There Are No Clocks In Las Vegas Gambling Casinos.
There Are No Rivers In Saudi Arabia.
There Are No Spanish Words That Begin With The Letter W (Except For Those Of American English Origin.)
There Are No Turkeys In Turkey.
There Are Only 12 Letters In The Hawaiian Alphabet.
There Are Only Four Words In The English Language Which End In -Dous: Tremendous, Horrendous, Stupendous, And Hazardous.
There Are Only Three World Capitals That Begin With The Letter O In English: Ottawa, Canada; Oslo, Norway; And Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
There Are Only Two People In The World That Know The Secret Recipe For Coca-Cola
There Are Over 58 Million Dogs In The U.S.
There Are Pokemon School Books. You Can Even Do Math With A Pokemon Math Book.
There Are Six Hoops On An Association Croquet Court.
There Are Six Words In The English Language With The Letter Combination Uu. Muumuu, Vacuum, Continuum, Duumvirate, Duumvir And Residuum.
There Are Ten Body Parts That Are Only Three Letters Long: Eye, Ear, Leg, Arm, Jaw, Gum, Toe, Lip, Hip, And Rib.
There Are Three Times As Many Households In The United States Without Telephones As There Are Without Television Sets.
There Are Two Credit Cards For Every Person In The United States.
There Has Never Been A President From The Air Force Or Marine Corps, Although Reagan Was In The Army Air Corps.
There Is A Butterfly In Africa With Enough Poison In It’s Body To Kill Six Cats.
There Is A Ides In Every Month, Not Just March.
There Is A New Type Of Parrot In New Zealand That Likes To Eat The Rubber Strips That Line Car Windows.
There Is A Place In Norway Called Hell.
There Is A Sea Squirt (Found In The Seas Near Japan) That Digests Its Own Brain. When The Sea Squirt Is Mature It Permanently Attaches Itself To A Rock. At This Point It Does Not Need To Move Anymore And Has No Need For A Brain. So, Waste Not Want Not, It Eats It!
There Is A Systematic Lull In Conversation Every 7 Minutes.
There Is A Tea In China Called White Tea Which Simply Is Boiled Water.
There Is A Town In Texas Called Ding Dong.
There Is Cyanide In Apple Pips.
There Is Enough Stone In The Great Wall Of China To Build An Eight-Foot Wall Encircling The Globe At The Equator.
There Is No Betty Rubble In The Flintstones Chewables.
There Is No Rice In Rice Paper.
There Is No Such Thing As Blue Food, Even Blue Berries Are Purple.
There Was A Pony Express In Persia Many Centuries Before Christ. Riders On This Ancient Circuit, Wearing Special Colored Headbands, Delivered The Mails Across The Vast Stretch Of Asia Minor, Sometimes Riding For Hundreds Of Miles Without A Break.
There Was No Punctuation Until The 15Th Century.
There Was Once A Town Named ?6? In West Virginia.
There Were No Ponies In The Pony Express.
There Were Ten Johns, Out Of 102 People On The Mayflower.
There Will Be No Telephone, Electricity Or Television For 15 Minutes A Day.
They Get Their Distinctive Smell By Soaking Up Sulphur From The Soil.
Thirty Different Diseases That Humans Can Catch Are Transmitted By The Common Housefly.
Thirty-Five Percent Of The People Who Use Personal Ads For Dating Are Already Married.
This Sentence Ends With A Period.
Thomas Edison Got Patents For A Method Of Making Concrete Furniture And A Cigar Which Was Supposed To Burn Forever.
Thomas Edison Was Afraid Of The Dark.
Thomas Edison, The Inventor Of The Lightbulb Was Afraid Of The Dark.
Thomas Jefferson Anonymously Submitted Design Plans For The White House. They Were Rejected.
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, And James Monroe All Died On July 4Th. Jefferson And Adams Died At Practically The Same Minute Of The Same Day.
Thomas Marshall (1854-1925), U.S. Vice-President, Once Remarked “What This Country Needs Is A Good Five-Cent Cigar.”
Those Stars And Colours You See When You Rub Your Eyes Are Called Phosphenes.
Though Buddhism Was Founded In India Around 470 B.C. And Developed There At An Early Date, It Was Uprooted From India Between The Seventh And Twelfth Centuries A.D. And Today Exists Almost Exclusively Outside The Country, Primarily In Sri Lanka, Japan, And Indochina.
Tide Has 70 Percent Of Market Share For Detergent.
Tigers Have Stripped Skin, Not Just Stripped Fur.
Tina Turner’s Real Name Is Annie Mae Bullock.
To Clean The Tubes Of Artillery Pieces (Howitzers) Soldiers Use A Can Of Coke.
To Escape The Grip Of A Crocodile’s Jaws, Push Your Thumbs Into Its Eyeballs–It Will Let You Go Instantly.
To Have Your Picture Taken By The First Cameras You Would Have To Sit Still For Eight Hours.
To Keep Cool, Ostriches Urinate On Their Legs; It Then Evaporates Like Sweat.
To Keep From Being Separated While Sleeping, Sea Otter Tie Themselves Together With Kelp, Often Drifting Miles Out To Sea During The Night.
To Strengthen The Damascus Sword, The Blade Was Plunged Into A Slave.
Toads Don’t Have Teeth, Frogs Do.
Tobacco Kills More Americans (450,000) Each Year Than Alcohol, Cocaine, Crack, Heroin, Homicide, Suicide, Car Accidents, Fire And Aids Combined.
Tom Cruise’s Name Was Thomas Mapother, Before He Changed It.
Tom Sawyer Was The First Novel Written On A Typewriter.
Tomatoes And Cucumbers Are Fruits.
Tomb Robbers Believed That Knocking Eygptians Sarcophagi’s Noses Off Would Stall Curses.
Tommy James Was In A New York Hotel Looking At The Mutual Of New York Building?S Neon Sign Flashing Repeatedly: M-O-N-Y. He Suddenly Got The Inspiration To Write His #1 Hit, ‘Mony Mony’
Tongeren Is The Oldest Town In Belgium.
Tonsurphobia Is The Fear Of Haircuts.
Tony The Tiger Turns 50 This Year.
Tooth-Paste Can Be Used To Polish Silver Winches And Guard Rails (Your Bow Pulpit).
Toronto Was The First City In The World With A Computerized Traffic Signal System.
Toronto, Ontario Has Approximately 7,000 Eating Establishments.
Toronto’s Original Name Was York, But It Had Another Name Long Before That. The Area Near The Shores Of Lake Ontario Was Called “The Meeting Place” By The Ojibway Of Southern Ontario. Their Word: Toronto.
Traveling By Air Is The Safest Means Of Transportation.
Trivia Is The Roman Goddess Of Sorcery, Hounds And…The Crossroads.
Try Dividing 99999999999 By 8(That’s 11 Nines).
Turkeys Are So Clueless That When They’re Born The Only Way To Get Then To Eat Is To Put Marbles In The Feed. The Marbles Are Too Big For Them To Eat, But They Get Curious And Peck At Them And When Their Beak Slips Off The Marble, They Get A Mouthful Of Food.
Turkeys Can Drown In The Rain By Looking Up At The Precipitation With Their Mouths Open.
Turkeys Will Peck To Death Members Of The Flock That Are Physically Inferior Or Different.
Turnips Turn Green When Sunburnt.
Tv’s Bananas In Pajamas Are Played By Women.
Twelve Babies Will Be Given To The Wrong Parents Each Day.
Two Golf Clubs Claim To Be The First Established In The United States: The Foxberg Golf Club, Clarion County, Pa (1887) And St. Andrews Golf Club Of Yonkers, Ny (1888).
Two Out Of Five Husbands Tell Their Wife Daily That They Love Them.
Two Planes Landing Daily At O’hare International Airport In Chicago Will Be Unsafe.
Two Researches, Working Independantly And Having No Contact With One Another, One In Russia And The Other In The United States, Discovered That The Body Weighs Less After Death Than Before Death. They Took Into Account Things Like Air Leaving The Lungs And The Like. The Soul Weighs 50 Grams.
Two-Thirds Of The World’s Eggplant Is Grown In New Jersey.
Type O Is The Most Common Blood Type In The World. Type Ab Is The Rarest.
Typewriter, Is The Longest Word That Can Be Made Using The Letters On Only One Row Of The Keyboard.
Uma Thurman Does Not Have An ‘Innie’ Or An ‘Outie’ Bellybutton, But A ‘Stretch.’
Unconsciousness Will Occur After 8-10 Seconds After Loss Of Blood Supply To The Brain.
Under The Law Of Mississippi, There’s No Such Thing As A Female Peeping Tom.
Until 1796, There Was A State In The United States Called Franklin. Today It Is Known As Tennessee.
Until 1967, Lsd Was Legal In California.
Until The Middle Ages, Underwater Divers Near The Mediterranean Coastline Collected Golden Strands From The Pen Shell, Which Used The Strands To Hold Itself In Place. The Strands Were Woven Into A Luxury Textile And Made Into Ladies’ Gloves So Fine That A Pair Could Be Packed Into An Empty Walnut Shell.
Up To Three Thousand Species Of Trees Have Been Cataloged In Square Mile Of The Amazon Jungle.
Uranus Is The Only Planet That Rotates On Its Side.
Uranus’ Orbital Axis Is Tilted At 90 Degrees.
Uri Geller, The Professional Psychic Was Born 20, 1946. As To The Origin Of His Alleged Powers, Mr Gellar Maintains That They Come From A Distant Planet Of Hoova.
Using Satellite-Surveying Techniques, Scientists Have Determined That Los Angeles, California Is Moving East. At A Rate Estimated To Be About One-Fifth On An Inch Per Year, The City Is Moving Closer To The San Gabriel Mountains.
Values On The Monopoly Gameboard Are The Same Today As They Were In 1932
Vanilla Ice’s Real Name Is Robert Van Winkle.
Vanilla Is Used To Make Chocolate.
Velcro Was Invented By A Swiss Who Inspired By The Way Burrs Attached To Clothing.
Venetian Blinds Were Invented In Japan.
Venus Is The Only Planet That Rotates Clockwise.
Very Small Clouds That Look Like They Have Been Broken Off Of Bigger Clouds Are Called Scuds.
Vincent Van Gogh Comitted Suicide While Painting Wheat Field With Crows.
Virginia Woolfe Wrote All Her Books Standing.
Warren Beatty And Shirley Maclaine Are Brother And Sister.
Way Back When They Were Using Marble Columns, The People Selling The Columns Would Carve Out The Centers And Fill It With Wax. So The People Buying Them Started Asking Is It Without Wax, Or In Other Words, Are You Sincere?
