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1351. Today, there are more than 2 700 different languages spoken in the world, with more than 7 000 dialects.
1352. More than 1,000 different languages are spoken in Africa.
1353. The most difficult language to learn is Basque, which is spoken in north-western Spain and south-western France. It is not related to any other language in the world.
1354. Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world, followed by English. But as home language, Spanish is the second most spoken in the world.
1355. The youngest language in the world is Afrikaans, spoken by South Africans.
1356. Dutch and German Protestants fled persecution from the Roman Catholic Church in the 17th and 18th century to settle in the Dutch colony of Cape of Good Hope on the southern point of Africa.
1357. By the early-20th century Afrikaans had developed from Dutch, German and other influences into a fully-fledged language with its own dictionary.
1358. After a mere 90 years, Afrikaans is the second most spoken language in South Africa (Zulu being the most spoken, the Zulu people being the largest ethnic group there).
1359. New languages develop as different cultures meet and mix. For instance, about 700 different languages are spoken in London.
1360. In some suburbs of the London, English is now a second language. The same is happening - or has taken place - in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Singapore.
1361. Already the Internet and mobile phone texting are influencing the development of languages as people communicate freely across cultural and regional borders.
1362. The smallest country in the world is the Vatican. It also is the only country where Latin is the official language.
1363. Somalia is the only country in the world where all the citizens speak one language, Somali.
1364. The Berbers of North Africa have no written form of their language
1365. The Leaning Tower of Pisa has never really been straight
1366. Soon after building started in 1173, the foundation of the Pisa tower settled unevenly. Construction was stopped, and was continued only a 100 year later. It then became visibly clear that the Tower of Pisa is leaning, tilting to the south.
1367. Since regular measuring of the tower began in 1911, the top of the tower has moved 1,2 millimetres (0,05 inch) per year. Today the top of the Tower of Pisa is some 5,3m (17,4 ft) off-centre.
1368. After the bell tower of the Cathedral of Pavia collapsed in 1989, the Consorzio Progetto Torre di Pisa (Tower of Pisa Project Consortium) commissioned engineers to stabilise the Leaning Tower. Because the Tower tilted in different directions in its first years, it is slightly curved, like a banana.
1369. Engineers are working on the footing of the Tower of Pisa rather than the structure, hoping to ease the top back about 20 cm (about 8 inches). But it means that the 800-year old tower will remain leaning.
1370. The Leaning Tower of Pisa stands in the Piazza dei Miracoli (Miracle Square) in the town of Pisa, Italy.
1371. There are 296 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
1372. Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible, lions 89 times, but domestic cats are not mentioned.
1373. The first stone lighthouse was lit by only 24 candles
1374. The first documented lighthouse was the Lighthouse of Alexandria, built in 200 BC on the island of Pharos by the Egyptian Emperor Ptolemy. Considered as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, it is thought to have been 150 metres (492 ft) high - about three times taller than modern lighthouses.
1375. Romans emperors built many lighthouses to assist their navigators.
1376. In 90 AD, Emperor Caligula ordered a light house at Dover, England. It is the oldest lighthouse in England and still stands in the Dover Castle grounds.
1377. The world's tallest brick lighthouse, the Lanterna at Genoa, was built in 1543. It still stands proud at 75m (246 ft) tall.
1378. The world's first stone lighthouse was the Smeaton Eddystone, built just south of Plymouth, England in 1756 by John Smeaton, the "Father of Civil Engineering." It was lit with only 24 candles.
1379. Today, lighthouse lights are the equivalent of 20 million candles, lit by high pressure xenon lamps.
1380. The tallest lighthouse in the world is a steel tower at Yamashita Park, Yokohama. It stands 106 m (348 ft) high.
1381. The Lipizzaner, the world-famous show horse, was first bred in present-day Slovenia
1382. In fact these magnificent white stallions were named after a tiny Slovenian village and stud farm called Lipica only a stone's throw from the Adriatic coast.
1383. In the 16th century, the Austrian Archduke Karl was looking for a suitable site to establish a stud farm for the needs of the Austrian court and chose Lipica as the ideal spot. It was relatively close to the sea, only 15 km away, yet the climate of the Karst plateau at an altitude of 400 m is excellent. On 19 May 1580, he purchased the entire area so that the local population had to move to nearby villages. The same year the Baron Khevenhüller brought a large number of horses from Spain, and in 1581 another 6 studs and 24 mares were brought to Lipica. A year later, and again in 1584, another herd of horses was brought here from Spain and northern Italy (Polesina), and the entire breeding stock was mixed with the local mares.
1384. The stud farm was did not start operating before 1585 because the stables, the living quarters and a man-made water supply system, to provide drinking water, had to be built.
1385. The first administrator of the stud farm was Franc Jurko.
1386. The royal court was regularly supplied by a large number of studs and mares from Lipica.
1387. In 1701, the Spanish stud Cordova, with an excellent pedigree, was brought to Lipica. The number of mares increased to 150.
1388. In 1768, twenty Kladrub mares from the court stud farm of Kopcan were brought to Lipica, but were returned in 1771 to the reopened court stud farm at Kladrub in Bohemia.
1389. In this period, Spanish and Italian horses were mostly used for reproduction, and, to a lesser extent, also the horses from Denmark, northern Germany and Arabia
1390. The studs Pluto (1772), Conversano (1774), Neapolitano (1783), Favory (1779) and Maestoso (1786) were the founders of pedigrees, which today represent the ancestral lines of the Lipizzaners.
1391. In 1796, the stud farm numbered 300 horses. This was the time of the Napoleonic Wars and the horses were sent to Székésfehervár in Hungary. The horses began to return the same year, but most of them were moved to Prestranek.
1392. On 15 November 1805, the horses were on the move again. This time they were taken to Ðakovo in Slavonia, but returned in 1807. When Napoleon occupied the region again in May 1809, the herd was again taken abroad. For six years, the horses remained at Pecsek, on the river Maros, in Hungary. The herd returned to Lipica in 1815 in very poor condition. Then all the horses were inspected and all animals that did not display Lipizzaner features were eliminated.
1393. In 1816, the Arabian stud called Siglavy was purchased, and became the co-founder of the new Arabian lineage in the raising of the Lipizzaner horse. The pedigree has been preserved to this day and has become the sixth ancestral line of the Lipizzaner.
1394. When World War I broke out, most of the stud farm stock was moved to Laxenburg near Vienna in 1915.
1395. After the fall of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, the stud farm was taken over by Austria; the number of horses was reduced and the herd was moved to the state stud farm at Piber near Koflach, in the Austrian province of Styria.
1396. The horses that remained at Kladrup, provided stock for the newly-founded Czechoslovakian stud farm of the Lipizzaner horse.
1397. A portion of the Austrian Lipizzaners, a herd of 109 horses, was taken over by Italy and moved back to Lipica in 1919. The Italians continued raising horses and bred a new type of Lipizzaner horse that differed from the classical pedigree.
1398. During World War II, the Germans occupied Lipica on 9 September 1943. On 16 October of the same year, the Germans moved 176 horses to Hostinec in Sudetenland.
1399. In December 1945, the American military authorities handed over a part of the herd (109 horses) to Italy, and the rest were taken to Piber, Austria. At that time, Yugoslavia demanded the return of the Lipizzaners, but only 11 horses were handed back. Later, several scores of horses were sent to Lipica from the former court stud farm at Demir kapija, so that in 1949 Lipica was regenerated.
1400. By 1979, all of the six lines of the Lipizzaner horse were restored through purchases and exchanges of breeding mares and studs.
1352. More than 1,000 different languages are spoken in Africa.
1353. The most difficult language to learn is Basque, which is spoken in north-western Spain and south-western France. It is not related to any other language in the world.
1354. Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world, followed by English. But as home language, Spanish is the second most spoken in the world.
1355. The youngest language in the world is Afrikaans, spoken by South Africans.
1356. Dutch and German Protestants fled persecution from the Roman Catholic Church in the 17th and 18th century to settle in the Dutch colony of Cape of Good Hope on the southern point of Africa.
1357. By the early-20th century Afrikaans had developed from Dutch, German and other influences into a fully-fledged language with its own dictionary.
1358. After a mere 90 years, Afrikaans is the second most spoken language in South Africa (Zulu being the most spoken, the Zulu people being the largest ethnic group there).
1359. New languages develop as different cultures meet and mix. For instance, about 700 different languages are spoken in London.
1360. In some suburbs of the London, English is now a second language. The same is happening - or has taken place - in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Singapore.
1361. Already the Internet and mobile phone texting are influencing the development of languages as people communicate freely across cultural and regional borders.
1362. The smallest country in the world is the Vatican. It also is the only country where Latin is the official language.
1363. Somalia is the only country in the world where all the citizens speak one language, Somali.
1364. The Berbers of North Africa have no written form of their language
1365. The Leaning Tower of Pisa has never really been straight
1366. Soon after building started in 1173, the foundation of the Pisa tower settled unevenly. Construction was stopped, and was continued only a 100 year later. It then became visibly clear that the Tower of Pisa is leaning, tilting to the south.
1367. Since regular measuring of the tower began in 1911, the top of the tower has moved 1,2 millimetres (0,05 inch) per year. Today the top of the Tower of Pisa is some 5,3m (17,4 ft) off-centre.
1368. After the bell tower of the Cathedral of Pavia collapsed in 1989, the Consorzio Progetto Torre di Pisa (Tower of Pisa Project Consortium) commissioned engineers to stabilise the Leaning Tower. Because the Tower tilted in different directions in its first years, it is slightly curved, like a banana.
1369. Engineers are working on the footing of the Tower of Pisa rather than the structure, hoping to ease the top back about 20 cm (about 8 inches). But it means that the 800-year old tower will remain leaning.
1370. The Leaning Tower of Pisa stands in the Piazza dei Miracoli (Miracle Square) in the town of Pisa, Italy.
1371. There are 296 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
1372. Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible, lions 89 times, but domestic cats are not mentioned.
1373. The first stone lighthouse was lit by only 24 candles
1374. The first documented lighthouse was the Lighthouse of Alexandria, built in 200 BC on the island of Pharos by the Egyptian Emperor Ptolemy. Considered as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, it is thought to have been 150 metres (492 ft) high - about three times taller than modern lighthouses.
1375. Romans emperors built many lighthouses to assist their navigators.
1376. In 90 AD, Emperor Caligula ordered a light house at Dover, England. It is the oldest lighthouse in England and still stands in the Dover Castle grounds.
1377. The world's tallest brick lighthouse, the Lanterna at Genoa, was built in 1543. It still stands proud at 75m (246 ft) tall.
1378. The world's first stone lighthouse was the Smeaton Eddystone, built just south of Plymouth, England in 1756 by John Smeaton, the "Father of Civil Engineering." It was lit with only 24 candles.
1379. Today, lighthouse lights are the equivalent of 20 million candles, lit by high pressure xenon lamps.
1380. The tallest lighthouse in the world is a steel tower at Yamashita Park, Yokohama. It stands 106 m (348 ft) high.
1381. The Lipizzaner, the world-famous show horse, was first bred in present-day Slovenia
1382. In fact these magnificent white stallions were named after a tiny Slovenian village and stud farm called Lipica only a stone's throw from the Adriatic coast.
1383. In the 16th century, the Austrian Archduke Karl was looking for a suitable site to establish a stud farm for the needs of the Austrian court and chose Lipica as the ideal spot. It was relatively close to the sea, only 15 km away, yet the climate of the Karst plateau at an altitude of 400 m is excellent. On 19 May 1580, he purchased the entire area so that the local population had to move to nearby villages. The same year the Baron Khevenhüller brought a large number of horses from Spain, and in 1581 another 6 studs and 24 mares were brought to Lipica. A year later, and again in 1584, another herd of horses was brought here from Spain and northern Italy (Polesina), and the entire breeding stock was mixed with the local mares.
1384. The stud farm was did not start operating before 1585 because the stables, the living quarters and a man-made water supply system, to provide drinking water, had to be built.
1385. The first administrator of the stud farm was Franc Jurko.
1386. The royal court was regularly supplied by a large number of studs and mares from Lipica.
1387. In 1701, the Spanish stud Cordova, with an excellent pedigree, was brought to Lipica. The number of mares increased to 150.
1388. In 1768, twenty Kladrub mares from the court stud farm of Kopcan were brought to Lipica, but were returned in 1771 to the reopened court stud farm at Kladrub in Bohemia.
1389. In this period, Spanish and Italian horses were mostly used for reproduction, and, to a lesser extent, also the horses from Denmark, northern Germany and Arabia
1390. The studs Pluto (1772), Conversano (1774), Neapolitano (1783), Favory (1779) and Maestoso (1786) were the founders of pedigrees, which today represent the ancestral lines of the Lipizzaners.
1391. In 1796, the stud farm numbered 300 horses. This was the time of the Napoleonic Wars and the horses were sent to Székésfehervár in Hungary. The horses began to return the same year, but most of them were moved to Prestranek.
1392. On 15 November 1805, the horses were on the move again. This time they were taken to Ðakovo in Slavonia, but returned in 1807. When Napoleon occupied the region again in May 1809, the herd was again taken abroad. For six years, the horses remained at Pecsek, on the river Maros, in Hungary. The herd returned to Lipica in 1815 in very poor condition. Then all the horses were inspected and all animals that did not display Lipizzaner features were eliminated.
1393. In 1816, the Arabian stud called Siglavy was purchased, and became the co-founder of the new Arabian lineage in the raising of the Lipizzaner horse. The pedigree has been preserved to this day and has become the sixth ancestral line of the Lipizzaner.
1394. When World War I broke out, most of the stud farm stock was moved to Laxenburg near Vienna in 1915.
1395. After the fall of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, the stud farm was taken over by Austria; the number of horses was reduced and the herd was moved to the state stud farm at Piber near Koflach, in the Austrian province of Styria.
1396. The horses that remained at Kladrup, provided stock for the newly-founded Czechoslovakian stud farm of the Lipizzaner horse.
1397. A portion of the Austrian Lipizzaners, a herd of 109 horses, was taken over by Italy and moved back to Lipica in 1919. The Italians continued raising horses and bred a new type of Lipizzaner horse that differed from the classical pedigree.
1398. During World War II, the Germans occupied Lipica on 9 September 1943. On 16 October of the same year, the Germans moved 176 horses to Hostinec in Sudetenland.
1399. In December 1945, the American military authorities handed over a part of the herd (109 horses) to Italy, and the rest were taken to Piber, Austria. At that time, Yugoslavia demanded the return of the Lipizzaners, but only 11 horses were handed back. Later, several scores of horses were sent to Lipica from the former court stud farm at Demir kapija, so that in 1949 Lipica was regenerated.
1400. By 1979, all of the six lines of the Lipizzaner horse were restored through purchases and exchanges of breeding mares and studs.
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1 It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.
2 No president of the United States was an only child.
3 In Maine, it's illegal for a police officer to tell you to have a nice day after giving you a traffic ticket.
4 The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
5 Five flavors of jelly that never sold because they tasted so bad: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
2 No president of the United States was an only child.
3 In Maine, it's illegal for a police officer to tell you to have a nice day after giving you a traffic ticket.
4 The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
5 Five flavors of jelly that never sold because they tasted so bad: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
hm i've had cola jelly before - although I have to say it wasn't one of my favourites
1401. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
1402. The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)
1403. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
1404. The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick.
1405. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
1406. The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
1407. The straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process beer without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the top of the container.
1408. David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
1409. The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY
1410. There are only thirteen blimps in the world.
1411. Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States.
1412. The existing biggest blimp is the Fuji Film blimp.
1413. Naugahyde, plastic "leather" was created in Naugatuck, Connecticut.
1414. The Swiss flag is square.
1415. The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'. The abbreviation for the British Pound Sterling comes from the same source: it is an 'L' for Libra/Lb. with a stroke through it to indicate abbreviation.
1416. Sames goes for the Italian lira which uses the same abbreviation ('lira' coming from 'libra'). So British currency (before it went metric) was always quoted as "pounds/shillings/pence", abbreviated "L/s/d" (libra/solidus/denarius).
1417. The three largest land-owners in England are the Queen, the Church of England and Trinity College, Cambridge.
1418. The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and compline.
1419. If you come from Manchester, you are a Mancunian.
1420. No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.
1421. The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
1422. Madrid is the only European capital city not situated on a river.
1423. The name for fungal remains found in coal is sclerotinite.
1424. The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
1425. Emus cannot walk backwards.
1426. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
1427. The shopping mall in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada has the largest water clock in North America.
1428. Both writer Edgar Allen Poe and LSD advocate Timothy Leary were kicked out of West Point.
1429. The word posh, which denotes luxurious rooms or accomodations, originated when ticket agents in England marked the tickets of travelers going by ship to the Orient. Since there was no air conditioning in those days, it was always better to have a cabin on the shady side of the ship as it passed through the Mediterranean and Suez area. Since the sun is in the south, those with money paid extra to get cabin's on the left, or port, traveling to the Asia, and on the right, or starboard, when returning to Europe. Hence their tickets were marked with the initials for Port Outbound Starboard Homebound, or POSH.
1430. The top layer of a wedding cake, known as the groom's cake, traditionally is a fruit cake. That way it will save until the first anniversery.
1431. 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.
1432. The forward pass was created by the football team at Saint Louis University.
1433. In every show that Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (The Fantasticks) wrote, there is at least one song about rain.
1434. A kind of tortoise in the Galapagos Islands has an upturned shell at its neck so it can reach its head up to eat cactus branches.
1435. The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu.
1436. Parthenogenesis is the term used to describe the process by which certain animals are able to reproduce themselves in successive female generations without intervention of a male of the species. At least one species of lizard is known to do so.
1437. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
1438. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead".
1439. The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.
1440. "Quisling" is the only word in the English language to start with "quis."
1441. All of the cobble stones that used to line the streets in New York were originally weighting stones put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even keel.
1442. Nepal is the only country without a rectangular flag (it looks like two pennants glued on on top of the other)
1443. Libya has the only flag which is all one color with no writing or decoration on it
1444. The only borough of New York City that isn't an island (or part of an island) is the Bronx.
1445. The 1957 Milwaukee Braves were the first baseball team to win the World Series after being relocated.
1446. The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
1447. When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield it's first consumable fruit.
1448. The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
1449. Linn's Stamp News is the world's largest weekly newspaper for stamp collectors.
1450. Tennessee is bordered by more states than any other. The eight states are Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.
1451. Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S
1452. The Western-most point in the contiguous United States is Cape Alava, Washington.
1453. There are only three animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard.
1454. The first fossilized specimen of Austalopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the palentologists' favorite song, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, by the Beatles.
1455. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
1456. The geographical center of North America is near Rugby, North Dakota.
1457. The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
1458. Hacky-sack was invented in Turkey.
1459. If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
1460. There are six five words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate and duumvir, residuum.
1461. The "Calabash" pipe, most often associated with Sherlock Holmes, was not used by him until William Gillette (an American) portrayed Holmes onstage. Gillette needed a pipe he could keep in his mouth while he spoke his lines.
1462. Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
1463. Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.
1464. The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
1465. The shortest French word with all five vowels is "oiseau" meaning bird.
1466. Camel's milk does not curdle.
1467. "Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.
1468. The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.
1469. A person from the country of Nauru is called a Nauruan; this is the only palindromic nationality.
1470. The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate."
1471. Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated two years after he had died.
1472. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
1473. Iowa has more independent telephone companies than any other state.
1474. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
1475. Hamsters love to eat crickets.
1476. The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.
1477. The word "queueing" is the only English word with five consecutive vowels.
1478. The first Eagle Scout west of the Mississippi is buried in San Marcos, Texas.
1479. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
1480. Roberta Flack wrote "Killing Me Softly" about singer Don McLean.
1481. The Greek version of the Old Testament is called the Septuagint.
1482. Spencer Eldon was the name of the naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's album
1483. All three major 1996 Presidential candidates, Clinton, Dole and Perot, are left-handed.
1484. The Madagascan Hissing Cockroach is one of the few insects who give birth to live young, rather than laying eggs.
1485. The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention the name of God.
1486. Sheriff came from Shire Reeve. During early years of feudal rule in England, each shire had a reeve who was the law for that shire. When the term was brought to the United States it was shortned to Sheriff.
1487. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
1488. Dracula is the most filmed story of all time, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is second and Oliver Twist is third.
1489. The silhouette on the NBA logo is Jerry West.
1490. The silhouette on the Major League Baseball logo is Harmon Killebrew.
1491. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
1492. The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.
1493. Soweto in South Africa ws derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.
1494. Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
1495. The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was a spin-off of the Danny Thomas Show.
1496. Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
1497. Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
1498. Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.
1499. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
1500. The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are "screeched" and "strengths."
1402. The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)
1403. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
1404. The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick.
1405. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
1406. The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
1407. The straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process beer without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the top of the container.
1408. David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
1409. The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY
1410. There are only thirteen blimps in the world.
1411. Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States.
1412. The existing biggest blimp is the Fuji Film blimp.
1413. Naugahyde, plastic "leather" was created in Naugatuck, Connecticut.
1414. The Swiss flag is square.
1415. The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'. The abbreviation for the British Pound Sterling comes from the same source: it is an 'L' for Libra/Lb. with a stroke through it to indicate abbreviation.
1416. Sames goes for the Italian lira which uses the same abbreviation ('lira' coming from 'libra'). So British currency (before it went metric) was always quoted as "pounds/shillings/pence", abbreviated "L/s/d" (libra/solidus/denarius).
1417. The three largest land-owners in England are the Queen, the Church of England and Trinity College, Cambridge.
1418. The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and compline.
1419. If you come from Manchester, you are a Mancunian.
1420. No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.
1421. The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
1422. Madrid is the only European capital city not situated on a river.
1423. The name for fungal remains found in coal is sclerotinite.
1424. The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
1425. Emus cannot walk backwards.
1426. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
1427. The shopping mall in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada has the largest water clock in North America.
1428. Both writer Edgar Allen Poe and LSD advocate Timothy Leary were kicked out of West Point.
1429. The word posh, which denotes luxurious rooms or accomodations, originated when ticket agents in England marked the tickets of travelers going by ship to the Orient. Since there was no air conditioning in those days, it was always better to have a cabin on the shady side of the ship as it passed through the Mediterranean and Suez area. Since the sun is in the south, those with money paid extra to get cabin's on the left, or port, traveling to the Asia, and on the right, or starboard, when returning to Europe. Hence their tickets were marked with the initials for Port Outbound Starboard Homebound, or POSH.
1430. The top layer of a wedding cake, known as the groom's cake, traditionally is a fruit cake. That way it will save until the first anniversery.
1431. 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.
1432. The forward pass was created by the football team at Saint Louis University.
1433. In every show that Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (The Fantasticks) wrote, there is at least one song about rain.
1434. A kind of tortoise in the Galapagos Islands has an upturned shell at its neck so it can reach its head up to eat cactus branches.
1435. The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu.
1436. Parthenogenesis is the term used to describe the process by which certain animals are able to reproduce themselves in successive female generations without intervention of a male of the species. At least one species of lizard is known to do so.
1437. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
1438. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead".
1439. The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.
1440. "Quisling" is the only word in the English language to start with "quis."
1441. All of the cobble stones that used to line the streets in New York were originally weighting stones put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even keel.
1442. Nepal is the only country without a rectangular flag (it looks like two pennants glued on on top of the other)
1443. Libya has the only flag which is all one color with no writing or decoration on it
1444. The only borough of New York City that isn't an island (or part of an island) is the Bronx.
1445. The 1957 Milwaukee Braves were the first baseball team to win the World Series after being relocated.
1446. The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
1447. When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield it's first consumable fruit.
1448. The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
1449. Linn's Stamp News is the world's largest weekly newspaper for stamp collectors.
1450. Tennessee is bordered by more states than any other. The eight states are Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.
1451. Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S
1452. The Western-most point in the contiguous United States is Cape Alava, Washington.
1453. There are only three animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard.
1454. The first fossilized specimen of Austalopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the palentologists' favorite song, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, by the Beatles.
1455. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
1456. The geographical center of North America is near Rugby, North Dakota.
1457. The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
1458. Hacky-sack was invented in Turkey.
1459. If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
1460. There are six five words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate and duumvir, residuum.
1461. The "Calabash" pipe, most often associated with Sherlock Holmes, was not used by him until William Gillette (an American) portrayed Holmes onstage. Gillette needed a pipe he could keep in his mouth while he spoke his lines.
1462. Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
1463. Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.
