Goat Milk Is Used To Produce Roquefort Cheese.
Goethe Couldn’t Stand The Sound Of Barking Dogs And Could Only Write If He Had An Apple Rotting In The Drawer Of His Desk.
Golden Toads Are So Rare That A Biological Reserve Has Been Specifically Created For Them.
Golfing Great Ben Hogan’s Famous Reply When Asked How To Improve One’s Game Was: Hit The Ball Closer To The Hole.
Goofy Had A Wife, Mrs. Goofy And One Son, Goofy Jr.
Gorillas Often Sleep For Up To Fourteen Hours A Day.
Grapes Explode When You Put Them In The Microwave.
Great Britain Was The First County To Issue Postage Stamps. Hence, The Postage Stamps Of Britain Are The Only Stamps In The World Not To Bear The Name Of The Country Of Origin. However, Every Stamp Carries A Relief Image Or A Silhouette Of The Monarch’s Head Instead.
Greece Has Memorized All 158 Verses.
Green Bay Packers Backup Quarterback, Matt Hasselbeck, Has Been Struck By Lightning Twice In His Life.
Groaking Is To Watch People Eating In Hopes That They Will Offer You Some.
Guinness Book Of Records Holds The Record For Being The Book Most Often Stolen From Public Libraries.
H2O Expands As It Freezes And Contracts As It Melts, Displacing The Exact Same Amount Of Fluid In Either State. So If The Northern Ice Cap Did Melt, It Would Cause Absolutely No Raise In The Level Of The Ocean.
Hair Is Made From The Same Substance As Fingernails.
Hairstylist Anthony Silvestri Cuts Hair While Underwater.
Half Of All People Who Have Ever Smoked Have Now Quit.
Hallmark Makes Cards For 105 Different Relationships.
Ham Radio Operators Got The Term Ham Coined From The Expression Ham-Fisted Operators A Term Used To Describe Early Radio Users Who Sent Morse Code (I.E Pounded Their Fists).
Hans Christian Anderson, Creater Of Fairy Tales, Was Word-Blind. He Never Learned To Spell Correctly, And His Publishers Always Had Errors.
Hard Rock Music Makes Termites Chew Through Wood Twice Their Usual Speed.
Harrison Has A Goat Named His Whiskers.
Harry Truman’s Middle Name Was Just ‘S’. It Isn’t Short For Anything. His Parents Could Not Decide Between Two Different Names Beginning With S.
Harvard Uses Yale Brand Locks On Their Buildings;Yale Uses Best Brand.
Hawaii’s Mount Waialeale Is The Wettest Place In The World – It Rains About Ninety Per Cent Of The Time, About 480 Inches Per Annum.
Hawaiian Words Do Not Contain Consonant Clusters. For Example, Kahlua Is Not A Hawaiian Word.
Hawkeye, On The T.V. Series M*A*S*H Had The T.V. Name Of Bernjamin Franklin Pierce. The Actor’s Name Was Alan Alda.
Hay Fever Is The Sixth Most Prevalent Chronic Condition In The United States.
Henry Ford Flatly Stated That History Is Bunk.
Henry Ford Produces The Model T Only In Black Because The Black Paint Available At The Time Was The Fastest To Dry.
Heroin Is Derived From The Opium Poppy, Papaver Somniferum, Which Means The Poppy That Brings Slee
Heroin Is The Brand Name Of Morphine Once Marketed By Bayer.
Hershey’s Kisses Are Called That Because The Machine That Makes Them Looks Like It’s Kissing The Conveyor Belt.
Hindu Men Once Believed It To Be Unluckily To Marry A Third Time. They Could Avoid Misfortune By Marrying A Tree First. The Tree (His Third Wife) Was Then Burnt, Freeing Him To Marry Again.
Hippopotamuses Do Eighty Percent Of Their Vocalization Under Water.
History’s First Recorded Toothpaste Was An Egyptian Mixture Of Ground
Hitler And Napolean Both Had Only One Testicle.
Hitler Was Claustrophobic. The Elevator Leading To His Eagles’ Nest In The Austrian Alps Was Mirrored So It Would Appear Larger And More Open.
Hobbes Originally Had Pads On His Hands And Feet But Bill Waterson (The Creator) Found Them Too Distracting And Removed Them.
Honey Is Used As A Center For Golf Balls And In Antifreeze Mixtures.
The First Airline, Delag, Was Established On October 16, 1909, To Carry Passengers Between German Cities By Zeppelin Airships. Up To November 1913, More Than 34,000 People Had Used The Service.
