Sound Travels 15 Times Faster Through Steel Than Through The Air.
South Africa Produces Two-Thirds Of The World’s Gold.
Soweto In South Africa Was Derived From South West Township.
Spat-Out Food Is Called Chanking.
Spencer Eldon Was The Name Of The Naked Baby On The Cover Of Nirvana’s Album Nevermind.
Spiders Have Transparent Blood.
St. Bernard Dogs Do Not Caryy Kegs Of Brandy, And Never Have.
St. Paul, Minnesota Was Originally Called Pigs Eye After A Man Who Ran A Saloon There.
St. Petersburg, Fl Had 427 Consecutive Days Of Sunshine.
St. Stephen Is The Patron Saint Of Bricklayers.
Stalin’s Left Foot Had Webbed Toes, And His Left Arm Was Noticably Shorter.
Stars Come In Different Colors; Hot Stars Give Off Blue Light, And The Cooler Stars Give Off Red Light.
Steve Martin’s First Movie Was ‘The Jerk’.
Strange-But-Real Organizations That You Might Want To Leave Off Of Your Resume: The Institute Of Totally Useless Skills, The International Association Of Sand Castle Builders, National Society For Prevention Of Cruelty To Mushrooms, Cookie Cutter Collectors Club International Correspondence Of Corkscrew Addicts
Strawberry Pop Tarts May Be A Cheap And Inexpensive Source Of Incendiary Devices. Toasters Which Fail To Eject Pop Tarts Cause The Pop Tarts To Emit Flames 10-18 Inches In Height.
Stressed Is Desserts Spelt Backwards.
Studebaker Still Exists, But Is Now Called Worthington.
Studebaker Was The Only Major Car Company To Stop Manufacturing Cars While Making A Profit On Them.
Students At U.S. Colleges And Universities Read About 60,000 Pages In Four Years.
Sumerians (From 5000 Bc) Thought That The Liver Made Blood And The Heart Was The Center Of Thought.
Sunbeams That Shine Down Through Clouds Are Called Crepuscular Rays.
Superfly Jimmy Snuka Was The First E.C.W. World Champ.
Sweden Has The Least Number Of Murders Annually.
Sylvia Plath Was A Famous Poet Who Killed Herself At Age 31 By Sticking Her Head Into A Oven.
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.
Table Salt Is The Only Commodity That Hasn’t Risen Dramatically In Price In The Last 150 Years.
Taft Was The Last President With Facial Hair.
Talk Show Host Montel Williams Had A Nose Job.
Tang Is Short For Tangy And Also Suggests The Flavor Of Tangerine.
Taphephobia Is The Fear Of Being Buried Alive.
Tarantulas Do Not Use Muscles To Move Their Legs. They Control The Amount Of Blood Pumped Into Them To Extend And Retract Their Legs.
Tasmania Has The Cleanest Air In The Inhabited World.
Tasmania, Australia Has The Cleanest Air In The Inhabited World.
The Condensed Water Vapour Left By Jets In The Sky Is Called A Contrail.
Telly Savalas And Louis Armstrong Died Ontheir Birthdays.
Ten Percent Of Frequent Fliers Say They Never Check Their Luggage When Flying.
Tennessee Avenue, Go, B&O Railroad, Free Parking And Illinois Avenue Are The Five Squares In Monopoly On Which You Are Most Likely To Land On.
Texas Is The Only State That Is Allowed To Fly Its Flag At The Same Height As The U.S. Flag.
Texas Was Once A Country.
That Condensed Water Vapor In The Sky Left Behind By A High-Flying Jet Is A Contrail.
The 16Th Century Astronomer Tycho Brahe Lost His Nose In A Duel With One Of His Students Over A Mathematical Computation. He Wore A Silver Replacement Nose For The Rest Of His Life.
The 1990 New York Yankee Pitching Staff Set An All-Time Record With The Fewest Complete Games, Three.
The 3 Largest Newspaper Circulations Are Russian.
The 3 Most Valuable Brand Names On Earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, And Budweiser, In That Order.
The 3rd Year Of Marriage Is Called The Leather Anniversary.
The 80′S Song Rosanna Was Written By Rosanna Arquette, The Actress.
The A & P Was The First Chain-Store Business To Be Established. It Began In 1842.
The A&W Of Root Beer Fame Stands For Allen And Wright.
The Abbreviation For 1 Pound, Lb., Comes From The Astrological Sign Libra, Meaning Balance.
The Abbreviation Ord For Chicago’s O’hare Airport Comes From The Old Name Orchard Field.
The Academy Award Statue Is Named After A Librarian’s Uncle. One Day Margaret Herrick, Librarian For The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences, Made The Remark That The Statue Looked Like Her Uncle Oscar, And The Name Stuck.
The Actor Who Played Wedge In The Original Star Wars Trilogy Has A Famous Nephew: Actor Ewan Mcgregor, Who Plays Young Obi-Wan In The New Star Wars Film.
The Adult Electric Eel Has Enough Electrical Power In Them That Could Power A House Of About Twelve Hundred Square Feet.
The Adult Human Heart Weighs About Ten Onces.
The Amazon Rainforest Produces Half The World’s Oxygen Supply.
The Ancient Etruscans Painted Women White And Men Red In The Wall Paintings They Used To Decorate Tombs.
The Angel Falls In Venezuela Are Nearly 20 Times Taller Than Niagara Falls.
The Apollo 11 Had Only 20 Seconds Of Fuel Left When It Landed.
The Armhole In Clothing Is Called An Armsaye.
The Arteries And Veins Surrounding The Brain Stem Called The Cirlce Of Willis Looks Like A Stick Person With A Large Head.