WD-40 Can Be Found In Four Out Of Five American Homes.
We (Humans) Only Use 10% Of Our Brains.
We Are In The Middle Of An Ice Age. Ice Ages Include Both Cold And Warm Periods; At The Moment We Are Experiencing A Relatively Warm Span Of Time Known As An Interglacial Period. Geologists Believe That The Warmest Part Of This Period Occurred From 1890 Through 1945 And That Since 1945 Things Have Slowly Begun Freezing Up Again.
Weatherman Willard Scott Was The First Ronald Mcdonald.
Welsh Mercenary Bow Men In The Medieval Period Only Wore One Shoe At A Time.
West Virginia And Maryland Have No Natural Lakes.
Westmount, Quebec, Was The First City In Canada To Be Granted A Coat Of Arms.
Westwood Studios’ Computer Game ‘Command And Conquer’ Is The Most Successful War Game Series Of All Time According To Guinness Book Of World Records.
What Do Bullet Proof Vests, Fire Escapes, Windshield Wipers, And Laser Printers All Have In Common? All Were Invented By Women.
What Separates 60 Minutes On Cbs From Every Other Tv Show? No Theme Song.
When A Coffee Seed Is Planted, It Takes Five Years To Yield Consumable Fruit.
When A Film Is In Production, The Last Shot Of The Day Is The Martini Shot, The Next To Last One Is The Abby Singer.
When Angered, The Tazmanian Devil Turns Pinkish-Red.
When Cbs Broadcast The First Television Show In Color, No One Other Than Cbs Owned A Color Television Set.
When Einstein Was Inducted As An Amercian, He Attended The Ceremony Without Socks.
When Glass Breaks, The Cracks Move At Speeds Up To 3,000 Miles Per Hour.
When John Wilkes Booth Leaped Onto The Stage After Shooting The President, He Tripped–On The American Flag.
When Opossums Are Playing Opossum, They Are Not Playing. They Actually Pass Out From Sheer Terror.
When Patty Hearst Was Kidnapped, She Was Watching The T.V. Show The Magician Starring Bill Bixby.
When Saigon Fell The Signal For All Americans To Evacuate Was Bing Crosby’s White Christmas Being Played On The Radio.
When Snakes Are Born With Two Heads, They Fight Each Other For Food.
When The Divorce Rate Goes Up In The United States, Toy Makers Say The Sale Of Toys Also Rises.
When The First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, Received An Alarming Number Of Threatening Letters, Soon After Her Husband Became President At The Height Of The Depression, The Secret Service Insisted That She Carry A Pistol In Her Purse.
When The Hoovers Did Not Want To Be Overheard By White House Guests, They Spoke To Each Other In Chinese.
When The Movie The Wizard Of Oz First Came Out, It Got Bad Reviews. The Critics Said, It Was Stupid And Uncreative.
When Two Words Are Combined To Form A Single Word (E.G., Motor + Hotel = Motel, Breakfast + Lunch = Brunch) The New Word Is Called A Portmanteau.
When Voyager 2 Visited Neptune It Saw A Small Irregular White Cloud That Zips Around Neptune Every Sixteen Hours Or So Now Known As The Scooter.
When You Have To Urinate,You Are More Likely To Be Cold Because Your Body Must Heat Excess Waste.
When You Pop Your Knuckle, The Sound Is Caused By A Miniature Explosion In The Joint. Pulling On The Finger Pulls A Vacuum On The Fluid In The Joint. At The Reduced Pressure, The Air Dissolved In The Fluid Becomes Superheated And ‘Wants To’ Boil. (Similar To Opening A Carbonated Drink.) Once A Bubble Forms, It Expands Explosively Until The Pressure Increases To A Point At Which The Dissolved Gases Are No Longer Superheated. Once The Bubble Exists, You Can No Longer Pop The Knuckle Again Because The Bubble Will Just Expand Gradually As You Pull. The Knuckle Will Not Pop Again Until You Wait Long Enough For The Bubble To Redissolve In The Fluid.
When You Tie A Noose, The Rope Is Wrapped Twelve Times Around Because It’s The Same Length As A Person’s Head.
When Young And Impoverished, Pablo Picasso Kept Warm By Burning His Own Paintings.
When Your Sinkis Full, The Little Hole That Lets The Water Drain, Instead Of Flowing Over The Side, Is Called A Porcelator.
While At Havard University, Edward Kennedy Was Suspended For Cheating On A Spanish Exam.
Who’s That Playing The Piano On The Mad About You Theme? Paul Reiser Himself.
Why Are Computer Defects Called Bugs? . . . In 1943, Navy Officer Grace Hopper Found A Glitch In Her Computer. After Investigating, She Discovered The System Had A Bug – A Real One. Turns Out A Moth Made Its Way Into Hopper’s Computer. Though The Word Bug Has Meant Fault Or Defect Since As Far Back As The 1870′S, Hopper’s Story Is Credited With Making It The Synonym Of Choice In The Computer Industry.
Will Clark Of The Texas Rangers Is A Direct Descendant Of William Clark Of Lewis And Clark.
Willard Scott Was The First Ronald Mcdonald.
William Pitt Was England’s Youngest Prime Minister At The Age Of Only 24 Years, Elected In 1783.
William Shatner Went To Balfour Collegiate (Regina, Saskatchewan) During His High School Years.
Willie Mays Has Been The Only Player To Hit Four Home Runs In One Game And Three Triples In Another.
Wilma Flintstone’s Maiden Name Was Wilma Slaghoopal, And Betty Rubble’s Was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
Windmills Always Turn Counter-Clockwise–Except For The Windmills In Ireland.
Wine Will Spoil If Exposed To Light, Hence Tinted Bottles.
Winston Churchill Was Born In A Ladies’ Room During A Dance.
Without Any Greenhouse Effect, Earth Would Be Cold And Lifeless With An Average Temperature Of 0.4 Degrees Fahrenheit.
Women Blink Nearly Twice As Much As Men.
Women’s Hearts Beat Faster Than Men’s.
Wonder Bread Does Not Contain Any Cholesterol Or Saturated Fat.
Wonder Bread Is The Best-Selling Bread In The United States.
Worcestershire Sauce Is Basically An Anchovy Ketchup.
World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Gene Tunney Also Lectured On Shakespeare At Yale University Later In His Life.
World Tourist Day Is Observed On September 27.
Worldwide, About 40 Square Miles Of Land Are Transformed Into Desert Each Day.
Worldwide, Bats Are The Most Important Natural Enemies Of Night-Flying Insects.
Worldwide, There Are More Statues Of Joan Of Arc Than Of Anyone Else. France Alone Has About 40,000 Of Them.
Writer Director Actor Albert Brooks Real Name Is Albert Einstein
Writer Edgar Allan Poe And Lsd Advocate Timothy Leary Were Both Kicked Out Of West Point.
Xenophobia Is The Fear Of Strangers.
Yak’s Milk Is Pink.
Yasir Arafat Is Addicted To Watching Television Cartoons.
Yo-Yos Were Used As Weapons By Warriors In The Philippines In The 16Th Century.
Yogurt Intake Among North Americans Has Quadrupled In The Past 20 Years.
You Are More Likely To Be Struck By Lightning Than You Are To Be Eaten By A Shark.
You Are More Likely To Get Stung By A Bee On A Windy Day That In Any Other Weather.
You Burn More Calories Sleeping Than You Do Watching T.V.
You Can Make A Glass Of Apple Cider With Three Apples.
You Cannot Kill Yourself By Holding Your Breath.
You Loose Enough Dead Skin Cells In Your Lifetime To Fill Eight Five-Pound Flour Bags.
You Should Not Eat A Crawfish With A Straight Tail. It Was Dead Before It Was Cooked.
You Use More Calories Eating Celery Than There Are In Celery Itself.
You Were Born With 300 Bones, But When You Get To Be An Adult You Only Have 206.
You Would Have To Count To One Thousand To Use The Letter A In The English Language To Spell A Whole Number.
You’ll Eat About 35,000 Cookies In A Lifetime.
Your Body Creates As Much As 2 Quarts Of Saliva Every Day.
Your Brain Is 80% Water.
Your Muscles Make Up One Half Of Your Body Weight.
Your Ribs Move About 5 Million Times A Year Everytime You Breathe.
Your Right Lung Takes In More Air Than Your Left One.
Your Skull Is Made Up Of 29 Different Bones.
Your Statistical Chance Of Being Murdered Is One In Twenty Thousand.
Zaire Is The World Leader In Cobalt Mining, Producing Two-Thirds Of The World’s Cobalt Supply.
Zarf Is The Holder Of A Handleless Coffee Cup.
Zip Code 12345 Is Assigned To General Electric In Schenectady, N.Y.
Zoophobia Is The Fear Of Animals.
Fastest. Mrs. Barbara Blackburn Of Salem, Oregon Can Maintain 150 Wpm For 50 Min (37,500 Key Strokes) And Attains A Speed Of 170 Wpm Using The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (Dsk) System. Her Top Speed Was Recorded At 212 Wpm.
Stag Beetles Have Stronger Mandibles Than Humans.
Penguins Have A Organ On Their Forhead Between The Eyes That De-Salinizes Water. It Can Be Seen Only As A Small Hole.
Sheep In Scotland Faint If You Jump Out At Them.
Bats Always Exit A Cave To The Left.
A Girafee Can Clean It’s Ears With It’s 21 Inch Tounge.
A Hippo Can Run Faster Than A Man.
A Horse Can Sleep Standing Up.
A Horse Has 35 Square Feet Of Skin.
A Hummingbird Weighs Less Than A Penny.
A Jellyfish Is 95% Water.
A Kangaroo Can Hop 30 Feet At Once
A Kangaroo Can’t Jump Unless It’s Tail Is On The Ground
A Lion’s Roar Can Be Heard A Mile Away
A Male Emperor Moth Can Smell A Female Emperor Moth Up To 7 Miles Away.
A Millipede Has 4 Legs On Each Segment Of It’s Body.
A 6 Pound Sea-Hare Can Lay 40,000 Eggs In A Single Minute.
A Blue Whales Heart Only Beats 9 Times Per Minute.
A Cow Produces 200 Times More Gas A Day Than A Person.
A Crocodile Always Grows New Teeth To Replace The Old Ones.
A Crocodile Will Some Times Eat Other Crocodiles.
A Female Ferret Will Die If It Goes Into Heat And Cannot Find A Mate.
A 2 Year Old Horse Has 6 Incisors.
A Shark Can Grow A New Set Of Teeth In A Week.
A Typical Double-Bed Mattress Contains As Many As 2 Million House Dust Mites (Demodex Folliculorom).
Abe Lincoln’s Mother Died When The Family Dairy Cow Ate Poisonous Mushes And She Drank The Milk.
