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1. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley is
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2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
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3. The ''57'' on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of
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4. Americans are responsible for
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about 1/5 of the world is garbage annually. On average, that is 3 pounds a
day per person.
5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water
than camels.
6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two
weeks so that it does not digest itself.
7. 98% of all murders and
rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
8. A
B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on
July 28, 1945.
9. The Declaration of Independence was written on
hemp () paper.
10. The dot over the letter ''i'' is called a tittle.
11. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
12.
Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the
youngest son.
13. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13.
Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to
three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In
Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.
14. A female ferret will
die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
15. All the
chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold
separately).
16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he
would swear on his testicles.
17. The ZIP in ''ZIP code'' means
Zoning Improvement Plan.
18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active
ingredient is ) from 1885 to 1903.
19. A ''2 by 4'' is really 1 1/2
by 3 1/2.
20. It is estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of
the world is population is drunk.
21. Each king in a deck of playing
cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs =
Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
22.
40% of McDonald is profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
23.
Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print
along with their finger print.
24. The ''spot'' on the 7-Up logo
comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
25. 315
entries in Webster is 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
26. The
''save'' icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the
shutter on backwards.
27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both
married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood
respectively).
28. Camel is have three eyelids.
29. On
average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day. />30. John Wilkes Booth is brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln
is son.
31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and
sister.
32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart
and nervous system.
33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.
34.
Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they
could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape. />35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
36.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
37. Orcas (killer whales) kill
sharks by torpedoing up into the shark is stomach from underneath, causing
the shark to explode.
38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name ''soyce''.
39. Slugs have four noses.
40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s
as medicine.
41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no
evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
42.
India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
43. 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)
44. 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.
45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by
taking out an olive from First Class salads.
46. About 200,000,000
M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
47. Because metal was
scarce, the Oscars given out during World War Il were made of wood. />48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun is magnetic poles
switch places. This cycle is called ''Solarmax''.
49. There are
318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
50. Upper and lower case letters are named ''upper'' and ''lower''
because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual
letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case
that stored the lower case letters.
51. There are no clocks in Las
Vegas gambling s.
52. The numbers ''172'' can be found on the back
of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln
Memorial.
53. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That is more
than sharks.
54. Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.
55. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was
never a recorded Wendy before it.
56. The international telephone
dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
57. The first bomb the Allies
dropped on Berlin in WWIl killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. />58. The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
59. 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.
60. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will
instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
61. Bruce Lee was so
fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves. />62. The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a
dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into
a dollar).
63. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen
is ''Born in the USA''.
64. IBM is motto is ''Think''. Apple later
made their motto ''Think different''.
65. The mask used by Michael
Myers in the original ''Halloween'' was actually a Captain Kirk mask
painted white, due to low budget.
66. The original name for
butterfly was flutterby.
67. The phrase ''rule of thumb'' is derived
from an old English law, which stated that you could not beat your wife
with anything wider than your thumb.
68. One in fourteen women in
America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.
69. The
Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five
years of service.
70. When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it.
Only 706 survived.
71. In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS
every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every
10 minutes.
72. Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald's. />73. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player
for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was
Victrola, which Motorola got their name from.
74. 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.
75. In Disney
is Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named
Yensid (Disney spelled backward).
76. During his entire life,
Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, ''Red Vineyard at Arles''. />77. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink
into quicksand.
78. One in ten people live on an island.
79.
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it
to begin with.
80. 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In
North America, its 38%.
81. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in
a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
82. Chewing gum while peeling
onions will keep you from crying.
83. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said
''Elementary, my dear Watson Humphrey Bogart NEVER said ''Play it again,
Sam'' in Casablanca, and they NEVER said ''Beam me up, Scotty'' on Star
Trek.
84. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for
a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
85.
Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.
86. The sound
you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but
blood flowing through your head.
87. More people are afraid of open
spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).
88. The
glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
89. There is a 1 in 4
chance that New York will have a white Christmas.
90. The Guinness
Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from
Public Libraries.
91. Thirty-five percent of the people who use
personal ads for dating are already married.
92. Back in the mid to
late '80s, an IBM compatible computer was not considered 100% compatible
unless it could run Microsoft is Flight Simulator.
93. $203,000,000
is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
94. Every US president
has worn glasses (just not always in public).
95. Bats always turn
left when exiting a cave.