The Ashes Of The Average Cremated Person Weighs Nine Pounds.
The Ashes Of The Metal Magnesium Are Heavier Than Magnesium Itself.
The Atlantic Ocean Is Saltier Than The Pacific Ocean.
The Attachment Of The Human Skin To Muscles Is What Causes Dimples.
The Audio Cd First Arrived In The Us In 1984
The Australian $5,$10,$20,$50 And $100 Notes Are Made Out Of Plastic.
The Author Of Roberts’ Rules Of Order, Col. Roberts Of The U. S. Corps Of Engineers, Is Also Famous As The Engineer In Charge Of Designing The Seawall In Galveston, Texas. This Seawall Was Constructed After The Famous Hurricane Of 1900 Which Hit Galveston, Killing Thousands.
The Average Adult Male Grows 1 Pound Of Facial Hair In 10 Years.
The Average American Butt Is 15 Inches Long.
The Average American Chews 190 Sticks Of Gum Each Year.
The Average American Drinks 600 Sodas A Year.
The Average American Family Views Television Six Hours Each Day.
The Average American Looks At Eight Houses Before Buying One.
The Average American Moves 12 Times In A Lifetime.
The Average American Will Eat 19 Pounds Of Cereal Per Year.
The Average Bank Teller Loses $250 A Year.
The Average Body Contains Enough: Iron To Make A 3 Inch Nail, Sulphur To Kill All Fleas On An Average Dog, Carbon To Make 900 Pencils, Potassium To Fire A Toy Cannon, Fat To Make 7 Bars Of Soap, Phosphorus To Make 2,200 Match Heads, Water To Fill A Ten Gallon Tank
The Average Child Will Eat 15 Pounds Of Cereal In A Year.
The Average Computer User Blinks 7 Times A Minute.
The Average Depth Of The Ocean Is 4 Km.
The Average Housefly Lives For One Month.
The Average Human Being Will Walk 160 Billion Millimetres In A Lifetime.
The Average Human Brain Has About 100 Billion Nerve Cells.
The Average Human Head Weighs About 8 Pounds.
The Average Human Scalp Has 100,000 Hairs.
The Average Iceberg Weighs 20,000,000 Tons.
The Average Lead Pencil Will Draw A Line 35 Miles Long Or Write Approximately 50,000 English Words.
The Average Life Of A Tastebud Is 10 Days.
The Average Lifespan For A Person In Sierra Africa Is 41 Years.
The Average Mouse Pad Is 8.75 Inches By 7.5 Inches.
The Average Mousepad Is Eight And Three Quarters By Seven And A Half Inches.
The Average Number Of Passengers Airborne Over The Us Each Hour Is 61,000.
The Average Person Blinks 14,440 Times Per Day.
The Average Person Consumes About 135 Pounds Of Sugar Per Year.
The Average Person Drinks 800 Gallons Of Water During Their Lifetime.
The Average Person Falls Asleep In Seven Minutes.
The Average Person Flexes The Joints In Their Fingers 24 Million Times During A Lifetime.
The Average Person Laughs 15 Times A Day.
The Average Person Looks At 8 Houses Before Actually Buying One.
The Average Person Over Fifty Will Have Spent 1 Year Looking For Lost Items.
The Average Person Over Fifty Will Have Spent 5 Years Waiting In Lines.
The Average Person Speaks About 31,500 Words Per Day.
The Average Person Spends About Two Years On The Phone In A Lifetime.
The Average Person Swallows Three Spiders Annually.
The Average Person Takes 9,000 Steps A Day.
The Average Person Will Spend 2 Weeks Over Their Lifetime Waiting For The Traffic Light To Change.
The Average Person’s Left Hand Does 56% Of The Typing.
The Average Porcupine Has More Than 30,000 Quills.
The Average Raindrop Reaches A Top Speed Of 22 Miles Per Hour.
The Average Sixty Minute Audio Cassette Tape Has 565 Feet Of Tape In It.
The Average Talker Sprays About 300 Microscopic Saliva Droplets Per Minute, About 2.5 Droplets Per Word.
The Average Temperature At The Poles (North And South) Is Minus 70 Degrees Farnenhiet.
The Average Web Page Contains 500 Words.
The Average Woman Consumes 6 Lbs Of Lipstick In Her Lifetime.
The Average Women’s Handbag Weighs 3 To 5 Pounds.
The B’52′S, Were Named After A Fifties Hairdo.
The Baby Ruth Candy Bar Was Actually Named After Grover Cleveland’s Baby Daughter Ruth.
The Bagpipe Was Originally Made From The Whole Skin Of A Dead Sheep.
The Ball On Top Of A Flagpole Is Called The Truck.
The Band Duran Duran Got Their Name From An Astronaut In The 1968 Jane Fonda Movie Barbarella.
The Bark Of The Redwood Tree Is Fireproof. Fires In Redwood Forests Take Place Inside The Trees.
The Bat On The Bacardi Symbol Is There Because The Soil Where The Sugar Cane Grows Is Fertile From The Excessive Guano (Bat Droppings).
The Beatles Featured Two Left Handed Members, Paul, Whom Everyone Saw Holding His Hoffner Bass Left Handed, And Ringo, Whose Left Handedness Is At Least Partially To Blame For His ‘Original’ Drumming Style.
The Beatles Song ‘A Day In The Life’ Ends With A Note Sustained For 40 Seconds.
The Beatles Song Dear Prudence Was Written About Mia Farrow’s Sister Prudence, When She Wouldn’t Come Out And Play With Mia And The Beatles At A Religious Retreat In India.