Titanic Was Running At 22 Knots When She Hit The Iceberg
The Citrus Soda 7-Up Was Created In 1929; ’7′ Was Selected Because The Original Containers Were 7 Ounces. ‘Up’ Indicated The Direction Of The Bubbles
The Fat Molecules In Goat Milk Are 5 Times Smaller Than Those Found In Cow Milk. It Takes 20 Mins For The Stomach To Breakdown As Opposed To The Hour That It Takes To Break Down Cow Milk
MTV (Music Television) First Aired At 12:01 Am On August 1, 1981. The First Video Was ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’ By The Bugles.
Francis Scott Key Was A Young Lawyer Who Wrote The Poem, ‘The Star Spangled Banner’, After Being Inspired By Watching The Americans Fight Off The British Attack Of Baltimore During The War Of 1812. The Poem Became The Words To The National Anthem
The Famous Dum-De-Dum-Dum Theme, Obstensively From ‘Dragnet’, Was Actually Composed By Miklos Rozsa For The 1946 Film Noir Classic,’The Killers’.
Because Radio Waves Travel At 186,000 Miles Per Second And Sound Waves Saunter At 700 Miles Per Hour, A Broadcast Voice Can Be Heard Sooner 13,000 Miles Away Than It Can Be Heard At The Back Of The Room In Which It Originated
Mosquito Repellents Don’t Repel. They Hide You. The Spray Blocks The Mosquito’s Sensors So They Don’t Know Your There.
The Bagpipe Was Originally Made From The Whole Skin Of A Dead Sheep
Inventor Samuel Colt Patented His Revolver In 1836.
It Has Been Recommended By Dentists That A Toothbrush Be Kept At Least 6 Feet (Two Meters) Away From A Toilet To Avoid Airborne Particles Resulting From The Flush!
The First Ever Indoor Organized Presentation Hockey Game Was A 2-1 Creighton’s Team Victory In Montreal On March 3, 1875, In Victoria Skating Rink.
In Ancient Rome It Was Considered A Sign Of Leadership To Be Born With A Crooked Nose
It Is Possible To Drown And Not Die. Technically The Term ‘Drowning’ Refers To The Process Of Taking Water Into The Lungs, Not To Death Caused By That Process.
The First Known Heart Medicine Was Discovered In An English Garden. In 1799, Physician John Ferriar Noted The Effect Of Dried Leaves Of The Common Foxglove Plant, Digitalis Purpurea, On Heart Action. Still Used In Heart Medications, Digitalis Slows The Pulse And Increases The Force Of Heart Contractions And The Amount Of Lood Pumped Per Heartbeat.
Dry Cereal For Breakfast Was Invented By John Henry Kellogg At The Turn Of The Century
In The Movie The Phantom Menace, Darth Maul’s Voice Was Also Dubbed Over. (In Star Wars James Earl Jones Did Darth Vadar’s Voice.) Also, The Actor Who Played Darth Maul Had No Previous Acting Experience. He Is A Stunt Man Who Came To The Set To Show George Lucas What The Fight Scenes Would Look Like.
During World War II, A German U-Boat Was Sunk By A Truck. The U-Boat In Question Attacked A Convoy In The Atlantic And Then Rose To See The Effect. The Merchant Ship It Sank Had Material Strapped To Its Deck Including A Fleet Of Trucks, One Of Which Was Thrown In The Air By The Explosion, Landing On The U-Boat And Breaking Its Back
Jeremy Bentham, A British Philosopher Who Died In 1832,Left His Entire Estate To The London Hospital Provided That His Body Be Allowed To Preside Over Its Board Meetings. His Skeleton Was Clothed And Fitted With A Wax Mask Of His Face. It Was Present At The Meeting For 92 Years.
Diet Coke Was Only Invented In 1982.
There Are More Than 1,700 References To Gems And Precious Stones In The King James Translation Of The Bible
The E. Coli Bacterium Propels Itself With A ‘Motor’ Only One-Millionth Of An Inch In Diameter, A Thousand Times Smaller Than The Tiniest Motors Built To Date By Man. The Rotation Of The Bacterial Motor Comes From A Current Of Protons. The Efficiency Of The Motor Approaches 100 Per Cent.
Honeybees Have Hair On Their Eyes!
Hot Water Is Heavier Than Cold.
How Valuable Is The Penny You Found Laying On The Ground? If It Takes Just A Second To Pick It Up A Person Could Make $36.00 Per Hour Just Picking Up Pennies.
Howard Hughes Once Made Half A Billion Dollars In One Day. In 1966, He Received A Bank Draft For $546,549,171.00 In Return For His 75% Holdings In Twa.
Howdy Doody Had 48 Freckles.
