 A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks. Otherwise it would digest itself. "101 Dalmations" and "Peter Pan" are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die during the movie. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed on a keyboard with only the left hand. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly. Reindeer like to eat bananas. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together." Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time. It corresponds to 1/100 of a second. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. First the frog throws up its stomach so the stomach is dangling out of its mount. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents. Then the frog swallows its stomach back down again. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. There are more chickens than people in the world. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. Almonds are a member of the peach family. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life". A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". Almonds are members of the peach family. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. Ingrown toenails are hereditary. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural. The longest place-name still in use is: Traumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronu kupokaiwenakitn atahu, a New Zealand hill. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, 'L.A." An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children. There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": The, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball. The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand. To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic." Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead." 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. Apples are are more efficient than caffeine at waking you up in the morning. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart! Only 7% of the population are lefties. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines. The toothbrush was invented in 1498. The average housefly lives for one month. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute. Eating breakfast cereals like "Fruity Pebbles" and "Cap'n Crunch All Berries" will cause your stools to come out green. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day. About 20% of all adults in the US have had a cockroach that crawled into their inner ear canal. (They enter while you sleep!) The reason ostriches stick their heads in the sand is to search for water. The only animals that can see behind them without turning their heads are the rabbit and parrot. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie". Among the music catalogs that Michael Jackson owns the rights to is the "South Carolina State Anthem". If all the veins in your body were laid end-to-end, you'd be dead. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk. Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. (They are reused in vein transplant surgery) Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. (They were seventh cousins) If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green. Did you miss 11/19/1999? It was an All-Odd Day (all the date digits are odd). This is the last one anyone alive today will ever see, for the next one won't occur until 1/1/3111! Now, for those of you who are All-Even Day fans, the next one is just a few months away, 2/2/2000. And it's a good thing, as you've been waiting a really long time since the last All-Even Day, 8/28/888! The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Coca Cola was originally green. Every day more money is printed for monopoly than for the US Treasury. The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters. Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better than men. The city with the most Roll Royces per capita is Hong Kong. The percentage of Africa that is wilderness is 28%; the percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%. The average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour is 61,000. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. The youngest Pope was 11 years old. First novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments. 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. Multiply 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 and the result is 12,345,678,987,654,321. The only two people who signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th were 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. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it is kissing the conveyor belt. 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 Interstate system was designed so that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. The Interstate's official name is The National Defense Highway System. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a SuperBowl. The nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosey" is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey...). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell ("pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down"). If a statue in the park is of a person who is on a horse that has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. ~ that has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. ~ that has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. What occurs more often in December than any other month? Conception. What separates "60 Minutes" on CBS from every other TV show? No theme song. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? Their birthplace. What is the most popular name that boat owners name their boats? "Obsession." If you were to spell out consecutive 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 were invented by women. What is the only food that doesn't spoil? Honey. On what day are there more collect calls made than any other day? Fathers Day. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) is most ironic? He was allergic to carrots. 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. That's where the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight" came from. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable." 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. When it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. The term "The whole nine yards" came from W.W.II 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 nine yards." 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. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. The name Jeep came from an abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that is burns. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver." Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. 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 are 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. 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. Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. 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" or what we know today as the "honeymoon." In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's," 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. Money isn't made out of paper. It's made out of cotton. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water. A rat can last longer without water than a camel. You can drop a rat 50 feet, and it will land unharmed. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top. A male Emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away. Some insects can live up to a year without their heads. Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband deprives her of coffee. 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 burned, freeing him to marry again. A fierce gust of wind blew 45-year-old Vittorio Luis's car into a river near Naples, Italy, in 1983. He managed to break a window, climb out and swim to shore -- where a tree blew over and killed him. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why. In Minnesota it is against the law to hang male and female underwear next to each other on a clothesline. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sale of Happy Meals. Every person has a unique tongue print. The 'spot' on 7UP [the logo] comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino. Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their jaws into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance. A whale's penis is called a dork. Albert Einstein couldn't speak fluently until he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son. When he was young and poor, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings. Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps. Most lipstick contains fish scales. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's belly from below, causing the shark to explode. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. Dr. Seuss pronounced Seuss so that it sounded like Sue-ice. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. 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 less expensive. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. Ben and Jerry send the waste from their ice cream manufacturing to local pig farmers to use as feed. The pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. There are no words in English language dictionaries that rhyme with orange, purple, or silver! The number '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 name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. Up until that time, there was no such name recorded. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of the ten-dollar bill. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors....and it took him ten years to paint Mona Lisa's lips. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. Bubble gum contains rubber. 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'. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of coinage possible to not be able to make change for a dollar. Human birth control pills work on gorillas. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'! 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 first product Motorola developed was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the best known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola. Roses MAY Be red, but violets ARE, indeed, violet. Scientists at Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions where traced to a microwave oven in the building. If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, it is impossible to sink in quicksand. Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo. Cat urine glows under a black light. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat and digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying! An elephant can smell water three miles away. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson." An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats. Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn before taking up the tasks of the day. Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings! Back in medieval times, everyone was very mistrustful of each other. Anybody and everybody was a potential enemy. When two people approached each other they would hold their hands out to show the stranger they were not carrying a weapon. This display of outstretched hands evolved into the modern gesture we know as the handshake. Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. 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. 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. 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. 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." The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. 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 mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" 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. The man who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.  The way back home. |