You Can Tell A Turtle’s Sex By It’s Sound, Males Grunt, Females Hiss.
Polar Bears Are The Only Mammals With Hair On The Soles Of Their Feet.
Earth Worms Are Hermaphrodites.
A Goldfish Kept In A Dark Room Will Turn White.
If A Frog’s Mouth Is Open To Long It Will Suffocate.
Sharks Are Immune To Cancer.
A Elephant Can Smell Water 3 Miles Away.
A Elephant May Consume 500 Pounds Of Hay And 60 Gallons Of Water In A Single Day.
Armadillos Are The Only Animal Besides Humans That Can Get Leprosy.
Armadillos Can Be House Broken.
Armadillos Can Have Up To 4 Babies At A Time And They Are All The Same Sex.
Goats Eyes Have Rectangular Pupils.
Black Lemurs Are The Only Primates That Can Have Blue Eyes.
It Takes 7 Years For A Lobster To Weigh 1 Pound.
The Difference Between Male And Female Blue Crabs Is The Design Located On Their Belly. The Male Blue Crab Has The Washinton Monument And The Female Blue Crabs Belly Is Shaped Like The U.S. Capitol.
Mice, Whales, Elephants, Giraffes And Man All Have Seven Neck Vertebra.
A Cat Has 4 Rows Of Wiskers.
The Memory Span Of A Gold Fish Is 3 Seconds.
The 2 Foot Long Bird Called A Kea That Lives In New Zealand Likes To Eat The Stripes Of Rubberaround The Car Windows.
Cats Can Hear Ultrasound
The Chetta Is The Only Cat That Can Retract Its Claws
The Sumatran Tiger Has The Most Strips Of All The Tiger Subspecies, And The Siberian Tiger Has The Least
Tigers Paw Prints Are Called Pug Marks.
Kiwi Birds Are Blind, They Hunt Solely By Smell.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia Is The Fear Of Long Words.
Your Fingernail Has The Same Ingredients As Fly Poop
In Scotland, A New Game Was Invented. It Was Entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden…. And Thus The Word Golf Entered Into The English Language.
Many Years Ago In England, Pub Frequenters Had A Whistle Baked Into The Rim Or Handle Of Their Ceramic Cups. When They Needed A Refill, They Used The Whistle To Get Some Service. “Wet Your Whistle” Is The Phrase Inspired By This Practice.
In English Pubs, Ale Is Ordered By Pints And Quarts. So In Old England, When Customers Got Unruly, The Bartender Would Yell At Them Mind Their Own Pints And Quarts And Settle Down. It’s Where We Get The Phrase “Mind Your P’s And Q’s”
It Was The Accepted Practice In Babylon 4,000 Years Ago That For A Month After The Wedding, The Bride’s Father Would Supply His Son-In-Law With All The Mead He Could Drink.O?= Mead Is A Honey Beer And Because Their Calendar Was Lunar Based, This Period Was Called The Honey Month We Know Today As The Honeymoon.
40% Of All People Snoop In The Hosts Medicine Cabinet.
In Massachusetts – It Is Illegal To Put Tomatoes In Clam Chowder
In Montana Prostitution Is Considered A “Crime Against The Family”.
In Montana One May Not Pretend To Abuse An Animal In The Presence Of A Minor.
It Is Illegal To Have A Sheep In The Cab Of Your Truck Without A Chaperone.
In Montana It Is A Felony For A Wife To Open Her Husband’s Mail.
In Montana It Is A Misdemeanor To Show Movies That Depict Acts Of Felonious Crime.
In Montana, It Is Illegal For Married Women To Go Fishing Alone On Sundays, And Illegal For Unmarried Women To Fish Alone At All.
In Montana It Is Illegal For A Man And A Woman To Have Sex In Any Other Position Other Than Missionary Style.
In Montana Seven Or More Indians Are Considered A Raiding Or War Party And It Is Legal To Shoot Them.
In Texas Its Illegal To Sell Your Eye
In Texas It Is Illegal To Have A Program That Has Been Created That Attempts To Control The Weather.
Did You Know The Word “Biology” Was Created In 1805 By Jean-Baptiste Lamarck And Gottfried Treviranus
Table Tennis Balls Have Been Known To Travel Off The Paddle At Speeds Up To 105.6 Miles Per Hour.
Astatine Is An Element So Rare That If You Searched The Entire Planet You’D Only Find A Lump The Size Of A Sugar Cube.
When A Flea Jumps, The Rate Of Acceleration Is 20 Times That Of The Space Shuttle During Launch.
The Maximum Speed That Raindrops Can Fall At Is Around 18Mph, Depending On Their Size.
If Every Star In The Milky Way Was A Grain Of Salt They Would Fill An Olympic Sized Swimming Pool.
12 Astronauts Have Walked On The Moon, Between Them Bringing Back 382 Kilograms Of Rocks, Pebbles, Sand And Dust.
Cats Can See Clearly In One-Sixth The Amount Of Light We Humans Would Need. This Is Due To A Special Layer Of Cells At The Back Of Their Retinas, Which Acts Like A Mirror, Reflecting Light Back To The Retina’s Cells.
A Bolt Of Lightning Contains Enough Energy To Toast 160,000 Pieces Of Bread. Unfortunately The Bolt Only Takes 1/10,000 Of A Second – So Turning The Bread Over Might Prove Difficult.
If 10 Kilograms Of Matter Spontaneously Turned Into Energy There Would Be Enough Energy To Power A 100 Watt Light Bulb For 300 Million Years – A Harrowing Thought For All Weight Watchers.
Gold Leaf Is Pure Gold, But You Can Cover Large Areas With It Very Cheaply Because It Is Very Thin. Gold Leaf Is Less Than 0.00008 Millimetres Thick – Which Is Only About 300 Atoms Thick.
Every Rainbow Is Unique – Each Rainbow Is Formed From Light Hitting Your Eye At A Very Precise Angle. Someone Standing Next To You Will See Light Coming From A Slightly Different Angle Than You And Therefore See A Different Rainbow.
Tree Crickets Are Called The Poor Man’s Thermometer Because Temperature Directly Affects Their Rate Of Activity. Count The Number Of Chirps A Cricket Makes In 15 Seconds, Then Add 37. The Sum Will Be Very Close To The Outside Temperature In Farenheit!
Some People Who Have Two Or More Different Kinds Of Fillings In Their Teeth Are Able To Hear High-Power Am Broadcast Stations When Located Within A Few Hundred Feet Of The Stations. In Such Cases, The Strong Radio Waves Act Upon The Teeth Fillings In Such A Way That The Electromagnetic Oscillations Get Transformed To Mechanical Vibrations In The Person’s Head, And These Are Heard As Sound.
The Amount Of Sunlight Reaching The Earth’s Surface Is 6,000 Times The Amount Of Energy Used By All Human Beings Worldwide. The Total Amount Of Fossil Fuel Used By Humans Since The Start Of Civilization Is Equivalent To Less Than 30 Days Of Sunshine.
Ibm’s Asci White Supercomputer, The Fastest Computer In The World, Weighs As Much As 17 Elephants And Can Do In One Second What A Calculator Would Take 10 Million Years To Do.
On Average, Airliners Will Get Struck By Lightning Once Every Year.
Hubert Cecil Booth, The Inventor Of The Vacuum Cleaner Choaked To Death. In Testing How It Would Work, He Was Sucking Dirt By Mouth Through A Piece Of Material And Ended Up With A Lungful Of Dust!
There Is Enough Brick In The Great Pyramid Of Gizeh To Build A Wall 10 Feet High And 1 Foot Thick Around The Entire Border Of France.
The St. Louis Gateway Arch Is Not A Parabols, As Most People Think. Rather It Is A Hyperbolic Cosine. That Way It Is More Stable.
Kerimeski Church In Finland Is The World’s Biggest Church Made Of Wood.
The American Government Used The Mckinley Building Becuase Of It’s Unusual Architecture. If There Was Any Type Of Explosion Inside The Building Would Implode On To Its Self.
The Pentagon In Arlington, Virgina Has Twice As Many Bathrooms As Neccessary. When It Was Built In The 1940S, The State Of Virginia Still Had Segregation Laws Requiring Seperate Toilet Facilities For Blacks And Whites.
Anne Boleyn Had Six Figernails On One Hand, But Only Had Five Fingers On That Hand. She Had A Small Extra Nail Coming Out Of The Side Of Her Finger.
A Shank Is The Part Of The Sole Between The Heel And The Ball Of The Foot.
January 23 Is National Pie Day (The One You Eat).
February 4 Is The Half-Way Point Of Winter.
February 9-15 Is National Kraut And Frankfurter Week.
February 9-15 Is Random Acts Of Kindness Week.
February 14-21 Is Homes For Birds Week.
February 16 Is Presidents Day In The U.S.A
February 24 Is Mardi Gras
March Is Music In Our Schools Month.
March 8-14 Is Autograph Collecting Week.
March 12 Is Purim.
March 14 Is Save A Spider Day.
March 18-24 Is National Sports Trivia Week.
March 20-27 Is National Spring Fever Week.
March 25 Is Pecan Day.
March 26 Is Make Up Your Own Holiday Day.
April Is National Knuckles Down Month.
April 6-12 Is National Garden Week.
April 7 Is No Housework Day.
April 13-19 Is National Week Of The Ocean.
April 22 Is Earth Day.
April 23 Is Running Of The Rodents Day.
April 24 Is Take Our Daughters To Work Day.
September Is National Honey Month.
September Is National Self Improvement Month.
September 7 Is Grandparents Day.
September 10 Is Sew Be It! Day.
September 21-27 Is National Dog Week.
September 22 Is Elephant Appreciation Day.
September 28 Is National Good Neighbour Day.
October 4, 1957 Is One Of The Most Impotant Dates In History Because Leave It To Beaver And The Russian Satelite Sputnik 1 Were Launched.
October 24 Is United Nations Day.
November Is National Drum Month.
November 3 Is Sandwich Day.
November 4 Is Book Lovers Day.
November 10-16 Is National Geography Awareness Week.
November 17 Is Homemade Bread Day.
November 17-23 Is American Education Week.
November 18-24 Is Childrens Book Week.
November 18 Is Mickey Mouse’s Birthday.
November 18 Is National Community Education Day.
November 21 Is World Hello Day.
November 24-30 National Game And Puzzle Week.
December 17 Is Wright Brothers Day.
December 19 Is Underdog And Unsung Hero Day.
Months That Start With A Sunday Always Has A Friday The 13Th.
Melanie Griffith’s Mother Is Tippi Hedren, Best Known For Her Lead Role In The Movie “The Birds” On ! Cd.