96. Jim Henson first coined the word
''Muppet''. It is a combination of ''marionette'' and ''puppet.'' />97. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they
start with (not counting the words ''North'' and ''South).
98. The
Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the company is
first ads in 1896.
99. About 20% of bird species have become extinct
in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of human activity. />100. The word ''lethologica'' describes the state of not being able to
remember the word you want.
101. About 14% of injecting drug users
are HIV positive.
102. A word or sentence that is the same front and
back (racecar, kayak) is called a ''palindrome''.
103. A snail can
sleep for 3 years.
104. People photocopying their buttocks are the
cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.
105. China has
more English speakers than the United States.
106. 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 is Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a plate is set out for
him, he fills it with cookies and cakes.
107. One in every 9000
people is an albino.
108. The electric chair was invented by a
dentist.
109. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other
people in the world.
110. Everyday, more money is printed for
Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.
111. Every year 4 people
in the UK die putting their trousers on.
112. Cats have over one
hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.
113. Our eyes are
always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
114. In every episode of ''Seinfeld'' there is a Superman picture or
reference somewhere.
115. 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 human is neck.
116. Rats multiply
so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million
descendants.
117. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase
the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
118. Each year in America
there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity. />119. About 55% of all movies are rated R.
120. About 500 movies
are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
121. Arabic numerals
are not really Arabic; they were created in India.
122. Title 14,
Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16,
1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with
extraterrestrials or their vehicles.
123. The February of 1865 is
the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
124. The
Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary.
When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation
laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. />125. There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though
it may feel uncomfortable.
126. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth Il
moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
127.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a
telephone call.
128. A shark is the only fish that can blink with
both eyes.
129. There are about 2 chickens for every human in the
world.
130. The word ''maverick'' came into use after Samuel
Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle. Eventually any unbranded
calf became known as a Maverick.
131. Two-thirds of the world is
eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
132. 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 is legs are on the
ground, the person died of natural causes.
133. On a Canadian
two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.
134. An American urologist bought Napoleon isfor $40,000.
135.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or
purple.
136. Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the
letters ''MT''.
137. $283,200 is the absolute highest amount of
money you can win on Jeopardy.
138. Almonds are members of the peach
family.
139. Rats and horses can not vomit.
140. The penguin is
the only bird that can not fly but can swim.
141. There are
approximately 100 million acts of ual intercourse each day.
142.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
143.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
144. There
are only four words in the English language that end in ''-dous'':
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
145. Americans on
average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
146. Every time you lick a
stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
147. ''101 Dalmatians'' and
''Peter Pan'' are the only Disney animations in which both of a character
is parents are present and do not die during the movie.
148. You are
more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
149. Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.
150. Ancient
Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.
151. A
crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
152. Half of all crimes are
committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed
by people aged 13-21.
153. An ant always falls over on its right
side when intoxicated.
154. All polar bears are left-handed. />155. The catfish has over 27000 taste buds (more than any other animal)
156. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it
starves to death.
157. Butterflies taste with their feet.
158.
Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump.
159. An ostrich is
eye is bigger than its brain.
160. Starfish have no brains. />161. 11% of the world is left-handed.
162. 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.
163. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
164. Peanuts
are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
165. The national anthem of
Greece has 158 verses.
166. There are 293 ways to make change for a
dollar.
167. A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish
between 500 shades of gray.
168. A pregnant goldfish is called a
twit.
169. Lizards can self-amputate their tails for protection. It
grows back after a few months.
170. Los Angeles' full name is ''El
Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula''. It can
be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.
171. A cat has 32 muscles
in each ear.
172. A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour. />173. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
174. A
''jiffy'' is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.
175. The
average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters
first grade.
176. The youngest pope ever was 11 years old. />177. The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer. />178. One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are
recaptured.
179. The cigarette lighter was invented before the
match.
180. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs melted
into it.
181. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair. />182. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in
1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
183. 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.'' />184. A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like
snow it appears white.
185. 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.
186. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as
both parties are registered blood donors.
187. Donkeys kill more
people than plane crashes.
188. Shakespeare invented the words
''assassination'' and ''bump.''
189. There are a million ants for
every person on Earth.
190. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room,
it will eventually turn white.
191. Women blink nearly twice as much
as men.
192. The name Jeep comes from ''GP the army abbreviation for
General Purpose.
193. Right handed people live, on average, nine
years longer than left handed people do.
194. There are two credit
cards for every person in the United States.
195. Cats' urine glows
under a black light.
