100's of amazing facts
you probably didn't know
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just
one night!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its
head cut off - it dies from starvation!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace
the old teeth!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a
group of geese in the air is a skein!
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per
day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's
there, though!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on
average!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit
a 4 foot tall child inside!
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th
of a second!
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can
be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime
has one less groove!
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping
people awake in the mornings!
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge
at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it
red or neon yellow!
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves
from blowing sand!
Cat urine glows under a black-light!
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right
or left handed... or is that paws?!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming
1/10 of a calorie!
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take
31,688 years to reach one trillion!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more
than 7 times in half!
Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like
humans use fingerprints!
One ragweed plant can release as many as one
billion grains of pollen!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into
windows!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed
from using products made for right handed people!
Porcupines float in water!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates
hands when typing!
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling,
not eating) can help you lose weight!
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
The average life span of a major league baseball
is 5-7 pitches!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
tons!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13
seconds!
The most used letter in the English alphabet
is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add
up to seven!
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head
enables it to see all four feet at all times!
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill
about 2,200 people!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps
over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green
algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans
10 to 1!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the
Empire State Building!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid
of the dark!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except
for the windmills in Ireland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get
to be an adult, you only have 206!
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two
Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and
don't die throughout the movie.
142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which
always appear in the same order but rotated around when multiplied
by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571
142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142
A dragonfly has a lifespan of twenty-four hours.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat
and cannot find a mate.
A flush toilet exists that dates back to 2000
BC.
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal
speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th
of a second.
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.
A species of earthworm in Australia grows up
to 10 feet in length.
A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon.
A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend
to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla"
it looks like they are actually talking.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came
before the egg.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al
Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts
in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it
came -- head to toe.
Albert Brooks's real name is Albert Einstein.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone,
never phoned
his wife or his mother. They were both deaf.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
All of the officers in the Confederate army were
given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with
them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the
book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking
their cups.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows
to
mourn the deaths of their cats.
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify
themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become
the modern military salute.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before
they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages
them.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't
appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
"Barbie's" full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size:
39-23-33.
Bela Lugosi died during the filming of "PLAN
9 FROM OUTER SPACE". Director Edward D. Wood Jr. used a taller
relative who held a cape in front of his face so the audience
wouldn't know the difference so he could complete filming.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack
box.
Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially
for Ronald Reagan.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
Bob May played the Robot on "Lost In Space"
(1965-6
and Dick Tufeld was the voice.
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal
television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
Boys who have unusual first names are more likely
to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls
don't seem to have this problem.
Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other
way around.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had
to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite
of the norm.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on
your
back, you can't sink in quicksand.
Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on "Scooby-Doo."
Cat urine glows under a black light.
Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while
dogs only have about ten.
Cheryl Ladd (of Charlie's Angels fame) played
the voice, both talking and singing, of Josie in the 70s Saturday
morning cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats."
Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was
created in California by Chinese immigrants.
Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan. Mitsubishi
built the Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies
now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their
unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses
down -- hence the statement "to get fired."
Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a
day.
Compact discs read from the inside to the outside
edge, the reverse of how a record works.
Crickets hear through their knees.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set
the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth, and whose shame
created the statement for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together.
They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the
fraternity house walls with drawings of his characters.
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly
less when the moon is directly overhead.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small
red car can be seen in the distance.
During World War II, W.C. Fields kept US $50,000
in Germany 'in case the little bastard wins'.
Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon,
who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled
Aron; in honor of his brother.
Every photograph of an American atomic bomb
detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have
a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter.
Evian (the bottled water) spelled backwards
is "naive."
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history
not to have a full moon.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due
to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
Former US President Ulysses S. Grant had the boyhood
nickname 'Useless'.
Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse
was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was
his face and a fourth person did the breathing.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin
to shrink in size.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously
of all crimes of treason.
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name
that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first
name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is
Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on the
radio newscast about the wreck. The Professor's real name was
Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's
maiden name was Wentworth.
Halloween took place in the town of Haddonfield,
Illinois but almost all the cars in the film had California license
plates.
Hara kiri is an impolite way of saying the Japanese
word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting."
Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed
by Bayer.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the
machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Hindu men believe(d) it to be unluckily to marry
a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marrying a tree first.
The tree ( his third wife ) was then burnt, freeing him to marry
again.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
Human hair and fingernails do not continue to
grow after death.
Hummingbirds can't walk.
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.
If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while
performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
If the population of the Earth continued to
increase at its present rate indefinitely, by 3530 A.D. the total
mass of human flesh and blood would equal the mass of the Earth.
By 6826 A.D. it would equal the mass of the known universe.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room,
you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you will die of
oxygen deprivation.
If you can see a rainbow you must have your back
to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach
will explode.
If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with
any number you will always find the original number in the result!
If you pause "Saturday Night Fever"
at the "How Deep Is Your Love" rehearsal scene, you will
see the camera crew reflected in the dance hall mirror.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne,
it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all have two
penises.