The Last Playboy Centerfold To Have Staples In It Was Published In 1985. The Model Was Venice Kong.
The Highest Tennis Court In The World Is At A Elevation Of 321 Meters Or 1069 Feet.
The Armhole In Clothing Is Called An Armsaye
The End Of A Hammer, Oppostie The Striking End, Is Called A Peen
Spat-Out Food If Called Chanking
Boanthropy Is A Disease In Which A Man Thinks He’s An Ox
Eosophobia Is The Fear Of Dawn
Groaking Is To Watch People Eating Food Hoping They’ll Offer You Some.
Dibble Means To Drink Like A Duck
Those Things On The End Of Shoelaces Called Aglets
Zarf Is The Holder Of A Handleless Coffee Cup
No Word In The English Language Rhymes With Month, Orange, Silver, Or Purple.
The Name Wendy Was Made Up For The Book, Peter Pan
Tonsurphobia Is The Fear Of Haircuts
Degringolade Means To Fall And Disintegrate
A Sysygy Occures When All The Planets Of Our Solar System Line Up
The Most Common Letters In English Are R S T L N E
‘Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba’ Is A Palindrome Written By Napoleon
‘A Man A Plan A Canal Panama’ Is Also A Palindrome
A Necropsy Is An Autopsy On Animals
Eeg Stands Electroencephalogram
The 7Th Most Common Word Used On The Ineternet Is ‘Html’
The 42 Most Common Word Used On The Internet Is ‘Information’
There Are No Words In The English Language That Rhyme With ‘Purple’
There Are No Words In The English Language That Rhyme With ‘Orange’
Acrophobia Is The Fear Of Heights
Nycrophobia Is The Fear Of Dakness
Zoophobia Is The Fear Of Animals
Claustrophobia Is The Fear Of Small Spaces
Pyrophobia Is The Fear Of Fire
Entomophobia Is The Fear Of Insects
Xenophoia Is The Fear Of Strangers
Agaraphobia Is The Fear Of Open Spaces
Los Angeles’ 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.’.
Ukalaily (Ukilaly, You-Ki-Lay-Ley, However It’s Spelled) Is Hawaiian For “Jumping Flies”
Lycanthropy Is A Disease In Which A Man Thinks He’s A Wolf. It Is The Scientific Name For “Wolf Man” Or, Wearwolf.
Koala Is Aboriginal For “No Drink”.
One Who Busies Themself With The Quadrature Of A Cirlce Is Called A Tetragondzein.
Cyclometer – One Who Is Taken By The Measure Of A Circle.
Piet – One Who Is Obsessed With Pi.
The Longest One-Syllable Word In The English Language Is Screeched.
The Average Person’s Left Hand Does 56% Of The Typing.
Dreamt Is The Only English Word That Ends In The Letters “Mt”
There Are Only Four Words In The English Language Which End In “Dous” Tremendous, Horrendous, Stupendous, And Hazardous.
Maine Is The Only State Whose Name Is Just One Syllable.
The Original Names Of The Reindeer Were Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Dunder And Blixem. When The Christmas Poem First Appeared In The Troy Sentinel In 1823, The Reindeer Names Lines Read. “Now! Dasher, Now! Dancer, Now! Prancer, And Vixen,On! Comet, On! Cupid, On! Dunder And Blixem”
The Average Chocolate Bar Has 8 Insects’ Legs In It.
Beer & Pretzels Can’t Be Served At The Same Time In Any Bar Or Restaurant In North Dakota
In North Dakota, It Is Still Legal To Shoot Indians If Your In A Covered Wagon.
There Are 556 Officially Recognized Native American Tribes.
The World’s Oldest Active Parliamentary Body Is The Icelandic Althing Which Met First Before The Year 1000.
The Economics Nobel Prize Is Sort Of A Quasi-Nobel. The Endowment For The Prize Money Was Created Much Later Than The Original Grant Money From Alfred Nobel For The Other “Real” Prizes.
The Last Time American Green Cards Were Actually Green Was 1964.
The Pelican Was Adopted As A Christian Symbol Early On Because Mother Pelicans Would Pierce Their Own Breasts To Feed Their Brood With Blood — Seen As A Sacrifice Not Dissimilar To That Of Jesus’ By The Church Leaders.
The Targets In Both Skeet And Trap Shooting, Commonly Called Clay Pigeons, Are Actually Made From Tar And Pitch.
Delaware Is The Only State With Part Of Its Border Defined By The Arc Of A Compass. (Except That Other State Next To Delaware With The Same Border.)
The Oldest Weapon Still In Use In The American Military Arsenal Is The Mameluke Hilt Sword Carried By Officers In The U.S. Marine Corps. The Sword Dates Back To The Barbary Pirate Wars Of 1801-1807. The Sword Was Given To Lt. Presly O’banen By The Ruler Of Tripoli For The Aid Rendered By The Marines In The Mediteranian Fleet.
The Second Is Defined As Being 9,192,631,770 Times The Time It Takes For A Cesium-133 Atom To Swap Hyperfine Levels In Its Ground State.
The Vatican (Papal States) Was The Only Political Entity To Grant Recognition To The Confederate States Of America During The Civil War (1861-1865).
The Greek National Anthem Has 158 Verses.
In American English, “Forty” Is The Only Number Which Is Spelled By Going Only Forward And Not Backtracking.
There Are 2,598,960 Possible Hands In A Five-Card Poker Game.
The Duck Most Often Depicted On The “Duck Stamp” Is The Mallard, At Six Times.
The Blond Woman In The Tic Tac Yoga Commercials Is Mark Harmon’s Sister.
America’s Only Statue Of Charles Dickens Graces Clark Park In Philadelphia, Just Off The University Of Pennsylvania Campus.
No Matter Where You Are In Australia You Are Never More Than 1000 Kilometers From The Ocean.
All Owls Lay White Eggs.
It Takes A Week To Make A Jelly Bean.
Nasa Scientists Are Still Receiving Data From Voyager Even Though The Signal It Is Emitting Has Less Energy Than That Emitted By A Blowdrier.
You Can’t Tickle Yourself.
People From Manchester, England Are Called Mancunians.
White Cockatoos Are The Only Parrots That Can Be Sexed By Eye Color; Females Have A Visible Pupil While Males Have Black Irises.
The University Of Texas System Is The Third-Largest Landowner In The United States.
Marvin Gardens In The Monopoly Game Is Not Spelled The Same As The Marven Gardens Outside Of Atlantic City, Nj, Which The Board Game Isbased On.
The Stasi Collected The “Smells” Of Their Enemies So That Their Dogs Could Find Them.
While Drug-Sniffing Dogs Are Trained To Bark Like Crazy, Go “Aggressive” At The First Whiff Of The Right Powder… Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Are Trained To Go “Passive” Lest They Set Off A Motion Sensor Or A Noise Sensor Or Any Number Of Other Things That Might Go Kablooie.
While Almost Everyone Knows That Neil Armstrong Was The First Man To Walk On The Moon, Few Know That Gene Cernan Was The Last Man On The Moon.
Lyndon Johnson’s First Family All Had Initials Lbj. Lyndon Baines Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, Linda Bird Johnson And Lucy Baines Johnson. And His Dog, Little Beagle Johnson.
There Are 22 Stars In The Paramount Movie Studio Logo.
Jane Wyman (Reagan) Was Born Sarah Jane Fulks. Nancy Davis (Reagan) Was Born Anne Frances Robbins.
The Muller-Lyer ( >-< : Which Line Is Longer?) Illusion Dosen't Work On Zulus.
You Can't Trademark Surnames.
The Black Cauldron Is The Only Pg-Rated Disney Animated Feature.
A Humpback Whale's Milk Is 54 Percent Fat.
Lucy Stone Of Massachusetts Is Thought To Be The First American Woman To Retain Her Maiden Name When She Married. She Was A Sister-In-Law Of Elizabeth Blackwell, The First American Woman To Earn An M.D.
When Wearing A Kimono Japanese Women Wear Socks Called "Tabi". The Big Toe Of The Sock Is Separated From The Rest Of The Toes, Like A Thumb From A Mitten.
If You Were To Toss The New 10P Coin (Pounds Sterling), 10000 Times, The Average Odds Of It Being Heads/Tails Would Not Be 50/50. It Would Be Closer To 45/55 In Favour Of Tails Because The New Picture Of The Queen's Head Is Slightly Larger Than It Used To Be (She Has Gone A Bit Saggy) And So It Makes The Heads Side Heavier Than The Tails Side, Thus It Has More Chance Of Landing On Tails.
The Names Of The Two Stone Lions In Front Of The New York Public Library Are Patience And Fortitude. They Were Named By Then-Mayor Fiorello Laguardia.
Lazy Susans Are Named After Thomas Edison's Daughter. He Invented It To Impress A Gathering Of Industrialists And Inventors.
For A Short Time In 1967, The American Typers Association Made A New Punctuation Mark That Was A Combination Of The Question Mark And An Exclamation Point Called An Interrobang. It Was Rarely Used And Hasn't Been Seen Since.
Tennessee Williams' Real Name Was Thomas Lanier Williams.
Anise Is The Scent On The Artificial Rabbit That Is Used In Greyhound Races.
Petey, The Beloved Pit Bull Of "Our Gang" Fame Is Buried At Historic Clara Glen Pet Cemetery In Linwood, New Jersey.
The First European To See New Zealand Was Abel Tasman In 1642; The First To Set Foot On The Island Was James Cook In 1769.
New Zealand Was Named After Abel Tasman's Home District, Zealand, In The Netherlands.
Greater Auckland Is The Second Largest City In The World By Area, The First Being Greater Los Angeles.
New Zealand Has The Highest Mountain In All Of Oceania: Mt. Cook.
New Zealand Was The First Country To Give Woman The Vote, In 1890.
Tide Has 70 Percent Of The Market Share For Detergent.
Only One Satellite Has Been Ever Been Destroyed By A Meteor — The European Space Agency's Olympus In 1993.
The Snapping Turtle Eats Carion And Is Used By Police To Find Dead Bodies In Lakes, Ponds And Swamps.
When Portland, Oregon Changed The Name Of Union Avenue To Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. They Lost The Intersection Of Union And Division Street.
The Western-Most Point In Continental Europe Is At Cabo De Rocha, Portugal.
Yellowstone Was The First National Park (1872) But The First Area To Beset Aside Under Federal Protection Was Hot Springs Resevation, Arkansas(1832.) It Became Hot Springs National Park In 1921.
The Official Name Of The St. Louis Gateway Arch Is "The Jefferson National Expansion Monument."
The Gateway Arch Looks Taller Than It Is Wider, But It Is Exactly 630 Feet By 630 Feet.
