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In Massachusetts, it is forbidden to put tomatoes in clam chowder.
In Massachusetts, it is unlawful to deliver diapers on Sunday, regardless of emergencies.
In Memphis, Tennessee it is illegal for a woman to drive by herself. A man must walk or run in front of the vehicle, waving a red flag to warn approaching pedestrians and motorists.
In Miami, it's illegal for men to be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown.
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In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
In most American states, a wedding ring is exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy estate. This means that a wedding ring cannot be seized by creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.
In most comic strips and magazine advertisments, the time on the clock is 10:10.
In most watch advertisements the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
In Nags Headm North Carolina you can be fined for singing out of tune for more than ninety seconds.
In Nevada it is illegal to ride a camel on the highway.
In New Hampshire it is illegal to inhale bus fumes with the intent of inducing euphoria.
In New Jersey it is illegal to delay or detain a homing pigeon.
In New York City it is illegal for a man to give 'The Standard Lear' to a woman. Violators are forced to wear horse blinders.
In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans.
In Newport, Rhode Island it is illegal to smoke from a pipe after sunset.
In Nicholas County, W. Va., no member of the clergy is allowed to tell jokes or humorous stories from the pulpit during a church service.
In Norfolk, Virginia, a woman can't go out without wearing a corset. (There was a civil-service jobfor men onlycalled a corset inspector). However, in Merryville, Missouri, women are prohibited from wearing corsets because "the privilege of admiring the curvaceous, unencumbered body of a young woman should not be denied to the normal, red-blooded American male."
In North America, the breed of dog called the Doberman Pinscher is spelled with one "n". But in Europe where it originated, it's spelled with 2. The man who bred for the Doberman spelled his last name (Dobermann) with 2 'n's as well.
In North Andover, Massachusetts citizens are prohibitied from carrying 'space guns.'
In North Caroline it is illegal to make love on the floor of a hotel room between two double beds.
In North Dakota it is illegal to keep an elk in a sandbox in your backyard.
In NYC, "it is disorderly conduct for one man to greet another on the street by placing the end of his thumb against the tip of his nose and wiggling the extended fingers of that hand."
In Oblong, Illinois, it's punishable by law to make love while hunting or fishing on your wedding day.
In October 1959 Elizabeth Taylor became the first Hollywood star to receive $1 million for a single picture. (for Cleopatra)
In ohio it is illegal to ride on the roof of a taxi cab
In ohio it is illegal to run out of gas.
In Ohio women are forbidden from wearing patent leather shoes, lest men see reflections of their underwear
In Ohio, if you ignore an orator on Decoration day to such an extent as to publicly play croquet or pitch horseshoes within one mile of the speaker's stand, you can be fined $25.00.
In Oklahoma, people who make "ugly faces" at dogs may be fined and/or jailed.
In one of the central intersections of the resort town of Pompeii destroyed in A.D. 79 by Mt. Vesuvius is a replica of the male genitalia, imbedded in and made of cobblestones. The image is approximately three feet wide by three feet long, and points the way to a house of prostitution. The walls of the house are still decorated with picture of the various specialties of the ladies employed there.
In Oregon anyone with a bad reputation is prohibited from distributing malt beverages.
In Paulding, Ohio an officer of the law may bite a dog to quiet him.
In Pennsylvania: "Any motorist who sights a team of horses coming toward him must pull well off the road, cover his car with a blanket or canvas that blends with the countryside, and let the horses pass. If the horses appear skittish, the motorist must take his car apart piece by piece, and hide it under the nearest bushes."
In playing poker, there is one chance in 500 of drawing a flush.
In Pocatello, Idaho, a law passed in 1912 provided that "The carrying of concealed weapons is forbidden, unless same are exhibited to public view."
In Providence, Rhode Island it is illegal to sell toothpaste and a toothbrush to the same customer on a Sunday.
In Radford, VA you are not allowed to spit, loogie, puke or urinate on the streets.
In Reno, Nevada staging a marathon dance is illegal, although posting a notice on a fire hydrant about illegal dance marathons is not.
In Richmond, Virginia it is illegal to flip a coin in any eating establishment to determine who buys a cup of coffee.
In Rochester, Michigan, anyone bathing in public must have his or her bathing suit inspected by a police officer.
In rural areas, there are more insects in 1 square mile than there are humans on earth
In Salem, Massachesetts sleeping in the nude in a rented room is forbidden, even for married couples.
In Saratoga, Florida it is illegal to sing while wearing a bathing suit.
In Scituate, Rhode Island it is illegal to keep a flock of chickens in your motorhome if you live in a trailer park.
In Scotland, Irn-Bru is a soft drink that is more popular than Coca-Cola. When McDonalds opened in Glasgow and did not sell Irn-Bru, it was considered an insult, and the restaurant was subsequently boycotted.
In Seattle, Washington, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon that is over six feet in length.
In seventy-five years the human heart pumps 3,122,000,000 gallons of blood, enough to fill in oil tanker over 46 times!
In Shakespeare, Rosalind, the heroine of "As You Like It", has more lines than any of Shakespeare's female characters. Cleopatra comes in second with 670 lines and third place belongs to Imogen ("Cymbeline"), with 591 lines.
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.
In Siberia, in 1994, a container full of marijuana was discovered in the 2,000-year-old grave of a Scythian princess and priestess, among the many other articles buried with her.
In some chuch in South Carolina, every man must bring a rifle to church on Sunday to ward off Indian attacks.
In some town in South Carolina, it is perfectly legal for a man to beat his wife. But only if its on the courthouse steps on Sunday.
In South Carolina you can be fined for not denouncing "the evils of intemperance" on the fourth Friday of every October.
In South Dakota it is illegal to try to convince a pacifist to renounce his beliefs by threatening to arm-wrestle him.
In South Korea, Green Giant canned sweet corn is advertised as a topping for ice cream.
In space, astronauts are unable to cry, tears can't flow down, because of the lack of gravity.
In Spanish, the word "hombre" means: 'shoulder', 'man', and 'hat' all at the same time.
In Spit Bergen, Norway at one time of the year the sun shines continuously for three and a half months.
In Springfield, door to door salesman are prohibited from selling their goods while standing in the middle of the road, screaming at passing vehicles.
In Staten Island, New York it is illegal for a father to call his son a 'faggot' or 'queer' in an effort to curb 'girlie' behavior.
In Sterling, Colorado, it is unlawful to allow a pet cat to run loose without a taillight.
In Sumatra, workers on coffee plantations gather the world's most expensive coffee by following a gourmet marsupial who consumes only the choicest coffee beans. By picking through what he excretes, they obtain the world's most expensive coffee -'Kopi Luwak', which sells for over $100 per pound.
In Sweden, when leaving someone's home, wait until you get to the doorway to step outside before putting on your coat. To do so earlier suggests you are eager to leave.
In Tennessee it is illegal to use a lasso to catch fish.
In Tennessee, it is illegal to shoot any game other than whales from a moving automobile.
In terms of area, Juneau, Alaska, is the largest city in the United States, yet it can only be reached by boat or plane.
In Texas any artificial constructed underwater barrier reefs must come with an instruction booklet.
In Texas criminals are required to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed.
In Thailand, the left hand is considered unclean, so you should not eat with it. Also, pointing with one finger is considered rude and is only done when pointing to objects or animals, never humans.
In the "Princess Diaries" when the main character is talking to her friend while walking up and down a bench, she falls which portrays her clumsey character. That wasn't on purpose, though. It was raining and the bench was very slippery and she fell for real. If you watch that scene, it will make perfect sense consdering the way they were laughing and how the princess told her friend to keep talking. The director liked it, so he kept it.
In the 14th century, the Arabs started to cultivate coffee plants. The first commercially grown and harvested coffee originated in the Arabian Peninsula near the port of Mocha.
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family's pot filled with coffee.
In the 1700s, European women achieved a pale complexion by eating "Arsenic Complexion Wafers" actually made with the poison.
In the 17th century, no citizen of Japan was allowed to leave the country on penalty of death.
In the 17th century, the number pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion.
In the 1800s, the Chinese believed that strangling a man was less sever a punishment than beheading because the body would not be permanently disfigured.
In the 1870s, William Russell Frisbie opened a bakery called the Frisbie Pie Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut. His lightweight pie tins were embossed with the family name. In the mid-1940s, students at Yale University tossed the empty pie tins as a game.
In the 1905 football season, 18 men were killed in college games in the United States, and 159 more were permanently injured.
In the 1960's, the US spent millions developing a zero gravity pen for use in space
In the 19th century, craftsmen who made hats were known to be excitable and irrational, as well as to tremble with palsy and mix up their words. Such behavior gave rise to the familiar expression "mad as a hatter". The disorder, called hatter's shakes, was caused by chronic mercury poisoning from the solution used to treat the felt. Attacking the central nervous system, the toxin led to behavioral symptoms.
In the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, if a man was not married by age 30, he would not be allowed to vote or watch athletic events involving nude young men.
In the Andes, time is sometimes measured by how long it takes to chew a quid of coca leaf.
In the building trade a slate measuring 24 by 12 inches is called a
In the city of Carmel, where Clint Eastwood grew up, they dont have postmen, coz they dont have street numbers. Ppl go to the post office to collect their mail.
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
In the early days of modern theater, artificial lighting was produced by throwing pollen grains of the club moss which is highly flammable when placed on a hot surface onto a hot shovel.
In the early stages of development, and pig's embroyo is similar to that of a human's.
In the England it is illegal to sell most goods on a sunday, (this law is mostly ignored), it is however legal to sell a carrot. It is also legal to sell it at any price and to give free gifts with it, such as anything else one might want to buy on a sunday!
In the entire state of Maryland, it is illegal to give or recieve oral sex.
In the game "Monopoly," the space on which a player has the greatest statistical chance of landing is Illinois Avenue.
In the great fire of London in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
In the Great Seal of the US the eagle grasps 13 arrows and an olive branch.
In the Holocaust between 5.1 and 6 million of Europe's 10 million Jews were killed. An additional 6 million 'unwanted' people were also executed, including more than half of Poland's educated populace.
In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become one year older on New Year’s Day.
In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
In the last three centuries, 90% of all people living in the Western world have switched from tea to coffee.
In the late 19th century the Supreme Court of the United States legally declarded the tomato a vegetable.
In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.
In the mall, the fat sheriff with the shotgun fires at the spiders. When the ejected casings hit the ground, they make a metallic "chink" noise. Shotgun casings are made of plastic.
In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was believed to be an aphrodisiac.
In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. To wear your heart on your sleeve now means that it is easy for other people to know how you are feeling.
In the movie Casablanca Rick never says "Play it again, Sam." He says: "You played it for her, you can play it for me. Play it!". Ilsa says "Play it, Sam. Play `As Time Goes By"'.
In the Netherlands, in 1634, a collector paid 1,000 pounds of cheese, four oxen, eight pigs, 12 sheep, a bed, and a suit of clothes for a single bulb of the Viceroy tulip.
In the original Star Wars A New Hope when everyone is stuck in the trash compactor and the storm troopers come for C-3PO and R2-D2 the stormtroopers come through the door and one of them hits its head, very funny. They make it look like he did it on purpose by another stormtrooper says "Take care of him" which they added in there guess Lucas kept it as kind of a joke
In the original Wizard of Oz, during the scene in the forest, you can see a body hanging from a tree in the background. This is real. He was an actor that hung himself after he didnt get the part of the Tinman. They cut it out of the later versions, but if you have a movie from before the golden age of film editing, you'll see him.
In the pilot episode of Seinfeld (then called The Seinfeld Chronicles) , Kessler was the last name of the neighbor who would later become known as Kramer.
In the quiet town of Connorsville, Wisconsin, it's illegal for a man to shoot off a gun when his female partner has an orgasm.
In the Simpsons series, Homer has said 3267 "Doh!"
In the Spanish Pyrenees, when a beekeeper dies, each of his bees is splashed with a drop of Black Ink.
In the St. Louis, MO area, the word "hoosier" is used as a slang term for what the rest of the country would describe as "white trash," "rednecks," or "hillbillies".
In the ten years between 1987 and 1997, there was an increase of over 800 million people on the planet.
In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.
In the United States bacteria in foods cause 6.5 million to 33 million cases of human illness and 9,000 deaths annually.
In the United States only 80 miles separate the highest point of land and the lowest point in the lower 48 states. Mount Whitney on the eastern border of Sequoia National Park in California is 14,496 feet high, and a pool called Badwater in Death Valley is 280 feet below sea level.
In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
In the United States, approximately seven billion pounds of chocolate and candy are manufactured each year.
In the United States, more Frisbee discs are sold each year than baseballs, basketballs, and footballs combined.
In the United States, poisoning is the fourth leading cause of death among children.
In the US a pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound or potatoes
In the US, about 127 million adults are overweight or obese; worldwide, 750 million are overweight and 300 million more are obese. In the US, 15% of children in elementary school are overweight; 20% are worldwide.
In the US, Delaware, Virginia and Michigan rank as the top three states for Ritalin use, and most of the prescriptions are for elementary and middle school age children. Doctors in these states prescribe at least 33 grams for every 1,000 residents, 56 percent more than the national average, according to figures compiled by the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency.
In the US, federal law states that children's TV shows may contain only 10 minutes of advertising per hour and on weekends the limit is 10 and one-half minutes.
In The Wizard of Oz the Scarecrow was looking for a brain, the Cowardly Lion was looking for courage, and the Tin Man was looking for a heart.
In the year 1763, there were over 200 coffee shops in Venice.
In the year 1790, there were two firsts in the United States; the first wholesale coffee roasting company, and the first newspaper advertisement featuring coffee.
In the year 498 B.C., in the city of Chung-tu, crime ceased to happen with the naming of a new Minister of Crime. Legend has it that nobody wanted to commit a crime because everyone idolized the new minister, someone by the name of Confucius.
In Tonawanda, New York homeless people may not start a fire in the park unless they intend to cook food.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma the limit on kisses is three minutes (by law).
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, it is against the law to open a soda bottle without the supervision of a licensed engineer.
In Turkey during the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.
In turtles, the colon(intestine) is also used for respiration, as it takes in oxygen. Thats how they stay underwater for so long.
In Utah a husband is responsible for all criminal acts committed by his wife while she is in his presence.
In Utah it is illegal to fish from horseback.
In Utah, birds have the right of way on all highways.
In Vermont it is illegal to paint landscapes in times of war.
In Vermont it is illegal to whistle while underwater.
In Vermont women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth.
In Vulcan, Alberta Canada, the tourist welcome sign is written in both English and Klingon (alien language from “Star Trek”).
In Washington D.C. it is illegal to post a notice in public which calls another person a 'coward' for refusing to accept a challenge to duel.
In Washington, anyone under the age of 18 must have parental permission to throw a tear gas canister.
In Waterloo, Nebraska it is unlawful for barbers to eat onions while on the job.
In West Virginia it is illegal to dig for ginseng on your neighbor's lawn without their permission.
In West Virginia you cannot fly a red flag in front of your house if you are disappointed in your sherrif.
In West Virginia, it is legal for one to take roadkill home for dinner....
In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, it is against the law for children under seven years of age to go to college.
In Wisconsin you are allowed to marry your house.
In Wisconsin, after 3:00 a.m., you have to send a rocket signal in the air after every mile you drive. Then wait a minute for a response.
In Wyoming it is illegal to tattoo a horse with the intent of making it unrecognizable to its owner.
In York, Pennsylvania, you can't sit down while watering your lawn with a hose.
Incan soldiers used to eat freeze-dried potatoes when they were on a march. The Incans would leave the food outside to freeze overnight, then thaw them out and stomp on them to remove the excess water.
Including the 2000 World Series, there have been only three meetings between teams from the same city: 1906 (Cubs vs. White Sox), 1944 (Cardinals vs. Browns) and 2000 (Mets vs. Yankees).
India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
India has the most post offices of any country with 280,181.
India is the leading film making country in the world. More than twice as many films are made in India each year than in France, the third highest film producers in the world.
Indiana has a city named Santa Claus.
Infant beavers are called kittens.
Influenza caused over twenty-one million deaths in 1918.
Insects shiver when they're cold.
Insomniacs may move as many as seventy times.
Insulin was discovered in 1922 by Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best.
Intel is a shortened name for Integrated Electronics. The company's founders wanted to use the full name when they went into business in 1968, but it was already in use.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
Irish cream and Hazelnut are the most popular whole bean coffee flavorings.
Irving Berlin has never learned to read music or to write it. He hums or sings his songs to a secretary, who takes them down in musical notation.
Isaac Newton, Peter Tchaikovsky and Annie Lennox were all born on Christmas.
Israel is the only country in the world, which has compulsory military service for women.
It has 51 meanings as a noun, 126 meanings as a verb, and 10 meanings as a participle adjective.
It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2000 balloons.
It has been proven that feathers directly evolved from reptiles' scales. Therefore, birds came after reptiles.
It has been reported that some dogs are able to sniff out skin cancer. It's in a journal on Lancet. Click here
It is against the law for a monster to enter the corporate limits of Urbana, Illinois.
It is against the law in Oregon to fish with canned corn.
It is against the law in Pueblo, Colorado, to raise or permit a dandelion to grow within the city limits.
It is against the law in Texas, NJ, Iowa, and 25 other states for gay men to have sex of any kind. The result of a man having sex with another man is punishable by fines and up to 6 months in jail. it is, however, LEGAL for a male in Texas to have sex with his sheep.
It is against the law to have a pet in Iceland.
It is also against the law in Oregon to get married in your bathing suit.
It is believed that the Greek poet Aeschylus was killed when a bird flying overhead dropped a tortoise and struck him. Birds have been known to carry shellfish to great heights and drop them in order crack the shells.
It is estimated that 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 snowflakes have fallen to the earth since it was formed.
It is estimated that a plastic container can resist decomposition for as long as 50,000 years.
It is forbidden for aircraft to fly over the Taj Mahal.
It is illegal for a man to kiss a woman while she is asleep in Logan County, Colorado.
It is illegal for a mother to give her daughter a perm without a state license.
It is illegal for both sexes to flirt or respond to flirtation using the eyes and/or hands.
It is illegal in Elkhart, Indiana, for a barber to threaten to cut off a youngster's ears...what about an oldster?
It is illegal in Georgia to use profanity in the presence of a corpse.
It is illegal in Lafayette, Louisiana to play a musical instrument for the purpose of attracting attention, without a license.
It is illegal in North Carolina to have sex in churchyards.
It is illegal in Reno, Nevada to conceal a spray-painted shopping cart in your basement.
It is illegal to accept a gratuity or tip in Iowa.
It is illegal to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at one time.
It is illegal to hunt camels in Arizona.
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
It is illegal to mistreat rats in Denver.
It is illegal to say "Oh, Boy" in Jonesboro, Georgia.
It is illegal to take more than 2 baths a month within Boston confines.
It is impossible for a pig to look up at the sky and people can not lick their elbows!!!!! be sure to remember that the next time you stick your elbow in spagetti =)
It is impossible for a solar eclipse to last for more than 7 minutes 58 seconds.
It is impossible for anyone to verbally count up to the number 1 trillion
it is impossible to drink more than a gallon of milk in 1 hour without throwing up!!!
It is impossible to get water out of a rimless tyre.
It is impossible to land on planet Jupiter, because, scientists believe that below all the gases and liguid there is a center [core] which is made up of small ball of pressurized iron, but it is impossible to tell for sutre.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
It is impossible to sneeze and keep your eyes open at the same time.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
It is only appropriate to fly the US flag upside down in emergencies. It means "Help Me, I am in Trouble!"
