A Broken Clock Is Right At Least Twice A Day.
If China Imported Just 10% Of It’s Rice Needs- The Price On The World Market Would Increase By 80%.
If Done Perfectly, Any Rubix Cube Combination Can Be Solved In 17 Turns.
If Each Count Were One Second Long, It Would Take About Twelve Days To Count To A Million And Thirty-Two Years To Count To A Billion.
If Inflation Continues At Its Present Rate (Without A Let-Up), The Citizen Who Earns $100 An Hour Today Will Have A Counterpart One Hundred Years From Now Will Earn $4,339 An Hour.
If Monkeys Eat Too Many Un-Ripe Bananas Their Tongue And Eyes Will Turn Green.
If One Places A Tiny Amount Of Liquor On A Scorpion, It Will Instantly Go Mad And Sting Itself To Death.
If Texas Were A Country It’s Gnp Would Be The Fifth Largest Of Any Country On Earth.
If The Earth Was Smooth, The Ocean Would Cover The Entire Surface To A Depth Of 12,000 Feet.
If Two Flies Were Left To Reproduce Without Predators Or Other Limitations For One Year, The Resulting Mass Of Flies Would Be The Size Of The Earth!
If We Had The Same Mortality Rate As In The 1900S, More Than Half The People In The World Today Would Not Be Alive.
If You Are Locked In A Completely Sealed Room, You Will Die Of Carbon Dioxide Poisoning Before You Die Of Oxygen Deprivation.
If You Bring A Raccoon’s Head To The Henniker, New Hampshire Town Hall, You Are Entitled To Receive $.10 From The Town.
If You Combined All The Muscles In An Average Human In To One Muscle, The Force It Would Be Capable Of Producing Is About 2,000 Tonnes.
If You Come From Manchester, You Are A Mancunian.
If You Could Cut Out The United States, Its Center Of Gravity Would Be Friend, Nebraska.
If You Earn Twenty Thousand Dollars A Year, One Minute Of Your Time Is Worth A Little More Than Seventeen Cents.
If You Fart Consistently For 6 Years And 9 Months, Enough Gas Is Produced ToCreate An Atomic Bomb.
If You Feed A Seagull Alka-Seltzer, Its Stomach Will Explode.
If You Go Blind In One Eye You Only Lose About One Fifth Of Your Vision But All Your Sense Of Depth.
If You Have A Tapeworm In Your Stomach It Will Come Up While You’re Asleep To Lick The Salt Off Your Lips.
If You Lace Your Shoes From The Inside To The Outside The Fit Will Be Snugger Around Your Big Toe.
If You Lock You Knees While Standing Long Enough, You Will Pass-Out.
If You Look Carefully At The Picture Of Mona Lisa, You Will Notice A Bridge In The Background.
If You Pause Saturday Night Fever At The How Deep Is Your Love Rehearsal Scene, You Will See The Camera Crew Reflected In The Dance Hall Mirror.
American Car Horns Beep In The Tone Of F.
Playing Cards In India Are Round.
The Shortest War In History Was Between Zanzibar An England In 1896. Zanzibar Surrendered After 38 Minutes.
Each Of Us Generates About 3.5 Pounds Of Rubbish A Day. Most Of It Is Paper.
The Condensed Water Vapour In The Sky Left Behind By Jets Is Called A Contrail.
Children Grow Faster In The Springtime.
The Most Collect Calls Are Made On Father’s Day.
No Piece Of Paper Can Be Folded More Than 7 Times.
Most Gemstones Contain Several Elements. Except The Diamond It’s All Carbon.
The Smoke Detector Was Invented In 1969
Barbie’s Measurements If She Were Life-Size; 39-29-33.
1 In Every 4 Americans Has Appeared On Television.
You Were Born With 300 Bones, But When You Get To Be An Adult You Only Have 206.
You Burn More Calories Sleeping Than You Do Watching T.V.
The Pacific Ocean Fills Nearly A Complete Hemisphere Of The Earth’s Surface.
There Are Ten Human Body Parts That Are Only Three Letters Long (Eye Hip Arm Leg Ear Toe Jaw Rib Lip Gum).
If You Go Blind In One Eye You Only Lose About One Fifth Of Your Vision But All Your Sense Of Depth
German Chemists Have Made A Replica Of The Football World Cup Trophy That Is The Size Of One Molecule. That Is Less Than 100-Millionth The Size Of The Original.
The Catholic Herald, Published In Great Britain, Warms About The Dangers Of Drinking Holy Water From Religious Shrines. While It May Have Curative Powers In A Religious Sense, It Seems That It Also Is A Breeding Ground For Germs.
The First Recording Of The Human Voice Was Be Thomas Edison In 1877. It Was ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb.’
More Money Is Spent On Gardening Than On Any Other Hobby
If You Put A Raisin In A Glass Of Champagne, It Will Keep Floating To The Top And Sinking To The Bottom.
If You See Arainbow You Have Your Back To The Sun. If You Don’t, You Can’t See It.
If You Suffer From Polythelia You Have Three Nipples.
If You Told Someone That They Were One In A Million, You’d Be Saying There Were 1,800 Of Them In China.
If You Took A Standard Slinky And Stretched It Out It Would Measure 87 Feet.
If You Toss A Penny 10,000 Times It Will Not Be Heads 5000 Times But More Like 4950. The Head Picture Weighs More, So It Ends Up On The Bottom.
If You Travel Across The Soviet Union You Will Cross Seven Time Zones.
If You Were Born In Los Alamos, New Mexico During The Manhattan Project (Where They Made The Atomic Bomb), Your Birth Place Is Listed As A Post Office Box In Albequerque.
If You Would Like To Make A Siberian Happy, Give Him A Horse-Meat Steak.
If Your Eyes Are Six Feet Above The Surface Of The Ocean, The Horizon Will Be About Three Statute Miles Away
If Your Mouth Were Completely Dry, You Wouldn’t Be Able To Taste Anything.
Iguanas, Koalas And Komodo Dragons All Have Two Penises.
In 10 Minutes, A Hurricane Releases More Energy Than All The World’s Nuclear Weapons Combined.
In 1778, Fashionable Women Of Paris Never Went Out In Blustery Weather Without A Lightning Rod Attached To Their Hats.
In 1825 Upper Peru Became Bolivia.
In 1845, Ice Shipped To Tallahassee Cost $1 Per Pound.
In 1892, Italy Raised The Minimum Age For Marriage For Girls – To 12.
In 1936, American Track Star Jesse Owens Beat A Race Horse Over A 100-Yard Course. The Horse Was Given A Head Start.
In 1938 Joe Shuster And Jerry Siegel Sold All Rights To The Comic-Strip Character Superman To Their Publishers For $130.
In 1946, The First Tv Toy Commercial Aired. It Was For Mr. Potato Head.
In 1947, A Car’s Brand Name Was Playboy.
In 1949, Forecasting The Relentless March Of Science, Popular Mechanics Said Computers In The Future May Weigh No More Than 5 Tons.
In 1953 – Marilyn Monroe Appeared As The First Playboy Centerfold.
In 1961, Mit Student Steve Russell, Created Spacewars, The First Interactive Computer Game, On A Digital Pdp-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) Mainframe Computer. Limited By The Computer Technology Of The Time, Ascii Text Characters Were The ‘Graphics’ And People Could Only Play The Game On A Device That Took Up The Floorspace Of A Small House.
Oak Trees Do Not Produce Acorns Until They Are Fifty Years Of Age Or Older.