The Beautiful But Deadly Australian Sea Wasp (Chironex Fleckeri) Is The Most Venomous Jellyfish In The World. Its Cardiotoxic Venom Has Caused The Deaths Of 66 People Off The Coast Of Queensland Since 1880, With Victims Dying Within 1-3 Minutes If Medical Aid Is Not Available.
The Best Working Light-Bulb A Long Time Ago Was A Thread Of Sheep’s Wool Coated With Carbon.
The Bible Has Been Translated Into Klingon.
The Bible Is The Number One Shoplifted Book In America.
The Bigger The Naval The Sweeter The Orange.
The Billionth Digit Of Pi Is 9.
The Black Cauldron Is The Only Pg-Rated Disney Animated Feature.
The Black Widow Spider Can Devour As Many As Twenty ‘Mates’ In A Single Day.
The Blesbok, A South African Antelope, Is Almost The Same Colour As Grapejuice.
The Blood Of A Grasshopper Is Not Red, But White.
The Blue Whale’s Tail Can Generate 500 Horsepower.
The Blueprints For The Eiffel Tower Covered More Than 14,000 Square Feet Of Drafting Paper.
The Book Of Esther In The Bible Is The Only Book Which Does Not Mention The Name Of God.
The Boston University Bridge Is The Only Place In The World Where A Boat Can Sail Under A Train Driving Under A Car Driving Under An Airplane.
The Bottle-Nosed Whale Can Dive To A Depth Of 3,000 Feet In Two Minutes.
The Brady Brunch Went To Elementary School At Dixie Canyon Elementary.
The Brain Requires 25 Percent Of All Oxygen Used By The Body.
The Brightest Star In The Sky, Sirius, Gives Out Twenty-Six Times As Much Light As The Sun.
The Brown Myotis Bats Young When Born Are Equivalent To A Woman Giving Birth To A Thirty Pound Baby.
The Bureau Of Standards Says That The Electron Is The Fastest Thing In The World.
The Calories Burned In One Hour Of Running Could Bring About Seven Quarts Of Water To A Boil.
The Candlefish Is So Oily That It Was Once Burned For Fuel.
The Car-Making Dodge Brothers Horace And John Were Jewish, That’s Why The First Dodge Emblem Had A Star Of David In It.
The Cells Which Make Up The Antlers Of A Moose Are The Fastest Growing Animal Cells In Nature.
The Channel Between England And France Grows 300Mm Each Year.
The Characters Bert And Ernie On Sesame Street Were Named After Bert The Cop And Ernie The Taxi Driver In Frank Capra’s Its A Wonderful Life.
The Chinese Built A Battery That Lasted 400 Years.
The Chinese Ideogram For ‘Trouble’ Depicts Two Women Living Under One Roof’.
The Chinese Nationalist Golf Association Claims The Game Is Of Chinese Origin (Ch’ui Wan – The Ball Hitting Game) In The Third Or 2Nd Century Bc. There Were Official Ordinances Prohibiting A Ball Game With Clubs In Belgium And Holland From 1360.
The Chinese, In Olden Days, Used Marijuana Only As A Remedy For Dysentery.
The Chuck E. Cheese Franchise Was Created By Atari, A Resteraunt Combining Robotic Animals And Arcade Games With Family Meals. They Name The Franchise A Pizza Time Theater. Chuck E. Cheese Was First Opened In 1977.
The Cigarette Lighter Was Invented Before The Match.
The City Of Istanbul Straddles Two Separate Continents, Europe And Asia.
The City Of Mt. Vernon, Washington, Grows More Tulips Than The Entire Country Of Holland.
The Common Goldfish Is The Only Animal That Can See Both Infra-Red And Ultraviolet Light.
The Concave Dish Shape That A Liquid Takes On Inside A Glass Or Tube Is Called A Meniscus.
The Condom Is Named After Dr. Charles Condom.
The Condom-Made Originally Of Linen-Was Invented In The Early 1500′S.
The Correct Response To The Irish Greeting, Top Of The Morning To You, Is And The Rest Of The Day To Yourself.
The Country With The Biggest Percentage Of Female Heads Of Household Is Botswana.
The D In D-Day Means Day. The French Term For D-Day Is J-Jour.
The Deadliest Volcano Eruption Was That Of Krakatau (Indonesia) In 1883.
The Deepest Canyon In Low Relief Territory Is Hell’s Canyon, Dividing Oregon And Idaho. It Plunges 7,900 Ft From The Devil Mountain Down To The Snake River. United States The Deepest Canyon In The Usa Is Kings Canyon, East Fresno, Ca, Which Runs Through Sierra And Sequoia National Forests. The Deepest Point, That Measures 8,200 Ft, Is In The Sierra National Park Forest Section Of The Canyon.
The Deepest Penguin Dive Recorded Was 1261 Ft Under The Water.
The Dial Tone Of A Normal Telephone Is In The Key F.
The Dirt Road That General Washington And His Soldiers Took To Fight Off General Clinton During The Battle Of Monmouth Was Called The Burlington Path.
The Dolphins That Live In The Amazon River Are Pink.
The Dome On Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s Home, Conceals A Billiards Room.
The Driest Places On Earth Are A Series Of Valleys Near Ross Island In Antarctica Where For The Past 2 Million Years At Least, No Rain Has Fallen.
The Dumbest Dog In The World Is The Afghan.
The Duration Record For A Face-Slapping Contest Was Set In Kiev, U.S.S.R., In 1931 When A Draw Was Declared Between Bezbordny And Goniusch After 30 Hours.
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.
The Earliest Document In Latin In A Woman’s Handwriting (It Is From The First Century A.D) Is An Invitation To A Birthday Party.