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
It is possible to lead a cow up stairs, but not down.
It is Texas law that when two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.
It is unlawful for small boys to throw stones, at any time, at any place in the District of Columbia.
It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis and Minnesota.
It takes 120 drops of water to fill a teaspoon.
It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
It takes 20 different muscles to form a kiss.
It takes 25 muscles to swallow.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver 15; fox 15 to 25; ermine 150; chinchilla 60 to 100.
It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
It takes about 1.25 seconds for moonlight to reach the Earth.
It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
It takes about 48 hours for your body to completely digest the food from one meal.
It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
It takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth, which also means, if you see the sun go out, it actually went out 8 minutes ago
It takes seven years for a lobster to weigh one pound.
It takes, on average, 345 squirts from a cow’s udder to yield one gallon of milk.
It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the original.
It took over 4 years to film milo and otis to get the animals to do what they are suppose to.
It was claimed that a Tiger shot dead by colonel Jim Corbett in 1907 had killed 436 people in India.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so that the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its' forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
It was during the 1600's that the first coffee mill made its debut in London.
It was proposed in the Rhode Island legislature in the 1970s that there be a $2 tax on every act of sexual intercourse.
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
It was the Frisbie Pie Company of Bridgeport, CT, whose name -and lightweight pie tins -gave birth to the modern Frisbee.
It was the law in Scotland in 1288 that for each year known as "lepe yeare" any maiden lady could ask the man she liked to be her husband. If he refused and didn't have a good excuse he would be "mulcted of ye sum of one pound or less" (essentially, he would owe her a dollar). France enacted a similar law a year later.
It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. It was originally the right, but the translator messed up again.
It wasn't until 1913 that sports teams started using numbers on players' jerseys for identfication. It first happened during a football game between the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin.
It would take 15,840,000 rolls of wallpaper to cover the Great Wall of China.
Italians do not drink espresso during meals. It is considered to be a separate event and is given its own time.
Italians in Italy consume a million and a half tons of spaghetti every year.
Italy now has over 200,000 coffee bars, and still growing.
It's a common myth that chocolate aggravates acne. Experiments conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Naval Academy found that consumption of chocolate -even frequent daily dietary intake -had no effect on the incidence of acne. Professional dermatologists today do not link acne with diet.
It's a diverse world we live in. In the U.S., football, basketball and baseball are the three most watched sports on TV. In England, the top three most viewed are soccer, Formula One auto racing and boxing. In Russia, it's soccer, ice hockey and boxing. And in China, it's soccer, table tennis and swimming.
It's a good thing lemmings are promiscuous, they produce 4 times as many females as males.
It's against the law in Willowdale, Oregon, for a husband to curse during sex.
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
It's been estimated that man have been riding horses for over 3,000 years.
It's been estimated that one out of every two hundred women is born with an extra nipple.
It's been said that Adolph Hitler was a coprophiliac, which means he had a fetish for women's feces. He also had a thing for being urinated on by women.
It's believed that India gets its name from the Indus River. The interesting thing is that none of the river is actually in India...it's in Pakistan.
It's estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.
It's illegal in Newcastle, WY to have sex in a butcher shop's meat freezer.
It's illegal in Wilbur, Washington, to ride an ugly horse.
It's illegal to have sex on a parked motorcycle in London.
It's illegal to mispronounce the name of the state of Arkansas in that state.
It's impossible to get water out of a rimless tire.
It's impossible to lick your elbow.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
It's more likely you would be attacked by a cow than a shark.
It's safe to make love while parked in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Police officers aren't allowed to walk up and knock on the window. Any suspicious officer who thinks that sex is taking place must drive up from behind, honk his horn three times and wait approximately two minutes before getting out of his car to investigate.
It's strange that a city with a two letter abreviation (LA) was named after a river called "EL RIO DE SENORA LA REYNA DE LOS ANGELES DE PORCIUNCULA".
Jacksonville, Florida has the largest total area of any city in the United States. It takes up 460 square miles, almost twice the area of Los Angeles.
Jaguars are frightened by dogs
Jamaica Blue Mountain is often regarded as the best coffee in the world.
James Buchanan was certainly a good host. When England's Prince of Wales came to visit in the fall of 1860, so many guests came with him, it's said the president slept in the hallway.
James Madison, 5 feet, 4 inches tall, was the shortest president of the US. Abraham Lincoln was the tallest at six feet, 4 inches.
James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, stood only five feet four inches tall and weighed less than one hundred pounds.
James Ramsey invented a steam-driven motorboat in 1784. He ran it on the Potomac River in an event witnessed by George Washington.
Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix all died at the young age of 27.
Japan is the world's leading importer of iron ore.
Japan ranks Number 3 in the world for coffee consumption.
Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to bring the back teeth together for chewing.
Jayne Mansfield decorated her "Pink Palace" by writing to 1,500 furniture and building suppliers and asking for free samples. She told the donors they could then brag that their goods were in her outlandish mansion. The pitch worked, and Jayne received over $150,000 worth of free merchandise.
Jellyfish are 95% water
Jellyfish can sense a storm 10 to 15 hrs. before it actually occurs and leaves the shore and go into the deep sea.
Jergens Lotion was created by Andrew Jergens, a former lumberjack, in 1880.
Jerry Garcia only had four fingers on his picking hand, he lost one of his fingers when he was a boy.
Jerry Seinfeld's first sitcom wasn't Seinfeld. He played the governor's speechwriter on three episodes of Benson (he was fired from the job).
Jerry West was the model for the official NBA logo. His silhouette appears dribbling a basketball.
Jessica Tandy is the oldest winner of an Academy Award. She won the 1989 Best Actress award for Driving Miss Daisy at the age of 80 years and 9 months. She beat George Burns for that distinction by just a few months.
Jethro Tull is not the name of the rock singer responsible for such songs as "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick." Jethro Tull is the name of the band. The singer is Ian Anderson. The original Jethro Tull was an English horticulturalist who invented the seed drill.
JFK Jr. and Christine Amanapour of CNN were roommates at Brown University.
JFK's golf clubs sold for $772,500 at a 1996 auction. The buyer was Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Jim Delligatti, a McDonald's franchise owner in Uniontown, PA, invented the Big Mac in 1968. He originally named it the Big Mac Super Sandwich. The following year McDonald's sold it nationwide.
Jim Henson first coined the word "Muppet". It is a combination of "marionette" and "puppet."
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old when they died.
Jimmu, the legendary first ruler of Japan, began his reign in the year 660. Akihito, the current emperor, is said to be the 125th direct descendant of Jimmu to rule Japan.
Jimmy Carter was the first President born in a hospital.
Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital.
Joan of Arc was actually burned alive as a witch in 1431, and only considered a saint in the 20th century. (Them folks must be pissed to hear that)
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Supposedly, Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives."
John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to sign the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
John Milton used 8,000 different words in his poem, "Paradise Lost."
John Paul Jones' real name was John Paul. In a letter to Benjamin Franklin, he admitted he'd killed a sailor in the West Indies and changed his name to escape punishment. The "Jones" comes from Mrs. Willie Jones of North Carolina, whom he "admired."
John Tyler was the first president to be married in office on June 26, 1844.
John Wayne’s real name was Marion Michael Morrison.
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.
Johnny Depp is afraid of clowns.
Johnson & Johnson created the Band-Aid in 1899 because Robert Wood Johnson attended a lecture concerning the prevention of infection in wounds during surgical operations. The company created the zinc oxide adhesive bandage for surgeons, and launched the consumer version, Band-Aids, in 1921.
Joseph Priestley not only discovered oxygen, but he also discovered ammonia, carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride, sulphur dioxide, and nitrous oxide. He was also the first person to isolate chlorine.

Very Random Facts

"Adcomsubordcomphibspac" is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command.
"Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Flushable" toilets were in use in ancient Rome.
"Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.
"Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
"Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.
"Fickleheaded" and "fiddledeedee" are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet.
"Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between.
"Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.
"Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
"Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.
"Hang on Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.
"Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.
"Kemo Sabe", meaning an all knowing one, is actually a mispronunciation by Native American of the Spanish phrase, Quien lo Sabe, meaning one who knows."
The lunula is the half-moon shaped pale area at the bottom of finger nails.
"Ma is as selfless as I am" can be read the same way backwards. If you take away all the spaces you can see that all the letters can be spelled out both ways.
"Mad About You" star Paul Reiser plays the piano on the show's theme song.
"One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
"Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.
"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.
"Second string," meaning "replacement or backup," comes from the middle ages. An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke.
"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. That's why when you're talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil."
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
"Tautonyms" are scientific names for which the genus and species are the same.
"Taxi" is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.
"Teh" means "cool" in Thai. (Pronounced "tay").
"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
"THEREIN" is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
1 and 2 are the only numbers where they are values of the numbers of the factors they have.
1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
1 in every 3 people in the country of Israel use a cell phone.
1 kg (2.2 pounds) of lemons contain more sugar than 1 kg of strawberries.
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire are strung across the Unites States.
1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day. In Discovery Channel, its a quart.
10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria
11% of the world is left-handed.
111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321
1200 equals 1 pound (72 rupees).
123,000,000 cars are being driven on highways in the United States.
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the United States.
1959's A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be produced on Broadway.
2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
259200 people die every day.
27% of Americans believe we never landed on the moon.
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
3% of all mammals are monogamous
315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
315 words in the 1996 Webster's dictionary were mispelled.
4 tablespoons of ketchup has about the same amount of nutrition as a ripe tomato.
40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
43.7% of all statistics are made up right on the spot
48% of astronauts experience motion sickness.
52% of Americans drink coffee.
55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball games each year
67 million pounds of pesticides and about 3 million tons of fertilizer are used annually on lawns in the US.
78 rpm albums, used prior to 1948, were only capable of recording for four minutes. It wasn’t until later that year that Columbia Records introduced 33 rpm albums capable of playing 23 minutes per side.
80% of animals on earth are insects.
80% of arrested criminals are male.
In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid, which is Disney spelled backward.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
One in ten people live on an island.
84% of a raw apple is water.
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
85% of men who die of heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives.
85,000,000 tons of paper are used in the United States each year.
28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
90% of bird species are monogamous; only 3% of animals are.
90% of New York City cab drivers are recently arrived immigrants.
98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
98% of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
99% of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as jack-o-lanterns.
A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
A "Blue Moon" is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).
A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.
A "jiffy" is actually a proper time unit for 1/100th of a second
A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.
A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.
A 1.5 oz. milk chocolate bar has only 220 calories. A 1.75 oz. serving of potato chips has 230 calories.
A 10-gallon hat actually only holds about 3/4 gallon.
A 14-year old French girl had extraordinary electrical power. With a gentle touch she could knock over heavy pieces of furniture and people in physical contact with her received an electrical shock.
A 17 year old girl from Miami, Florida started to sneeze on 4th January'66 ant continued till 8th June'66.
A 6 pound sea-hare can lay 40,000eggs in a single minute.
A 7-year study, which concluded in the summer of 2000, found that 33 U.S. deaths were caused by rottweilers, pit bulls were responsible for 27 deaths.
A acre of coffee trees can produce up to 10,000 pounds of coffee cherries. That amounts to approximately 2000 pounds of beans after hulling or milling.
A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
A Baboon called "Jackie" became a private in the South African army in World War I.
A bat is the only mammal that flies.
A bathometer is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel.
A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell
A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar, or it could just sit down on and enjoy that honey properly.
A beaver's teeth never stop growing.
A bibliophile is a collector of rare books. A bibliopole is a seller of rare books.
A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
A Blue Earth, Minnesota, law declares that no child under the age of twelve may talk over the telephone unless monitored by a parent.
A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.
A body decomposes four times as fast in water than on land.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.
A broken clock is right at least twice a day.
A butterfly can look at you through 12,000 eyes.
A Californian doctor has set the record of eating 17 bananas in two minutes.
A Canadian tattoo artist had 4,831 tattoos on his body.
A capon is a castrated rooster.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A cat has 4 rows of whiskers.
A cat uses it's whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
A Cheetah at full speed takes strides of 8 meters.
A cheetah is the fastest animal, clocked in at: 70mph.
A chef's hat is tall and balloons at the top so as to counteract the intense heat in the kitchen. The unique shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool.
A Chicago law forbids eating in a place that is on fire.
A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before dropping dead.
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
A citizen of Calcutta, India , grew the fingernails on his left hand to a length of 76 inches.
A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas, which are known as fingers.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
A cockroaches favorite food is the glue on the back of stamps.
A company, Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday".
A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
A cucumber is 96% water.
A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout.
A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year.
A decree declares that anyone caught stealing soap must wash himself with it until it is all used up.
A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
A device invented sometime around the time of the birth of Jesus as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero is used today as a rotating sprinkler.
A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.
A dog can hear high frequency sounds, which a human ear cannot.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule will not.
A dragonfly can fly 25 mph.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A dragonfly is also known as "devil's darning needle", "horse stinger" and "devil's steelyard".
A Fag is to work hard or to tire by strenuous activity and cigarettes are sometimes called Fags
A fagot is a bundle of sticks or a bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be shaped by rolling or hammering at high temperature.
A father Emperor penguin withstands the Antarctic cold for 60 days or more to protect his eggs, which he keeps on his feet, covered with a feathered flap. During this entire time he doesn't eat a thing. Most father penguins lose about 25 pounds while they wait for their babies to hatch. Afterward, they feed the chicks a special liquid from their throats. When the mother penguins return to care for the young, the fathers go to sea to eat and rest.
A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
A female swine or sow will always have an even number of teats or nipples.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
A fish's memory span is 3 seconds.
A five and a half year old weighing 250 pounds was exhibited at a meeting of the Physical Society of Vienna on December 4, 1894. She ate a normal diet and was otherwise in good health. The problem: she wasn't able to sweat.
A flea can jump 350 times is own body length. (say..you jumping the length of a soccer field)thanx seraph
A flock of sheep grazed during Woodrow Wilson's term. Their wool was sold to raise money for the Red Cross during World War I.
A fly always jumps backwards for a quick getaway when you try to hit it.
A fly hums in the middle octave, key F.
A foal is a baby horse.
A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
A full-grown pumpkin has about 15 miles of roots.
A ghost writer pens an anonymous book.
A giant squid has eyes that can grow up to 20 inches in diameter. (Now think of how big your computer screen is..)
A giraffe and rat can go longer without water than a camel can.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. i know some people who can do some amazing stuff too.
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
A googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Mathematician Edward Kasner supposedly asked his nephew Milton Sirotta to suggest a name for the number, and he came up with this word.
A grasshopper needs a minimum temperature of 62 degrees Fahrenheit in order to be able to hop.
A group od geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group in the air is a skein.
A group of crows is called a murder.
A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.
A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.
A hedgehog's heart beats 190 times a minute on average and drops to only 20 beats per minute during hibernation.
A hedgehog's skin is so tough that when they get run over, its entrails come out of its mouth and its ass.
A herd of forty-five thirsty, rambunctious elephants stampeded into a brewery in Midnapore, where they smashed vats and slurped up beer in a bender that went on for two days.
A hinny is the offspring of a female donkey.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man can.
A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey
A honey bee travels an estimated 43,000 miles to gather one pound of honey. A pound of honey consists of 29,184 drops.
A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
A horse can sleep standing up.
A Horse has 18 more bones than a Human.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
A human has a bone just after the spine ends, which helps proves that humans once had tails (possibly).
A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.
A human's scent membrane in the nose is about the size of a postage stamp. A dog's is about the size of a handkerchief. It's olfactory lobe is also 4 times that of a humanThanx liz chell
A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times in one second or over 5000 times a minute.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
A jellyfish is 95 percent water, and humans around 70%
A jellyfish is 95% water.
A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
A kangaroo can jump up to 3 meters high and leap up to 8 meters.
A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground.
A Kentucky statute states, "No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway within this state unless she is escorted by at least two officers or unless she be armed with a club." Later, an amendment proposed: "The provisions of this statute shall not apply to any female weighing less than sixty pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds; nor shall it apply to female horses."
A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn a day.
A leech is a worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to drain "bad blood" from sick patients.
A lions roar can be heard from five miles away.
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
A magic potion or charm thought to arouse sexual love, especially toward a specific person, is known as a "philter."
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
A male moth can smell a female moth from 100 yards away.
A man and woman in Mexico city were engaged for 67 yrs and finally married at the age of 82 yrs.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years
A Manatee (Dugong) has very slow-clotting blood, and important in finding out about haemophilia.
A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it used to take to travel the length of England by stagecoach.
A mark twain, a nautical measurement of depth, is equal to twelve feet.
A McDonald's straw will hold 7.7 ml, or just over one-and-a-half teaspoons of whatever you are drinking.
A Michigan law states that a wife's hair legally belongs to her husband.
A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of its body.
A mockingbird has been known to change its tune 87 times over a span minute span.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a ground squirrel.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
A mosquito will become restless and start flying around if there is an increase of carbon dioxide in the surrounding air
A mother in Sydney, Australia, gave birth to twins 56 days apart and in different years; one was born in 17th December'1952 and the other on 10th February'1953.
A mule is a crossbreed between a male donkey and a female horse. A hinnie is yada yada a female donkey and a male horse.
A murder is committed in the US every 23 minutes, which makes about 22852 murders each year.
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
A normal cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).
A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows.
A panagram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. For example: Pack my red box with five dozen quality jugs.
A peanut is not a nut or a pea, it's a legume.
A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour.
A perfect game in baseball is one in which the same player pitches the entire game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base -by any means.
A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.
A person has to travel west to get from Los Angeles, CA to Reno, NV.
A person uses approximently fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
A person who is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
A piano leg went through the floor of the white house in 1948 during President Truman's term.
A pied-billed grebe is called a peebeegeebee by birdwatchers.
A pig is the only animal than can get sunburned.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A pineapple is a berry.
A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.
A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.
A pole vaulter, when he lands, may absorb up to 20,000 pounds of pressure per square inch on the joints of his tubular thigh bones.
A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
A poll of 3,000 Americans found that for 41 percent, the thing they're most afraid of is speaking before a group of people. 32 percent stated they were afraid of heights.
A porpoise swims slowly in a circle as it sleeps.
A Portsmouth, Ohio law ranks baseball players with "vagrants, thieves and other suspicious characters."
A pound of grasshoppers is three times as nutritious as a pound of beef.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
A quarter of raw potato placed in each shoe at night will keep the leather soft and the shoes smelling fresh and clean.
A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
A queen bee lays about 1,500 eggs on an average day.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
A rattlesnake's fangs fold inward when its mouth is closed so it doesn't bite itself.
A recent study indicates when men crave food, they tend to crave fat and salt. When women crave food, they tend to desire chocolate.
A Red Giant(a kind of exploded star) has a lower density than any vacuum here on earth
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
A scientific report form the University of California found that the steam rising from a cup of coffee contains the same amounts of antioxidants as three oranges. The antioxidants are heterocyclic compounds which prevents cancer and heart disease. It's good for you!
A scientist who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21 gms.
A scrum in rugby is equivalent of a hockey face-off, except that it involves all playing the forward position on both teams.
A SEAL's weapon of choice is the Heckler and Koch MP-5 submachine gun.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
A single drop of water contains one hundred billion billion atoms.