Most Of The Vitamin C In Fruits Is In The Skin.
The Average Life Of A Tastebud Is 10 Days.
Women Blink Nearly Twice As Much As Men.
A Bowling Pin Need Only Tilt 7.5 Degrees To Fall.
The Human Heart Creates Enough Pressure To Squirt Blood 30Ft.
People Say That Popping Your Bones Will Cause Arthritis When You Get Older, But That Actually Is An Old Wives Tale. It Only Pops Air Pockets, And Does Not Cause Arthritis.
A Peanut Is Not A Nut Or A Pea It’s A Legume.
It’s Impossible To Sneeze With Your Eyes Open.
The Pop You Hear When You Crack Your Knuckles Is Actually A Bubble Of Gas Bursting.
Your Stomach Needs To Produce A New Layer Of Mucus Every Two Weeks Or It Would Digest Itself.
The (You Are Here Arrow) On A Map Is Called The Ideo Locator.
The Fist Product To Have A Bar Code Was Wrigleys Gum.
The King Of Hearts Is The Only King Without A Moustache.
A Boeing 747′S Wingspan Is Longer Than The Wright Brother’s First Flight.
We (Humans) Only Use 10% Of Our Brains
Human Teeth Are Almost As Hard As Rocks.
Human Thighbones Are As Strong As Concrete.
Weightlifting First Appeared In The Original Olympic Program In Athens 1896. It Reappeared In 1904 And Since 1920 Then It’s Been Permanently On The Program.
There Is About 1/4 Pound Of Salt In Every Gallon Of Seawater.
Blonds Have More Hair Than Dark Haired People Do.
Six Ounces Of Orange Juice Contains The Minimum Daily Requirement For Vitamin C.
Orange Juice Helps The Body Absorb Iron Easily When Consumed With A Meal.
In 1968, A Convention Of Beggars In Dacca, India, Passed A Resolution Demanding That The Minimum Amount Of Alms Be Fixed At 15 Paisa (Three Cents).
In 1969, The Last Corvair To Come Off The Assembly Line Was Painted Gold.
In 1974 There Were 90 Tornadoes In The U.S. In One Day.
In 1976 Rodrigo’s ‘Guitar Concierto De Aranjuez’ Was No 1 In The Uk For Only Three Hours Because Of A Computer Error.
In 1976, A Los Angeles Secretary Named Jannene Swift Officially Married A 50-Pound Rock. The Ceremony Was Witnessed By More Than 20 People.
In 1977 There Were 37 Elvis Impersonators In The World. In 1993, There Were 48,000. At This Rate, By The Year 2010 One Out Of Every Three People Will Be An Elvis Impersonator.
In 1977, A 13 Year Old Child Found A Tooth Growing Out Of His Left Foot.
In 1980, Namco Released Pac-Man, The Most Popular Video Game (Or Arcade Game) Of All Time. The Original Name Was Going To Be Puck Man, But Executives Saw The Potential For Vandals To Scratch Out Part Of The P In The Games Marquee And Labeling.
In 1980, There Was Only One Country In The World With No Telephones-Bhutan.
In 1981 A Guy Had A Heart Attack After Playing The Game Berserk–Video Gaming’s Only Known Fatality.
In 1982, The Last Member Of A Group Of People Who Believed The Earth Was Hollow Died.
In 1983, A Japanese Artist Made A Copy Of The Mona Lisa Completely Out Of Toast.
In 1984, A Canadian Farmer Began Renting Ad Space On His Cows.
In 1986 Danny Heep Became The First Player In A World Series To Be A Designated Hitter (Dh) With The Initials D.H.
In 1990 – Engineers Digging A Railway Tunnel Under The English Channel Broke Through The Last Dividing Rock And Joined Britain To Mainland Europe For The First Time Since The Ice Age.
In 1990 There Were About 15,000 Vacuum Cleaner Related Accidents In The U.S.
In 75% Of American Households, Women Manage The Money And Pay The Bills.
In A Century’s Time Islam Had Converted One-Third Of The World.
In A Lifetime We Replace Our Skin Approximately 1000 Times.
In A Tradition Dating To The Begining Of The Westminster System Of Government, The Bench In The Middle Of A Westminster Parliarment Is Two And A Half Sword Lengths Long. This Was So The Government And Oppositon Couldn’t Have A Go At Each Other If It All Got A Bit Heated!
In An Episode Of The Simpsons, Sideshow Bob’s Criminal Number Is 24601, The Same As The Criminal Number Of Jean Valjean In Les Miserables.
In Ancient Egypt They Paid Their Taxes In Honey.
In Ancient Egypt, The Apricot Was Called The Egg Of The Sun.
In Ancient Religions, The Norsemen Considered The Mistletoe A Baleful Plant That Caused The Death Of Baldur, The Shining God Of Youth.
In Bangladesh, Kids As Young As 15 Can Be Jailed For Cheating On Their Finals.
In Brazil, Christmas Is Celebrated With Fireworks.
In Calama, A Town In The Atacama Desert Of Chile, It Has Never Rained.
In Certain Parts Of India And Ancient China, Mouse Meat Was Considered A Delicacy.
In Cooking, Six Drops Make A Dash.
In Disney’s Fantasia, The Sorcerer’s Name Is Yensid (Disney Spelt Backwards).
In England, The Speaker Of The House Is Not Allowed To Speak.
In English, Four Is The Only Digit That Has The Same Number Of Letters As Its Value.
In Every Deck Of Cards The King Of Hearts Is Sticking His Sword Through His Head. That’s Why He’s Often Called The Suicide King.
In Every Episode Of Seinfeld There Is A Superman Somewhere.
In Every Show That Tom Jones And Harvey Schmidit (The Fantasticks) Did There Was At Least One Song About Rain.
In France There’s A Place Called Y.
In Hartford, Connecticut, You May Not, Under Any Circumstances, Cross The Street Walking On Your Hands!
In His Book, The Insects, Naturalist Url N. Lanham Reports That The Aphid Reproductive Cycle Is So Rapid That Females Are Born Pregnant.
In Historic Deerfield, Massachusetts A Guide Was Showing Us Fireplaces And Some Old Cooking Items. One Of The Items Was An Iron Standing Grid That They Would Slide Bread Slices Into And Place In Front Of The Fire. This Grid Could Turn Around And The Story Goes That The Women Would Push It With Their Toe; Originating The Term Toe Stir Which Eventually Became Toaster.
In Honour If Johan Vaaler, Inventor Of The Paper Clip, A 221/2 Paper Clip Was Erected In Oslo, Norway.
In Idaho A Citizen Is Forbidden By Law To Give Another Citizen A Box Of Candy That Weighs More Than 50 Pounds.
In Irian Jaya Exists A Tribe Of Tall. White People Whose Parrots Are A Warning Sign Against Intruders.
In Italy, A Campaign For Schweppes Tonic Water Translated The Name Into Schweppes Toilet Water.
In Kentucky, 50% Of The People Who Get Married For The First Time Are Teenagers.
In Los Angeles, There Are Fewer People Than There Are Automobiles.
In May 1948, Mt Ruapehu And Mt Ngauruhoe, Both In New Zealand, Erupted Simultaneously.
In Miami, Florida, Roosting Vultures Have Taken To Snatching Poodles From Rooftop Patios.
In Midieval England Beer Often Was Served With Breakfast.
In Most Advertisements, Including Newspapers, The Time Displayed On A Watch Is 10:10.
