The Ragdoll Is The Largest Breed Of Domesticated Cat In The World, With Adult Males Averaging 22-25 Pounds.
The Roaring Lion In The Mgm Logo Was Named Volney And Lived At The Memphis Zoo.
The Roaring Lion In The Mgm Logo's Hide Is Now On Display In Themcpherson Museum Located In Mcpherson, Kansas.
Everybody Knows That St. Augustine, Florida Is The Oldest City In The U.S., But Not Everybody Knows That St. Mary's, Georgia Is The Second Oldest.
Orson Welles Is Buried In An Olive Orchard On A Ranch Owned By His Friend, Matador Antonio Ordonez In Sevilla, Spain.
The National Flower Of Greenland Is The Willow Herb.
Britain's Shortest River Is The Brun Which Runs Through Burnley In Lancashire.
Cornell University's Motto — "I Would Found An Institution Where Any Person Can Find Instruction In Any Study" — Is The Only Motto Among Ivy League Schools Not In Latin.
The Latin Name For Moose Is Alces Alces.
1961 Was The Most Recent Year That Could Be Written Both Upside-Down And Rightside-Up And Appear The Same. The Next Year That This Will Be Possible Will Be 6009!
The First Atomic Bomb Dropped On Japan Fell From The Enola Gay, Named After The Unit Commander's Mother. The Second Dropped From A Plane Known As Bock's Car.
Kermit The Frog Has 11 Points On His Collar Around His Neck.
The Bronx In New York City Is Actually Named After The Bronx River. The Bronx River Is Named After The First Settler In The Bronx, Jonas Bronk. He Settled There In 1639.
Cleveland Spelled Backwards Is "Dna Level C".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'sprincess Toadstool.
Tabasco Sauce Is Made By Fermenting Vinegar And Hot Peppers In A French Oak Barrel Which Has Three Inches Of Salt On Top And Is Aged For Three Years Until All The Salt Is Diffused Through The Barrel.
Karen Carpenter's Doorbell Chimed The First Six Notes Of "We've Only Just Begun."
Certain Sounds In The English Language Are Real Germ Spreaders, Particularly The Sounds Of F, P, T, D, And S.
Harvard Uses "Yale" Brand Locks On Their Buildings. Yale Uses "Best" Brand.
Contrary To Popular British Folklore, Cuckoo Clocks Do Not Come From Switzerland But From The Black Forest In Germany.
The Angel Of Independence In Mexico City Was Built By Salvador Rivas Mercado. The Face Of The Angel Is A Portrait Of His Daughter.
There Are More Samoans In Los Angeles Than On American Samoa.
Soccer Legend Pele's Real Name Is Edson Arantes Do Nascimento.
If You Paint The Flag Of Canada, You Must Use These Colors:"The Printing Ink Colour Is Fip Red: General Printing Ink, No. 0-712;Inmont Canada Ltd., No. 4T51577; Monarch Inks, No. 62539/0; Or Sinclair Andvalentine, No. Rl163929/0. The Painting Colours Are Fip Red No. 509-211 And White: 513-201."
Everyone Is Familiar With The Rca Logo With Nipper The Dog Listening To The Rca Grammaphone. But The Original Picture Had Both The Dog And Thegrammaphone Sitting On His Dead Masters Casket. The Idea Being That Theclosest Thing To His Dead Master's Voice Was The Rcagrammaphone. The Ad Was Eventually Considered Too Morbid And They Removed The Casket.
A "Jiffy" Is A Unit Of Time: 3.3357 Times 10 Raised To The -11 (3.3357X10^-11) Seconds. So Named For The Length Of Time It Takes Light To Travel A Cm In A Vacuum.
During The Manhattan Project In The Early '40S, The Time It Took For The Imploding Shell Of Plutonium To Reach The Center Of The Sphere Was Measured In "Shakes Of A Lamb's Tail". One Shake = 1X10^-8 Sec. It Took About Three Shakes Of A Lambs Tail To Get The Uranium To A Critical Mass And Initiate Spontaneous Fission.
The Spanish Abbreviation For Ufo Is Ovnis: "Objeto Volador Noidentificado."
Iolani Palace In Hawaii Is The Only Place Built For A Monarchy Currently On U.S. Soil.
Maine Has No Poisonous Snakes.
Hawaii Has Only Two Snakes. One Is A Sea Snake Rarely Seen In Hawaii Waters. The Other Is A Blind Snake That Lives Like An Earthworm.
The Abbreviation A.D. (Anno Domini, "Year Of Our Lord") Should Be Properly Placed In Front Of The Year — Thus, You Get 417 Bc But Ad 2000.
The Wingspan Of A Boeing 747 Jet Is Longer Than The Wright Brothers' First Flight.
Ice Cube's Real Name Is O'shea Jackson.
The Smallest Fish In The World Is The Trimattum Nanus Of The Chagos Archipelago. It Measures 0.33 Inches. It Broke The Record Of The So- Called "Sinarapan" Of Buhi, Camarines Sur, Philippines.
According To The London For Visitors Website, The Area Known As Soho Used To Be Part Of King Henry Viii's Hunting Grounds. When A Hunter Spied A Deer, He Yelled "Tally-Ho!", But When He Found A Smaller Prey, The Cry Became "So-Ho!" As The Area Was Developed, The Name Stuck.
There Is Now An Atm At Mcmurdo Station In Antarctica, Which Has A Winter Population Of 200.
The Flag Of The U.K. Is Properly Known As The Union Flag. It Is Only Called The Union Jack When It Is Flown From The Jack Mast Of A Ship.
The Popular Fiesta Ware Line Of Dishes Sold Well In The 1930S, Except For The Orange-Colored Sets. The Reason? The Paint Used On The Orange Fiesta Ware Was Known To Be Radioactive.
A Large Amount Of Boulders That Have Fallen Off A Cliff Is Known As Talus, Whereas They Would Be Known As Moraine Had They Been Left There By A Glacier.
The Sitka Spruce Is Britain's Most Commonly Planted Tree.
The Philip Morris Tobacco Company's Crest Has On It Caesar's Famous Saying "Veni, Vidi, Vici."
There Are More 100 Dollar Bills In Russia Currently Than There Are In The United States.
The Extras In The The Battle Scenes In The Movie Braveheart Were Reserves In The Irish Army.
The Famous Citgo Sign Near Fenway Park In Boston Is Maintained Not By Citgo, But By The Boston Historical Society.
Thanks To Chris Barber, Devin Mcmahon And Tom Elke Of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Roger Ebert Won The 1959 Illinois High School Association State Speech Competition In Radio.
Will Clark Hit A Homerun In His First At-Bat In College, The Olympics, And The Major Leagues.
The Original Guiness Brewery In Dublin, Ireland Has A Six Thousand Year Lease.
Thanks To Josh Berling (Josh@Invisible-Web.Com) Ofdekalb, Illinois.
South Africa Used To Have Two Official Languages. Now It Has Eleven.
On March 29, 1848, Niagara Falls Stopped Flowing For 30 Hours Becauseof An Ice Jam Blocking The Niagara River.
America's Largest Rosary Is Located At The Fatima Shrine In Holliston, Massachusetts.
The First Product To Have A Upc Bar Code On Its Packaging Was Wrigley's Gum.
In Italy, It Is Illegal To Make Coffins Out Of Anything Except Nutshells Or Wood.
Pia Zadora's First Movie Role Was As A Young Child, As One Of The Protagonists In Santa Claus Conquers The Martians.
A Railroad Tanker Car Carrying Propane Traveled Over 3,000 Feet When It Exploded During A Train Wreck In Illinois, Sheering Off A Steel Tower In Its Path. It's The Longest Flight On Record For A Propane Explosion.
It Takes Eighteen Minutes To Cool Hot Chocolate Into A Hershey's Kiss.
Of The Twenty Brightest Stars In The Sky, Capella Is The Furthest North.
Sagittarius Is The Furthest South Of The Zodiacal Constellations.
Joe Friday, From Dragnet (Later Known As Badge 714), Lived In Eagle Rock, California.
The Football Huddle Originated At Gallaudet University — The World's Only Accredited Four-Year Liberal Arts College For The Deaf — In The 19Th Century When The Football Team Found That Opposing Teams Were Reading Their Signed Messages And Intercepting Plays.
The Shortest British Monarch Was Charles I, Who Was 4'9" And That Was Before He Lost His Head!
Mickey Mouse's Ears Are Always Turned To The Front, No Matter Which Direction His Head Is Pointing.
The South American Electric Eel Can Produce Almost 1 Amp Of Current
The Smallest Unit Of Time Is The Yoctosecond.
Ferrets Sleep For About 20 Hours A Day.
The "You Are Here" Arrow On Maps Is Called An Ideo Locator.
The Opening To The Cave In Which A Bear Hibernates Is Always On The North Slope. Unless The Bear Lives In The Southern Hemisphere.
Of All The Trains In The New York Subway System, Only One Neverenters The Island Of Manhattan. It's The "G" Train, Thebrooklyn-Queens Crosstown Local.