1464. The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
1465. The shortest French word with all five vowels is "oiseau" meaning bird.
1466. Camel's milk does not curdle.
1467. "Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.
1468. The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.
1469. A person from the country of Nauru is called a Nauruan; this is the only palindromic nationality.
1470. The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate."
1471. Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated two years after he had died.
1472. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
1473. Iowa has more independent telephone companies than any other state.
1474. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
1475. Hamsters love to eat crickets.
1476. The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.
1477. The word "queueing" is the only English word with five consecutive vowels.
1478. The first Eagle Scout west of the Mississippi is buried in San Marcos, Texas.
1479. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
1480. Roberta Flack wrote "Killing Me Softly" about singer Don McLean.
1481. The Greek version of the Old Testament is called the Septuagint.
1482. Spencer Eldon was the name of the naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's album
1483. All three major 1996 Presidential candidates, Clinton, Dole and Perot, are left-handed.
1484. The Madagascan Hissing Cockroach is one of the few insects who give birth to live young, rather than laying eggs.
1485. The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention the name of God.
1486. Sheriff came from Shire Reeve. During early years of feudal rule in England, each shire had a reeve who was the law for that shire. When the term was brought to the United States it was shortned to Sheriff.
1487. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
1488. Dracula is the most filmed story of all time, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is second and Oliver Twist is third.
1489. The silhouette on the NBA logo is Jerry West.
1490. The silhouette on the Major League Baseball logo is Harmon Killebrew.
1491. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
1492. The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.
1493. Soweto in South Africa ws derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.
1494. Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
1495. The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was a spin-off of the Danny Thomas Show.
1496. Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
1497. Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
1498. Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.
1499. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
1500. The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are "screeched" and "strengths."
1501. 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.
1502. Images for picture stamps in the United States are commissioned by the United States Postal Service Department of Philatelic Fulfillment.
1503. Artist Constantino Brumidi fell from the done of the U.S. Capitol while painting a mural around the rim. He died four months later.
1504. Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
1505. There were no squirrels on Nantucket until 1989.
1506. Cathy Rigby is the only woman to pose nude for Sports Illustrated. (August 1972)
1507. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
1508. Will Clark of the Texas Rangers is a direct descendant of William Clark of Lewis and Clark.
1509. When ocean tides are at their highest, they are called "spring tides." When they are at their lowest, they are call "neep tides."
1510. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
1511. The last NASCAR driver to serve jail time for running moonshine was Buddy Arrington.
1512. Many Japanese golfers carry "hole-in-one" insurance, because it is traditional in Japan to share one's good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an "ace." The price for what the Japanese term an "albatross" can often reach $10,000.
1513. The difference between male and female blue crabs is the design located on their apron (belly.) The male blue crab has the Washington Monument while the female apron is shaped like the U.S. Capitol.
1514. It takes a lobster approxiamately seven years to grow to be one pound.
1515. The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding.
1516. The lot numbers for the cyanide-tainted Tylenol capsules scare back in 1982 were MC2880 and 1910MD.
1517. Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
1518. The Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
1519. At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world.
1520. A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.
1521. The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone.
1522. Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.
1523. Sunbeams that shine down through the clouds are called crespucular rays.
1524. Very small clouds that look like they have been broken off of bigger clouds are called scuds.
1525. On a dewy morning, if you look at your shadow in the grass, the dew drops shine light back to your eye creating a halo called a heilgenschein (German for halo.)
1526. The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
1527. Giraffes have no vocal cords.
1528. Joe DiMaggio had more home runs than strikeouts during his career.
1529. All porcupines float in water.
1530. Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
1531. A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peel and raisins.
1532. Many northern parishes (counties) of Louisiana did not agree with the Confederate movement. To show their disapproval, they changed their names. That's why there is a Union Parish, Jefferson Parish, etc.
1533. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
1534. Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)
1535. The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' symbolizes 'two women living under one roof'.
1536. German has a wood for the peace offerings brought to your mate when you've committed some conceived slight. This is "drachenfutter" or dragon's food.
1537. In Chinese, the words for crisis and opportunity are the same.
1538. No word in the English language rhymes with month.
1539. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
1540. The poisonous copperhead smells likefresh cut cucumbers.
1541. In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)
1542. The smallest mushroom's name is "Hop-low."
1543. Anne Boleyn had six fingernails on one hand.
1544. Mustard gas was invented in the McKinley Building on the American University campus. Additionally, preliminary work on the Manhattan Project was done in that building. The government used the McKinley Building because of its unusual archticture. If there would be any type of large explosion inside the building, the building would implode onto itself, containing any lethal gas or nuclear material. The building now houses the Physics Department.
1545. When angered, the ears of Tazmanian devils turn a pinkish-red.
1546. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
1547. The naval rank of "Admiral" is derived from the Arabic phrase "amir al bahr", which means "lord of the sea".
1548. The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.
1549. A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
1550. The roads on the island of Guam are made with coral. Guam has no sand. The sand on the beaches is actually ground coral. When concrete is mixed, the coral sand is used instead of importing regular sand from thousands of miles away.
1551. Mt. Vernon Washington grows more tulips than the entire country of Holland.
1552. Jamie Farr (who played Klinger on M*A*S*H) was the only member of the cast who actually served as a soldier in the Korean war.
1553. The southern most city in the United States is Na'alehu, Hawaii.
1554. Alaska was the only part of the United States that was invaded by the Japanese during WWII. The territory was the island of Adak in the Aleutian Chain.
1555. Woodward Ave in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere.
1556. Michigan was the first state to plow it's roads and the first to adopt a yellow dividing line.
1557. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
1558. The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119.
1559. The shortest verse in the Bible is "Jesus wept."
1560. Way back when they were using marble columns, the people selling the columns would carve out the centers and fill it with wax.So the people buying them started asking "Is it without wax?" Or in other words "Are you sincere?"
1561. Zaire is the world leader in cobalt mining, producing two-thirds of the world's cobalt supply.
1562. No modern language has a true concept of "I am." It is always used linked with are in reference of another verb.
1563. Little known Cathedral Caverns near Grant, Alabama has the world's largest cave opening, the largest stalagmite (Goliath), and the largest stalagmite forest in the World.
1564. The only person ever to decline a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was Sinclair Lewis for his book Arrowsmith.
1565. Maine is the only state that borders on only one state.
1566. There are almost twice as many people in Rhode Island than there are in Alaska.
1567. Kudzu is not indigenous to the South, but in that climate it can grow up to six inches a day.
1568. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
1569. The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
1570. The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.'
1571. Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
1572. Bananas do not grow on trees, but on rhizomes.
1573. Astronauts in the Space Shuttle are weightless not because there is no gravity in space, but because they are in free fall around the Earth.
1574. St. Augustine was the first major proponent of the "missionary" position.
1575. Lizzie Borden was acquitted.
1576. Alexander Hamilton was shot by Aaron Burr in the groin.
1577. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
1578. Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the Pulitzer prize.
1579. A scholar who studies the Marquis de Sade is called a Sadian, not a Sadist (of course).
1580. Tribeca in Manhattan stands for TRIangle BElow CAnal street. Soho stands for SOuth of HOuston street.
1581. Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
1582. Theworld's largest wine cask is in Heidleberg, Germany.
1583. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an aligator while he hosted "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
1584. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
1585. Seven Olympic gold medal winners eventually went on to win the Heavyweight Championship of the World
1586. Kerimski Church in Finland is world's biggest church made of wood.The St. Louis Gateway Arch had a
1587. projected death toll while it was being built. No one died. The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
1588. A cat has four rows of whiskers.
1589. Vincent Van Gogh comitted suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows.
1590. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
1591. Jelly Belly jelly beans were the first jelly beans in outer space when they went up with astronauts in the June 21, 1983 voyage of the space shuttle Challenger (the same voyage as the first American woman in space, Sally Ride).
1592. Baseballer Connie Mack's real name was Cornelius McGilicuddy.
1593. If you were standing in the northernmost point in the contiguous (48) states, you'd be standing in Minnesota.
1594. Only thirty percent of the famous Maryland blue crabs are actually from Maryland, the rest are from North Carolina and Virginia.
1595. Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
1596. Not all of West Virginia voted to go with the North. When the State of West Virginia was formed from Virginia in 1863 the three western counties in Virginia voted to go with West Virginia, but West Virginia didn't take them because they were poor. Instead they took three counties that voted to stay with Virginia, because they were richer and they had the B&O railroad. Those counties since split and are 5 Jefferson, Hampshire, Berkley, Mineral, and Morgan.
1597. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
1598. The Dodge brothers Horace and John were Jewish, that's why the first Dodge emblem had a star of David in it.
1599. Studebaker was the only major car company to stop making cars while making a profit from them.
1600. Studebaker still exists, but is now called Worthington.
1502. Images for picture stamps in the United States are commissioned by the United States Postal Service Department of Philatelic Fulfillment.
1503. Artist Constantino Brumidi fell from the done of the U.S. Capitol while painting a mural around the rim. He died four months later.
1504. Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
1505. There were no squirrels on Nantucket until 1989.
1506. Cathy Rigby is the only woman to pose nude for Sports Illustrated. (August 1972)
1507. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
1508. Will Clark of the Texas Rangers is a direct descendant of William Clark of Lewis and Clark.
1509. When ocean tides are at their highest, they are called "spring tides." When they are at their lowest, they are call "neep tides."
1510. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
1511. The last NASCAR driver to serve jail time for running moonshine was Buddy Arrington.
1512. Many Japanese golfers carry "hole-in-one" insurance, because it is traditional in Japan to share one's good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an "ace." The price for what the Japanese term an "albatross" can often reach $10,000.
1513. The difference between male and female blue crabs is the design located on their apron (belly.) The male blue crab has the Washington Monument while the female apron is shaped like the U.S. Capitol.
1514. It takes a lobster approxiamately seven years to grow to be one pound.
1515. The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding.
1516. The lot numbers for the cyanide-tainted Tylenol capsules scare back in 1982 were MC2880 and 1910MD.
1517. Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
1518. The Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
1519. At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world.
1520. A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.
1521. The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone.
1522. Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.
1523. Sunbeams that shine down through the clouds are called crespucular rays.
1524. Very small clouds that look like they have been broken off of bigger clouds are called scuds.
1525. On a dewy morning, if you look at your shadow in the grass, the dew drops shine light back to your eye creating a halo called a heilgenschein (German for halo.)
1526. The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
1527. Giraffes have no vocal cords.
1528. Joe DiMaggio had more home runs than strikeouts during his career.
1529. All porcupines float in water.
1530. Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
1531. A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peel and raisins.
1532. Many northern parishes (counties) of Louisiana did not agree with the Confederate movement. To show their disapproval, they changed their names. That's why there is a Union Parish, Jefferson Parish, etc.
1533. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
1534. Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)
1535. The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' symbolizes 'two women living under one roof'.
1536. German has a wood for the peace offerings brought to your mate when you've committed some conceived slight. This is "drachenfutter" or dragon's food.
1537. In Chinese, the words for crisis and opportunity are the same.
1538. No word in the English language rhymes with month.
1539. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
1540. The poisonous copperhead smells likefresh cut cucumbers.
1541. In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)
1542. The smallest mushroom's name is "Hop-low."
1543. Anne Boleyn had six fingernails on one hand.
1544. Mustard gas was invented in the McKinley Building on the American University campus. Additionally, preliminary work on the Manhattan Project was done in that building. The government used the McKinley Building because of its unusual archticture. If there would be any type of large explosion inside the building, the building would implode onto itself, containing any lethal gas or nuclear material. The building now houses the Physics Department.
1545. When angered, the ears of Tazmanian devils turn a pinkish-red.
1546. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
1547. The naval rank of "Admiral" is derived from the Arabic phrase "amir al bahr", which means "lord of the sea".
1548. The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.
1549. A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
1550. The roads on the island of Guam are made with coral. Guam has no sand. The sand on the beaches is actually ground coral. When concrete is mixed, the coral sand is used instead of importing regular sand from thousands of miles away.
1551. Mt. Vernon Washington grows more tulips than the entire country of Holland.
1552. Jamie Farr (who played Klinger on M*A*S*H) was the only member of the cast who actually served as a soldier in the Korean war.
1553. The southern most city in the United States is Na'alehu, Hawaii.
1554. Alaska was the only part of the United States that was invaded by the Japanese during WWII. The territory was the island of Adak in the Aleutian Chain.
1555. Woodward Ave in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere.
1556. Michigan was the first state to plow it's roads and the first to adopt a yellow dividing line.
1557. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
1558. The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119.
1559. The shortest verse in the Bible is "Jesus wept."
1560. Way back when they were using marble columns, the people selling the columns would carve out the centers and fill it with wax.So the people buying them started asking "Is it without wax?" Or in other words "Are you sincere?"
1561. Zaire is the world leader in cobalt mining, producing two-thirds of the world's cobalt supply.
1562. No modern language has a true concept of "I am." It is always used linked with are in reference of another verb.
1563. Little known Cathedral Caverns near Grant, Alabama has the world's largest cave opening, the largest stalagmite (Goliath), and the largest stalagmite forest in the World.
1564. The only person ever to decline a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was Sinclair Lewis for his book Arrowsmith.
1565. Maine is the only state that borders on only one state.
1566. There are almost twice as many people in Rhode Island than there are in Alaska.
1567. Kudzu is not indigenous to the South, but in that climate it can grow up to six inches a day.
1568. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
1569. The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
1570. The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.'
1571. Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
1572. Bananas do not grow on trees, but on rhizomes.
1573. Astronauts in the Space Shuttle are weightless not because there is no gravity in space, but because they are in free fall around the Earth.
1574. St. Augustine was the first major proponent of the "missionary" position.
1575. Lizzie Borden was acquitted.
1576. Alexander Hamilton was shot by Aaron Burr in the groin.
1577. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
1578. Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the Pulitzer prize.
1579. A scholar who studies the Marquis de Sade is called a Sadian, not a Sadist (of course).
1580. Tribeca in Manhattan stands for TRIangle BElow CAnal street. Soho stands for SOuth of HOuston street.
1581. Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
1582. Theworld's largest wine cask is in Heidleberg, Germany.
1583. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an aligator while he hosted "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
1584. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
1585. Seven Olympic gold medal winners eventually went on to win the Heavyweight Championship of the World
1586. Kerimski Church in Finland is world's biggest church made of wood.The St. Louis Gateway Arch had a
1587. projected death toll while it was being built. No one died. The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
1588. A cat has four rows of whiskers.
1589. Vincent Van Gogh comitted suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows.
1590. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
1591. Jelly Belly jelly beans were the first jelly beans in outer space when they went up with astronauts in the June 21, 1983 voyage of the space shuttle Challenger (the same voyage as the first American woman in space, Sally Ride).
1592. Baseballer Connie Mack's real name was Cornelius McGilicuddy.
1593. If you were standing in the northernmost point in the contiguous (48) states, you'd be standing in Minnesota.
1594. Only thirty percent of the famous Maryland blue crabs are actually from Maryland, the rest are from North Carolina and Virginia.
1595. Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
1596. Not all of West Virginia voted to go with the North. When the State of West Virginia was formed from Virginia in 1863 the three western counties in Virginia voted to go with West Virginia, but West Virginia didn't take them because they were poor. Instead they took three counties that voted to stay with Virginia, because they were richer and they had the B&O railroad. Those counties since split and are 5 Jefferson, Hampshire, Berkley, Mineral, and Morgan.
1597. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
1598. The Dodge brothers Horace and John were Jewish, that's why the first Dodge emblem had a star of David in it.
1599. Studebaker was the only major car company to stop making cars while making a profit from them.
1600. Studebaker still exists, but is now called Worthington.
1601. Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
1602. On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
1603. The top three cork-producing countries are Spain, Portugal and
1604. Algeria. (Cork comes from trees.)
1605. In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's last name is Gail. It is shown on the mail box.
1606. If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and the late M*A*S*H star McLean Stevenson were both once assistant football coaches at Northwestern University.
1607. The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have 1 syllable... it has three.
1608. All swans and all sturgeons in England are property of the Queen. Messing with them is a serious offense.
1609. Michael Di Lorenzo, who plays Eddie Torres on New York Undercover is one of the lead dancers in Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video.
1610. Only two people signed the Decleration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on Augest 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 year later.
1611. October 4, 1957 is a historic date to be remembered, it is the day both "Leave it to Beaver" and the Russian satellite Sputnik 1 were launched.
1612. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
1613. It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
1614. The antifungal, nystatin, which is sometime used for treating thrush, is named after New York State Institute for Health (Acronym)
1615. QANTAS, the name of the Australian national airline, is a (former) acronym, for Queensland And Northern
1616. Territories Air Service.
1617. The world's largest four-faced clock sits atop the Allen-Bradley plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1618. Almonds are members of the peach family.
1619. The first video ever played on MTV Europe was "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits.
1620. If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050
1621. The "Grinch" singer and voice of Tony the Tiger is a charming man named Thurl Ravenscroft.
1622. The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin," pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "Star Trek" lore.
1623. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
1624. 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).
1625. While the Chinese invented gunpowder, they were not the first to develop firearms. Sam Colt invented the
1626. "revolving pistol." Therefore, all revolvers are correctly called pistols.
1627. A 12 gauge "rifled slug" does not spin, even though there are grooves on it's bearing surface. A slug actually travels like a dart.
1628. Revolvers cannot be silenced, due all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
1629. A bullet fired from the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge (also called the .308 Winchester) is still supersonic at 1000 yards.
1630. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
1631. The home team must provide the referee with 24 footballs for each National Football League game.
1632. The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
1633. A flea expert is a pullicologist.
1634. A bear has 42 teeth.
1635. M&M's stands for the last names of Forrest Mars, Sr., then candymaker, and his associate Bruce Murrie.
1636. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
1637. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
1638. Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 105.6 miles per hour.
1639. In Irian Jaya exists a tribe of tall, white people who use parrots as a warning sign against intruders.
1640. In the Dutch province of Twente people live on average half a year shorter than in the rest of the Netherlands.
1641. Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be
1642. right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties in climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.
1643. Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
1644. If the Spaceship Earth ride at EPCOT was a golf ball, to be the proportional size to hit it, you'd be two miles tall.
1645. On Sesame Street, Bert's goldfish were named Lyle and Talbot, presumably after the actor Lyle Talbot.
1646. The word "hangnail" comes from Middle English: ang- (painful) + nail. Nothing to do with hanging.
1647. Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.
1648. Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain smoked forty cigars a day for the last years of his life.
1649. Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When
1650. He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
1651. Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
1652. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
1653. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
1654. If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birthplace was listed as a post office box in Albequerque.
1655. Robert Kennedy was killed in the Ambassador Hotel, the same hotel that housed Marilyn Monroe's first modelling agency.
1656. Ronald Regan sent out the army phoyographer who first discovered Marilyn Monroe.
1657. Carbonated water, with nothing else in it,can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Moh's hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient in soda pop.
1658. Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
1659. The newest dog breed is the Bull Boxer, first bred in the United states in 1990-91.
1660. The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5 megabytes.
1661. South of Tucson, Arizona, all road signs are in the Metric System.
1662. In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.
1663. The real name of Astro (the dog fromThe Jetsons) is "Tralfaz" -- his real owner appeared one day to claim him but wound up giving him back to the Jetsons.
1664. Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
1665. The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."
1666. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously
1667. When a film is in production, the last shot of the day is the "martini shot", the next to last one is the "Abby Singer".
1668. Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.) Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
1669. It is a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly -- so says City Ordinance No. 352 in Pacific Grove, California.
1670. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
1671. Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life! What about milk, you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living!
1672. When Saigon fell the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.
1673. The Fort George Point in Belize City was formed by the silt runoff of Hurricane Hattie.
1674. If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe.
1675. Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
1676. The expression "What in tarnation" comes from the original meaning: "What in eternal damnation"
1677. Gary Burgough who played Walter Radar O'Reily on M*A*S*H has a deformed left thumb. If you watch closely you will see that he never shows his left hand.
1678. Only two states' names begin with double consonants: Florida and Rhode Island.
1679. The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean
1680. Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
1681. The Cincinnati Reds baseball team name was officially changed to the Redlegs during the anti-communist movement.
1682. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
1683. "Xmas" does not begin with the Roman letter X. It begins with the Greek letter "chi," which was used in medieval manuscripts as an abbreviation for the word "Christ" (xus = christus, etc.)
1684. The ampersand (&) is actually a stylised version of the Latin word "et," meaning and."
1685. The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
1686. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
1687. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
1688. On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.
1689. In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
1690. Only humans and horses have hymens.
1691. No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. (Texas Stadium, home of the Cowboys, is not a dome, there is a large hole in the roof.)
1692. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
1693. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". Wally and Beaver had a baby alligator which they kept in the toilet.
1694. In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured
1695. The most eastern part of the western world is located in Ilomantsi, Finland.
1696. "Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting."
1697. The term the "Boogey Man will get you" comes from the Boogey people,who still inhabit an area of Indonesia. These people still act as pirates today and attack ships that pass. Thus the term spread "if you don't watch out the Boogey man will get you."
1698. The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second.
1699. The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.
1700. Race car is a palindrome.
1602. On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
1603. The top three cork-producing countries are Spain, Portugal and
1604. Algeria. (Cork comes from trees.)
1605. In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's last name is Gail. It is shown on the mail box.
1606. If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and the late M*A*S*H star McLean Stevenson were both once assistant football coaches at Northwestern University.
1607. The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have 1 syllable... it has three.
1608. All swans and all sturgeons in England are property of the Queen. Messing with them is a serious offense.
1609. Michael Di Lorenzo, who plays Eddie Torres on New York Undercover is one of the lead dancers in Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video.
1610. Only two people signed the Decleration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on Augest 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 year later.
1611. October 4, 1957 is a historic date to be remembered, it is the day both "Leave it to Beaver" and the Russian satellite Sputnik 1 were launched.
1612. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
1613. It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
1614. The antifungal, nystatin, which is sometime used for treating thrush, is named after New York State Institute for Health (Acronym)
1615. QANTAS, the name of the Australian national airline, is a (former) acronym, for Queensland And Northern
1616. Territories Air Service.
1617. The world's largest four-faced clock sits atop the Allen-Bradley plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1618. Almonds are members of the peach family.
1619. The first video ever played on MTV Europe was "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits.
1620. If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050
1621. The "Grinch" singer and voice of Tony the Tiger is a charming man named Thurl Ravenscroft.
1622. The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin," pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "Star Trek" lore.
1623. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
1624. 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).
1625. While the Chinese invented gunpowder, they were not the first to develop firearms. Sam Colt invented the
1626. "revolving pistol." Therefore, all revolvers are correctly called pistols.
1627. A 12 gauge "rifled slug" does not spin, even though there are grooves on it's bearing surface. A slug actually travels like a dart.
1628. Revolvers cannot be silenced, due all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
1629. A bullet fired from the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge (also called the .308 Winchester) is still supersonic at 1000 yards.
1630. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
1631. The home team must provide the referee with 24 footballs for each National Football League game.
1632. The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
1633. A flea expert is a pullicologist.
1634. A bear has 42 teeth.
1635. M&M's stands for the last names of Forrest Mars, Sr., then candymaker, and his associate Bruce Murrie.
1636. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
1637. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
1638. Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 105.6 miles per hour.
1639. In Irian Jaya exists a tribe of tall, white people who use parrots as a warning sign against intruders.
1640. In the Dutch province of Twente people live on average half a year shorter than in the rest of the Netherlands.
1641. Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be
1642. right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties in climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.
1643. Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
1644. If the Spaceship Earth ride at EPCOT was a golf ball, to be the proportional size to hit it, you'd be two miles tall.
1645. On Sesame Street, Bert's goldfish were named Lyle and Talbot, presumably after the actor Lyle Talbot.
1646. The word "hangnail" comes from Middle English: ang- (painful) + nail. Nothing to do with hanging.
1647. Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.
1648. Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain smoked forty cigars a day for the last years of his life.
1649. Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When
1650. He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
1651. Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
1652. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
1653. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
1654. If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birthplace was listed as a post office box in Albequerque.
1655. Robert Kennedy was killed in the Ambassador Hotel, the same hotel that housed Marilyn Monroe's first modelling agency.
1656. Ronald Regan sent out the army phoyographer who first discovered Marilyn Monroe.
1657. Carbonated water, with nothing else in it,can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Moh's hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient in soda pop.