In Order For A Deck Of Cards To Be Mixed Up Enough To Play With Properly, It Should Be Shuffled At Least Seven Times.
In Papua New Guinea There Are Villages Within Five Miles Of Each Other Which Speak Different Languages.
In Paris, The Macdonalds Big ‘M’ Is The Only One In The World That Is White, Rather Than Yellow, It Was Thought That Yellow Was Too Tacky……
In Psycho, The Color Of Mrs. Bates’ Dress Was Periwinkle Blue.
In Relation To Its Size, The Ordinary House Spider Is Eight Time Faster Than An Olympic Sprinter.
In Space You Cannot Cry Because There Is No Gravity To Make The Tears Flow.
In Tennesee Usa A Man Must Walk In Front Of Any Car Driven By A Women, While Waving A Red Flag As A Warning.
In The 1700′S You Could Purchase Insurance Against Going To Hell, In London England.
In The 19Th Century, The British Navy Attempted To Dispel The Superstition That Friday Was An Unlucky Day To Embark On A Ship. The Keel Of A New Ship Was Laid On A Friday, She Was Named H.M.S Friday, Commanded By A Captain Friday, And Fianlly Went To Sea On A Friday. Neither The Ship Nor Her Crew Were Ever Heard Of Again.
In The 40′S, The Bich Pen Was Changed To Bic For Fear That Americans Would Pronounce It ‘Bitch.’
In The Andes, Time Is Often Measured By How Long It Takes To Smoke A Cigarette.
In The Arctic, The Sun Sometimes Appears To Be Square.
In The Caribbean, There Are Oysters That Can Climb Trees.
In The Durango Desert, In Mexico, There’s A Creepy Spot Called The Zone Of Silence. You Can’t Pick Up Clear Tv Or Radio Signals. And Locals Say Fireballs Sometimes Appear In The Sky.
In The Early Days Of Silent Films, There Was Blatant Thievery. Unscrupulous Film Companies Would Steal The Film, Reshoot A Scene Or Two, And Release It As A New Production. The Combat This, The Biograph Company Put The Company’s Trademark Initials Ab Somewhere In Every Scene–On A Door, A Wall, Or Window.
In The Film ‘Star Trek : First Contact’, When Picard Shows Lilly She Is Orbiting Earth, Australia And Papa New Guinea Are Clearly Visible But New Zealand Is Missing.
In The Great Fire Of London In 1666 Half Of London Was Burnt Down But Only Six People Were Injured.
In The Great Seal Of The Us The Eagle Grasps 13 Arrows And An Olive Branch.
In The Heart Of The Antarctic Winter, Temperatures Drop To As Low As -127 Degrees Fahrenheit.
In The Mario Brothers Movie, The Princess’ First Name Is Daisy, But In Mario 64, The Game, Her First Name Is Peach. Before That, It’s Princess Toadstool.
In The Middle Ages, The Highest Court In France Ordered The Execution Of A Cow For Injuring A Human.
In The Movie ‘Now And Then’, When The Girls Are Talking To The Hippie (Brenden Fraser), And They Get Up To Leave, Teeny (Thora Birch) Puts Out Her Cigarette Twice.
In The Movie Toy Story, The Carpet Designs In Sid’s Hallway Is The Same As The Carpet Designs In The Shining.
In The Next Seven Days, 800 Americans Will Be Injured By Their Jewellery.
In The Nhl In The 1960?S, The League Decided That Home Teams Would Wear White, While Visiting Teams Would Wear Their Dark Jerseys. The Reasoning Behind This Was That It Would Be More Difficult To Keep White Uniforms Clean While On The Road.
In The Philippines, Mabuhay Means Hello.
In The Return Of The Jedi Special Edition During The New Couruscant Footage At The End Of The Film A Stormtrooper Can Be Seen Being Carried Over The Crowds.
In The Scottish Hebrides, An Island Is Defined As Being An Island Only If It Is Big Enough To Sustain 1 Sheep.
In The Summer, Walnuts Get A Tan.
In The Television Show Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Robot Crow’s Mouth Is Made Of A Bowling Ball Pin.
In The Theme Song From The Flintstones The Line After Let’s Ride With The Family Down The Street Is Through The Courtesy Of Fred’s Two Feet!.
In The United States, Five Million Teeth Are Knocked Out Annually.
In The Wizard Of Oz, Dorothy’s Last Name Is Gale.
In Tokyo, They Sell Toupees For Dogs.
In True Kingly Fashion, Elvis Passed Away While Sitting On The Throne.
In Turkey, In The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries, Anyone Caught Drinking Coffee Was Put To Death.
In Turkey, The Colour Of Mourning Is Violet. In Most Muslim Countries And In China It Is White.
In Victorian Times, There Was An Intense Fear Of Being Buried Alive, So When Someone Died, A Small Hole Was Dug From The Casket To The Surface, Then A String Was Tied Around The Dead Persons Finger Which Was Then Attached To A Small But Loud Bell That Was Hung On The Surface Of The Grave, So Then If Someone Was Buried Alive, They Could Ring The Bell And Whomever Was On Duty Would Go And Dig Them Up. Someone Was On The Clock 24 Hours A Day- Hence The Grave Yard Shift.
In Washington D.C. No Building Can Be Built Taller Than The Capitol.
In-Grown Toe Nails Are Hereditary.
Income Tax Was First Introduced In England In 1799 By British Prime Minister, William Pitt.
Intelligent People Have More Zinc And Copper In Their Hair.
Iowa Has More Independant Telephone Companies Than Any Other State.
Iron Nails Cannot Be Used In Oak Because The Acid In The Wood Corrodes Them.
It Can Take As Long As 4 Hours To Hard-Boil An Ostrich Egg.
It Cost More To Buy A Car Today In The United States Than It Cost Christopher Columbus To Equip And Undertake Three Voyages To The New World.
It Has Been Calculated That In The Last 3,500 Years, There Have Only Been 230 Years Of Peace Throughout The Civilized World.
It Is Against The Law To Whale Hunt In Oklahoma.
It Is Believed That Shakespeare Was 46 Around The Time That The King James Version Of The Bible Was Written.
In Psalms 46, The 46Th Word From The First Word Is Shake And The 46Th Word From The Last Word Is Spear.
It Is Estimated That Americans Will Consume 10 Million Tons Of Turkey On Thanksgiving Day. Due To Turkey’s High Sulphur Content, Americans Will Also Produce Enough Gas To Fly A Fleet Of 75 Hindenburghs From L.A To New York In 24 Hours.
It Is Estimated That Millions Of Trees Are Planted By Forgetful Squirrels.
It Is Forbidden For Aircraft To Fly Over The Taj Mahal.
It Is Impossible To Drown And Not Die. Technically The Term ‘Drowning’ Refers To The Process Of Taking Water Into The Lungs, Not To Death Caused By That Process.
It Is Physically Impossible For Pigs To Look Up In The Sky.
It Only Takes A Male Horse 14 Seconds To Copulate.
It Rains More Often In London, England, On A Thursday Than Any Other Day Of The Week.
It Snows More In The Grand Canyon Than It Does In Minneapolis, Minnesota.
It Takes 8.5 Minutes For Light To Get From The Sun To Earth.
It Takes A Sloth Two Weeks To Digest The Food It Eats.
It Takes About 142 Licks To Reach The Center Of A Tootsie Pop.
It Takes About A Half A Gallon Of Water To Cook Macaroni, And About A Gallon To Clean The Pot.