The First National Park, Yellowstone, Was Proclaimed A National Park In 1872. However, There Was No National Park Serviceuntil 1916. Until Then, The Parks Were Administered By The U.S. Army. When The Park Service Was Formed They Got Their Firstuniforms From The Army, Hence The Ranger (Campaign)Hats.
Since World War Ii, Every American President To Address The Canadian House Of Commons In Their Firstterm Of Office Have All Been Re-Elected To A Second Term.Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, And Clinton Have All Had The Honour, Whilekennedy, Johnson, Ford, Carter, And Bush Did Not Address Theparliament.
The "J.R.R." In J.R.R.Tolkien Stands For John Ronald Reuel. His Son's Name Is Christopher.
In 1920 Ray Chapman A Shortstop For The Cleveland Indians, Is The Only Player Ever Killed As A Result Of Amajor League Baseball Game. He Was Hit In The Temple With A Pitchand Died The Next Day.
Hong Kong Has The World's Largest Double-Decker Tram Fleet In The World.
Bulgaria Was The Only Soccer Team In The 1994World Cup In Which All 11 Players' Last Names Ended With The Letters"Ov."
Of The Four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, All Named After Artistsand/Or Sculptors, Donatello Does Not Occur In The Same Time Period As Leonardo, Michelangelo And Raphael.
Abdul Kassem Ismael, Grand Vizier Of Persiain The Tenth Century, Carried His Library With Him Wherever He Went.The 117,000 Volumes Were Carried By 400 Camels Trained To Walk Inalphabetical Order.
The Country With The Biggest Percentage Of Female Heads Of Household Is Botswana.
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 English, "Four" Is The Only Digit That Has The Same Number Of Letters As Its Value.
Quebec And Newfoundland Are The Only Two Canadian Provinces Which Do Not Allow Personalized Licenseplates.
With A Population Of Fewer Than Nine Thousand People, Montpelier, Vermont Is The Smallest State Capital In Theu.S.
The Actor Who Played The T-1000 In Terminator 2 (Robert Patrick) And The Lead Singer Of Filter Arebrothers.
Pittsburgh And Toronto Are The Only Two Cities Where All The Major Sports Teams Have The Same Colors: "Black And Gold" And "Blue And White" Respectively.
In The Theme Song From "The Flintstones", The Lineafter "Let's Ride With The Family Down The Street" Is "Through The Courtesy Of Fred's Two Feet."
The Proceedings In The British Parliament Are Meant To Be In Private, Even Though They Are Now Televised. So, If The Mps Want To Have A Secret Session, One Of Them Points To The Gallery From Which The Public Watch, And Calls "I Spy Strangers!", Whereupon The House Votes "That The Strangers Do Withdraw."
On The London Underground, One Station Has Adifferent Name On Two Of Its Platforms: Bank And Monument.
Ambassadors To The United Kingdom Are Not Called That Officially, Butrather Ambassadors To The Court Of St. James. The Court Of St. James Being The Palace Which Was The Residence Of The Monarch Before Buckingham Palace Was Built.
In British Monopoly Sets, The Most Expensive Property (Mayfair) Is Nota Street,But A District Of Little Streets Near Hyde Park.
Adolf Hitler Was Time's Man Of The Year For 1938.
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, The Man Who Designed The Eiffel Tower, Also Designed The Inner Structure Of The Statue Of Liberty In New York Harbour.
"Conservationalists" & "Conversationalists" (18 Letters) Are The Longest Non-Scientific Transposals (Word Formed From Another By Changing Its Letters).
"Dreamt" Is The Only English Word That Ends In The Letters "Mt".
"Duff" Is The Decaying Organic Matter Found On A Forest Floor.
"Fickleheaded" And "Fiddledeedee" Are The Longest Words Consisting Only Of Letters In The First Half Of The Alphabet.
"Flushable" Toilets Were In Use In Ancient Rome.
"Fortnight" Is A Contraction Of "Fourteen Nights." In The Us "Two Weeks" Is More Commonly Used.
"Forty" Is The Only Number Which Has Its Letters In Alphabetical Order. "One" Is The Only Number With Its Letters In Reverse Alphabetical Order.
"Four" Is The Only Number Whose Number Of Letters In The Name Equals The Number.
"Hang On Sloopy" Is The Official Rock Song Of Ohio.
"Happy Birthday" Was The First Song To Be Performed In Outer Space, Sung By The Apollo Ix Astronauts On March 8, 1969.
"Kemo Sabe" Means "Soggy Shrub" In Navajo.
"Long In The Tooth," Meaning "Old," Was Originally Used To Describe Horses. As Horses Age, Their Gums Recede, Giving The Impression That Their Teeth Are Growing. The Longer The Teeth Look, The Older The Horse.
"Lunula" Is The Tip Of The Finger And Toenail That Is White. It Is Called This This (Referring To The Moon) Because The End Of The Nail Is Rounded Like The Moon.
"Ma Is As Selfless As I Am" Can Be Read The Same Way Backwards. If You Take Away All The Spaces You Can See That All The Letters Can Be Spelled Out Both Ways.
"Mad About You" Star Paul Reiser Plays The Piano On The Show's Theme Song.
"One Thousand" Contains The Letter A, But None Of The Words From One To Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine Has An A.
"Ough" Can Be Pronounced In Eight Different Ways. The Following Sentence Contains Them All: "A Rough-Coated, Dough-Faced Ploughman Strode Through The Streets Of Scarborough, Coughing And Hiccoughing Thoughtfully.
"Rhythms" Is The Longest English Word Without The Normal Vowels, A, E, I, O, Or U.
"Second String," Meaning "Replacement Or Backup," Comes From The Middle Ages. An Archer Always Carried A Second String In Case The One On His Bow Broke.
"Speak Of The Devil" Is Short For "Speak Of The Devil And He Shall Come". It Was Believed That If You Spoke About The Devil It Would Attract His Attention. That's Why When You're Talking About Someone And They Show Up People Say "Speak Of The Devil."
"Stewardesses" Is The Longest Word That Can Be Typed With Only The Left Hand.
"Tautonyms" Are Scientific Names For Which The Genus And Species Are The Same.
"Taxi" Is Spelled Exactly The Same In English, French, German, Swedish, And Portuguese.
"Teh" Means "Cool" In Thai. (Pronounced "Tay").
"The Sixth Sick Sheik's Sixth Sheep's Sick" Is Said To Be The Toughest Tongue Twister In English.
"Therein" Is A Seven-Letter Word That Contains Thirteen Words Spelled Using Consecutive Letters: The, He, Her, Er, Here, I, There, Ere, Rein, Re, In, Therein, And Herein.
"Underground" Is The Only Word In The English Language That Begins And Ends With The Letters "Und."
$203,000,000 Is Spent On Barbed Wire Each Year In The U.S.
1 And 2 Are The Only Numbers Where They Are Values Of The Numbers Of The Factors They Have.
1 In 5,000 North Atlantic Lobsters Are Born Bright Blue.
1 Kg (2.2 Pounds) Of Lemons Contain More Sugar Than 1 Kg Of Strawberries.
1,525,000,000 Miles Of Telephone Wire Are Strung Across The Unites States.
1.7 Litres Of Saliva Is Produced Each Day. In Discovery Channel, Its A Quart.
10 Percent Of All Human Beings Ever Born Are Alive At This Very Moment.
10% Of Human Dry Weight Comes From Bacteria
11% Of The World Is Left-Handed.
1200 Equals 1 Pound (72 Rupees).
123,000,000 Cars Are Being Driven On Highways In The United States.
166,875,000,000 Pieces Of Mail Are Delivered Each Year In The United States.
1959'S A Raisin In The Sun Was The First Play By A Black Woman To Be Produced On Broadway.
2 And 5 Are The Only Prime Numbers That End In 2 Or 5.
203 Million Dollars Is Spent On Barbed Wire Each Year In The U.S.
22,000 Checks Will Be Deducted From The Wrong Bank Accounts In The Next Hour.
23% Of All Photocopier Faults Worldwide Are Caused By People Sitting On Them And Photocopying Their Buttocks.
25% Of A Human's Bones Are In Its Feet.
259200 People Die Every Day.
27% Of Americans Believe We Never Landed On The Moon.
27% Of U.S. Male College Students Believe Life Is "A Meaningless Existential Hell."
3% Of All Mammals Are Monogamous
315 Entries In Webster's 1996 Dictionary Were Misspelled.
315 Words In The 1996 Webster's Dictionary Were Mispelled.
4 Tablespoons Of Ketchup Has About The Same Amount Of Nutrition As A Ripe Tomato.
40% Of All People Who Come To A Party Snoop In Your Medicine Cabinet.
40% Of Mcdonald's Profits Come From The Sales Of Happy Meals.
43.7% Of All Statistics Are Made Up Right On The Spot
48% Of Astronauts Experience Motion Sickness.
52% Of Americans Drink Coffee.
55.1% Of All Us Prisoners Are In Prison For Drug Offenses.
56,000,000 People Go To Major League Baseball Games Each Year
67 Million Pounds Of Pesticides And About 3 Million Tons Of Fertilizer Are Used Annually On Lawns In The Us.
78 Rpm Albums, Used Prior To 1948, Were Only Capable Of Recording For Four Minutes. It Wasnt Until Later That Year That Columbia Records Introduced 33 Rpm Albums Capable Of Playing 23 Minutes Per Side.