A single share of Coca-Cola stock, purchased in 1919, when the company went public, would have been worth $92,500 in 1997.
A snail can actually glide over the sharp edge of a knife or razor without harming itself. This has something to do with the mucus it produces.
A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
A snail can travel over a razor blade without cutting itself.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
A soccer ball has 32 panels.
A speleologist studies caves.
A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
A spremologer collects trivia.
A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.
A strand of spider web may be stronger than an equal diameter of steel.
A study of pet owners found that 66% claimed they allowed their pets to remain in the bedroom during intercourse.
A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.
A ton of potatoes will yield 28.6 gallons of absolute alcohol. Potatoes are an important source for commercial alcohol.
A total of 63 errors were made in the 1886 World Series.
A traditional dish from Savolax, called "kalakukko" (fishcock in engl.) is made of white fish and porkfat encased in a baked crust of rye.
A two-inch garden hose will carry four times as much water as a one-inch hose.
A type of rabbit can mate 12 hours after giving birth
A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
A typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long.
A vexillologist is an expert in the history of flags
A volcano can shoot its debris as high as 50km into the sky.
A vulture will never attack a human or animal that is moving.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
A whole library floor of books can be stored on 50 Gigabytes.
A wind with a speed of 74 miles or more is designated a hurricane.
A women's heart beats faster than men.
A woodchuck only breathes 10 times during hibernation.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome".
A young lady named Ellen Church convinced Boeing Air Transport that her nursing skills and love of flying would qualify her to assist with the passengers and emergencies. She became the first known stewardess.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
ABBA GOLD has been in the UK charts for over 280 weeks, thats over 5 years
Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.
Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk.
About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.
About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you.
About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of human activity.
About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
About 24% of the total ground area of Los Angeles is said to be committed to automobiles.
About 55% of all movies are rated R. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
About 75% of the people in the U.S. live on 2% land.
About 80% of the city was burned in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
About one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice.
Abraham Lincoln had to go across the street to the War Department to get news from the battlefield because there was no telegraph in the White House.
Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House.
Absinthe is another name for the herb wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) and the name of a licorice-anise flavored green liqueur that was created at the end of the 18th century, and manufactured by Henry-Louis Pernod. Called the 'green Muse' it became very popular in the 19th century, but was eventually banned in most countries beginning in 1908. The reason is the presence of the toxic oil 'thujone' in wormwood, which was one of the main ingredients of Absinthe. Absinthe seemed to cause brain lesions, convulsions, hallucinations and severe mental problems. Thujone was the culprit, along with the fact that Absinthe was manufactured with an alcohol content of 68% or 132 proof.
Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
According to a global survey in 1997 by Durex Condoms Canadians are the world's fourth worst lovers. The worst three slots belong to South Africa, Russia, and Poland.
According to a recent survey, more Americans lose their virginity in June than any other month.
According to an Old English system of time units, a moment is considered to be one and a half minutes.
According to bar sales across the U.S., here are the top 15 cocktails: 1) Dry martini, 2) Manhattan, 3) Whiskey sour, 4) Bloody Mary, 5) Gimlet, 6) Daiquiri, 7) Tom Collins, 8) Old Fashioned, 9) Margarita, 10) Screwdriver, 11) Bacardi, 12) Stinger, 13) Harvey Wallbanger, 14) Gin & Tonic, and 15) Rum & Coke
According to Bristol zoo, the Howler monkey's growl is so loud, it can be heard 5km (3.3 miles for u Americans) away.
According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
According to Hammurabi's Code, the penalty for medical malpractice was to cut off the doctor's hands.
According to Hawaiian lore, the earth mother Papa mated with the sky father Wakea to give birth to the Hawaiian Islands.
According to Illinois state law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially recognized language is "American."
According to L. Frank Baum, the name Oz was thought up when he looked at his filing cabinet and noticed one drawer marked A-G, a second tagged H-N, and a third labeled O-Z.
According to legend, when Burmese women are making beer, they need to avoid having sex or the beer will be bitter.
According to National Geographic, Mt. Everest grows about 4 millimeters a year: the two tectonic plates of Asia and India, which collided millions of years ago to form the Himalayas, continue to press against each other, causing the Himalyan peaks to grow slightly each year
According to Playboy, more women talk dirty during sex than men.
According to Playboy, the most popular sexual aid is erotic literature.
According to Scandinavian folklore, trolls only come out at night because sunlight would turn them to stone.
According to statistics, Australian women are the most likely to have sex on the first date.
According to the 1900 U.S. Census, there were: 596,000 carpenters, 280,000 laundresses, 220,000 blacksmiths, 134,000 tailors, 102,000 shoemakers, 42,000 porters, 37,000 stonecutters, 25,000 millers, 8,000 bootblacks, and 7,000 furriers
According to the film's animators, you'll see 6,469,952 black spots every time you watch 101 Dalmatians.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Finnish word SAIPPUAKIVIKAUPPIAS a soapstone seller is the longest known palindrome in any language.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the single-seeded fruit of the giant fan palm, or Lodoicea maldivica, can weigh 44 lbs. Commonly known as the double coconut or coco de mer, it is found wild only in the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.
According to the International Labor Organization, a member of the labor force is someone between the age of 15 and 64.
According to the Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis on record measures 13 inches. The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches.
According to the Population Council, people overwhelmingly tend to marry partners who live near them.
According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the most common job in the United States in the 1890s was a farmer. Today, it’s a salesman.
According to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, two out of five women in America dye their hair.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the best time to spray household insects is 4:00 p.m. Insects are most vulnerable at this time. (It's just like its better to water your plants in the early mornings or the evenings)
According to the United States Postal Service, each person sent on average 689 letters throughout the year of 1996.
Activated charcoal made from coconut shells is the odor absorbing agent in odor-eating shoe liners.
Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger bought the first Hummer manufactured for civilian use in 1992. The vehicle weighed in at 6,300 lbs and was 7 feet wide.
Actress Jayne Mansfield accidentally exhaled her breast out of her dress during the telecast of the Academy Awards in 1957.
Acupuncture was first used as a medical treatment in 2700 BC by Chinese emperor Shen-Nung.
Adding sugar to coffee is believed to have started in 1715, in the court of King Louis XIV, the French monarch.
Adjusting for inflation, Cleopatra, 1963, is the most expensive movie ever made to date (mid-1999). Its budget of $44 million is equivalent to 270 million 1999 dollars.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
Adolph Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only 1, and i repeat, ONE, testicle.
Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in 1846.
Adult bears can run as fast as horses.
Adult Northwestern American Grizzly Bears can bite through steel as thick as one half inch.
Advertisements for coffee in London in 1657 claimed that the beverage was a cure for scurvy, gout and other ills.
Africa's 8,000-year brewing history began with ancient Egyptian commercial brewing dynasties and still includes handmade tribal beers.
After Canada and Mexico, Russia is the nearest neighbor to the United States. Siberia’s easternmost point is just 56 miles from Alaska. In fact, in the middle of the Bering Strait, Russia’s Big Diomede Island and the U.S.’s Little Diomede Island are only two miles apart.
After his death in 896, the body of Pope Formosus was dug up and tried for various crimes.
After six months at the off-Broadway New York Shakespeare Festival Theater, Hair opened at the Biltmore Theater in New York, in 1968. It was the first rock-musical to play on the Great White Way.
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
After the decaffeinating process, processing companies no longer throw the caffeine away; they sell it to pharmaceutical companies.
After the sun, the closest star to Earth is 25,000,000,000,000 miles away.
After they are roasted, and when the coffee beans begin to cool, they release about 700 chemical substances that make up the vaporizing aromas.
Air pollution may contribute to two percent of all deaths in the US, some 50,000 cases per year. A nine-year study of US cities showed a strong correlation between death rates and periods of significant pollution.
Airbags are deployed at a rate of two-hundred miles per hour.
Al Capone's business card said he was a furniture dealer.
Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were once roommates.
Alaska, with 8, is the US state with the most national park sites.
Alaska's borders make it the farthest state east, west and north. Its Aleutian Islands extends across the 180th meridian, which puts the islands chain's end in the eastern hemisphere.
Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood, respectively).
Alekthophilia is the love of chickens.
Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf.
Alexander H. Stephens was Jefferson Davis's Vice President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Alfalfa sprouts and feta cheese contain bacteria that could be harmful to small children and pregnant women.
Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
Alfred Hitchcock directed the first talking film ever made in England. It was called Blackmail and was made in 1931.
All 17 children of Queen Anne died before her.
All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.
All elephants walk on tip-toe because the back portion of their foot is made of no bone just fat.
All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black, unless they belong to a high official.
All mammals have tongues.
All mammals, except man and monkey are color blind.
All nude people in your house must be registered in Kentucky.
All of Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, is heated by underground hot springs.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
All of the proceeds from James Barrie's book Peter Pan were bequeathed to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London.
All of the roles in Shakespeare's plays were originally acted by men and boys. In England at that time, it wasn't proper for females to appear on stage.
All of the stars comprising the Milky Way galaxy revolve around the center of the galaxy once every 200 million years or so.
All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.
All polar bears are left-handed.
All porcupines can float in water.
All pyrimids were bright white.
All snakes on the island of Tasmania are poisonous.
All snow crystals are hexagonal.
All the chemicals in a human body combined are estimated to be worth about 6.25 euro.
All the coal, oil, gas, and wood on Earth would only keep the Sun burning for a few days.
All the moons of the Solar System are named after Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus, which are named after Shakespearean characters.
All the proceeds earned from James M. Barrie's book "Peter Pan" were bequeathed to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for the Sick Children in London.
All the swans in England are property of the Queen.
All the world's main alphabets have developed from an alphabet invented 3,600 years ago in the Middle East. It was known as the North Semitic Alphabet.
All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize 'this' was the day of the changeover.
All U.S. Presidents have worn glasses, some of them just didn't like to be seen with them in public.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
All words ever spoken by human beings on 5 Exabytes.
Alligators can live for more than 100 years.
Almonds and pistachios are the only nuts mentioned in the Bible.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Almonds are part of the peach family.
Almonds are the oldest, most widely cultivated and extensively used nuts in the world.
Almost without exception, cows are milked from the right side. The reason is because most farmers have been right-handed since the start of the dairy business and it's easier for a right-handed milker to work from the right side.
Although Argentina's name means "Land of Silver," there is actually very little silver there. It was misnamed by explorers who thought they saw silver there.
Although construction of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Strasbourg started in 1015, it was not until 1439 that the spire was completed.
Although explorers brought potatoes back from the New World in the early 1500s, Europeans were afraid to eat them for fear that the spuds would give them leprosy. It wasn't until Louis XVI, who was looking for a cheap food source for his starving subjects, served them at the royal table that people were convinced potatoes were safe to eat.
Although identified with Scotland, bagpipes are actually a very ancient instrument, introduced into the British Isles by the Romans.
Although not named in the New Testament, tradition names the two thieves crucified at the same time as Jesus as Dismas and Gestas.
Although the Pony Express was one of the most famous chapters in U.S. history, it only lasted one year, from 1860-61.
Amazon ants (red ants found in the western U.S.) steal the larvae of other ants to keep as slaves. The slave ants build homes for and feed the Amazon ants, who cannot do anything but fight. They depend completely on their slaves for survival.
Amelia Earhart designed the first lightweight luggage for air travel.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
American and Russian space flights have always included chocolate.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
American chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of milk -only surpassed by the cheese and ice cream industries.
Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person.
Americans consume 42 tons of aspirin per day.
Americans consumed over 3.1 billion pounds of chocolate in 2001, which is almost half of the total world's production.
Americans drink about five billion bottles and cans of soda, and about a billion and a half pounds of coffee every year.
Americans drink over a billion pounds of coffee every year and around five million bottles of soda.
Americans eat more bananas than any other fruit: a total of 11 billion a year.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.
Americans spend more than $5 billion a year on cosmetics, toiletries, beauty parlors and barber shops.
Americans spent an estimated $267 billion dining out in 1993.
Americans spent over $360 million in 1982 to avoid having bad breath.
Americans use about 100 million pounds of tea leaves every year.
Americans use over 16, 000 tons of aspirin a year.
Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza in one day.
America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
America's first stock exchange was the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, established in 1791.
Among primitive people the soul normally is said to escape through the mouth or nose. In the Celebes, when a person is very sick, his friends will often attach fish hooks in certain places. If the soul tries to escape, it gets hooked.
Among transsexuals who choose sex-change operations, females who elect to become males are reportedly happier and better adjusted after the procedures than males who elect to become female.
Among words consisting only of Roman numeral letters, the "highest scoring" words in English are MIMIC (2,102) and IMMIX (2012).
An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
An adult male ostrich, the world's largest bird, can weigh up to 345 pounds.
An adult porcupine has approximately 30,000 quills on its body, which are replaced every year.
An African American chef in Albany, NY is thought to have been the inventor of potato chips sometime in 1865. Unfortunately, nobody knows his name.
An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.
An American cow called Fawn was not afraid of flying. In May 1963, she was swept up by a tornado and carried half a mile, only to land safely in another farmer's field. Five years later, another tornado carried her over a bus. She survived this too, and lived to the ripe old age of 25.
An American urologist bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
An ant can survive for up to two days underwater.
An ant's sense of smell is as good as a Dog's.
An apple tree is at its prime when its about 50 years old. The United States produces about 100 million barrels of apples a year. That's a lot of old trees.
An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this you can pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.
An arabica coffee tree can produce up to 12 pounds of coffee a year, depending on soil and climate.
An area of the Sun's surface the size of a postage stamp shines with the power of 1,500,000 candles.
An artificial hand , with fingers moved by cogwheels and levers, was designed in 1551 by Frenchman Ambroise Paré. It worked so well that a handless cavalryman was able to grasp the reins of his horse.
An Athens legislator named Solon passed a law in the 6th century that let fathers sell their fornicating daughters into slavery.
An average beaver can cut down two hundred trees a year.
An average ear of corn has 800 kernels, arranged in 16 rows.
An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
An average human scalp has 100,00 hairs.
An average person drinks about 16,000 gallons of wate during his life time.
An average person laughs about 5 times a day.
An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
An average pig squeals at a range from 100 to 115 decibels.
An average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
An ear of corn always has an even number of rows because of the genetic formula which divides the cells.
An ear of corn averages 800 kernels in 16 rows.
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 sent the Mississippi River backwards.
An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
An elephant can smell water 3 miles away.
An elephant could carry up to 2 gallons of water in its trunk.
An elephant has 4 knees
An elephant may consume 500 pounds of hay and 60 gallons of water in a single day.
An elephant's trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles.
An Estee Lauder perfume called "Country Mist" had disappointing sales in Germany where the word "Mist" was slang for manure!
An estimated $1 million is lost at race tracks each year by people who lose or carelessly throw away winning tickets.
An etiquette writer of the 1840's advised, "Ladies may wipe their lips on the tablecloth, but not blow their noses on it."
An eyelash lives about 5 months.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
An insect exerts so much energy in one hour of flying that it may lose as much as a third of its total body weight.
An Octopus has 3 hearts!
An old law in Bellingham, Washington made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
An ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having sex while standing inside a store's walk-in-meat freezer!
An ostrich egg can make approx. eleven and a half omelets.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
An ounce of gold can be beaten up into a sheet covering 9.3 sq. meters, or drawn into 80.5 kms(50 miles) of wire.
An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long.
An owl cannot move it's eyeballs in its eye sockets.
An oyster can change it's sex a number of times during its life.
An oyster can change its sex once every seven days.
Anagrams amused the ancient Greeks, Romans and Hebrews, and were popular during the Middle Ages.
Ancient Chinese artists freely painted scenes of nakedness and sex. However, they would absolutely never depict a bare female foot.
Ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of women's feet.
Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.
Ancient Egyptians believed that "Bast" was the mother of all cats on Earth. They also believed that cats were sacred animals.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
Andorra, a tiny country on the border between France and Spain, has the longest average lifespan: 83.49 years.
Andrew Jackson spent most of his adult life with a bullet no more than two inches away from his heart as a result of a duel he fought before becoming President.
Andrew Johnson, was the only self-educated tailor. He is the only President to make his own clothes as well as his cabinet's.
Andy Warhol based his 1964 series of silk portraits of Marilyn Monroe on a still photo from the 1952 movie Niagra.
Andy Warhol created the Rolling Stone's emblem depicting the big tongue. It first appeared on the cover of the 'Sticky Fingers' album.
Animal gestation periods: the shortest is the American opossum, which bears its young 12 to 13 days after conception; the longest is the Asiatic elephant, taking 608 days, or just over 20 months.
Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.
Anne Boleyn had three breasts.
Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.
Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Queen Elizabeth I, had an extra finger on her left hand.
Annually, approximately 46 millions Cokes, five million pounds of French fries, and seven million hamburgers are consumed at Walt Disney World Resort.
Another law in Helena, Montana, mandates that a woman can't dance on a table in a saloon or bar unless she has on at least three pounds, two ounces of clothing.
Another name for your pinky finger is Wanus
Antarctica has only one ATM machine.
Antarctica is the only continent without any reptiles or snakes.
Antarctica is visited by over 10,000 tourists a year.
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Anthropologists use a standard height of 4 feet 11 inches to determine if a group of people are pygmies. The average adult male must be less than 59 inches in height.
Ants are social insects and live in colonies which may have as many as 500,000 individuals.
Ants can live completely submerged underwater for up to 2 days.
Ants make up 1/10 of the total world animal tissue
Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of it's surface tension.
Any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it.
Anyone could come to Andrew Jackson's public parties at the White House. At his last one, a wheel of cheese weighing 1,400 lbs. was eaten in two hours. The White House smelled of cheese for weeks.
Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves.
Apparently 1/3 of people with alarm clocks hit the 'snooze' button every morning, and from 25-34 age group, it is over 1/2. (r u 1 of them?)
Apparently there's a law stating that if a Kurtatchi woman of the Soloman Islands unintentionally reveals her genitals, it can be expected and will be understood if any nearby man sexually assaults her.
Apparently, according to Playtex, the best selling bra sizes these days are 34B and 36B.
Apparently, I misspelled it...it's "Sinterklaas." Thanks to the unnamed person from Holland who corrected me.
Apple pie was brought to England from France sometime around 1066 by William the Conqueror. It made it to America when the Pilgrims arrived.
Apple pits contain cyanide.
Apples are more effecient than caffeine for waking you up in the morning.
Approximate number of facial expressions dogs can make: 100.
Approximately 125 people die in the United States from an anaphylaxis to foods each year.
Approximately 20% of Americans have a passport.
Approximately 200 pets are buried in a pet cemetery out of the thousands of pets that die each day.
Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
Approximately 40,000 tons of meteoric dust hits the Earth each year.
Approximately 850 peanuts make a 18 oz jar of peanut butter.
Approximately one out of four injuries by athletes involve the wrist and hand.
Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were invented in India.
Argentineans eat more meat than any other nation in the world an average of 10 ounces per person per day.
Aristedes won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875.
Armadillos along with humans are the other creatures that can contract leprosy.
Armadillos can be house broken.
Armadillos can have up to four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
Army doctor D.W. Bliss attended to two presidents after they were shot by assassins. In 1865 he was one of the 16 doctors who tried to save Abraham Lincoln. In 1881 he supervised the care of James Garfield.
Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people.
Around 22% of Americans are teenagers.
Around the 16th century the Yo-Yo was used by Philipinos to stun prey from trees.
Arrowroot, an antidote for poisoned arrows, is used as a thickener in cooking.