1658. Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
1659. The newest dog breed is the Bull Boxer, first bred in the United states in 1990-91.
1660. The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5 megabytes.
1661. South of Tucson, Arizona, all road signs are in the Metric System.
1662. In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.
1663. The real name of Astro (the dog fromThe Jetsons) is "Tralfaz" -- his real owner appeared one day to claim him but wound up giving him back to the Jetsons.
1664. Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
1665. The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."
1666. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously
1667. When a film is in production, the last shot of the day is the "martini shot", the next to last one is the "Abby Singer".
1668. Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.) Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
1669. It is a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly -- so says City Ordinance No. 352 in Pacific Grove, California.
1670. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
1671. Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life! What about milk, you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living!
1672. When Saigon fell the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.
1673. The Fort George Point in Belize City was formed by the silt runoff of Hurricane Hattie.
1674. If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe.
1675. Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
1676. The expression "What in tarnation" comes from the original meaning: "What in eternal damnation"
1677. Gary Burgough who played Walter Radar O'Reily on M*A*S*H has a deformed left thumb. If you watch closely you will see that he never shows his left hand.
1678. Only two states' names begin with double consonants: Florida and Rhode Island.
1679. The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean
1680. Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
1681. The Cincinnati Reds baseball team name was officially changed to the Redlegs during the anti-communist movement.
1682. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
1683. "Xmas" does not begin with the Roman letter X. It begins with the Greek letter "chi," which was used in medieval manuscripts as an abbreviation for the word "Christ" (xus = christus, etc.)
1684. The ampersand (&) is actually a stylised version of the Latin word "et," meaning and."
1685. The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
1686. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
1687. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
1688. On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.
1689. In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
1690. Only humans and horses have hymens.
1691. No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. (Texas Stadium, home of the Cowboys, is not a dome, there is a large hole in the roof.)
1692. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
1693. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". Wally and Beaver had a baby alligator which they kept in the toilet.
1694. In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured
1695. The most eastern part of the western world is located in Ilomantsi, Finland.
1696. "Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting."
1697. The term the "Boogey Man will get you" comes from the Boogey people,who still inhabit an area of Indonesia. These people still act as pirates today and attack ships that pass. Thus the term spread "if you don't watch out the Boogey man will get you."
1698. The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second.
1699. The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.
1700. Race car is a palindrome.
1701. We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)
1702. The Basset Horn, a kind of alto clarinet, was named after its inventor -- a man named Horn. "Basset" is from "Basetto," or "little bass" in Italian.
1703. There are more bald eagles in the province of British Columbia then there are in the whole United States.
1704. Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
1705. The "second unit" films movie shots that do not require the presence of actors.
1706. Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.
1707. The world's second largest pipe organ is located at the Organ Grinder on 82nd avenue in Portland, Oregon.
1708. Games Slayter, a Purdue graduate, invented fiberglass.
1709. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
1710. Olympic Badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers
1711. The music group Simply Red is named because of its love for the football team, Manchester United, who have a red home strip.
1712. In case you ever find yourself piloting a dogsled, shout "Jee!" to make the dogs turn left and "Ha!" to go right.
1713. Richard Nixon left instructions for "California, Here I Come" to be the last piece of music played at his funeral ("softly and slowly") were he to die in office.
1714. 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.
1715. Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats.
1716. Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.
1717. Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988 g/cc
1718. Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6 g/cc
1719. The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...
1720. The movie "Paris, Texas" was banned in the city of Paris, Texas, shorty after its box office release.
1721. The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".
1722. Pickled herrings were invented in 1375.
1723. The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827.
1724. Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman, and child in the world.
1725. At McDonalds in New Zealand, they serve apricot pies instead of cherry ones.
1726. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
1727. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
1728. The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
1729. A byte, in computer terms, means 8 bits. A nibble is half that: 4 bits. (Two nibbles make a byte!)
1730. A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
1731. Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
1732. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
1733. The airport in La Paz, Bolivia is the world's highest airport.
1734. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
1735. The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
1736. Chicago is closer to Moscow than to Rio de Janeiro.
1737. Original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington D.C. is what is referred to as a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy of a document and is not the same as a laser produced hologram.
1738. Singpore is the only country with one train station.
1739. The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive--so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
1740. When measuring fonts 'point size' refers to the height of capital letters (one point being one 72nd of an inch). 'Pitch' is a horizontal measurement of the number of letters which can be printed in an inch.
1741. The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one endpoint is P.
1742. In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as 'Fred.'
1743. "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 your talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil"
1744. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
1745. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
1746. Nauru is the only country in the world with no official capital. (Its government offices are all in Yaren
1747. District, but there's no official capital.)
1748. South Africa is the only country with three official capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein.
1749. Lucy Ricardo's maiden name was McGillicudy.
1750. Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.
1751. The red giant star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun.
1752. If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon wil be about three statute miles away.
1753. The one-hundred eleventh element is known as "unnilenilenium"
1754. The longest muscle name is the "levator labii superioris alaeque nasi" and Elvis popularized it with his lip motions.
1755. The longest time someone has typed on a typewriter continuously is 264 hrs., set by Violet Gibson Burns.
1756. The Dutch town of Leeuwarden can be spelled 225 different ways.
1757. There was once a town named "6" in West Virginia.
1758. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
1759. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
1760. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
1761. The oldest word in the English language is "town"
1762. The sea wasp is half an inch long at best and more poisonous than any other jellyfish known to man.
1763. Tigars have striped skin, not just striped fur.
1764. Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason.
1765. The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie Barbarella.
1766. There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.
1767. After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came -- head to toe.
1768. Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently
1769. Hungarian or some other Slavic tongue.
1770. A Laforte fracture is a fracture of all facial bones. It would allow one to pull on another face and remove it like a mask if not held on by skin.
1771. Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
1772. Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were all cousins through one connection or another. (FDR and Eleanor were about five times removed.)
1773. The Earth-Moon size ratio is the largest in the our solar system, excepting Pluto-Charon.
1774. Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tetonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.)
1775. Most snakes have either only one lung, or in some cases, two, with one much reduced in size. This apparently serves to make room for other organs in the highly-elongated bodies of snakes.
1776. A twelve-foot anaconda can catch, kill, and eat a six-foot caiman, a close relative of crocodles and alligators. While these snakes are not usually considered to be the *longest* snake in the world, they are the heaviest, exceeding the reticulated python in girth.
1777. Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.
1778. It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.
1779. Cinderella is known as Tuhkimo in Finland.
1780. If you come from Birmingham, you are a Brummie.
1781. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with, e.g. Asia, Europe.
1782. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
1783. The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
1784. According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go at the speed of light.
1785. In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch.
1786. Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
1787. Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
1788. The "heat" of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale.
1789. Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand
1790. was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize *this* was the day of the changeover.
1791. In left hand drive countries, such as the UK, Ireland, Japan, and Australia, drivers sit on the right hand side of the car. Except for Sweden, where drivers sat on the left, as in North-America.
1792. Japan is the third most densely populated country in the world. First is the Netherlands, followed by Belgium.
1793. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
1794. The "D" in D-day means "Day". The French term for "D-Day" is "J-jour".
1795. Female orcas live twice as long as male orcas. The larger numbers of female orcas in a pod are because of the female's longer lifespan, not because the males have collected a harem.
1796. Most spiders belong to the orb weaver spider family, Family Aranidae. This is pronounced "A Rainy Day."
1797. The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.
1798. Genghis Khan started out life as a goatherd.
1799. The type specimen for the human species is the skull of Edward Drinker Cope, an American paleontologist of the late 1800's. A type specimen is used in paleontology as the best example of that species.
1800. The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".
1702. The Basset Horn, a kind of alto clarinet, was named after its inventor -- a man named Horn. "Basset" is from "Basetto," or "little bass" in Italian.
1703. There are more bald eagles in the province of British Columbia then there are in the whole United States.
1704. Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
1705. The "second unit" films movie shots that do not require the presence of actors.
1706. Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.
1707. The world's second largest pipe organ is located at the Organ Grinder on 82nd avenue in Portland, Oregon.
1708. Games Slayter, a Purdue graduate, invented fiberglass.
1709. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
1710. Olympic Badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers
1711. The music group Simply Red is named because of its love for the football team, Manchester United, who have a red home strip.
1712. In case you ever find yourself piloting a dogsled, shout "Jee!" to make the dogs turn left and "Ha!" to go right.
1713. Richard Nixon left instructions for "California, Here I Come" to be the last piece of music played at his funeral ("softly and slowly") were he to die in office.
1714. 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.
1715. Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats.
1716. Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.
1717. Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988 g/cc
1718. Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6 g/cc
1719. The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...
1720. The movie "Paris, Texas" was banned in the city of Paris, Texas, shorty after its box office release.
1721. The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".
1722. Pickled herrings were invented in 1375.
1723. The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827.
1724. Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman, and child in the world.
1725. At McDonalds in New Zealand, they serve apricot pies instead of cherry ones.
1726. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
1727. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
1728. The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
1729. A byte, in computer terms, means 8 bits. A nibble is half that: 4 bits. (Two nibbles make a byte!)
1730. A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
1731. Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
1732. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
1733. The airport in La Paz, Bolivia is the world's highest airport.
1734. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
1735. The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
1736. Chicago is closer to Moscow than to Rio de Janeiro.
1737. Original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington D.C. is what is referred to as a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy of a document and is not the same as a laser produced hologram.
1738. Singpore is the only country with one train station.
1739. The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive--so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
1740. When measuring fonts 'point size' refers to the height of capital letters (one point being one 72nd of an inch). 'Pitch' is a horizontal measurement of the number of letters which can be printed in an inch.
1741. The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one endpoint is P.
1742. In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as 'Fred.'
1743. "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 your talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil"
1744. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
1745. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
1746. Nauru is the only country in the world with no official capital. (Its government offices are all in Yaren
1747. District, but there's no official capital.)
1748. South Africa is the only country with three official capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein.
1749. Lucy Ricardo's maiden name was McGillicudy.
1750. Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.
1751. The red giant star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun.
1752. If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon wil be about three statute miles away.
1753. The one-hundred eleventh element is known as "unnilenilenium"
1754. The longest muscle name is the "levator labii superioris alaeque nasi" and Elvis popularized it with his lip motions.
1755. The longest time someone has typed on a typewriter continuously is 264 hrs., set by Violet Gibson Burns.
1756. The Dutch town of Leeuwarden can be spelled 225 different ways.
1757. There was once a town named "6" in West Virginia.
1758. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
1759. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
1760. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
1761. The oldest word in the English language is "town"
1762. The sea wasp is half an inch long at best and more poisonous than any other jellyfish known to man.
1763. Tigars have striped skin, not just striped fur.
1764. Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason.
1765. The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie Barbarella.
1766. There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.
1767. After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came -- head to toe.
1768. Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently
1769. Hungarian or some other Slavic tongue.
1770. A Laforte fracture is a fracture of all facial bones. It would allow one to pull on another face and remove it like a mask if not held on by skin.
1771. Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
1772. Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were all cousins through one connection or another. (FDR and Eleanor were about five times removed.)
1773. The Earth-Moon size ratio is the largest in the our solar system, excepting Pluto-Charon.
1774. Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tetonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.)
1775. Most snakes have either only one lung, or in some cases, two, with one much reduced in size. This apparently serves to make room for other organs in the highly-elongated bodies of snakes.
1776. A twelve-foot anaconda can catch, kill, and eat a six-foot caiman, a close relative of crocodles and alligators. While these snakes are not usually considered to be the *longest* snake in the world, they are the heaviest, exceeding the reticulated python in girth.
1777. Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.
1778. It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.
1779. Cinderella is known as Tuhkimo in Finland.
1780. If you come from Birmingham, you are a Brummie.
1781. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with, e.g. Asia, Europe.
1782. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
1783. The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
1784. According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go at the speed of light.
1785. In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch.
1786. Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
1787. Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
1788. The "heat" of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale.
1789. Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand
1790. was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize *this* was the day of the changeover.
1791. In left hand drive countries, such as the UK, Ireland, Japan, and Australia, drivers sit on the right hand side of the car. Except for Sweden, where drivers sat on the left, as in North-America.
1792. Japan is the third most densely populated country in the world. First is the Netherlands, followed by Belgium.
1793. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
1794. The "D" in D-day means "Day". The French term for "D-Day" is "J-jour".
1795. Female orcas live twice as long as male orcas. The larger numbers of female orcas in a pod are because of the female's longer lifespan, not because the males have collected a harem.
1796. Most spiders belong to the orb weaver spider family, Family Aranidae. This is pronounced "A Rainy Day."
1797. The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.
1798. Genghis Khan started out life as a goatherd.
1799. The type specimen for the human species is the skull of Edward Drinker Cope, an American paleontologist of the late 1800's. A type specimen is used in paleontology as the best example of that species.
1800. The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".
1801. The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum.
1802. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
1803. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan"
1804. Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards
1805. All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park.
1806. The Holland and Lincoln Tunnels under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and New York are an engineering feat. The air circulators in the tunnels circulate fresh air completely every ninety seconds.
1807. 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.
1808. The only social fraternity founded during the Civil War was Theta Xi fraternity, at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1864.
1809. The Hudson River along the island of Manhattan flows in either direction depending upon the tide.
1810. Several buildings in Manhattan have their own zip code! The World Trade Center has several.
1811. Lucifer is latin for "Light Bringer". It is a translation of the Hebrew name for Satan, Halael. Satan means
1812. "adversary", devil means "liar".
1813. A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
1814. Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distrubution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being.
1815. Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle.
1816. The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.
1817. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
1818. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
1819. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
1820. The smallest port in Canada is Port Williams, Nova Scotia.
1821. The Canadian province of Newfoundland has its own time zone, which is half an hour behind Atlantic standard time.
1822. Cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have a very high probability of having six toes.
1823. The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".
1824. Rats like boiled sweets better than they like cheese. Big Ben was slowed five minutes one day when a passing group of starlings decided to take a rest on the minute hand of the clock.
1825. The Velvet Underground was named after a book on the S&M culture.
1826. The Velvet Underground's first manager was Andy Warhol, who also produced their first album and designed the cover artwork. The cover artwork for the album (called "The Velvet Underground and Nico") featured a bright yellow banana that could be peeled off to reveal a bright pink banana underneath, with the label "Peel Slowly and See." "Peel Slowly and See" is the title of the Velvet Underground comprehensive boxed set, which is the only currently-available Velvet Underground recording to feature a peelable banana. The peelable banana caused substantial delays in the production of the VU's first album and contributed to Lou Reed's firing Andy Warhol as the group's manager.
1827. The "wild" horses of western North America are actually feral, not wild.
1828. Native speakers of Japanese learn Spanish much more easily than they learn English. Native speakers of English learn Spanish much more easily than they learn Japanese.
1829. New Zealand kiwis lay the largest eggs with respect to their body size of any bird.
1830. Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
1831. When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."
1832. Sting got his name because of a yellow-and-black striped shirt he wore until it literally fell apart.
1833. Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
1834. The topknot that quails have is called a hmuh.
1835. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
1836. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
1837. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint -- no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
1838. There is a type of parrot in New Zealand that likes to eat the rubber strips that line car windows.
1839. New Zealand is also the only country that contains every type of climate in the world.
1840. Cockroaches' favorite food is the glue on envelopes and on the back of postage stamps
1841. In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.
1842. Ralph Kramden made 62 dollars a week.
1843. The only way to stop the pain of the flathead fish's sting is by rubbing the same fish's slime on the wound it gave you.
1844. Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
1845. Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement.
1846. Devo's original name was going to be De-evolution. They shortened it to Devo.
1847. Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'.
1848. Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
1849. Andy Warhol created the Rolling Stone's emblem depicting the big tongue. It first appeared on the cover of the 'Sticky Fingers' album.
1850. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the two left-handed Beatles.
1851. Chris Ford scored the first ever NBA three-point shot.
1852. Of all the East Coast States, New Hampshire has the shortest coastline, about fourteen miles.
1853. New Hampshire is also the only State name the has four consecutive consonants in it (in the same word).
1854. Ontario is the only Canadian Province that borders the Great Lakes.
1855. Alaska has the longest border with Canada of all the fifty states.
1856. Montana has the longest border with Canada of the lower forty-eight States.
1857. Montana also borders the most Canadian Provinces of all the fifty states. It borders three of them.
1858. Arkansas is the only US State that begins with "a" but does not end with "a". All the other States that begin with "a", Arizona, Alabama and Alaska, also end with "a".
1859. Only three angels are mentioned by name in the Bible: Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer.
1860. Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
1861. Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
1862. Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons."
1863. The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should
1864. become a saint, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.
1865. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
1866. The term "Mayday" used for signaling for help (after SOS), it comes from the French term "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MayDay" and means, "Help Me"
1867. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
1868. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 did start in a barn belonging to Patrick and Katherine O'Leary. The O'Leary's house was one of the few that survived the fire. The O'Leary's house had to be guarded by soldiers for weeks afterwards, however, because many enraged residents wanted to burn it down.
1869. The biggest bell is the "Tsar Kolokol" cast in the Kremlin in 1733. It weighs 216 tons, but alas, it is cracked and has never been rung. The bell was being stored in a Moscow shed which caught fire. To "save" it the caretakers decided to throw water on the bell. This did not succeed in -- the water hit the superheated metal and a giant piece immediately cracked off, destroying the bell forever.
1870. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
1871. The smallest mountain range in the world is outside of Marysville, California and is named the Sutter Buttes.
1872. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
1873. Many species of bird copulate in the air. In general, a couple will fly to a very high altitude, and then drop. During their descent, the birds mate. Sometimes the couple gets too involved and SPLAT!
1874. If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die because they need gravity to swallow.
1875. There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
1876. You would have to count to one thousand to use the letter "A" in the English language to spell a whole number.
1877. The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
1878. Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sidewards, like a scissor, to extract the juices from the food.
1879. The letters H I O X in the latin alphabet is the only ones that look the same if you turn them upside down or see them from behind.
1880. The little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side, is called a "porcelator".
1881. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
1882. In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
1883. Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
1884. Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott".
1885. Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
1886. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
1887. The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is called a harp.
1888. The metal part at the end of a pencil is twenty percent sulfur.
1889. John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas
1890. Chainsaw Massacre."
1891. Vietnamese currency consists only of paper money; no coins.
1892. Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting while he was alive, Red Vineyard at Arles.
1893. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
1894. A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
1895. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
1896. Skin is thickest is at the back -- 1/6 of an inch.
1897. The most sensitive finger is the forefinger.
1898. Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern state; it also has the highest latitude,the most eastern longitude and the most western longitude.
1899. Some of Beethoven's symphonies were performed in Kentucky before they were performed in Paris, France.
1900. The word denim comes from 'de Nimes', or from Nimes, a place in France.
1802. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
1803. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan"
1804. Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards
1805. All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park.
1806. The Holland and Lincoln Tunnels under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and New York are an engineering feat. The air circulators in the tunnels circulate fresh air completely every ninety seconds.
1807. 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.
1808. The only social fraternity founded during the Civil War was Theta Xi fraternity, at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1864.
1809. The Hudson River along the island of Manhattan flows in either direction depending upon the tide.
1810. Several buildings in Manhattan have their own zip code! The World Trade Center has several.
1811. Lucifer is latin for "Light Bringer". It is a translation of the Hebrew name for Satan, Halael. Satan means
1812. "adversary", devil means "liar".
1813. A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
1814. Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distrubution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being.
1815. Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle.
1816. The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.
1817. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
1818. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
1819. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
1820. The smallest port in Canada is Port Williams, Nova Scotia.
1821. The Canadian province of Newfoundland has its own time zone, which is half an hour behind Atlantic standard time.
1822. Cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have a very high probability of having six toes.
1823. The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".
1824. Rats like boiled sweets better than they like cheese. Big Ben was slowed five minutes one day when a passing group of starlings decided to take a rest on the minute hand of the clock.
1825. The Velvet Underground was named after a book on the S&M culture.
1826. The Velvet Underground's first manager was Andy Warhol, who also produced their first album and designed the cover artwork. The cover artwork for the album (called "The Velvet Underground and Nico") featured a bright yellow banana that could be peeled off to reveal a bright pink banana underneath, with the label "Peel Slowly and See." "Peel Slowly and See" is the title of the Velvet Underground comprehensive boxed set, which is the only currently-available Velvet Underground recording to feature a peelable banana. The peelable banana caused substantial delays in the production of the VU's first album and contributed to Lou Reed's firing Andy Warhol as the group's manager.
1827. The "wild" horses of western North America are actually feral, not wild.
1828. Native speakers of Japanese learn Spanish much more easily than they learn English. Native speakers of English learn Spanish much more easily than they learn Japanese.
1829. New Zealand kiwis lay the largest eggs with respect to their body size of any bird.
1830. Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
1831. When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."
1832. Sting got his name because of a yellow-and-black striped shirt he wore until it literally fell apart.
1833. Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
1834. The topknot that quails have is called a hmuh.
1835. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
1836. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
1837. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint -- no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
1838. There is a type of parrot in New Zealand that likes to eat the rubber strips that line car windows.
1839. New Zealand is also the only country that contains every type of climate in the world.
1840. Cockroaches' favorite food is the glue on envelopes and on the back of postage stamps
1841. In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.
1842. Ralph Kramden made 62 dollars a week.
1843. The only way to stop the pain of the flathead fish's sting is by rubbing the same fish's slime on the wound it gave you.
1844. Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
1845. Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement.
1846. Devo's original name was going to be De-evolution. They shortened it to Devo.
1847. Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'.
1848. Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
1849. Andy Warhol created the Rolling Stone's emblem depicting the big tongue. It first appeared on the cover of the 'Sticky Fingers' album.
1850. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the two left-handed Beatles.
1851. Chris Ford scored the first ever NBA three-point shot.
1852. Of all the East Coast States, New Hampshire has the shortest coastline, about fourteen miles.
1853. New Hampshire is also the only State name the has four consecutive consonants in it (in the same word).
1854. Ontario is the only Canadian Province that borders the Great Lakes.
1855. Alaska has the longest border with Canada of all the fifty states.
1856. Montana has the longest border with Canada of the lower forty-eight States.
1857. Montana also borders the most Canadian Provinces of all the fifty states. It borders three of them.
1858. Arkansas is the only US State that begins with "a" but does not end with "a". All the other States that begin with "a", Arizona, Alabama and Alaska, also end with "a".
1859. Only three angels are mentioned by name in the Bible: Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer.
1860. Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
1861. Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
1862. Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons."
1863. The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should
1864. become a saint, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.
1865. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
1866. The term "Mayday" used for signaling for help (after SOS), it comes from the French term "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MayDay" and means, "Help Me"
1867. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
1868. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 did start in a barn belonging to Patrick and Katherine O'Leary. The O'Leary's house was one of the few that survived the fire. The O'Leary's house had to be guarded by soldiers for weeks afterwards, however, because many enraged residents wanted to burn it down.
1869. The biggest bell is the "Tsar Kolokol" cast in the Kremlin in 1733. It weighs 216 tons, but alas, it is cracked and has never been rung. The bell was being stored in a Moscow shed which caught fire. To "save" it the caretakers decided to throw water on the bell. This did not succeed in -- the water hit the superheated metal and a giant piece immediately cracked off, destroying the bell forever.
1870. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
1871. The smallest mountain range in the world is outside of Marysville, California and is named the Sutter Buttes.
1872. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
1873. Many species of bird copulate in the air. In general, a couple will fly to a very high altitude, and then drop. During their descent, the birds mate. Sometimes the couple gets too involved and SPLAT!
1874. If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die because they need gravity to swallow.
1875. There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
1876. You would have to count to one thousand to use the letter "A" in the English language to spell a whole number.
1877. The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
1878. Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sidewards, like a scissor, to extract the juices from the food.
1879. The letters H I O X in the latin alphabet is the only ones that look the same if you turn them upside down or see them from behind.
1880. The little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side, is called a "porcelator".
1881. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
1882. In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
1883. Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
1884. Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott".
1885. Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
1886. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
1887. The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is called a harp.
1888. The metal part at the end of a pencil is twenty percent sulfur.
1889. John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas
1890. Chainsaw Massacre."
1891. Vietnamese currency consists only of paper money; no coins.
1892. Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting while he was alive, Red Vineyard at Arles.
1893. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
1894. A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
1895. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
1896. Skin is thickest is at the back -- 1/6 of an inch.
1897. The most sensitive finger is the forefinger.
1898. Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern state; it also has the highest latitude,the most eastern longitude and the most western longitude.
