[*]The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
[*]It costs more to buy a new car today in the United
States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and
undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
[*]One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than
$200 a year.
[*]Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a
year.
[*]The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy
dog" uses every letter in the English language.
[*]The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they
are read left to right or right to left.
[*]TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using
the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
[*]Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of
long words.
[*]A snail can sleep for 3 years.
[*]Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9
million other people in the world.
[*]The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at
night.
[*]More people are killed by donkeys annually than are
killed in plane crashes.
[*]Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
[*]The continents names all end with the same letter with
which they start.
[*]Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and
"bump."
[*]According to tests made at the Institute for the Study
of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like
people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is,
they favor either their right or left paws.
[*]A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel
can.
[*]Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as
long as 3 Greyhound buses.
[*]Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on
land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if
you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line.
You'll lose him or her every time.
[*]Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may
occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other
places.
[*]Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue
whale.
[*]Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
[*]Only female mosquitoes bite.
[*]Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as
much as to any other color.
[*]If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it
will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
[*]Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock
their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right
angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall
asleep.
[*]Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to
yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of
the day.
[*]Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of
a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
[*]The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within
several degrees by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is
done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second
period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very
close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula,
however, only works in warm weather. (Try it!)
[*]In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two
hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
[*]Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar.
It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the
1920's.
[*]A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will
bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass
to the top.
[*]Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to
eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin
with.
[*]You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching
television.
[*]The two longest one-syllable words in the English
language is "screeched. & strengths."
[*]Barbie's measurements if she were life size:
39-23-33.
[*]Barbie's full first name is Barbara Millicent
Roberts.
[*]All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on
4:20.
[*]A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
[*]"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the
letters "mt".
[*]The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
[*]The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture
cell' or 'picture element'.
[*]Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every
Dewey-decimal category.
[*]Cat's urine glows under a black light.
[*]The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels
arranged in sixteen rows.
[*]The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
[*]Chrysler built B-29's engines that bombed Japan,
Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both
companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond
Star.
[*]On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock
tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
[*]The vignette on the reverse of the five-dollar note
depicts a likeness of the front of the Lincoln Memorial as
it appeared in 1922 when it was first dedicated. At
that time, there were only 48 states that made up the
United States of America. The names of 26 states were
engraved on the front of the Memorial. This is why
only the names of 26 states appear in the vignette on the
reverse of the five-dollar note. In the upper frieze
of the façade in the vignette the states are from
left to right: Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Iowa,
Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, West
Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado, and North Dakota.
In the lower frieze from left to right the names of
the states are: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Carolina,
Hampshire, Virginia and New York.
[*]All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln
Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
[*]Almonds are members of the peach family.
[*]If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively
(1 2 3 4 5 etc) the total is 5050
[*]The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an
octothorpe.
[*]The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 Oz.
[*]The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
[*]Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
[*]Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835
when Haley's Comet came into view. When He died in 1910,
Haley's Comet came into view again.
[*]Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a
registered trademark of AT&T.
[*]The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a
capacity of 5megabytes.
[*]In many cases, the amount of storage space on a
record-able CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about
650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.
[*]Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
[*]Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected
intravenously.
[*]Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of
them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
[*]Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but
technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress
forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the
Union.
[*]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.
[*]Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can
twitch only one at a time.
[*]The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the
volume of the Pacific Ocean.
[*]Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
[*]The largest city in the United States with a one
syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
[*]On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old
and her daughter Judy is 15.
[*]In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is
the only person who has a speaking role.
[*]Only humans and horses have hymens.
[*]The word "set" has more definitions than any other word
in the English language.
[*]The state with the longest coastline in the US is
Alaska.
[*]We will have four consecutive full moons making two
blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The
only other time it happened this century was in 1915
(January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)
[*]Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going
to actor's salaries.
[*]Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was
played by six different cats.
[*]The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape
Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in
Bishop, California...
[*]The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th
Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827.
[*]"Underground" is the only word in the English language
that begins and ends with the letters "und."
[*]A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop
goes to the production of Guinness beer.
[*]If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads
5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs
more, so it ends up on the bottom.
[*]The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
[*]Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.
[*]In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a
government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program
(played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake,
California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good
astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to bad mouth Yeager
claiming they need someone who went to college. During the
conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender
who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping.
General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as
'Fred.'
[*]Maine is the only state whose name is just one
syllable.
[*]There are only four words in the English language which
end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and
hazardous.
[*]The longest word in the English language, according to
the Oxford English Dictionary, is
pneumonoultramicroscopics- ilicovolcanoconiosis. The only
other word with the same amount of letters
ispneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovol- canoconioses, its
plural.
[*]The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatan-
gihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai-
whenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
[*]Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora
la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be
abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
[*]A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
[*]An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
[*]Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
[*]After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for
damages that were caused by them building ships for the
Confederacy. We originally asked for $1 billion but settled
on $25 Million.
[*]There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the
Paramount Pictures logo.
[*]Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
[*]There is a word in the English language with only one
vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
[*]In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time
displayed on a watch is 10:10.
[*]The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive
consonants is 'angstschreeuw'.
[*]Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was
eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
[*]The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was
Temujin.
[*]The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of
the Apes was "Smile".
[*]Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the
correct order.
[*]Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of
the distribution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some
galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they
resemble a human being.
[*]Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their
birthdays.
[*]Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture
dealer.
[*]The second longest word in the English language is
"antidisestablishmentarianism".
[*]When two words are combined to form a single word
(e.g., motor hotel = motel, breakfast lunch = brunch)
the new word is called a "portmanteau."
[*]Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of
Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame
created the expression for ignominy, "His name is
Mudd."
[*]The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two
lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
[*]In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.
[*]The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up"
lady is Edith Fore.
[*]Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of
teeth.
[*]Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American
Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was
running a munitions factory in her basement.
[*]The only real people to be a Pez head are
Betsy Ross, Paul Revere and Daniel Boone.
[*]Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted
in the book 'The Naked Lunch'.
[*]Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
[*]Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal,
and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean
Mcbricker.
[*]Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on
"The Jeffersons."
[*]Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
[*]A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
[*]111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
[*]The Ramses brand condom is named after the great
phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
[*]There is a seven letter word in the English language
that contains ten words without rearranging any of its
letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here,
here, ere, therein, herein.
[*]When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play
football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third
largest city.
[*]John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John
Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre."
[*]A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
[*]A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
[*]A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
[*]A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
[*]A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
[*]A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
[*]On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the
upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield"
and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand
corner.
[*]It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
[*]"Evian" spelled backwards is naive.
[*]The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called
aglets.
[*]Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
[*]It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can
throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the
stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses
it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and
then swallows the stomach back down again.
[*]The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and
Wright.
[*]A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called
a spat.
[*]Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack
box.
[*]Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in
the entire world.
[*]Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
[*]There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a
ten-dollar bill.
[*]ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from
each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-
frid.)
[*]What five digit number, when multiplied by the number
4, is the same number with the digits in reverse
order?
21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912.
[*]It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there
is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
[*]In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of
the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the
time.
[*]Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their
hooves fall off.
[*]The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia
Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and
play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in
India.
[*]Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a
fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a
basketball.
[*]The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
[*]St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye
after a man who ran a saloon there.
[*]The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S.
$5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln
Memorial.
[*]Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz
Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969.)
[*]Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You"
theme? It's Paul Reiser himself.. And Greg Evigan sang the