There Are No Rivers In Saudi Arabia.
There Are No Spanish Words That Begin With The Letter W (Except For Those Of American English Origin.)
There Are No Turkeys In Turkey.
There Are Only 12 Letters In The Hawaiian Alphabet.
There Are Only Four Words In The English Language Which End In -Dous: Tremendous, Horrendous, Stupendous, And Hazardous.
There Are Only Three World Capitals That Begin With The Letter O In English: Ottawa, Canada; Oslo, Norway; And Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
There Are Only Two People In The World That Know The Secret Recipe For Coca-Cola
There Are Over 58 Million Dogs In The U.S.
There Are Pokemon School Books. You Can Even Do Math With A Pokemon Math Book.
There Are Six Hoops On An Association Croquet Court.
There Are Six Words In The English Language With The Letter Combination Uu. Muumuu, Vacuum, Continuum, Duumvirate, Duumvir And Residuum.
There Are Ten Body Parts That Are Only Three Letters Long: Eye, Ear, Leg, Arm, Jaw, Gum, Toe, Lip, Hip, And Rib.
There Are Three Times As Many Households In The United States Without Telephones As There Are Without Television Sets.
There Are Two Credit Cards For Every Person In The United States.
There Has Never Been A President From The Air Force Or Marine Corps, Although Reagan Was In The Army Air Corps.
There Is A Butterfly In Africa With Enough Poison In It’s Body To Kill Six Cats.
There Is A Ides In Every Month, Not Just March.
There Is A New Type Of Parrot In New Zealand That Likes To Eat The Rubber Strips That Line Car Windows.
There Is A Place In Norway Called Hell.
There Is A Sea Squirt (Found In The Seas Near Japan) That Digests Its Own Brain. When The Sea Squirt Is Mature It Permanently Attaches Itself To A Rock. At This Point It Does Not Need To Move Anymore And Has No Need For A Brain. So, Waste Not Want Not, It Eats It!
There Is A Systematic Lull In Conversation Every 7 Minutes.
There Is A Tea In China Called White Tea Which Simply Is Boiled Water.
There Is A Town In Texas Called Ding Dong.
There Is Cyanide In Apple Pips.
There Is Enough Stone In The Great Wall Of China To Build An Eight-Foot Wall Encircling The Globe At The Equator.
There Is No Betty Rubble In The Flintstones Chewables.
There Is No Rice In Rice Paper.
There Is No Such Thing As Blue Food, Even Blue Berries Are Purple.
There Was A Pony Express In Persia Many Centuries Before Christ. Riders On This Ancient Circuit, Wearing Special Colored Headbands, Delivered The Mails Across The Vast Stretch Of Asia Minor, Sometimes Riding For Hundreds Of Miles Without A Break.
There Was No Punctuation Until The 15Th Century.
There Was Once A Town Named ?6? In West Virginia.
There Were No Ponies In The Pony Express.
There Were Ten Johns, Out Of 102 People On The Mayflower.
There Will Be No Telephone, Electricity Or Television For 15 Minutes A Day.
They Get Their Distinctive Smell By Soaking Up Sulphur From The Soil.
Thirty Different Diseases That Humans Can Catch Are Transmitted By The Common Housefly.
Thirty-Five Percent Of The People Who Use Personal Ads For Dating Are Already Married.
This Sentence Ends With A Period.
Thomas Edison Got Patents For A Method Of Making Concrete Furniture And A Cigar Which Was Supposed To Burn Forever.
Thomas Edison Was Afraid Of The Dark.
Thomas Edison, The Inventor Of The Lightbulb Was Afraid Of The Dark.
Thomas Jefferson Anonymously Submitted Design Plans For The White House. They Were Rejected.
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, And James Monroe All Died On July 4Th. Jefferson And Adams Died At Practically The Same Minute Of The Same Day.
Thomas Marshall (1854-1925), U.S. Vice-President, Once Remarked “What This Country Needs Is A Good Five-Cent Cigar.”
Those Stars And Colours You See When You Rub Your Eyes Are Called Phosphenes.
Though Buddhism Was Founded In India Around 470 B.C. And Developed There At An Early Date, It Was Uprooted From India Between The Seventh And Twelfth Centuries A.D. And Today Exists Almost Exclusively Outside The Country, Primarily In Sri Lanka, Japan, And Indochina.
Tide Has 70 Percent Of Market Share For Detergent.
Tigers Have Stripped Skin, Not Just Stripped Fur.
Tina Turner’s Real Name Is Annie Mae Bullock.
To Clean The Tubes Of Artillery Pieces (Howitzers) Soldiers Use A Can Of Coke.
To Escape The Grip Of A Crocodile’s Jaws, Push Your Thumbs Into Its Eyeballs–It Will Let You Go Instantly.
To Have Your Picture Taken By The First Cameras You Would Have To Sit Still For Eight Hours.
To Keep Cool, Ostriches Urinate On Their Legs; It Then Evaporates Like Sweat.
To Keep From Being Separated While Sleeping, Sea Otter Tie Themselves Together With Kelp, Often Drifting Miles Out To Sea During The Night.
To Strengthen The Damascus Sword, The Blade Was Plunged Into A Slave.
Toads Don’t Have Teeth, Frogs Do.
Tobacco Kills More Americans (450,000) Each Year Than Alcohol, Cocaine, Crack, Heroin, Homicide, Suicide, Car Accidents, Fire And Aids Combined.
Tom Cruise’s Name Was Thomas Mapother, Before He Changed It.
Tom Sawyer Was The First Novel Written On A Typewriter.
Tomatoes And Cucumbers Are Fruits.
Tomb Robbers Believed That Knocking Eygptians Sarcophagi’s Noses Off Would Stall Curses.
Tommy James Was In A New York Hotel Looking At The Mutual Of New York Building?S Neon Sign Flashing Repeatedly: M-O-N-Y. He Suddenly Got The Inspiration To Write His #1 Hit, ‘Mony Mony’
Tongeren Is The Oldest Town In Belgium.
Tonsurphobia Is The Fear Of Haircuts.
Tony The Tiger Turns 50 This Year.
Tooth-Paste Can Be Used To Polish Silver Winches And Guard Rails (Your Bow Pulpit).
Toronto Was The First City In The World With A Computerized Traffic Signal System.
Toronto, Ontario Has Approximately 7,000 Eating Establishments.
Toronto’s Original Name Was York, But It Had Another Name Long Before That. The Area Near The Shores Of Lake Ontario Was Called “The Meeting Place” By The Ojibway Of Southern Ontario. Their Word: Toronto.
Traveling By Air Is The Safest Means Of Transportation.
Trivia Is The Roman Goddess Of Sorcery, Hounds And…The Crossroads.
Try Dividing 99999999999 By 8(That’s 11 Nines).
Turkeys Are So Clueless That When They’re Born The Only Way To Get Then To Eat Is To Put Marbles In The Feed. The Marbles Are Too Big For Them To Eat, But They Get Curious And Peck At Them And When Their Beak Slips Off The Marble, They Get A Mouthful Of Food.
Turkeys Can Drown In The Rain By Looking Up At The Precipitation With Their Mouths Open.
Turkeys Will Peck To Death Members Of The Flock That Are Physically Inferior Or Different.
Turnips Turn Green When Sunburnt.
Tv’s Bananas In Pajamas Are Played By Women.
Twelve Babies Will Be Given To The Wrong Parents Each Day.
Two Golf Clubs Claim To Be The First Established In The United States: The Foxberg Golf Club, Clarion County, Pa (1887) And St. Andrews Golf Club Of Yonkers, Ny (1888).
Two Out Of Five Husbands Tell Their Wife Daily That They Love Them.
Two Planes Landing Daily At O’hare International Airport In Chicago Will Be Unsafe.
Two Researches, Working Independantly And Having No Contact With One Another, One In Russia And The Other In The United States, Discovered That The Body Weighs Less After Death Than Before Death. They Took Into Account Things Like Air Leaving The Lungs And The Like. The Soul Weighs 50 Grams.
Two-Thirds Of The World’s Eggplant Is Grown In New Jersey.
Type O Is The Most Common Blood Type In The World. Type Ab Is The Rarest.
Typewriter, Is The Longest Word That Can Be Made Using The Letters On Only One Row Of The Keyboard.
Uma Thurman Does Not Have An ‘Innie’ Or An ‘Outie’ Bellybutton, But A ‘Stretch.’
Unconsciousness Will Occur After 8-10 Seconds After Loss Of Blood Supply To The Brain.
Under The Law Of Mississippi, There’s No Such Thing As A Female Peeping Tom.
Until 1796, There Was A State In The United States Called Franklin. Today It Is Known As Tennessee.
Until 1967, Lsd Was Legal In California.
Until The Middle Ages, Underwater Divers Near The Mediterranean Coastline Collected Golden Strands From The Pen Shell, Which Used The Strands To Hold Itself In Place. The Strands Were Woven Into A Luxury Textile And Made Into Ladies’ Gloves So Fine That A Pair Could Be Packed Into An Empty Walnut Shell.
Up To Three Thousand Species Of Trees Have Been Cataloged In Square Mile Of The Amazon Jungle.
Uranus Is The Only Planet That Rotates On Its Side.
Uranus’ Orbital Axis Is Tilted At 90 Degrees.
Uri Geller, The Professional Psychic Was Born 20, 1946. As To The Origin Of His Alleged Powers, Mr Gellar Maintains That They Come From A Distant Planet Of Hoova.
Using Satellite-Surveying Techniques, Scientists Have Determined That Los Angeles, California Is Moving East. At A Rate Estimated To Be About One-Fifth On An Inch Per Year, The City Is Moving Closer To The San Gabriel Mountains.
Values On The Monopoly Gameboard Are The Same Today As They Were In 1932
Vanilla Ice’s Real Name Is Robert Van Winkle.
Vanilla Is Used To Make Chocolate.
Velcro Was Invented By A Swiss Who Inspired By The Way Burrs Attached To Clothing.
Venetian Blinds Were Invented In Japan.
Venus Is The Only Planet That Rotates Clockwise.
Very Small Clouds That Look Like They Have Been Broken Off Of Bigger Clouds Are Called Scuds.
Vincent Van Gogh Comitted Suicide While Painting Wheat Field With Crows.
Virginia Woolfe Wrote All Her Books Standing.
Warren Beatty And Shirley Maclaine Are Brother And Sister.
Way Back When They Were Using Marble Columns, The People Selling The Columns Would Carve Out The Centers And Fill It With Wax. So The People Buying Them Started Asking Is It Without Wax, Or In Other Words, Are You Sincere?
WD-40 Can Be Found In Four Out Of Five American Homes.