The Earliest Recorded Case Of A Man Giving Up Smoking Was On April 5, 1679, When Johan Katsu, Sheriff Of Turku, Finland, Wrote In His Diary “I Quit Smoking Tobacco.” He Died One Month Later.
The Earth Experiences 50,000 Earthquakes A Year.
The Earth Flattens At The Poles And Bulges The Equator.
The Earth Gets Heavier Each Day By Tons, As Meteoric Dust Settles On It.
The Earth Weighs Around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Tons.
The Earth, In Its History, Has Been Hit By At Least One Million Meteors.
The East Alligator River In Australia’s Northern Territory, Was Misnamed. It Contains Crocodiles Not Alligators.
The Eiffel Tower Has 2.5 Million Rivets.
The Eiffel Tower Was Built For The 1889 World’s Fair.
The Eight-Dollar Bill Was Designed And Printed By Benjamin Franklin For The American Colonies.
The Eisenhower Interstate System Requires That One Mile In Every Five Must Be Straight. These Straight Sections Are Useable As Airstrips In Times Of War Or Other Emergencies.
The End Of A Hammer, Opposite The Striking End, Is Called A Peen.
The Entire Length Of All Eyelashes Shed By A Human In Their Lifetime Is Over 30 Metres.
The Eskimo Language Has Over Twenty Words To Describe Different Kinds Of Snow.
The Estimated Number Of M & M’sa Sold Each Day In The United States Is 200,000,000.
The Exact Geographic Center Of The United States Is Near Lebanon, Kansas.
The Expression What Is Tarnation Comes From The Original Meaning What In Eternal Damnation.
The External Tank On The Space Shuttle Is Not Painted.
The Eyesight Of The Average Dog Is Much Better Than The Eyesight Of The Average Man.
The Face Of A Penny Can Hold Thirty Drops Of Water.
The Famous Dum-De-Dum-Dum Theme, Obstensively From ‘Dragnet’ Was Actually Composed By Miklos Rozsa For The 1946 Film Noir Classic, The Killers.
The Famous Painting Of Whistler’s Mother Was Once Bought From A Pawn Shop.
The Fastest Moon In Our Solar System Circles Jupiter Once Every Seven Hours – Traveling At 70,400 Miles Per Hour.
The Female Ferret Is Referred To As A Jill.
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.
The First Cd Pressed In The Us Was Bruce Springsteen’s Born In The Usa.
The First City In Modern History To Reach 1 Million People Was London In The 1800′s
The First Couple To Be Shown Together On Prime Time Television Was Fred And Wilma Flintstone.
The First Crime Mentioned In The First Episode Of ‘Hill Street Blues’ Was Armed Robbery.
The First Electric Christmas Lights Were Created By A Telephone Company Pbx Installer. In The Past, Candles Were Used As Light Ornaments–Being Dangerous, The Installer Took The Lights From An Old Switchboard, Connected The Together, Strung Them On A Tree, And Hooked Them To A Battery.
The First Eskimo Bible Was Printed In Copenhagen In 1740
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.
The First Ever Televised Murder Case Appeared On T.V. In 1955, Dec. 5-9. The Accused Was Harry Washburn.
The First Female Guest Host Of Saturday Night Live Was Candace Bergen.
The First Female Monster To Appear On The Big Screen Was Bride Of Frankenstein.
The First Ford Cars Had Dodge Engines.
The First Issue Of People Magazine, In 1974, Cost 35 Cents And Featured Actress Mia Farrow On The Cover.
The First Letter Vanna White Ever Turned On Wheel Of Fortune Was The Letter T.
The First Letters Of The Months July Through November, In Order, Spell The Name Jason.
The First Man To Distill Bourbon Whiskey In The United States Was A Baptist Preacher-In 1789.
The First Owner Of The Marlboro Company Died Of Lung Cancer.
The First Police Force Was Established In Paris 1667.
The First Product Motorola Started To Develop Was A Record Player For Automobiles. At That Time The Most Known Player On The Market Was The Victrola, So They Called Themselves Motorola.
The First Real Motion Picture Theatre Was Called A Nickelodeon (Admission Was A Nickel) And Opened In Mckeesport Pennsylvania Near Pitsberg In 1912
The First Motion Picture Shown There Was The Great Train Robbery.
The First Recorded Occurrence Of A Tornado Was June 10, 1671
The First Telephone Book Ever Issued Contained Only Fifty Names. It Was Published In New Haven, Connecticut, By The New Haven District Telephone Company In February, 1878.
The First Word Spoken By An Ape In The Movie Planet Of The Apes Was Smile.
The First Words That Thomas A. Edison Spoke Into The Phonograph Were, Mary Had A Little Lamb.
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 Founder Of Jc Penny Had The Last Name Of Cash.
The Future’s Museum In Sweden Contains A Scale Model Of The Solar System. The Sun Is 105 Metres In Diameter And Hte Planets Range From 5MM To 6 KM From The ‘Sun.’ This Particular Model Also Contains The Nearest Star Proxima Centauri, Still To Scale Situated In The Museum Of Victoria… In Australia.
The German Bundestag, Or Parliament, Has 672 Members And Is The World’s Largest Elected Legislative Body.
The German Kaiser Wilhelm Ii Had A Withered Arm And Often Hid The Fact By Posing With His Hand Resting On A Sword, Or By Holding Gloves.
The Geysir (‘Gusher’) Near Mt Hekla In South-Central Iceland, From Which All Others Have Been Named, Spurts On Occasions To 180 Ft, While The Adjacent Strokkur, Reactivated By Drilling In 1963, Spurts At 10-15 Min Intervals.
The Giant Cricket Of Africa Enjoys Eating Human Hair.
The Giant Squid Has The Largest Eyes In The World.