It Takes An Average Of 48 To 100 Tries To Solve A Rubix Cube Puzzle.
It Takes Eighteen Minutes To Cool Hot Chocolate Into A Hershey’s Kiss.
It Takes More Than 500 Peanuts To Make One 12-Ounce Jar Of Peanut Butter.
It Takes One Fifteen-To-Twenty-Year-Old Tree To Produce Seven Hundred Paper Grocery Bags.
It Takes The Insect-Eating Venus Flytrap Plant Only Half A Second To Shut Its Trap On Prey.
It Took Engineers 22 Years To Design The Zipper.
It Was Discovered On A Space Mission That A Frog Can Throw Up. The Frog Throws Up Its Stomach First, So The Stomach Is Dangling Out Of Its Mouth. Then The Frog Uses Its Forearms To Dig Out All Of The Stomach’s Contents And Then Swallows The Stomach Back Down.
It Was Once Against The Law To Have A Pet Dog In A City In Iceland.
It Was Once Against The Law To Slam Your Car Door In A City In Switzerland.
It Would Take 7 Billion Particles Of Fog To Fill A Teaspoon.
It Would Take A Parrot Ten To The Power Of Three Million Years To Type Out Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Book The Hound Of Baskervilles. Complete And In Order With No Mistakes.
It Would Take More Than 150 Years To Drive A Car To The Sun.
It’s Against The Law To Burp, Or Sneeze In A Church In Omaha, Nebraska.
It’s Against The Law To Ride Down The Streets Of Brewton, Alabama, In A Motorboat.
It’s Impossible To Get Water Out A Rimless Tire.
It’s Impossible To Have Grey Eyes.
It’s Rumored That Sucking On A Copper Penny Will Cause A Breathalyzer To Read 0 But Proven False On Mythbusters.
Ivory Bar Soap Floating Was A Mistake. They Had Been Mixing The Soap Formula Causing Excess Air Bubbles That Made It Float. Customers Wrote And Told How Much They Loved That It Floated, And It Has Floated Ever Since.
Jackals Have One More Pair Of Chromosomes Than Dogs Or Wolves.
James Buchanan Is Said To Have Had The Neatest Handwriting Of All The Presidents.
James Buchanan Was The Only Unmarried President Of The U.S.
James Doohan Who Plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott On Star Trek Is Missing His Entire Middle Finger On His Right Hand.
Jamie Farr (Who Played Klinger On Mash) Was The Only Member Of The Cast Who Actually Served As A Soldier In The Korean War.
January Is National Soup Month.
Jean-Claude Van Damme Was The Alien In The Original Predator In Almost All The Jumping And Climbing Scenes.
Jelly Beans Were The First Jelly Beans In Outer Space When They Went Up With Astronauts In The June 21, 1983 Voyage Of The Space Shuttle Challenger.
Jelly Is Fruit Juice With Added Sugar, Cooled And Congealed, Usually By The Addition Of Gelatin Or Pectin.
Jeremy Bentham, A British Philosopher Who Died In 1832, Left His Entire Estate To The London Hospital Provided That His Body Preside Over Its Board Meetings. His Skeleton Was Clothed And Fitted With A Wax Mask Of His Face. It Was Present At The Meeting For 92 Years.
Jet Lag Was Onced Called Boat Lag, Before There Were Jets.
Jfk Jr. And Christine Amanapour Of Cnn Were Housemates At Brown University.
Jill St. John, Jack Klugman, Diana Ross, Carol Burnett And Cher Have All Worn Braces As Adults.
Jim Morrison (From The Rock Group The Doors) Was The First Rock Star To Be Arrested On Stage.
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, And Jim Morrison Were All 27 Years Old When They Died.
Jimmy Carter Is A Speed Reader (2000 Wpm).
John Bellavia Has Entered Over 5000 Contests…And Never Won Anything.
John F. Kennedy’s Rocking Chair Was Auctioned Off For $442,000.
John Hancock Was The Only One Of Fifty Signers Of The Declaration Of Independence Who Actually Signed It On July 4th
John Lennon Named His Band The Beatles After Buddy Holly’s ‘Crickets.’
John Lennon’s First Girlfriend Was Named Thelma Pickles.
John Lennon’s Middle Name Was Winston.
John Quincy Adams Took His Last Skinnydip In The Potomac On His Seventy-Ninth Birthday.
John Travolta’s Saturday Night Fever White Suit Auctioned Off For $145,500. Judy Garlands Red Slippers For $165,000. Charlie Chaplins Hat & Cane For $211,500. Elvis’ Jacket For $59,700. John Lennon Glasses For $25,875
Johnny Carson Was Born In Corning, Iowa And Grew Up In Norfolk, Nebraska.
Judy Jetson Is A Libra.
Julie Nixon, Daughter Of Richard Nixon Married David Eisenhower, Son Of Dwight Eisenhower.
Jupiter’s Core Is In Fact Made Of Non-Metal, But Due To The Immense Pressure Inside Jupiter The Core Has Become Metal. This Metal Is Hydrogen.
Just A Moderate Sunburn Can Cause Such Damage To The Blood Vessels That It Takes Three To Ten Months For Them To Return To Their Normal Condition.
Karen Carpenter’s Doorbell Chimed The First Six Notes Of We’ve Only Just Begun.
Karoke Means Empty Orchestra In Japanese.
Kelsey Grammer Sings And Plays Piano For The Theme Song Of Frasier.
Kerimski Church In Finland Is The World’s Biggest Church Made Of Wood.
Kermit The Frog Has 11 Points On His Collar Around His Neck.
Kermit The Frog Is Left-Handed.
Kermit The Frog Was Named After Kermitt Scott, A Childhood Friend Of Jim Henson’s, Who Became A Professor Of Philosophy At Purdue University.
Kilauea (In Hawaii) Is Generally Regarded As The World’s Most Active Volcano.
King Kong Is The Only Movie To Have Its Sequel (Son Of Kong) Released The Same Year (1933).
King Tut’s Tomb Contained Four Coffins. The Third Coffin Was Made From 2,500 Pounds Of Gold. And In Today’s Market Is Worth Approximately $13,000,000.
Kleenex Tissues Were Originally Used As Filters In Gas Masks.
Koala Is Aboriginal For No Drink.
Koalas Never Drink Water. They Get Fluids From The Eucalyptus Leaves They Eat.
Kotex Was First Manufactured As Bandages, During The WW I
Kresimir Cosic Is Only Non-American Player In Nba Hall Of Fame.
Kudzu Is Not Indigenous To The South, But In That Climate It Can Grow Up To Six Inches A Day.
L’eggs Is The Best-Selling Panty Hose In America.
Lake Baikal Is The Deepest Lake In The World.
Lang Martin Balanced Seven Golf Balls Vertically Without Adhesive At Charlotte, Nc On 9 February 1980.
Largest Man-Made Lake In The World: Lake Mead.
Laughter Is A Proven Way To Lose Weight.
Laws Forbidding The Sale Of Sodas On Sunday Prompted William Garwood To Invent The Ice Cream Sundae In Evanston, II, In 1875.
Lawsuits Filed By California Inmates Cost The Taxpayers More Than $25 Million In 1999
Lazy Susan’s Are Named After Thomas Edison’s Daughter. He Invented It To Impress A Gathering Of Industrialists And Inventors.
Lee Harvey Oswald’s Body Tag Was Auctioned Off For $6,600.
Leif Erikson Was The First European To Set Foot On North America In The Year 1000. Not Colombus.
Lemons Contain More Sugar Than Strawberries Do.