"My Two Dads" theme. Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the
piano for the theme song of Fraiser.Alan Thicke, the father
in the TV show Growing Pains wrote the theme songs for The
Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes .
[*]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.
[*]The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.
[*]Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was
only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first
name was Willy.
[*]The Skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas
Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their
radios newscast about the wreck.
[*]The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's
last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was
Wentworth.
[*]The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy
moth from 1.8 miles away.
[*]In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to
speak.
[*]Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
[*]The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
[*]The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal
currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it
was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.
[*]The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy
Bezopasnosti.
[*]Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
[*]The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona,"
and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers,
Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
[*]The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up
when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet
and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
[*]The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by
a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
[*]Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes
from Elton Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from
Long John Baldry, founder of Blues Inc. They were the first
electric white blues band ever seen in England- -1961
[*]The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the
balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old
cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs
were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey.
When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and
break off... Thus the saying.
[*]Horses cannot vomit.
[*]S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our
Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international
conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were
easy to remember and just about anyone couldkey it and read
it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..
[*]Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in
1875.
[*]When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring
is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey
mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
[*]The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with
a female horse.
[*]A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
[*]Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained
minister.
[*]The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."
[*]John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma
Pickles.
[*]Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails
have all been used as money.
[*]The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team
to introduce emblems on their helmets.
[*]The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles
in its head.
[*]Dart-boards are made out of horsehair.
[*]Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was
playing with engine parts and realized the possible
secondary use of one of the springs.
[*]There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
[*]Octopi have gardens.
[*]"Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but
they're really singing something else? The word for
mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes from a folk
song in the '50's. The singer was actually singing "They
slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but
this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray
and Lady Mondegreen.'"
[*]Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a
sandbox.
[*]'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language
with just one vowel.
[*]'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with
only the left hand.
[*]One of the longest English words that can be typed
using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses
of letters) is 'typewriter.'
[*]When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of
six feet, normally without being hurt.
[*]Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
[*]The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever home
run and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever home run
where thrown by the same man.
[*]To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court
swearing to a statement made by swearing on their
testicles.
[*]During conscription for WWII, there were nine
documented cases of men with three testicles.
[*]Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one
testicle.
[*]Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
[*]Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is
noticeably shorter than his right.
[*]Swans and Ducks are the only birds with penises.
in fact, the longest bird penis on record belongs to a duck
[*]A whale's penis is called a dork.
[*]Some carnivores, rodents, bats and insectivores have a
penis bone, called a baculum.
[*]A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in
the world in relation to its size.
[*]Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian
sarcophagi's noses off would and therefore forestall
curses.
[*]The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in
humans.
[*]The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of
water.
[*]Medieval knights put sharkskin on their sword handles
to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp
scales into their palms.
[*]Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into
the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to
explode.
[*]The only planet without a ring is earth.
[*]Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
[*]If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will
explode.
[*]The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways
are called Botts dots.
[*]Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal
television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
[*]A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
[*]Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
[*]A group of frogs is called an army.
[*]A group of rhinos is called a crash.
[*]A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
[*]A group of whales is called a pod.
[*]A group of geese is called a gaggle.
[*]A group of ravens is called a murder.
[*]A group of officers is called a mess.
[*]A group of larks is called an exaltation.
[*]A group of owls is called a parliament.
[*]The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written
about Rosanna Arquette, the actress.
[*]Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and
sister.
[*]Starfish don't have brains.
[*]Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
[*]Did you know that the actor Jane Seymour's birth name
is:
Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg.
Roy Rogers name was Leonard Slye
Dale Evans was Frances Octavia Smith.
[*]The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin
"tri-" "via", which means three streets. This is because
in ancient times, at an intersection of three streets in
Rome, they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary
information was listed. You might be interested in it, you
might not, hence they were bits of"trivia."
[*]Henry VIII only had two of his wives executed;
Anne Boleyn (#2) and Catherine Howard (#5).
Catherine of Aragon (#1) died after he had divorced
her,
Jane Seymour (#3) died after childbirth (of Edward),
Anne of Cleves (#4) died after he divorced her
Katherine Parr (#6) actually outlived Henry.
[*]Jellyfish have no brains, yet they can tell light from
dark, and sence movement.
[*]The term 'flying on cloud 9' originates from military
flights. Cloud types are classified as numbers... with
'cloud 9' being a very tall thunderstorm. Jets have to
climb to an extremely high altitude in order to fly over
'cloud 9.