The Glue On Israeli Postage Stamps Is Certified Kosher.
South Africa Produces Two-Thirds Of The World’s Gold.
Soweto In South Africa Was Derived From South West Township.
Spat-Out Food Is Called Chanking.
Spencer Eldon Was The Name Of The Naked Baby On The Cover Of Nirvana’s Album Nevermind.
Spiders Have Transparent Blood.
St. Bernard Dogs Do Not Caryy Kegs Of Brandy, And Never Have.
St. Paul, Minnesota Was Originally Called Pigs Eye After A Man Who Ran A Saloon There.
St. Petersburg, Fl Had 427 Consecutive Days Of Sunshine.
St. Stephen Is The Patron Saint Of Bricklayers.
Stalin’s Left Foot Had Webbed Toes, And His Left Arm Was Noticably Shorter.
Stars Come In Different Colors; Hot Stars Give Off Blue Light, And The Cooler Stars Give Off Red Light.
Steve Martin’s First Movie Was ‘The Jerk’.
Strange-But-Real Organizations That You Might Want To Leave Off Of Your Resume: The Institute Of Totally Useless Skills, The International Association Of Sand Castle Builders, National Society For Prevention Of Cruelty To Mushrooms, Cookie Cutter Collectors Club International Correspondence Of Corkscrew Addicts
Strawberry Pop Tarts May Be A Cheap And Inexpensive Source Of Incendiary Devices. Toasters Which Fail To Eject Pop Tarts Cause The Pop Tarts To Emit Flames 10-18 Inches In Height.
Stressed Is Desserts Spelt Backwards.
Studebaker Still Exists, But Is Now Called Worthington.
Studebaker Was The Only Major Car Company To Stop Manufacturing Cars While Making A Profit On Them.
Students At U.S. Colleges And Universities Read About 60,000 Pages In Four Years.
Sumerians (From 5000 Bc) Thought That The Liver Made Blood And The Heart Was The Center Of Thought.
Sunbeams That Shine Down Through Clouds Are Called Crepuscular Rays.
Superfly Jimmy Snuka Was The First E.C.W. World Champ.
Sweden Has The Least Number Of Murders Annually.
Sylvia Plath Was A Famous Poet Who Killed Herself At Age 31 By Sticking Her Head Into A Oven.
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.
Table Salt Is The Only Commodity That Hasn’t Risen Dramatically In Price In The Last 150 Years.
Taft Was The Last President With Facial Hair.
Talk Show Host Montel Williams Had A Nose Job.
Tang Is Short For Tangy And Also Suggests The Flavor Of Tangerine.
Taphephobia Is The Fear Of Being Buried Alive.
Tarantulas Do Not Use Muscles To Move Their Legs. They Control The Amount Of Blood Pumped Into Them To Extend And Retract Their Legs.
Tasmania Has The Cleanest Air In The Inhabited World.
Tasmania, Australia Has The Cleanest Air In The Inhabited World.
The Condensed Water Vapour Left By Jets In The Sky Is Called A Contrail.
Telly Savalas And Louis Armstrong Died Ontheir Birthdays.
Ten Percent Of Frequent Fliers Say They Never Check Their Luggage When Flying.
Tennessee Avenue, Go, B&O Railroad, Free Parking And Illinois Avenue Are The Five Squares In Monopoly On Which You Are Most Likely To Land On.
Texas Is The Only State That Is Allowed To Fly Its Flag At The Same Height As The U.S. Flag.
Texas Was Once A Country.
That Condensed Water Vapor In The Sky Left Behind By A High-Flying Jet Is A Contrail.
The 16Th Century Astronomer Tycho Brahe Lost His Nose In A Duel With One Of His Students Over A Mathematical Computation. He Wore A Silver Replacement Nose For The Rest Of His Life.
The 1990 New York Yankee Pitching Staff Set An All-Time Record With The Fewest Complete Games, Three.
The 3 Largest Newspaper Circulations Are Russian.
The 3 Most Valuable Brand Names On Earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, And Budweiser, In That Order.
The 3rd Year Of Marriage Is Called The Leather Anniversary.
The 80′S Song Rosanna Was Written By Rosanna Arquette, The Actress.
The A & P Was The First Chain-Store Business To Be Established. It Began In 1842.
The A&W Of Root Beer Fame Stands For Allen And Wright.
The Abbreviation For 1 Pound, Lb., Comes From The Astrological Sign Libra, Meaning Balance.
The Abbreviation Ord For Chicago’s O’hare Airport Comes From The Old Name Orchard Field.
The Academy Award Statue Is Named After A Librarian’s Uncle. One Day Margaret Herrick, Librarian For The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences, Made The Remark That The Statue Looked Like Her Uncle Oscar, And The Name Stuck.
The Actor Who Played Wedge In The Original Star Wars Trilogy Has A Famous Nephew: Actor Ewan Mcgregor, Who Plays Young Obi-Wan In The New Star Wars Film.
The Adult Electric Eel Has Enough Electrical Power In Them That Could Power A House Of About Twelve Hundred Square Feet.
The Adult Human Heart Weighs About Ten Onces.
The Amazon Rainforest Produces Half The World’s Oxygen Supply.
The Ancient Etruscans Painted Women White And Men Red In The Wall Paintings They Used To Decorate Tombs.
The Angel Falls In Venezuela Are Nearly 20 Times Taller Than Niagara Falls.
The Apollo 11 Had Only 20 Seconds Of Fuel Left When It Landed.
The Armhole In Clothing Is Called An Armsaye.
The Arteries And Veins Surrounding The Brain Stem Called The Cirlce Of Willis Looks Like A Stick Person With A Large Head.
The Ashes Of The Average Cremated Person Weighs Nine Pounds.