In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly'
potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of
the nearest man.
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play
it again, Sam." Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary,
my dear Watson." Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up,
Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott."
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed
to speak.
In most watch advertisements the time displayed
on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of
the watch (and make it look like it's smiling.)
In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic
for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'
In the Andes, time is often measured by how long
it takes to smoke a cigarette.
In the film 'Star Trek : First Contact', when
Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New
Guinea are clearly visible .. but New Zealand is missing.
It is a criminal offence to drive around in a
dirty car in Russia.
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.
It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy,
if your name is Mary.
It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the
sun to earth.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because
there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will
cause a breath-alyzer to read 0.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had
been over mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that
made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that
it floated, and it has floated ever since.
Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in
the French resistance during World War II.
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery
Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his
right hand.
Jean-Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original
"PREDATOR" in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.
Jet lag was once called boat lag, back before
jets existed.
John Larroquette of "Night Court" and
"The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and
was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from
a warehouse and was found in a theatre.
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life
of Abraham Lincoln's son.
June Foray, the voice of Talking Tina from the
classic Twilight Zone episode "Living Doll", was also
the voice of Rocky the talking squirrel from "Rocky &
Bullwinkle".
Kathleen Turner was the voice of Jessica Rabbit,
and Amy Irving was her singing voice.
King Kong is the only movie to have its sequel
(Son of Kong) released the same year (1933).
Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you
were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. His reply ' if you
were my wife, I would drink it!'
Leonardo De Vinci invented the scissors.
Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's
son.
Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith's
(of the Monkees) mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.
Lizzie Borden was acquitted.
Look at the number four on a clock face that
uses Roman numerals. If the clock is made correctly then the Roman
numeral four is wrong. The standard and correct way to write the
Roman numeral four is "IV," but the traditional way
to show it on a clock face is "IIII." Legend has it
that a clock was made for a British king. When he saw the clock
he mis- informedly corrected the clock maker who re-did the clock
face to show a "IIII" instead of an "IV" thus
not risking offending the king. Other clock makers followed suit
so as not to embarrass the king. Now it is the traditional way
to make clocks.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off
by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild
Kingdom."
Lynyrd Skynard was the name of the gym teacher
of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them,
"You boys ain't never gonna amount to nothin'."
Melanie Griffith's mother is actress Tippi Hendren,
best known for her lead role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
Men leave their hotel rooms cleaner than women
do.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually
than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have
a "Friday the 13th."
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital
without a McDonalds.
More money is printed daily for the Monopoly
game than by the U.S. Treasury.
More people are killed each year from bees than
from snakes.
Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of
F.
Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
Ninety eight per cent of the weight of water
is made up from oxygen.
No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies
and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals
formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However
there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being
frozen. These frogs make special proteins, which prevent the formation
of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large),
so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature
is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon
known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just
touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and
they die.
No matter its size or thickness, no piece of
paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty
years old or older.
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges,
three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her
maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier
a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell
the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic
which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty
April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl
in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in
the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand
corner.
On the new one hundred dollar bill the time on
the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today
is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers
-- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as
is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing
up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark
to explode.
Other than humans, black lemurs are the only
primates that have blue eyes.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth,
but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada's Centennial Baby,
being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's
independence.
Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.
Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."
Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
Polar bear fur is not white, it's clear.
Race car is a palindrome.
Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians,
rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians
because Sappho was from Lesbos.)
Revolvers cannot be silenced, due to all the
noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the
barrel.
Rhythm and "syzygy" are the longest
English words without vowels.
Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains
the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point
military academy without a single demerit.
Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend
their necks.
Russians generally answer the phone by saying,
'I'm listening.'
S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship"
or "Save Our Souls" -- It was chosen by an 1908 international
conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy
to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S =
dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash.
Samuel Clemens's pseudonym "Mark Twain"
was the nickname of a riverboat pilot about whom Clemens wrote
a needless nasty satirical piece. Apparently, Clemens felt guilty
later and adopted the nom de plume as some sort of expiation.
The phrase "mark twain" from which the river pilot got
his name does not mean two fathoms (twelve feet.)
Sharon Stone was the first "Star Search"
spokes model.
Smithee is a pseudonym that filmmakers use when
they don't want their names to appear in the credits.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
Soda water does not contain soda.
Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators
to keep their food from freezing.
Soweto in South Africa was derived from SOuth
WEst TOwnship.
Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.'
Speak of the Devil is short for "Speak of
the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you
spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention and he would
appear.
St. Bernards, famous for their role as alpine
rescue dogs, do NOT wear casks of brandy around their necks.
Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback,
is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job.
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening
to heavy metal music.
The "Grinch" singer and voice of Tony
the Tiger is a man named Thurl Ravenscroft.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows
a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant
in humans.
The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off
in TV history. It was spun-off from the Danny Thomas Show.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average scalp has 100,000 hairs. Redheads
have the least at 80,000; brown and black haired persons have
about 100,000; and blondes have the most at 120,000. (That is
more than a thousand hairs in each square inch!)
