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The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows
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The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows
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Half Life 2 had the most "Best Game" Of all games...Ever
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• Jeruselem is the only city that has been forcibly taken over more times than Paris
• Nine percent of over-the-counter prescriptions are written for placebos.
• An adult Andean condor can fly, while carrying a fully grown sheep, over one mile.
• A rat's sneeze contains no bacteria.
• The winter of 1868 was the only year cold enough that all of Niagara Falls froze.
• A piece of paper and 10 matchsticks use roughly the same amount of wood.
• The dime has the highest ratio of value to weight of any coin in the world.
• The technical name for a plus sign (+) is a quadrapoint.
• Red-haired people are twice as likely to be married by age 23 than their blonde-haired counterparts.
• U.S. Banks currently hold $48.6 billion in unclaimed inheritance funds.
• Time zone differences cost the world economy over 12 billion dollars a year in lost efficiency.
• Users of earbud headphones, like the ones that come with an iPod, experience a 61 percent increase in ear wax production.
• Everyone always wanted to know . . . What is a blue moon? Well, when their are two full moons in one month, the second one is called a "blue" moon.
• There are about 5,000,000,000 years on of sunlight left, like I really care?
• When the moon is directly over your head, you weigh slightly less.
• If you traveled the speed of light, it would only take you 0.0000294 seconds to climb Mt. Everest.
• The period at the end of this sentence can hold 2,000,000 hydrogen atoms.
• Planet Venus is the only planet to spin counter-clockwise.
• Minus forty degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus forty degrees Fahrenheit.
• The coldest outdoor temperature ever recorded on earth was 127 below zero in Antarctica on August 24, 1960.
• The highest recorded temperature in the US was 134 Fahrenheit in Death Valley, California.
• Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• You breath 13 pints of air per minute.
• 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."
• After the sun, the closest star to Earth is 25,000,000,000,000 miles away.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you die of oxygen deprivation.
• The record for the biggest one day rainfall was set on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, on March 15, 1952, where 74 inches of rain fell in 24 hours.
• The right lung takes in more air than the left.
• Of the 206 bones in the human body, 52 are in the feet.
• One 75-watt light bulb gives off more light than three 25-watt light bulbs.
• For 186 days you can not see the sun in the North Pole.
• Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of it's surface tension.
• Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
• In space, astronauts are unable to cry, tears can't flow down, because of the lack of gravity.
• Wet sand weighs less than dry sand.
• Lightning strikes somewhere about 6,000 times per second on Earth.
• If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
• A women's heart beats faster than men.
• The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
• Our eyes always stay the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
• The queen of England has two birthdays.
• Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.
• The world's longest name is: Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Shermasn Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Sr.
• Anne Boleyn had three breasts.
• Leif Erikson was the first European to set foot on North America in the year 1000. (No, it wasn't Columbus)
• Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.
• Shirly Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday.
• 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."
• Virgina Woolf wrote all of her books standing.
• The first shopping bag with handles was invented in 1918 by Walter Deubener.
• Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.
• 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."
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
• Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words, not a single word contained the letter "E."
• Orville Wright was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.
• 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 slices of toast so he could continue to play cards uninterrupted.
• On the cartoon show "The Jetsons," Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15 years old.
• Cher's last name was Sarkissian, she changed it because no one could pronounce it and it would not be accepted in show business.
• Of the 266 men who have been pope, 33 have died violently.
• Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist (William Semple).
• Everyone thought Albert Einstein suffered from dyslexia, because he couldn't speak properly until he was 9 years old.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• Gweneth Paltrow's nickname for Steven Speilberg is "Uncle Morty."
• Steven Speilberg calls Gweneth Paltrow "Gwynnie the pooh."
• Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
• Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
• Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
• In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
• Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
• Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott".
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
• The sorcerer's name in Disney's Fantasia is Yensid, which happens to be Disney backwards.
• Nobody knows where Mozart is buried.
• White out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees).
• Francis Bacon died of hypothermia while trying to freeze a chicken by stuffing it with snow.
• Wesley Snipes has a 5th Degree Black Belt.
• Wesley Snipes installed public telephones while struggling to become an actor in New York.
• During the Reign of Peter the Great, their was a special tax on anyone who had a beard.
• Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
• 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.
• 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.
• Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
• Sting got his name from a black and yellow striped sweater he would wear a lot.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
If the population of China walked past you in single file the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
American Airlines saved 40000USD in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds dogs only have about ten.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
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.
Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
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.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
The average secretarys left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the worlds eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.
On a Canadian two dollar bill the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month orange silver or purple.
Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the 5 dollar bill.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in - dous: tremendous horrendous stupendous and hazardous.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Every time you lick a stamp youre consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
In ancient Egypt Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Polar bears are left-handed.
The catfish has over 27000 taste buds that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that cant jump.
An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish havent got brains.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
Los Angeless 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.
Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldnt beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects legs in it.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
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.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesnt wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Cats urine glows under a black light.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
Babies are born without knee caps. They dont appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
You cant kill yourself by holding your breath.
In most advertisements including newspapers the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capones business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home the stadium becomes the states third largest city.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capras Its A Wonderful Life.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
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 is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Whos that playing the piano on the Mad About You theme? Paul Reiser himself.
In England the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
• Nine percent of over-the-counter prescriptions are written for placebos.
• An adult Andean condor can fly, while carrying a fully grown sheep, over one mile.
• A rat's sneeze contains no bacteria.
• The winter of 1868 was the only year cold enough that all of Niagara Falls froze.
• A piece of paper and 10 matchsticks use roughly the same amount of wood.
• The dime has the highest ratio of value to weight of any coin in the world.
• The technical name for a plus sign (+) is a quadrapoint.
• Red-haired people are twice as likely to be married by age 23 than their blonde-haired counterparts.
• U.S. Banks currently hold $48.6 billion in unclaimed inheritance funds.
• Time zone differences cost the world economy over 12 billion dollars a year in lost efficiency.
• Users of earbud headphones, like the ones that come with an iPod, experience a 61 percent increase in ear wax production.
• Everyone always wanted to know . . . What is a blue moon? Well, when their are two full moons in one month, the second one is called a "blue" moon.
• There are about 5,000,000,000 years on of sunlight left, like I really care?
• When the moon is directly over your head, you weigh slightly less.
• If you traveled the speed of light, it would only take you 0.0000294 seconds to climb Mt. Everest.
• The period at the end of this sentence can hold 2,000,000 hydrogen atoms.
• Planet Venus is the only planet to spin counter-clockwise.
• Minus forty degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus forty degrees Fahrenheit.
• The coldest outdoor temperature ever recorded on earth was 127 below zero in Antarctica on August 24, 1960.
• The highest recorded temperature in the US was 134 Fahrenheit in Death Valley, California.
• Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• You breath 13 pints of air per minute.
• 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."
• After the sun, the closest star to Earth is 25,000,000,000,000 miles away.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you die of oxygen deprivation.
• The record for the biggest one day rainfall was set on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, on March 15, 1952, where 74 inches of rain fell in 24 hours.
• The right lung takes in more air than the left.
• Of the 206 bones in the human body, 52 are in the feet.
• One 75-watt light bulb gives off more light than three 25-watt light bulbs.
• For 186 days you can not see the sun in the North Pole.
• Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of it's surface tension.
• Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
• In space, astronauts are unable to cry, tears can't flow down, because of the lack of gravity.
• Wet sand weighs less than dry sand.
• Lightning strikes somewhere about 6,000 times per second on Earth.
• If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
• A women's heart beats faster than men.
• The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
• Our eyes always stay the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
• The queen of England has two birthdays.
• Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.
• The world's longest name is: Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Shermasn Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Sr.
• Anne Boleyn had three breasts.
• Leif Erikson was the first European to set foot on North America in the year 1000. (No, it wasn't Columbus)
• Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.
• Shirly Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday.
• 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."
• Virgina Woolf wrote all of her books standing.
• The first shopping bag with handles was invented in 1918 by Walter Deubener.
• Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.
• 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."
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
• Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words, not a single word contained the letter "E."
• Orville Wright was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.
• 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 slices of toast so he could continue to play cards uninterrupted.
• On the cartoon show "The Jetsons," Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15 years old.
• Cher's last name was Sarkissian, she changed it because no one could pronounce it and it would not be accepted in show business.
• Of the 266 men who have been pope, 33 have died violently.
• Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist (William Semple).
• Everyone thought Albert Einstein suffered from dyslexia, because he couldn't speak properly until he was 9 years old.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• Gweneth Paltrow's nickname for Steven Speilberg is "Uncle Morty."
• Steven Speilberg calls Gweneth Paltrow "Gwynnie the pooh."
• Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
• Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
• Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
• In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
• Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
• Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott".
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
• The sorcerer's name in Disney's Fantasia is Yensid, which happens to be Disney backwards.
