. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it.

 HOW CAN YOU LIVE ON WITHOUT KNOWING THESE THINGS?

Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was
invented. It was ruled "Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden"...and
thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
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The first couple to be shown in bed together on
prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
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Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than
the US Treasury.
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Men can read smaller print than women can; women
can hear better.
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Coca-Cola was originally green.
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It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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The State with the highest percentage of people who
walk to work: Alaska
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The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
(now get this...)
The percentage of North America that is wilderness:
38%
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The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of
eleven: $6,400
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The average number of people airborne over the US
any given hour: 61,000
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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in
their hair.
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The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom
Sawyer.
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The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile
National Monuments.
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a
great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
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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 received in battle. If the horse has all four legs
on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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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.
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Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of
what?
A. Their birthplace
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Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the
most popular boat name requested?
A. Obsession
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Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would
you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
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Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes,
windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
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Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey
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Q. Which day are there more collect calls than any
other day of the year?
A. Father's Day
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In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on
bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress
tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the
phrase........."goodnight, sleep tight."
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It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years
ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would
supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead
is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based,
this period was called the honey month . which we know today as
the
honeymoon.
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In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and
quarts... So in old England, when customers got unruly, the
bartender
would yell at them "Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down."
It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"
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Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a
whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their ceramic cups.
When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some
service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this
practice.
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In George Washington's days, there were no cameras.  One's image was
 either sculpted or painted. Some paintings of George Washington showed
 him standing behind a desk with one arm behind his back while others
 showed both legs and both arms. Prices charged by painters were not
 based on how many people were to be painted, but by how many limbs were to be
 painted. Arms and legs are "limbs," therefore painting them would cost the
 buyer more Hence the expression, "Okay, but it'll cost you an arm and a leg."

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 As incredible as it sounds, men and women took baths only twice a
 year! (May and October) Women kept their hair covered, while men
 shaved their heads (because of lice and bugs) and wore wigs. Wealthy
 men could afford good wigs made from wool. The wigs couldn't be washed, so
 to clean them they could carve out a loaf of bread, put the wig in the
 shell, and bake it for 30 minutes. The heat would make the wig big and
 fluffy. Hence the term "big wig." Today we often use the term "here comes the
 Big Wig" because someone appears to be or is powerful and wealthy.

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 In the late 1700s, many houses consisted of a large room with only
 one chair. Commonly, a long wide board was folded down from the wall
 and used for dining. The "head of the household" always sat in the chair
 while everyone else ate sitting on the floor. Once in a while, a guest (who
 was almost always a man) would be invited to sit in this chair during a
 meal. To sit in the chair meant you were important and in charge. Sitting in
 the chair, one was called the "chairman."  Today in business we use the
 expression or title "Chairman" or "Chairman of the Board."

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 Needless to say, personal hygiene left much room for improvement.
 As a result, many women and men had developed acne scars by adulthood.
 The women would spread bee's wax over their facial skin to smooth out
 their complexions. When they were speaking to each other, if a woman began
 to stare at another woman's face she was told "mind your own bee's
 wax."  Should the woman smile, the wax would crack, hence the term "crack a
 smile." Also, when they sat too close to the fire, the wax would melt and
 therefore the expression "losing face."

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 Ladies wore corsets which would lace up in the front. A tightly tied
 lace was worn by a proper and dignified lady as in "straight laced."

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 Common entertainment included playing cards. However, there was a
 tax levied when purchasing playing cards but only applicable to the
 "Ace of Spades." To avoid paying the tax, people would purchase 51 cards
 instead. Yet, since most games require 52 cards, these people were thought  to
 be stupid or dumb because they weren't "playing with a full deck."

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 Early politicians required feedback from the public to determine
 what was considered important to the people.  Since there were no
 telephones, TV's or radios, the politicians sent their assistants to
 local taverns, pubs, and bars who were told to "go sip some ale" and listen
 to people's conversations and political concerns. Many assistants were
 dispatched at different times. "You go sip here" and "You go sip
 there."  The two words "go sip"  were eventually combined when referring to the
 local opinion and, thus we have the term "gossip."

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 At local taverns, pubs, and bars, people drank from pint and quart-sized
 containers. A bar maid's job was to keep an eye on the customers and keep the
 drinks coming. She had to pay close attention and remember who was drinking
 in  "pints" and who was drinking in "quarts," hence the term  "minding your
 "P's and Q's."