We (Humans) Only Use 10% Of Our Brains.
We Are In The Middle Of An Ice Age. Ice Ages Include Both Cold And Warm Periods; At The Moment We Are Experiencing A Relatively Warm Span Of Time Known As An Interglacial Period. Geologists Believe That The Warmest Part Of This Period Occurred From 1890 Through 1945 And That Since 1945 Things Have Slowly Begun Freezing Up Again.
Weatherman Willard Scott Was The First Ronald Mcdonald.
Welsh Mercenary Bow Men In The Medieval Period Only Wore One Shoe At A Time.
West Virginia And Maryland Have No Natural Lakes.
Westmount, Quebec, Was The First City In Canada To Be Granted A Coat Of Arms.
Westwood Studios’ Computer Game ‘Command And Conquer’ Is The Most Successful War Game Series Of All Time According To Guinness Book Of World Records.
What Do Bullet Proof Vests, Fire Escapes, Windshield Wipers, And Laser Printers All Have In Common? All Were Invented By Women.
What Separates 60 Minutes On Cbs From Every Other Tv Show? No Theme Song.
When A Coffee Seed Is Planted, It Takes Five Years To Yield Consumable Fruit.
When A Film Is In Production, The Last Shot Of The Day Is The Martini Shot, The Next To Last One Is The Abby Singer.
When Angered, The Tazmanian Devil Turns Pinkish-Red.
When Cbs Broadcast The First Television Show In Color, No One Other Than Cbs Owned A Color Television Set.
When Einstein Was Inducted As An Amercian, He Attended The Ceremony Without Socks.
When Glass Breaks, The Cracks Move At Speeds Up To 3,000 Miles Per Hour.
When John Wilkes Booth Leaped Onto The Stage After Shooting The President, He Tripped–On The American Flag.
When Opossums Are Playing Opossum, They Are Not Playing. They Actually Pass Out From Sheer Terror.
When Patty Hearst Was Kidnapped, She Was Watching The T.V. Show The Magician Starring Bill Bixby.
When Saigon Fell The Signal For All Americans To Evacuate Was Bing Crosby’s White Christmas Being Played On The Radio.
When Snakes Are Born With Two Heads, They Fight Each Other For Food.
When The Divorce Rate Goes Up In The United States, Toy Makers Say The Sale Of Toys Also Rises.
When The First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, Received An Alarming Number Of Threatening Letters, Soon After Her Husband Became President At The Height Of The Depression, The Secret Service Insisted That She Carry A Pistol In Her Purse.
When The Hoovers Did Not Want To Be Overheard By White House Guests, They Spoke To Each Other In Chinese.
When The Movie The Wizard Of Oz First Came Out, It Got Bad Reviews. The Critics Said, It Was Stupid And Uncreative.
When Two Words Are Combined To Form A Single Word (E.G., Motor + Hotel = Motel, Breakfast + Lunch = Brunch) The New Word Is Called A Portmanteau.
When Voyager 2 Visited Neptune It Saw A Small Irregular White Cloud That Zips Around Neptune Every Sixteen Hours Or So Now Known As The Scooter.
When You Have To Urinate,You Are More Likely To Be Cold Because Your Body Must Heat Excess Waste.
When You Pop Your Knuckle, The Sound Is Caused By A Miniature Explosion In The Joint. Pulling On The Finger Pulls A Vacuum On The Fluid In The Joint. At The Reduced Pressure, The Air Dissolved In The Fluid Becomes Superheated And ‘Wants To’ Boil. (Similar To Opening A Carbonated Drink.) Once A Bubble Forms, It Expands Explosively Until The Pressure Increases To A Point At Which The Dissolved Gases Are No Longer Superheated. Once The Bubble Exists, You Can No Longer Pop The Knuckle Again Because The Bubble Will Just Expand Gradually As You Pull. The Knuckle Will Not Pop Again Until You Wait Long Enough For The Bubble To Redissolve In The Fluid.
When You Tie A Noose, The Rope Is Wrapped Twelve Times Around Because It’s The Same Length As A Person’s Head.
When Young And Impoverished, Pablo Picasso Kept Warm By Burning His Own Paintings.
When Your Sinkis Full, The Little Hole That Lets The Water Drain, Instead Of Flowing Over The Side, Is Called A Porcelator.
While At Havard University, Edward Kennedy Was Suspended For Cheating On A Spanish Exam.
Who’s That Playing The Piano On The Mad About You Theme? Paul Reiser Himself.
Why Are Computer Defects Called Bugs? . . . In 1943, Navy Officer Grace Hopper Found A Glitch In Her Computer. After Investigating, She Discovered The System Had A Bug – A Real One. Turns Out A Moth Made Its Way Into Hopper’s Computer. Though The Word Bug Has Meant Fault Or Defect Since As Far Back As The 1870′S, Hopper’s Story Is Credited With Making It The Synonym Of Choice In The Computer Industry.
Will Clark Of The Texas Rangers Is A Direct Descendant Of William Clark Of Lewis And Clark.
Willard Scott Was The First Ronald Mcdonald.
William Pitt Was England’s Youngest Prime Minister At The Age Of Only 24 Years, Elected In 1783.
William Shatner Went To Balfour Collegiate (Regina, Saskatchewan) During His High School Years.
Willie Mays Has Been The Only Player To Hit Four Home Runs In One Game And Three Triples In Another.
Wilma Flintstone’s Maiden Name Was Wilma Slaghoopal, And Betty Rubble’s Was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
Windmills Always Turn Counter-Clockwise–Except For The Windmills In Ireland.
Wine Will Spoil If Exposed To Light, Hence Tinted Bottles.
Winston Churchill Was Born In A Ladies’ Room During A Dance.
Without Any Greenhouse Effect, Earth Would Be Cold And Lifeless With An Average Temperature Of 0.4 Degrees Fahrenheit.
Women Blink Nearly Twice As Much As Men.
Women’s Hearts Beat Faster Than Men’s.
Wonder Bread Does Not Contain Any Cholesterol Or Saturated Fat.
Wonder Bread Is The Best-Selling Bread In The United States.
Worcestershire Sauce Is Basically An Anchovy Ketchup.
World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Gene Tunney Also Lectured On Shakespeare At Yale University Later In His Life.
World Tourist Day Is Observed On September 27.
Worldwide, About 40 Square Miles Of Land Are Transformed Into Desert Each Day.
Worldwide, Bats Are The Most Important Natural Enemies Of Night-Flying Insects.
Worldwide, There Are More Statues Of Joan Of Arc Than Of Anyone Else. France Alone Has About 40,000 Of Them.
Writer Director Actor Albert Brooks Real Name Is Albert Einstein
Writer Edgar Allan Poe And Lsd Advocate Timothy Leary Were Both Kicked Out Of West Point.
Xenophobia Is The Fear Of Strangers.
Yak’s Milk Is Pink.
Yasir Arafat Is Addicted To Watching Television Cartoons.
Yo-Yos Were Used As Weapons By Warriors In The Philippines In The 16Th Century.
Yogurt Intake Among North Americans Has Quadrupled In The Past 20 Years.
You Are More Likely To Be Struck By Lightning Than You Are To Be Eaten By A Shark.
You Are More Likely To Get Stung By A Bee On A Windy Day That In Any Other Weather.
You Burn More Calories Sleeping Than You Do Watching T.V.
You Can Make A Glass Of Apple Cider With Three Apples.
You Cannot Kill Yourself By Holding Your Breath.
You Loose Enough Dead Skin Cells In Your Lifetime To Fill Eight Five-Pound Flour Bags.
You Should Not Eat A Crawfish With A Straight Tail. It Was Dead Before It Was Cooked.
You Use More Calories Eating Celery Than There Are In Celery Itself.
You Were Born With 300 Bones, But When You Get To Be An Adult You Only Have 206.
You Would Have To Count To One Thousand To Use The Letter A In The English Language To Spell A Whole Number.
You’ll Eat About 35,000 Cookies In A Lifetime.
Your Body Creates As Much As 2 Quarts Of Saliva Every Day.
Your Brain Is 80% Water.
Your Muscles Make Up One Half Of Your Body Weight.
Your Ribs Move About 5 Million Times A Year Everytime You Breathe.
Your Right Lung Takes In More Air Than Your Left One.
Your Skull Is Made Up Of 29 Different Bones.
Your Statistical Chance Of Being Murdered Is One In Twenty Thousand.
Zaire Is The World Leader In Cobalt Mining, Producing Two-Thirds Of The World’s Cobalt Supply.
Zarf Is The Holder Of A Handleless Coffee Cup.
Zip Code 12345 Is Assigned To General Electric In Schenectady, N.Y.
Zoophobia Is The Fear Of Animals.
Fastest. Mrs. Barbara Blackburn Of Salem, Oregon Can Maintain 150 Wpm For 50 Min (37,500 Key Strokes) And Attains A Speed Of 170 Wpm Using The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (Dsk) System. Her Top Speed Was Recorded At 212 Wpm.
Stag Beetles Have Stronger Mandibles Than Humans.
Penguins Have A Organ On Their Forhead Between The Eyes That De-Salinizes Water. It Can Be Seen Only As A Small Hole.
Sheep In Scotland Faint If You Jump Out At Them.
Bats Always Exit A Cave To The Left.
A Girafee Can Clean It’s Ears With It’s 21 Inch Tounge.
A Hippo Can Run Faster Than A Man.
A Horse Can Sleep Standing Up.
A Horse Has 35 Square Feet Of Skin.
A Hummingbird Weighs Less Than A Penny.
A Jellyfish Is 95% Water.
A Kangaroo Can Hop 30 Feet At Once
A Kangaroo Can’t Jump Unless It’s Tail Is On The Ground
A Lion’s Roar Can Be Heard A Mile Away
A Male Emperor Moth Can Smell A Female Emperor Moth Up To 7 Miles Away.
A Millipede Has 4 Legs On Each Segment Of It’s Body.
A 6 Pound Sea-Hare Can Lay 40,000 Eggs In A Single Minute.
A Blue Whales Heart Only Beats 9 Times Per Minute.
A Cow Produces 200 Times More Gas A Day Than A Person.
A Crocodile Always Grows New Teeth To Replace The Old Ones.
A Crocodile Will Some Times Eat Other Crocodiles.
A Female Ferret Will Die If It Goes Into Heat And Cannot Find A Mate.
A 2 Year Old Horse Has 6 Incisors.
A Shark Can Grow A New Set Of Teeth In A Week.
A Typical Double-Bed Mattress Contains As Many As 2 Million House Dust Mites (Demodex Folliculorom).
Abe Lincoln’s Mother Died When The Family Dairy Cow Ate Poisonous Mushes And She Drank The Milk.