1899. Some of Beethoven's symphonies were performed in Kentucky before they were performed in Paris, France.
1900. The word denim comes from 'de Nimes', or from Nimes, a place in France.
1901. Dublin comes from the Irish Dubh Linn which means Blackpool
1902. Scottish is the language called Gaelic, whereas Irish is actually called Gaeilge.
1903. 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"
1904. A penguin only has sex twice a year.
1905. Mr. Spock's (of Star Trek) blood type was T-Negative
1906. The Dutch town of Abcoude is the only reasonably sized town/city in the world whose name begins with ABC.
1907. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
1908. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
1909. New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400 spoons from every state and almost every country.
1910. Eleven square miles of southwest Kentucky (Fulton County) is cut off from the rest of the state by the
1911. Mississippi River. If you wish to travel from this cut off section to the rest of the state or vice-versa, you must first cross a bordering state.
1912. Point Roberts in Washington State is cut off from the rest of the state by British Columbia, Canada. If you wish to travel from Point Roberts to the rest of the state or vice versa, you must pass through Canada, including Canadian and U.S. customs
1913. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
1914. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
1915. The only city in the United States to celebrate Halloween on the October 30 instead of October 31 is
1916. Carson City, Nevada. October 31 is Nevada Day and is celebrated with a large stret party.
1917. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the
1918. "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
1919. No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
1920. A peanut is not a nut; it is a legume.
1921. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
1922. "Evian" spelled backvards is naive.
1923. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
1924. Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
1925. "Bookkeeper" and "bookkeeping" are the only words in the English language with three consecutive double letters.
1926. Paul McCartney's mother was a midwife.
1927. The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown differently during times of peace or war.
1928. The phrase "sleep tight" originated when mattresses were set upon ropes woven through the bed frame. To remedy sagging ropes, one would use a bed key to tighten the rope.
1929. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
1930. The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.
1931. A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
1932. Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
1933. The arteries and veins surrounding the brain stem called the "circle of Willis" looks like a stick person with a large head.
1934. Welsh mercenary bowmen in the medieval period only wore one shoe at a time.
1935. On a trip to the South Sea islands, French painter Paul Gauguin stopped off briefly in Central America, where he worked as a laborer on the Panama Canal.
1936. The Ganges River in India boasts the only genuine fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
1937. The gene for the Siamese coloration in animals such as cats, rats or rabbits is heat sensitive. Warmth produces a lighter color than does cold. Putting tape temporarily on Siamese rabbit's ear will make the fur on that ear lighter than on the other one.
1938. There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
1939. Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
1940. The words 'sacrilegious' and 'religion' do not share the same etymological root.
1941. "John has a long moustache" was the coded-signal used by the French Resistance in WWII to mobilize their forces once the Allies had landed on the Normandy beaches.
1942. Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed.
1943. Brooklyn is the Dutch name for "broken valley"
1944. There are four states where the first letter of the capital city is the same letter as the first letter of the state: Dover, Delaware; Honolulu, Hawaii; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1945. There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
1946. Venetian blinds were invented in Japan.
1947. The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought at neighbouring Breed's Hill.
1948. Former US Senator Barry Goldwater attended the opening night ceremonies and festivities at Bugsy Siegel's famous Las Vegas casino. They left him out of the movie Bugsy. He is pissed.
1949. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
1950. ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)
1951. The first electric Christmas lights were created by a telephone company PBX installer. Back in the old days, candles were used to decorate Christmas trees. This was obviously very dangerous. Telephone employees are trained to be safety concious. This installer took the lights from an old switchboard, connected them together, strung them on the tree, and hooked them to a battery.
1952. White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees)
1953. The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him.
1954. There is no such thing as naturally blue food, even blueberries are purple.
1955. In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.
1956. Walt Disney had wooden teeth.
1957. The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue.
1958. Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
1959. The coast line around Lake Sakawea in North Dakota is longer than the California coastline along the
1960. Pacific Ocean
1961. Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
1962. The legbones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
1963. Kitsap County, Washington, was originally called Slaughter County, and the first hotel there was called the Slaughter House.
1964. Seattle, Washington, like Rome, was built on seven hills.
1965. Dinosaur droppings are called coprolites, and are actually fairly common.
1966. School busses in the United States are Chrome Yellow and used to be Omaha Orange.
1967. 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.
1968. The tailless dinner jacket was invented in Tuxedo Park, New York. Thus it is called the "tuxedo dinner jacket" and is named after the town...not the other way around.
1969. The state of Maryland has no natural lakes.
1970. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
1971. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
1972. Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
1973. The chemical formula for Rubidium Bromide is RbBr. It is the only chemical formula known to be a palindrome!
1974. St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.
1975. The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON.
1976. The first letters of the names of the Great Lakes spell HOMES.
1977. The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
1978. Soldiers from every country salute with their right hand.
1979. Moisture, not air, causes superglue to dry.
1980. Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
1981. Sarsaparilla is the root that flavors root beer.
1982. The U.S. Mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that marks its pennies.
1983. A full moon always rises at sunset.
1984. If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
1985. Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man o n the moon in 1969.)
1986. The only two Southern state capitals not occuppied by Northern troops during the American Civil War were Austin, Texas and Tallahasse, Florida.
1987. Rabbits love licorice.
1988. Ogdensburg, New York is the only city in the United States situated on the St. Lawrence River.
1989. Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.
1990. Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
1991. Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show GrowingPains wrote the theme songs for The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes.
1992. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
1993. In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
1994. The language Malayalam, spoken in parts of India, is the only language whose name is a palindrome.
1995. Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.
1996. Urea is found in humnan urine and dalmatian dogs and nowhere else.
1997. Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
1998. The Earl of Condom was a knighted personal physician to England's King Charles II in the mid-1600's. The Earl was requested to produce a method to protect the King from syphillis.(Charles the II's pleasure-loving nature was notorious.) The result should be obvious.
1999. Cheryl Ladd (of Charlie's Angels fame) played the voice, both talking and singing, of Joise in the 70s Saturday morning cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats."
2000. Lynyrd Skynard was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, "You boys ain't never gonna to nothin'."
1902. Scottish is the language called Gaelic, whereas Irish is actually called Gaeilge.
1903. 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"
1904. A penguin only has sex twice a year.
1905. Mr. Spock's (of Star Trek) blood type was T-Negative
1906. The Dutch town of Abcoude is the only reasonably sized town/city in the world whose name begins with ABC.
1907. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
1908. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
1909. New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400 spoons from every state and almost every country.
1910. Eleven square miles of southwest Kentucky (Fulton County) is cut off from the rest of the state by the
1911. Mississippi River. If you wish to travel from this cut off section to the rest of the state or vice-versa, you must first cross a bordering state.
1912. Point Roberts in Washington State is cut off from the rest of the state by British Columbia, Canada. If you wish to travel from Point Roberts to the rest of the state or vice versa, you must pass through Canada, including Canadian and U.S. customs
1913. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
1914. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
1915. The only city in the United States to celebrate Halloween on the October 30 instead of October 31 is
1916. Carson City, Nevada. October 31 is Nevada Day and is celebrated with a large stret party.
1917. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the
1918. "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
1919. No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
1920. A peanut is not a nut; it is a legume.
1921. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
1922. "Evian" spelled backvards is naive.
1923. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
1924. Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
1925. "Bookkeeper" and "bookkeeping" are the only words in the English language with three consecutive double letters.
1926. Paul McCartney's mother was a midwife.
1927. The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown differently during times of peace or war.
1928. The phrase "sleep tight" originated when mattresses were set upon ropes woven through the bed frame. To remedy sagging ropes, one would use a bed key to tighten the rope.
1929. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
1930. The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.
1931. A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
1932. Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
1933. The arteries and veins surrounding the brain stem called the "circle of Willis" looks like a stick person with a large head.
1934. Welsh mercenary bowmen in the medieval period only wore one shoe at a time.
1935. On a trip to the South Sea islands, French painter Paul Gauguin stopped off briefly in Central America, where he worked as a laborer on the Panama Canal.
1936. The Ganges River in India boasts the only genuine fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
1937. The gene for the Siamese coloration in animals such as cats, rats or rabbits is heat sensitive. Warmth produces a lighter color than does cold. Putting tape temporarily on Siamese rabbit's ear will make the fur on that ear lighter than on the other one.
1938. There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
1939. Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
1940. The words 'sacrilegious' and 'religion' do not share the same etymological root.
1941. "John has a long moustache" was the coded-signal used by the French Resistance in WWII to mobilize their forces once the Allies had landed on the Normandy beaches.
1942. Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed.
1943. Brooklyn is the Dutch name for "broken valley"
1944. There are four states where the first letter of the capital city is the same letter as the first letter of the state: Dover, Delaware; Honolulu, Hawaii; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1945. There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
1946. Venetian blinds were invented in Japan.
1947. The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought at neighbouring Breed's Hill.
1948. Former US Senator Barry Goldwater attended the opening night ceremonies and festivities at Bugsy Siegel's famous Las Vegas casino. They left him out of the movie Bugsy. He is pissed.
1949. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
1950. ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)
1951. The first electric Christmas lights were created by a telephone company PBX installer. Back in the old days, candles were used to decorate Christmas trees. This was obviously very dangerous. Telephone employees are trained to be safety concious. This installer took the lights from an old switchboard, connected them together, strung them on the tree, and hooked them to a battery.
1952. White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees)
1953. The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him.
1954. There is no such thing as naturally blue food, even blueberries are purple.
1955. In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.
1956. Walt Disney had wooden teeth.
1957. The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue.
1958. Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
1959. The coast line around Lake Sakawea in North Dakota is longer than the California coastline along the
1960. Pacific Ocean
1961. Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
1962. The legbones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
1963. Kitsap County, Washington, was originally called Slaughter County, and the first hotel there was called the Slaughter House.
1964. Seattle, Washington, like Rome, was built on seven hills.
1965. Dinosaur droppings are called coprolites, and are actually fairly common.
1966. School busses in the United States are Chrome Yellow and used to be Omaha Orange.
1967. 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.
1968. The tailless dinner jacket was invented in Tuxedo Park, New York. Thus it is called the "tuxedo dinner jacket" and is named after the town...not the other way around.
1969. The state of Maryland has no natural lakes.
1970. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
1971. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
1972. Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
1973. The chemical formula for Rubidium Bromide is RbBr. It is the only chemical formula known to be a palindrome!
1974. St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.
1975. The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON.
1976. The first letters of the names of the Great Lakes spell HOMES.
1977. The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
1978. Soldiers from every country salute with their right hand.
1979. Moisture, not air, causes superglue to dry.
1980. Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
1981. Sarsaparilla is the root that flavors root beer.
1982. The U.S. Mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that marks its pennies.
1983. A full moon always rises at sunset.
1984. If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
1985. Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man o n the moon in 1969.)
1986. The only two Southern state capitals not occuppied by Northern troops during the American Civil War were Austin, Texas and Tallahasse, Florida.
1987. Rabbits love licorice.
1988. Ogdensburg, New York is the only city in the United States situated on the St. Lawrence River.
1989. Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.
1990. Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
1991. Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show GrowingPains wrote the theme songs for The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes.
1992. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
1993. In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
1994. The language Malayalam, spoken in parts of India, is the only language whose name is a palindrome.
1995. Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.
1996. Urea is found in humnan urine and dalmatian dogs and nowhere else.
1997. Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
1998. The Earl of Condom was a knighted personal physician to England's King Charles II in the mid-1600's. The Earl was requested to produce a method to protect the King from syphillis.(Charles the II's pleasure-loving nature was notorious.) The result should be obvious.
1999. Cheryl Ladd (of Charlie's Angels fame) played the voice, both talking and singing, of Joise in the 70s Saturday morning cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats."
2000. Lynyrd Skynard was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, "You boys ain't never gonna to nothin'."
2001. M & M's were developed so that soldiers could eat candy without getting their fingers sticky.
2002. Richard Nixon's favorite drink was a dry martini.
2003. The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.
2004. The license plate number of the Volkswagon that appeared on the cover of the Beatles Abbey Road album was 281F.
2005. Pinocchio was made of pine.
2006. An ant lion is neither an ant nor a lion.
2007. Jethro Tull is not the name of the rock singer/flautist responsible for such songs as "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick." Jethro Tull is the name of the band. The singer is Ian Anderson. The original Jethro Tull was an English horticulturalist who invented the seed drill.
2008. Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never- aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.
2009. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
2010. The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
2011. Neck ties were first worn in Croatia. That's why they were called cravats (CRO-vats).
2012. Alma mater means bountiful mother.
2013. A Holstein's spots are like fingerprints -- no two cows have the same pattern of spots.
2014. Glass flutes do not expand with humidity so their owners are spared the nuisance of tuning them.
2015. Jersey (in the Channel Islands, UK) was the only place that the Nazi's occupied in Great Britain during
2016. World War II.
2017. Top English soccer club Liverpool were formed because their local enemies, Everton, couldn't pay the rent for their stadium. Therefore Liverpool took over at the stadium (Anfield) and became England's top soccer team ever.
2018. The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
2019. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
2020. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
2021. The "Hallelujah Chorus" fits into the Easter portion of Handel's Messiah, not Christmas.
2022. Over 30 million people in the US "suffer" from Diastima. Diastima is having a gap between your front teeth.
2023. In 1976 Sarah Caldwell became the first woman to conduct the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
2024. Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
2025. Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
2026. The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
2027. Libya is the only country in the world with a solid, single-colored flag -- it's green.
2028. Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language.
2029. Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
2030. The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.
2031. "Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occuring, relax and correct itself. At about that height it hits maximum speed and when it hits the ground it's rib cage absorbs most of the impact. So throw your cat off a building today!"
2032. There are eight different sizes of champagne bottle and the largest is called a Nebuchadnezzar (after the Biblical king who put Daniel's three friends into the oven).
2033. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
2034. The female ferret is referred to as a `jill'.
2035. The word rodent comes from the Latin word `rodere' meaning to gnaw.
2036. Australian Rules Football was originally designed to give cricketers something to play during the off season.
2037. Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
2038. The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
2039. Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of "The Boy General" is one of the few women buried at the U.S. Military academy at West Point, New York.
2040. "Freelance" comes from a knight whose lance was free for hire, i.e. not pledged to one master.)
2041. The only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is one located in the inner ear.
2042. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
2043. There are ten human body parts that are only three letters long: Eye, Ear, Leg, Arm, Jaw, Gum, Toe, Lip, Hip and Rib.
2044. Michigan was the first state to have roadside picnic tables.
2045. Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
2046. Fitchburg, Massachusetts is the second hillest city in the US.
2047. During WWII the city of Leningrad underwent a seventeen month German seige. Unable to access the city by roads, the Russians built a railroad across the ice on Lake Lagoda to get food and supplies to the citizens.
2048. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
2049. Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever
2050. Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry, founder of Blues Inc. They were the first electric white blues band ever seen in England--1961
2051. Elton John's uncle was a professional soccer player. He broke his leg playing for Nottingham Forest in the 1959 English FA Cup Final.
2052. The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.
2053. Horses cannot vomit.
2054. Rabbits cannot vomit.
2055. The word "Boondocks" comes from the Tagalog (Filipino) word "Bundok," which
2056. means mountain.
2057. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
2058. The "chapters" of the New Testament were not there originally. When monks in medieval times translated it
2059. from the Greek, they numbered the pages in each "book."
2060. Coca-Cola contains neither coca nor cola.
2061. Yucatan, as in the peninsula, is from Maya "u" + "u" + "uthaan," meaning "listen to how they speak," what the Maya said when they first heard the Spaniards.
2062. The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome.
2063. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified is to poke someone's eye out.
2064. The original plan for Disneyland included a Lilliputland.
2065. S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international
2066. conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..
2067. The word "moose" was originally Algonquin.
2068. The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
2069. The "ZIP" in Zip Code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."
2070. Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
2071. When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
2072. The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.
2073. A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
2074. Crickets hear through their knees.
2075. Turnips turn green when sunburnt.
2076. Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
2077. A type of jellyfish found off the coast of England is the longest animal in the world.
2078. When Voyager 2 visited Neptune it saw a small irregular white cloud that zips around Neptune every sixteen hours or so now known as "The Scooter".
2079. Crows have the largest cerebral hemispheres, relative to body size, of any avian family.
2080. Martha's Vineyard once had its own dialect of Sign Language. One deaf person arrived in 1692 and after that there was a relatively large genetically deaf population that had their own particular dialect of sign language. From 1692-1910 nearly all hearing people on the island were bilingual in sign language and English.
2081. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
2082. Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
2083. Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.
2084. St. Bernard is the patron saint of skiers.
2085. The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."
2086. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
2087. According to the ceremonial customs of Orthodox Judaism, it is officially sundown when you cannot tell the difference between a black thread and a red one.
2088. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
2089. Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
2090. Cyano-acrylate glues (Super glues) were invented by accident. The researcher was trying to make optical coating materials, and would test their properties by putting them between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acrylate, he couldn't get the prisms apart
2091. Most of the little schoolhouses in the U.S. of yesteryear were painted red because red was the least expensive paint color.
2092. Elizabeth I of England suffered from anthophobia, a fear of roses.
2093. Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.
2094. A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
2095. Dalmatian dogs are born pure white, they don't start getting spots until they are three or four days old.
2096. The growth rate of some bamboo plants can reach three feet (91.44 cm) per day.
2097. The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.
2098. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
2099. The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
2100. An elephant can be pregnant for up to two years.
2002. Richard Nixon's favorite drink was a dry martini.
2003. The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.
2004. The license plate number of the Volkswagon that appeared on the cover of the Beatles Abbey Road album was 281F.
2005. Pinocchio was made of pine.
2006. An ant lion is neither an ant nor a lion.
2007. Jethro Tull is not the name of the rock singer/flautist responsible for such songs as "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick." Jethro Tull is the name of the band. The singer is Ian Anderson. The original Jethro Tull was an English horticulturalist who invented the seed drill.
2008. Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never- aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.
2009. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
2010. The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
2011. Neck ties were first worn in Croatia. That's why they were called cravats (CRO-vats).
2012. Alma mater means bountiful mother.
2013. A Holstein's spots are like fingerprints -- no two cows have the same pattern of spots.
2014. Glass flutes do not expand with humidity so their owners are spared the nuisance of tuning them.
2015. Jersey (in the Channel Islands, UK) was the only place that the Nazi's occupied in Great Britain during
2016. World War II.
2017. Top English soccer club Liverpool were formed because their local enemies, Everton, couldn't pay the rent for their stadium. Therefore Liverpool took over at the stadium (Anfield) and became England's top soccer team ever.
2018. The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
2019. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
2020. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
2021. The "Hallelujah Chorus" fits into the Easter portion of Handel's Messiah, not Christmas.
2022. Over 30 million people in the US "suffer" from Diastima. Diastima is having a gap between your front teeth.
2023. In 1976 Sarah Caldwell became the first woman to conduct the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
2024. Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
2025. Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
2026. The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
2027. Libya is the only country in the world with a solid, single-colored flag -- it's green.
2028. Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language.
2029. Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
2030. The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.
2031. "Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occuring, relax and correct itself. At about that height it hits maximum speed and when it hits the ground it's rib cage absorbs most of the impact. So throw your cat off a building today!"
2032. There are eight different sizes of champagne bottle and the largest is called a Nebuchadnezzar (after the Biblical king who put Daniel's three friends into the oven).
2033. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
2034. The female ferret is referred to as a `jill'.
2035. The word rodent comes from the Latin word `rodere' meaning to gnaw.
2036. Australian Rules Football was originally designed to give cricketers something to play during the off season.
2037. Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
2038. The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
2039. Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of "The Boy General" is one of the few women buried at the U.S. Military academy at West Point, New York.
2040. "Freelance" comes from a knight whose lance was free for hire, i.e. not pledged to one master.)
2041. The only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is one located in the inner ear.
2042. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
2043. There are ten human body parts that are only three letters long: Eye, Ear, Leg, Arm, Jaw, Gum, Toe, Lip, Hip and Rib.
2044. Michigan was the first state to have roadside picnic tables.
2045. Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
2046. Fitchburg, Massachusetts is the second hillest city in the US.
2047. During WWII the city of Leningrad underwent a seventeen month German seige. Unable to access the city by roads, the Russians built a railroad across the ice on Lake Lagoda to get food and supplies to the citizens.
2048. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
2049. Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever
2050. Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry, founder of Blues Inc. They were the first electric white blues band ever seen in England--1961
2051. Elton John's uncle was a professional soccer player. He broke his leg playing for Nottingham Forest in the 1959 English FA Cup Final.
2052. The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.
2053. Horses cannot vomit.
2054. Rabbits cannot vomit.
2055. The word "Boondocks" comes from the Tagalog (Filipino) word "Bundok," which
2056. means mountain.
2057. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
2058. The "chapters" of the New Testament were not there originally. When monks in medieval times translated it
2059. from the Greek, they numbered the pages in each "book."
2060. Coca-Cola contains neither coca nor cola.
2061. Yucatan, as in the peninsula, is from Maya "u" + "u" + "uthaan," meaning "listen to how they speak," what the Maya said when they first heard the Spaniards.
2062. The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome.
2063. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified is to poke someone's eye out.
2064. The original plan for Disneyland included a Lilliputland.
2065. S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international
2066. conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..
2067. The word "moose" was originally Algonquin.
2068. The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
2069. The "ZIP" in Zip Code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."
2070. Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
2071. When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
2072. The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.
2073. A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
2074. Crickets hear through their knees.
2075. Turnips turn green when sunburnt.
2076. Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
2077. A type of jellyfish found off the coast of England is the longest animal in the world.
2078. When Voyager 2 visited Neptune it saw a small irregular white cloud that zips around Neptune every sixteen hours or so now known as "The Scooter".
2079. Crows have the largest cerebral hemispheres, relative to body size, of any avian family.
2080. Martha's Vineyard once had its own dialect of Sign Language. One deaf person arrived in 1692 and after that there was a relatively large genetically deaf population that had their own particular dialect of sign language. From 1692-1910 nearly all hearing people on the island were bilingual in sign language and English.
2081. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
2082. Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
2083. Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.
2084. St. Bernard is the patron saint of skiers.
2085. The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."
2086. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
2087. According to the ceremonial customs of Orthodox Judaism, it is officially sundown when you cannot tell the difference between a black thread and a red one.
2088. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
2089. Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
2090. Cyano-acrylate glues (Super glues) were invented by accident. The researcher was trying to make optical coating materials, and would test their properties by putting them between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acrylate, he couldn't get the prisms apart
2091. Most of the little schoolhouses in the U.S. of yesteryear were painted red because red was the least expensive paint color.
2092. Elizabeth I of England suffered from anthophobia, a fear of roses.
2093. Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.
2094. A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
2095. Dalmatian dogs are born pure white, they don't start getting spots until they are three or four days old.
2096. The growth rate of some bamboo plants can reach three feet (91.44 cm) per day.
2097. The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.
2098. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
2099. The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
2100. An elephant can be pregnant for up to two years.
2101. The two quickest goals scored in the NHL were three seconds apart.
2102. Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
2103. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
2104. 'Crack' gets it name because it crackles when you smoke it.
2105. (This useless fact is dedicated, with love, to A.G.)
2106. Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.
2107. Marijuana is Spanish for 'Mary Jane.'
2108. One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant.
2109. Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.
2110. U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.
2111. Today's cattle are descended from two species: wild aurochs -- fierce and agile herd animals that populated
2112. Asia, North Africa and Europe -- and eotragus -- an antelope-like, Asian forest creature.
2113. Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University.
2114. Professional ballerinas use about twelve pairs of toe shoes per week. The anteater, aardvark, spiny anteater (echidna), and scaly anteater (pangolin) are completely unrelated - in fact, the closest relatives to anteaters are sloths and armadillos, the closest relative to the spiny anteater is the platypus, and the aardvark is in an order all by itself.
2115. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
2116. Octopi have gardens.
2117. The Beatles song "Martha My Dear" was written by Paul McCartney about his sheepdog Martha.
2118. "Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? The word formis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.'"
2119. A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
2120. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
2121. The youngest letters in the English language are "j," "v" and "w."
2122. The Australian $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic.
2123. Cranberry Jello is the only jello flavor that comes from real fruit, not artificial flavoring.
2124. The oldest exposed surface on earth is New Zealand's south island.
2125. John Lennon's assassin was carrying a copy of "The Catcher in the Rye" when he shot the famous Beatle in 1980.
2126. Don MacLean's song "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens. All three were on the same plane that crashed.
2127. A game of pool is referred to as a "frame."
2128. Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
2129. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
2130. Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way
2131. to say "many things" and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many places -- refers to "40 days," they meant many days.