Hrand Araklein, A Brink’s Car Guard, Was Killed When $50,000 Worth Of Quarters Crushed On Him.
Hudson Bay Is The Largest Bay In The World Bordering Only One Country, Canada.
Hugh Ward Cleaver Beaumont Was An Ordained Minister.
Hulk Hogan’s Real Name Is Terry Bollea.
Human Birth Control Pills Work On Gorillas.
Human Blood Travels 60,000 Miles Per Day On Its Journey Through The Arteries, Arterioles And Capillaries And Back Through The Venules And Veins.
Human Bones Can Withstand Stresses Of Twenty-Four Thousand Pounds Per Square Inch.
Human Hair Is Estimated To Grow At 0.00000001 Miles Per Hour.
Human Thighbones Are As Strong As Concrete.
Humans Are The Only Primates That Do Not Have Pigment In The Palms Of Their Hands.
Humphrey Bogart Was Related To Princess Diana.
Husbands And Wives In India Who Desire Children Whisper Their Wish To The Ear Of A Sacred Cow.
Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone And Hydroxydeoxycorticosterones Are The Largest Anagrams.
Hypnotism Is Banned By Public Schools In San Diego.
I Am. Is The Shortest Complete Sentence In The English Language.
Ice Cream Was Originally Made Without Sugar And Eggs.
Ice Cube’s Real Name Is O’shea Jackson.
If A Spider Dismantles His Web, That Means A Bad Storm Is Near.
If A Surgeon In Ancient Egypt Lost A Patient While Performing An Operation, His Hands Were Cut Off.
The Liquid Inside Young Coconuts Can Be Used As Substitute For Blood Plasma
The World’s Largest Mcdonalds Is Located On I-44 At Vinita, Oklahoma. It Goes From One Side Of The Interstate To The Other, Passing Over The Interstate
Strawberries Have More Vitamin C In Them Than Oranges
Dead Egyptian Noblewomen Were Given The Special Treatment Of Being Allowed A Few Days To Ripen, So That The Embalmers Wouldn’t Find Her Too Attractive
In 1922, Pitcairn Airlines Was The First To Provide Air Sickness Bags
The First Time Movie Audiences Were Treated To A Flushing Toilet Was In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 Release Psycho
The Planet Pluto Takes 248 Earth Years To Orbit The Sun. For Twenty Of Those Years It Is Closer To The Sun Than The Planet Neptune, It’s Orbit Prevents It From Colliding With Neptune
Facts About Onions. Chefs Started Using Them 5,000 Years Ago To Spice Up Their Cooking. Eaten Ram Onions Are Good For Unblocking Stuffed Nose. Onions Are Low In Calories And A Good Source Of Vitamin C, Calcium, Potassium And Fibre. They Get Their Distictive Smell By Soaking Up Sulphur From The Soil. Cooking Destroys The Eyewatering Agent. They Help Reduce Cholestrol If Eaten After A Fatty Meal. They Help Circulation. A Sliced Raw Onion Helps Relive A Bee Sting.
A Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier Can Run For Up To 18 Years.
Titanium Is The Most Corrosion Resistant Material Suitable For Boat Building. It Is Stronger Than Steel And Weighs Only Half As Much.
The ‘Rusticles’ On The Model Of The Sunken Titanic Were Cheeto’s And Bran Flakes Painted With Rust Coloured Primer
In The Original 101 Dalmatians Movie, Pongo Has 72 Spots, Perdita Has 68 And Each Of The Puppies Has 3
Niether The Emu Or Kangaroo Can Walk Backwards. This Is Why They’re On The Australian Coat Of Arms.
The Average Cough Comes Out Ofvyour Mouth At 60Mph.
Ketchup Is Excellent For Cleaning Brass, Especially Tarnished And Corroded Brass
A Team Of Scientist From The University Of Bangor And Caltech Say They Have Succeeded In Transmitting The Properties Of A Light Beam To Another Beam Across A Lab Bench, In What They Claim Is The “First Bona Fide Teleportation”.
Chicken Breeders Have Been Trying To Improve The Smell In The Rearing Sheds By Adding Garlic To The Chickens Diet. One Of The Farmers That Work There Said That It Smells More Like A Pizzeria.
Raindrops Aren’t Actually Tear-Drop Shaped. They Are Rounded At The Top And Flat On The Bottom.
One Day On The Planet Pluto Is About The Length Of A Week On Earth
When The Titanic Sunk There Was 7,500 Lbs Of Ham On It
Pluto Has One Moon Called Charon
The First Police Force Was Establised In Paris 1667
Kermit The Frog Has 11 Points On His Collar Around His Neck.
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