The Ashes Of The Metal Magnesium Are Heavier Than Magnesium Itself.
The Atlantic Ocean Is Saltier Than The Pacific Ocean.
The Attachment Of The Human Skin To Muscles Is What Causes Dimples.
The Audio Cd First Arrived In The Us In 1984
The Australian $5,$10,$20,$50 And $100 Notes Are Made Out Of Plastic.
The Author Of Roberts’ Rules Of Order, Col. Roberts Of The U. S. Corps Of Engineers, Is Also Famous As The Engineer In Charge Of Designing The Seawall In Galveston, Texas. This Seawall Was Constructed After The Famous Hurricane Of 1900 Which Hit Galveston, Killing Thousands.
The Average Adult Male Grows 1 Pound Of Facial Hair In 10 Years.
The Average American Butt Is 15 Inches Long.
The Average American Chews 190 Sticks Of Gum Each Year.
The Average American Drinks 600 Sodas A Year.
The Average American Family Views Television Six Hours Each Day.
The Average American Looks At Eight Houses Before Buying One.
The Average American Moves 12 Times In A Lifetime.
The Average American Will Eat 19 Pounds Of Cereal Per Year.
The Average Bank Teller Loses $250 A Year.
The Average Body Contains Enough: Iron To Make A 3 Inch Nail, Sulphur To Kill All Fleas On An Average Dog, Carbon To Make 900 Pencils, Potassium To Fire A Toy Cannon, Fat To Make 7 Bars Of Soap, Phosphorus To Make 2,200 Match Heads, Water To Fill A Ten Gallon Tank
The Average Child Will Eat 15 Pounds Of Cereal In A Year.
The Average Computer User Blinks 7 Times A Minute.
The Average Depth Of The Ocean Is 4 Km.
The Average Housefly Lives For One Month.
The Average Human Being Will Walk 160 Billion Millimetres In A Lifetime.
The Average Human Brain Has About 100 Billion Nerve Cells.
The Average Human Head Weighs About 8 Pounds.
The Average Human Scalp Has 100,000 Hairs.
The Average Iceberg Weighs 20,000,000 Tons.
The Average Lead Pencil Will Draw A Line 35 Miles Long Or Write Approximately 50,000 English Words.
The Average Life Of A Tastebud Is 10 Days.
The Average Lifespan For A Person In Sierra Africa Is 41 Years.
The Average Mouse Pad Is 8.75 Inches By 7.5 Inches.
The Average Mousepad Is Eight And Three Quarters By Seven And A Half Inches.
The Average Number Of Passengers Airborne Over The Us Each Hour Is 61,000.
The Average Person Blinks 14,440 Times Per Day.
The Average Person Consumes About 135 Pounds Of Sugar Per Year.
The Average Person Drinks 800 Gallons Of Water During Their Lifetime.
The Average Person Falls Asleep In Seven Minutes.
The Average Person Flexes The Joints In Their Fingers 24 Million Times During A Lifetime.
The Average Person Laughs 15 Times A Day.
The Average Person Looks At 8 Houses Before Actually Buying One.
The Average Person Over Fifty Will Have Spent 1 Year Looking For Lost Items.
The Average Person Over Fifty Will Have Spent 5 Years Waiting In Lines.
The Average Person Speaks About 31,500 Words Per Day.
The Average Person Spends About Two Years On The Phone In A Lifetime.
The Average Person Swallows Three Spiders Annually.
The Average Person Takes 9,000 Steps A Day.
The Average Person Will Spend 2 Weeks Over Their Lifetime Waiting For The Traffic Light To Change.
The Average Person’s Left Hand Does 56% Of The Typing.
The Average Porcupine Has More Than 30,000 Quills.
The Average Raindrop Reaches A Top Speed Of 22 Miles Per Hour.
The Average Sixty Minute Audio Cassette Tape Has 565 Feet Of Tape In It.
The Average Talker Sprays About 300 Microscopic Saliva Droplets Per Minute, About 2.5 Droplets Per Word.
The Average Temperature At The Poles (North And South) Is Minus 70 Degrees Farnenhiet.
The Average Web Page Contains 500 Words.
The Average Woman Consumes 6 Lbs Of Lipstick In Her Lifetime.
The Average Women’s Handbag Weighs 3 To 5 Pounds.
The B’52′S, Were Named After A Fifties Hairdo.
The Baby Ruth Candy Bar Was Actually Named After Grover Cleveland’s Baby Daughter Ruth.
The Bagpipe Was Originally Made From The Whole Skin Of A Dead Sheep.
The Ball On Top Of A Flagpole Is Called The Truck.
The Band Duran Duran Got Their Name From An Astronaut In The 1968 Jane Fonda Movie Barbarella.
The Bark Of The Redwood Tree Is Fireproof. Fires In Redwood Forests Take Place Inside The Trees.
The Bat On The Bacardi Symbol Is There Because The Soil Where The Sugar Cane Grows Is Fertile From The Excessive Guano (Bat Droppings).
The Beatles Featured Two Left Handed Members, Paul, Whom Everyone Saw Holding His Hoffner Bass Left Handed, And Ringo, Whose Left Handedness Is At Least Partially To Blame For His ‘Original’ Drumming Style.
The Beatles Song ‘A Day In The Life’ Ends With A Note Sustained For 40 Seconds.
The Beatles Song Dear Prudence Was Written About Mia Farrow’s Sister Prudence, When She Wouldn’t Come Out And Play With Mia And The Beatles At A Religious Retreat In India.