2132. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy ) are the only two Disney cartoon features
2133. with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
2134. The Soviet Sukhoi-34 is the first strike fighter with a toilet in it.
2135. They Might Be Giants is the first modern band with an Accordion and a Glockenspiel
2136. Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
2137. 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
2138. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
2139. One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'
2140. When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
2141. Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
2142. The tango originated as a dance between two men (for partnering practice).
2143. Leon Trotsky, the seminal Russian Communist, was assassinated in Mexico with an ice-pick.
2144. The Bronx, New York got its name from explorer Henry Bronk.
2145. The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continually held sports event in the United States (1875); the second oldest is the Westminister Kennel Club Dog Show (1876.)
2146. "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the very first video ever played on MTV.
2147. The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.
2148. The native tribe of Tierra del Fuego has a language so guttural it cannot have an alphabet.
2149. A family of six died in Oregon during WWII as a result of a Japanese balloon bomb.
2150. AM and PM stand for "Ante-Meridian" and "Post-Meridian," respectively, and A.D. actually stands for "Anno Domini" rather than "After Death."
2151. The penguins that inhabit the tip of South America are called jackass penguins.
2152. To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
2153. During conscription for WWII, there were nine documented cases of men with three testicles.
2154. Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle.
2155. Benito Mussolini would ward off the evil eye by touching his testicles.
2156. Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle
2157. Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
2158. Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticably shorter than his right.
2159. Scientists found a whole new phylum of animal on a lobster's lip.
2160. The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
2161. Grover Cleveland's real first name is Stephen, Grover is his middle name.
2162. Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
2163. During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to drop bomb.
2164. Swans are the only birds with penises.
2165. A whale's penis is called adork.
2166. Some carnivores, rodents, bats and insectivores have a penis bone, called a baculum.
2167. A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.
2168. Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penises.
2169. "I'd like clarify the comment about iguanas and komodo dragons having two penises. In fact, they have a single penis, but it is split in two (pretty much 'Y'-shaped.) This organ is known as a hemipenes. Snakes also share this interesting feature. Apparently, the dual penis is for ease of left-handed or right-handed mating.
2170. Opossums have forked penises.
2171. Some female hyenas have a pseudo-penis.
2172. A winged penis was the city symbol of Pompeii, the ancient Roman resort town destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius' eruption.
2173. One way to tell seals and sea lions apart is that, sea lions have external ears and testicles.
2174. Swahili is a combination of African tribal languages, Arabic and Portuguese.
2175. A person from Glasgow, is called a Glaswegian.
2176. An enneahedron is solid with nine faces.
2177. Most armadillos seen dead on the road did not get hit by the wheels. When an armidillo is frightened it jumps
2178. straight into the air.
2179. Armadillos can be housebroken.
2180. Armadillos have four babies at a time, always all the same sex. They are perfect quadruplets, the fertilized cell split into quarters, resulting in four identical armadillos.
2181. Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day.
2182. Armadillos can walk underwater.
2183. Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
2184. Jet lag was once called boat lag, back before jets existed.
2185. Sirimauo Bandranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first popularly elected female head of state in 1960.
2186. There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.
2187. Velcro was invented by a Swiss guy who was inspired by the way burrs attached to clothing.
2188. The hieroglyph for 100,000 is a tadpole.
2189. The Phillips-head screwdriver was invented in Oregon.
2190. Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would and therefore forstall curses.
2191. The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans. (Watch out Inigo Montoya...)
2192. Polar bears' fur is not white, it's clear. Polar bear skin is actually black. Their hair is hollow and acts like fiber optics, directing sunlight to warm their skin.
2193. Polar bears camouflage themselves more completely during a hunt by covering their black noses with their
2194. paws.
2195. The amount of tropical rainforest cut down each year is an area the size of Tennessee.
2196. The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
2197. Medieval knights put sharkskin on their swordhandles to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.
2198. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
2199. The only planet without a ring is earth.
2200. Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
2102. Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
2103. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
2104. 'Crack' gets it name because it crackles when you smoke it.
2105. (This useless fact is dedicated, with love, to A.G.)
2106. Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.
2107. Marijuana is Spanish for 'Mary Jane.'
2108. One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant.
2109. Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.
2110. U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.
2111. Today's cattle are descended from two species: wild aurochs -- fierce and agile herd animals that populated
2112. Asia, North Africa and Europe -- and eotragus -- an antelope-like, Asian forest creature.
2113. Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University.
2114. Professional ballerinas use about twelve pairs of toe shoes per week. The anteater, aardvark, spiny anteater (echidna), and scaly anteater (pangolin) are completely unrelated - in fact, the closest relatives to anteaters are sloths and armadillos, the closest relative to the spiny anteater is the platypus, and the aardvark is in an order all by itself.
2115. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
2116. Octopi have gardens.
2117. The Beatles song "Martha My Dear" was written by Paul McCartney about his sheepdog Martha.
2118. "Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? The word formis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.'"
2119. A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
2120. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
2121. The youngest letters in the English language are "j," "v" and "w."
2122. The Australian $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic.
2123. Cranberry Jello is the only jello flavor that comes from real fruit, not artificial flavoring.
2124. The oldest exposed surface on earth is New Zealand's south island.
2125. John Lennon's assassin was carrying a copy of "The Catcher in the Rye" when he shot the famous Beatle in 1980.
2126. Don MacLean's song "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens. All three were on the same plane that crashed.
2127. A game of pool is referred to as a "frame."
2128. Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
2129. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
2130. Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way
2131. to say "many things" and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many places -- refers to "40 days," they meant many days.
2132. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy ) are the only two Disney cartoon features
2133. with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
2134. The Soviet Sukhoi-34 is the first strike fighter with a toilet in it.
2135. They Might Be Giants is the first modern band with an Accordion and a Glockenspiel
2136. Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
2137. 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
2138. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
2139. One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'
2140. When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
2141. Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
2142. The tango originated as a dance between two men (for partnering practice).
2143. Leon Trotsky, the seminal Russian Communist, was assassinated in Mexico with an ice-pick.
2144. The Bronx, New York got its name from explorer Henry Bronk.
2145. The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continually held sports event in the United States (1875); the second oldest is the Westminister Kennel Club Dog Show (1876.)
2146. "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the very first video ever played on MTV.
2147. The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.
2148. The native tribe of Tierra del Fuego has a language so guttural it cannot have an alphabet.
2149. A family of six died in Oregon during WWII as a result of a Japanese balloon bomb.
2150. AM and PM stand for "Ante-Meridian" and "Post-Meridian," respectively, and A.D. actually stands for "Anno Domini" rather than "After Death."
2151. The penguins that inhabit the tip of South America are called jackass penguins.
2152. To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
2153. During conscription for WWII, there were nine documented cases of men with three testicles.
2154. Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle.
2155. Benito Mussolini would ward off the evil eye by touching his testicles.
2156. Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle
2157. Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
2158. Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticably shorter than his right.
2159. Scientists found a whole new phylum of animal on a lobster's lip.
2160. The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
2161. Grover Cleveland's real first name is Stephen, Grover is his middle name.
2162. Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
2163. During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to drop bomb.
2164. Swans are the only birds with penises.
2165. A whale's penis is called adork.
2166. Some carnivores, rodents, bats and insectivores have a penis bone, called a baculum.
2167. A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.
2168. Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penises.
2169. "I'd like clarify the comment about iguanas and komodo dragons having two penises. In fact, they have a single penis, but it is split in two (pretty much 'Y'-shaped.) This organ is known as a hemipenes. Snakes also share this interesting feature. Apparently, the dual penis is for ease of left-handed or right-handed mating.
2170. Opossums have forked penises.
2171. Some female hyenas have a pseudo-penis.
2172. A winged penis was the city symbol of Pompeii, the ancient Roman resort town destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius' eruption.
2173. One way to tell seals and sea lions apart is that, sea lions have external ears and testicles.
2174. Swahili is a combination of African tribal languages, Arabic and Portuguese.
2175. A person from Glasgow, is called a Glaswegian.
2176. An enneahedron is solid with nine faces.
2177. Most armadillos seen dead on the road did not get hit by the wheels. When an armidillo is frightened it jumps
2178. straight into the air.
2179. Armadillos can be housebroken.
2180. Armadillos have four babies at a time, always all the same sex. They are perfect quadruplets, the fertilized cell split into quarters, resulting in four identical armadillos.
2181. Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day.
2182. Armadillos can walk underwater.
2183. Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
2184. Jet lag was once called boat lag, back before jets existed.
2185. Sirimauo Bandranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first popularly elected female head of state in 1960.
2186. There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.
2187. Velcro was invented by a Swiss guy who was inspired by the way burrs attached to clothing.
2188. The hieroglyph for 100,000 is a tadpole.
2189. The Phillips-head screwdriver was invented in Oregon.
2190. Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would and therefore forstall curses.
2191. The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans. (Watch out Inigo Montoya...)
2192. Polar bears' fur is not white, it's clear. Polar bear skin is actually black. Their hair is hollow and acts like fiber optics, directing sunlight to warm their skin.
2193. Polar bears camouflage themselves more completely during a hunt by covering their black noses with their
2194. paws.
2195. The amount of tropical rainforest cut down each year is an area the size of Tennessee.
2196. The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
2197. Medieval knights put sharkskin on their swordhandles to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.
2198. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
2199. The only planet without a ring is earth.
2200. Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
2201. Cleopatra used pomegranate seeds for lipstick.
2202. Cleopatra's last name was Ptolemy, and she was Greek rather than Egyptian.
2203. The Red sea in the Bible is a long-perpetuated mistranslation of the Reed sea.
2204. If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
2205. The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.
2206. The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply.
2207. The concerti on the two Voyager probes' information discs are performed by famed Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.
2208. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
2209. Chia Pets are only sold in December.
2210. Between 1947 and 1959, 42 nuclear devices were detonated in the Marshall Islands.
2211. Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
2212. A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
2213. Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
2214. A group of frogs is called an army.
2215. A group of rhinos is called a crash.
2216. A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
2217. A group of whales is called a pod.
2218. A group of geese is called a gaggle.
2219. A group of ravens is called a murder.
2220. A group of officers is called a mess.
2221. A group of larks is called an exaltation.
2222. A group of owls is called a parliament.
2223. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor
2224. belt.
2225. The physically smallest post office in the United States is in Ochopee, Florida in the heart of the everglades.
2226. Physicist Murray Gell-Mann named the sub-atomic particles known as quarks for a random line in James Joyce, "Three quarks for Muster Mark!"
2227. Samuel Clemens's pseudonym "Mark Twain" was the nickname of a riverboat pilot about whom Clemens wrote a needless nasty satirical piece. Apparently, Clemens felt guilt later and adopted the name as a nom de plume as some sort of expiation. The phrase does not mean measuring the depth of the river; it means a specific depth, to wit, two fathoms (twelve feet.)
2228. Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
2229. Money is made of woven linen, not paper
2230. A rhinoceros's horn is made of hair.
2231. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
2232. The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress.
2233. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
2234. Jean Harlow was the first actress to appear on the cover of Life magazine.
2235. Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age 31 by sticking her head in an oven.
2236. Sylvia Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, was married three times, and two of the women he married committed suicide.
2237. Jesus Christ died at age 33.
2238. Starfish don't have brains.
2239. Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
2240. The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streeets in Rome (or some other Italian place), they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of "trivia."
2241. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
2242. Coca-Cola was originally green.
2243. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
2244. Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
2245. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
2246. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
2247. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
2248. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
2249. Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
2250. Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
2202. Cleopatra's last name was Ptolemy, and she was Greek rather than Egyptian.
2203. The Red sea in the Bible is a long-perpetuated mistranslation of the Reed sea.
2204. If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
2205. The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.
2206. The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply.
2207. The concerti on the two Voyager probes' information discs are performed by famed Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.
2208. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
2209. Chia Pets are only sold in December.
2210. Between 1947 and 1959, 42 nuclear devices were detonated in the Marshall Islands.
2211. Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
2212. A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
2213. Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
2214. A group of frogs is called an army.
2215. A group of rhinos is called a crash.
2216. A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
2217. A group of whales is called a pod.
2218. A group of geese is called a gaggle.
2219. A group of ravens is called a murder.
2220. A group of officers is called a mess.
2221. A group of larks is called an exaltation.
2222. A group of owls is called a parliament.
2223. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor
2224. belt.
2225. The physically smallest post office in the United States is in Ochopee, Florida in the heart of the everglades.
2226. Physicist Murray Gell-Mann named the sub-atomic particles known as quarks for a random line in James Joyce, "Three quarks for Muster Mark!"
2227. Samuel Clemens's pseudonym "Mark Twain" was the nickname of a riverboat pilot about whom Clemens wrote a needless nasty satirical piece. Apparently, Clemens felt guilt later and adopted the name as a nom de plume as some sort of expiation. The phrase does not mean measuring the depth of the river; it means a specific depth, to wit, two fathoms (twelve feet.)
2228. Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
2229. Money is made of woven linen, not paper
2230. A rhinoceros's horn is made of hair.
2231. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
2232. The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress.
2233. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
2234. Jean Harlow was the first actress to appear on the cover of Life magazine.
2235. Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age 31 by sticking her head in an oven.
2236. Sylvia Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, was married three times, and two of the women he married committed suicide.
2237. Jesus Christ died at age 33.
2238. Starfish don't have brains.
2239. Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
2240. The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streeets in Rome (or some other Italian place), they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of "trivia."
2241. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
2242. Coca-Cola was originally green.
2243. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
2244. Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
2245. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
2246. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
2247. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
2248. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
2249. Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
2250. Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Actually I got them from here:http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/ but thanks for the link.
1601. Apples come in all shades of reds, greens, yellows.
1602. Two pounds of apples make one 9-inch pie.
1603. Apple blossom is the state flower of Michigan.
1604. 2500 varieties of apples are grown in the United States.
1605. 7500 varieties of apples are grown throughout the world.
1606. 100 varieties of apples are grown commercially in the United States.
1607. Apples are grown commercially in 36 states.
1608. Apples are grown in all 50 states.
1609. In 2001 United States consumers ate an average of 45.2 pounds of fresh apples and processed apple products. That's a lot of applesauce!
1610. 61 percent of United States apples are eaten as fresh fruit.
1611. 39 percent of apples are processed into apple products; 21 percent of this is for juice and cider.
1612. The top apple producing states are Washington, New York, Michigan, California, Pennsylvania and Virginia, which produced over 83 percent of the nation’s 2001-crop apple supply.
1613. Apples are fat, sodium, and cholesterol free.
1614. A medium apples is about 80 calories.
1615. Apples are a great source of the fiber pectin. One apple has five grams of fiber.
1616. In 2001 there were 8,000 apple growers with orchards covering 430,200 acres.
1617. The pilgrims planted the first United States apple trees in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1618. The science of apple growing is called pomology.
1619. Apple trees take four to five years to produce their first fruit.
1620. Most apples are still picked by hand in the fall.
1621. Apple varieties range in size from a little larger than a cherry to as large as a grapefruit.
1622. Apples are propagated by two methods: grafting or budding.
1623. The apple variety ‘Delicious' is the most widely grown in the United States.
1624. In Europe, France, Italy and Germany are the leading apple producing countries.
1625. The apple tree originated in an area between the Caspin and the Black Sea.
1626. Apples were the favorite fruit of ancient Greeks and Romans.
1627. Apples are a member of the rose family.
1628. Apples harvested from an average tree can fill 20 boxes that weigh 42 pounds each.
1629. Americans eat 19.6 pounds or about 65 fresh apples every year.
1630. 25 percent of an apple's volume is air. That is why they float.
1631. The largest apple picked weighed three pounds.
1632. Europeans eat about 46 pounds of apples annually.
1633. The average size of a United States orchard is 50 acres.
1634. Many growers use dwarf apple trees.
1635. Charred apples have been found in prehistoric dwellings in Switzerland.
1636. Most apple blossoms are pink when they open but gradually fade to white.
1637. Some apple trees will grown over forty feet high and live over a hundred years.
1638. Most apples can be grown farther north than most other fruits because they blossom late in spring, minimizing frost damage.
1639. It takes the energy from 50 leaves to produce one apple.
1640. Apples are the second most valuable fruit grown in the United States. Oranges are first.
1641. In colonial time apples were called winter banana or melt-in-the-mouth.
1642. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecasts the 2000 apple crop to be at 254.2 million 42 pound cartons.
1643. Total apple production in 2001 was 229 million cartons valued at $1.5 billion.
1644. The largest U. S. apple crop was 277.3 million cartons in 1998.
1645. In 1999 the People's Republic of China led the world in apple production followed by the United States.
1646. Apples have five seed pockets or carpels. Each pocket contains seeds. The number of seeds per carpel is determined by the vigor and health of the plant. Different varieties of apples will have different number of seeds.
1647. China is the leading producer of apples with over 1.2 billion bushels grown in 2001.
1648. World's top apple producers are China, United States, Turkey, Poland and Italy.
1649. The Lady or Api apple is one of the oldest varieties in existence.
1650. Newton Pippin apples were the first apples exported from America in 1768, some were sent to Benjamin Franklin in London.
1651. In 1730 the first apple nursery was opened in Flushing, New York.
1652. One of George Washington's hobbies was pruning his apple trees.
1653. America's longest-lived apple tree was reportedly planted in 1647 by Peter Stuyvesant in his Manhattan orchard and was still bearing fruit when a derailed train struck it in 1866.
1654. Apples ripen six to ten times faster at room temperature than if they were refrigerated.
1655. A peck of apples weight 10.5 pounds.
1656. A bushel of apples weights about 42 pounds and will yield 20-24 quarts of applesauce.
1657. Archeologists have found evidence that humans have been enjoying apples since lat least 6500 B.C.
1658. The world's larges apple peel was created by Kathy Wafler Madison on October 16, 1976, in Rochester, NY. It was 172 feet, 4 inches long. (She was 16 years old at the time and grew up to be a sales manager for an apple tree nursery.)
1659. It takes about 36 apples to create one gallon of apple cider.
1660. Cats have five toes on each front paw, but only four toes on each back paw.
1661. Cats have true fur, in that they have both an undercoat and an outer coat.
1662. Contrary to popular belief, the cat is a social animal. A pet cat will respond and answer to speech , and seems to enjoy human companionship.
1663. If left to her own devices, a female cat may have three to seven kittens every four months. This is why population control using neutering and spaying is so important.
1664. Kittens are born with both eyes and ears closed. When the eyes open, they are always blue at first. They change color over a period of months to the final eye color.
1665. When well treated, a cat can live twenty or more years.
1666. A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.
1667. The gene in cats that causes the orange coat color is sexed linked, and is on the X sex chromosome. This gene may display orange or black. Thus, as female cat with two X chromosomes may have orange and black colors in its coat. A male, with only one X chromosome, can have only orange or black, not both.
1668. If a male cat is both orange and black it is ( besides being extremely rare ) sterile. To have both the orange and the black coat colors, the male cat must have all or part of both female X chromosomes. This unusual sex chromosome combination will render the male cat sterile.
1669. Cats have AB blood groups just like people.
1670. A form of AIDS exists in cats.
1671. Siamese coat color and crossed eyes may be caused by the same gene.
1672. The color of the points in Siamese cats is heat related. Cool areas are darker.
1673. Siamese kittens are born white because of the heat inside the mother's uterus before birth. This heat keeps the kittens' hair from darkening on the points.
1674. There are many myths about cats. Check this page to see some of them discussed, and to find out the true facts.
1675. Though rare, cats can contract canine heart worms.
1676. People who are allergic to cats are actually allergic to cat saliva or to cat dander. If the resident cat is bathed regularly the allergic people tolerate it better.
1677. Studies now show that the allergen in cats is related to their scent glands. Cats have scent glands on their faces and at the base of their tails. Entire male cats generate the most scent. If this secretion from the scent glands is the allergen, allergic people should tolerate spayed female cats the best.
1678. Cats do not think that they are little people. They think that we are big cats. This influences their behavior in many ways.
1679. are subject to gum disease and to dental caries. They should have their teeth cleaned by the vet or the cat dentist once a year.
1680. Cats, especially older cats, do get cancer. Many times this disease can be treated successfully.
1681. Most cats have no eyelashes.
1682. Many cats cannot properly digest cow's milk. Milk and milk products give them diarrhea.
1683. Cats lack a true collarbone. Because of this lack, cats can generally squeeze their bodies through any space they can get their heads through. You may have seen a cat testing the size of an opening by careful measurement with the head.
1684. with white fur and skin on their ears are very prone to sunburn. Frequent sunburns can lead to skin cancer. Many white cats need surgery to remove all or part of a cancerous ear. Preventive measures include sunscreen, or better, keeping the cat indoors.
1685. Cats can get tapeworms from eating fleas. These worms live inside the cat forever, or until they are removed with medication. They reproduce by shedding a link from the end of their long bodies. This link crawls out the cat's anus, and sheds hundreds of eggs. These eggs are injested by flea larvae, and the cycles continues. Humans may get these tapeworms too, but only if they eat infected fleas. Cats with tapeworms should be dewormed by a veterinarian.
1686. Cats can get tapeworms from eating mice. If your cat catches a mouse it is best to take the prize away from it.
1687. There are tiny, parasitic worms that can live in a cat's stomach. These worms cause frequent vomiting.
1688. Many people fear catching a protozoan disease, Toxoplasmosis, from cats. This disease can cause illness in the human, but more seriously, can cause birth defects in the unborn. Toxoplasmosis is a common disease, sometimes spread through the feces of cats. It is caused most often from eating raw or rare beef. Pregnant women and people with a depressed immune system should not touch the cat litter box. Other than that, there is no reason that these people have to avoid cats.
1689. Cats have a full inner-eyelid, or nictitating membrane. This inner-eyelid serves to help protect the eyes from dryness and damage. When the cat is ill, the inner-eyelid will frequently close partially, making it visible to the observer.
1690. You can tell a cat's mood by looking into its eyes. A frightened or excited cat will have large, round pupils. An angry cat will have narrow pupils. The pupil size is related as much to the cat's emotions as to the degree of light.
1691. A cat is pregnant for about 58-65 days. This is roughly two months.
1696. PLEASE ... don't let antifreeze leak from their car if their cats run wild, or even if there are stray cats running around the neighborhood. Granted stray cats can be a pain in the butt sometimes, and I'm sure we stray humans can be as well, but no animal deserves to suffer a slow and painful death like antifreeze would cause them. This would be greatly appreciated if you would do this for me and it help save some kitties in the world.
Thanks in advance,
Jennifer MP Porter-Hawn
1697. can you tell me why a cat will stand and lift it paws up in down in one place on your body. Almost like marching in place.
This behavior in cats is left over from kittenhood, when they kneaded their mother's belly to help the milk flow. Some cats will actually knead and drool when they are petted. The kneading or marching means that the cat is happy.
1698. The two most common problems with cats are aggression, and refusing to use the litter box. Both of these problems are usually caused by social conflict among cats. To have the fewest problems, have only one cat at a time. The more cats you introduce into a house, the more likely you are to have difficulties with the cats.
1699. If you have a cat and want to have another cat, it will be easiest to introduce a female kitten. An elderly cat that is alone, however, should not be bothered with another cat. Let it rest in peace. Bringing a new cat into a household is always very stressful for all the cats concerned.
1700. Unlike humans and dogs, cats do not suffer a lot from loneliness. It is a mistake to project our social feelings onto our cats. Cats are social to a degree, but they are far more concerned with territorial issues than we can even imagine.
1602. Two pounds of apples make one 9-inch pie.
1603. Apple blossom is the state flower of Michigan.
1604. 2500 varieties of apples are grown in the United States.
1605. 7500 varieties of apples are grown throughout the world.
1606. 100 varieties of apples are grown commercially in the United States.
1607. Apples are grown commercially in 36 states.
1608. Apples are grown in all 50 states.
1609. In 2001 United States consumers ate an average of 45.2 pounds of fresh apples and processed apple products. That's a lot of applesauce!
1610. 61 percent of United States apples are eaten as fresh fruit.
1611. 39 percent of apples are processed into apple products; 21 percent of this is for juice and cider.
1612. The top apple producing states are Washington, New York, Michigan, California, Pennsylvania and Virginia, which produced over 83 percent of the nation’s 2001-crop apple supply.
1613. Apples are fat, sodium, and cholesterol free.
1614. A medium apples is about 80 calories.
1615. Apples are a great source of the fiber pectin. One apple has five grams of fiber.
1616. In 2001 there were 8,000 apple growers with orchards covering 430,200 acres.
1617. The pilgrims planted the first United States apple trees in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1618. The science of apple growing is called pomology.