As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. For example, journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved down a chimney, thrown three times into the sea, and soundly whipped.
As bananas ripen, the starch in the fruit turns to sugar. Therefore, the riper the banana the sweeter it will taste.
As late as 1820, the universe was thought to be 6,000 years old. It is now thought to be between 15 and 20 billion years old.
As mentioned, the first Fords used Dodge engines. Many ford vehicles now use Nissan engines, especially in Mini-vans.
As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by YOUR HEAD! visit microshield
As of 14.10.2003, only 0.6% of people actually sign the guestbook. Its true. Over 120,000 visitors. Yes, the statistic did go down.
As of 1996, Hee Haw holds the record for the longest running weekly first-run syndicated show in the history of television. It spanned over 4 decades, from the late '60s to the early '90s, airing every Saturday night at 7:00.
As of 2004, there are two men for every woman in the United Arab Emirates.
As of Dec. 31, 2000, the number of climbers summiting Mt. Everest reached 1314, and the number of deaths on the mountain reached 167.
As specified by the Christian church, the canonical hours are matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers, and compline.
Aspirin was the first drug offered as a water-soluble tablet in 1900.
Aspirin went on sale as the first pharmaceutical drug in 1899, after Felix Hoffman, a German chemist at the drug company Bayer, successfully modified Salicylic Acid, a compound found in willow bark to produce Aspirin.
Assuming that all the offspring survived, 190,000,000,000,000,000,000 flies could be produced in four months by the offspring of a single pair of flies.
Astronaut John Glenn ate the first meal in space when he ate pureed applesauce squeezed from a tube aboard Friendship 7 in 1962.
Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper was so relaxed on the morning of his launch into space in May 1963 that he fell asleep in his space capsule while waiting for blastoff.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Astronauts become between two and three inches taller when in space.
Astronauts brought back about 800 pounds of lunar rock to Earth. Most of it has not been analyzed.
Astronauts grow taller in space
At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.
At 4,145 miles, the Nile River is the longest in the world.
At -40 degrees fahrenheit,a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour breathing.
At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is three times the size of Texas. By comparison, Iceland is only 39,800 square miles.
At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.
At age seventy, 73% of men are still potent.
At Andrew Jackson's funeral in 1845, his pet parrot had to be removed because it was swearing.
At Arkansas State University two people cannot hold hands while standing in a doorway unless they belong to a union.
At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
At birth, bear cubs weigh between 1/2 1 pound.
At its center, the sun has a density of over a hundred times that of water, and a temperature of 10-20 million degrees Celsius.
At Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Florida, on June 26, 1985, organist Wilbur Snapp played "Three Blind Mice" following a call by umpire Keith O'Connor. The umpire was not amused, and saw to it that Mr. Snapp was ejected from the game.
At one time in India, a fiance was required to deflower his future bride if she died before the wedding. The girl could not be cremated until this ritual was carried out in front of the village priest.
At one time the earth consisted of one land mass and a huge body of water. Geologists today call the land Pangaea (from the Greek words "all land"), while the water was called Panthalassa (from the Greek words "all sea"). Between 180 and 200 million years ago, Pangaea split into two parts: Laurasia, which consisted of North America, Europe and Asia; and Gondwanaland, which consisted of Africa, South America, India, Antarctica and Australia.
At one time, there was a law in India that forbade lower-caste people from casting their shadows on a member of the Brahman (the upper class).
At one time, Venus de Milo had arms.
At sea level there are 2,000 pounds of air pressure on each square foot of your body area.
At the age of 26, Michelangelo began sculpting his monumental statue of David. He finished it seventeen months later, in January, 1504.
At the beginning of the year 2001 all Canadian cigarette packaging will depict graphic images of rotting teeth and deteriorating organs.
At the distance at which our sun is located from the center of the Milky Way galaxy, Earth and the rest of our solar system are moving at a speed of about 170 miles per second around the center.
At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life", an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.
At the end of WWII the Germans had more planes than the start of the war.
At the height of its power (400 BC) the Greek city of Sparta had 500,000 slaves and only 25,000 citizens.
At the time of the U.S. Revolutionary War, Philadelphia was the second largest English-speaking city in the world, surpassed only by London.
At Will's first competition he competes with the sword, and after his first victory Jeff gives a little speech which recieves no response until one of Will's friends cheers. this was a mistake none of the extras spoke english and so missed their cue to start cheering, and needed a reminder from one of the lead actors. This scene was going to be shot but the director decided this was better than what they had planned.
Attila the Hun (invader of Europe; 406-453), Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), and Pope Leo VIII (d 963-965) all died while having sex.
Audrey Hepburn’s real name was Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston.
August 9, 1173 marked the first day of construction on the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It was completed sometime in 1370 after two building stoppages. In 1178, when the tower was three stories tall, construction was halted for unknown reasons. It wasn't until 1272 that construction resumed, and that lasted until 1278 (the tower was seven stories at that point). In 1360, construction of the belfry that would eventually hold seven bells began.
Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 1889, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.
Australia has no native monkeys. (in the wild)
Australia is a major exporter of camels
Australia is the only country that is also a continent.
Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
Australians consume 60% more coffee than tea, a sixfold increase since 1940.
Australia's box jellyfish has toxins more potent than the venom in cobras, and is one of the most dangerous jellyfish in the world
Average calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race: 10,000.
Average length of a coat hanger when straightened: 44 inches.
Average number of eggs laid by the female American Oyster per year: 500 million. Usually only one oyster out of the bunch reaches maturity.
Average number of hummingbirds required to create the weight of 1 ounce: 18.
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Average number of squirts from a cow's udder needed to yield a gallon of milk : 345.
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.
Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 golden goblets of hot chocolate every day. It was thick, dyed red and flavored with chili peppers.
Aztec emperor Montezuma had nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
Aztecs believed that the sun died every night and needed human blood to give it strength to rise the next day. So they sacrificed 15,000 men a year to appease their sun god, Huitzilopochtli. Most of the victims were prisoners taken in wars, which were sometimes started solely to round up sacrificial victims.
Babe Ruth hit his first major-league home run on May 6, 1915. He was playing for the Boston Red Sox at the time. 'The Sultan of Swat' went on to smash 714 round-trippers before he retired, as a New York Yankee, in 1935.
Babe Ruth kept a lettuce leaf under his hat to keep cool during a game.
Babe Ruth was able to throw two baseballs in such a way that the balls remained parallel to each other all the way from his hand to the catcher's glove. Ruth was famous for this stunt and would demonstrate it on request.
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his hat while playng baseball, and he used to change it every two innings.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Babies crawl an average of 200m a day
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
Baby elephants can drink over 80 litres of milk a day. (Do you drink milk?)
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
Back in 1924, a monkey was convicted in South Bend of the crime of smoking a cigarette and sentenced to pay a 25 dollar fine and the trial costs.
Back in the mid to late 80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
Badgers and coyotes hunt ground squirrels together. The badger tracks the squirrel and digs into its tunnels, and the coyote catches it when it tries to escape.
Bald men have the same amount of hair on their heads as other men.
Ballistics is the science that deals with the motion of projectiles.
Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University.
Balneology is the science of swimming pools. Balneologists study problems of heating, cleaning, maintenance, and construction.
Bamboo can grow up to 36 inches in a day. Click here
Banana oil never saw a banana; it's made from petroleum.
Banana plants are the largest plants on earth without a woody stem. They are actually giant herbs of the same family as lilies, orchids and palms.
Bananas are actually herbs. Bananas die after fruiting, like all herbs do.
Bananas are America's #1 fruit.
Bananas are one of the few fruits that ripen best off the plant. If left on the plant, the fruit splits open and the pulp has a "cottony" texture and flavor. Even in tropical growing areas, bananas for domestic consumption are cut green and stored in moist shady places to ripen slowly.
Bananas are perennial crops that are grown and harvested year-round. The banana plant does not grow from a seed but rather from a rhizome or bulb. Each fleshy bulb will sprout new shoots year after year.
Bananas were officially introduced to the American public at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. Each banana was wrapped in foil and sold for 10 cents. Before that time, bananas came to America on the decks of sailing ships as sailors took a few stems home after traveling in the Caribbean.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Barbara Bush's book about her English Springer Spaniel, Millie's book, was on the bestseller list for 29 weeks. Millie was the most popular "First Dog" in history.
Barbers are forbidden by law from shaving a man's chest in Omaha, Nebraska.
Barbers at one time combined shaving and haircutting with bloodletting and pulling teeth. The white stripes on a field of red that spiral down a barber pole represent the bandages used in the bloodletting.
Barbies full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Bart Simpson's voice on the Simpsons is actually done by a woman, Nancy Cartwright.
Baseball is the only sport that looks backwards in a mirror.
Baseball rules were codified in 1846 by Alexander Cartwright of the Knickerbocker Baseball Club.
Baseball's home plate is 17 inches wide.
Baseball's National League was born in 1876. Eight competing baseball teams met in New York City's Grand Central Hotel. The first president of the new league was Morgan Gardner Bulkeley, who later became a US Senator. The eight original cities with teams were: Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Louisville and Hartford. Two of the original teams are now in the American League (Boston and New York) while Louisville and Hartford are now minor-league baseball towns.
Based on a US Justice Department study conducted between 1992 and 1996, workplace violence troubles 1.7 million Americans a year. Number of workers attacked or threatened per thousand: Police officers: 306, Private security guards: 218, Taxi drivers: 184, Prison guards: 117, Bartenders: 91, Mental health professionals: 80, Gas station attendants: 79.
Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith. He set out to invent a game to occupy students between the football and baseball seasons.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. Bats are the only mammals that are able to fly.
Bayer was advertising cough medicine containing heroin in 1898.
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.
Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
Because of Davy Jones's popularity as a member of The Monkees, another young singer in London, also named David Jones, was forced to change his name to David Bowie.
Because of the speed at which the sun moves, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.
Because of TV censorship, actress Mariette Hartley was not allowed to show her belly button on Gene Roddenberry's STAR TREK [episode #78 "All Our Yesterdays" in 1969] but later Roddenberry got even when he gave Hartley "two" belly buttons in the sci-fi movie Genesis II (1973).
Beer has a bitter taste and slightly pungent aroma because of lupulin, a substance found in hops.
Bees and dogs can smell fear
Bees can see ultraviolet light.
Bees have five eyes.
Bees kill more people a year than sharks do.
Bees visit over 2,000 flowers and fly over 55,000 miles to produce just 1 lb. of honey.
Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
Beethoven used to pour cold water over his head to stimulate his brain before sitting down to compose.
Beethoven who was a coffee lover, was so particular about his coffee that he always counted 60 beans each cup when he prepared his brew.
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and white worms like fried pork rinds.
Before 1850, golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers.
Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate.
Before 1917, goalies (in hockey) were not allowed to fall to the ice to make saves or else they were penalized.
Before Columbus, Europe had never tasted cord, potatoes, tomatoes, red peppers, sweet potatoes, tapioca, chocolate, pumpkins, squash, coconuts, pineapples, strawberries, and much more. Why? All these food items are native to America.
Before jets, jet lag was called boat lag.
Before roasting, some green coffee beans are stored for years, and experts believe that certain beans improve with age, when stored properly.
Before the 984 foot high Eiffel Tower was built in 1889, the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. was the tallest building in the world at 555 feet.
Before the first French cafe in the late 1700's, coffee was sold by street vendors in Europe, in the Arab fashion. The Arabs were the forerunners of the sidewalk espresso carts of today.
Before the merger with MGM in 1981, eight of the top ten movies released by United Artists were James Bond films.
Belgium is the only country that has never imposed censorship for adult films.
Believe that Buddha, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad... are all prophets from God? Have you heard of the baha'i faith?
Ben Franklin invented crop insurance.
Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.
Besides the genitals and the breasts, the inner nose is the only other body part that routinely swells during intercourse.
Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.
Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
Bette Midler, Barry Manilow and many other famous vocalists got their start in a New York City club called The Continental Baths.
Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney collected thirty-five Oscars.
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
Between 1940 and 1987, a total of 94 patents had been taken out on shaving mugs.
Between 1991 and 1996, India produced the most movies per year on average. The 851 movies per year beat the yearly average of the United States (569) by 282 for the same time frame.
Between April 1st and September 30th it is legal to capture and castrate any horse or donkey that you find roaming around your property.
Bibliomancy is the practice by some people of opening the Bible at random and being guided for the day by whatever verse they see first.
Bilbo Baggins was born on September 22 1290.
Bill Clinton is the only President ever to be elected twice without ever receiving 50% of the popular vote. He had 43 percent in 1992 and 49 percent in 1996.
Bill Gates began his business career at the age of 14 by forming a company called Traf-O-Data with some friends of his.
Bill Gates once was an employee for Apple. He worked with Jobs and Wasniak (sp?) to develop the OS for the first Apple computers. Later, he left Apple and began his own little company, known as Micro-Soft. It later became known as Microsoft... the reigning king of the software industry as we all know it.
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.
Bird eggs come in a wide variety of sizes. The largest egg from a living bird belongs to the ostrich. It is more than 2,000 times larger than the smallest bird egg, which is produced by the hummingbird. Ostrich eggs are about 7.1 inches long, 5.5 inches wide and typically weigh 2.7 pounds. Hummingbird eggs are half an inch long, a third of an inch wide and weigh half a gram, or less than a fifth of an ounce.
Birds are largely unaffected by spicy things, like chilies, as they not sensitive to capsaicin, the hot stuff in chilies.
Bittersweet chocolate is what is usually called for in baking. It contains more chocolate liquor (at least 35%) and less sugar than sweet chocolate. Semisweet chocolate contains 15% 35% chocolate liquor.
Black lemurs are the only primates that can have blue eyes.
Blaise Pascal's father was a French tax collector who had trouble keeping track of his collections. So in 1642, young Pascal designed and built a mechanical adding machine to help. It was the first mechanical calculator in history.
Blondes have more hair than dark haired people do.
Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide.
Blue and fin whales can create the loudest sound by animals ever recorded; sounds that have more energy than jet plane noise.
Blueberry Jelly Belies were created especially for Ronald Regan.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman, he changed it in honor of Dylan Thomas.
Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead learned to play slide guitar on stage much to the chagrin of Jerry Garcia.
Bock's Car was the name of the B-29 Bomber that dropped the Atom Bomb on Nagasaki.
Boil in tin pot twenty to twenty-five minutes. If boiled longer it will not taste fresh and lively.
Boiled grape juice was the fluid used as a lubricant for the first contact lenses. Eugene Flick, who invented contact lenses in 1887, chose boiled grape juice over sugar water to lubricate the thick glass lenses that covered the entire eye.
Books on religion outnumbered works of fiction by a 2 to 1 margin in 1870 England. Sixteen years later, novels surpassed religious works.
Born on November 2, 1718, British politician, John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, is credited with naming the 'sandwich.' He developed a habit of eating beef between slice of toast so he could continue to play cards uninterrupted.
Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations.
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
Bourbon whiskey gets its name from Bourbon County, Kentucky, where local distillers developed the drink around 1800.
Bowlers are allowed to have a maximum of five finger grip holes on a regulation bowling ball.
Boy George used to go out with his drummer.
Bozeman, Montana, has a law that bans all sexual activity between members of the opposite sex in the front yard of a home after sundownif they're nude. (Apparently, if you wear socks, you're safe from the law!)
Brabara Cartland is the world's top-selling author with over 500 million copies sold.
Brain damage occurs at an internal temperature of 105 degrees Fahrenheit.
Brazil accounts for almost 1/3 of the world's coffee production, producing over 3-1/3 billion pounds of coffee each year.
Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way round.
Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world (behind Russia, Canada, China and the United States). It’s only 300,000 square miles smaller than the United States. Australia, India, Argentina, Kazakhstan and the Sudan round out the Top 10.
Brazil is the location of the worlds widest road. 160 cars can drive side by side.
Brazil is the only country to have played in every World Cup soccer tournament.
Brigham Young invented the department store. Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI as it's known to those in Utah) is still in operation in Salt Lake City.
Britain's first escalator was installed in Harrods in 1878.
Britain's present royal family was originally named Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The name was changed in 1917, during WW1 because of German connotations. The name Windsor was suggested by one of the staff. At the same time the Battenberg family name of the cousins to the Windsors was changed into Mountbatten.
Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.
Brown eggs come from hens with red feathers and red ear lobes; white eggs come from hens with white feathers and white ear lobes.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves.
Bruce Lee was the Hong Kong 'cha cha' dance champion in 1958 He was also an American born in San Francisco and had a German grandfather.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms.
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.
Bullfrog Dietrich of the Chicago White Sox was the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter while wearing eyeglasses. He did it in 1937.
Bulls are colorblind, it is the motion of the cape which angers them.
Bulls are not attracted to the color red
Bulls don't really get angry when they see the color red, it's really movement that makes them charge.
Bumping foreheads with a hands shake is the traditional greeting in Tibet.
Bunny rabbits poop almost every time they hop around in a newly-explored area.
Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
BVD stands for the organizers of the company: Bradley, Voorhies, and Day.
By 1850, the manual coffee grinder found its way to most upper middle class kitchens of the U.S.
By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
By the time a child finishes elementary school she will have witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on television.
By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)
C3P0 is the first character to speak in Star Wars.
Caffeine is on the International Olympic Committee list of prohibited substances. Athletes who test positive for more than 12 micrograms of caffeine per milliliter of urine may be banned from the Olympic Games. This level may be reached after drinking about 5 cups of coffee.
Caffeine: there are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams in a six-ounce cup of cocoa, 5 to 10 milligrams in one ounce of bittersweet chocolate, and 5 milligrams in one ounce of milk chocolate.
Calculating DNA length for each person, it would stretch across the diameter of the solar system. 6 000 000 000 000 basepairx 0.6 nm x 1013 cell = 3.6x1016 metres
caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a
California's Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11-years-old.
Calling for shutgun comes form the Western Days when in the wagon the guy sitting next to the driver held a Shotgun for protection.
Calvin Coolidge, was so famous for saying so little that a White House dinner guest made a bet that she could get him to say more than two words. She told the president of her wager. His reply: "You lose."
Calvin Coolidge's Vice President Charles Dawes earned a Nobel Peace Prize.
Camel milk does not curdle.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
Campanology is the study of bells.
Canada actually comes from the word 'Kanata', a Huron or Iroquois word for village, and Canada is a 'big village'.
Canada declared national beauty contests canceled as of 1992, claiming they were degrading to women.
Canada declared that all national beauty contests to be cancelled in 1992, claiming they were degrading.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."
Canada's national sport is lacrosse not hockey.
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in Orange County, California. Number one is heart disease.
Cannibalism, eating human flesh, is also called anthropophagy.
Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons.
Capsaicin, which makes hot peppers "hot" to the human mouth, is best neutralized by casein, the main protein found in milk.
Captain Cook lost 41 of his 98 crew to scurvy (a lack of vitamin C) on his first voyage to the South Pacific in 1768. By 1795 the importance of eating citrus was realized, and lemon juice was issued on all British Navy ships.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard's (Star Trek) fish was named Livingston.
Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott."
Captain William Driver, skipper of the brig Charles Doggett, was the first person to call the American flag "Old Glory". He made a ceremony of it in 1824.
Car wash attendants in San Francisco, California may not use old pairs of underware to wash or dry vehicles.
Carbonated soda water was invented in 1767 by Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen.
Cards may not be played in the street with a Native American.
Carnegie Hall in New York City opened in 1891 with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
Carob trees do not produce fruit until they are seventy years old.