The Beautiful But Deadly Australian Sea Wasp (Chironex Fleckeri) Is The Most Venomous Jellyfish In The World. Its Cardiotoxic Venom Has Caused The Deaths Of 66 People Off The Coast Of Queensland Since 1880, With Victims Dying Within 1-3 Minutes If Medical Aid Is Not Available.
The Best Working Light-Bulb A Long Time Ago Was A Thread Of Sheep’s Wool Coated With Carbon.
The Bible Has Been Translated Into Klingon.
The Bible Is The Number One Shoplifted Book In America.
The Bigger The Naval The Sweeter The Orange.
The Billionth Digit Of Pi Is 9.
The Black Cauldron Is The Only Pg-Rated Disney Animated Feature.
The Black Widow Spider Can Devour As Many As Twenty ‘Mates’ In A Single Day.
The Blesbok, A South African Antelope, Is Almost The Same Colour As Grapejuice.
The Blood Of A Grasshopper Is Not Red, But White.
The Blue Whale’s Tail Can Generate 500 Horsepower.
The Blueprints For The Eiffel Tower Covered More Than 14,000 Square Feet Of Drafting Paper.
The Book Of Esther In The Bible Is The Only Book Which Does Not Mention The Name Of God.
The Boston University Bridge Is The Only Place In The World Where A Boat Can Sail Under A Train Driving Under A Car Driving Under An Airplane.
The Bottle-Nosed Whale Can Dive To A Depth Of 3,000 Feet In Two Minutes.
The Brady Brunch Went To Elementary School At Dixie Canyon Elementary.
The Brain Requires 25 Percent Of All Oxygen Used By The Body.
The Brightest Star In The Sky, Sirius, Gives Out Twenty-Six Times As Much Light As The Sun.
The Brown Myotis Bats Young When Born Are Equivalent To A Woman Giving Birth To A Thirty Pound Baby.
The Bureau Of Standards Says That The Electron Is The Fastest Thing In The World.
The Calories Burned In One Hour Of Running Could Bring About Seven Quarts Of Water To A Boil.
The Candlefish Is So Oily That It Was Once Burned For Fuel.
The Car-Making Dodge Brothers Horace And John Were Jewish, That’s Why The First Dodge Emblem Had A Star Of David In It.
The Cells Which Make Up The Antlers Of A Moose Are The Fastest Growing Animal Cells In Nature.
The Channel Between England And France Grows 300Mm Each Year.
The Characters Bert And Ernie On Sesame Street Were Named After Bert The Cop And Ernie The Taxi Driver In Frank Capra’s Its A Wonderful Life.
The Chinese Built A Battery That Lasted 400 Years.
The Chinese Ideogram For ‘Trouble’ Depicts Two Women Living Under One Roof’.
The Chinese Nationalist Golf Association Claims The Game Is Of Chinese Origin (Ch’ui Wan – The Ball Hitting Game) In The Third Or 2Nd Century Bc. There Were Official Ordinances Prohibiting A Ball Game With Clubs In Belgium And Holland From 1360.
The Chinese, In Olden Days, Used Marijuana Only As A Remedy For Dysentery.
The Chuck E. Cheese Franchise Was Created By Atari, A Resteraunt Combining Robotic Animals And Arcade Games With Family Meals. They Name The Franchise A Pizza Time Theater. Chuck E. Cheese Was First Opened In 1977.
The Cigarette Lighter Was Invented Before The Match.
The City Of Istanbul Straddles Two Separate Continents, Europe And Asia.
The City Of Mt. Vernon, Washington, Grows More Tulips Than The Entire Country Of Holland.
The Common Goldfish Is The Only Animal That Can See Both Infra-Red And Ultraviolet Light.
The Concave Dish Shape That A Liquid Takes On Inside A Glass Or Tube Is Called A Meniscus.
The Condom Is Named After Dr. Charles Condom.
The Condom-Made Originally Of Linen-Was Invented In The Early 1500′S.
The Correct Response To The Irish Greeting, Top Of The Morning To You, Is And The Rest Of The Day To Yourself.
The Country With The Biggest Percentage Of Female Heads Of Household Is Botswana.
The D In D-Day Means Day. The French Term For D-Day Is J-Jour.
The Deadliest Volcano Eruption Was That Of Krakatau (Indonesia) In 1883.
The Deepest Canyon In Low Relief Territory Is Hell’s Canyon, Dividing Oregon And Idaho. It Plunges 7,900 Ft From The Devil Mountain Down To The Snake River. United States The Deepest Canyon In The Usa Is Kings Canyon, East Fresno, Ca, Which Runs Through Sierra And Sequoia National Forests. The Deepest Point, That Measures 8,200 Ft, Is In The Sierra National Park Forest Section Of The Canyon.
The Deepest Penguin Dive Recorded Was 1261 Ft Under The Water.
The Dial Tone Of A Normal Telephone Is In The Key F.
The Dirt Road That General Washington And His Soldiers Took To Fight Off General Clinton During The Battle Of Monmouth Was Called The Burlington Path.
The Dolphins That Live In The Amazon River Are Pink.
The Dome On Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s Home, Conceals A Billiards Room.
The Driest Places On Earth Are A Series Of Valleys Near Ross Island In Antarctica Where For The Past 2 Million Years At Least, No Rain Has Fallen.
The Dumbest Dog In The World Is The Afghan.
The Duration Record For A Face-Slapping Contest Was Set In Kiev, U.S.S.R., In 1931 When A Draw Was Declared Between Bezbordny And Goniusch After 30 Hours.
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.
The Earliest Document In Latin In A Woman’s Handwriting (It Is From The First Century A.D) Is An Invitation To A Birthday Party.
The Earliest Recorded Case Of A Man Giving Up Smoking Was On April 5, 1679, When Johan Katsu, Sheriff Of Turku, Finland, Wrote In His Diary “I Quit Smoking Tobacco.” He Died One Month Later.