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 One more: bet you didn't know this!   In the heyday of sailing ships, all  war ships
 and many freighters carried iron cannons. Those cannons fired round iron
 cannon balls. It was necessary to keep a good supply near the cannon, but how to
 prevent them from rolling about the deck? The best storage method devised was a
 square based pyramid with one ball on top, resting on four resting on nine, which
 rested on sixteen. Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area
 right next to the cannon. There was only one problem...how to prevent the
 bottom layer from sliding or rolling from under the others. The solution was a metal plate
 called a "Monkey" with 16 round indentations. But, if this plate were made of iron,
 the iron balls would quickly rust to it. The solution to the rusting problem was to
 make "Brass Monkeys."  Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much
 more and much faster than iron when chilled. Consequently, when the temperature
 dropped too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron
 cannonballs would come right off the monkey.  Thus, it was quite literally,
 "Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey." (And all this time, you
 thought that was an improper expression, didn't you?)

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You can get 7.5 million toothpicks out of a cord of wood.

It’s estimated that the French eat an average of 200 million frogs each year.

70% of Americans driving on the highway are speeding.

In the National Football League, the home team is required to provide 24 footballs for each game.

Another word for a guitar pick is "plectrum."

The leaf on the Canadian flag has 11 points.

Astronaut John W. Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich aboard the five-hour Gemini 3 flight on March 23, 1965. Consumed by mission mate Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, the contraband sandwich resulted in a Congressional investigation and the first official reprimand of an astronaut.

Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, is the novel that contains the longest sentence in literature. The sentence has 823 words.

Woodrow Wilson allowed sheep to graze on the White House lawn during World War I—their wool helped raise money for the Red Cross.

Pandas in China have been given Viagra to help them mate.

Alaska doesn’t have any counties.

The address of Big Bird’s nest on "Sesame Street" is 123 ½ Sesame Street.

In the English language, no other word has more synonyms than "penis." There are more than 1,500 other words for the male sexual organ, with "copulation" having more than 450 synonyms and "breast" more than 350.

The five most stolen items in drugstores are batteries, cosmetics, film, sunglasses and Preparation H.

Soldiers in the Netherlands are not required to salute officers.

The "left bank" of a river is the left side as you look downstream.

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) created the "X" rating for sexually explicit and excessively violent films on November 1, 1968.

Aristotle, Sir Isaac Newton, Moses and Charles Darwin were all stutterers.

40% of people killed by falling off a horse are drunk.

• Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
  

• The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
  

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

• A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
  

• A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
  

• Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
  

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

• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
  

• Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
  

• Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
  

• If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
  

• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  

• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
  

• TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
  

• If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
  

• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
  

• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
  

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

• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
  

• Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres.
  

• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
  

• No president of the United States was an only child..
  

• Most lipstick contains fish scales!.
  

• Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands!.
  

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

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

• No piece of 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 head"!.
  

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

• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!.
  

• The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur!.
  

• The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
  

• Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!.
  

• A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!.
  

• Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!.
  

• The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!.
  

• Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!.
  

• A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!.
  

• Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!.
  

• A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!.
  

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

• A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!.
  

• Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!.
  

• The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!.
  

• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!.
  

• The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!.
  

• One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!.
  

• The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!.
  

• It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!.
  

• you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!.
  

• Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!.
  

• 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!.
  

• 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem!.
  

• Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!.
  

• The state of Florida is bigger than England!.
  

• It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!.
  

• Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!.
  

• Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!.
  

• 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, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow!.
  

• 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!.
  

• Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!.
  

• A jellyfish is 95 percent water!.
  

• In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!.
  

• The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!.
  

• A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!.
  

• More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!.
  

• The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!.
  

• The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!.
  

• The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!.
  

• Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!.
  

• One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!.
  

• America once issued a 5-cent bill!.
  

• You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow!.
  

• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!.
  

• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, silver, and month!.
  

• Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!.
  

• Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!.
  

• A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow!.
  

• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!.
  

• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!.
  

• Here are some interesting numbers to look at! (*1997) 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S! 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S! 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways! 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S! 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year!.
  

• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!.
  

• The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!.
  

• In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!.
  

• 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!.
  

• You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!.
  

• 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!.
  

• What occurs more often in December than any other month?
  -- Conception.
  

• Only 14% of Americans say they've done this with the opposite sex. What is it?
  -- Skinny dipping.
  

• What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS, from every other TV show?
  -- No theme song/music.
  

• Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
  -- Their birthplace. This is propinquity.
  

• Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
  -- Obsession
  

• More women do this in the bathroom than men.
  -- Wash their hands. Women ~ 80% Men ~ 55%
  

• What do 100% of all lottery winners do?
  -- Gain weight.
  

• In a recent survey, Americans revealed that this was their favorite smell.
  -- Banana
  

• If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
  -- One thousand
  

• What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
  -- All invented by women.
  