Carolyn Bessette Kennedy's pet name for JFK Jr. was "Mouse."
Carpet slippers were created by thrifty housewives who found other uses for old, worn-out pieces of carpet.
Carrots have zero fat content.
Casanova wore condoms made of linen.
Castor Oil®™ is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
Cat gut, used in tennis rackets and strings for musical instruments does not come from cats, but from sheep.
Cat scratch disease, a benign but sometimes painful disease of short duration, is caused by a bacillus. Despite its name, the disease can be transmitted by many kinds of scratches besides those of cats.
Cat urine glows under a black light.
Cat was the name of Holly Golightly's pet cat in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Catfish from the Nile River swim upside-down.
Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.
Catholic Popes who died during sex: Leo VII (936-9) died of a heart attack, John VII (955-64) was bludgeoned to death by the husband of the woman he was with at the time, John XIII (965-72) was also murdered by a jealous husband, Pope Paul II (1467-71) allegedly died while being sodomized by a page boy.
Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine. Cats have 32 muscles in each ear.
Cats average 16 hours of sleep a day, more than any other mammal.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
Cats sweat through the pads of their feet (especially when they hear a dog barking) and cannot taste sweet things.
Cat's urine glows under a black-light.
Celery does make you lose calories, it doesn't have a special chemical to do so but it has no calories so the chewing burns the calories burned
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living.
Certain frogs can reguritate their stomachs, in order to clean them (with their feet)
Chameleons can move their eyes in two different directions at the same time.
Chameleons can reel in food from a distance as far away as more than two and a half times their body lengths.
Chameleons change their color by dispersing the concentration of pigment in their skin. This is controlled by the autonomic nervous system. Color changes are determined by external factors such as light and temperature as well as emotions. They do not change color to match their background.
Charles Darwin thought that the 1,250 first run copies of his book The Origin of Species was too much. It turned out he was wrong as they sold out the first day of publication.
Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
Charles Dickens grew up in extreme poverty. At the age of 10, his father was sent to debtor's prison, his mother forced into menial labor, this brothers and sisters worked in factories, and Dickens himself had to tie and label sacks of lamp black. He would later draw on these experiences in his novels.
Charles Dodgson, also known as Lewis Carroll, wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" after Alice Pleasance Liddell. It was to be believed he fell in love with her and asked the parents if he could some day marry her. The parents disconnected their friendship. Alice Liddell has 12 letters, as does the pen name Lewis Carroll. It's a coincidence he uses 2 r's where the 2 d's are, as with the 2 L's. Talk about obsessed!
Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
Charlie Brown's dad was a barber.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Cheerios cereal was originally called Cheerioats.
Cheese closes the stomach and should always be served at the end of a meal.
Cheese fondue is said to have originated in the Gourmet Room of the Schweizerhof in Luzern, Switzerland.
Cheese is the oldest of all man-made foods.
Cheese was first made in the Middle East when hunters became herders and realized that milk could solidify (sour milk).
Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.
Cheetahs were originally called Leopards
Cher's last name was Sarkissian, she changed it because no one could pronounce it and it would not be accepted in show business.
Cher's real name is Cherilyn Sarkasian La Pier.
Chewing gum was created by the Mayans over 300 years ago. They boiled the sap of the sapodilla tree and chewed it.
Chewing gum was patented in 1869 by William Semple.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
Chicago has hosted the most presidential conventions with 25. Fourteen have been Republican and 11 Democratic.
Chicago's Lincoln Park was created in 1864. The original 120 acre cemetery had most of its graves removed and was expanded to more than 1000 acres for recreational use.
Chicken liver can be used to change A type blood to O type blood
Children grow faster in the springtime.
Children spend more time learning about life through media than any other manner. The average child spends approximately 28 hours a week watching television, which is twice as much time as they spend in school.
China has close to 25% of the world's population.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
China has trained 700,000 ducks and chickens to attack at the sound of a whistle in order to fight a national plague of locusts.
China was the first country to use paper money.
China. which covers an area of 178 acres.
China's Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat 9,000 people at one time.
Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.
Chocolate contains phenylethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.
Chocolate is potentially lethal to a dog coz cocoa beans contain theobromine which can poison the poor bastard
Chocolate kills dogs. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of the world's almonds and 20 percent of the world's peanuts.
Chocolate melts in your mouth because cocoa butter has a melting point of just below 35 degrees C, a little under body temperature.
Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.
Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.
Chocolate Timeline:1824: John Cadbury, an English Quaker, begins roasting and grinding chocolate beans to sell in his tea and coffee shop. In 1842 Cadbury's Chocolate Company in England creates the first chocolate bar. 1875: A Swiss chocolate maker, Daniel Peter, mixes Henri Nestle's condensed milk with chocolate and the two men found a company to manufacture the first milk chocolate. 1894: Milton Hershey adds a line of chocolate to his caramel manufacturing business. Soon he invents the Hershey Bar by experimenting with milk chocolate. Hershey's Cocoa appears next. 1896: Leonard Hershfield invents the Tootsie Roll, named after his daughter. 1897: Brownies are first mentioned in print, listed for sale in the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogue. 1940: The Mars company invents M&M's for soldiers going to World War II.
Chocolate was introduced into the United States in 1765 when cocoa beans were brought from the West Indies to Dorchester, Massachusetts.Cocoa butter is the natural fat of the cocoa bean. It has a delicate chocolate aroma, but is very bitter tasting. It is used to give body, smoothness, and flavor to eating chocolate.
'Chop Suey' translates to something like 'pieces of meat' and was invented by Chinese railroad workers who didn't know how to cook anything except to 'chop stuff up and fry it'
Chopsticks are called "o-hashi" in Japan and "kwai-tse" in China.
Chris Ford of the the Boston Celtics sank the NBA's first three-point shot in 1979.
Christmas became a national holiday in the US in 1890.
Christopher Columbus had blonde hair.
Christopher Columbus was the greatest explorer NEVER to discover America. In fact, he didn't even come close.
Cicadas have their hearing organs in their stomachs, at the base of the abdomen.
Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator. It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.
Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600's by a translator.
Cindy Laupher had dyslexia and failed every subject in school.
Citizens of Monaco are prohibited from gambling in Monte Carlo, but they're exempt from taxation.
Citrus has been added to coffee for several hundred years.
City Ordinance number 352 in Pacific Grove, CA makes it a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly.
City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.
Clans many many years ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them, burnt their houses down - hence the expression " to get fired."
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them, burnt their houses down hence the expression "to get fired."
Cleveland law forbids you to operate a motor vehicle while sitting in another person's lap.
Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C."
Close to two million people who go to hospitals in the United States for one ailment wind up catching another.
Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
Coca-Cola does not reduce your sperm count
Coca-Cola was originally green
Coca-Cola was so named back in 1885 for its two 'medicinal' ingredients: extract of coca leaves and kola nuts. As for how much cocaine was originally in the formulation, it's hard to know.
Cocaine was sold to cure sore throat, neuralgia, nervousness, headache, colds and sleeplessness in the 1880s.
Cocaine was the first local anesthetic; being used as such from about 1884 onwards.
Cocaine works in a totally different way from narcotics such as morphine or heroin. Heroin works on receptor sites in the brain which are stimulated by the drug to produce pain-relieving and mood-enhancing chemicals. Cocaine on the other hand works by stimulating the central nervous system, and like alcohol, is processed through the liver.
Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.
cockroaches can change course as many as 25 times in one second
Cockroaches can live for nine days without their heads, at which point they die of starvation.
Cockroaches can live with no heads, they only die because of starvation.
Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks.
Coffee as a medicine reached its highest and lowest point in the 1600's in England. Wild medical contraptions to administer a mixture of coffee and an assortment of heated butter, honey, and oil, became treatments for the sick. Soon tea replaced coffee as the national beverage.
Coffee beans are similar to grapes that produce wine in that they are affected by the temperature, soil conditions, altitude, rainfall, drainage and degree of ripeness when picked.
Coffee beans can be mixed into B type blood, changing it into O type blood
Coffee is generally roasted between 400F and 425F. The longer it is roasted, the darker the roast. Roasting time is usually from ten to twenty minutes.
Coffee is graded according to 3 criteria: Bean quality (Altitude and Species) Quality of preparation Size of bean
Coffee is grown commercially in over forty-five countries throughout the world.
Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.
Coffee lends its popularity to the fact that just about all flavors mix well with it.
Coffee Recipe from: 'Kitchen Directory and American Housewife' (1844)
Coffee represents 75% of all the caffeine consumed in the United States.
Coffee sacks are usually made of hemp and weigh approximately 132 pounds when they are full of green coffee beans. It takes over 600,000 beans to fill a coffee sack.
Coffee trees are evergreen and grow to heights above 15 feet but are normally pruned to around 8 feet in order to facilitate harvesting.
Coffee trees are self-pollinating.
Coffee trees produce highly aromatic, short-lived flowers producing a scent between jasmine and orange. These blossoms produce cranberry-sized coffee cherries. It takes four to five years to yield a commercial harvest.
Coffee was first known in Europe as Arabian Wine.
Coffee, along with beer and peanut butter, is on the national list of the "ten most recognizable odors."
Coffee, as a world commodity, is second only to oil.
Cojo, the 1st gorilla born in captivity, was born at the Columbus Zoo, in Ohio, in 1956 and weighed 3 1/4 pounds.
Cole Porter had nine pounds of fudge shipped to him each month from his hometown.
Colgate claims "Tooth Fairy" as a registered trademark.
Colored diamonds are caused by impurities such as nitrogen (yellow), boron (blue). With red diamonds being due to deformities in the structure of the stone, and green ones being the result of irradiation.
Colour blind people are used to detect camouflaged units in previous war-fare. And some of you thought Jonathan was useless.. :P~
Columbus brought cacao (chocolate) beans back to Spain on his fourth voyage in 1502.
Comedian/actor Billy Crystal portrayed Jodie Dallas, the first openly gay main character on network television on ABC's Soap, which aired from 1977 to 1981.
Commercially flavored coffee beans are flavored after they are roasted and partially cooled to around 100 degrees. Then the flavors applied, when the coffee beans' pores are open and therefore more receptive to flavor absorption.
Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
Compulsive or pathological sexual behavior have a 12-step program available to them through SLAA, the Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous.
Coney Island in New York got its name from rabbits. In early days it was overrun by rabbits, which were often referred to as coneys.
Coral (pro osteon) has molecular architecture and chemistry similar to human bone and so it can be used to replace bone grafts, helping bones heal faster. 150-200 pounds of it can sustain hundreds of graphs
Cornelius van Drebel, a Dutch physician, built and successfully demonstrated the first submarine in 1620. It was a wooden framework covered with greased leather. The propulsion was provided by oars worked from the inside. It was tested in the Thames River in London.
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Cotton candy's original name was "fairy fluff."
Cows and horses sleep standing up.
Cows are incapable of putting their lips together to make sounds like humans, so they are actually saying "OOOOO" instead of "Moo."
Cows are usually found lying down before it starts to rain.
Cows release 50 million metric tonnes of methane gas a year.
Cows sweat through their noses.
Cows, like my grannie, do not have upper teeth.
'Crack Cocaine' is still cocaine. It is simply a different chemical process applied to cocaine powder that allows cocaine to be smokeable. This means that the 'high' from Crack Cocaine is much stronger and more immediate (taking about 8 seconds to reach the brain); and also shorter lived then from the powder.
'Crack' is the street name given to cocaine that has been processed from cocaine hydrochloride to a free base for smoking. Rather than requiring the more volatile method of processing cocaine using ether, crack cocaine is processed with ammonia or sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and water and heated to remove the hydrochloride, thus producing a form of cocaine that can be smoked.
Cranberries are one of just 3 major fruits native to North America. Blueberries and Concord grapes are the other two.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
Crocodiles can snap their jaws in 1/8th of a second and can use over 40 sets of teeth
Crocodiles have brains no larger than a cigar and they cannot stick their tongue out.
Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico are all a part of the Greater Antilles.
Currently the world's tallest building is the Petronas Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Petronas Towers measures 1,483ft.
Cutthroat Island is the biggest movie flop in history, losing an estimated $81 million. It’s almost double the loss of the second-biggest money loser, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ($48.1 million).
Cyprus has a map on its flag.
D. H. Lawrence enjoyed taking off his clothes and climbing mulberry trees.
Dall's porpoise never sleeps, elephants sleep two hours a day, horses nap standing up, and Sitatunga antelopes can sleep submerged
Damascus, Syria is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. Civilization can be traced as far back as 2,000 B.C.
Dana Carvey changed his name to "Tom" for 2 weeks because he thought Dana was a girl's name.
Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.
Daniel Butterfield was the author of the melody "Taps," and it was the only song he ever wrote.
Danishes are called Vienna cakes in Denmark, and Spanish rice is unknown in Spain.
Dark roasted coffees actually have LESS caffeine than medium roasts. The longer a coffee is roasted, the more caffeine burns off during the process.
Dave Matthews relocated to the United States to avoid service in the South African Military.
David Sarnoff received the Titanic's distress signal and saved hundreds of passengers. He later became the head of the first radio network, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC).
David Wolf was the first person to cast an absentee ballot from space. In November 1997, he cast a vote via e-mail for the mayor of Houston while onboard the space station Mir.
Daylight savings time started during World War I, so Americans could use as much natural lighting as possible and conserve energy needed for war production. Despite the Uniform Time Act, which Congress passed in 1966 to standardize the time change, several states within the United States do not observe Daylight Saving Time. They are Arizona, Hawaii, parts of Indiana, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa.
Death Valley, California, has a point that is 280 feet below sea level.
December 1972 U.S. astronaut Eugene Cernan becomes the last person to set foot on the moon.
Deer sleep only 5 minutes a day.
Dennis H. sent in a link proving this fact to be wrong, which means the book I got it from was wrong. I contacted the U.S. Mint and found that the first circulated coins 11,178 copper cents were minted in March 1793.
Dentists have recommended that toothbrushes be kept at least six feet from toilets to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
Despite a population of well over one billion people, there are only an estimated 250 million televisions in use in China.
Despite its reputation for being finicky, the average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids. In case you were wondering, cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
Despite the break up of the USSR, Russia is still the largest country in the world. It’s almost twice the size of Canada, which ranks second.
Despite the fact that federal spending on the drug war increased from $1.65 billion in 1982 to $17.7 billion in 1999, more than half of the students in the United States in 1999 tried an illegal drug before they graduated from high school. Additionally, 65% have tried cigarettes by 12th grade and 35% are current smokers, and 62% of twelfth graders and 25% of 8th graders in 1999 report having been drunk at least once.
Despite the fact that Madagascar is situated about 300 miles off the Eastern African coast, the majority of it's population is from Indonesia which is 3000 miles further East.
Despite the many rat infested slums in New York City, only 311 people are bitten by rats in an average year. But 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers
Detroit policeman William L. Potts is credited with inventing the modern street traffic light in 1920. He worked out an electric light system that allowed him to control three street intersections from one tower He picked the red, yellow and green because railroads used them.
Developed in Egypt about 5,000 years ago, the greyhound breed was known before the ninth century in England, where it was bred by aristocrats to hunt such small game as hares.
Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts.
Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for about 180,000 deaths per year.
Diamond is the hardest naturally occurring substance, and is also one of the most valuable natural substances. Diamonds are crystals formed almost entirely of carbon. Because of its hardness, the diamond is the most enduring of all gemstones. They are among the most costly jewels in the world, partly because they are rare, Only four important diamond fields have been found in Africa, South America, India, and the Soviet Union.
Did you know a tuna called the 'Blue Fin' tuna can be sold for over $20,000 around the world?
Did you know that 85.7% of statisics are made up?
Did you know that a goldfish has a memory spand of 5 seconds??? You wouldn't wanna tell a goldfish anything to improtant!!
Did you know that cow farts are one major cause of global warming.
Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live?
Did you know that in Tibet there is actually a practice called 'polyandry' where many men, usually brothers, marry a single woman? This takes place so that only one set of children will inherit the land.
Did you know there was one U.S. state that no longer exists? In 1784 the U.S. had a state called Franklin, named after Benjamin Franklin. But four years later, it was incorporated into Tennessee.
Diet Soda kills brain cells because they use so many chemicals to make it "diet"...
Dill seeds are so small that approximately 10,000 dill seeds would be required to make an ounce.
Discovered in the foundations of Dudley Castle near Birmingham, England, these condoms were made from fish and animal intestines and dated back to 1640.
Dismal first-year sales of famous products: VW Beetle (U.S.)--sold 330 first year. Liquid Paper--sold 1,200 bottles first year. Cuisinart--sold 200 first year. Remington typewriter--sold 8 first year. Scrabble--sold 532 first year. Coca-Cola--sold 25 bottles first year. (For total of $50; supplies and advertising ran $70.)
Disney World in Orlando, Florida covers 30,500 acres (46 square miles), making it twice the size of the island of Manhattan, New York.
Disneyland opened in 1955.
Dogs and humans are the only species that have prostates.
Dogs can't decifer size. Thats why little dogs are mean.
Dolley Madison is credited with inventing ice cream. Nancy Johnson, the wife of a naval officer, is credited for inventing the ice cream freezer.
Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.
Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to.
Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of the water. They frequently rise to the surface for air.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open
Dolplins are the only other mamals besides humans that have sex for fun.
Domestic cats hate lemons or other citrus scents.
Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags.
Dominique Larrey, Napoleon's chief surgeon, could amputate a leg in 13 seconds.
Don Mac Lean's song "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who all died in the same plane crash.
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, has been translated into more languages than any book outside of the Bible.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Donald Duck lives at 1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes
Don't even think about having sex while in a moving ambulance in Tremonton, Utah as it is very, very illegal. Of course, a stationary ambulance is another story.
Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote 'Nutrition for Health', died of malnutrition. (not verified)
Dr. George F. Grant received U.S. patent number 638,920 on December 12, 1899. His invention? The golf tee. He created it because he didn't want to get his hands dirty by building a mound of dirt to place his ball on.
Dr. Guillotin merely proposed the machine that bears his name (which was rejected by the crown) and he never made a working model. The first working model was made by his assistant years later. When the machine attained infamy in the French Revolution, Dr.Guillotin protested its use and went to his grave claiming that the machine was unjustly named after him.
Dr. Joel Poinsett, the 1st US ambassador to Mexico, brought the poinsettia to US in 1828. The plant, called "flower of the blessed night" in Mexico was renamed in Poinsett's honor.
Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce".
Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than 50 different words.
Draftsmen have to make 27,000 drawings for the manufacturing of a new car.
Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
Dragonfly larvae develop under the water and eject water from their anus to propel them for short distances
Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".
Dry ice does not melt, it evaporates.
Dry wine is a wine that has been completely fermented, meaning that only 0.1% of the sugar remains.
Due to precipitation, for a few weeks K2 was bigger than Mt Everest.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Duffel bags are named after a town of Duffel, Belgium, where they were first made.
Dunkirk, France is the site of the largest military evacuation in history. During World War II, some 340,000 Allied troops were evacuated to England. The retreat by sea took place between May 26 and June 4, 1940.
During a severe windstorm or rainstorm the Empire State Building may sway several feet to either side.
During conscription for World War II, there were nine documented cases of men with three testicles.
During Hell Week (the most grueling portion of training) the trainees get 4 hours of sleep.
During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, "Red Vineyard at Arles".
During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's timeless classic of the sea, 'Moby Dick', only sold 50 copies.