80% Of Animals On Earth Are Insects.
80% Of Arrested Criminals Are Male.
In Disney's Fantasia, The Sorcerer To Whom Mickey Played An Apprentice Was Named Yensid, Which Is Disney Spelled Backward.
By Raising Your Legs Slowly And Lying On Your Back, You Cannot Sink Into Quicksand.
One In Ten People Live On An Island.
84% Of A Raw Apple Is Water.
It Takes More Calories To Eat A Piece Of Celery Than The Celery Has In It To Begin With.
85% Of Men Who Die Of Heartattacks During Intercourse, Are Found To Have Been Cheating On Their Wives.
85,000,000 Tons Of Paper Are Used In The United States Each Year.
28% Of Africa Is Classified As Wilderness. In North America, Its 38%.
Charlie Chaplin Once Won Third Prize In A Charlie Chaplin Look-Alike Contest.
Chewing Gum While Peeling Onions Will Keep You From Crying.
Sherlock Holmes Never Said "Elementary, My Dear Watson", Humphrey Bogart Never Said "Play It Again, Sam" In Casablanca, And They Never Said "Beam Me Up, Scotty" On Star Trek.
90% Of Bird Species Are Monogamous; Only 3% Of Animals Are.
90% Of New York City Cab Drivers Are Recently Arrived Immigrants.
98% Of All Murders And Rapes Are By A Close Family Member Or Friend Of The Victim.
98% Of The Weight Of Water Is Made Up From Oxygen.
99% Of The Pumpkins Sold In The Us End Up As Jack-O-Lanterns.
A "2 By 4" Is Really 1 1/2 By 3 1/2.
A "Blue Moon" Is The Second Full Moon In A Calendar Month (It Is Rarely Blue).
A "Hairbreadth Away" Is 1/48 Of An Inch.
A "Quidnunc" Is A Person Who Is Eager To Know The Latest News And Gossip.
A 1,200-Pound Horse Eats About Seven Times It's Own Weight Each Year.
A 1.5 Oz. Milk Chocolate Bar Has Only 220 Calories. A 1.75 Oz. Serving Of Potato Chips Has 230 Calories.
A 10-Gallon Hat Actually Only Holds About 3/4 Gallon.
A 14-Year Old French Girl Had Extraordinary Electrical Power. With A Gentle Touch She Could Knock Over Heavy Pieces Of Furniture And People In Physical Contact With Her Received An Electrical Shock.
A 17 Year Old Girl From Miami, Florida Started To Sneeze On 4Th January'66 Ant Continued Till 8Th June'66.
A 6 Pound Sea-Hare Can Lay 40,000Eggs In A Single Minute.
A 7-Year Study, Which Concluded In The Summer Of 2000, Found That 33 U.S. Deaths Were Caused By Rottweilers, Pit Bulls Were Responsible For 27 Deaths.
A Acre Of Coffee Trees Can Produce Up To 10,000 Pounds Of Coffee Cherries. That Amounts To Approximately 2000 Pounds Of Beans After Hulling Or Milling.
A B-25 Bomber Crashed Into The 79Th Floor Of The Empire State Building On July 28, 1945.
A Baboon Called "Jackie" Became A Private In The South African Army In World War I.
A Bat Is The Only Mammal That Flies.
A Bathometer Is An Instrument For Indicating The Depth Of The Sea Beneath A Moving Vessel.
A Bean Has More Dna Per Cell Than A Human Cell
A Bee Could Travel 4 Million Miles (6.5 Million Km) At 7 Mph (11 Km/H) On The Energy It Would Obtain From 1 Gallon (3.785 Liters) Of Nectar, Or It Could Just Sit Down On And Enjoy That Honey Properly.
A Beaver's Teeth Never Stop Growing.
A Bibliophile Is A Collector Of Rare Books. A Bibliopole Is A Seller Of Rare Books.
A Bird Requires More Food In Proportion To Its Size Than A Baby Or A Cat.
A Blue Earth, Minnesota, Law Declares That No Child Under The Age Of Twelve May Talk Over The Telephone Unless Monitored By A Parent.
A Blue Whales Heart Only Beats Nine Times Per Minute.
A Body Decomposes Four Times As Fast In Water Than On Land.
A Boeing 747'S Wingspan Is Longer Than The Wright Brother's First Flight.
A Bowling Pin Only Needs To Tilt 7.5 Degrees To Fall.
A Broken Clock Is Right At Least Twice A Day.
A Butterfly Can Look At You Through 12,000 Eyes.
A Californian Doctor Has Set The Record Of Eating 17 Bananas In Two Minutes.
A Canadian Tattoo Artist Had 4,831 Tattoos On His Body.
A Capon Is A Castrated Rooster.
A Cat Has 32 Muscles In Each Ear.
A Cat Has 4 Rows Of Whiskers.
A Cat Uses It's Whiskers To Determine If A Space Is Too Small To Squeeze Through.
A Chameleon Can Move Its Eyes In Two Directions At The Same Time.
A Chameleon's Tongue Is Twice The Length Of Its Body.
A Cheetah At Full Speed Takes Strides Of 8 Meters.
A Cheetah Is The Fastest Animal, Clocked In At: 70Mph.
A Chef's Hat Is Tall And Balloons At The Top So As To Counteract The Intense Heat In The Kitchen. The Unique Shape Allows Air To Circulate Around The Scalp, Keeping The Head Cool.
A Chicago Law Forbids Eating In A Place That Is On Fire.
A Chicken Who Just Lost Its Head Can Run The Length Of A Football Field Before Dropping Dead.
A Chimpanzee Can Learn To Recognize Itself In A Mirror, But Monkeys Can't.
A Citizen Of Calcutta, India , Grew The Fingernails On His Left Hand To A Length Of 76 Inches.
A Cluster Of Bananas Is Called A Hand And Consists Of 10 To 20 Bananas, Which Are Known As Fingers.
A Cockroach Can Live Nine Days Without Its Head Before It Starves To Death.
A Cockroaches Favorite Food Is The Glue On The Back Of Stamps.
A Company, Warner Communications Paid $28 Million For The Copyright To The Song "Happy Birthday".
A Cornish Game Hen Is Really A Young Chicken, Usually 5 To 6 Weeks Of Age, That Weighs No More Than 2 Pounds.
A Cough Releases An Explosive Charge Of Air That Moves At Speeds Up To 60 Mph.
A Cow Gives Nearly 200,000 Glasses Of Milk In Her Lifetime.
A Cow Produces 200 Times More Gas A Day Than A Person.
A Crocodile Cannot Stick Its Tongue Out.
A Crocodiles Tongue Is Attached To The Roof Of Its Mouth.
A Cucumber Is 96% Water.
A Dalmatian Is The Only Dog That Can Get Gout.
A Day On The Planet Mercury Is Twice As Long As Its Year.
A Decree Declares That Anyone Caught Stealing Soap Must Wash Himself With It Until It Is All Used Up.
A Device Invented Sometime Around The Time Of The Birth Of Jesus As A Primitive Steam Engine By The Greek Engineer Hero Is Used Today As A Rotating Sprinkler.
A Diamond Will Not Dissolve In Acid. The Only Thing That Can Destroy It Is Intense Heat.
A Dime Has 118 Ridges Around The Edge. A Quarter Has 119.
A Dog Can Hear High Frequency Sounds, Which A Human Ear Cannot.
A Donkey Will Sink In Quicksand But A Mule Will Not.
A Dragonfly Can Fly 25 Mph.
A Dragonfly Has A Life Span Of 24 Hours.
A Dragonfly Is Also Known As "Devil's Darning Needle", "Horse Stinger" And "Devil's Steelyard".
A Fag Is To Work Hard Or To Tire By Strenuous Activity And Cigarettes Are Sometimes Called Fags
A Fagot Is A Bundle Of Sticks Or A Bundle Of Pieces Of Wrought Iron To Be Shaped By Rolling Or Hammering At High Temperature.
A Father Emperor Penguin Withstands The Antarctic Cold For 60 Days Or More To Protect His Eggs, Which He Keeps On His Feet, Covered With A Feathered Flap. During This Entire Time He Doesn't Eat A Thing. Most Father Penguins Lose About 25 Pounds While They Wait For Their Babies To Hatch. Afterward, They Feed The Chicks A Special Liquid From Their Throats. When The Mother Penguins Return To Care For The Young, The Fathers Go To Sea To Eat And Rest.
A Father Sea Catfish Keeps The Eggs Of His Young In His Mouth Until They Are Ready To Hatch. He Will Not Eat Until His Young Are Born, Which May Take Several Weeks.
A Female Ferret Will Die If It Goes Into Heat And Cannot Find A Mate.
A Female Mackerel Lays About 500,000 Eggs At One Time.
A Female Swine Or Sow Will Always Have An Even Number Of Teats Or Nipples.
A Fetus Acquires Fingerprints At The Age Of Three Months.
A Fingernail Or Toenail Takes About 6 Months To Grow From Base To Tip.
A Fish's Memory Span Is 3 Seconds.