If China Imported Just 10% Of It’s Rice Needs- The Price On The World Market Would Increase By 80%.
If Done Perfectly, Any Rubix Cube Combination Can Be Solved In 17 Turns.
If Each Count Were One Second Long, It Would Take About Twelve Days To Count To A Million And Thirty-Two Years To Count To A Billion.
If Inflation Continues At Its Present Rate (Without A Let-Up), The Citizen Who Earns $100 An Hour Today Will Have A Counterpart One Hundred Years From Now Will Earn $4,339 An Hour.
If Monkeys Eat Too Many Un-Ripe Bananas Their Tongue And Eyes Will Turn Green.
If One Places A Tiny Amount Of Liquor On A Scorpion, It Will Instantly Go Mad And Sting Itself To Death.
If Texas Were A Country It’s Gnp Would Be The Fifth Largest Of Any Country On Earth.
If The Earth Was Smooth, The Ocean Would Cover The Entire Surface To A Depth Of 12,000 Feet.
If Two Flies Were Left To Reproduce Without Predators Or Other Limitations For One Year, The Resulting Mass Of Flies Would Be The Size Of The Earth!
If We Had The Same Mortality Rate As In The 1900S, More Than Half The People In The World Today Would Not Be Alive.
If You Are Locked In A Completely Sealed Room, You Will Die Of Carbon Dioxide Poisoning Before You Die Of Oxygen Deprivation.
If You Bring A Raccoon’s Head To The Henniker, New Hampshire Town Hall, You Are Entitled To Receive $.10 From The Town.
If You Combined All The Muscles In An Average Human In To One Muscle, The Force It Would Be Capable Of Producing Is About 2,000 Tonnes.
If You Come From Manchester, You Are A Mancunian.
If You Could Cut Out The United States, Its Center Of Gravity Would Be Friend, Nebraska.
If You Earn Twenty Thousand Dollars A Year, One Minute Of Your Time Is Worth A Little More Than Seventeen Cents.
If You Fart Consistently For 6 Years And 9 Months, Enough Gas Is Produced ToCreate An Atomic Bomb.
If You Feed A Seagull Alka-Seltzer, Its Stomach Will Explode.
If You Go Blind In One Eye You Only Lose About One Fifth Of Your Vision But All Your Sense Of Depth.
If You Have A Tapeworm In Your Stomach It Will Come Up While You’re Asleep To Lick The Salt Off Your Lips.
If You Lace Your Shoes From The Inside To The Outside The Fit Will Be Snugger Around Your Big Toe.
If You Lock You Knees While Standing Long Enough, You Will Pass-Out.
If You Look Carefully At The Picture Of Mona Lisa, You Will Notice A Bridge In The Background.
If You Pause Saturday Night Fever At The How Deep Is Your Love Rehearsal Scene, You Will See The Camera Crew Reflected In The Dance Hall Mirror.
American Car Horns Beep In The Tone Of F.
Playing Cards In India Are Round.
The Shortest War In History Was Between Zanzibar An England In 1896. Zanzibar Surrendered After 38 Minutes.
Each Of Us Generates About 3.5 Pounds Of Rubbish A Day. Most Of It Is Paper.
The Condensed Water Vapour In The Sky Left Behind By Jets Is Called A Contrail.
Children Grow Faster In The Springtime.
The Most Collect Calls Are Made On Father’s Day.
No Piece Of Paper Can Be Folded More Than 7 Times.
Most Gemstones Contain Several Elements. Except The Diamond It’s All Carbon.
The Smoke Detector Was Invented In 1969
Barbie’s Measurements If She Were Life-Size; 39-29-33.
1 In Every 4 Americans Has Appeared On Television.
You Were Born With 300 Bones, But When You Get To Be An Adult You Only Have 206.
You Burn More Calories Sleeping Than You Do Watching T.V.
The Pacific Ocean Fills Nearly A Complete Hemisphere Of The Earth’s Surface.
There Are Ten Human Body Parts That Are Only Three Letters Long (Eye Hip Arm Leg Ear Toe Jaw Rib Lip Gum).
If You Go Blind In One Eye You Only Lose About One Fifth Of Your Vision But All Your Sense Of Depth
German Chemists Have Made A Replica Of The Football World Cup Trophy That Is The Size Of One Molecule. That Is Less Than 100-Millionth The Size Of The Original.
The Catholic Herald, Published In Great Britain, Warms About The Dangers Of Drinking Holy Water From Religious Shrines. While It May Have Curative Powers In A Religious Sense, It Seems That It Also Is A Breeding Ground For Germs.
The First Recording Of The Human Voice Was Be Thomas Edison In 1877. It Was ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb.’
More Money Is Spent On Gardening Than On Any Other Hobby
If You Put A Raisin In A Glass Of Champagne, It Will Keep Floating To The Top And Sinking To The Bottom.
If You See Arainbow You Have Your Back To The Sun. If You Don’t, You Can’t See It.
If You Suffer From Polythelia You Have Three Nipples.
If You Told Someone That They Were One In A Million, You’d Be Saying There Were 1,800 Of Them In China.
If You Took A Standard Slinky And Stretched It Out It Would Measure 87 Feet.
If You Toss A Penny 10,000 Times It Will Not Be Heads 5000 Times But More Like 4950. The Head Picture Weighs More, So It Ends Up On The Bottom.
If You Travel Across The Soviet Union You Will Cross Seven Time Zones.
If You Were Born In Los Alamos, New Mexico During The Manhattan Project (Where They Made The Atomic Bomb), Your Birth Place Is Listed As A Post Office Box In Albequerque.
If You Would Like To Make A Siberian Happy, Give Him A Horse-Meat Steak.
If Your Eyes Are Six Feet Above The Surface Of The Ocean, The Horizon Will Be About Three Statute Miles Away
If Your Mouth Were Completely Dry, You Wouldn’t Be Able To Taste Anything.
Iguanas, Koalas And Komodo Dragons All Have Two Penises.
In 10 Minutes, A Hurricane Releases More Energy Than All The World’s Nuclear Weapons Combined.
In 1778, Fashionable Women Of Paris Never Went Out In Blustery Weather Without A Lightning Rod Attached To Their Hats.
In 1825 Upper Peru Became Bolivia.
In 1845, Ice Shipped To Tallahassee Cost $1 Per Pound.
In 1892, Italy Raised The Minimum Age For Marriage For Girls – To 12.
In 1936, American Track Star Jesse Owens Beat A Race Horse Over A 100-Yard Course. The Horse Was Given A Head Start.
In 1938 Joe Shuster And Jerry Siegel Sold All Rights To The Comic-Strip Character Superman To Their Publishers For $130.
In 1946, The First Tv Toy Commercial Aired. It Was For Mr. Potato Head.
In 1947, A Car’s Brand Name Was Playboy.
In 1949, Forecasting The Relentless March Of Science, Popular Mechanics Said Computers In The Future May Weigh No More Than 5 Tons.
In 1953 – Marilyn Monroe Appeared As The First Playboy Centerfold.
In 1961, Mit Student Steve Russell, Created Spacewars, The First Interactive Computer Game, On A Digital Pdp-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) Mainframe Computer. Limited By The Computer Technology Of The Time, Ascii Text Characters Were The ‘Graphics’ And People Could Only Play The Game On A Device That Took Up The Floorspace Of A Small House.
Oak Trees Do Not Produce Acorns Until They Are Fifty Years Of Age Or Older.