• Nobody knows where Mozart is buried.
• White out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees).
• Francis Bacon died of hypothermia while trying to freeze a chicken by stuffing it with snow.
• Wesley Snipes has a 5th Degree Black Belt.
• Wesley Snipes installed public telephones while struggling to become an actor in New York.
• During the Reign of Peter the Great, their was a special tax on anyone who had a beard.
• Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
• 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.
• 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.
• Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
• Sting got his name from a black and yellow striped sweater he would wear a lot.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
If the population of China walked past you in single file the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
American Airlines saved 40000USD in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds dogs only have about ten.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
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.
Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
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.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
The average secretarys left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the worlds eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.
On a Canadian two dollar bill the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month orange silver or purple.
Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the 5 dollar bill.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in - dous: tremendous horrendous stupendous and hazardous.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Every time you lick a stamp youre consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
In ancient Egypt Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Polar bears are left-handed.
The catfish has over 27000 taste buds that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that cant jump.
An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish havent got brains.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
Los Angeless 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.
Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldnt beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects legs in it.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
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.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesnt wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Cats urine glows under a black light.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
Babies are born without knee caps. They dont appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
You cant kill yourself by holding your breath.
In most advertisements including newspapers the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capones business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home the stadium becomes the states third largest city.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capras Its A Wonderful Life.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
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 is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Whos that playing the piano on the Mad About You theme? Paul Reiser himself.
In England the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Ames
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• Each roll of standard 35mm film contains 16 μg of uranium.
• Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have determined that 68 percent of cats' dreams are nightmares.
• Historians believe the Spanish American War was the only modern military conflict set off by mollusks: the explosion of the USS Maine, which precipitated the war, was caused by the tunneling of countless ship-worms.
• An average book in a university library has been checked out four times.
• The common notion that most people only use one quarter of their brains was proven true in 1958 by Soviet scientists, in a series of grisly experiments on petty criminals.
• The first tongue-twister to be written down was discovered in Egypt. Translated, it roughly reads: "Stars and water, running through the desert, throwing handfuls of sand."
• Nationally, the average parking meter collects $6.43 per day, excluding Sundays.
• One in six Britons will die without ever having tasted tea.
• In the 2004 election, John Kerry's website had, on average, eight times more total words than George Bush's.
• Nine percent of people cross days off calendars as they pass.
• Although the plurals 'octopusses' and 'octopi' are acceptable, the word is of Greek etymology and its correct plural is octopata.
• The octopus is the most highly evolved of the mollusks; one speciman at Sea World San Antonio was reportedly able to recognize and add numbers as large as fifteen.
• The cuttlefish is neither cuttle nor fish, but a free-swimmming mollusk. Its vestigial shell, the so-called 'cuttle-bone,' is the primary source of the world's ink supply.
• The once-mythical Kraken, now recognized as the elusive giant squid, comes on land once a year to mate and lay its eggs.
• By weight, two percent of the average human adult consists of symbiotic bacteria.
• Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have determined that 68 percent of cats' dreams are nightmares.
• Historians believe the Spanish American War was the only modern military conflict set off by mollusks: the explosion of the USS Maine, which precipitated the war, was caused by the tunneling of countless ship-worms.
• An average book in a university library has been checked out four times.
• The common notion that most people only use one quarter of their brains was proven true in 1958 by Soviet scientists, in a series of grisly experiments on petty criminals.
• The first tongue-twister to be written down was discovered in Egypt. Translated, it roughly reads: "Stars and water, running through the desert, throwing handfuls of sand."
• Nationally, the average parking meter collects $6.43 per day, excluding Sundays.
• One in six Britons will die without ever having tasted tea.
• In the 2004 election, John Kerry's website had, on average, eight times more total words than George Bush's.
• Nine percent of people cross days off calendars as they pass.
• Although the plurals 'octopusses' and 'octopi' are acceptable, the word is of Greek etymology and its correct plural is octopata.
• The octopus is the most highly evolved of the mollusks; one speciman at Sea World San Antonio was reportedly able to recognize and add numbers as large as fifteen.
• The cuttlefish is neither cuttle nor fish, but a free-swimmming mollusk. Its vestigial shell, the so-called 'cuttle-bone,' is the primary source of the world's ink supply.
• The once-mythical Kraken, now recognized as the elusive giant squid, comes on land once a year to mate and lay its eggs.
• By weight, two percent of the average human adult consists of symbiotic bacteria.
Axyon
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"The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night."