A Five And A Half Year Old Weighing 250 Pounds Was Exhibited At A Meeting Of The Physical Society Of Vienna On December 4, 1894. She Ate A Normal Diet And Was Otherwise In Good Health. The Problem: She Wasn't Able To Sweat.
A Flea Can Jump 350 Times Is Own Body Length. (Say..You Jumping The Length Of A Soccer Field)Thanx Seraph
A Flock Of Sheep Grazed During Woodrow Wilson's Term. Their Wool Was Sold To Raise Money For The Red Cross During World War I.
A Fly Always Jumps Backwards For A Quick Getaway When You Try To Hit It.
A Fly Hums In The Middle Octave, Key F.
A Foal Is A Baby Horse.
A Full Moon Is Nine Times Brighter Than A Half Moon.
A Full-Grown Bear Can Run As Fast As A Horse.
A Full-Grown Pumpkin Has About 15 Miles Of Roots.
A Ghost Writer Pens An Anonymous Book.
A Giant Squid Has Eyes That Can Grow Up To 20 Inches In Diameter. (Now Think Of How Big Your Computer Screen Is..)
A Giraffe And Rat Can Go Longer Without Water Than A Camel Can.
A Giraffe Can Clean Its Ears With Its 21-Inch Tongue. I Know Some People Who Can Do Some Amazing Stuff Too.
A Goldfish Has A Memory Span Of 3 Seconds.
A Googol Is A 1 Followed By 100 Zeros. Mathematician Edward Kasner Supposedly Asked His Nephew Milton Sirotta To Suggest A Name For The Number, And He Came Up With This Word.
A Grasshopper Needs A Minimum Temperature Of 62 Degrees Fahrenheit In Order To Be Able To Hop.
A Group Od Geese On The Ground Is A Gaggle, A Group In The Air Is A Skein.
A Group Of Crows Is Called A Murder.
A Hamlet Is A Village Without A Church And A Town Is Not A City Until It Has A Cathedral.
A Hard-Boiled Egg Will Spin. An Uncooked Or Soft-Boiled Egg Will Not.
A Healthy (Non-Colorblind) Human Eye Can Distinguish Between 500 Shades Of Gray.
A Healthy Individual Releases 3.5 Oz. Of Gas In A Single Flatulent Emission, Or About 17 Oz. In A Day.
A Hedgehog's Heart Beats 190 Times A Minute On Average And Drops To Only 20 Beats Per Minute During Hibernation.
A Hedgehog's Skin Is So Tough That When They Get Run Over, Its Entrails Come Out Of Its Mouth And Its Ass.
A Herd Of Forty-Five Thirsty, Rambunctious Elephants Stampeded Into A Brewery In Midnapore, Where They Smashed Vats And Slurped Up Beer In A Bender That Went On For Two Days.
A Hinny Is The Offspring Of A Female Donkey.
A Hippo Can Open Its Mouth Wide Enough To Fit A 4 Foot Tall Child Inside.
A Hippopotamus Can Run Faster Than A Man Can.
A Holstein's Spots Are Like A Fingerprint Or Snowflake. No Two Cows Have Exactly The Same Pattern Of Spots.
A Honey Bee Must Tap Two Million Flowers To Make One Pound Of Honey
A Honey Bee Travels An Estimated 43,000 Miles To Gather One Pound Of Honey. A Pound Of Honey Consists Of 29,184 Drops.
A Honeybee Can Fly At Fifteen Miles Per Hour.
A Horse Can Sleep Standing Up.
A Horse Has 18 More Bones Than A Human.
A Human Being Loses An Average Of 40 To 100 Strands Of Hair A Day.
A Human Has A Bone Just After The Spine Ends, Which Helps Proves That Humans Once Had Tails (Possibly).
A Human Head Remains Conscious For About 15 To 20 Seconds After It Is Been Decapitated.
A Human's Scent Membrane In The Nose Is About The Size Of A Postage Stamp. A Dog's Is About The Size Of A Handkerchief. It's Olfactory Lobe Is Also 4 Times That Of A Humanthanx Liz Chell
A Humming Bird Flaps Its Wings Up To 90 Times In One Second Or Over 5000 Times A Minute.
A Jellyfish Is 95 Percent Water, And Humans Around 70%
A Jellyfish Is 95% Water.
A Jumbo Jet Uses 4,000 Gallons Of Fuel To Take Off.
A Kangaroo Can Jump Up To 3 Meters High And Leap Up To 8 Meters.
A Kangaroo Can't Jump Unless It's Tail Is Touching The Ground.
A Kentucky Statute States, "No Female Shall Appear In A Bathing Suit On Any Highway Within This State Unless She Is Escorted By At Least Two Officers Or Unless She Be Armed With A Club." Later, An Amendment Proposed: "The Provisions Of This Statute Shall Not Apply To Any Female Weighing Less Than Sixty Pounds Nor Exceeding 200 Pounds; Nor Shall It Apply To Female Horses."
A Large Swarm Of Locusts Can Eat 80,000 Tons Of Corn A Day.
A Leech Is A Worm That Feeds On Blood. It Will Pierce Its Victim's Skin, Fill Itself With Three To Four Times Its Own Body Weight In Blood, And Will Not Feed Again For Months. Leeches Were Once Used By Doctors To Drain "Bad Blood" From Sick Patients.
A Lions Roar Can Be Heard From Five Miles Away.
A Lump Of Pure Gold The Size Of A Matchbox Can Be Flattened Into A Sheet The Size Of A Tennis Court.
A Magic Potion Or Charm Thought To Arouse Sexual Love, Especially Toward A Specific Person, Is Known As A "Philter."
A Male Emperor Moth Can Smell A Female Emperor Moth Up To 7 Miles Away.
A Male Moth Can Smell A Female Moth From 100 Yards Away.
A Man And Woman In Mexico City Were Engaged For 67 Yrs And Finally Married At The Age Of 82 Yrs.
A Man Named Charles Osborne Had The Hiccups For 69 Years
A Manatee (Dugong) Has Very Slow-Clotting Blood, And Important In Finding Out About Haemophilia.
A Manned Rocket Can Reach The Moon In Less Time Than It Used To Take To Travel The Length Of England By Stagecoach.
A Mark Twain, A Nautical Measurement Of Depth, Is Equal To Twelve Feet.
A Mcdonald's Straw Will Hold 7.7 Ml, Or Just Over One-And-A-Half Teaspoons Of Whatever You Are Drinking.
A Michigan Law States That A Wife's Hair Legally Belongs To Her Husband.
A Millipede Has 4 Legs On Each Segment Of Its Body.
A Mockingbird Has Been Known To Change Its Tune 87 Times Over A Span Minute Span.
A Mole Can Dig A Tunnel 300 Feet Long In Just One Night.
A Mongoose Is Not A Goose But More Like A Meercat, Which Is Not A Cat But More Like A Prairie Dog, Which Is Not A Dog But More Like A Ground Squirrel.
A Monkey Was Once Tried And Convicted For Smoking A Cigarette In South Bend, Indiana.
A Mosquito Will Become Restless And Start Flying Around If There Is An Increase Of Carbon Dioxide In The Surrounding Air
A Mother In Sydney, Australia, Gave Birth To Twins 56 Days Apart And In Different Years; One Was Born In 17Th December'1952 And The Other On 10Th February'1953.
A Mule Is A Crossbreed Between A Male Donkey And A Female Horse. A Hinnie Is Yada Yada A Female Donkey And A Male Horse.
A Murder Is Committed In The Us Every 23 Minutes, Which Makes About 22852 Murders Each Year.
A Newborn Kangaroo Is About 1 Inch In Length.
A Normal Cow's Stomach Has Four Compartments: The Rumen, The Recticulum (Storage Area), The Omasum (Where Water Is Absorbed), And The Abomasum ( The Only Compartment With Digestive Juices).
A Notch In A Tree Will Remain The Same Distance From The Ground As The Tree Grows.
A Panagram Is A Sentence That Contains All 26 Letters Of The English Alphabet. For Example: Pack My Red Box With Five Dozen Quality Jugs.
A Peanut Is Not A Nut Or A Pea, It's A Legume.
A Penguin Swims At A Speed Of Approximately 15 Miles Per Hour.
A Perfect Game In Baseball Is One In Which The Same Player Pitches The Entire Game Without Allowing Any Player Of The Opposing Team To Reach First Base -By Any Means.
A Person Afflicted With Hexadectylism Has Six Fingers Or Six Toes On One Or Both Hands And Feet.
A Person Has To Travel West To Get From Los Angeles, Ca To Reno, Nv.
A Person Uses Approximently Fifty-Seven Sheets Of Toilet Paper Each Day.
A Person Who Is Lost In The Woods And Starving Can Obtain Nourishment By Chewing On His Shoes. Leather Has Enough Nutritional Value To Sustain Life For A Short Time.
A Person Will Die From Total Lack Of Sleep Sooner Than From Starvation. Death Will Occur About 10 Days Without Sleep, While Starvation Takes A Few Weeks.
A Piano Leg Went Through The Floor Of The White House In 1948 During President Truman's Term.