1619. Apple trees take four to five years to produce their first fruit.
1620. Most apples are still picked by hand in the fall.
1621. Apple varieties range in size from a little larger than a cherry to as large as a grapefruit.
1622. Apples are propagated by two methods: grafting or budding.
1623. The apple variety ‘Delicious' is the most widely grown in the United States.
1624. In Europe, France, Italy and Germany are the leading apple producing countries.
1625. The apple tree originated in an area between the Caspin and the Black Sea.
1626. Apples were the favorite fruit of ancient Greeks and Romans.
1627. Apples are a member of the rose family.
1628. Apples harvested from an average tree can fill 20 boxes that weigh 42 pounds each.
1629. Americans eat 19.6 pounds or about 65 fresh apples every year.
1630. 25 percent of an apple's volume is air. That is why they float.
1631. The largest apple picked weighed three pounds.
1632. Europeans eat about 46 pounds of apples annually.
1633. The average size of a United States orchard is 50 acres.
1634. Many growers use dwarf apple trees.
1635. Charred apples have been found in prehistoric dwellings in Switzerland.
1636. Most apple blossoms are pink when they open but gradually fade to white.
1637. Some apple trees will grown over forty feet high and live over a hundred years.
1638. Most apples can be grown farther north than most other fruits because they blossom late in spring, minimizing frost damage.
1639. It takes the energy from 50 leaves to produce one apple.
1640. Apples are the second most valuable fruit grown in the United States. Oranges are first.
1641. In colonial time apples were called winter banana or melt-in-the-mouth.
1642. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecasts the 2000 apple crop to be at 254.2 million 42 pound cartons.
1643. Total apple production in 2001 was 229 million cartons valued at $1.5 billion.
1644. The largest U. S. apple crop was 277.3 million cartons in 1998.
1645. In 1999 the People's Republic of China led the world in apple production followed by the United States.
1646. Apples have five seed pockets or carpels. Each pocket contains seeds. The number of seeds per carpel is determined by the vigor and health of the plant. Different varieties of apples will have different number of seeds.
1647. China is the leading producer of apples with over 1.2 billion bushels grown in 2001.
1648. World's top apple producers are China, United States, Turkey, Poland and Italy.
1649. The Lady or Api apple is one of the oldest varieties in existence.
1650. Newton Pippin apples were the first apples exported from America in 1768, some were sent to Benjamin Franklin in London.
1651. In 1730 the first apple nursery was opened in Flushing, New York.
1652. One of George Washington's hobbies was pruning his apple trees.
1653. America's longest-lived apple tree was reportedly planted in 1647 by Peter Stuyvesant in his Manhattan orchard and was still bearing fruit when a derailed train struck it in 1866.
1654. Apples ripen six to ten times faster at room temperature than if they were refrigerated.
1655. A peck of apples weight 10.5 pounds.
1656. A bushel of apples weights about 42 pounds and will yield 20-24 quarts of applesauce.
1657. Archeologists have found evidence that humans have been enjoying apples since lat least 6500 B.C.
1658. The world's larges apple peel was created by Kathy Wafler Madison on October 16, 1976, in Rochester, NY. It was 172 feet, 4 inches long. (She was 16 years old at the time and grew up to be a sales manager for an apple tree nursery.)
1659. It takes about 36 apples to create one gallon of apple cider.
1660. Cats have five toes on each front paw, but only four toes on each back paw.
1661. Cats have true fur, in that they have both an undercoat and an outer coat.
1662. Contrary to popular belief, the cat is a social animal. A pet cat will respond and answer to speech , and seems to enjoy human companionship.
1663. If left to her own devices, a female cat may have three to seven kittens every four months. This is why population control using neutering and spaying is so important.
1664. Kittens are born with both eyes and ears closed. When the eyes open, they are always blue at first. They change color over a period of months to the final eye color.
1665. When well treated, a cat can live twenty or more years.
1666. A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.
1667. The gene in cats that causes the orange coat color is sexed linked, and is on the X sex chromosome. This gene may display orange or black. Thus, as female cat with two X chromosomes may have orange and black colors in its coat. A male, with only one X chromosome, can have only orange or black, not both.
1668. If a male cat is both orange and black it is ( besides being extremely rare ) sterile. To have both the orange and the black coat colors, the male cat must have all or part of both female X chromosomes. This unusual sex chromosome combination will render the male cat sterile.
1669. Cats have AB blood groups just like people.
1670. A form of AIDS exists in cats.
1671. Siamese coat color and crossed eyes may be caused by the same gene.
1672. The color of the points in Siamese cats is heat related. Cool areas are darker.
1673. Siamese kittens are born white because of the heat inside the mother's uterus before birth. This heat keeps the kittens' hair from darkening on the points.
1674. There are many myths about cats. Check this page to see some of them discussed, and to find out the true facts.
1675. Though rare, cats can contract canine heart worms.
1676. People who are allergic to cats are actually allergic to cat saliva or to cat dander. If the resident cat is bathed regularly the allergic people tolerate it better.
1677. Studies now show that the allergen in cats is related to their scent glands. Cats have scent glands on their faces and at the base of their tails. Entire male cats generate the most scent. If this secretion from the scent glands is the allergen, allergic people should tolerate spayed female cats the best.
1678. Cats do not think that they are little people. They think that we are big cats. This influences their behavior in many ways.
1679. are subject to gum disease and to dental caries. They should have their teeth cleaned by the vet or the cat dentist once a year.
1680. Cats, especially older cats, do get cancer. Many times this disease can be treated successfully.
1681. Most cats have no eyelashes.
1682. Many cats cannot properly digest cow's milk. Milk and milk products give them diarrhea.
1683. Cats lack a true collarbone. Because of this lack, cats can generally squeeze their bodies through any space they can get their heads through. You may have seen a cat testing the size of an opening by careful measurement with the head.
1684. with white fur and skin on their ears are very prone to sunburn. Frequent sunburns can lead to skin cancer. Many white cats need surgery to remove all or part of a cancerous ear. Preventive measures include sunscreen, or better, keeping the cat indoors.
1685. Cats can get tapeworms from eating fleas. These worms live inside the cat forever, or until they are removed with medication. They reproduce by shedding a link from the end of their long bodies. This link crawls out the cat's anus, and sheds hundreds of eggs. These eggs are injested by flea larvae, and the cycles continues. Humans may get these tapeworms too, but only if they eat infected fleas. Cats with tapeworms should be dewormed by a veterinarian.
1686. Cats can get tapeworms from eating mice. If your cat catches a mouse it is best to take the prize away from it.
1687. There are tiny, parasitic worms that can live in a cat's stomach. These worms cause frequent vomiting.
1688. Many people fear catching a protozoan disease, Toxoplasmosis, from cats. This disease can cause illness in the human, but more seriously, can cause birth defects in the unborn. Toxoplasmosis is a common disease, sometimes spread through the feces of cats. It is caused most often from eating raw or rare beef. Pregnant women and people with a depressed immune system should not touch the cat litter box. Other than that, there is no reason that these people have to avoid cats.
1689. Cats have a full inner-eyelid, or nictitating membrane. This inner-eyelid serves to help protect the eyes from dryness and damage. When the cat is ill, the inner-eyelid will frequently close partially, making it visible to the observer.
1690. You can tell a cat's mood by looking into its eyes. A frightened or excited cat will have large, round pupils. An angry cat will have narrow pupils. The pupil size is related as much to the cat's emotions as to the degree of light.
1691. A cat is pregnant for about 58-65 days. This is roughly two months.
1696. PLEASE ... don't let antifreeze leak from their car if their cats run wild, or even if there are stray cats running around the neighborhood. Granted stray cats can be a pain in the butt sometimes, and I'm sure we stray humans can be as well, but no animal deserves to suffer a slow and painful death like antifreeze would cause them. This would be greatly appreciated if you would do this for me and it help save some kitties in the world.
Thanks in advance,
Jennifer MP Porter-Hawn
1697. can you tell me why a cat will stand and lift it paws up in down in one place on your body. Almost like marching in place.
This behavior in cats is left over from kittenhood, when they kneaded their mother's belly to help the milk flow. Some cats will actually knead and drool when they are petted. The kneading or marching means that the cat is happy.
1698. The two most common problems with cats are aggression, and refusing to use the litter box. Both of these problems are usually caused by social conflict among cats. To have the fewest problems, have only one cat at a time. The more cats you introduce into a house, the more likely you are to have difficulties with the cats.
1699. If you have a cat and want to have another cat, it will be easiest to introduce a female kitten. An elderly cat that is alone, however, should not be bothered with another cat. Let it rest in peace. Bringing a new cat into a household is always very stressful for all the cats concerned.
1700. Unlike humans and dogs, cats do not suffer a lot from loneliness. It is a mistake to project our social feelings onto our cats. Cats are social to a degree, but they are far more concerned with territorial issues than we can even imagine.
1701. Purring: To purr, cats use extra tissue in the larynx (voice box). This tiuue vibrates when they purr.
1702. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
1703. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas would be produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
1704. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (Sow or hog wasn't specified.)
1705. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out of the body to squirt blood 10 metres.
1706. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
1707. A cockroach will live 9 days without its head before it starves to death.
1708. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
1709. Stewardesses is the longest word that is formally typed with only the left hand.
1710. Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
1711. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
1712. Some lions mate 30 or more times a day.
1713. Los Angeles' full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Fornciuncula.
1714. If colouring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
1715. The US interstate highway system requires that 1 mile in every 5 be straight. These straight sections function as airstrips in times of war and other emergencies.
1716. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
1717. Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, while dogs have only about 10.
1718. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
1719. February 1965 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
1720. The cruise liner, Queen Elisabeth II, moves only 6 inches for every gallon of diesel fuel burned. (Our boat, Lady Fair, went 6 miles.)
1721. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
1722. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book published in every major Dewey Decimal category.
1723. Columbia University is the 2nd largest land owner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
1724. Cat urine glows under a black light.
1725. In the mid-80s, a computer wasn't considered 100% IBM-compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
1726. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
1727. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
1728. Kneecaps are not formed until a child is 2-6 years old.
1729. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
1730. No word in English rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. (See NOTE below!)
1731. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
1732. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
1733. No NFL team which plays its home games in a dome has ever won a Superbowl.
1734. The first toilet ever seen on TV was on "Leave it to Beaver."
1735. In the Great Fire of London in 1666, half of the city was burned down but only 6 people were injured.
1736. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers whom they saw as competitors.
1737. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 years old.
1738. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan".
1739. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life.
1740. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up: he throws up his stomach first, to dangle out of his mouth. He then uses his forearms to dig out all the stomach contents, then swallows the stomach back down again.
1741. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
1742. Only 4 words in English end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
1743. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
1744. 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.
1745. There are more chickens than people in the world.
1746. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
1747. To escape the jaws of a crocodile, push your thumbs into its eyes and it will release you instantly.
1748. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will come up heads approximately 4,950 times; the heads picture weighs slightly more than the tails side, so it ends up on the bottom slightly more often.
1749. Barbie's last name is Roberts.
1750. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
1751. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
1752. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
1753. Armadillos have 4 babies at a time; they are always the same sex.
1754. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
1755. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great Pharaoh Ramses II, who fathered over 160 children.
1756. If NASA sent birds into space, they would soon die because birds need gravity to swallow.
1757. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
1758. The computer term "byte" is a contraction of "by eight."
1759. The average ear of corn has 800 kernels arranged in 16 rows.
1760. The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin", pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom". As a boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; he was eventually able to add it to Star Trek lore.
1761. Our eyes stay the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
1762. Underground is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
1763. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
1764. If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.
1765. A 3-year-old's voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.
1766. If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound boy wearing Batman underwear and a superman cape. (It is strong enough, however, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20X20 foot room.)
1767. You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. When using the ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.
1768. The glass in windows (even double pane) doesn't stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.
1769. When you hear the toilet flush and the words "Uh-oh", it's already too late.
1770. Brake fluid mixed with bleach makes smoke, and lots of it.
1771. A 6-year-old can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36-year-old man says they can only do it in the movies. A magnifying glass can start a fire even on an overcast day.
1772. Play Dough and Microwave should never be used in the same sentence.
1773. Super glue is forever.
1774. No matter how much gelatin you put in a swimming pool you still can't walk on water.
1775. Pool filters do not like gelatin.
1776. VCRs do not eject peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
1777. Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.
1778. Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.
1779. You probably do not want to know what that odor is.
1780. Always look in the oven before you turn it on. Plastic toys do not like ovens.
1781. The fire department in Austin has a 5 minute response time.
1782. The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earth worms dizzy. It will however make cats dizzy; cats throw up twice their body weight.
1783. No matter how hard you try, you can't baptise cats.
1784. When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don't let her brush your hair.
1785. If your sister hits you, don't hit her back - they always catch the 2nd person.
1786. Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.
1787. You can't trust dogs to watch your food.
1788. Reading what people write on desks can teach you a lot.
1789. Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.
1790. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
1791. Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time.
1792. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
1793. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
1794. On a Canadian $2 bill, the flag flying over Parliament is an American flag.
1795. All the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
1796. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
1797. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of a US $5 bill.
1798. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
1799. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
1800. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
1702. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
1703. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas would be produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
1704. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (Sow or hog wasn't specified.)
1705. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out of the body to squirt blood 10 metres.
1706. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
1707. A cockroach will live 9 days without its head before it starves to death.
1708. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
1709. Stewardesses is the longest word that is formally typed with only the left hand.
1710. Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
1711. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
1712. Some lions mate 30 or more times a day.
1713. Los Angeles' full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Fornciuncula.
1714. If colouring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
1715. The US interstate highway system requires that 1 mile in every 5 be straight. These straight sections function as airstrips in times of war and other emergencies.
1716. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
1717. Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, while dogs have only about 10.
1718. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
1719. February 1965 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
1720. The cruise liner, Queen Elisabeth II, moves only 6 inches for every gallon of diesel fuel burned. (Our boat, Lady Fair, went 6 miles.)
1721. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
1722. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book published in every major Dewey Decimal category.
1723. Columbia University is the 2nd largest land owner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
1724. Cat urine glows under a black light.
1725. In the mid-80s, a computer wasn't considered 100% IBM-compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
1726. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
1727. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
1728. Kneecaps are not formed until a child is 2-6 years old.
1729. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
1730. No word in English rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. (See NOTE below!)
1731. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
1732. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
1733. No NFL team which plays its home games in a dome has ever won a Superbowl.
1734. The first toilet ever seen on TV was on "Leave it to Beaver."
1735. In the Great Fire of London in 1666, half of the city was burned down but only 6 people were injured.
1736. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers whom they saw as competitors.
1737. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 years old.
1738. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan".
1739. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life.
1740. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up: he throws up his stomach first, to dangle out of his mouth. He then uses his forearms to dig out all the stomach contents, then swallows the stomach back down again.
1741. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
1742. Only 4 words in English end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
1743. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
1744. 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.
1745. There are more chickens than people in the world.
1746. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
1747. To escape the jaws of a crocodile, push your thumbs into its eyes and it will release you instantly.
1748. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will come up heads approximately 4,950 times; the heads picture weighs slightly more than the tails side, so it ends up on the bottom slightly more often.
1749. Barbie's last name is Roberts.
1750. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
1751. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
1752. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
1753. Armadillos have 4 babies at a time; they are always the same sex.
1754. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
1755. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great Pharaoh Ramses II, who fathered over 160 children.
1756. If NASA sent birds into space, they would soon die because birds need gravity to swallow.
1757. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
1758. The computer term "byte" is a contraction of "by eight."
1759. The average ear of corn has 800 kernels arranged in 16 rows.
1760. The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin", pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom". As a boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; he was eventually able to add it to Star Trek lore.
1761. Our eyes stay the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
1762. Underground is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
1763. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
1764. If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.
1765. A 3-year-old's voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.
1766. If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound boy wearing Batman underwear and a superman cape. (It is strong enough, however, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20X20 foot room.)
1767. You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. When using the ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.
1768. The glass in windows (even double pane) doesn't stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.
1769. When you hear the toilet flush and the words "Uh-oh", it's already too late.
1770. Brake fluid mixed with bleach makes smoke, and lots of it.
1771. A 6-year-old can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36-year-old man says they can only do it in the movies. A magnifying glass can start a fire even on an overcast day.
1772. Play Dough and Microwave should never be used in the same sentence.
1773. Super glue is forever.
1774. No matter how much gelatin you put in a swimming pool you still can't walk on water.
1775. Pool filters do not like gelatin.
1776. VCRs do not eject peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
1777. Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.
1778. Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.
1779. You probably do not want to know what that odor is.
1780. Always look in the oven before you turn it on. Plastic toys do not like ovens.
1781. The fire department in Austin has a 5 minute response time.
1782. The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earth worms dizzy. It will however make cats dizzy; cats throw up twice their body weight.
1783. No matter how hard you try, you can't baptise cats.
1784. When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don't let her brush your hair.
1785. If your sister hits you, don't hit her back - they always catch the 2nd person.
1786. Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.
1787. You can't trust dogs to watch your food.
1788. Reading what people write on desks can teach you a lot.
1789. Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.
1790. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
1791. Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time.
1792. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
1793. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
1794. On a Canadian $2 bill, the flag flying over Parliament is an American flag.
1795. All the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
1796. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
1797. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of a US $5 bill.
1798. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
1799. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
1800. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
1801. The microwave was invented when a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
1802. A dog's whiskers are touch-sensitive hairs called vibrissae. They are found on the muzzle, above the eyes and below the jaws, and can actually sense tiny changes in airflow.
1803. According to a recent survey, the most popular name for a dog is Max. Other popular names include Molly, Sam, Zach, and Maggie.
1804. According to ancient Greek literature, when Odysseus arrived home after an absence of 20 years, disguised as a beggar, the only one to recognize him was his aged dog Argos, who wagged his tail at his master, and then died.
1805. An American Animal Hospital Association poll showed that 33 percent of dog owners admit that they talk to their dogs on the phone or leave messages on an answering machine while away.
1806. An estimated 1 million dogs in the United States have been named the primary beneficiary in their owner's will.
1807. At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life", an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.
1808. Barbara Bush's book about her English Springer Spaniel, Millie's book, was on the bestseller list for 29 weeks. Millie was the most popular "First Dog" in history.
1809. Before the enactment of the 1978 law that made it mandatory for dog owners in New York City to clean up after their pets, approximately 40 million pounds of dog excrement were deposited on the streets every year.
1810. Cats have better memories than dogs. Tests conducted by the University of Michigan concluded that while a dogs memory lasts no more than 5 minutes, a cat's can last as long as 16 hours - exceeding even that of monkeys and orangutans.
1811. Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
1812. Cats, not dogs, are the most common pets in America. There are approximately 66 million cats to 58 million dogs, with Parakeets a distant third at 14 million.
1813. Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating. They sweat through the pads of their feet.
1814. Dachshunds are the smallest breed of dog used for hunting. They are low to the ground, which allows them to enter and maneuver through tunnels easily.
1815. Developed in Egypt about 5,000 years ago, the greyhound breed was known before the ninth century in England, where it was bred by aristocrats to hunt such small game as hares.
1816. Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible.
1817. Dogs can hear sounds that are too faint for us to hear, and also can hear noises at a much higher frequency than we can. Their hearing is so good that they probably rely more on sound than on sight to navigate their world.
1818. Dogs' eyes have large pupils and a wide field of vision, making them really good at following moving objects. Dogs also see well in fairly low light.
1819. Dogs have far fewer taste buds than people -- probably fewer than 2,000. It is the smell that initially attracts them to a particular food.
1820. Dogs in monuments: The dog is placed at the feet of women in monuments to symbolise affection and fidelity, as a lion is placed at the feet of men to signify courage and magnanimity. Many of the Crusaders are represented with their feet on a dog, to show that they followed the standard of the Lord as faithfully as a dog follows the footsteps of his master.
1821. Dogs may not have as many taste buds as we do (they have about 1,700 on their tongues, while we humans have about 9,000), but that doesn't mean they're not discriminating eaters. They have over 200 million scent receptors in their noses (we have only 5 million) so it's important that their food smells good and tastes good.
1822. Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.
1823. Every known dog except the chow has a pink tongue - the chow's tongue is jet black.
1824. Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.
1825. For Stephen King's "Cujo" (1983), five St. Bernards were used, one mechanical head, and an actor in a dog costume to play the title character.
1826. French poodles did not originate in France. Poodles were originally used as hunting dogs in Europe. The dogs' thick coats were a hindrance in water and thick brush, so hunters sheared the hindquarters, with cuffs left around the ankles and hips to protect against rheumatism. Each hunter marked his dogs' heads with a ribbon of his own color, allowing groups of hunters to tell their dogs apart.
1827. Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmatian dogs to suffer from hearing disability.
1828. It has been established that people who own pets live longer, have less stress, and have fewer heart attacks.
1829. Korea's poshintang - dog meat soup - is a popular item on summertime menus, despite outcry from other nations. The soup is believed to cure summer heat ailments, improve male virility, and improve women's complexions.
1830. Lassie was played by several male dogs, despite the female name, because male collies were thought to look better on camera. The main "actor" was named Pal.
1831. Lassie, the TV collie, first appeared in a 1930s short novel titled Lassie Come-Home written by Eric Mowbray Knight. The dog in the novel was based on Knight's real life collie, Toots.
1832. Marie Antoinette's dog was a spaniel named Thisbe.
1833. Most pet owners (94 percent) say their pet makes them smile more than once a day.
1834. Pekingese dogs were sacred to the emperors of China for more than 2,000 years. They are one of the oldest breeds of dogs in the world.
1835. Prairie dogs are not dogs. A prairie dog is a kind of rodent.
1836. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's most famous canine companion was his Scottish Terrier, Fala, who is part of the Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C. But during Roosevelt's 12 years and one month as president, 11 dogs lived in the White House. They included a Bullmastiff, two red setters, a retriever, a Bulldog, a Llewellin Setter, a Scotch Terrier, a Great Dane, a Sheepdog, and a German Shepherd who tried to rip the pants off the British Prime Minister.
1837. Researchers studying what dogs like to eat have found that the appetite of pet dogs is affected by the taste, texture and smell of the food, and also by the owners' food preferences, their perception of their pet, and the physical environment in which the dog is eating.
1838. Scientists have discovered that dogs can smell the presence of autism in children.
1839. 'Seizure Alert' dogs can alert their owners up to an hour before the onset of an epileptic seizure.
1840. Seventy percent of people sign their pet's name on greeting cards and 58 percent include their pets in family and holiday portraits, according to a survey done by the American Animal Hospital Association.
1841. Small dogs are rapidly gaining popularity, according to American Kennel Club registration statistics. Three toys breeds are among the top 10 in popularity on the most recent list: the Yorkshire Terrier, Chihuahua, and Shih Tzu rank sixth, ninth, and 10th, respectively. A decade ago, no toy breeds were in the top 10.
1842. Some 39 percent of pet owners say they have more photos of their pet than of their spouse or significant other. Only 21 percent say they have more photos of their spouse or significant other than of their pet.
1843. The calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race average 10,000. The 1,149-mile race commemorates the 1925 "Race for Life" when 20 volunteer mushers relayed medicine from Anchorage to Nome to battle a children's diphtheria epidemic.
1844. The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."
1845. The common belief that dogs are color blind is false. Dogs can see color, but it is not as vivid a color scheme as we see. They distinguish between blue, yellow, and gray, but probably do not see red and green. This is much like our vision at twilight.
1846. The dachshund is one of the oldest dog breeds in history (dating back to ancient Egypt.) The name comes from one of its earliest uses - hunting badgers. In German, Dachs means "badger," Hund is "hound."
1847. The English Romantic poet Lord Byron was so devastated upon the death of his beloved Newfoundland, whose name was Boatswain, that he had inscribed upon the dog's gravestone the following: "Beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices."
1848. The expression "three dog night" originated with the Eskimos and means a very cold night - so cold that you have to bed down with three dogs to keep warm.
1849. The first dog to star in an American movie was Jean the Vitagraph Dog, a Border Collie mix, who made his first film in 1910.
1850. The first dogs to hunt in packs and the first small companion breeds were probably bred in ancient China. Written records more than 4,000 years old from China show that dog trainers were held in high esteem and that kennel masters raised and looked after large numbers of dog.
1851. The first seeing-eye dog was presented to a blind person on April 25, 1938.
1852. The largest and the smallest dogs to live in the White House where both there during the tenure of president James Buchanan. The president had a Newfoundland named Lara. And his niece, Harriet Lane (who served as White House hostess because the president was unmarried), had a tiny toy terrier named Punch.