The band "Duran Duran" got their name
from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella."
The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because
the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive
guano (bat droppings.)
The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world
where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving
under an airplane.
The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom
rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows
why.
The car in the foreground on the back of a $10
bill is a 1925 Huptmobile.
The car manufacturer Henry Ford was awarded Hitler's
Supreme Order of the German Eagle.
The childrens' nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-Round-The-Rosies'
actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million
people in the fourteenth-century.
The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two
women living under one roof'.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the
match.
The correct response to the Irish greeting,
"Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of
the day to yourself."
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only
six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The Declaration of Independence was written on
hemp paper.
The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home,
conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were
illegal in Virginia.
The dunce cap of schoolhouse fame originates
from a paper cone that was placed on the heads of accused witches
during the Middle Ages. When Joan of Arc was martyred, she was
wearing one of them.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that
one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections
are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually
intended to represent the first letter ("shin," pronounced
"sheen") of the word "shalom." As a small
boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction
and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "Star
Trek" lore.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually
indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could
be confused at a crime scene.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
The first inter-racial kiss on TV was in an original
"STAR TREK" episode entitled "Plato's Stepchildren".
The kiss was between Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner.
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.
The first safety razor was not actually invented
by King Gillette himself but by a man named William Nickerson who
was Kings partner. They believed that the label bearing Nickersons
name would be bad for business, plus it was Kings idea anyway.
The first time the word "hell" was
spoken on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled
"City on the Edge of Forever". The exact quote was "...let's
get the hell out of here...", spoken by William Shatner.
The first toilet ever seen on television was
on "Leave It To Beaver".
The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 116 years.
The largest eggs in the world are laid by a
shark.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that
helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My
Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers,
Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP
in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself,
his glasses, or his clothing.
The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns
(called 'mantles') are radioactive--so much so that they will set
of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting
in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending
in Bishop, California.
The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally
intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original
"Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
The microwave was invented after a researcher
walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz"
was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing
cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
The name of the Vulcan's heaven is Sha Ka Ree,
this is a play on the name Sean Connery who was considered for
the part of Sarek, Spock's father.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter
Pan."
The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru:
See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon
Bonaparte.
The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in
the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after
his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.
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.
The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII.
The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.
The only member of the band ZZ Top without a
beard has the last name Beard.
The original copy of the Declaration of Independence
is lost. The copy in Washington D.C. is what is referred to as
a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy of a document
and is not the same as a laser produced hologram.
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 pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated
more than 500 years before the house cat.
The Phillips-head screwdriver was invented in
Oregon.
The phrase ' The 3 R's ' ( standing for 'reading,
writing and arithmetic' ) was created by Sir William Curtis, who
was illiterate.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived
from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your
wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads
enables it to see all four feet at all times.
The province of Alberta in Canada has been completely
free of rats since 1905.
The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
The 'Screwdriver' was invented by oilmen, who
used the tool to stir the drink.
The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is
'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners
in the state prison in Concord.
The spaceship 'Valley Forge' from "Silent
Running" (1971) actually got it's name from the location
used to film some of its interiors; a decommissioned aircraft carrier
named the U.S.S. Valley Forge.
The term "devil's advocate" comes from
the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should be
sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative
view.
The term "Mayday" is used for signaling
for help. It comes from the French term "M'aidez" which
is pronounced "MayDay" and means, "Help Me."
The turkey was wrongly named after what was
thought to be it's country of origin.
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives
in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
The United States government keeps its supply
of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY.
There are four cars and eleven light posts on
the back of a ten-dollar bill.
There are more beetles than any other kind of
creature in the world.
There are more nutrients in the cornflake package
itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout
the world every year!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
There are only three cities that are named exactly
after the state they are located in: Maine, ME; New York, NY;
and Wyoming, WY.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
There is a town in Texas called 'Ding Dong.'
There is about 200 times more gold in the world’s
oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an
apple in the Bible.
There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island,
Massachusetts until 1989.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal
ads for dating are already married.
To "testify" was based on men in the
Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their
testicles.
Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian
sarcophagi's noses off would forestall curses.
Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm.
Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered
sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates
which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the
south with even numbers.
Until 1967, LSD was legal in California.
Video Killed the Radio Star was the very first
video ever played on MTV.
Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey
Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.
Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance
to the famous Disney logo.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother
and sister.
When opossums are playing opossum, they are
not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept
warm by burning his own paintings.
While at Havard University, Edward Kennedy was
suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam.
While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra
sometimes wore a fake beard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan carries
the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road
anywhere.
40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
13. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
29. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
30. The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
31. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
32. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
33. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
34. "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
35. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
36. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
37. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
39. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
40. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines .
41. Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.
42. Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
43. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
44. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
45. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka .
46. There are more chickens than people in the world.
47. It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.
48. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
49. The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is "s ub c ont in ent al".
50. There are more telephones than people in Washington , D.C.
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