The Earth Experiences 50,000 Earthquakes A Year.
The Earth Flattens At The Poles And Bulges The Equator.
The Earth Gets Heavier Each Day By Tons, As Meteoric Dust Settles On It.
The Earth Weighs Around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Tons.
The Earth, In Its History, Has Been Hit By At Least One Million Meteors.
The East Alligator River In Australia’s Northern Territory, Was Misnamed. It Contains Crocodiles Not Alligators.
The Eiffel Tower Has 2.5 Million Rivets.
The Eiffel Tower Was Built For The 1889 World’s Fair.
The Eight-Dollar Bill Was Designed And Printed By Benjamin Franklin For The American Colonies.
The Eisenhower Interstate System Requires That One Mile In Every Five Must Be Straight. These Straight Sections Are Useable As Airstrips In Times Of War Or Other Emergencies.
The End Of A Hammer, Opposite The Striking End, Is Called A Peen.
The Entire Length Of All Eyelashes Shed By A Human In Their Lifetime Is Over 30 Metres.
The Eskimo Language Has Over Twenty Words To Describe Different Kinds Of Snow.
The Estimated Number Of M & M’sa Sold Each Day In The United States Is 200,000,000.
The Exact Geographic Center Of The United States Is Near Lebanon, Kansas.
The Expression What Is Tarnation Comes From The Original Meaning What In Eternal Damnation.
The External Tank On The Space Shuttle Is Not Painted.
The Eyesight Of The Average Dog Is Much Better Than The Eyesight Of The Average Man.
The Face Of A Penny Can Hold Thirty Drops Of Water.
The Famous Dum-De-Dum-Dum Theme, Obstensively From ‘Dragnet’ Was Actually Composed By Miklos Rozsa For The 1946 Film Noir Classic, The Killers.
The Famous Painting Of Whistler’s Mother Was Once Bought From A Pawn Shop.
The Fastest Moon In Our Solar System Circles Jupiter Once Every Seven Hours – Traveling At 70,400 Miles Per Hour.
The Female Ferret Is Referred To As A Jill.
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.
The First Cd Pressed In The Us Was Bruce Springsteen’s Born In The Usa.
The First City In Modern History To Reach 1 Million People Was London In The 1800′s
The First Couple To Be Shown Together On Prime Time Television Was Fred And Wilma Flintstone.
The First Crime Mentioned In The First Episode Of ‘Hill Street Blues’ Was Armed Robbery.
The First Electric Christmas Lights Were Created By A Telephone Company Pbx Installer. In The Past, Candles Were Used As Light Ornaments–Being Dangerous, The Installer Took The Lights From An Old Switchboard, Connected The Together, Strung Them On A Tree, And Hooked Them To A Battery.
The First Eskimo Bible Was Printed In Copenhagen In 1740
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.
The First Ever Televised Murder Case Appeared On T.V. In 1955, Dec. 5-9. The Accused Was Harry Washburn.
The First Female Guest Host Of Saturday Night Live Was Candace Bergen.
The First Female Monster To Appear On The Big Screen Was Bride Of Frankenstein.
The First Ford Cars Had Dodge Engines.
The First Issue Of People Magazine, In 1974, Cost 35 Cents And Featured Actress Mia Farrow On The Cover.
The First Letter Vanna White Ever Turned On Wheel Of Fortune Was The Letter T.
The First Letters Of The Months July Through November, In Order, Spell The Name Jason.
The First Man To Distill Bourbon Whiskey In The United States Was A Baptist Preacher-In 1789.
The First Owner Of The Marlboro Company Died Of Lung Cancer.
The First Police Force Was Established In Paris 1667.
The First Product Motorola Started To Develop Was A Record Player For Automobiles. At That Time The Most Known Player On The Market Was The Victrola, So They Called Themselves Motorola.
The First Real Motion Picture Theatre Was Called A Nickelodeon (Admission Was A Nickel) And Opened In Mckeesport Pennsylvania Near Pitsberg In 1912
The First Motion Picture Shown There Was The Great Train Robbery.
The First Recorded Occurrence Of A Tornado Was June 10, 1671
The First Telephone Book Ever Issued Contained Only Fifty Names. It Was Published In New Haven, Connecticut, By The New Haven District Telephone Company In February, 1878.
The First Word Spoken By An Ape In The Movie Planet Of The Apes Was Smile.
The First Words That Thomas A. Edison Spoke Into The Phonograph Were, Mary Had A Little Lamb.
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 Founder Of Jc Penny Had The Last Name Of Cash.
The Future’s Museum In Sweden Contains A Scale Model Of The Solar System. The Sun Is 105 Metres In Diameter And Hte Planets Range From 5MM To 6 KM From The ‘Sun.’ This Particular Model Also Contains The Nearest Star Proxima Centauri, Still To Scale Situated In The Museum Of Victoria… In Australia.
The German Bundestag, Or Parliament, Has 672 Members And Is The World’s Largest Elected Legislative Body.
The German Kaiser Wilhelm Ii Had A Withered Arm And Often Hid The Fact By Posing With His Hand Resting On A Sword, Or By Holding Gloves.
The Geysir (‘Gusher’) Near Mt Hekla In South-Central Iceland, From Which All Others Have Been Named, Spurts On Occasions To 180 Ft, While The Adjacent Strokkur, Reactivated By Drilling In 1963, Spurts At 10-15 Min Intervals.
The Giant Cricket Of Africa Enjoys Eating Human Hair.
The Giant Squid Has The Largest Eyes In The World.
The Glue On Israeli Postage Stamps Is Certified Kosher.
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