196. A ''quidnunc'' is a person who is eager to
know the latest news and gossip.
197. The first US Patent was for
manufacturing potassium carbonate (used in glass and gunpowder). It was
issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1970.
198. Leonardo Da Vinci
invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other present day items.
199. In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
200. 25% of a human is bones are in its feet.
201. David
Sarnoff received the Titanic is distress signal and saved hundreds of
passengers. He later became the head of the first radio network, the
National Broadcasting Company (NBC).
202. On average, 100 people
choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
203. Michael Jordan
makes more money from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in
Malaysia combined.
204. One of the reasonsis illegal today is
because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw
it as competition).
205. ''Canada'' is an Indian word meaning ''Big
Village''.
206. Only one in two billion people will live to be 116
or older.
207. 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.
208. Rape is reported every six
minutes in the U.S.
209. The human heart creates enough pressure in
the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet.
210. A jellyfish is 95%
water.
211. Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by
accidental deaths (799 in 2001).
212. Banging your head against a
wall uses 150 calories an hour.
213. Elephants only sleep for two
hours each day.
214. On average people fear spiders more than they
do death.
215. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
(the heart is not a muscle)
216. In golf, a 'Bo Derek' is a score of
10.
217. In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and
basketballs combined.
218. In most watch advertisements the time
displayed on a watch is 10:10.
219. If you plant an apple seed, it
is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple. />220. Al Capone is business card said he was a used furniture dealer. />221. The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross.
222.
There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France.
223. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers plays football at
home the stadium becomes Nebraska is third largest city.
224. The
characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop
and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra is ''It is a Wonderful Life''.
225. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
226. In Iceland,
a Big Mac costs $5.50.
227. Broccoli and cauliflower are the only
vegetables that are flowers.
228. Newborn babies have about 350
bones. They gradually merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age
5.
229. There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal. />230. In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to
bury its head in the sand.
231. A dime has 118 ridges around the
edge. A quarter has 119.
232. On an American one-dollar bill there
is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the upper-right-hand ''1''
and a spider hidden in the front upper-right-hand corner.
233. Judy
Scheindlin (''Judge Judy'') has a $25,000,000 salary, while Supreme Court
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a $190,100 salary.
234. The name for
Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator Frank Baum looked at
his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z.
235. Andorra, a tiny country
on the border between France and Spain, has the longest average lifespan:
83.49 years.
236. The microwave was invented after a researcher
walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. />237. Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.
238. In
America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.
239.
John Lennon is first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
240. You
can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
241. The average person
falls asleep in seven minutes.
242. ''The sixth sick sheik is sixth
sheep is sick'' is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English. />243. There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its
330.
244. The Toltecs (a 7th century tribe) used wooden swords so
they would not kill their enemies.
245. ''Duff'' is the decaying
organic matter found on a forest floor.
246. The US has more
personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
247. There
have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Grahm Bell over rights to
the patent of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history. />248. Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world). Latvia is about 54%
female (highest in the world).
249. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12
letters.
250. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than
all the world is nuclear weapons combined.
251. At the height of its
power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000
slaves.
252. Julius Caesar is autograph is worth about $2,000,000.
253. The tool doctors wrap around a patient is arm to measure blood
pressure is called a sphygmomanometer.
254. People say ''bless you''
when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.
255. US
gold coins used to say ''In Gold We Trust''.
256. In ''Silence of
the Lambs Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
257. A
shrimp is heart is in its head.
258. In the 17th century, the value
of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion. />259. The bestselling books of all time are The Bible (6billion+),
Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (900million+), and The Lord of
the Rings (100million+)
260. Pearls melt in vinegar.
261.
''Lassie'' was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal.
262. 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.
263. Nepal is the only country that
does not have a rectangular flag. Switzerland is the only country with a
square flag.
264. Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels
named in the Bible.
265. Tiger Woods' real first name is Eldrick.
His father gave him the nickname ''Tiger'' in honor of a South Vietnamese
soldier his father had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War. />266. Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple
cider to make alcohol.
267. Abraham Lincoln is ghost is said to
haunt the White House.
268. God is not mentioned once in the book of
Esther.
269. The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according
to census.
270. Scotland has more redheads than any other part of
the world.
271. There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over
the US at any given moment.
272. Prince Charles and Prince William
never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash.
273. The
most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. The most common name (of
any type) in the world is Mohammed.