A Pied-Billed Grebe Is Called A Peebeegeebee By Birdwatchers.
The Roaring Lion In The Mgm Logo Was Named Volney And Lived At The Memphis Zoo.
The Roaring Lion In The Mgm Logo's Hide Is Now On Display In Themcpherson Museum Located In Mcpherson, Kansas.
Everybody Knows That St. Augustine, Florida Is The Oldest City In The U.S., But Not Everybody Knows That St. Mary's, Georgia Is The Second Oldest.
Orson Welles Is Buried In An Olive Orchard On A Ranch Owned By His Friend, Matador Antonio Ordonez In Sevilla, Spain.
The National Flower Of Greenland Is The Willow Herb.
Britain's Shortest River Is The Brun Which Runs Through Burnley In Lancashire.
Cornell University's Motto — "I Would Found An Institution Where Any Person Can Find Instruction In Any Study" — Is The Only Motto Among Ivy League Schools Not In Latin.
The Latin Name For Moose Is Alces Alces.
1961 Was The Most Recent Year That Could Be Written Both Upside-Down And Rightside-Up And Appear The Same. The Next Year That This Will Be Possible Will Be 6009!
The First Atomic Bomb Dropped On Japan Fell From The Enola Gay, Named After The Unit Commander's Mother. The Second Dropped From A Plane Known As Bock's Car.
Kermit The Frog Has 11 Points On His Collar Around His Neck.
The Bronx In New York City Is Actually Named After The Bronx River. The Bronx River Is Named After The First Settler In The Bronx, Jonas Bronk. He Settled There In 1639.
Cleveland Spelled Backwards Is "Dna Level C".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'sprincess Toadstool.
Tabasco Sauce Is Made By Fermenting Vinegar And Hot Peppers In A French Oak Barrel Which Has Three Inches Of Salt On Top And Is Aged For Three Years Until All The Salt Is Diffused Through The Barrel.
Karen Carpenter's Doorbell Chimed The First Six Notes Of "We've Only Just Begun."
Certain Sounds In The English Language Are Real Germ Spreaders, Particularly The Sounds Of F, P, T, D, And S.
Harvard Uses "Yale" Brand Locks On Their Buildings. Yale Uses "Best" Brand.
Contrary To Popular British Folklore, Cuckoo Clocks Do Not Come From Switzerland But From The Black Forest In Germany.
The Angel Of Independence In Mexico City Was Built By Salvador Rivas Mercado. The Face Of The Angel Is A Portrait Of His Daughter.
There Are More Samoans In Los Angeles Than On American Samoa.
Soccer Legend Pele's Real Name Is Edson Arantes Do Nascimento.
If You Paint The Flag Of Canada, You Must Use These Colors:"The Printing Ink Colour Is Fip Red: General Printing Ink, No. 0-712;Inmont Canada Ltd., No. 4T51577; Monarch Inks, No. 62539/0; Or Sinclair Andvalentine, No. Rl163929/0. The Painting Colours Are Fip Red No. 509-211 And White: 513-201."
Everyone Is Familiar With The Rca Logo With Nipper The Dog Listening To The Rca Grammaphone. But The Original Picture Had Both The Dog And Thegrammaphone Sitting On His Dead Masters Casket. The Idea Being That Theclosest Thing To His Dead Master's Voice Was The Rcagrammaphone. The Ad Was Eventually Considered Too Morbid And They Removed The Casket.
A "Jiffy" Is A Unit Of Time: 3.3357 Times 10 Raised To The -11 (3.3357X10^-11) Seconds. So Named For The Length Of Time It Takes Light To Travel A Cm In A Vacuum.
During The Manhattan Project In The Early '40S, The Time It Took For The Imploding Shell Of Plutonium To Reach The Center Of The Sphere Was Measured In "Shakes Of A Lamb's Tail". One Shake = 1X10^-8 Sec. It Took About Three Shakes Of A Lambs Tail To Get The Uranium To A Critical Mass And Initiate Spontaneous Fission.
The Spanish Abbreviation For Ufo Is Ovnis: "Objeto Volador Noidentificado."
Iolani Palace In Hawaii Is The Only Place Built For A Monarchy Currently On U.S. Soil.
Maine Has No Poisonous Snakes.
Hawaii Has Only Two Snakes. One Is A Sea Snake Rarely Seen In Hawaii Waters. The Other Is A Blind Snake That Lives Like An Earthworm.
The Abbreviation A.D. (Anno Domini, "Year Of Our Lord") Should Be Properly Placed In Front Of The Year — Thus, You Get 417 Bc But Ad 2000.
The Wingspan Of A Boeing 747 Jet Is Longer Than The Wright Brothers' First Flight.
Ice Cube's Real Name Is O'shea Jackson.
The Smallest Fish In The World Is The Trimattum Nanus Of The Chagos Archipelago. It Measures 0.33 Inches. It Broke The Record Of The So- Called "Sinarapan" Of Buhi, Camarines Sur, Philippines.
According To The London For Visitors Website, The Area Known As Soho Used To Be Part Of King Henry Viii's Hunting Grounds. When A Hunter Spied A Deer, He Yelled "Tally-Ho!", But When He Found A Smaller Prey, The Cry Became "So-Ho!" As The Area Was Developed, The Name Stuck.
There Is Now An Atm At Mcmurdo Station In Antarctica, Which Has A Winter Population Of 200.
The Flag Of The U.K. Is Properly Known As The Union Flag. It Is Only Called The Union Jack When It Is Flown From The Jack Mast Of A Ship.
The Popular Fiesta Ware Line Of Dishes Sold Well In The 1930S, Except For The Orange-Colored Sets. The Reason? The Paint Used On The Orange Fiesta Ware Was Known To Be Radioactive.
A Large Amount Of Boulders That Have Fallen Off A Cliff Is Known As Talus, Whereas They Would Be Known As Moraine Had They Been Left There By A Glacier.
The Sitka Spruce Is Britain's Most Commonly Planted Tree.
The Philip Morris Tobacco Company's Crest Has On It Caesar's Famous Saying "Veni, Vidi, Vici."
There Are More 100 Dollar Bills In Russia Currently Than There Are In The United States.
The Extras In The The Battle Scenes In The Movie Braveheart Were Reserves In The Irish Army.
The Famous Citgo Sign Near Fenway Park In Boston Is Maintained Not By Citgo, But By The Boston Historical Society.
Thanks To Chris Barber, Devin Mcmahon And Tom Elke Of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Roger Ebert Won The 1959 Illinois High School Association State Speech Competition In Radio.
Will Clark Hit A Homerun In His First At-Bat In College, The Olympics, And The Major Leagues.
The Original Guiness Brewery In Dublin, Ireland Has A Six Thousand Year Lease.
Thanks To Josh Berling (Josh@Invisible-Web.Com) Ofdekalb, Illinois.
South Africa Used To Have Two Official Languages. Now It Has Eleven.
On March 29, 1848, Niagara Falls Stopped Flowing For 30 Hours Becauseof An Ice Jam Blocking The Niagara River.
America's Largest Rosary Is Located At The Fatima Shrine In Holliston, Massachusetts.
The First Product To Have A Upc Bar Code On Its Packaging Was Wrigley's Gum.
In Italy, It Is Illegal To Make Coffins Out Of Anything Except Nutshells Or Wood.
Pia Zadora's First Movie Role Was As A Young Child, As One Of The Protagonists In Santa Claus Conquers The Martians.
A Railroad Tanker Car Carrying Propane Traveled Over 3,000 Feet When It Exploded During A Train Wreck In Illinois, Sheering Off A Steel Tower In Its Path. It's The Longest Flight On Record For A Propane Explosion.
It Takes Eighteen Minutes To Cool Hot Chocolate Into A Hershey's Kiss.
Of The Twenty Brightest Stars In The Sky, Capella Is The Furthest North.
Sagittarius Is The Furthest South Of The Zodiacal Constellations.
Joe Friday, From Dragnet (Later Known As Badge 714), Lived In Eagle Rock, California.
The Football Huddle Originated At Gallaudet University — The World's Only Accredited Four-Year Liberal Arts College For The Deaf — In The 19Th Century When The Football Team Found That Opposing Teams Were Reading Their Signed Messages And Intercepting Plays.
The Shortest British Monarch Was Charles I, Who Was 4'9" And That Was Before He Lost His Head!
Mickey Mouse's Ears Are Always Turned To The Front, No Matter Which Direction His Head Is Pointing.
The South American Electric Eel Can Produce Almost 1 Amp Of Current
The Smallest Unit Of Time Is The Yoctosecond.
Ferrets Sleep For About 20 Hours A Day.
The "You Are Here" Arrow On Maps Is Called An Ideo Locator.
The Opening To The Cave In Which A Bear Hibernates Is Always On The North Slope. Unless The Bear Lives In The Southern Hemisphere.
Of All The Trains In The New York Subway System, Only One Neverenters The Island Of Manhattan. It's The "G" Train, Thebrooklyn-Queens Crosstown Local.
The First National Park, Yellowstone, Was Proclaimed A National Park In 1872. However, There Was No National Park Serviceuntil 1916. Until Then, The Parks Were Administered By The U.S. Army. When The Park Service Was Formed They Got Their Firstuniforms From The Army, Hence The Ranger (Campaign)Hats.