During his lifetime Paganini published only five compisitions. He didn't expect anybody to be able to play them, and at that time nobody could.
During its entire life time a housefly never travels more than a hundred feet from the place where it was born.
During pregnancy, the average woman's uterus expands up to five hundred times its normal size.
During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush, (1897-1898) potatoes were practically worth their weight in gold. Potatoes were so valued for their vitamin C content that miners traded gold for potatoes.
During the American Civil War the Union soldiers were issued eight pounds of ground roasted coffee as part of their personal ration of one hundred pounds of food. And they had another choice: ten pounds of green coffee beans.
During the average human life, you will consume 70 assorted bugs as well as 10 spiders whilst you sleep.
During the baseball rivalries between the two major leagues in the 1890s, the Pittsburgh Nationals took advantage of a technicality and signed a player away from another club. The Nationals' president, J. Palmer O'Neill, was called J. "Pirate" O'Neill, and his club became the Pittsburgh Pirates.
During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
During the chariot scene a small red car can be seen in the distance.
During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in the distance.
During the filming of Singin' in the Rain, the director had two ladies Carol Haney and Gwen Verdon put on tap dancing shows and dance around in bucketsful of water. Apparently, he liked Gene Kelly's dancing, but wasn't able to get the sound he wanted for someone dancing in the rain. The sounds of Gene Kelly's tap dancing in the movie aren't really the sounds he made during the filming of the movie.
During the mid-1800s, less than half of the newborn babies lived more than ten years. Today, over 90 percent do.
During the Prohibition, at least 1,565 Americans died from drinking bad liquor, hundreds were blinded, and many were killed in bootlegger wars. Federal Agents and the Coast Guard made 75,000 arrests per year.
During the Reign of Peter the Great, their was a special tax on anyone who had a beard.
During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian who wore a beard was required to pay a special tax.
During the US Civil war, 200,000 blacks served in the Union Army; 38,000 gave their lives; 22 won the Medal of Honor.
During the winter, squirrels make waterproof nests in hollow trees.
During warm weather, hippos secrete a reddish, oily fluid, called pink sweat, which acts as a skin conditioner to keep it moist.
During winter in Moscow the skating rinks cover more than 250,000 square meters of land.
During World War II Canadian scientists secretly developed biological weapons which were later taken over by the USA. Anthrax was one.
During World War II the U.S. government used 260 million pounds of instant coffee.
During World War II, bakers in the United States were ordered to stop selling sliced bread for the duration of the war on January 18, 1943. Only whole loaves were made available to the public. It was never explained how this action helped the war effort.
During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, an avid golfer, had a putting green installed on the White House lawn.
Dynamite contains peanuts.
Each banana plant bears only one stem of fruit. To produce a new stem, only two shoots known as the daughter and the granddaughter are allowed to grow and be cultivated from the main plant.
Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.thanx kim (Now dont you feel more contented each night before you go to sleep ALONE)
Each human generates about 3.5 pounds of rubbish a day, mostly paper.
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.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
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.
Each person's ears are unique.
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction. 2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.
Each year 50,000 earthquakes take place on this planet.
Each year approximately 250,000 American husbands are physically attacked and beaten by their wives.
Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.
Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the Earth's food crop.
Earth's magnetic field has been weakening. It seems to have lost 15% of its strength since 1670. At the present rate of decrease, it will reach zero in 2,000 years. Between the years 3500 and 4500, the magnetic field will not be sufficiently strong enough to ward off charged radiation from outer space.
Easter is the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after March 21.
Eating breakfast will help you burn from 5-20% more calories throughout the day.
Eating large amounts of carrots will eventually turn your skin orange because of the chemical substance called carotene which is found in carrots. Carotene is the cause of the orange hue in leaves during the fall.
Eddie Arcaro, one of the greatest jockeys in horse race history, rode 250 losers before he won his first race. Ultimately, Arcaro won 4,779 races including five Derby winners, six in the Preakness, and six in the Belmont Stakes, on such famous horses as Whirlaway, Citation, and Kelso.
Edgar Allan Poe introduced mystery fiction's first fictional detective, Auguste C. Dupin, in his 1841 story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
Eggplant is a member of the thistle family.
Eggs sink in water when they are fresh and float when expired.
Eight positions are mentioned in Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" routine. Only right field was left out.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
El Capitan in Yosemite National Park is the largest visible granite rock in the world. It's twice the size of the Rock of Gibraltar.
Eleanor Roosevelt wrote David O. Selznick to ask that her maid, Lizzy McDuffy, be considered for the role of Mammy in Gone With the Wind.
Electrical stimulation of certain areas of the brain has been proven to revive long-lost memories.
Elephant tusks grow throughout an elephant's life and can weigh more than 200 pounds. Among Asian elephants, only the males have tusks. Both sexes of African elephants have tusks.
Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles in one day.
Elephants are the only Mammals that can't jump.
Elephants can communicate using sounds that are below the human hearing range: between 14 and 35 hertz.
Elephants can't jump.
Elephants only sleep for two hours each day.
Elephants produce 50 pounds of manure every day.
Elephants, horses, and camels all descended from animals that originally came from North America, despite their present homes in Eurasia.
Elizabeth the First suffered from anthophobia (a fear of roses).
Elton John and The Beach Boys are tied for the record for the longest gap between number one hit singles in the United States. Both waited 21 years, 11 months.
Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.
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.
Elvis Presley made his first appearance on national television in 1956. He sang Blue Suede Shoes and Heartbreak Hotel on "The Dorsey Brothers Show."
Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. "You've got Mail!"). He is heard about 27 million times a day. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as "Q-Link."
E-mails started in 1971. Ray Tomlinson is it's DADDY!! and the first e-mail was sent WRITTEN ENTIRELY IN UPPER CASE.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Emus cannot walk backwards.
Emus have double plumed feathers and they lay emerald/forest green eggs.
Engelbert Humperdinck's real name is Gerry Dorsey. He didn't make that name up, though. It originally belonged to the 1800s German musician who wrote the opera Hansel and Gretel.
England and the American colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar on September 14th, 1752. 11 days disappeared.
England once had a Prime Minister who was only 24 years old. He was William Pitt, elected in 1783.
England's King Edward VII gave a large diamond tiara to Wallis Warfield Simpson as a wedding gift. Simpson was the woman for whom Edward VII abdicated the throne for.
England's Stonehenge is 1500 years older than Rome's Colosseum.
English traders introduced opium to China to create a market for the drug. They then traded silver for opium to help pay other Chinese traders for their tea.
Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page were all once the lead guitarist for the English band the Yardbirds in the 1960's.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words, not a single word contained the letter "E."
Europe has no deserts, it is the only continent without one.
Evard Ericksen sculpted "The Little Mermaid" statue which is located in Copenhagen harbor.
Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
Even though they broke up 25 years ago, the Beatles continue to sell more records each year than the Rolling Stones.
Even when all the molecules in a single breath of air have been dispersed evenly in the earth's atmosphere, there will still be one or two of the same ones taken into the lungs with every subsequent breath. Every time you breathe in, you inhale one or two of the same molecules that you inhaled with the first breath you took as a baby.
Ever wonder how Swiss cheese is made? As the cheese ferments, a bacterial action generates gas. As the gas is liberated, it bubbles through the cheese, leaving all those holes.
Everest is not the tallest mountain. Mauna Kea Mountain in the Hawaiian Island is 230m taller. It is 4201m above water and 4877 underwater! Everest is only 8848m.
Every 14 years, Saturn's rings become briefly invisible to astronomers on Earth. At that time, the plane of the rings is tipped to that of the Earth's orbit, and they are seen edge-on. Since the ring's are so thin, they can't be seen at that angle.
Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald's.
Every eleven years the magnetic poles of the sun switch. This cycle is called "Solarmax".
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Every man in Brainerd, Minnesota is required by law to grow a beard.
Every person has a unique eye and tongue print.
Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
Every queen named Jane has either been murdered, imprisoned, gone mad, died young, or been dethroned.
Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter.
Every ten minutes, another plant or animal life form becomes extinct.
Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
Every time the moon's gravity causes a ten-foot tide at sea, all the continents on earth rise at least six inches.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public).
Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.
Every year 8,000 people injure themselves while using a tooth pick.
Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.
Every year, Mexico City sinks about 10 inches.
Every year, surgical tools are left in approximately 1,500 patients in the USA. Fatter patients are more prone to having a surgical tool left inside of them due to the additional amount of space in their bodies.
Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.
Everyone in the Middle Ages believed -as Aristotle had -that the heart was the seat of intelligence.
Everyone is colorblind at birth
Everyone knows that the U.S. gold depository is in Fort Knox, Kentucky. But nobody seems to know that the U.S. silver depository is at West Point, New York.
Everyone thought Albert Einstein suffered from dyslexia, because he couldn't speak properly until he was 9 years old.
Except for 2 and 3, every prime number will eventually become divisible by 6 if you either add or subtract 1 from the number. For example, the number 17, plus 1, is divisible by 6. The number 19, minus 1, is also divisible by 6
Experiments have shown that, ants are capable of lifting 50 times their own weight and pulling loads 300 times their own weight.
False eyelashes were invented by film director D.W. Griffith while he was making the 1916 epic, "Intolerance." He wanted actress Seena Owen to have lashes that brushed her cheeks.
Faye Wong received a 7 digit fee for recording 'eyes on me' and it took her about 4 hours.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Federal law forbids recycling used eyeglasses in the United States.
Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), Pope Leo VII (936-939), Pope John VII (955-964), Pope Leo VIII (963-965), Pope John XIII (965-72), Pope Paul II (1467-1471), Lord Palmerston (British Prime Minister, 1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (US Vice President, 1908-1979), and John Entwistle (The Who's bassist, 1944-2002) all died while having sex.
Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character to ever have been made into a balloon for a parade.
Female chickens, or hens, need about 24 to 26 hours to produce one egg. Thirty minutes later they start the process all over again. In addition to the half-hour rests, some hens rest every three to five days and others rest every 10 days.
Female lions do 90% of the hunting.
Female rabbits on the other hand, reabsorb their embryo for the proteins
Females have a wider peripheral vision than males.
Ferrets sleep around 20 hours a day.
Ferris wheels are names after George W. Ferris who built the first one in Chicago in 1893.
Fin whales are the second largest animal ever to live on earth. They have been measured to over 80 feet long in Antarctic waters.
Finagle's Law was the one that went, "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong." Not Murphy's Law.
Finely grinding coffee beans and boiling them in water is still known as "Turkish Coffee." It is still made this way today in Turkey and Greece or anywhere else Turkish Coffee is served.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
Fingerprints serve a function they provide traction for the fingers to grasp things.
Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko instead. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols, who visits homes on New Year's Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a plate is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes.
First Instant Replay was used during Army Navy Football Game at Municipal Stadium Philadelphia on December 7, 1963, invented by Tony Verna (CBS Director.)
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
Fish scales are an ingredient in lipstick.
Five Jell-O®™ flavors have flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple and chocolate.
Five NFL teams have bird nicknames: Arizona Cardinals, Philadelphia Eagles, Atlanta Falcons, Baltimore Ravens and Seattle Seahawks.
Flamingos are able to fly at a speed of approximately 55 kilometers an hour. In one night they can travel about 600 km.
Flavored coffees are created after the roasting process by applying flavored oils specially created to use on coffee beans.
Fleas are essential to the health of armadillos and hedgehogs; they provide necessary stimulation of the skin. Deloused armadillos and hedgehogs will die.
Fleas have killed more people (due to Bubonic plague and such) than all wars throughout history combined.
Fleas jump the equivilant of one mile..in insect feet.
Flies jump backwards when they take off.
Flies taste with their feet.
Flirtation between the members of the opposite sex on the streets of Little Rock may result in a 30-day jail term.
Florence Nightingale Graham adopted the name Elizabeth Arden once her company became successful at the beginning of the 1900s.
Florida law forbids rats to leave the ships docked in Tampa Bay.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
Fog and a cloud are the same thing, only at different altitudes. Fog is simply a cloud lying on the earth, while clouds are fog floating in the sky.
Food is so scarce in the Arctic, that wolves don't waste any part of their meals. A wolf will eat every part of an arctic hare, including the skin, fur, and bones.
Food passes through the small intestine in just two hours, zipping along at 0.002 mph. Inside the large intestine, it takes about 14 hours, traveling at a more leisurely rate of 0.00007 mph
For 186 days you can not see the sun in the North Pole.
For a short distance, the bluefin tuna can swim 50 miles per hour.
For a typical lovemaking session, the man will thrust an average of 60 to 120 times.
For drinking, washing, etc., an average American uses 168 gallons of water per day. The average American residence uses 107,000 gallons per year.
For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen.
For every degree of longitude there is a time gap of four minutes.
For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the 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 of battle wounds; if all four of the horse's legs are on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
For five years, Webster's dictionary contained a definition of the word dord, a word that has never actually existed.
For hundreds of years, the people of Poona, India, have disposed of their dead by carrying the corpses to the top of a tower and letting the vultures eat them.
For the "wrong handed" people...Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! That means DEATH to Lefties
For the 66% of American's who admit to reading in the bathroom, the preferred reading material is "Reader's Digest."
For two years, during the 1970s, Mattel marketed a doll called "Growing Up Skipper." Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.
Forks weren't widely used in the United States until the 1800s.
Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ate three chocolate-covered garlic balls in the morning. Her doctor told her it would help improve her memory.
Former President Cleveland defeated incumbent Benjamin Harrison in 1892, becoming the first (and, to date, only) chief executive to win non-consecutive terms to the White House.
Fortune cookies were invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodle maker.
Forty percent of McDonald's profits comes from the sale of Happy Meals.
Forty-six percent of the world's water is in the Pacific Ocean; that's around 6 sextillion gallons of water. The Atlantic has 23.9 percent; the Indian, 20.3; the Arctic, 3.7 percent.
Forty-six US federal agencies have officers with the authority to carry firearms and arrest people.
Found in Egypt, this illustration is over 3,000 years old.
Four different people played the part of Darth Vader (body, face, voice, and breathing).
Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published a novel called "Futility". The story was about an ocean liner that struck an iceberg on an April night. The name of the ship in his novel was The Titan.
Fourteenth century physicians didn't know what caused the plague, but they knew it was contagious. As a result they wore an early kind of bioprotective suit which included a large beaked head piece. The beak of the head piece, which made them look like large birds, was filled with vinegar, sweet oils and other strong smelling compounds to counteract the stench of the dead and dying plague victims.
Francis Bacon died of hypothermia while trying to freeze a chicken by stuffing it with snow.
Francis Scott Key wrote the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the back on an envelope. The music is from an old English drinking song called "To Anacreon in Heaven."
Frank Baum named "Oz" after a file cabinet in his office. One cabinet was labeled "A to N," and the second was labeled "O to Z."
Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
Frankfort, Kentucky, makes it against the law to shoot off a policeman's tie.
Franklin Pierce is the only President to have said "I promise" instead of "I swear at his Inauguration. He did it for religious reasons.
Franz Ferdinand was killed.. remember that the guys death partly caused the WWI. Anyway, his death was almost unavoidable. After an attempted assasination using a bomb failed, (because the bomb hit the rear mud flap of the car Ferdinand was in and bounced away) authorities decided to change the route of Ferdinands tour... but failed to inform the driver of the car. And so, unfortunately, at one stage, the driver took a wrong turn and drove into an alley. While reversing out, Princip (killer) came and shot Ferdinand and his wife at a distance of 4-5 feet killing them. Ferdinand brought his wife to Serejavo to celebrate their anniversary.
Frederic Remington's sculpture The Bronco Buster has mistake in it: the cowboy is wearing his spurs upside down.
Frederic-August Bartholdi sculpted The Statue of Liberty.
Frederick the great had his coffee made with champagne and a bit of mustard.
French composer Erik Satie holds the record for shortest and longest composition in the world. His piano piece Vexations lasts for just under a minute. However, Satie states in the score that it should be played 840 times in succession a nonstop playing time of 14 hours.
French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
Fried chicken is the most popular meal ordered in sit-down restaurants in the US. The next in popularity are: roast beef, spaghetti, turkey, baked ham, and fried shrimp.
Fried cockroach with garlic is used as medicine for the common cold
From 13th June'1948 to 1st June'1958 a citizen of Los Angeles hiccoughed 160,000,000 times. People sent him 60,000 suggestions for cures.
From 1836 to 1896, the Red Flag Act in England required that any self-propelled vehicle be preceded by a man carrying a red flag by day and a red lantern by night. In effect, this limited the speed to four miles per hour and retarded the development of all self-propelled vehicles, including the automobile.
From 70 to 80 percent of all ripe olives are grown in California's approximately 35,000 acres. In the 1700s, Franciscan monks brought olives to Mexico and then into California by way of the missions. The first cuttings were planted in 1769 at the San Diego Mission. Commercial cultivation of California olives began in the late 1800s. Today, anywhere from 80,000 to 160,000 tons of olives are produced in California each year.
From the 1500's to the 1700's, tobacco was prescribed by doctors to treat a variety of ailments including headaches, toothaches, arthritis and bad breath.
From the Middle Ages up until the end of the 19th century, barbers performed a number of medical duties including bloodletting, wound treatment, dentistry, minor operations and bone-setting. The barber's striped red pole originated in the Middle Ages, when it was a staff the patient would grip while the barber bled the patient.
Fuzzy Zoeller defeated Tom Watson and Ed Sneed in the first sudden-death playoff at The Masters in 1979.
G.I. Joe was introduced at the annual American International Toy Fair in New York on Feb. 9, 1964.
Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible.
Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the three angels mentioned by name in the Bible.
Gaetano Albert "Guy" Lombardo did the first New Year's Eve broadcast of "Auld Lang Syne," from the Roosevelt Grill in New York City in 1929/1930.
Galileo became totally blind shortly before his death.
Gargling in public is against the law in Louisiana.
Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed.
General Robert E. Lee was not a slaveholder and never believed in slavery. He never believed in secession from the United States and strongly condemned it. He decided to lead the armies of the South because he wanted nothing to happen to his beloved Virginia.
General Stonewall Jackson has two separate burial sites one for his amputated left arm (Fredericksburg, VA) and one for the rest of his body (Lexington, VA). Jackson’s left arm was shattered during the Battle of Chancellorsville by friendly fire and was amputated the next day. He died a week later. (8-1-02)
George Crum invented potato chips in 1853 at the Moon Lake Lodge in Saratoga Springs, New York. Crum was part Indian, part black, a former guide in the Adirondacks.
George Hancock invented a new game on November 30, 1887. It was played like baseball, except a broomstick was used for a bat and a boxing glove was the ball. Since the game was played indoors, it was originally called "indoor." Walter Hakanson later renamed it "softball."
George Harrison, with "My Sweet Lord," was the first Beatle to have a Number 1 hit single following the group's breakup.
George Orwell, author of Animal Farm and 1984, wrote under a pen name. His real name was Eric Blair.
George Washington had to borrow money to go to his own inauguration.
George Washington named Washington D.C. "Federal City." It was changed to "Washington D.C." after his death.
George Washington who commanded the Continental Army as a four-star general was promoted posthumously to the position of six-star "General of the Armies of Congress" by an order of Jimmy Carter, who felt America's first President should also be America's highest military official.
George Washington's favorite horse was named Lexington. Napoleon's favorite was Marengo. U.S. Grant had three favorite horses: Egypt, Cincinnati, and Jeff Davis.