Most Of The Vitamin C In Fruits Is In The Skin.
The Average Life Of A Tastebud Is 10 Days.
Women Blink Nearly Twice As Much As Men.
A Bowling Pin Need Only Tilt 7.5 Degrees To Fall.
The Human Heart Creates Enough Pressure To Squirt Blood 30Ft.
People Say That Popping Your Bones Will Cause Arthritis When You Get Older, But That Actually Is An Old Wives Tale. It Only Pops Air Pockets, And Does Not Cause Arthritis.
A Peanut Is Not A Nut Or A Pea It’s A Legume.
It’s Impossible To Sneeze With Your Eyes Open.
The Pop You Hear When You Crack Your Knuckles Is Actually A Bubble Of Gas Bursting.
Your Stomach Needs To Produce A New Layer Of Mucus Every Two Weeks Or It Would Digest Itself.
The (You Are Here Arrow) On A Map Is Called The Ideo Locator.
The Fist Product To Have A Bar Code Was Wrigleys Gum.
The King Of Hearts Is The Only King Without A Moustache.
A Boeing 747′S Wingspan Is Longer Than The Wright Brother’s First Flight.
We (Humans) Only Use 10% Of Our Brains
Human Teeth Are Almost As Hard As Rocks.
Human Thighbones Are As Strong As Concrete.
Weightlifting First Appeared In The Original Olympic Program In Athens 1896. It Reappeared In 1904 And Since 1920 Then It’s Been Permanently On The Program.
There Is About 1/4 Pound Of Salt In Every Gallon Of Seawater.
Blonds Have More Hair Than Dark Haired People Do.
Six Ounces Of Orange Juice Contains The Minimum Daily Requirement For Vitamin C.
Orange Juice Helps The Body Absorb Iron Easily When Consumed With A Meal.
In 1968, A Convention Of Beggars In Dacca, India, Passed A Resolution Demanding That The Minimum Amount Of Alms Be Fixed At 15 Paisa (Three Cents).
In 1969, The Last Corvair To Come Off The Assembly Line Was Painted Gold.
In 1974 There Were 90 Tornadoes In The U.S. In One Day.
In 1976 Rodrigo’s ‘Guitar Concierto De Aranjuez’ Was No 1 In The Uk For Only Three Hours Because Of A Computer Error.
In 1976, A Los Angeles Secretary Named Jannene Swift Officially Married A 50-Pound Rock. The Ceremony Was Witnessed By More Than 20 People.
In 1977 There Were 37 Elvis Impersonators In The World. In 1993, There Were 48,000. At This Rate, By The Year 2010 One Out Of Every Three People Will Be An Elvis Impersonator.
In 1977, A 13 Year Old Child Found A Tooth Growing Out Of His Left Foot.
In 1980, Namco Released Pac-Man, The Most Popular Video Game (Or Arcade Game) Of All Time. The Original Name Was Going To Be Puck Man, But Executives Saw The Potential For Vandals To Scratch Out Part Of The P In The Games Marquee And Labeling.
In 1980, There Was Only One Country In The World With No Telephones-Bhutan.
In 1981 A Guy Had A Heart Attack After Playing The Game Berserk–Video Gaming’s Only Known Fatality.
In 1982, The Last Member Of A Group Of People Who Believed The Earth Was Hollow Died.
In 1983, A Japanese Artist Made A Copy Of The Mona Lisa Completely Out Of Toast.
In 1984, A Canadian Farmer Began Renting Ad Space On His Cows.
In 1986 Danny Heep Became The First Player In A World Series To Be A Designated Hitter (Dh) With The Initials D.H.
In 1990 – Engineers Digging A Railway Tunnel Under The English Channel Broke Through The Last Dividing Rock And Joined Britain To Mainland Europe For The First Time Since The Ice Age.
In 1990 There Were About 15,000 Vacuum Cleaner Related Accidents In The U.S.
In 75% Of American Households, Women Manage The Money And Pay The Bills.
In A Century’s Time Islam Had Converted One-Third Of The World.
In A Lifetime We Replace Our Skin Approximately 1000 Times.
In A Tradition Dating To The Begining Of The Westminster System Of Government, The Bench In The Middle Of A Westminster Parliarment Is Two And A Half Sword Lengths Long. This Was So The Government And Oppositon Couldn’t Have A Go At Each Other If It All Got A Bit Heated!
In An Episode Of The Simpsons, Sideshow Bob’s Criminal Number Is 24601, The Same As The Criminal Number Of Jean Valjean In Les Miserables.
In Ancient Egypt They Paid Their Taxes In Honey.
In Ancient Egypt, The Apricot Was Called The Egg Of The Sun.
In Ancient Religions, The Norsemen Considered The Mistletoe A Baleful Plant That Caused The Death Of Baldur, The Shining God Of Youth.
In Bangladesh, Kids As Young As 15 Can Be Jailed For Cheating On Their Finals.
In Brazil, Christmas Is Celebrated With Fireworks.
In Calama, A Town In The Atacama Desert Of Chile, It Has Never Rained.
In Certain Parts Of India And Ancient China, Mouse Meat Was Considered A Delicacy.
In Cooking, Six Drops Make A Dash.
In Disney’s Fantasia, The Sorcerer’s Name Is Yensid (Disney Spelt Backwards).
In England, The Speaker Of The House Is Not Allowed To Speak.
In English, Four Is The Only Digit That Has The Same Number Of Letters As Its Value.
In Every Deck Of Cards The King Of Hearts Is Sticking His Sword Through His Head. That’s Why He’s Often Called The Suicide King.
In Every Episode Of Seinfeld There Is A Superman Somewhere.
In Every Show That Tom Jones And Harvey Schmidit (The Fantasticks) Did There Was At Least One Song About Rain.
In France There’s A Place Called Y.
In Hartford, Connecticut, You May Not, Under Any Circumstances, Cross The Street Walking On Your Hands!
In His Book, The Insects, Naturalist Url N. Lanham Reports That The Aphid Reproductive Cycle Is So Rapid That Females Are Born Pregnant.
In Historic Deerfield, Massachusetts A Guide Was Showing Us Fireplaces And Some Old Cooking Items. One Of The Items Was An Iron Standing Grid That They Would Slide Bread Slices Into And Place In Front Of The Fire. This Grid Could Turn Around And The Story Goes That The Women Would Push It With Their Toe; Originating The Term Toe Stir Which Eventually Became Toaster.
In Honour If Johan Vaaler, Inventor Of The Paper Clip, A 221/2 Paper Clip Was Erected In Oslo, Norway.
In Idaho A Citizen Is Forbidden By Law To Give Another Citizen A Box Of Candy That Weighs More Than 50 Pounds.
In Irian Jaya Exists A Tribe Of Tall. White People Whose Parrots Are A Warning Sign Against Intruders.
In Italy, A Campaign For Schweppes Tonic Water Translated The Name Into Schweppes Toilet Water.
In Kentucky, 50% Of The People Who Get Married For The First Time Are Teenagers.
In Los Angeles, There Are Fewer People Than There Are Automobiles.
In May 1948, Mt Ruapehu And Mt Ngauruhoe, Both In New Zealand, Erupted Simultaneously.
In Miami, Florida, Roosting Vultures Have Taken To Snatching Poodles From Rooftop Patios.
In Midieval England Beer Often Was Served With Breakfast.
In Most Advertisements, Including Newspapers, The Time Displayed On A Watch Is 10:10.
