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Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.
Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over
50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."
Bulls are color blind.
A can of Spam is opened every four seconds.
"Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2,200 people.
The largest cabbage on record weighed 144 pounds.
Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.
The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs.
The first episode of "Leave it to Beaver" aired on October 4, 1957.
The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave it to Beaver. (However, only the tank was shown, not the bowl.)
Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
The shortest commercial ever was only four frames of a second.
Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
Twelve or more cows is called a "flink."
The average garden-variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
The pound sign (#) is called an octothorpe.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
Emus can't walk backwards.
New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400
spoons from almost all the states.
There was once a town in West Virginia called "6."
Singapore only has one train station.
Napoleon made his battle plans in a sandbox.
The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
The force of one billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
The only President to win a Pulitzer Prize was
John Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage."
The world's youngest parents were eight and nine and lived in China in 1910.
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
"Hang on Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was a Beech Bonanza.
When opossums are "playing 'possum," they are not playing. They actually pass out from sheer terror.
The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses downhence the expression "to get fired."
Only two people signed the Declaration of
Independence on July 4th. The last signature wasn't added until five years later.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
No NFL team that plays its home games in a domed stadium ever won a Superbowluntil the St. Louis Rams in 2000.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
In the Congo, one must be very careful not to utter the name of anyone who is out fishing.
Certain Congolese think you put such a whammy on the named native that he won't catch anything but flies.
There is only one animal that can completely turn its stomach inside out. The starfish.
According to scientists, gold exists on Mars, Mercury and Venus.
Each day 100 or more whales are killed by fishermen.
In the 10th century, the Grand Vizier of Persia took his entire library with him wherever he went. The 117,000-volume library was carried by camels trained to walk in alphabetical order.
More than 14 million Bic pens are sold daily in 150 countries. "Bic" is actually a shortened version of founder Marcel Bich's name.
P. J. Tierney, father of the modern diner, died of indigestion in 1917 after eating at a diner.
A "duffer" is Australian slang for a cattle thief.
"Brasco" is Australian slang for "lavatory."
The word "gazelle" comes from the Arabian term for "affectionate," and is believed to be inspired by the creature's large, gentle eyes.
"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
"Singapore" means "City of Lions," but none have ever been seen there.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
100,000 cubic feet of water pours over the
Niagara Falls every second.
A "clue" originally meant a ball of thread.
Hence, one "unravels" the clues of a mystery.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time. It is 1/100 of a second.
A fireplace is called a "mantelpiece" because at one time people hung their coats (or "mantles") over the fireplace to dry them.
The name of the Internet's most popular directory, is an acronym. According to the company, the name "Yahoo" stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle."
If you add together all the numbers on a roulette wheel (1 to 36) the total is the mystical number 666.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
In Albania, nodding the head means "no" and shaking the head means "yes."
The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby."
The phrase "a red letter day" dates back to 1704, when holy days were marked in red letters in church calendars.
The pretzel is named from the Latin word "brachiatus" meaning "having branch-like arms."
In the Middle English the word "minister" meant "lowly person." It was originally adopted as a term of humility for men of the church.
Levan, Utah is "navel" spelled backwards. It is so named because it is in the middle of Utah.
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "shah mat," which means "the king is dead."
The word "dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt."
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
Talmudists believe Adam and Eve resided in paradise a mere 12 hours before they were kicked out.
With few exceptions, birds do not sing while on the ground. They sing during flight or while sitting on an object off the ground.
Lewis Carroll wrote 98,721 letters in the last 37 years of his life.
Cinderella is known as "Tuna" in Finland.
A bear has 42 teeth.
Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.
Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over
50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."
Bulls are color blind.
A can of Spam is opened every four seconds.
"Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2,200 people.
The largest cabbage on record weighed 144 pounds.
Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.
The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs.
The first episode of "Leave it to Beaver" aired on October 4, 1957.
The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave it to Beaver. (However, only the tank was shown, not the bowl.)
Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
The shortest commercial ever was only four frames of a second.
Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
Twelve or more cows is called a "flink."
The average garden-variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
The pound sign (#) is called an octothorpe.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
Emus can't walk backwards.
New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400
spoons from almost all the states.
There was once a town in West Virginia called "6."
Singapore only has one train station.
Napoleon made his battle plans in a sandbox.
The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
The force of one billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
The only President to win a Pulitzer Prize was
John Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage."
The world's youngest parents were eight and nine and lived in China in 1910.
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
"Hang on Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was a Beech Bonanza.
When opossums are "playing 'possum," they are not playing. They actually pass out from sheer terror.
The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses downhence the expression "to get fired."
Only two people signed the Declaration of
Independence on July 4th. The last signature wasn't added until five years later.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
No NFL team that plays its home games in a domed stadium ever won a Superbowluntil the St. Louis Rams in 2000.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
In the Congo, one must be very careful not to utter the name of anyone who is out fishing.
Certain Congolese think you put such a whammy on the named native that he won't catch anything but flies.
There is only one animal that can completely turn its stomach inside out. The starfish.
According to scientists, gold exists on Mars, Mercury and Venus.
Each day 100 or more whales are killed by fishermen.
In the 10th century, the Grand Vizier of Persia took his entire library with him wherever he went. The 117,000-volume library was carried by camels trained to walk in alphabetical order.
More than 14 million Bic pens are sold daily in 150 countries. "Bic" is actually a shortened version of founder Marcel Bich's name.
P. J. Tierney, father of the modern diner, died of indigestion in 1917 after eating at a diner.
A "duffer" is Australian slang for a cattle thief.
"Brasco" is Australian slang for "lavatory."
The word "gazelle" comes from the Arabian term for "affectionate," and is believed to be inspired by the creature's large, gentle eyes.
"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
"Singapore" means "City of Lions," but none have ever been seen there.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
100,000 cubic feet of water pours over the
Niagara Falls every second.
A "clue" originally meant a ball of thread.
Hence, one "unravels" the clues of a mystery.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time. It is 1/100 of a second.
A fireplace is called a "mantelpiece" because at one time people hung their coats (or "mantles") over the fireplace to dry them.
The name of the Internet's most popular directory, is an acronym. According to the company, the name "Yahoo" stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle."
If you add together all the numbers on a roulette wheel (1 to 36) the total is the mystical number 666.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
In Albania, nodding the head means "no" and shaking the head means "yes."
The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby."
The phrase "a red letter day" dates back to 1704, when holy days were marked in red letters in church calendars.
The pretzel is named from the Latin word "brachiatus" meaning "having branch-like arms."
In the Middle English the word "minister" meant "lowly person." It was originally adopted as a term of humility for men of the church.
Levan, Utah is "navel" spelled backwards. It is so named because it is in the middle of Utah.
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "shah mat," which means "the king is dead."
The word "dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt."
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
Talmudists believe Adam and Eve resided in paradise a mere 12 hours before they were kicked out.
With few exceptions, birds do not sing while on the ground. They sing during flight or while sitting on an object off the ground.
Lewis Carroll wrote 98,721 letters in the last 37 years of his life.
Cinderella is known as "Tuna" in Finland.
A bear has 42 teeth.
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