George Washington's teeth were actually: carved from animal tusks, some of them were also somebody else's teeth, and some of them were from animals like deer and cales.
Gerald Ford was the only President to have two women attempt to assassinate him. Both attempts were in California in September of 1975. The first attempt was September 6, 1975, by Lynette Fromme who thought she could impress Charles Manson by killing the President. The next attempt was by Sara Jane Moore on September 22, 1975. Her motive was simply that she was bored. John Tyler, joined the Confederacy twenty years later and became the only President named a sworn enemy of the United States.
Gerald Ford, George Bush, Tommy Lasorda, Ted Koppel, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Bill Clinton are all left handed.
German chemist Hennig Brand discovered phosphorus while he was examining urine for a way to turn baser metals into gold.
German chocolate cake did not originate in Germany. In 1852, Sam German developed a sweet baking bar for Baker's Chocolate Co. The product was named in honor of him -Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate.
German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
Ghandi had the most extras of any movie ever made with about 300,000 people. The German movie Kolberg is second with 187,000.
Ghengis Kahn's first conquered land was an act of retaliation. Kahn sent a group of traders on a peaceful mission to Transoxiana. The governor there beheaded their leader and sent the others back to Kahn with their beards cut off. So Kahn attacked them and continued to onward until most of Asia and Europe were his.
Ghosts appear in 4 Shakespearian plays; Julius Caesar, Richard III, Hamlet and Macbeth.
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.
Ginger has been clinically demonstrated to work twice as well as Dramamine for fighting motion sickness, with no side effects.
Giraffes and humans have the same amount of vertebrae in their necks.
Giraffes can last longer without water than a camel
Giraffes have no vocal chords.
Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae in their necks as humans. Their lips are prehensile, their tongues are 21 inches long, and they cannot cough.
Giraffe's tongues are 22 inches long and black with pink dots.
Girls tend to sleep more soundly than boys.
Glenn Miller was the first performer to earn a gold record. He got it for the Chattanooga Choo Choo on February 10, 1942.
Goats do not eat tin cans, as lampooned in cartoons. They nibble at the cans because they're after the glue on the labels.
Goats' eyes have rectangular pupils.
God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther.
Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
Goldfish have a memory span of 3 seconds!
Goldfish have the memory span of about 3-5 seconds, thats why you can leave them in a small jar and they wont get bored and you can also over feed them till they kaput.
Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream.
Golfers use an estimated $800 million worth of golf balls annually.
Gottfried Daimler of Stuttgart, Germany, is generally regarded as the father of the automobile because he was the first to come up with a workable gasoline engine.
Goulash, a beef soup, originated in Hungary in the 9th century AD.
Grand Rapids, Michigan was the first city in the US to put fluoride in their water.
Grapes explode when cooked in the microwave.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
Grasping your ears is a sign of repentance or sincerity in India.
Grasshoppers have white blood.
Great Britain was the first country to issue stamps in 1840.
Greece and Australia are the only countries to participate in all of the modern Olympics.
Greece's anthem has 158 verses.
Greek has over 4 words for love. English has only one. Get my drift?
Greenland has more ice on it than Iceland does. In fact, Iceland has more grass and trees than Greenland does.
Greyhounds are not hyper and do not need constant exercise; they are quite happy occupying space on a couch.
Greyhounds can reach their top speed of forty-five miles per hour in only three strides.
Greyhounds have the best eyesight of any breed of dog.
Grey's Anatomy (the medical book most every doctor, nurse, biologist, etc. is trained on in most every university) was compiled using detailed pictures of dead Jews that Hitler and the 3rd Reich experimented on, most of which where dissected while still alive. Although the medical community knows this fact, they continue using the book due to its detail and real-life pictures.
Grover Cleveland's real first name is Stephen, Grover is his middle name.
Guinness Stout served in England is brewed in Ireland, and Guinness Stout served in Ireland is brewed in England.
Gunsmoke debuted on CBS-TV in 1955, and went on to become the longest-running (20 years) series on television.
Gustave Eiffel, the builder of the Eiffel Tower, also built a dam in Russia, a church in the Philippines, locks for the first attempt at the Panama Canal, and designed the right arm and full steel structure supporting the Statue of Liberty.
Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of the four Presidents on Mount Rushmore, died a few months before the project was completed. It took him 14 years.
Gweneth Paltrow's nickname for Steven Speilberg is "Uncle Morty."
Hacky Sack was invented by a football player in the mid 1970's who used it to stregthen tendons he had torn in his knee.
Haggis, the national dish of Scotland: take the heart, liver, lungs, and small intestine of a calf or sheep, boil them in the stomach of the animal, season with salt, pepper and onions, add suet and oatmeal. Enjoy!
Hal in 2001: Space Oddessy got his name from the Producers of the film. HAL are letters before IBM (H comes before I, A comes before B, and L comes before M)
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.
Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21.
Half of the entire species of Chameleons occur only in Madagascar, the rest mostly in Southern Africa.
Halfway, Oregon temporarily changed its name to half.com as a publicity stunt for the web site of the same name.
Hamburgers are named after the city of Hamburg, Germany where the serving of hamburgers first became popular.
Hamlet is the most demanding of Shakespeare’s roles with 1,422 lines or roughly 36% of the total number of spoken lines in the play. Hamlet’s role is made up of 11,610 words. The character Falstaff has the most lines of any character in all of Shakespeare’s plays combined with 1,614 spoken lines in three different plays: Henry IV, Part I; Henry IV, Part II; and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Hamsters blink one eye at a time.
Hamsters love to eat crickets.
Hans Christian Andersen, Cher, Tom Cruise, Albert Einstein, Whoopie Goldberg, Greg Louganis, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Gen. George S. Patton, are (were) all dyslexics.
Hans Christian Anderson, creater of fairy tales, was word-blind. He never learned to spell correctly, and his publishers always had errors
Hard Bean means the coffee was grown at an altitude above 5000 feet.
Harley Proctor found the name "Ivory" for his soap in the Bible. He was in church reading the line, "All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad." The original name of the soap was P&G White Soap.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published March 20, 1852. It was the first American novel to sell one million copies.
Harrison Ford is the only actor whose ten highest grossing movies have each earned at least $200 million.
Hartford, Connecticut, has made it illegal to educate dogs.
Harthahorne City Ordinance, Section 363, states that it shall be unlawful to put any hypnotized person in a display window.
Harvard University's original name was Cambridge. It only changed when John Harvard donated 400 books to the school.
have to be at least 58.5 inches to be an astronaut. (Click here)
Have you ever questioned your sanity? You have good reason to. Did you know that one out of every four people has some sort of pychological 'problem'?
Hawaii is the only state of the United States in which coffee is commercially grown. Hawaii features an annual Kona Festival, coffee picking contest. Each year the winner becomes a state celebrity. In Hawaii coffee is harvested between November and April.
Hawaii is the only US state that grows cacao beans to produce chocolate.
Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.
Hawaii officially became apart of the US on June 14, 1900.
Head lice actually prefer to live on clean heads, not dirty ones.
Heart-attacks are more common among men because they cry less frequently than women.
Heat is better retained in moist air than in dry air,which is why tropical nights are warm and desert nights are cold.
Heavyweight tire manufacturer Goodyear is in no way affiliated with Charles Goodyear, the inventor of vulcanized rubber. They merely admired his inventiveness and his process that was so easy to duplicate that competitors simply stole it.
Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.
Hedgehogs have the most similar fingerprints to humans
Henri Matisse's Le Bateau hung in New York's Museum of Modern Art for 47 days in 1961 before someone noticed it was upside down.
Hens can distinguish between all the colors of the rainbow.
Here are the odds of rolling various combinations with two dice in a game of Craps:
Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seedpod of the Asian poppy plant. Heroin usually appears as a white or brown powder. Street names for heroin include "smack," "H," "skag," and "junk." Other names may refer to types of heroin produced in a specific geographical area, such as "Mexican black tar."
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Hershey's Kisses®™ are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Hills Brothers Ground Vacuum Packed Coffee was first introduced in 1900.
Hippopotamus means river horse.
Hippopotamuses actually sweat blood. Their skin contains a great amount of an oily substance that exudes from the pores, and when the beast perspires a little blood gets mixed in.
Hippopotamuses break wind through their mouths.
Hippopotamuses do 80% of their vocalizations underwater.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words
Hippos have killed more than 400 people in Africa more than any other wild animal.
Hippos kill more people in Africa when compared to crocodiles.
Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.
Holland has the densest population per square mile of any nation in the world.
Holyoke, Massachusetts, makes it unlawful to water your lawn when it is raining.
Homosexuality remained on the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental illnesses until 1973.
Hondas and Toyotas are the most frequently stolen passenger cars because they have parts that can be readily exchanged between model years without a problem.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
Hong Kong has the world's largest double-decker tram fleet in the world.
Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest word consisting entirely of alternating vowels and consonants.
Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman and Nixon's Secretaries of State have won Noble Peace Prizes.
Horses are forbidden to eat fire hydrants in Marshalltown, Iowa.
Horses can sleep while standing upright.
Hostess Twinkies were invented in 1931 by James Dewar, manager of Continental Bakeries' Chicago factory. He envisioned the product as a way of using the company's thousands of shortcake pans which were otherwise employed only during the strawberry season. Originally called Little Shortcake Fingers, they were renamed Twinkie Fingers, and finally "Twinkies."
Hot water weighs less than cold water for a given volume.
Houseflies hum in the key of F.
Housefly's regurgitate food and eat it again every time they eat
Houston's Bob Watson scored Major League Baseball's 1,000,000th run on May 4, 1975.
How many American presidents are not buried in the United States? Six. Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Howard Taft was the first president to throw out the first pitch at a MLB game.
Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.
Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
Hugh Jackman went through approximately 700 claws as the part of Wolverine in X-Men.
Human babies are born 2 months prematurely for our size and lifespan, to accomodate for the fact that we have large brains during birth. (Got this off my lecture).
Human beings can't smell or taste a substance that is not soluble. On a dry tongue, sugar has no taste. In a dry nose, the smell of a flower would not be noticed. Anything to be smelled must float in the air.
Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. Wow... utterly amazing huh
Human thighbones are as strong as concrete.
Humans are the only animals that can blush.
Humans are the only animals that copulate face to face.
Humans are the only animals that use a smile as an emotional response.
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.
Humans shed and re-grow outer skin cells about every 27 days almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime.
Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.
Humming birds are the only birds that can fly backwards
Hummingbirds are the smallest birds so tiny that one of their enemies is an insect, the praying mantis.
Hummingbirds can't walk.
Humpback whales are the only ones that use bubbles to help capture their prey. The bubbles trap fish in a spot for feeding whales.
Humphrey O'Sullivan invented the rubber heel because he was tired of pounding the pavements of Boston looking for a job.
Hungarian brothers George and L"szlo Biro invented the ball point pen in 1938.
Hydroponics is the technique by which plants are grown in water without soil.
Hydroxyzine (a prescription drug) is the longest containing "x-y-z" in exact order. Next in line line is xyzzors, a scientific name for a nematode worm in biology.
Hyenas can comsume prey carrying anthrax without contracting the disease itself
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
IBM introduced their first personal computer in 1981.
IBM's motto is "Think". Apple later made their motto "Think different".
Iced coffee in a can has been popular in Japan since 1945.
Idaho state law makes it illegal for a man to give his sweetheart a box of candy weighing less than fifty pounds.
If a child burps during a church service in Omaha, Nebraska his or her parents may be arrested.
If a crocodile loses his teeth it will always grow new ones to replace them.
If a person has two thirds of their liver removed through trauma or surgery, it will grow back to the original size in four weeks time
If a person were to ask what is the most northern point in the United States, the most Southern point in the United States, and so on, 3 of the 4 compass directions are located in alaska. North East and West
If a shark's mouth is open to long it will suffocate.
If a small amount of liquor were placed on a scorpion, it would instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
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 substance is burned and all of the results of its burning (smoke, ash, soot and gas) are captured and weighed, they will be a little heavier than the original substance because they have been combined with oxygen.
If all numbers are arranged in alphabetical order, "eight" would be the first number. "Zero" would be the last number.
If all the gold in the ocean were mined, every person on Earth would get about 20 kgs of gold each.
If any of the heads on Mt. Rushmore had a body, it would be nearly 500 feet tall.
If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33.She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal humans neck.
If hot water is suddenly poured into a glass that glass is more apt to break if it is thick than if it is thin. This is why test tubes are made of thin glass.
If it were removed from the body, the small intestine would stretch to a length of 22 feet.
If Monaco's ruling house of Grimaldi should ever be without an heir (male or female), the country will cease to be a sovereign state.
If one pound of spaghetti was layed out in one noodle it would be 300 feet long.
If someone were to capture and bottle a comet's 10,000-mile vapor trail, the amount of vapor actually present in the bottle would take up less than one cubic inch of space.
If Texas were a country it's GNP would be fifth largest of any country on earth.
If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
If the average person had started counting the moment they were born and continued counting, without stopping, until they turned 65 years old, they still would not have counted to a billion.
If the coils of a French horn were straightened out, the instrument would be 22 feet long.
If the earth were to become totally flat and the oceans distributed themselves evenly over the planet's surface, the water would be approximately two miles deep at every point.
If the entire population of the world were moved to Texas, it would still be less densely populated than New York City.
If the goverment passed a law that all the outdoor lighting in the united states had to be provided by low pressure sodium light bulbs, then they would save enough money to pay for evey college students tuition.
If the gross for Gone With the Wind were to be adjusted to allow for inflation in the period since its release, it would be regarded as the most successful film ever.
If the information contained in the DNA could be written down, it would fill a 1000 volume encyclopedia
If the liver ever stops working a person will die within 8 to 24 hours.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If the sun stopped shining suddenly, it would take eight minutes for people on earth to be aware of the fact.
If the U.S. government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.
If you are having problems remembering the planets in their correct order, just remember this sentance "My very educated mother justed served us nine pickles," Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupitor, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
If you are hedenophobic, you have a fear of pleasure.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
If you chew a cabbage/lettuce leaf properly, you'll lose more energy than you'll gain from actually eating it.
If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in celcius degrees
If you cut off the head of a cockroach, it can still survive but will eventually die, but only because it cannot eat without its head.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
If you fold a piece of A4 paper in half 44 times it will reach the moon
If you get the recomended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year.
If you go blind in one eye, you only lose about one fifth of your vision, but all your sense of depth.
If you go blind in one eye, you'll only lose about one-fifth of your vision (but all your depth perception.)
If you had $10 billion in $1 bills and spent one every second, it would take 317 years to spend them all.
If you had 15 cubes numbered 1 to 15 and you tried to line them up in every possible sequence, and if you made a change every minute, it would take you 2,487,996 years to do it.
If you had fifteen books on a shelf and you arrange them in every possible combination, and if you made one change every minute, it would take you 2,487,996 years to do them all.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in U.S. coins without being able to make change for a dollar
If you head directly south from Detroit, the first forign country you will enter is Canada
If you head directly south from the west coast of Florida, you will actually pass South America on the west side of the continent.
If you leave a goldfish in a dark room for years, it will turn white.
If you like your espresso coffee sweet, you should use granulated sugar, which dissolves more quickly, rather than sugar cubes; white sugar rather than brown sugar or candy; and real sugar rather than sweeteners which alter the taste of the coffee.
If you lock your knee while standing long enough, you will pass out.
If you need to remember pi, just count the letters in each word of the sentence: "May I have a large container of coffee?" If you get the coffee and are polite say: "Thank you," get two more decimal places. (3.141592653...). Here is another sentance: How I wish I could calculate Pi. (3.141592)
If you pet a cat 70 million times, you will have developed enough static electricity to light a 60-watt light bulb for one minute.
If you pile up the cans of Yeo's products, you would be able to reach the moon.
If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.
If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
If you put a piece of scotch tape on an inflated balloon, then stick it with a small pin or needle, it won't pop.
If you put a raisin in a champagne bottle, it will rise and fall continuously.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
If you rubbed garlic on the sole of your feet, it would be absorbed and eventually show up on your breath
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMBASS)
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die
If you strech your arms straight out as far as you can, thats about how tall you are. Try it.
If you suffer from iatrophobia, you're afraid of doctors.
If you take any number between 1 & 9 and multipy them by 9 the sum of the two numbers will always be 9 (ex: 7 X 9 = 63 ; 6 + 3 = 9)
If you take any number, double it, add 10, divide by 2, and subtract your original number, the answer will always be 5.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom more often.
If you travel across the former Soviet Union you will cross seven time zones.
If you traveled the speed of light, it would only take you 0.0000294 seconds to climb Mt. Everest.
If you wanted to count from one to one trillion and you started right now, counting twenty-four hours a day, it would take you about 31,688 years.
If you wear headphones for one hour, it increases bacteria in your ear 700 times.
If you were at 0° latitude and 0° longtitude, you would be standing in the Atlantic Ocean
If you were to go on vacation for eleven days, you'd have less than one million seconds to enjoy it.
If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. cool eh?
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (unsure)
If your like Jeanne Calment and live over 100, you are considered a Centurian.
If your shoes squeak, it simply means that two layers of leather in the sole are rubbing together. Driving a tack through the sole will often remove the squeak.
Imperia, Italy is the home of the Agnesi Historical Museum of Spaghetti.
Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the United States.
In "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) does not blink in any scene.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
In 1386, a pig was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
In 1516, Friar Tomas sailed to the Caribbean bringing banana roots with him; and planted bananas in the rich, fertile soil of the tropics, thus beginning the banana's future in American life.
In 1638, Sweden founded a colony in the New World in the Delaware River Valley. It was called New Sweden.
In 1649, Massachusetts's Puritan government ruled the following: "Any childe over 16 who shall CURSE or SMITE their natural FATHER or MOTHER, or act in a STUBBORNE or REBELLIOUS manner shall be put to death."
In 1659 the state of Massachusetts outlawed Christmas.
In 1659, the General Court of Massachusetts ordered that anybody caught feasting or laying off from work, or in any other way goofing off on any other day other than Christmas, would be fined five shillings for each such offense.
In 1670, Dorothy Jones of Boston was granted a license to sell coffee, and so became the first American coffee trader.
In 1727, as a result of seedlings smuggled from Paris, coffee plants first were cultivated in Brazil. Brazil is presently by far the world's largest producer of coffee.
In 1771 the kingdom of Poland was larger in are than any other European country except Russia and had a bigger population than any other European country except France.
In 1789, Morocco became the first country to recognize the United States.
In 1810 US population was 7,239,881. Black population at 1,377,808 was 19%. In 1969 US population reached 200 million.
In 1831, Captain William Driver, a shipmaster from Salem, Massachusetts, left on one of his many world voyages. Friends presented him with a flag of 24 stars. As the banner opened to the ocean breeze, he exclaimed, "Old Glory." He kept his flag for many years, protecting it during the Civil War, until it was flown over the Tennessee capital. His "Old Glory" became a nickname for all American flags.
In 1832 Abraham Lincoln ran for the Illinois legislature, and lost.
In 1836 the U.S. government had so much extra money that it repaid all its debts, and still had money left over.
In 1845, President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot was removed from his funeral for swearing.
In 1850, Michigan's state constitution included the following line: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crime, shall ever be tolerated in this state." This inadvertently legalized slavery as an appropriate punishment for crime. It wasn't until 1963 that the grammar was fixed to outlaw slavery. The change required shifting the comma following "servitude" to the position after "slavery."