Since World War Ii, Every American President To Address The Canadian House Of Commons In Their Firstterm Of Office Have All Been Re-Elected To A Second Term.Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, And Clinton Have All Had The Honour, Whilekennedy, Johnson, Ford, Carter, And Bush Did Not Address Theparliament.
The "J.R.R." In J.R.R.Tolkien Stands For John Ronald Reuel. His Son's Name Is Christopher.
In 1920 Ray Chapman A Shortstop For The Cleveland Indians, Is The Only Player Ever Killed As A Result Of Amajor League Baseball Game. He Was Hit In The Temple With A Pitchand Died The Next Day.
Hong Kong Has The World's Largest Double-Decker Tram Fleet In The World.
Bulgaria Was The Only Soccer Team In The 1994World Cup In Which All 11 Players' Last Names Ended With The Letters"Ov."
Of The Four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, All Named After Artistsand/Or Sculptors, Donatello Does Not Occur In The Same Time Period As Leonardo, Michelangelo And Raphael.
Abdul Kassem Ismael, Grand Vizier Of Persiain The Tenth Century, Carried His Library With Him Wherever He Went.The 117,000 Volumes Were Carried By 400 Camels Trained To Walk Inalphabetical Order.
The Country With The Biggest Percentage Of Female Heads Of Household Is Botswana.
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 English, "Four" Is The Only Digit That Has The Same Number Of Letters As Its Value.
Quebec And Newfoundland Are The Only Two Canadian Provinces Which Do Not Allow Personalized Licenseplates.
With A Population Of Fewer Than Nine Thousand People, Montpelier, Vermont Is The Smallest State Capital In Theu.S.
The Actor Who Played The T-1000 In Terminator 2 (Robert Patrick) And The Lead Singer Of Filter Arebrothers.
Pittsburgh And Toronto Are The Only Two Cities Where All The Major Sports Teams Have The Same Colors: "Black And Gold" And "Blue And White" Respectively.
In The Theme Song From "The Flintstones", The Lineafter "Let's Ride With The Family Down The Street" Is "Through The Courtesy Of Fred's Two Feet."
The Proceedings In The British Parliament Are Meant To Be In Private, Even Though They Are Now Televised. So, If The Mps Want To Have A Secret Session, One Of Them Points To The Gallery From Which The Public Watch, And Calls "I Spy Strangers!", Whereupon The House Votes "That The Strangers Do Withdraw."
On The London Underground, One Station Has Adifferent Name On Two Of Its Platforms: Bank And Monument.
Ambassadors To The United Kingdom Are Not Called That Officially, Butrather Ambassadors To The Court Of St. James. The Court Of St. James Being The Palace Which Was The Residence Of The Monarch Before Buckingham Palace Was Built.
In British Monopoly Sets, The Most Expensive Property (Mayfair) Is Nota Street,But A District Of Little Streets Near Hyde Park.
Adolf Hitler Was Time's Man Of The Year For 1938.
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, The Man Who Designed The Eiffel Tower, Also Designed The Inner Structure Of The Statue Of Liberty In New York Harbour.
"Conservationalists" & "Conversationalists" (18 Letters) Are The Longest Non-Scientific Transposals (Word Formed From Another By Changing Its Letters).
"Dreamt" Is The Only English Word That Ends In The Letters "Mt".
"Duff" Is The Decaying Organic Matter Found On A Forest Floor.
"Fickleheaded" And "Fiddledeedee" Are The Longest Words Consisting Only Of Letters In The First Half Of The Alphabet.
"Flushable" Toilets Were In Use In Ancient Rome.
"Fortnight" Is A Contraction Of "Fourteen Nights." In The Us "Two Weeks" Is More Commonly Used.
"Forty" Is The Only Number Which Has Its Letters In Alphabetical Order. "One" Is The Only Number With Its Letters In Reverse Alphabetical Order.
"Four" Is The Only Number Whose Number Of Letters In The Name Equals The Number.
"Hang On Sloopy" Is The Official Rock Song Of Ohio.
"Happy Birthday" Was The First Song To Be Performed In Outer Space, Sung By The Apollo Ix Astronauts On March 8, 1969.
"Kemo Sabe" Means "Soggy Shrub" In Navajo.
"Long In The Tooth," Meaning "Old," Was Originally Used To Describe Horses. As Horses Age, Their Gums Recede, Giving The Impression That Their Teeth Are Growing. The Longer The Teeth Look, The Older The Horse.
"Lunula" Is The Tip Of The Finger And Toenail That Is White. It Is Called This This (Referring To The Moon) Because The End Of The Nail Is Rounded Like The Moon.
"Ma Is As Selfless As I Am" Can Be Read The Same Way Backwards. If You Take Away All The Spaces You Can See That All The Letters Can Be Spelled Out Both Ways.
"Mad About You" Star Paul Reiser Plays The Piano On The Show's Theme Song.
"One Thousand" Contains The Letter A, But None Of The Words From One To Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine Has An A.
"Ough" Can Be Pronounced In Eight Different Ways. The Following Sentence Contains Them All: "A Rough-Coated, Dough-Faced Ploughman Strode Through The Streets Of Scarborough, Coughing And Hiccoughing Thoughtfully.
"Rhythms" Is The Longest English Word Without The Normal Vowels, A, E, I, O, Or U.
"Second String," Meaning "Replacement Or Backup," Comes From The Middle Ages. An Archer Always Carried A Second String In Case The One On His Bow Broke.
"Speak Of The Devil" Is Short For "Speak Of The Devil And He Shall Come". It Was Believed That If You Spoke About The Devil It Would Attract His Attention. That's Why When You're Talking About Someone And They Show Up People Say "Speak Of The Devil."
"Stewardesses" Is The Longest Word That Can Be Typed With Only The Left Hand.
"Tautonyms" Are Scientific Names For Which The Genus And Species Are The Same.
"Taxi" Is Spelled Exactly The Same In English, French, German, Swedish, And Portuguese.
"Teh" Means "Cool" In Thai. (Pronounced "Tay").
"The Sixth Sick Sheik's Sixth Sheep's Sick" Is Said To Be The Toughest Tongue Twister In English.
"Therein" Is A Seven-Letter Word That Contains Thirteen Words Spelled Using Consecutive Letters: The, He, Her, Er, Here, I, There, Ere, Rein, Re, In, Therein, And Herein.
"Underground" Is The Only Word In The English Language That Begins And Ends With The Letters "Und."
$203,000,000 Is Spent On Barbed Wire Each Year In The U.S.
1 And 2 Are The Only Numbers Where They Are Values Of The Numbers Of The Factors They Have.
1 In 5,000 North Atlantic Lobsters Are Born Bright Blue.
1 Kg (2.2 Pounds) Of Lemons Contain More Sugar Than 1 Kg Of Strawberries.
1,525,000,000 Miles Of Telephone Wire Are Strung Across The Unites States.
1.7 Litres Of Saliva Is Produced Each Day. In Discovery Channel, Its A Quart.
10 Percent Of All Human Beings Ever Born Are Alive At This Very Moment.
10% Of Human Dry Weight Comes From Bacteria
11% Of The World Is Left-Handed.
1200 Equals 1 Pound (72 Rupees).
123,000,000 Cars Are Being Driven On Highways In The United States.
166,875,000,000 Pieces Of Mail Are Delivered Each Year In The United States.
1959'S A Raisin In The Sun Was The First Play By A Black Woman To Be Produced On Broadway.
2 And 5 Are The Only Prime Numbers That End In 2 Or 5.
203 Million Dollars Is Spent On Barbed Wire Each Year In The U.S.
22,000 Checks Will Be Deducted From The Wrong Bank Accounts In The Next Hour.
23% Of All Photocopier Faults Worldwide Are Caused By People Sitting On Them And Photocopying Their Buttocks.
25% Of A Human's Bones Are In Its Feet.
259200 People Die Every Day.
27% Of Americans Believe We Never Landed On The Moon.
27% Of U.S. Male College Students Believe Life Is "A Meaningless Existential Hell."
3% Of All Mammals Are Monogamous
315 Entries In Webster's 1996 Dictionary Were Misspelled.
315 Words In The 1996 Webster's Dictionary Were Mispelled.
4 Tablespoons Of Ketchup Has About The Same Amount Of Nutrition As A Ripe Tomato.
40% Of All People Who Come To A Party Snoop In Your Medicine Cabinet.
40% Of Mcdonald's Profits Come From The Sales Of Happy Meals.
43.7% Of All Statistics Are Made Up Right On The Spot
48% Of Astronauts Experience Motion Sickness.
52% Of Americans Drink Coffee.
55.1% Of All Us Prisoners Are In Prison For Drug Offenses.
56,000,000 People Go To Major League Baseball Games Each Year
67 Million Pounds Of Pesticides And About 3 Million Tons Of Fertilizer Are Used Annually On Lawns In The Us.
78 Rpm Albums, Used Prior To 1948, Were Only Capable Of Recording For Four Minutes. It Wasnt Until Later That Year That Columbia Records Introduced 33 Rpm Albums Capable Of Playing 23 Minutes Per Side.