You Can Tell A Turtle’s Sex By It’s Sound, Males Grunt, Females Hiss.
Polar Bears Are The Only Mammals With Hair On The Soles Of Their Feet.
Earth Worms Are Hermaphrodites.
A Goldfish Kept In A Dark Room Will Turn White.
If A Frog’s Mouth Is Open To Long It Will Suffocate.
Sharks Are Immune To Cancer.
A Elephant Can Smell Water 3 Miles Away.
A Elephant May Consume 500 Pounds Of Hay And 60 Gallons Of Water In A Single Day.
Armadillos Are The Only Animal Besides Humans That Can Get Leprosy.
Armadillos Can Be House Broken.
Armadillos Can Have Up To 4 Babies At A Time And They Are All The Same Sex.
Goats Eyes Have Rectangular Pupils.
Black Lemurs Are The Only Primates That Can Have Blue Eyes.
It Takes 7 Years For A Lobster To Weigh 1 Pound.
The Difference Between Male And Female Blue Crabs Is The Design Located On Their Belly. The Male Blue Crab Has The Washinton Monument And The Female Blue Crabs Belly Is Shaped Like The U.S. Capitol.
Mice, Whales, Elephants, Giraffes And Man All Have Seven Neck Vertebra.
A Cat Has 4 Rows Of Wiskers.
The Memory Span Of A Gold Fish Is 3 Seconds.
The 2 Foot Long Bird Called A Kea That Lives In New Zealand Likes To Eat The Stripes Of Rubberaround The Car Windows.
Cats Can Hear Ultrasound
The Chetta Is The Only Cat That Can Retract Its Claws
The Sumatran Tiger Has The Most Strips Of All The Tiger Subspecies, And The Siberian Tiger Has The Least
Tigers Paw Prints Are Called Pug Marks.
Kiwi Birds Are Blind, They Hunt Solely By Smell.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia Is The Fear Of Long Words.
Your Fingernail Has The Same Ingredients As Fly Poop
In Scotland, A New Game Was Invented. It Was Entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden…. And Thus The Word Golf Entered Into The English Language.
Many Years Ago In England, Pub Frequenters Had A Whistle Baked Into The Rim Or Handle Of Their Ceramic Cups. When They Needed A Refill, They Used The Whistle To Get Some Service. “Wet Your Whistle” Is The Phrase Inspired By This Practice.
In English Pubs, Ale Is Ordered By Pints And Quarts. So In Old England, When Customers Got Unruly, The Bartender Would Yell At Them Mind Their Own Pints And Quarts And Settle Down. It’s Where We Get The Phrase “Mind Your P’s And Q’s”
It Was The Accepted Practice In Babylon 4,000 Years Ago That For A Month After The Wedding, The Bride’s Father Would Supply His Son-In-Law With All The Mead He Could Drink.O?= Mead Is A Honey Beer And Because Their Calendar Was Lunar Based, This Period Was Called The Honey Month We Know Today As The Honeymoon.
40% Of All People Snoop In The Hosts Medicine Cabinet.
In Massachusetts – It Is Illegal To Put Tomatoes In Clam Chowder
In Montana Prostitution Is Considered A “Crime Against The Family”.
In Montana One May Not Pretend To Abuse An Animal In The Presence Of A Minor.
It Is Illegal To Have A Sheep In The Cab Of Your Truck Without A Chaperone.
In Montana It Is A Felony For A Wife To Open Her Husband’s Mail.
In Montana It Is A Misdemeanor To Show Movies That Depict Acts Of Felonious Crime.
In Montana, It Is Illegal For Married Women To Go Fishing Alone On Sundays, And Illegal For Unmarried Women To Fish Alone At All.
In Montana It Is Illegal For A Man And A Woman To Have Sex In Any Other Position Other Than Missionary Style.
In Montana Seven Or More Indians Are Considered A Raiding Or War Party And It Is Legal To Shoot Them.
In Texas Its Illegal To Sell Your Eye
In Texas It Is Illegal To Have A Program That Has Been Created That Attempts To Control The Weather.
Did You Know The Word “Biology” Was Created In 1805 By Jean-Baptiste Lamarck And Gottfried Treviranus
Table Tennis Balls Have Been Known To Travel Off The Paddle At Speeds Up To 105.6 Miles Per Hour.
Astatine Is An Element So Rare That If You Searched The Entire Planet You’D Only Find A Lump The Size Of A Sugar Cube.
When A Flea Jumps, The Rate Of Acceleration Is 20 Times That Of The Space Shuttle During Launch.
The Maximum Speed That Raindrops Can Fall At Is Around 18Mph, Depending On Their Size.
If Every Star In The Milky Way Was A Grain Of Salt They Would Fill An Olympic Sized Swimming Pool.
12 Astronauts Have Walked On The Moon, Between Them Bringing Back 382 Kilograms Of Rocks, Pebbles, Sand And Dust.
Cats Can See Clearly In One-Sixth The Amount Of Light We Humans Would Need. This Is Due To A Special Layer Of Cells At The Back Of Their Retinas, Which Acts Like A Mirror, Reflecting Light Back To The Retina’s Cells.
A Bolt Of Lightning Contains Enough Energy To Toast 160,000 Pieces Of Bread. Unfortunately The Bolt Only Takes 1/10,000 Of A Second – So Turning The Bread Over Might Prove Difficult.
If 10 Kilograms Of Matter Spontaneously Turned Into Energy There Would Be Enough Energy To Power A 100 Watt Light Bulb For 300 Million Years – A Harrowing Thought For All Weight Watchers.
Gold Leaf Is Pure Gold, But You Can Cover Large Areas With It Very Cheaply Because It Is Very Thin. Gold Leaf Is Less Than 0.00008 Millimetres Thick – Which Is Only About 300 Atoms Thick.
Every Rainbow Is Unique – Each Rainbow Is Formed From Light Hitting Your Eye At A Very Precise Angle. Someone Standing Next To You Will See Light Coming From A Slightly Different Angle Than You And Therefore See A Different Rainbow.
Tree Crickets Are Called The Poor Man’s Thermometer Because Temperature Directly Affects Their Rate Of Activity. Count The Number Of Chirps A Cricket Makes In 15 Seconds, Then Add 37. The Sum Will Be Very Close To The Outside Temperature In Farenheit!
Some People Who Have Two Or More Different Kinds Of Fillings In Their Teeth Are Able To Hear High-Power Am Broadcast Stations When Located Within A Few Hundred Feet Of The Stations. In Such Cases, The Strong Radio Waves Act Upon The Teeth Fillings In Such A Way That The Electromagnetic Oscillations Get Transformed To Mechanical Vibrations In The Person’s Head, And These Are Heard As Sound.
The Amount Of Sunlight Reaching The Earth’s Surface Is 6,000 Times The Amount Of Energy Used By All Human Beings Worldwide. The Total Amount Of Fossil Fuel Used By Humans Since The Start Of Civilization Is Equivalent To Less Than 30 Days Of Sunshine.
Ibm’s Asci White Supercomputer, The Fastest Computer In The World, Weighs As Much As 17 Elephants And Can Do In One Second What A Calculator Would Take 10 Million Years To Do.
On Average, Airliners Will Get Struck By Lightning Once Every Year.
Hubert Cecil Booth, The Inventor Of The Vacuum Cleaner Choaked To Death. In Testing How It Would Work, He Was Sucking Dirt By Mouth Through A Piece Of Material And Ended Up With A Lungful Of Dust!
There Is Enough Brick In The Great Pyramid Of Gizeh To Build A Wall 10 Feet High And 1 Foot Thick Around The Entire Border Of France.
The St. Louis Gateway Arch Is Not A Parabols, As Most People Think. Rather It Is A Hyperbolic Cosine. That Way It Is More Stable.
Kerimeski Church In Finland Is The World’s Biggest Church Made Of Wood.
The American Government Used The Mckinley Building Becuase Of It’s Unusual Architecture. If There Was Any Type Of Explosion Inside The Building Would Implode On To Its Self.
The Pentagon In Arlington, Virgina Has Twice As Many Bathrooms As Neccessary. When It Was Built In The 1940S, The State Of Virginia Still Had Segregation Laws Requiring Seperate Toilet Facilities For Blacks And Whites.
Anne Boleyn Had Six Figernails On One Hand, But Only Had Five Fingers On That Hand. She Had A Small Extra Nail Coming Out Of The Side Of Her Finger.
A Shank Is The Part Of The Sole Between The Heel And The Ball Of The Foot.
January 23 Is National Pie Day (The One You Eat).
February 4 Is The Half-Way Point Of Winter.
February 9-15 Is National Kraut And Frankfurter Week.
February 9-15 Is Random Acts Of Kindness Week.
February 14-21 Is Homes For Birds Week.
February 16 Is Presidents Day In The U.S.A
February 24 Is Mardi Gras
March Is Music In Our Schools Month.
March 8-14 Is Autograph Collecting Week.
March 12 Is Purim.
March 14 Is Save A Spider Day.
March 18-24 Is National Sports Trivia Week.
March 20-27 Is National Spring Fever Week.
March 25 Is Pecan Day.
March 26 Is Make Up Your Own Holiday Day.
April Is National Knuckles Down Month.
April 6-12 Is National Garden Week.
April 7 Is No Housework Day.
April 13-19 Is National Week Of The Ocean.
April 22 Is Earth Day.
April 23 Is Running Of The Rodents Day.
April 24 Is Take Our Daughters To Work Day.
September Is National Honey Month.
September Is National Self Improvement Month.
September 7 Is Grandparents Day.
September 10 Is Sew Be It! Day.
September 21-27 Is National Dog Week.
September 22 Is Elephant Appreciation Day.
September 28 Is National Good Neighbour Day.
October 4, 1957 Is One Of The Most Impotant Dates In History Because Leave It To Beaver And The Russian Satelite Sputnik 1 Were Launched.
October 24 Is United Nations Day.
November Is National Drum Month.
November 3 Is Sandwich Day.
November 4 Is Book Lovers Day.
November 10-16 Is National Geography Awareness Week.
November 17 Is Homemade Bread Day.
November 17-23 Is American Education Week.
November 18-24 Is Childrens Book Week.
November 18 Is Mickey Mouse’s Birthday.
November 18 Is National Community Education Day.
November 21 Is World Hello Day.
November 24-30 National Game And Puzzle Week.
December 17 Is Wright Brothers Day.
December 19 Is Underdog And Unsung Hero Day.
Months That Start With A Sunday Always Has A Friday The 13Th.
Melanie Griffith’s Mother Is Tippi Hedren, Best Known For Her Lead Role In The Movie “The Birds” On ! Cd.