This was fabricated to show how misinformation spreads on the Internet. While I'm sure some of those other 'facts' are true, I'll take most of them with a large grain of salt.
Purple does in fact rhyme with 'cirple', which is to hobble along while dragging one foot behind.
This was fabricated to show how misinformation spreads on the Internet. While I'm sure some of those other 'facts' are true, I'll take most of them with a large grain of salt.
Purple does in fact rhyme with 'cirple', which is to hobble along while dragging one foot behind.
Cormeh
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I prefer to get my facts from the Peter Kay school of random facts:
-Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.
-At the end of every party there is always a girl crying.
-You're never quite sure whether it's ok to eat green crisps.
-Everyone who grew up in the 80's has entered the digits 55378008
into a calculator - then turned the figures upside down
-Sharpening a pencil with a knife makes you
feel really manly.
-You're never quite sure whether it's against the
law or not to have a fire in your back garden.
-Its impossible to describe the smell of a wet cat.
-Rummaging in an overgrow garden will always turn up a bouncy ball.
-Everyone always remembers the day a dog ran into your school.
-Every bloke has at some stage while taking a pee, flushed half way and raced it.
-You never ever run out of salt.
-No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers.
-The most painful household incident is wearing socks and stepping on an
upturned plug.
-People who don't drive slam car doors too hard.
-Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
-Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.
-At the end of every party there is always a girl crying.
-You're never quite sure whether it's ok to eat green crisps.
-Everyone who grew up in the 80's has entered the digits 55378008
into a calculator - then turned the figures upside down
-Sharpening a pencil with a knife makes you
feel really manly.
-You're never quite sure whether it's against the
law or not to have a fire in your back garden.
-Its impossible to describe the smell of a wet cat.
-Rummaging in an overgrow garden will always turn up a bouncy ball.
-Everyone always remembers the day a dog ran into your school.
-Every bloke has at some stage while taking a pee, flushed half way and raced it.
-You never ever run out of salt.
-No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers.
-The most painful household incident is wearing socks and stepping on an
upturned plug.
-People who don't drive slam car doors too hard.
-Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Beerdude26
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Hawt :O
spookymooky
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Anyone else pick up a trojan here?Reaktor4 said:
Sulkdodds
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- Those Peter Kay quotes are all totally and undeniably true.
- On October 13, 2005 (the day his Nobel Prize was announced) Harold Pinter was erroneously reported dead on a cable television channel.
- The Canadarm Remote Manipulator System was first used on the second Space Shuttle mission STS-2, launched November 12, 1981.
- In 1842 when Hong Kong was ceded to Britain, a tiny area called the Kowloon Walled City remained under Chinese ownership. China was unable to get police or troops into Walled City and Britain wanted nothing to do with it. Kowloon Walled City became a haven for refugees, crooks and drug-dealers - a city within a city with its own unique culture and social ecology. Kowloon Walled City was demolished in 1993.
- The Paddle Steamer Waverley that cruises tourists around the Hebridies (Scotland) was actually built on the Clyde in 1947 as a replacement for the original PS Waverley of 1899 that had taken part in the WW II war effort as a minesweeper and was sunk in 1940 while helping with the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk.
- By the age of 12 Ray Kurzweil had programmed his first computer.
- Shens is somewhere in this video. Seriously.
- The spelling of 'magic' as 'magick' was coined by the infamous occultist Aleister Crowley.
- On October 13, 2005 (the day his Nobel Prize was announced) Harold Pinter was erroneously reported dead on a cable television channel.
- The Canadarm Remote Manipulator System was first used on the second Space Shuttle mission STS-2, launched November 12, 1981.
- In 1842 when Hong Kong was ceded to Britain, a tiny area called the Kowloon Walled City remained under Chinese ownership. China was unable to get police or troops into Walled City and Britain wanted nothing to do with it. Kowloon Walled City became a haven for refugees, crooks and drug-dealers - a city within a city with its own unique culture and social ecology. Kowloon Walled City was demolished in 1993.
- The Paddle Steamer Waverley that cruises tourists around the Hebridies (Scotland) was actually built on the Clyde in 1947 as a replacement for the original PS Waverley of 1899 that had taken part in the WW II war effort as a minesweeper and was sunk in 1940 while helping with the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk.
- By the age of 12 Ray Kurzweil had programmed his first computer.
- Shens is somewhere in this video. Seriously.
- The spelling of 'magic' as 'magick' was coined by the infamous occultist Aleister Crowley.