80% Of Animals On Earth Are Insects.
80% Of Arrested Criminals Are Male.
In Disney's Fantasia, The Sorcerer To Whom Mickey Played An Apprentice Was Named Yensid, Which Is Disney Spelled Backward.
By Raising Your Legs Slowly And Lying On Your Back, You Cannot Sink Into Quicksand.
One In Ten People Live On An Island.
84% Of A Raw Apple Is Water.
It Takes More Calories To Eat A Piece Of Celery Than The Celery Has In It To Begin With.
85% Of Men Who Die Of Heartattacks During Intercourse, Are Found To Have Been Cheating On Their Wives.
85,000,000 Tons Of Paper Are Used In The United States Each Year.
28% Of Africa Is Classified As Wilderness. In North America, Its 38%.
Charlie Chaplin Once Won Third Prize In A Charlie Chaplin Look-Alike Contest.
Chewing Gum While Peeling Onions Will Keep You From Crying.
Sherlock Holmes Never Said "Elementary, My Dear Watson", Humphrey Bogart Never Said "Play It Again, Sam" In Casablanca, And They Never Said "Beam Me Up, Scotty" On Star Trek.
90% Of Bird Species Are Monogamous; Only 3% Of Animals Are.
90% Of New York City Cab Drivers Are Recently Arrived Immigrants.
98% Of All Murders And Rapes Are By A Close Family Member Or Friend Of The Victim.
98% Of The Weight Of Water Is Made Up From Oxygen.
99% Of The Pumpkins Sold In The Us End Up As Jack-O-Lanterns.
A "2 By 4" Is Really 1 1/2 By 3 1/2.
A "Blue Moon" Is The Second Full Moon In A Calendar Month (It Is Rarely Blue).
A "Hairbreadth Away" Is 1/48 Of An Inch.
A "Quidnunc" Is A Person Who Is Eager To Know The Latest News And Gossip.
A 1,200-Pound Horse Eats About Seven Times It's Own Weight Each Year.
A 1.5 Oz. Milk Chocolate Bar Has Only 220 Calories. A 1.75 Oz. Serving Of Potato Chips Has 230 Calories.
A 10-Gallon Hat Actually Only Holds About 3/4 Gallon.
A 14-Year Old French Girl Had Extraordinary Electrical Power. With A Gentle Touch She Could Knock Over Heavy Pieces Of Furniture And People In Physical Contact With Her Received An Electrical Shock.
A 17 Year Old Girl From Miami, Florida Started To Sneeze On 4Th January'66 Ant Continued Till 8Th June'66.
A 6 Pound Sea-Hare Can Lay 40,000Eggs In A Single Minute.
A 7-Year Study, Which Concluded In The Summer Of 2000, Found That 33 U.S. Deaths Were Caused By Rottweilers, Pit Bulls Were Responsible For 27 Deaths.
A Acre Of Coffee Trees Can Produce Up To 10,000 Pounds Of Coffee Cherries. That Amounts To Approximately 2000 Pounds Of Beans After Hulling Or Milling.
A B-25 Bomber Crashed Into The 79Th Floor Of The Empire State Building On July 28, 1945.
A Baboon Called "Jackie" Became A Private In The South African Army In World War I.
A Bat Is The Only Mammal That Flies.
A Bathometer Is An Instrument For Indicating The Depth Of The Sea Beneath A Moving Vessel.
A Bean Has More Dna Per Cell Than A Human Cell
A Bee Could Travel 4 Million Miles (6.5 Million Km) At 7 Mph (11 Km/H) On The Energy It Would Obtain From 1 Gallon (3.785 Liters) Of Nectar, Or It Could Just Sit Down On And Enjoy That Honey Properly.
A Beaver's Teeth Never Stop Growing.
A Bibliophile Is A Collector Of Rare Books. A Bibliopole Is A Seller Of Rare Books.
A Bird Requires More Food In Proportion To Its Size Than A Baby Or A Cat.
A Blue Earth, Minnesota, Law Declares That No Child Under The Age Of Twelve May Talk Over The Telephone Unless Monitored By A Parent.
A Blue Whales Heart Only Beats Nine Times Per Minute.
A Body Decomposes Four Times As Fast In Water Than On Land.
A Boeing 747'S Wingspan Is Longer Than The Wright Brother's First Flight.
A Bowling Pin Only Needs To Tilt 7.5 Degrees To Fall.
A Broken Clock Is Right At Least Twice A Day.
A Butterfly Can Look At You Through 12,000 Eyes.
A Californian Doctor Has Set The Record Of Eating 17 Bananas In Two Minutes.
A Canadian Tattoo Artist Had 4,831 Tattoos On His Body.
A Capon Is A Castrated Rooster.
A Cat Has 32 Muscles In Each Ear.
A Cat Has 4 Rows Of Whiskers.
A Cat Uses It's Whiskers To Determine If A Space Is Too Small To Squeeze Through.
A Chameleon Can Move Its Eyes In Two Directions At The Same Time.
A Chameleon's Tongue Is Twice The Length Of Its Body.
A Cheetah At Full Speed Takes Strides Of 8 Meters.
A Cheetah Is The Fastest Animal, Clocked In At: 70Mph.
A Chef's Hat Is Tall And Balloons At The Top So As To Counteract The Intense Heat In The Kitchen. The Unique Shape Allows Air To Circulate Around The Scalp, Keeping The Head Cool.
A Chicago Law Forbids Eating In A Place That Is On Fire.
A Chicken Who Just Lost Its Head Can Run The Length Of A Football Field Before Dropping Dead.
A Chimpanzee Can Learn To Recognize Itself In A Mirror, But Monkeys Can't.
A Citizen Of Calcutta, India , Grew The Fingernails On His Left Hand To A Length Of 76 Inches.
A Cluster Of Bananas Is Called A Hand And Consists Of 10 To 20 Bananas, Which Are Known As Fingers.
A Cockroach Can Live Nine Days Without Its Head Before It Starves To Death.
A Cockroaches Favorite Food Is The Glue On The Back Of Stamps.
A Company, Warner Communications Paid $28 Million For The Copyright To The Song "Happy Birthday".
A Cornish Game Hen Is Really A Young Chicken, Usually 5 To 6 Weeks Of Age, That Weighs No More Than 2 Pounds.
A Cough Releases An Explosive Charge Of Air That Moves At Speeds Up To 60 Mph.
A Cow Gives Nearly 200,000 Glasses Of Milk In Her Lifetime.
A Cow Produces 200 Times More Gas A Day Than A Person.
A Crocodile Cannot Stick Its Tongue Out.
A Crocodiles Tongue Is Attached To The Roof Of Its Mouth.
A Cucumber Is 96% Water.
A Dalmatian Is The Only Dog That Can Get Gout.
A Day On The Planet Mercury Is Twice As Long As Its Year.
A Decree Declares That Anyone Caught Stealing Soap Must Wash Himself With It Until It Is All Used Up.
A Device Invented Sometime Around The Time Of The Birth Of Jesus As A Primitive Steam Engine By The Greek Engineer Hero Is Used Today As A Rotating Sprinkler.
A Diamond Will Not Dissolve In Acid. The Only Thing That Can Destroy It Is Intense Heat.
A Dime Has 118 Ridges Around The Edge. A Quarter Has 119.
A Dog Can Hear High Frequency Sounds, Which A Human Ear Cannot.
A Donkey Will Sink In Quicksand But A Mule Will Not.
A Dragonfly Can Fly 25 Mph.
A Dragonfly Has A Life Span Of 24 Hours.
A Dragonfly Is Also Known As "Devil's Darning Needle", "Horse Stinger" And "Devil's Steelyard".
A Fag Is To Work Hard Or To Tire By Strenuous Activity And Cigarettes Are Sometimes Called Fags
A Fagot Is A Bundle Of Sticks Or A Bundle Of Pieces Of Wrought Iron To Be Shaped By Rolling Or Hammering At High Temperature.
A Father Emperor Penguin Withstands The Antarctic Cold For 60 Days Or More To Protect His Eggs, Which He Keeps On His Feet, Covered With A Feathered Flap. During This Entire Time He Doesn't Eat A Thing. Most Father Penguins Lose About 25 Pounds While They Wait For Their Babies To Hatch. Afterward, They Feed The Chicks A Special Liquid From Their Throats. When The Mother Penguins Return To Care For The Young, The Fathers Go To Sea To Eat And Rest.
A Father Sea Catfish Keeps The Eggs Of His Young In His Mouth Until They Are Ready To Hatch. He Will Not Eat Until His Young Are Born, Which May Take Several Weeks.
A Female Ferret Will Die If It Goes Into Heat And Cannot Find A Mate.
A Female Mackerel Lays About 500,000 Eggs At One Time.
A Female Swine Or Sow Will Always Have An Even Number Of Teats Or Nipples.
A Fetus Acquires Fingerprints At The Age Of Three Months.
A Fingernail Or Toenail Takes About 6 Months To Grow From Base To Tip.
A Fish's Memory Span Is 3 Seconds.