The Last Playboy Centerfold To Have Staples In It Was Published In 1985. The Model Was Venice Kong.
The Highest Tennis Court In The World Is At A Elevation Of 321 Meters Or 1069 Feet.
The Armhole In Clothing Is Called An Armsaye
The End Of A Hammer, Oppostie The Striking End, Is Called A Peen
Spat-Out Food If Called Chanking
Boanthropy Is A Disease In Which A Man Thinks He’s An Ox
Eosophobia Is The Fear Of Dawn
Groaking Is To Watch People Eating Food Hoping They’ll Offer You Some.
Dibble Means To Drink Like A Duck
Those Things On The End Of Shoelaces Called Aglets
Zarf Is The Holder Of A Handleless Coffee Cup
No Word In The English Language Rhymes With Month, Orange, Silver, Or Purple.
The Name Wendy Was Made Up For The Book, Peter Pan
Tonsurphobia Is The Fear Of Haircuts
Degringolade Means To Fall And Disintegrate
A Sysygy Occures When All The Planets Of Our Solar System Line Up
The Most Common Letters In English Are R S T L N E
‘Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba’ Is A Palindrome Written By Napoleon
‘A Man A Plan A Canal Panama’ Is Also A Palindrome
A Necropsy Is An Autopsy On Animals
Eeg Stands Electroencephalogram
The 7Th Most Common Word Used On The Ineternet Is ‘Html’
The 42 Most Common Word Used On The Internet Is ‘Information’
There Are No Words In The English Language That Rhyme With ‘Purple’
There Are No Words In The English Language That Rhyme With ‘Orange’
Acrophobia Is The Fear Of Heights
Nycrophobia Is The Fear Of Dakness
Zoophobia Is The Fear Of Animals
Claustrophobia Is The Fear Of Small Spaces
Pyrophobia Is The Fear Of Fire
Entomophobia Is The Fear Of Insects
Xenophoia Is The Fear Of Strangers
Agaraphobia Is The Fear Of Open Spaces
Los Angeles’ 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.’.
Ukalaily (Ukilaly, You-Ki-Lay-Ley, However It’s Spelled) Is Hawaiian For “Jumping Flies”
Lycanthropy Is A Disease In Which A Man Thinks He’s A Wolf. It Is The Scientific Name For “Wolf Man” Or, Wearwolf.
Koala Is Aboriginal For “No Drink”.
One Who Busies Themself With The Quadrature Of A Cirlce Is Called A Tetragondzein.
Cyclometer – One Who Is Taken By The Measure Of A Circle.
Piet – One Who Is Obsessed With Pi.
The Longest One-Syllable Word In The English Language Is Screeched.
The Average Person’s Left Hand Does 56% Of The Typing.
Dreamt Is The Only English Word That Ends In The Letters “Mt”
There Are Only Four Words In The English Language Which End In “Dous” Tremendous, Horrendous, Stupendous, And Hazardous.
Maine Is The Only State Whose Name Is Just One Syllable.
The Original Names Of The Reindeer Were Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Dunder And Blixem. When The Christmas Poem First Appeared In The Troy Sentinel In 1823, The Reindeer Names Lines Read. “Now! Dasher, Now! Dancer, Now! Prancer, And Vixen,On! Comet, On! Cupid, On! Dunder And Blixem”
The Average Chocolate Bar Has 8 Insects’ Legs In It.
Beer & Pretzels Can’t Be Served At The Same Time In Any Bar Or Restaurant In North Dakota
In North Dakota, It Is Still Legal To Shoot Indians If Your In A Covered Wagon.
There Are 556 Officially Recognized Native American Tribes.
The World’s Oldest Active Parliamentary Body Is The Icelandic Althing Which Met First Before The Year 1000.
The Economics Nobel Prize Is Sort Of A Quasi-Nobel. The Endowment For The Prize Money Was Created Much Later Than The Original Grant Money From Alfred Nobel For The Other “Real” Prizes.
The Last Time American Green Cards Were Actually Green Was 1964.
The Pelican Was Adopted As A Christian Symbol Early On Because Mother Pelicans Would Pierce Their Own Breasts To Feed Their Brood With Blood — Seen As A Sacrifice Not Dissimilar To That Of Jesus’ By The Church Leaders.
The Targets In Both Skeet And Trap Shooting, Commonly Called Clay Pigeons, Are Actually Made From Tar And Pitch.
Delaware Is The Only State With Part Of Its Border Defined By The Arc Of A Compass. (Except That Other State Next To Delaware With The Same Border.)
The Oldest Weapon Still In Use In The American Military Arsenal Is The Mameluke Hilt Sword Carried By Officers In The U.S. Marine Corps. The Sword Dates Back To The Barbary Pirate Wars Of 1801-1807. The Sword Was Given To Lt. Presly O’banen By The Ruler Of Tripoli For The Aid Rendered By The Marines In The Mediteranian Fleet.
The Second Is Defined As Being 9,192,631,770 Times The Time It Takes For A Cesium-133 Atom To Swap Hyperfine Levels In Its Ground State.
The Vatican (Papal States) Was The Only Political Entity To Grant Recognition To The Confederate States Of America During The Civil War (1861-1865).
The Greek National Anthem Has 158 Verses.
In American English, “Forty” Is The Only Number Which Is Spelled By Going Only Forward And Not Backtracking.
There Are 2,598,960 Possible Hands In A Five-Card Poker Game.
The Duck Most Often Depicted On The “Duck Stamp” Is The Mallard, At Six Times.
The Blond Woman In The Tic Tac Yoga Commercials Is Mark Harmon’s Sister.
America’s Only Statue Of Charles Dickens Graces Clark Park In Philadelphia, Just Off The University Of Pennsylvania Campus.
No Matter Where You Are In Australia You Are Never More Than 1000 Kilometers From The Ocean.
All Owls Lay White Eggs.
It Takes A Week To Make A Jelly Bean.
Nasa Scientists Are Still Receiving Data From Voyager Even Though The Signal It Is Emitting Has Less Energy Than That Emitted By A Blowdrier.
You Can’t Tickle Yourself.
People From Manchester, England Are Called Mancunians.
White Cockatoos Are The Only Parrots That Can Be Sexed By Eye Color; Females Have A Visible Pupil While Males Have Black Irises.
The University Of Texas System Is The Third-Largest Landowner In The United States.
Marvin Gardens In The Monopoly Game Is Not Spelled The Same As The Marven Gardens Outside Of Atlantic City, Nj, Which The Board Game Isbased On.
The Stasi Collected The “Smells” Of Their Enemies So That Their Dogs Could Find Them.
While Drug-Sniffing Dogs Are Trained To Bark Like Crazy, Go “Aggressive” At The First Whiff Of The Right Powder… Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Are Trained To Go “Passive” Lest They Set Off A Motion Sensor Or A Noise Sensor Or Any Number Of Other Things That Might Go Kablooie.
While Almost Everyone Knows That Neil Armstrong Was The First Man To Walk On The Moon, Few Know That Gene Cernan Was The Last Man On The Moon.
Lyndon Johnson’s First Family All Had Initials Lbj. Lyndon Baines Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, Linda Bird Johnson And Lucy Baines Johnson. And His Dog, Little Beagle Johnson.
There Are 22 Stars In The Paramount Movie Studio Logo.
Jane Wyman (Reagan) Was Born Sarah Jane Fulks. Nancy Davis (Reagan) Was Born Anne Frances Robbins.
The Muller-Lyer ( >-< : Which Line Is Longer?) Illusion Dosen't Work On Zulus.
You Can't Trademark Surnames.
The Black Cauldron Is The Only Pg-Rated Disney Animated Feature.
A Humpback Whale's Milk Is 54 Percent Fat.
Lucy Stone Of Massachusetts Is Thought To Be The First American Woman To Retain Her Maiden Name When She Married. She Was A Sister-In-Law Of Elizabeth Blackwell, The First American Woman To Earn An M.D.
When Wearing A Kimono Japanese Women Wear Socks Called "Tabi". The Big Toe Of The Sock Is Separated From The Rest Of The Toes, Like A Thumb From A Mitten.
If You Were To Toss The New 10P Coin (Pounds Sterling), 10000 Times, The Average Odds Of It Being Heads/Tails Would Not Be 50/50. It Would Be Closer To 45/55 In Favour Of Tails Because The New Picture Of The Queen's Head Is Slightly Larger Than It Used To Be (She Has Gone A Bit Saggy) And So It Makes The Heads Side Heavier Than The Tails Side, Thus It Has More Chance Of Landing On Tails.
The Names Of The Two Stone Lions In Front Of The New York Public Library Are Patience And Fortitude. They Were Named By Then-Mayor Fiorello Laguardia.
Lazy Susans Are Named After Thomas Edison's Daughter. He Invented It To Impress A Gathering Of Industrialists And Inventors.
For A Short Time In 1967, The American Typers Association Made A New Punctuation Mark That Was A Combination Of The Question Mark And An Exclamation Point Called An Interrobang. It Was Rarely Used And Hasn't Been Seen Since.
Tennessee Williams' Real Name Was Thomas Lanier Williams.
Anise Is The Scent On The Artificial Rabbit That Is Used In Greyhound Races.
Petey, The Beloved Pit Bull Of "Our Gang" Fame Is Buried At Historic Clara Glen Pet Cemetery In Linwood, New Jersey.
The First European To See New Zealand Was Abel Tasman In 1642; The First To Set Foot On The Island Was James Cook In 1769.
New Zealand Was Named After Abel Tasman's Home District, Zealand, In The Netherlands.
Greater Auckland Is The Second Largest City In The World By Area, The First Being Greater Los Angeles.
New Zealand Has The Highest Mountain In All Of Oceania: Mt. Cook.
New Zealand Was The First Country To Give Woman The Vote, In 1890.
Tide Has 70 Percent Of The Market Share For Detergent.
Only One Satellite Has Been Ever Been Destroyed By A Meteor — The European Space Agency's Olympus In 1993.
The Snapping Turtle Eats Carion And Is Used By Police To Find Dead Bodies In Lakes, Ponds And Swamps.
When Portland, Oregon Changed The Name Of Union Avenue To Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. They Lost The Intersection Of Union And Division Street.
The Western-Most Point In Continental Europe Is At Cabo De Rocha, Portugal.
Yellowstone Was The First National Park (1872) But The First Area To Beset Aside Under Federal Protection Was Hot Springs Resevation, Arkansas(1832.) It Became Hot Springs National Park In 1921.
The Official Name Of The St. Louis Gateway Arch Is "The Jefferson National Expansion Monument."
The Gateway Arch Looks Taller Than It Is Wider, But It Is Exactly 630 Feet By 630 Feet.
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