In Order For A Deck Of Cards To Be Mixed Up Enough To Play With Properly, It Should Be Shuffled At Least Seven Times.
In Papua New Guinea There Are Villages Within Five Miles Of Each Other Which Speak Different Languages.
In Paris, The Macdonalds Big ‘M’ Is The Only One In The World That Is White, Rather Than Yellow, It Was Thought That Yellow Was Too Tacky……
In Psycho, The Color Of Mrs. Bates’ Dress Was Periwinkle Blue.
In Relation To Its Size, The Ordinary House Spider Is Eight Time Faster Than An Olympic Sprinter.
In Space You Cannot Cry Because There Is No Gravity To Make The Tears Flow.
In Tennesee Usa A Man Must Walk In Front Of Any Car Driven By A Women, While Waving A Red Flag As A Warning.
In The 1700′S You Could Purchase Insurance Against Going To Hell, In London England.
In The 19Th Century, The British Navy Attempted To Dispel The Superstition That Friday Was An Unlucky Day To Embark On A Ship. The Keel Of A New Ship Was Laid On A Friday, She Was Named H.M.S Friday, Commanded By A Captain Friday, And Fianlly Went To Sea On A Friday. Neither The Ship Nor Her Crew Were Ever Heard Of Again.
In The 40′S, The Bich Pen Was Changed To Bic For Fear That Americans Would Pronounce It ‘Bitch.’
In The Andes, Time Is Often Measured By How Long It Takes To Smoke A Cigarette.
In The Arctic, The Sun Sometimes Appears To Be Square.
In The Caribbean, There Are Oysters That Can Climb Trees.
In The Durango Desert, In Mexico, There’s A Creepy Spot Called The Zone Of Silence. You Can’t Pick Up Clear Tv Or Radio Signals. And Locals Say Fireballs Sometimes Appear In The Sky.
In The Early Days Of Silent Films, There Was Blatant Thievery. Unscrupulous Film Companies Would Steal The Film, Reshoot A Scene Or Two, And Release It As A New Production. The Combat This, The Biograph Company Put The Company’s Trademark Initials Ab Somewhere In Every Scene–On A Door, A Wall, Or Window.
In The Film ‘Star Trek : First Contact’, When Picard Shows Lilly She Is Orbiting Earth, Australia And Papa New Guinea Are Clearly Visible But New Zealand Is Missing.
In The Great Fire Of London In 1666 Half Of London Was Burnt Down But Only Six People Were Injured.
In The Great Seal Of The Us The Eagle Grasps 13 Arrows And An Olive Branch.
In The Heart Of The Antarctic Winter, Temperatures Drop To As Low As -127 Degrees Fahrenheit.
In The Mario Brothers Movie, The Princess’ First Name Is Daisy, But In Mario 64, The Game, Her First Name Is Peach. Before That, It’s Princess Toadstool.
In The Middle Ages, The Highest Court In France Ordered The Execution Of A Cow For Injuring A Human.
In The Movie ‘Now And Then’, When The Girls Are Talking To The Hippie (Brenden Fraser), And They Get Up To Leave, Teeny (Thora Birch) Puts Out Her Cigarette Twice.
In The Movie Toy Story, The Carpet Designs In Sid’s Hallway Is The Same As The Carpet Designs In The Shining.
In The Next Seven Days, 800 Americans Will Be Injured By Their Jewellery.
In The Nhl In The 1960?S, The League Decided That Home Teams Would Wear White, While Visiting Teams Would Wear Their Dark Jerseys. The Reasoning Behind This Was That It Would Be More Difficult To Keep White Uniforms Clean While On The Road.
In The Philippines, Mabuhay Means Hello.
In The Return Of The Jedi Special Edition During The New Couruscant Footage At The End Of The Film A Stormtrooper Can Be Seen Being Carried Over The Crowds.
In The Scottish Hebrides, An Island Is Defined As Being An Island Only If It Is Big Enough To Sustain 1 Sheep.
In The Summer, Walnuts Get A Tan.
In The Television Show Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Robot Crow’s Mouth Is Made Of A Bowling Ball Pin.
In The Theme Song From The Flintstones The Line After Let’s Ride With The Family Down The Street Is Through The Courtesy Of Fred’s Two Feet!.
In The United States, Five Million Teeth Are Knocked Out Annually.
In The Wizard Of Oz, Dorothy’s Last Name Is Gale.
In Tokyo, They Sell Toupees For Dogs.
In True Kingly Fashion, Elvis Passed Away While Sitting On The Throne.
In Turkey, In The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries, Anyone Caught Drinking Coffee Was Put To Death.
In Turkey, The Colour Of Mourning Is Violet. In Most Muslim Countries And In China It Is White.
In Victorian Times, There Was An Intense Fear Of Being Buried Alive, So When Someone Died, A Small Hole Was Dug From The Casket To The Surface, Then A String Was Tied Around The Dead Persons Finger Which Was Then Attached To A Small But Loud Bell That Was Hung On The Surface Of The Grave, So Then If Someone Was Buried Alive, They Could Ring The Bell And Whomever Was On Duty Would Go And Dig Them Up. Someone Was On The Clock 24 Hours A Day- Hence The Grave Yard Shift.
In Washington D.C. No Building Can Be Built Taller Than The Capitol.
In-Grown Toe Nails Are Hereditary.
Income Tax Was First Introduced In England In 1799 By British Prime Minister, William Pitt.
Intelligent People Have More Zinc And Copper In Their Hair.
Iowa Has More Independant Telephone Companies Than Any Other State.
Iron Nails Cannot Be Used In Oak Because The Acid In The Wood Corrodes Them.
It Can Take As Long As 4 Hours To Hard-Boil An Ostrich Egg.
It Cost More To Buy A Car Today In The United States Than It Cost Christopher Columbus To Equip And Undertake Three Voyages To The New World.
It Has Been Calculated That In The Last 3,500 Years, There Have Only Been 230 Years Of Peace Throughout The Civilized World.
It Is Against The Law To Whale Hunt In Oklahoma.
It Is Believed That Shakespeare Was 46 Around The Time That The King James Version Of The Bible Was Written.
In Psalms 46, The 46Th Word From The First Word Is Shake And The 46Th Word From The Last Word Is Spear.
It Is Estimated That Americans Will Consume 10 Million Tons Of Turkey On Thanksgiving Day. Due To Turkey’s High Sulphur Content, Americans Will Also Produce Enough Gas To Fly A Fleet Of 75 Hindenburghs From L.A To New York In 24 Hours.
It Is Estimated That Millions Of Trees Are Planted By Forgetful Squirrels.
It Is Forbidden For Aircraft To Fly Over The Taj Mahal.
It Is Impossible To Drown And Not Die. Technically The Term ‘Drowning’ Refers To The Process Of Taking Water Into The Lungs, Not To Death Caused By That Process.
It Is Physically Impossible For Pigs To Look Up In The Sky.
It Only Takes A Male Horse 14 Seconds To Copulate.
It Rains More Often In London, England, On A Thursday Than Any Other Day Of The Week.
It Snows More In The Grand Canyon Than It Does In Minneapolis, Minnesota.
It Takes 8.5 Minutes For Light To Get From The Sun To Earth.
It Takes A Sloth Two Weeks To Digest The Food It Eats.
It Takes About 142 Licks To Reach The Center Of A Tootsie Pop.
It Takes About A Half A Gallon Of Water To Cook Macaroni, And About A Gallon To Clean The Pot.
It Takes An Average Of 48 To 100 Tries To Solve A Rubix Cube Puzzle.