[*]A dogs sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature.
If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would
smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef,
carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other
individual ingredients in the stew. In fact, if you
unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes from inside a
dogs nose, the membranes would be larger than the dog
itself.
[*]Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at
least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles
resulting from the flush. I keep my toothbrush in the
living room now.
[*]The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a
substitute for blood plasma.
[*]Donkeys kill more people annually than plane
crashes.
[*]Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty
years of age or older.
[*]The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's
gum.
[*]The king of hearts is the only king without a
mustache.
[*]A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright
brother's first flight.
The wingspan of the B-36, a retired USAF bomber, was twice
as long.
[*]American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating
1 olive from each salad served in first class.
[*]Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
[*]Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you
up in the morning.
[*]Most dust particles in your house are made from dead
skin.
[*]The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung
cancer.
So did the first 'Marlboro Man'.
[*]Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than
all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
[*]All U.S. presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't
like to be seen wearing them in public.
[*]Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
[*]Pearls melt in vinegar.
[*]It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not
downstairs.
[*]The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from
the days when engines were pulled by horses. The horses
were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to
walk up straight staircases.
[*]Turtles can breathe through their butts
[*]A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
[*]A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a
second.
[*]A shark is the only fish that can blink with both
eyes.
[*]Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear
until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
[*]Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have
about 10.
[*]February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not
to have a full moon.
[*]In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been
domesticated.
[*]If the population of China walked past you, in single
file, the line would never end because of the rate of
reproduction.
[*]If you are an average American, in your whole life, you
will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red
lights.
[*]Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
[*]No word in the English language rhymes with month,
orange, silver, or purple.
[*]Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our
nose and ears never stop growing.
[*]Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
[*]Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
[*]The average person's left hand does 56% of the
typing.
[*]The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it
only says there were three gifts.
[*]The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.
[*]The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze
completely solid.
[*]There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
[*]There are more chickens than people in the world.
[*]Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every
two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
[*]When we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing
rooms, etc., how many of you know for sure that the
seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real
mirror, or actually a two-way mirror?? Just conduct this
simple test: Place the tip of your fingernail against the
reflective surface and if there is a GAP between your
fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is a GENUINE
mirror. However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the
image of your nail, then BEWARE, for it is a two-way
mirror
[*]The State with the highest percentage of people who
walk to work: Alaska!
[*]The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now
get this...) The percentage of North America that is
wilderness: 38%
[*]The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of
eleven: $6,400
[*]The average number of people airborne over the US any
given hour: 61,000
[*]Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their
hair.
[*]The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in
China in 1910.
[*]The youngest pope was 11 years old.
[*]The first novel ever written on a typewriter:o?=o?= Tom
Sawyer.
[*]Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile
National Monuments.
[*]In Massachusetts - It is illegal to put tomatoes in
clam chowder
[*]Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great
king from history: Spades - King David, Hearts -
Charlemagne, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Diamonds - Julius
Caesar
[*]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.
[*]"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the
English language.
[*]Q. What occurs more often in December than any other
month? A. Conception.
[*]Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace
[*]Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most
popular boat name requested? A. Obsession
[*]Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you
have to go until you would find the letter "A"? A. One
thousand
[*]Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield
wipers, and laserbprinters all have in common? A. All
invented by women.
[*]Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil? A.
Honey
[*]Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any
other day of the year? A. Father's Day
[*]Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs
Bunny) is the most ironic? A.o?= He was allergic to
carrots.
[*]Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people
at a party? A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
[*]In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed
frames by ropes.o?= When you pulled on the ropes the
mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on.
Hence the phrase "Goodnight, sleep tight".
[*]It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago
that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father
would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could
drink.o?= Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar
was lunar based, this period was called the honey month we
know today as the honeymoon.
[*]In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So
in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender
would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and
settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's
and Q's"
[*]Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a
whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups.
When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get
some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by
this practice.
[*]In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled
Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF
entered into the English language.
[*]Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly
poop

NOW THAT IS SPAM!!!!!!!!

agree on that =))
i still read it and already gone 30 minutes since u post it on the clan forum ROFL

Yeah, just felt like I should share it with the world

i fuckin loled at it

gosh it's the best spam i've ever seen xD
imagine if he would have made a new reply with each of the statements ... he would have got himself a ban, that's for sure, but also he would have gotten himself some big post count !

hm, i read a lot of facts like this, especially pervert ones x3
though i remember one from the english language, if the lenght, the first and the last letter in a word is correct but in between the letters are totally mixed up, u can write a whole novel like that, about 95% of it u could read without much of a problem

ADman and ADwoman private life fail

Didnt read it all, stopped on

PS: only in english