In 1853, Illinois passed a law that required any black entering the state and staying more than ten days to pay a fine of $50. If he could not pay, the person could be sold into slavery for a period commensurate with the fine.
In 1860, 'Godey's Lady's Book' advised US women to cook tomatoes for at least 3 hours.
In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to life in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself.
In 1865 opium was grown in the state of Virginia and a product was distilled from it that yielded 4 percent morphine. In 1867 it was grown in Tennessee: six years later it was cultivated in Kentucky. During these years opium, marijuana and cocaine could be purchased legally over the counter from any druggist.
In 1865, several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, Tennessee, called the Ku Klux Klan.
In 1879 during the term of Rutherford B. Hayes the first telephone was installed in the White House.
In 1886, Grover Cleveland became the only president to be married in the White House.
In 1889, the 1st coin-operated telephone, patented by Hartford, Connecticut inventor William Gray, was installed in the Hartford Bank.
In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls to 12.
In 1894 there were only 4 automobiles in the US.
In 1899, a pharmacist named George Bunting blended his own cold cream, which, in addition to removing makeup and relieving sunburn, gained popularity for its ability to cure eczema. The product's claim of "No Eczema" led to its name, Noxzema.
In 1900 the average age at death in the US was 47.
In 1900, coffee was often delivered door-to-door in the United States, by horse-pulled wagons.
In 1900, Queen Victoria sent her New Year's greetings to the British troops stationed in South Africa during the Boer War in the form of a specially molded chocolate bar.
In 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became the only U.S. President in history to deliver his inaugural address without using the word “I”. For the record, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower said “I” only once during their speeches.
In 1905, 18 men died from injuries sustained on the football field. President Theodore Roosevelt stepped in and instituted safety measures to make the game safer.
In 1908, figure skating became the first winter sport to be included in the Olympics.
In 1915, Winston Churchill fought in the front line trenches before he became the Minister of Munitions.
In 1920, 57% of Hollywood movies billed the female star above the leading man. In 1990, only 18% had the leading lady given top billing.
In 1920, Eugene Debs, a Socialist, received 920,000 votes for president of the United States even though he ran his entire campaign from prison.
In 1924, Pope Urban VIII threatened to excommunicate snuff users.
In 1925, the 1st motel -the "Motel Inn" -opened in San Luis Obispo, California.
In 1926, when a Los Angeles restaurant owner with the all-American name of Bob Cobb was looking for a way to use up leftovers, he threw together some avocado, celery, tomato, chives, watercress, hard-boiled eggs, chicken, bacon, and Roquefort cheese, and named it after himself: Cobb salad.
In 1930, the heaviest a female flight attendant could be was 115 pounds. They also had to be unmarried nurses.
In 1931, Charleston, SC was the first city in the United States to pass legislation establishing a historical district. The city has more than 1,000 buildings that predate the Civil War.
In 1932 James Markham obtained the 1st patent issued for a tree. The patent was for a peach tree.
In 1936, England became the first country in the world to provide regular public broadcasting on television.
In 1938 Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel sold all rights to the comic-strip character Superman to their publishers for $130.
In 1938, Hewlett-Packard became the first corporation to move to Silicon Valley.
In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper had no choice but to fix a computer glitch manually. The source of the problem? A moth. Hence the term "computer bug."
In 1945 a computer at Harvard malfunctioned and Grace Hopper, who was working on the computer, investigated, found a moth in one of the circuits and removed it. Ever since, when something goes wrong with a computer, it is said to have a bug in it.
In 1947, heavy snow blanketed the Northeast, burying New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours; the severe weather was blamed for some 80 deaths.
In 1947, Toys for Tots started making the holidays a little happier for children by organizing its first Christmas toy drive for needy youngsters.
In 1950, UNIVAC became the first computer to tabulate the United States census.
In 1952, Mr. Potato Head became the first toy to be advertised on television in the U.S.
In 1957, the Shipping port Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States, went on line. (It was taken out of service in 1982.)
In 1959, the Soviet space probe "Luna Two" became the first manmade object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.
In 1960, an estimated 4,000 people were over 100 years old in the U.S. By 1995 the number had jumped to : 55,000.
In 1962, the Mashed Potato, the Loco-Motion, the Frug, the Monkey, and the Funky Chicken were popular dances.
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
In 1964 General Mills began marketing Lucky Charms cereal with pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers. The marshmallow bits (technically referred to as marbits) were invented in 1963 by John Holahan. The cereal is marketed using a leprechaun character named Lucky (L.C. Leprechaun is his full name) that touts his cereal as being "Magically Delicious." Over the years the various shapes and colors of the marshmallow bits in the cereal have undergone many changes.
In 1964, Sandy Koufax, Elstom Howard, Jimmy Brown, Oscar Robertson, and Cookie Gilchrist were all voted MVP from their respected (MLB, NFL, NBA) leagues. Each of them wore the number 32.
In 1964, Tanganyika and Zanzibar joined together to become Tanzania.
In 1964, University of Oregon grad student Carolyn Davidson designed what became known as the Nike “swoosh” for a mere $35. She did it four years after Phil Knight and track coach Bill Bowerman founded the company they originally called Blue Ribbon Sports.
In 1965, Congress authorized the Secret Service to protect former presidents and their spouses for their lifetime, unless they decline the protection. Recently, Congress limited the protection of former presidents and their spouses (elected after January 1, 1997) to 10 years after leaving office. President Clinton, who was elected in 1996, will be the last president to receive lifelong protection from the Secret Service.
In 1965, LBJ enacted a law requiring cigarette manufacturers to put health warnings on their packages.
In 1968, "Apollo Seven," the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.
In 1969 the US launched a male chimpanzee called Ham into space.
In 1969, Midnight Cowboy became the first and only X-rated production to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. (Its rating has since been changed to R.)
In 1970, 127 runners ran the NY Marathon. In 1998, 32,000 did.
In 1970, an Arizona lawyer named Russel H. Ansie filed a $100,000 law
In 1975, it cost only $180,000 to produce an hour-long TV drama.
In 1976, the average human had $5.60 of chemicals in their bodies. In 1946, that number was 98 cents.
In 1976, the first eight Jelly Belly® flavors were launched: Orange, Green Apple, Root Beer, Very Cherry, Lemon, Cream Soda, Grape, and Licorice.
In 1980, the only country in the world with no telephones was Bhutan.
In 1982, in the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chest of retired dentist Dr. Barney Clark, who lived 112 days with the device.
In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting advertising space on his cows.
In 1985, Pete Rose became the first professional athlete to appear on the front of a Wheaties box.
In 1987 Playtex premiered the first US TV commercials with real lingerie models displaying their bras and underwear on national television.
In 1987, Ron Hextall of the Philadelphia Flyers became the first NHL goalie to score a goal. Actually, Ron Hextall was the first NHL goalie to score a goal by shooting the puck towards the opposing team's net in 1987. Billy Smith was the first goalie credited with a goal in 1979 when his clearing pass hit an opposing skater and went into the other team's goal.
In 1990, Bill Carson, of Arrington, Tennessee, grew the largest watermelon at 262 pounds that is still on the record books according to the 1998 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.
In 1990, over 4 billion dollars of coffee was imported into the United States.
In 1991 Procter & Gamble won a $75,000 lawsuit against James & Linda Newton who were found responsible for spreading rumors that the company supported the Church of Satan. The two were distributors of Amway Products, a competitor of Proctor & Gamble.
In 1992, approximately 750 deaths occurred in the United States due to workplace violence.
In 1992, the best selling American-produced car in Japan was the Honda Accord. It was built in Ohio and exported to Japan.
In 1995, KFC sold 11 pieces of chicken for every man, woman and child in the US.
In 1996, people in the United States sent and received 182,660,700,000 pieces of mail domestically. By way of comparison, Japan ranked second on this list with just 24,971,279,000.
In 1997, Fourteen percent of the one million citizens of Nairobi, Kenya carry the AIDS virus. Some 20% of the Kenyan military is infected.
In 1998 OSHA reported 1171 construction related fatalities, the sixth straight year this number has increased.
In 1999, the most common food allergy was to nuts.
In 2001, there were more than 300 banana-related accidents in Britain, most involving people slipping on skins.
In 24 hrs. an average healthy human breathes 23,000 times.
In 4000 BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles.
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
In a deck of cards, the King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache.
In a lifetime the average US resident eats more than 50 tons of food and drinks more than 13,000 gallons of liquid.
In a psychology experiment, an electrode was attached to the pleasure centre of a rat's brain, which the rat could stimulate at the press of a button. It died of starvation when it wouldn't stop pressing the button long enough to eat.
In a recent survey in Japan, instant noodles were chosen as the greatest invention of all time
In a six-pack of pop, the cans cost more to make than the drink.
In a soccer game, the average length of time the ball is in play [for ninety minutes] is only 52 minutes.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand, or attempted to do so (apart from bones).
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where An ostrich buried its head in the sand.
In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand.
In a typical season major league baseball will require 4,800 ash trees worth of Louisville sluggers.
In a University of Arizona study, rails and armsrests in public buses were found to be contaminated by the highest concentration of bodily fluids.
In a year, your heart can beat up to 40 000 000 times!
In Alabama it is illegal to stab yourself to gain someone's pity.
In Alaska it is against the laww to look at a moose from an airplane.
In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone's ear while they are moose hunting.
In Alaska, it is illegal to look at a moose from a flying vehicle.
In Albania nodding the head means "no" and shaking the head means "yes".
In Albany, New York, you cannot play golf in the streets.
In Albuquerque, New Mexico it is illegal for cab drivers to reach out and pull potential customers into their cabs.
In Alderson, West Virginia, it is illegal to walk a lion, tiger or leopard in the city limits, even it is on a leash.
In all of Shakespeare's works and excluding Roman numerals only one word begins with the letter "X." Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates, appears in The Taming of the Shrew.
In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.
In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes.
In an article in 1998, The Journal of the American Medical Association claimed that adverse drug reactions may cause more than 100,000 deaths a year in the US alone.
In an authentic Chinese meal, the last course is soup because it allows the roast duck entree to "swim" toward digestion.
In an average lifetime, a person will eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders while sleeping.
In ancient China people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
In ancient chinese culture it was common for them to use the lining of a cats stomach as a condom.
In ancient Egypt they paid their taxes in honey.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
In ancient Greece the custom of allowing a condemned man to end his own life by poison was extended only to full citizens. Condemned slaves were instead beaten to death.
In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a hooked nose.
In ancient Rome, people found guilty of murdering their fathers were executed in a bizarre manner. The punishment was to be put in a sack with a rooster, a viper, and a dog, then drowned along with all three animals.
In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
In ancient times, any Japanese who tried to leave his homeland was put to death.
In April 1964, The Beatles had the top five songs in the United States. This is the only time that the top five songs at any one time were by the same group.
In Arizona it is illegal to take naked photographs before noon on Sunday.
In Arizona, you cannot Drive past the same place more then 3 times in one hour. Its a law.
In Arkansas it is illegal to buy or sell blue lightbulbs.
In astrology, synastry is the comparison of natal charts to forecast how people will interact.
In Atlanta, GA, it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.
In Australia, there is no death penalty.
In Baltimore it is illegal to mistreat oysters.
In Baltimore, it is illegal to wash or scrub sinks no matter how dirty they get.
In Bensalem, Pennsylvania it is illegal to race mufflerless go-karts after 6PM on Sunday.
In Bexley, Ohio Ordinance number 223, of 09/09/19 prohibits the installation and usage of slot machines in outhouses.
In Billings, Montana it is illegal for employees of the city's communications center to program their phones with speed dial.
In Boston, Massachusetts it is illegal to take a bath unless instructed to do so by a physician.
In Brandon, Mississipi it is illegal to attempt to stop someone from walking down the sidewalk by parking a motorhome in their path.
In Breton, AL there is a law against riding down the street in a motorboat.
In Britain, failed suicides were hanged in the 19th century.
In Broken Arrow, Oklahoma pigs less than 32 inches in length may be kept as pets provided there are no more than two in a house.
In Bromide, Oklahoma it is illegal for children to use towels as capes and jump from houses pretending to be superman.
In California you may not set a mouse trap without a hunting license.
In California, animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship.
In Canada it's illegal to pay for a 50 cent item with only pennies, to publicly remove bandages, and for clear or non-dark sodas to contain caffeine.
In Canada, if a debt is higher than 25 cents, it is illegal to pay it with pennies.
In Carlsbad, New Mexico, it's legal for couples to have sex in a parked vehicle during their lunch break from work, as long as the car or van has drawn curtains to stop strangers from peeking in.
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
In Chicago, it is illegal to take a french poodle to the opera.
In Chillicothe, Ohio it is illegal to throw rice at weddings.
In Chinese dining, duck sauce is almost never used on duck.
In Chinese, the Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan 'Finger-lickin' good' came out as 'Eat your fingers off.'
In Chinese, the words 'crisis' and 'opportunity' are the same.
In Christian theology there are nine choirs of angels. From highest to lowest, they are: seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, virtues, powers, principalities, archangels, and angels.
In Clawson, Mich., there is a law that makes it LEGAL for a farmer to sleep with his pigs, cows, horses, goats, and chickens.
In Colombia, if a Goajiro woman is successful in tripping a man during a ceremonial dance, he's required to have intercourse with her. (7-16-01)
In Columbus, Georgia it is illegal to sit on one's porch in an indecent position.
In Connecticut any dogs with tattoos must be reported to the police.
In Connecticut it is illegal to pirouette while crossing the street
In Corpus Christi, Texas, raising alligators in your home is against the law.
In Delaware it is illegal to get married on a dare.
In Delaware you may not sell dead people for money without a license.
In Denver it is unlawful to lend your vacuum cleaner to your next-door neighbor.
In Denver, Colorado it is illegal for Barber's to give massages to nude customers unless it is for instructional purposes.
In Detroit, couples are banned from making love in an automobile unless the act takes place while the vehicle is parked on the couple's own property.
In Detroit, Michigan it is illegal to sleep in a bathtub.
In Devon, Connecticut, it is unlawful to walk backwards after sunset.
In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer's name is Yensid, which is Disney spelled backward.
In driving tests, women reacted to emergency options in.56 of a second. Men scored .59 in the same tests.
In Duluth, Minnesota it is illegal to allow animals to sleep in a bakery.
In Dyersburg, Tennessee it is illegal for a woman to call a man for a date.
In earlier times, virginity on one's wedding night was of the greatest importance. To prove that the bride was a virgin, it was customary that the couple would display the bloodstained bedsheet for all to see once the wedding was consummated.
In early America, coffee was usually taken between meals and after dinner.
In early Yorkshire, England, a plate holding wedding cake was thrown out of the window as the bride returned to her parent's home after the wedding. If the plate broke, she would enjoy a happy future with her husband. If the plate remained intact, her future was bleak.
In Eastern Africa you can buy banana beer. This beer is brewed from bananas.
In Elizabethan and Jacobean times, the age of a person when they marry was dependant on the person's class. Those with a high social status were permitted to marry at a younger age.
In England and the American colonies they year 1752 only had 354 days. In that year, the type of calendar was changed, and 11 days were lost.
In English Parliament, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
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."
In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.
In Erwin, Tennessee an elephant was once hanged for murder.
In Eureka, Nevada men who have mustaches are forbidden from kissing women.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
In every episode of TV's Seinfeld, there is a Superman somewhere in at least one scene. (There's plastic figurine on the shelf in the dining area, and a magnetic Superman on the fridge!)
In Florida failure to tell your neighbor his house is on fire is illegal.
In Florida it is illegal to fish while driving across a bridge.
In Florida, having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal.
In Florida, unmarried women who parachute on Sundays may be jailed.
In Forrest Gump, Gary Sinise's character (Lt. Dan) tells Tom Hanks' character (Forrest Gump) that the day Forrest works on a shrimp boat is the day he'd be an astronaut. The following year, Sinise and Hanks appeared together as astronauts in Apollo 13.
In Gabon, there are several 1.8 billion years old natural nuclear reactors.
In Gary, Ind., persons are prohibited from attending a movie house or other theater and from riding a public streetcar within four hours of eating garlic.
In Georgia, movie houses that want to show films on Sunday must reserve one showing a month for religious material.
In German, "eins" and "acht" are the only numbers with their letters in alphabetical order.
In golf, a 'Bo Derek' is a score of 10.
In Greene, New York, it is illegal to eat peanuts and walk backwards on the sidewalks when a concert is on.
In Halethrope, Maryland kisses longer than one second are illegal.
In Hans Holbein's painting, "The Ambassadors," the artist added a small skull as a way of signing his name. Holbein is another word for "hollow bone" or "a skull."
In Hawaii it is illegal to get a tattoo behind your ear or on your eyelid unless in the presence of a registered physician.
In Hershey, Pennsylvania, the streetlights along "Chocolate Avenue" are in the shape of Hershey Kisses.
In honor of the original thirteen states, the U.S. $1 bill has the following on the back: 13 steps on the pyramid. The motto above the pyramid has 13 letters (annuit coeptis). E pluribus unum, written on the ribbon in the eagle's beak, has 13 letters. 13 stars appear over the eagle's head. 13 stripes are on the shield. 13 war arrows are in the eagle's left talon.
In Hood River, Oregon, you can't juggle without a license.
In hotels in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, every room is required to have twin beds. And the beds must always be a minimum of two feet apart when a couple rents a room for only one night. And it's illegal to make love on the floor between the beds!
In Iceland it is illegal to have pets.
In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50.
In Idaho walking along the street with a red-tipped cane is strictly prohibited.
In Idiana it is illegal to sell laughing gas with the intent to induce laughter.
In Illinois it is illegal for barbers to use their fingers to apply shaving cream to a customer's face.
In India, where hinduism is the biggest religon, they belive that there are about 300 million different gods. Because almost every village has it's own local god.
In Italy, espresso is considered so essential to daily life that the price is regulated by the government.
In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey.
In Japan, coffee shops are called Kissaten.
In Joliet, Illinois it is illegal to mispronounce the name Joliet.
In July 1934, Babe Ruth paid the fan who caught his 700th career home run ball $20 to get it back.
In July 1981, a tortoise was sentenced to death for murder. Tribal elders in Kyuasini, a village in Kenya, formally condemned the tortoise because they suspected it of causing the death of six people, apparently through magic. However, because none of the villagers was prepared to risk the tortoise's wrath by carrying out the execution, it was instead chained to a tree. The tortoise was later freed after the government promised an official inquiry into the deaths.
In July, 1950, a patent was issued for an automatic spaghetti-spinning fork.
In Kansas it is illegal to catch bullfrogs in a tomato patch.
In Kentucky you need a license to walk around nude on your property.
In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
In Las Vegas, it's against the law to pawn your dentures.
In Lebanon, Virginia it is illegal to kick your wife out of bed.
In Lefors, Texas it is illegal to take more than three swallows of beer at any time while standing.
In Lexington, Kentucky, it's illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket.
In literature, the average length of a sentence is around 35 words.
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
In Los Angelos, California it is legal for a man to beat his wife with a leather strap as long as it is less than two inches in width, or she gives him permission to use a wider strap.
In M&M candies, the letters stand for Mars and Murrie, the developers of the candy in 1941.
In Maine, it is illegal to sell a car on Sunday unless it comes equipped with plumbing.
In Maryland, men may not buy drinks for female bartenders.
In Massachusetts you must have a license to wear a goatee.
In Massachusetts, if you get caught eating peanuts in church , you can be jailed for up to one year.