1853. The last member of the famous Bonaparte family, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, died in 1945, of injuries sustained from tripping over his dog's leash.
1854. The name of the dog from "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" is Max.
1855. The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box is Bingo.
1856. The only dog to ever appear in a Shakespearean play was Crab in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
1857. The phrase "raining cats and dogs" originated in 17th Century England. During heavy downpours of rain, many of these poor animals unfortunately drowned and their bodies would be seen floating in the rain torrents that raced through the streets. The situation gave the appearance that it had literally rained "cats and dogs" and led to the current expression.
1858. The smallest breed of dog recognized by the American Kennel Club is the Chihuahua, which stands six to nine inches at the top of the shoulders and weighs two to six pounds. The largest is the Irish Wolfhound, which stands 30 to 35 inches at the top of the shoulders and weighs 105 to 125 pounds.
1859. The smallest of the recognized dog breeds, the Chihuahua, is also the one that usually lives the longest. Named for the region of Mexico where they were first discovered in the mid-19th century, the Chihuahua can live anywhere between 11-18 years.
1860. The term "dog days" has nothing to do with dogs. It dates back to Roman times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dog Star, added its heat to that of the sun from July3 to August 11, creating exceptionally high temperatures. The Romans called the period dies caniculares, or "days of the dog."
1861. The theobromine in chocolate that stimulates the cardiac and nervous systems is too much for dogs, especially smaller pups. A chocolate bar is poisonous to dogs and can even be lethal.
1862. There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
1863. There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States. Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
1864. Though human noses have an impressive 5 million olfactory cells with which to smell, sheepdogs have 220 million, enabling them to smell 44 times better than man.
1865. Using their swiveling ears like radar dishes, experiments have shown that dogs can locate the source of a sound in 6/100ths of a second.
1866. Walt Disney's family dog was named Lady. She was a poodle.
1867. While small dogs are gaining in popularity, the top dogs are still the big ones. The Labrador Retriever, Golden Retriever, and German Shepherd Dog are first, second, and third on list of the American Kennel Club's most popular breeds.
1868. Who first thought of using dogs to guide blind people? At the end of World War I, the German government trained the first guide dogs to assist blind war veterans.
1869. A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James.
1870. A felcher is someone who cleans someone else's butt.
1871. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
1872. "Chicago" is Indian for "place of wild garlic".
1873. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired".
1874. 'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.
1875. English soldiers of the Hundred Years' War were known to the French as "Les Goddams" because of their propensity to swear.
1876. Good bye came from God bye which came from God be with you. The word 'Bye' is used in both English and Spanish meaning the same thing. So-long came from the Arabic salaam and the Hebrew shalom. Norwegian "farvel" means "travel well (safe)". A modern version would be "drive carefully".
1877. In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its valu
1878. Seoul, the South Korean capital, means "the capital" in the Korean language.
1879. In some parts of Africa, people say "Wake up living" instead of saying "Good night".
1880. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King Jame
1881. Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
1882. Karoke means 'empty orchestra' in Japanese.
1883. Looking for a furniture removal truck in Great Britain? Better ask for a "pantechnicon".
1884. Mafia in Old Arabic means 'sanctuary.'
1885. Malaria was so named because it was associated with the vapors rising from swamps ("mala" means bad and "aria" means air).
1886. Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.
1887. Pogonophobia: The fear of beards.
1888. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
1889. "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".
1890. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
1802. A dog's whiskers are touch-sensitive hairs called vibrissae. They are found on the muzzle, above the eyes and below the jaws, and can actually sense tiny changes in airflow.
1803. According to a recent survey, the most popular name for a dog is Max. Other popular names include Molly, Sam, Zach, and Maggie.
1804. According to ancient Greek literature, when Odysseus arrived home after an absence of 20 years, disguised as a beggar, the only one to recognize him was his aged dog Argos, who wagged his tail at his master, and then died.
1805. An American Animal Hospital Association poll showed that 33 percent of dog owners admit that they talk to their dogs on the phone or leave messages on an answering machine while away.
1806. An estimated 1 million dogs in the United States have been named the primary beneficiary in their owner's will.
1807. At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life", an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.
1808. Barbara Bush's book about her English Springer Spaniel, Millie's book, was on the bestseller list for 29 weeks. Millie was the most popular "First Dog" in history.
1809. Before the enactment of the 1978 law that made it mandatory for dog owners in New York City to clean up after their pets, approximately 40 million pounds of dog excrement were deposited on the streets every year.
1810. Cats have better memories than dogs. Tests conducted by the University of Michigan concluded that while a dogs memory lasts no more than 5 minutes, a cat's can last as long as 16 hours - exceeding even that of monkeys and orangutans.
1811. Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
1812. Cats, not dogs, are the most common pets in America. There are approximately 66 million cats to 58 million dogs, with Parakeets a distant third at 14 million.
1813. Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating. They sweat through the pads of their feet.
1814. Dachshunds are the smallest breed of dog used for hunting. They are low to the ground, which allows them to enter and maneuver through tunnels easily.
1815. Developed in Egypt about 5,000 years ago, the greyhound breed was known before the ninth century in England, where it was bred by aristocrats to hunt such small game as hares.
1816. Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible.
1817. Dogs can hear sounds that are too faint for us to hear, and also can hear noises at a much higher frequency than we can. Their hearing is so good that they probably rely more on sound than on sight to navigate their world.
1818. Dogs' eyes have large pupils and a wide field of vision, making them really good at following moving objects. Dogs also see well in fairly low light.
1819. Dogs have far fewer taste buds than people -- probably fewer than 2,000. It is the smell that initially attracts them to a particular food.
1820. Dogs in monuments: The dog is placed at the feet of women in monuments to symbolise affection and fidelity, as a lion is placed at the feet of men to signify courage and magnanimity. Many of the Crusaders are represented with their feet on a dog, to show that they followed the standard of the Lord as faithfully as a dog follows the footsteps of his master.
1821. Dogs may not have as many taste buds as we do (they have about 1,700 on their tongues, while we humans have about 9,000), but that doesn't mean they're not discriminating eaters. They have over 200 million scent receptors in their noses (we have only 5 million) so it's important that their food smells good and tastes good.
1822. Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.
1823. Every known dog except the chow has a pink tongue - the chow's tongue is jet black.
1824. Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.
1825. For Stephen King's "Cujo" (1983), five St. Bernards were used, one mechanical head, and an actor in a dog costume to play the title character.
1826. French poodles did not originate in France. Poodles were originally used as hunting dogs in Europe. The dogs' thick coats were a hindrance in water and thick brush, so hunters sheared the hindquarters, with cuffs left around the ankles and hips to protect against rheumatism. Each hunter marked his dogs' heads with a ribbon of his own color, allowing groups of hunters to tell their dogs apart.
1827. Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmatian dogs to suffer from hearing disability.
1828. It has been established that people who own pets live longer, have less stress, and have fewer heart attacks.
1829. Korea's poshintang - dog meat soup - is a popular item on summertime menus, despite outcry from other nations. The soup is believed to cure summer heat ailments, improve male virility, and improve women's complexions.
1830. Lassie was played by several male dogs, despite the female name, because male collies were thought to look better on camera. The main "actor" was named Pal.
1831. Lassie, the TV collie, first appeared in a 1930s short novel titled Lassie Come-Home written by Eric Mowbray Knight. The dog in the novel was based on Knight's real life collie, Toots.
1832. Marie Antoinette's dog was a spaniel named Thisbe.
1833. Most pet owners (94 percent) say their pet makes them smile more than once a day.
1834. Pekingese dogs were sacred to the emperors of China for more than 2,000 years. They are one of the oldest breeds of dogs in the world.
1835. Prairie dogs are not dogs. A prairie dog is a kind of rodent.
1836. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's most famous canine companion was his Scottish Terrier, Fala, who is part of the Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C. But during Roosevelt's 12 years and one month as president, 11 dogs lived in the White House. They included a Bullmastiff, two red setters, a retriever, a Bulldog, a Llewellin Setter, a Scotch Terrier, a Great Dane, a Sheepdog, and a German Shepherd who tried to rip the pants off the British Prime Minister.
1837. Researchers studying what dogs like to eat have found that the appetite of pet dogs is affected by the taste, texture and smell of the food, and also by the owners' food preferences, their perception of their pet, and the physical environment in which the dog is eating.
1838. Scientists have discovered that dogs can smell the presence of autism in children.
1839. 'Seizure Alert' dogs can alert their owners up to an hour before the onset of an epileptic seizure.
1840. Seventy percent of people sign their pet's name on greeting cards and 58 percent include their pets in family and holiday portraits, according to a survey done by the American Animal Hospital Association.
1841. Small dogs are rapidly gaining popularity, according to American Kennel Club registration statistics. Three toys breeds are among the top 10 in popularity on the most recent list: the Yorkshire Terrier, Chihuahua, and Shih Tzu rank sixth, ninth, and 10th, respectively. A decade ago, no toy breeds were in the top 10.
1842. Some 39 percent of pet owners say they have more photos of their pet than of their spouse or significant other. Only 21 percent say they have more photos of their spouse or significant other than of their pet.
1843. The calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race average 10,000. The 1,149-mile race commemorates the 1925 "Race for Life" when 20 volunteer mushers relayed medicine from Anchorage to Nome to battle a children's diphtheria epidemic.
1844. The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."
1845. The common belief that dogs are color blind is false. Dogs can see color, but it is not as vivid a color scheme as we see. They distinguish between blue, yellow, and gray, but probably do not see red and green. This is much like our vision at twilight.
1846. The dachshund is one of the oldest dog breeds in history (dating back to ancient Egypt.) The name comes from one of its earliest uses - hunting badgers. In German, Dachs means "badger," Hund is "hound."
1847. The English Romantic poet Lord Byron was so devastated upon the death of his beloved Newfoundland, whose name was Boatswain, that he had inscribed upon the dog's gravestone the following: "Beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices."
1848. The expression "three dog night" originated with the Eskimos and means a very cold night - so cold that you have to bed down with three dogs to keep warm.
1849. The first dog to star in an American movie was Jean the Vitagraph Dog, a Border Collie mix, who made his first film in 1910.
1850. The first dogs to hunt in packs and the first small companion breeds were probably bred in ancient China. Written records more than 4,000 years old from China show that dog trainers were held in high esteem and that kennel masters raised and looked after large numbers of dog.
1851. The first seeing-eye dog was presented to a blind person on April 25, 1938.
1852. The largest and the smallest dogs to live in the White House where both there during the tenure of president James Buchanan. The president had a Newfoundland named Lara. And his niece, Harriet Lane (who served as White House hostess because the president was unmarried), had a tiny toy terrier named Punch.
1853. The last member of the famous Bonaparte family, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, died in 1945, of injuries sustained from tripping over his dog's leash.
1854. The name of the dog from "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" is Max.
1855. The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box is Bingo.
1856. The only dog to ever appear in a Shakespearean play was Crab in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
1857. The phrase "raining cats and dogs" originated in 17th Century England. During heavy downpours of rain, many of these poor animals unfortunately drowned and their bodies would be seen floating in the rain torrents that raced through the streets. The situation gave the appearance that it had literally rained "cats and dogs" and led to the current expression.
1858. The smallest breed of dog recognized by the American Kennel Club is the Chihuahua, which stands six to nine inches at the top of the shoulders and weighs two to six pounds. The largest is the Irish Wolfhound, which stands 30 to 35 inches at the top of the shoulders and weighs 105 to 125 pounds.
1859. The smallest of the recognized dog breeds, the Chihuahua, is also the one that usually lives the longest. Named for the region of Mexico where they were first discovered in the mid-19th century, the Chihuahua can live anywhere between 11-18 years.
1860. The term "dog days" has nothing to do with dogs. It dates back to Roman times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dog Star, added its heat to that of the sun from July3 to August 11, creating exceptionally high temperatures. The Romans called the period dies caniculares, or "days of the dog."
1861. The theobromine in chocolate that stimulates the cardiac and nervous systems is too much for dogs, especially smaller pups. A chocolate bar is poisonous to dogs and can even be lethal.
1862. There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
1863. There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States. Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
1864. Though human noses have an impressive 5 million olfactory cells with which to smell, sheepdogs have 220 million, enabling them to smell 44 times better than man.
1865. Using their swiveling ears like radar dishes, experiments have shown that dogs can locate the source of a sound in 6/100ths of a second.
1866. Walt Disney's family dog was named Lady. She was a poodle.
1867. While small dogs are gaining in popularity, the top dogs are still the big ones. The Labrador Retriever, Golden Retriever, and German Shepherd Dog are first, second, and third on list of the American Kennel Club's most popular breeds.
1868. Who first thought of using dogs to guide blind people? At the end of World War I, the German government trained the first guide dogs to assist blind war veterans.
1869. A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James.
1870. A felcher is someone who cleans someone else's butt.
1871. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
1872. "Chicago" is Indian for "place of wild garlic".
1873. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired".
1874. 'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.
1875. English soldiers of the Hundred Years' War were known to the French as "Les Goddams" because of their propensity to swear.
1876. Good bye came from God bye which came from God be with you. The word 'Bye' is used in both English and Spanish meaning the same thing. So-long came from the Arabic salaam and the Hebrew shalom. Norwegian "farvel" means "travel well (safe)". A modern version would be "drive carefully".
1877. In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its valu
1878. Seoul, the South Korean capital, means "the capital" in the Korean language.
1879. In some parts of Africa, people say "Wake up living" instead of saying "Good night".
1880. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King Jame
1881. Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
1882. Karoke means 'empty orchestra' in Japanese.
1883. Looking for a furniture removal truck in Great Britain? Better ask for a "pantechnicon".
1884. Mafia in Old Arabic means 'sanctuary.'
1885. Malaria was so named because it was associated with the vapors rising from swamps ("mala" means bad and "aria" means air).
1886. Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.
1887. Pogonophobia: The fear of beards.
1888. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
1889. "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".
1890. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
1891. The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: "What hath God wrought?"
1892. The first white person to popularize the use of the word "groovy" was Helen O'Connell, a singer with Jimmy Dorsey's band in the 1940s.
1893. The first word spoken on the moon was "okay".
1894. The first words spoken by Alexander Bell over the telephone were: "Watson, please come here. I want you".
1895. The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: "Mary had a little lamb".
1896. The infinity character on the keyboard is called a "lemniscate".
1897. The letter "n" ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.
1898. The longest non-medical word in the English language is FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION, which means "the act of estimating as worthless".
1899. The longest word in the Old Testament is "Malhershalahashbaz".
1900. The name "California" was taken from a 16th century Spanish novel, The Exploits of Esplaidian by Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo who described it as a mythical Amazon kingdom ruled by black women.
1901. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
1902. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
1903. The origin of the word "bedlam" comes from a lunatic asylum founded in the year 1247. "Bedlam" was a contraction of "Bethlehem" from the facility's name - the priory of St. Mary of Bethlehem.
1904. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
1905. The term "dixie" was first used by a New Orleans bank that issued bilingual French-American $10 bills ("dix" is the French word for "10"). It wasn't until Daniel Decatur Emmett's 1859 song "Dixie" that it is was applied to mean the south.
1906. The three words in the English language with the letters "uu" are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.
1907. The word "bozo" derives from the French slang term "bouseaux" (meaning "hick, peasant, or yokel"). However, bouseaux literally means "cow turds".
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat', which means, "the King is dead".
1908. The word "dude", which was coined by Oscar Wilde and his friends, is a hybrid of the words "duds" (for clothes) and "attitude". Unlike today, the word was considered derogatory until the 1960s.
1909. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
1910. The word "monosyllable" actually has five syllables in it.
1911. The word 'nerd' was first coined by Dr. Seuss in 'If I ran the Zoo'.
1912. The word "quiz" was supposedly invented in 1780 by a Dublin theatre manager who laid a wager that he would introduce a new word of no meaning into the language within 24 hours.
1913. The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial.
1914. The words "gene" and "genius" from the word "gens", which was used by Greek philosophers such as Aristotle to describe the ingenuity of males. "Genius" and "females" were never associated with each other.
1915. The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator.
1916. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
1917. There is no word for "headache" in Eskimo.
1918. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard.
1919. What do Phoenix, Liverpool, and Pyongyang have in common (perhaps the only thing)? They're all named after fabulous birds that never really existed.
1920. Women's underwear is called "smalls" in England.
1921. You won’t find a "6" in Cameroon phone numbers - the native language has no sound for "x".
1922. Zorro" means 'fox' in Spanish.
1923. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
1924. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.
1925. The Declaration of Independence (the very official copy in the Rotunda of the National Archives) is written on parchment, not paper.
1926. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
1927. A raisin dropped in a fresh glass of soda will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
1928. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
1929. A 2x4 is actually 1-1/2" x 3-1/2" .
1930. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
1931. Every person has a unique tongue print. (Say "aaah")
1932. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
1933. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
1934. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
1935. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
1936. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son. Irony.
1937. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
1938. Chocolate kills dogs! Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog. (Debated)
1939. Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
1940. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If they were captured, the cards could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
1941. Most lipstick contains fish scales. Yum.
1942. Dr. Seuss actually pronounced Seuss such that it sounded like Sue-ice.
1943. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
1944. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
1945. During the California Gold Rush of 1849 miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the high costs in California during these years it was deemed more feasible to send the shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
1946. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
1947. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
1948. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters. The proper term for upper case letters is "majuscule" and for lower case it's "minuscule".
1949. The printing industry gives us other popular phrases, such as "mind your 'p's and 'q's." The moveable block type had the letters in reverse so they would read correctly when imprinted on paper. Apprentices had to remove the type from the pages and return the blocks to their upper and lower cases. Each drawer in the case held a different size of letters, and each drawer was divided into compartments (called sorts) for each letter. The letters 'p' and 'q' could easily be mistaken, so the master printer would advise their apprentices to mind their 'p's and 'q's. (This is debated. Link.)
1950. When the master printer was building a page and discovered that a particular sort was empty, he would get angry. Thus the term "out of sorts".
1951. The question mark came from a monk habit of writing the Latin word for question, quo, at the end of sentences. Over time, the letters were written vertically to save space and morphed into the ? we write today. Similarly, the exclamation point came from the Latin word "Lo", meaning something important that should be heeded. (Lo and behold...)
1952. Wellfleet, Massachusetts has the only town clock in the world that strikes ship's time. (Rings every half hour, to a maximum of 8 rings at the end of each four hour period.)
1953. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with the words orange, purple, or silver, or month. (Debated, as I don't think that sliver is a rhyme for silver, or pimple a good rhyme with purple, etc.)
1954. The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. (New or old? Not sure. Probably the old one.)
1955. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
1956. There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a $10 dollar bill.
1957. Scissors as we know them today (well, pretty much) were invented in Rome in about 100 AD (or CE, if you want to be politically correct).
1958. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and look like it is stinging itself to death. It spasms a lot.
1959. Most scorpions will glow under black (ultraviolet) light. (?!)
1960. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
1961. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
1962. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springstein's 'Born in the USA.'
1963. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
1964. The first product Motorola developed was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
1965. Roses MAY be red, but violets ARE, indeed, violet.
1966. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. One should carry a stout pole while travelling in quicksand country...when placed under one's back, it helps one to float out of the quicksand.
1967. Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.
1968. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. (Mmm, diet food.)
1969. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
1970. In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than one hundred years before either moon was discovered.
1971. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
1972. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson." For that matter, Sherlock Holmes never existed in the first place. But the address where he supposedly lived, 221B Baker Street, still gets a lot of fan mail. I am told that there is a desk there that has the sign "Secretary to Mr. Holmes".
1973. An old law in Bellingham, Wash., made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. (?!)
1974. Birds have the right of way on all Utah highways.
1975. Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.
1976. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
1977. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
1978. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit will damage it.
1979. The number one selling CD in history is the third Beatles anthology. It recently beat out the Eagles' "Their Greatest Hits."
1980. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
1981. If you drop a penny off of the Empire State Building, it will be going 106 miles per hour (terminal velocity) when it reaches the ground. Something moving this fast may actually cause head injuries if it lands on you. (OUCH)
1982. The original Winnie the Pooh was a real live bear found outside of Winnipeg, Canada, hence the name Winnie.
1983. Francis Bacon died in his attempt to find a better way to serve food. He caught a case of pneumonia while attempting to stuff a chicken with snow. Ironically, the chicken survived the ordeal.
1984. Dachshunds were originally bred in 1600 to hunt dachs, which is German for badgers. (Historically speaking, 1600 was a slow year.)
1985. Houdini's real name was Ehrich Weiss.
1986. The first zoo in America was in Philadelphia.
1987. Laser is actually an acronym for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emissions of Radiation."
1988. The world's first passenger train made its debut in England in 1825.
1989. If you hate our "QWERTY" keyboard layout, blame Christopher Sholes. He changed it from the original in 1873 to lessen the chances of the keys jamming.
1990. Napoleon III suffered from ailurophobia, which is a fear of cats.
1991. Escalator is one of many words that were originally trademarks but have become ordinary words found in dictionaries. Some other words which were originally trademarks and have now passed into common use are aspirin, autoharp, band-aids, breathalyzer, cellophane, Coke (in some areas, at least), corn flakes, cube steak, ditto, dry ice, dumpster, formica, Frisbee, granola, gunk, jeep, kerosene, Kleenex, mace, nylon, ping-pong (also an onomatopoeia), popsicle, Q-tip, rollerblade, rolodex, Scotch tape, sheetrock, spandex, styrofoam, tabloid, thermos, trampoline, yo-yo, xerox, and zipper.
1992. 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.
1993. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. Also, the powder on the bark of a quaking aspen tree works as a mosquito repellent.
1994. Wild plants that are edible: (this is about the only non-useless info on here...)
1995. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
1996. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
1997. No piece of paper can be folded in half consecutively more than 7 times (doubling factor... you end up folding 27 == 128 sheets of paper).
1998. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television. (I have!)
1999. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
2000. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
1892. The first white person to popularize the use of the word "groovy" was Helen O'Connell, a singer with Jimmy Dorsey's band in the 1940s.
1893. The first word spoken on the moon was "okay".
1894. The first words spoken by Alexander Bell over the telephone were: "Watson, please come here. I want you".
1895. The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: "Mary had a little lamb".
1896. The infinity character on the keyboard is called a "lemniscate".
1897. The letter "n" ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.
1898. The longest non-medical word in the English language is FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION, which means "the act of estimating as worthless".
1899. The longest word in the Old Testament is "Malhershalahashbaz".
1900. The name "California" was taken from a 16th century Spanish novel, The Exploits of Esplaidian by Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo who described it as a mythical Amazon kingdom ruled by black women.
1901. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
1902. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
1903. The origin of the word "bedlam" comes from a lunatic asylum founded in the year 1247. "Bedlam" was a contraction of "Bethlehem" from the facility's name - the priory of St. Mary of Bethlehem.
1904. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
1905. The term "dixie" was first used by a New Orleans bank that issued bilingual French-American $10 bills ("dix" is the French word for "10"). It wasn't until Daniel Decatur Emmett's 1859 song "Dixie" that it is was applied to mean the south.
1906. The three words in the English language with the letters "uu" are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.
1907. The word "bozo" derives from the French slang term "bouseaux" (meaning "hick, peasant, or yokel"). However, bouseaux literally means "cow turds".
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat', which means, "the King is dead".
1908. The word "dude", which was coined by Oscar Wilde and his friends, is a hybrid of the words "duds" (for clothes) and "attitude". Unlike today, the word was considered derogatory until the 1960s.
1909. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
1910. The word "monosyllable" actually has five syllables in it.
1911. The word 'nerd' was first coined by Dr. Seuss in 'If I ran the Zoo'.
1912. The word "quiz" was supposedly invented in 1780 by a Dublin theatre manager who laid a wager that he would introduce a new word of no meaning into the language within 24 hours.
1913. The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial.
1914. The words "gene" and "genius" from the word "gens", which was used by Greek philosophers such as Aristotle to describe the ingenuity of males. "Genius" and "females" were never associated with each other.
1915. The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator.
1916. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
1917. There is no word for "headache" in Eskimo.
1918. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard.
1919. What do Phoenix, Liverpool, and Pyongyang have in common (perhaps the only thing)? They're all named after fabulous birds that never really existed.
1920. Women's underwear is called "smalls" in England.
1921. You won’t find a "6" in Cameroon phone numbers - the native language has no sound for "x".
1922. Zorro" means 'fox' in Spanish.
1923. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
1924. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.