274. The surface of the Earth is
about 60% water and 10% ice.
275. For every 230 cars that are made, 1
will be stolen.
276. Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be
born in a hospital.
277. Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million
times a day.
278. Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to
improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people.
279.
The ''if'' and ''then'' parts of conditional (''if P then Q'') statement
are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q).
280. Humans use a
total of 72 different muscles in speech.
281. If you feed a seagull
Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
282. Only female mosquitoes
bite.
283. The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world is
mail.
284. Most household dust is made of dead skin cells. />285. One in about eight million people has progeria, a disease that
causes people to grow faster than they age.
286. The male seahorse
carries the eggs until they hatch instead of the female.
287. The
''countdown'' (counting down from 10 for an event such as New-Years Day)
was first used in a 1929 German silent film called ''Die Frau Im Monde''
(The Girl in the Moon).
288. Negative emotions such as anxiety and
depression can weaken your immune system.
289. There are seven
suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul is armor-bearer,
Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas.
290. 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.
291. Stephen Hawking was
born exactly 300 years after Galileo died.
292. Mercury is the only
planet whose orbit is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the
only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit. />293. 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.''
294. The Baby Ruth candy bar was
named after Grover Cleveland is baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the
baseball player.
295. Dolphins can look in different directions with
each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.
296. The Falkland Isles
(pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per person).
297. There
are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
298. While
many treaties have been signed at or near Paris, France (including many
after WWl and WWII), nine are actually known as the ''Treaty of Paris'':
Seven Years' War (1763), American Revolutionary War (1783), French-Swede
War (1810), France vs Sixth Coalition (1814), Battle of Waterloo (1815),
Crimean War (1856), Spanish-American War (1898), union of Bessarabia and
Romania (1920), establishment of European Coal and Steel Community (1951).
299. Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln is oldest son) was in
Washington DC during his father is assassination as well as during
President Garfield is assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when
President McKinley was assassinated.
300. The city of Venice stands
on about 120 small islands.
301. The past-tense of the English word
''dare'' is ''durst''.
302. Don Mac Lean is 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.
303. The drummer for
ZZ Top (the only one without a beard) is named Frank Beard.
304.
Hummingbirds can not walk.
305. When movie directors do not want
their names to be seen in the credits, they use the pseudonym ''Allen
Smithee'' instead. It has been used over 50 times, starting with ''Death
of a Gunfighter'' (1969).
306. Four different people played the part
of Darth Vader (body, face, voice, and breathing).
307. Pamela
Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada on the centennial
anniversary of Canada is independence (7/1/1967).
308. There is
about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout
history.
309. William Shatner is credited for being the first person
on TV to say ''hell'' as well as to have the first inter-racial kiss (with
Nichelle Nichols), both in episodes of Star Trek.
310. While the US
government is supply of gold is kept at Fort Knox, its supply of silver is
kept at the Military Academy at West Point, NY.
311. Alexander Graham
Bell is wife and mother were both deaf.
312. Compact discs read from
the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works. />313. 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.
314. Attila the Hun (invader of Europe;
406-453), Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), Pope Leo VIl
(936-939), Pope John VIl (955-964), Pope Leo VIIl (963-965), Pope John
XIIl (965-72), Pope Paul Il (1467-1471), Lord Palmerston (British Prime
Minister, 1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (US Vice President, 1908-1979),
and John Entwistle (The Who is bassist, 1944-2002) all died while having .
315. Humans and dolphins are the only animals known to havefor
pleasure.
316. Pac-Man, Namco is 1979 arcade game, was originally
called ''Puck Man''. The name was changed when they realized that vandals
could easily scratch out part of the letter ''P''.
317. Shakespeare
and Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616.
318. There are
about 7.7 million millionaires in the world (more than 1/1000th of the
population).
319. The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl
named Lina Medina. She gave birth to a boy by caesarean section on May 14,
1939 (which happened to be Mother is Day), at the age of five years, seven
months and 21 days.
320. The ''middle finger'' gesture originates
back to 423 BC in Aristophanes play ''The Clouds''.
Have fun reading
it. Some interesting stuff on there. l did not type them up myself either.
Just copied and pasted them.
No offense taken. Just skim through it,
it ai not rocket science.
Yes there is a one thousand limit on
characters but l do not care. And l am not bored for a change. />Triple Ho took hostage of my avatar. It is better than the male face
though.
Triple Ho took hostage of my avatar. It is better than the
male face though.