It Takes Eighteen Minutes To Cool Hot Chocolate Into A Hershey’s Kiss.
It Takes More Than 500 Peanuts To Make One 12-Ounce Jar Of Peanut Butter.
It Takes One Fifteen-To-Twenty-Year-Old Tree To Produce Seven Hundred Paper Grocery Bags.
It Takes The Insect-Eating Venus Flytrap Plant Only Half A Second To Shut Its Trap On Prey.
It Took Engineers 22 Years To Design The Zipper.
It Was Discovered On A Space Mission That A Frog Can Throw Up. The Frog Throws Up Its Stomach First, So The Stomach Is Dangling Out Of Its Mouth. Then The Frog Uses Its Forearms To Dig Out All Of The Stomach’s Contents And Then Swallows The Stomach Back Down.
It Was Once Against The Law To Have A Pet Dog In A City In Iceland.
It Was Once Against The Law To Slam Your Car Door In A City In Switzerland.
It Would Take 7 Billion Particles Of Fog To Fill A Teaspoon.
It Would Take A Parrot Ten To The Power Of Three Million Years To Type Out Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Book The Hound Of Baskervilles. Complete And In Order With No Mistakes.
It Would Take More Than 150 Years To Drive A Car To The Sun.
It’s Against The Law To Burp, Or Sneeze In A Church In Omaha, Nebraska.
It’s Against The Law To Ride Down The Streets Of Brewton, Alabama, In A Motorboat.
It’s Impossible To Get Water Out A Rimless Tire.
It’s Impossible To Have Grey Eyes.
It’s Rumored That Sucking On A Copper Penny Will Cause A Breathalyzer To Read 0 But Proven False On Mythbusters.
Ivory Bar Soap Floating Was A Mistake. They Had Been Mixing The Soap Formula Causing Excess Air Bubbles That Made It Float. Customers Wrote And Told How Much They Loved That It Floated, And It Has Floated Ever Since.
Jackals Have One More Pair Of Chromosomes Than Dogs Or Wolves.
James Buchanan Is Said To Have Had The Neatest Handwriting Of All The Presidents.
James Buchanan Was The Only Unmarried President Of The U.S.
James Doohan Who Plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott On Star Trek Is Missing His Entire Middle Finger On His Right Hand.
Jamie Farr (Who Played Klinger On Mash) Was The Only Member Of The Cast Who Actually Served As A Soldier In The Korean War.
January Is National Soup Month.
Jean-Claude Van Damme Was The Alien In The Original Predator In Almost All The Jumping And Climbing Scenes.
Jelly Beans Were The First Jelly Beans In Outer Space When They Went Up With Astronauts In The June 21, 1983 Voyage Of The Space Shuttle Challenger.
Jelly Is Fruit Juice With Added Sugar, Cooled And Congealed, Usually By The Addition Of Gelatin Or Pectin.
Jeremy Bentham, A British Philosopher Who Died In 1832, Left His Entire Estate To The London Hospital Provided That His Body Preside Over Its Board Meetings. His Skeleton Was Clothed And Fitted With A Wax Mask Of His Face. It Was Present At The Meeting For 92 Years.
Jet Lag Was Onced Called Boat Lag, Before There Were Jets.
Jfk Jr. And Christine Amanapour Of Cnn Were Housemates At Brown University.
Jill St. John, Jack Klugman, Diana Ross, Carol Burnett And Cher Have All Worn Braces As Adults.
Jim Morrison (From The Rock Group The Doors) Was The First Rock Star To Be Arrested On Stage.
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, And Jim Morrison Were All 27 Years Old When They Died.
Jimmy Carter Is A Speed Reader (2000 Wpm).
John Bellavia Has Entered Over 5000 Contests…And Never Won Anything.
John F. Kennedy’s Rocking Chair Was Auctioned Off For $442,000.
John Hancock Was The Only One Of Fifty Signers Of The Declaration Of Independence Who Actually Signed It On July 4th
John Lennon Named His Band The Beatles After Buddy Holly’s ‘Crickets.’
John Lennon’s First Girlfriend Was Named Thelma Pickles.
John Lennon’s Middle Name Was Winston.
John Quincy Adams Took His Last Skinnydip In The Potomac On His Seventy-Ninth Birthday.
John Travolta’s Saturday Night Fever White Suit Auctioned Off For $145,500. Judy Garlands Red Slippers For $165,000. Charlie Chaplins Hat & Cane For $211,500. Elvis’ Jacket For $59,700. John Lennon Glasses For $25,875
Johnny Carson Was Born In Corning, Iowa And Grew Up In Norfolk, Nebraska.
Judy Jetson Is A Libra.
Julie Nixon, Daughter Of Richard Nixon Married David Eisenhower, Son Of Dwight Eisenhower.
Jupiter’s Core Is In Fact Made Of Non-Metal, But Due To The Immense Pressure Inside Jupiter The Core Has Become Metal. This Metal Is Hydrogen.
Just A Moderate Sunburn Can Cause Such Damage To The Blood Vessels That It Takes Three To Ten Months For Them To Return To Their Normal Condition.
Karen Carpenter’s Doorbell Chimed The First Six Notes Of We’ve Only Just Begun.
Karoke Means Empty Orchestra In Japanese.
Kelsey Grammer Sings And Plays Piano For The Theme Song Of Frasier.
Kerimski Church In Finland Is The World’s Biggest Church Made Of Wood.
Kermit The Frog Has 11 Points On His Collar Around His Neck.
Kermit The Frog Is Left-Handed.
Kermit The Frog Was Named After Kermitt Scott, A Childhood Friend Of Jim Henson’s, Who Became A Professor Of Philosophy At Purdue University.
Kilauea (In Hawaii) Is Generally Regarded As The World’s Most Active Volcano.
King Kong Is The Only Movie To Have Its Sequel (Son Of Kong) Released The Same Year (1933).
King Tut’s Tomb Contained Four Coffins. The Third Coffin Was Made From 2,500 Pounds Of Gold. And In Today’s Market Is Worth Approximately $13,000,000.
Kleenex Tissues Were Originally Used As Filters In Gas Masks.
Koala Is Aboriginal For No Drink.
Koalas Never Drink Water. They Get Fluids From The Eucalyptus Leaves They Eat.
Kotex Was First Manufactured As Bandages, During The WW I
Kresimir Cosic Is Only Non-American Player In Nba Hall Of Fame.
Kudzu Is Not Indigenous To The South, But In That Climate It Can Grow Up To Six Inches A Day.
L’eggs Is The Best-Selling Panty Hose In America.
Lake Baikal Is The Deepest Lake In The World.
Lang Martin Balanced Seven Golf Balls Vertically Without Adhesive At Charlotte, Nc On 9 February 1980.
Largest Man-Made Lake In The World: Lake Mead.
Laughter Is A Proven Way To Lose Weight.
Laws Forbidding The Sale Of Sodas On Sunday Prompted William Garwood To Invent The Ice Cream Sundae In Evanston, II, In 1875.
Lawsuits Filed By California Inmates Cost The Taxpayers More Than $25 Million In 1999
Lazy Susan’s Are Named After Thomas Edison’s Daughter. He Invented It To Impress A Gathering Of Industrialists And Inventors.
Lee Harvey Oswald’s Body Tag Was Auctioned Off For $6,600.
Leif Erikson Was The First European To Set Foot On North America In The Year 1000. Not Colombus.
Lemons Contain More Sugar Than Strawberries Do.
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