• Married men revealed that they do this twice as often as single men.
  -- Change their underwear.
  

• This is the only food that doesn't spoil.
  -- Honey
  

• There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year.
  -- Father's Day
  

• What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is most ironic?
  -- He was allergic to carrots.
  

• 40% of all people who come to a party in your home do this?
  -- Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
  

• 3.9% of all women surveyed say they never do this.
  -- Wear underwear.
  

• What common everyday occurrence is composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen and 9% dioxide?
  -- The result of passing "wind," shall we say...
  

• About 1/3 of all Americans say they do this while sitting?
  -- Flush the toilet.
  

• What person, not a "Seinfeld" regular cast member, is featured on every episode of "Seinfeld"?
  -- Superman, either by name or pictures on Jerry's refrigerator.
  

• 85% of the guys who die while having sex are doing this.
  -- Cheating on their wives.
  

• Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
  

• Pearls melt in vinegar.
  

• 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.
  

• The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: MARLBORO, COCA-COLA, and BUDWEISER, in that order.
  

• It's possible to lead a cow upstairs. . .but not downstairs.
  

• 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.
  

• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
  

• Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
  

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

• Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
  

• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
  

• 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)
  

• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David Clubs - Alexander the Great Hearts - Charlemagne Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
  

• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
  

• 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.
  

• Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like its kissing the conveyor belt.
  

• An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  

• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
  

• The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
  

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

• 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 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.
  

• The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" movie was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
  

• If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
  

• Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
  

• Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president AL Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
  

• The fingerprints of Koala Bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
  

• Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
  

• James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott ( Scotty) on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger on his right hand lost it on D-Day).
  

• 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.
  
  There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
  

• All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
  

• A sick pig rarely curls it's tail.
  

• A woodpeckers tongue is long enough to wrap it around his head 2 times.
  

• Ants prefer not to walk through baby powder.
  

• Snakes can't blink.
  

• A Rat can tread water for 3 days.
  

• A Snail takes 33 hours to crawl 1 mile.
  

• The bigger the naval, the sweeter the orange.
  

• The dot over the lower case i is called a Tittle.
  

• In an average lifetime the human heart circulates 55 million gallons of blood.
  

• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
  

• It is illegal in the state of Kentucky to marry your wife's grandmother.
  

• If a frog's mouth is held open too long the frog will suffocate.
  

• Kokomo Indiana is the home of canned tomato juice.
  

• Peanuts are used in the manufacture of dynamite.
  

• In an average lifetime the average American receives 31 prank phone calls.
  

• Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
  

• At the first Thanksgiving dinner Lobster was one of the main entrees.
  

• No word in the English Language rhymes with month.
  

• Worcestershire Sauce is basically an Anchovy Ketchup.
  

• A duck's quack does not echo.
  

• The ashes of an average cremated person weighs 9 lbs.
  

• The signs around HTML Tags are called Angle Braces.
  

• Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
  

• Oak trees do not have acorns until they are 50 years or older.
  

• Shirley Temple always had 56 curls in her hair.
  

• Corduroy comes from the French, meaning cloth of the king.
  

• The dial tone of a normal phone is in the key of F.
  

• Easter Sunday is always the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 21.
  

• An office chair with wheels travels 8 miles a year.
  

• Howdy Doody has exactly 48 freckles on his face.
  

• Bubble Gum contains rubber.
  

• 33 million Hershey Kisses are made each day.
  

• Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
  

• An animal epidemic is called a epizootic.
  

• If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
  

• Camel's milk does not curdle.
  

• A cat has 4 rows of whiskers.
  

• In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer name is Yensid which is Disney backwards.
  

• Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
  

• The space between the 2 front teeth is called a diastima.
  

• Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
  

• A group of owls is called a parliament.
  

• The geographical center of North America is Rugby North Dakota.
  

• Dirty Harry's badge # is 2211.
  

• The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.
  

• Giraffes have no vocal chords.
  

• The dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
  

• Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
  

• Professional ballerinas use about 12 pair of toe shoes per week.
  

• Race car is a palindrone.
  

• The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as philtrums.
  

• Ralph Kramden made $62.00 a week.
  

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Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the
mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

 

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

 

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood
plasma

 

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

 

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

 

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or
older.

 

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

 

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache

 

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first
flight.

 

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from
each salad served in first-class.

 

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

 

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

 

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

 

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

 

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

 

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

 

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the
Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

 

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen
wearing them in public.

 

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

 

Pearls melt in vinegar.

 

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
already married.

 

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and
Budweiser, in that order.

 

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

 

A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

 

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when
the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground
floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

 

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains
all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton.

Turtles can breathe through their butts

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