A Five And A Half Year Old Weighing 250 Pounds Was Exhibited At A Meeting Of The Physical Society Of Vienna On December 4, 1894. She Ate A Normal Diet And Was Otherwise In Good Health. The Problem: She Wasn't Able To Sweat.
A Flea Can Jump 350 Times Is Own Body Length. (Say..You Jumping The Length Of A Soccer Field)Thanx Seraph
A Flock Of Sheep Grazed During Woodrow Wilson's Term. Their Wool Was Sold To Raise Money For The Red Cross During World War I.
A Fly Always Jumps Backwards For A Quick Getaway When You Try To Hit It.
A Fly Hums In The Middle Octave, Key F.
A Foal Is A Baby Horse.
A Full Moon Is Nine Times Brighter Than A Half Moon.
A Full-Grown Bear Can Run As Fast As A Horse.
A Full-Grown Pumpkin Has About 15 Miles Of Roots.
A Ghost Writer Pens An Anonymous Book.
A Giant Squid Has Eyes That Can Grow Up To 20 Inches In Diameter. (Now Think Of How Big Your Computer Screen Is..)
A Giraffe And Rat Can Go Longer Without Water Than A Camel Can.
A Giraffe Can Clean Its Ears With Its 21-Inch Tongue. I Know Some People Who Can Do Some Amazing Stuff Too.
A Goldfish Has A Memory Span Of 3 Seconds.
A Googol Is A 1 Followed By 100 Zeros. Mathematician Edward Kasner Supposedly Asked His Nephew Milton Sirotta To Suggest A Name For The Number, And He Came Up With This Word.
A Grasshopper Needs A Minimum Temperature Of 62 Degrees Fahrenheit In Order To Be Able To Hop.
A Group Od Geese On The Ground Is A Gaggle, A Group In The Air Is A Skein.
A Group Of Crows Is Called A Murder.
A Hamlet Is A Village Without A Church And A Town Is Not A City Until It Has A Cathedral.
A Hard-Boiled Egg Will Spin. An Uncooked Or Soft-Boiled Egg Will Not.
A Healthy (Non-Colorblind) Human Eye Can Distinguish Between 500 Shades Of Gray.
A Healthy Individual Releases 3.5 Oz. Of Gas In A Single Flatulent Emission, Or About 17 Oz. In A Day.
A Hedgehog's Heart Beats 190 Times A Minute On Average And Drops To Only 20 Beats Per Minute During Hibernation.
A Hedgehog's Skin Is So Tough That When They Get Run Over, Its Entrails Come Out Of Its Mouth And Its Ass.
A Herd Of Forty-Five Thirsty, Rambunctious Elephants Stampeded Into A Brewery In Midnapore, Where They Smashed Vats And Slurped Up Beer In A Bender That Went On For Two Days.
A Hinny Is The Offspring Of A Female Donkey.
A Hippo Can Open Its Mouth Wide Enough To Fit A 4 Foot Tall Child Inside.
A Hippopotamus Can Run Faster Than A Man Can.
A Holstein's Spots Are Like A Fingerprint Or Snowflake. No Two Cows Have Exactly The Same Pattern Of Spots.
A Honey Bee Must Tap Two Million Flowers To Make One Pound Of Honey
A Honey Bee Travels An Estimated 43,000 Miles To Gather One Pound Of Honey. A Pound Of Honey Consists Of 29,184 Drops.
A Honeybee Can Fly At Fifteen Miles Per Hour.
A Horse Can Sleep Standing Up.
A Horse Has 18 More Bones Than A Human.
A Human Being Loses An Average Of 40 To 100 Strands Of Hair A Day.
A Human Has A Bone Just After The Spine Ends, Which Helps Proves That Humans Once Had Tails (Possibly).
A Human Head Remains Conscious For About 15 To 20 Seconds After It Is Been Decapitated.
A Human's Scent Membrane In The Nose Is About The Size Of A Postage Stamp. A Dog's Is About The Size Of A Handkerchief. It's Olfactory Lobe Is Also 4 Times That Of A Humanthanx Liz Chell
A Humming Bird Flaps Its Wings Up To 90 Times In One Second Or Over 5000 Times A Minute.
A Jellyfish Is 95 Percent Water, And Humans Around 70%
A Jellyfish Is 95% Water.
A Jumbo Jet Uses 4,000 Gallons Of Fuel To Take Off.
A Kangaroo Can Jump Up To 3 Meters High And Leap Up To 8 Meters.
A Kangaroo Can't Jump Unless It's Tail Is Touching The Ground.
A Kentucky Statute States, "No Female Shall Appear In A Bathing Suit On Any Highway Within This State Unless She Is Escorted By At Least Two Officers Or Unless She Be Armed With A Club." Later, An Amendment Proposed: "The Provisions Of This Statute Shall Not Apply To Any Female Weighing Less Than Sixty Pounds Nor Exceeding 200 Pounds; Nor Shall It Apply To Female Horses."
A Large Swarm Of Locusts Can Eat 80,000 Tons Of Corn A Day.
A Leech Is A Worm That Feeds On Blood. It Will Pierce Its Victim's Skin, Fill Itself With Three To Four Times Its Own Body Weight In Blood, And Will Not Feed Again For Months. Leeches Were Once Used By Doctors To Drain "Bad Blood" From Sick Patients.
A Lions Roar Can Be Heard From Five Miles Away.
A Lump Of Pure Gold The Size Of A Matchbox Can Be Flattened Into A Sheet The Size Of A Tennis Court.
A Magic Potion Or Charm Thought To Arouse Sexual Love, Especially Toward A Specific Person, Is Known As A "Philter."
A Male Emperor Moth Can Smell A Female Emperor Moth Up To 7 Miles Away.
A Male Moth Can Smell A Female Moth From 100 Yards Away.
A Man And Woman In Mexico City Were Engaged For 67 Yrs And Finally Married At The Age Of 82 Yrs.
A Man Named Charles Osborne Had The Hiccups For 69 Years
A Manatee (Dugong) Has Very Slow-Clotting Blood, And Important In Finding Out About Haemophilia.
A Manned Rocket Can Reach The Moon In Less Time Than It Used To Take To Travel The Length Of England By Stagecoach.
A Mark Twain, A Nautical Measurement Of Depth, Is Equal To Twelve Feet.
A Mcdonald's Straw Will Hold 7.7 Ml, Or Just Over One-And-A-Half Teaspoons Of Whatever You Are Drinking.
A Michigan Law States That A Wife's Hair Legally Belongs To Her Husband.
A Millipede Has 4 Legs On Each Segment Of Its Body.
A Mockingbird Has Been Known To Change Its Tune 87 Times Over A Span Minute Span.
A Mole Can Dig A Tunnel 300 Feet Long In Just One Night.
A Mongoose Is Not A Goose But More Like A Meercat, Which Is Not A Cat But More Like A Prairie Dog, Which Is Not A Dog But More Like A Ground Squirrel.
A Monkey Was Once Tried And Convicted For Smoking A Cigarette In South Bend, Indiana.
A Mosquito Will Become Restless And Start Flying Around If There Is An Increase Of Carbon Dioxide In The Surrounding Air
A Mother In Sydney, Australia, Gave Birth To Twins 56 Days Apart And In Different Years; One Was Born In 17Th December'1952 And The Other On 10Th February'1953.
A Mule Is A Crossbreed Between A Male Donkey And A Female Horse. A Hinnie Is Yada Yada A Female Donkey And A Male Horse.
A Murder Is Committed In The Us Every 23 Minutes, Which Makes About 22852 Murders Each Year.
A Newborn Kangaroo Is About 1 Inch In Length.
A Normal Cow's Stomach Has Four Compartments: The Rumen, The Recticulum (Storage Area), The Omasum (Where Water Is Absorbed), And The Abomasum ( The Only Compartment With Digestive Juices).
A Notch In A Tree Will Remain The Same Distance From The Ground As The Tree Grows.
A Panagram Is A Sentence That Contains All 26 Letters Of The English Alphabet. For Example: Pack My Red Box With Five Dozen Quality Jugs.
A Peanut Is Not A Nut Or A Pea, It's A Legume.
A Penguin Swims At A Speed Of Approximately 15 Miles Per Hour.
A Perfect Game In Baseball Is One In Which The Same Player Pitches The Entire Game Without Allowing Any Player Of The Opposing Team To Reach First Base -By Any Means.
A Person Afflicted With Hexadectylism Has Six Fingers Or Six Toes On One Or Both Hands And Feet.
A Person Has To Travel West To Get From Los Angeles, Ca To Reno, Nv.
A Person Uses Approximently Fifty-Seven Sheets Of Toilet Paper Each Day.
A Person Who Is Lost In The Woods And Starving Can Obtain Nourishment By Chewing On His Shoes. Leather Has Enough Nutritional Value To Sustain Life For A Short Time.
A Person Will Die From Total Lack Of Sleep Sooner Than From Starvation. Death Will Occur About 10 Days Without Sleep, While Starvation Takes A Few Weeks.
A Piano Leg Went Through The Floor Of The White House In 1948 During President Truman's Term.
A Pied-Billed Grebe Is Called A Peebeegeebee By Birdwatchers.
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