1925. The Declaration of Independence (the very official copy in the Rotunda of the National Archives) is written on parchment, not paper.
1926. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
1927. A raisin dropped in a fresh glass of soda will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
1928. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
1929. A 2x4 is actually 1-1/2" x 3-1/2" .
1930. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
1931. Every person has a unique tongue print. (Say "aaah")
1932. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
1933. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
1934. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
1935. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
1936. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son. Irony.
1937. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
1938. Chocolate kills dogs! Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog. (Debated)
1939. Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
1940. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If they were captured, the cards could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
1941. Most lipstick contains fish scales. Yum.
1942. Dr. Seuss actually pronounced Seuss such that it sounded like Sue-ice.
1943. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
1944. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
1945. During the California Gold Rush of 1849 miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the high costs in California during these years it was deemed more feasible to send the shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
1946. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
1947. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
1948. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters. The proper term for upper case letters is "majuscule" and for lower case it's "minuscule".
1949. The printing industry gives us other popular phrases, such as "mind your 'p's and 'q's." The moveable block type had the letters in reverse so they would read correctly when imprinted on paper. Apprentices had to remove the type from the pages and return the blocks to their upper and lower cases. Each drawer in the case held a different size of letters, and each drawer was divided into compartments (called sorts) for each letter. The letters 'p' and 'q' could easily be mistaken, so the master printer would advise their apprentices to mind their 'p's and 'q's. (This is debated. Link.)
1950. When the master printer was building a page and discovered that a particular sort was empty, he would get angry. Thus the term "out of sorts".
1951. The question mark came from a monk habit of writing the Latin word for question, quo, at the end of sentences. Over time, the letters were written vertically to save space and morphed into the ? we write today. Similarly, the exclamation point came from the Latin word "Lo", meaning something important that should be heeded. (Lo and behold...)
1952. Wellfleet, Massachusetts has the only town clock in the world that strikes ship's time. (Rings every half hour, to a maximum of 8 rings at the end of each four hour period.)
1953. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with the words orange, purple, or silver, or month. (Debated, as I don't think that sliver is a rhyme for silver, or pimple a good rhyme with purple, etc.)
1954. The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. (New or old? Not sure. Probably the old one.)
1955. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
1956. There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a $10 dollar bill.
1957. Scissors as we know them today (well, pretty much) were invented in Rome in about 100 AD (or CE, if you want to be politically correct).
1958. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and look like it is stinging itself to death. It spasms a lot.
1959. Most scorpions will glow under black (ultraviolet) light. (?!)
1960. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
1961. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
1962. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springstein's 'Born in the USA.'
1963. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
1964. The first product Motorola developed was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
1965. Roses MAY be red, but violets ARE, indeed, violet.
1966. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. One should carry a stout pole while travelling in quicksand country...when placed under one's back, it helps one to float out of the quicksand.
1967. Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.
1968. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. (Mmm, diet food.)
1969. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
1970. In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than one hundred years before either moon was discovered.
1971. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
1972. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson." For that matter, Sherlock Holmes never existed in the first place. But the address where he supposedly lived, 221B Baker Street, still gets a lot of fan mail. I am told that there is a desk there that has the sign "Secretary to Mr. Holmes".
1973. An old law in Bellingham, Wash., made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. (?!)
1974. Birds have the right of way on all Utah highways.
1975. Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.
1976. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
1977. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
1978. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit will damage it.
1979. The number one selling CD in history is the third Beatles anthology. It recently beat out the Eagles' "Their Greatest Hits."
1980. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
1981. If you drop a penny off of the Empire State Building, it will be going 106 miles per hour (terminal velocity) when it reaches the ground. Something moving this fast may actually cause head injuries if it lands on you. (OUCH)
1982. The original Winnie the Pooh was a real live bear found outside of Winnipeg, Canada, hence the name Winnie.
1983. Francis Bacon died in his attempt to find a better way to serve food. He caught a case of pneumonia while attempting to stuff a chicken with snow. Ironically, the chicken survived the ordeal.
1984. Dachshunds were originally bred in 1600 to hunt dachs, which is German for badgers. (Historically speaking, 1600 was a slow year.)
1985. Houdini's real name was Ehrich Weiss.
1986. The first zoo in America was in Philadelphia.
1987. Laser is actually an acronym for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emissions of Radiation."
1988. The world's first passenger train made its debut in England in 1825.
1989. If you hate our "QWERTY" keyboard layout, blame Christopher Sholes. He changed it from the original in 1873 to lessen the chances of the keys jamming.
1990. Napoleon III suffered from ailurophobia, which is a fear of cats.
1991. Escalator is one of many words that were originally trademarks but have become ordinary words found in dictionaries. Some other words which were originally trademarks and have now passed into common use are aspirin, autoharp, band-aids, breathalyzer, cellophane, Coke (in some areas, at least), corn flakes, cube steak, ditto, dry ice, dumpster, formica, Frisbee, granola, gunk, jeep, kerosene, Kleenex, mace, nylon, ping-pong (also an onomatopoeia), popsicle, Q-tip, rollerblade, rolodex, Scotch tape, sheetrock, spandex, styrofoam, tabloid, thermos, trampoline, yo-yo, xerox, and zipper.
1992. 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.
1993. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. Also, the powder on the bark of a quaking aspen tree works as a mosquito repellent.
1994. Wild plants that are edible: (this is about the only non-useless info on here...)
1995. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
1996. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
1997. No piece of paper can be folded in half consecutively more than 7 times (doubling factor... you end up folding 27 == 128 sheets of paper).
1998. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television. (I have!)
1999. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
2000. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
2001. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
2002. The king of hearts on playing cards is the only king without a moustache.
2003. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
2004. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
2005. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in waking you up in the morning. (Go figure.)
2006. The little plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. (Why do you name them?)
2007. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
2008. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. (Hmm, wonder why.)
2009. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
2010. Betsy Ross, Jackie Onassis, JFK, and Daniel Boone have all appeared on Pez dispensers.
2011. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
2012. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
2013. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
2014. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing their hands in jelly.
2015. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2016. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
2017. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. (I'm not sure if that counts 50 cent pieces or not.)
2018. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
2019. There are more chickens than people in the world.
2020. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
2021. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
2022. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
2023. "Dreamt" and "undreamt" are the only English words that end in the letters "mt."
2024. 47.2% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
2025. 26 (easily visible, there may be more) states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the old US $5 bill.
2026. The almond is a member of the peach family.
2027. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
2028. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
2029. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."
2030. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
2031. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
2032. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
2033. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
2034. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
2035. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
2036. A mayfly has a life span of 24 hours.
2037. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (As noted by a reader: "The reason a goldfish swims back and forth and back and forth across the fish bowl all day long everyday is because by the time it gets to one side of the bowl it forgets what's on the other side of the bowl. Every trip is a new adventure! (Hey, I wonder what's over there!.... Hey! I wonder what's over THERE!)")
2038. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
2039. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Updated: I've had one person say they can do it. But still.)
2040. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
2041. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Wonder what it did to his liver?) That researcher also invented microwave popcorn.
2042. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
2043. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
2044. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
2045. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
2046. The data track on a CD is a very long spiral. If it were unwound and laid out in a straight line, it would be over 3.5 miles long.
2047. It is impossible to lick your elbow or stick your elbow in your ear. (Updated: I've recieved many e-mails from people who actually can lick their elbow. Most people can't do it, and I have yet to get an elbow-ear report.)
2048. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
2049. A shrimp's heart is in its head.
2050. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).
2051. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
2052. A pregnant goldfish is called a twerp.
2053. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
2054. Rats and horses can't vomit.
2055. "The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
2056. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
2057. A lot of photocopier faults world-wide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
2058. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
2059. The oldest standing building in Australia is Captain James Cook's house, brought over from England brick by brick. Why?
2060. Paul McCartney's real first name is James - Paul is his middle name. Thus, all the Beatles (including Ringo, whose first name is Richard) were named after kings.
2061. The hole inside a CD is exactly the same size as an old Dutch 10 cent coin, called the "dubbeltje". (?!) Of course, all the European countries (save a few) have gone Euro now.
2062. Killer whales are not, technically, whales. They are orcas, a relative of the porpoise and the dolphin.
2063. If you stroke a shark from nose to tail, it is smooth. If you stroke it the other way, it is rough, and on some species, can even give you hand lacerations.
2064. Elephants are the only land mammals that can't jump.
2065. More about elephants: If you add up the circumference of two feet, you get exactly the elephant's height. (?!)
2066. Your foot is nearly the same length as your forearm as measured from the inside of the elbow to the wrist. (On me, it's nearly exact. )
2067. In 10 minutes, a hurricane expends more energy than all of the nuclear weapons in the world combined.
2068. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
2069. 90% of all New York cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. (This reminds me of a Douglas Adams quote. If you can tell me which book, I'll give you... umm... nothing. Oh, wait rummages I have some undying respect I can throw in.)
2070. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
2071. A snail can sleep for three months.
2072. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
2073. All polar bears, despite being near the North Pole, are southpaws. (ooh, bad pun)
2074. "Go" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
2075. Americans eat on average 18 acres worth of pizza every day.
2076. Wheat is the most widely grown plant in the world. It has been cultivated for more than 7,000 years in every continent except Antarctica.
2077. The compass plant (Silphium laciniatum) is so-called because its lower leaves tend to line up in a north-south direction.
2078. Botanically, there is no such thing as a pumpkin. Pumpkins are certain varieties of squash, which through local traditions and use, have come to be called pumpkins. Squash and pumpkins belong to the family 'Cucurbitaceae', which also contains cucumbers, melons and gourds.
2079. The onion is a lily, botanically. Asparagus is also a member of the lily family. The name "asparagus" comes from a Greek word meaning "sprout".
2080. There are more than 1,000 varieties of tomatoes currently being grown in the U.S.
2081. The average American eats 13 pounds of tomatoes a year (plus 20 pounds a year in the form of ketchup, salsa, soup, and BBQ sauce).
2082. The biggest tomato on record weighed in at a hefty 7 pounds 12 ounces. It was grown by Gordon Graham of Oklahoma.
2083. Cool as a cucumber? It's true ... the inside of a cucumber on the vine measures
as much as 20 degrees cooler than the outside air on a warm day.
2084. The Daisy got its name because the yellow center resembled the sun. It was commonly known as the "day's eye" and over time, was eventually called daisy.
2085. The world's largest flower, Rafflesia, can measure up to three feet across.
2086. One tree can remove 26 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually, equaling 11,000 miles of car emissions. Landscape plants, such as shrubs and turf, remove smoke, dust, and other pollutants from the air. One study showed that 1 acre of trees has the ability to remove 13 tons of particles and gases annually.
2087. The "Fireweed" was the first plant to bloom in areas that were destroyed by the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens.
2088. The Saguaro Cactus, found in the Southwestern United States, doesn't grow branches until it is 75 years old.
2089. If a spider dismantles her web, that means a bad storm is near.
2090. Fire ants mate while flying. An average colony of fire ants has approximately 250,000 to 300,000 ants. Queens, which live from five to seven years, can lay up to 2,000 eggs per day. ~ Active Info Brochure
2091. If caterpillars are seen in late fall, predict a mild winter.
2092. The Monarch Butterfly will only lay its eggs on the milkweed plant, and the milkweed is the only plant the caterpillars will feed on.
2093. A Humming bird is the only bird known that can fly backwards.
2094. The average Humming bird weighs less than a penny.
2095. A hummingbird will feed at over 1,500 flowers in an average day.
2096. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
2097. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
2098. Only female mosquitoes bite and drink blood. Male mosquitoes do not bite; they are vegetarians, and feed on the nectar of flowers.
2099. Mosquito repellents don't actually repel. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors
so they don't know you're there.
2100. Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue more than any other color.
2101. The smallest mammal in the world is Thailand’s Kitti’s hog-nosed bat, whichis about the size of a bumblebee. One bat can catch over 1,000 mosquitoes in an hour.
2002. The king of hearts on playing cards is the only king without a moustache.
2003. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
2004. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
2005. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in waking you up in the morning. (Go figure.)
2006. The little plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. (Why do you name them?)
2007. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
2008. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. (Hmm, wonder why.)
2009. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
2010. Betsy Ross, Jackie Onassis, JFK, and Daniel Boone have all appeared on Pez dispensers.
2011. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
2012. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
2013. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
2014. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing their hands in jelly.
2015. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2016. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
2017. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. (I'm not sure if that counts 50 cent pieces or not.)
2018. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
2019. There are more chickens than people in the world.
2020. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
2021. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
2022. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
2023. "Dreamt" and "undreamt" are the only English words that end in the letters "mt."
2024. 47.2% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
2025. 26 (easily visible, there may be more) states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the old US $5 bill.
2026. The almond is a member of the peach family.
2027. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
2028. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
2029. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."
2030. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
2031. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
2032. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
2033. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
2034. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
2035. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
2036. A mayfly has a life span of 24 hours.
2037. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (As noted by a reader: "The reason a goldfish swims back and forth and back and forth across the fish bowl all day long everyday is because by the time it gets to one side of the bowl it forgets what's on the other side of the bowl. Every trip is a new adventure! (Hey, I wonder what's over there!.... Hey! I wonder what's over THERE!)"
) 2038. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
2039. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Updated: I've had one person say they can do it. But still.)
2040. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
2041. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Wonder what it did to his liver?) That researcher also invented microwave popcorn.
2042. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
2043. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
2044. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
2045. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
2046. The data track on a CD is a very long spiral. If it were unwound and laid out in a straight line, it would be over 3.5 miles long.
2047. It is impossible to lick your elbow or stick your elbow in your ear. (Updated: I've recieved many e-mails from people who actually can lick their elbow. Most people can't do it, and I have yet to get an elbow-ear report.)
2048. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
2049. A shrimp's heart is in its head.
2050. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).
2051. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
2052. A pregnant goldfish is called a twerp.
2053. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
2054. Rats and horses can't vomit.
2055. "The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
2056. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
2057. A lot of photocopier faults world-wide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
2058. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
2059. The oldest standing building in Australia is Captain James Cook's house, brought over from England brick by brick. Why?
2060. Paul McCartney's real first name is James - Paul is his middle name. Thus, all the Beatles (including Ringo, whose first name is Richard) were named after kings.
2061. The hole inside a CD is exactly the same size as an old Dutch 10 cent coin, called the "dubbeltje". (?!) Of course, all the European countries (save a few) have gone Euro now.
2062. Killer whales are not, technically, whales. They are orcas, a relative of the porpoise and the dolphin.
2063. If you stroke a shark from nose to tail, it is smooth. If you stroke it the other way, it is rough, and on some species, can even give you hand lacerations.
2064. Elephants are the only land mammals that can't jump.
2065. More about elephants: If you add up the circumference of two feet, you get exactly the elephant's height. (?!)
2066. Your foot is nearly the same length as your forearm as measured from the inside of the elbow to the wrist. (On me, it's nearly exact.
) 2067. In 10 minutes, a hurricane expends more energy than all of the nuclear weapons in the world combined.
2068. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
2069. 90% of all New York cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. (This reminds me of a Douglas Adams quote. If you can tell me which book, I'll give you... umm... nothing. Oh, wait rummages I have some undying respect I can throw in.)
2070. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
2071. A snail can sleep for three months.
2072. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
2073. All polar bears, despite being near the North Pole, are southpaws. (ooh, bad pun)
2074. "Go" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
2075. Americans eat on average 18 acres worth of pizza every day.
2076. Wheat is the most widely grown plant in the world. It has been cultivated for more than 7,000 years in every continent except Antarctica.
2077. The compass plant (Silphium laciniatum) is so-called because its lower leaves tend to line up in a north-south direction.
2078. Botanically, there is no such thing as a pumpkin. Pumpkins are certain varieties of squash, which through local traditions and use, have come to be called pumpkins. Squash and pumpkins belong to the family 'Cucurbitaceae', which also contains cucumbers, melons and gourds.
2079. The onion is a lily, botanically. Asparagus is also a member of the lily family. The name "asparagus" comes from a Greek word meaning "sprout".
2080. There are more than 1,000 varieties of tomatoes currently being grown in the U.S.
2081. The average American eats 13 pounds of tomatoes a year (plus 20 pounds a year in the form of ketchup, salsa, soup, and BBQ sauce).
2082. The biggest tomato on record weighed in at a hefty 7 pounds 12 ounces. It was grown by Gordon Graham of Oklahoma.
2083. Cool as a cucumber? It's true ... the inside of a cucumber on the vine measures
as much as 20 degrees cooler than the outside air on a warm day.
2084. The Daisy got its name because the yellow center resembled the sun. It was commonly known as the "day's eye" and over time, was eventually called daisy.
2085. The world's largest flower, Rafflesia, can measure up to three feet across.
2086. One tree can remove 26 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually, equaling 11,000 miles of car emissions. Landscape plants, such as shrubs and turf, remove smoke, dust, and other pollutants from the air. One study showed that 1 acre of trees has the ability to remove 13 tons of particles and gases annually.
2087. The "Fireweed" was the first plant to bloom in areas that were destroyed by the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens.
2088. The Saguaro Cactus, found in the Southwestern United States, doesn't grow branches until it is 75 years old.
2089. If a spider dismantles her web, that means a bad storm is near.
2090. Fire ants mate while flying. An average colony of fire ants has approximately 250,000 to 300,000 ants. Queens, which live from five to seven years, can lay up to 2,000 eggs per day. ~ Active Info Brochure
2091. If caterpillars are seen in late fall, predict a mild winter.
2092. The Monarch Butterfly will only lay its eggs on the milkweed plant, and the milkweed is the only plant the caterpillars will feed on.
2093. A Humming bird is the only bird known that can fly backwards.
2094. The average Humming bird weighs less than a penny.
2095. A hummingbird will feed at over 1,500 flowers in an average day.
2096. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
2097. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
2098. Only female mosquitoes bite and drink blood. Male mosquitoes do not bite; they are vegetarians, and feed on the nectar of flowers.
2099. Mosquito repellents don't actually repel. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors
so they don't know you're there.
2100. Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue more than any other color.
2101. The smallest mammal in the world is Thailand’s Kitti’s hog-nosed bat, whichis about the size of a bumblebee. One bat can catch over 1,000 mosquitoes in an hour.
2102. Wood Frogs freeze during the winter and thaw again in the spring to begin breeding.
2103. The city of Mt. Vernon, Washington ... grows more tulips than the entire country of Holland.
2104. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
2105. Eighty percent of the world's rose species come from Asia.
2106. Bananas are considered the world's largest herb. They are related to the lily and orchid family.
2107. Rosemary, sage, oregano, thyme and marjoram all belong to the mint plant family.
2108. Every plant in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, is edible.
2109. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep cool. He changed it every two innings.
2110. Computers only understand two digits, 0 and 1. This base two math is known as Binary. 1 represents on and 0 is off. When you type the letter M on your keyboard, it is translated to the Binary code of, 01001101. Every letter, number, pixel you see on your monitor is a binary set of 1's and 0's .
2111. An Intel 600 mhz CPU today has 9.5 million transistors and the aluminum conducting wires in the chip are 1/100,000th of an inch thick .
2112. An Athlon 600 mhz CPU has 22 million transistors.
2113. Moore's Law states that computer performance doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since Intel's 4004 chip in 1971, this has been true.
2114. The IBM RAMAC 305 in 1956 stored 5 megabytes of data which cost $10,000 per megabyte. Compared to today at less than a buck a megabyte.
2115. In 1998, 9.4 billion E-mail messages were sent per day.
2116. There are an estimated 800 million web pages available on the web and experts estimate the web doubles in size every 8 months.
2117. Most of your computer electronics use from 3 to 5 volts - Electrostatic discharge you can feel has around 3,000 volts - an ESD shock you can see carries 20,000 volts - an ESD shock of only 30 volts can destroy a computers circuit.
2118. In 1983 Microsoft built it's first mouse but only sold 5,000 of the 100,000 units built. It wasn't until Apple released the Macintosh a year later that a mass audience viewed the mouse as a tool to make computing easier.
2119. The term "Hypertext" was coined in 1965 by Ted Nelson who used it to describe the multimedia system he proposed called "Xanadu"
2120. Microsoft's TerraServer database stores more than one terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) of detailed aerial and satellite photos.
2121. SGI's Blue Mountain super computer at Los Alamos has 1.5 terabytes of RAM, more than any other computer on earth.
2122. In 1981 Bill Gates made the bold statement " 640kb of memory ought to be enough for anybody"
2123. Originally the WWW prefix was used by the scientists at CERN (the European laboratory for Particle Physics) to distinguish Web files from other Internet documents. Today, it's a completely unnecessary part of a Web address. (Personally, I can't forget to stop using it :-)
2124. The largest network on earth, the Internet, started in 1969 with four nodes installed at the University of California-Los Angeles, the University of Califorina-Santa Barbera, the Stanford Research Institute, and the University of Utah.
2125. A speck of dust inside a processor, although only the relative size of a soccer ball in the entire country of Ireland, is large enough to cause problems for the chip.
2126. A Bit stands for "Binary Digit" a Bit can hold only one of two values 0 or 1. (see above) A Byte is composed of 8 consecutive bits.
2127. Clock speeds are expressed in megahertz (MHZ) 1 MHZ is equal to one million cycles per second. The computer I'm using now is running at 850 million cycles per second. In the old days an 80286 required 20 cycles to multiply two numbers, today, Processors can execute more than one instruction per clock cycle.
2128. The word "boot" or "booting" comes from the concept of bootstrapping, or pulling oneself up by the bootstraps. Before PC's, computer operators would run a program called the bootstrap loader. This loader did the initialization that is now automatic. The process became known as bootstrapping and later booting.
2129. As of March of 1999, there were over 364 million PC's in use worldwide with 129 million of those in the U.S
2130. In 1977, Kenneth Olsen, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., stated: "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home"
2131. The personal computer runs 400 times faster than the main frames of 30 years ago.
2132. There are 18 million lines of code in Windows 98.
2133. The first all purpose computer ENIAC required so much electricity to process information that the lights in the nearby town dimmed each time it was used.
2134. The fastest computer in the world is the CM-5 "thinking machine" at the Los Alamos National Labratories, USA. It can perform 131 billion operations per second.
2135. In 1963, Douglas Englebart, invented the computer mouse which was later pioneered by Xerox.
2136. Information is exchanged on every man, woman and child an average of 5 times a day in the US.
2137. The Amazon Forest holds some 2,500 tree species and 30,000 plant species (30 percent of all plant species.
2138. The Amazon River - the world's largest water basin, covering a total extension of approximately 2.3 million square miles - discharges around 40,000 gallons of water into the Atlantic Ocean every second.
2139. The water volume flow of the Amazon River equals 20 percent of the joint volume of all rivers on Earth.
2140. The biggest fresh water fish in the world is found in the Amazon. The pirarucu (paiche in Spanish) can weigh 550 pounds, measuring up to 8 feet in length.
2141. The Brazilian Amazon's Tumucumaque Mountains National Park, the first national park formally established by the government of Brazil in 2002 is the world's largest tropical forest national park and the second largest national park overall.
2142. The Jaú National Park, created in 1986, is the second largest tropical forest park in the world, with an area that is bigger than the entire state of Massachusetts (8,772 square miles).
2143. Traditional logging methods end up causing great waste. The total number of trees taken down for each tree actually extracted can be reduced significantly, by almost 50 percent, when using appropriate logging management plans.
2144. The vitória-régia, considered to be one of the Amazon's symbols, is the world's largest flower. Some can measure more than 6 feet in diameter.
2145. The Amazon's largest animal is the manatee, which can weigh half a ton and measure almost 10 feet in length.
2146. The Amazon anaconda can reach 33 feet in length.
2147. Newcastle United played Portsmouth in the first English League game to be played under floodlights.
2148.
Coventry City were the first team to beat Tottenham Hotspur in an FA Cup final.
2149.
Ray Wilkins won 84 England caps in his career.
2150.
QPR were the first English club to install an artificial pitch
2151.
Tommy Lawton scored 22 times in 23 appearances for England
2152.
Ian Wright was Arsenal's top scorer for six consecutive seasons
2153.
Billy Wright was the first man to win 100 caps for England
2154.
Greece failed to score in the 1994 World Cup
2155.
The first corner kick was taken in the 1870s
2156.
Hungary lost just once in 48 matches between 1950 and 1956
2157.
Mark Lawrenson was Liverpool's only English-born player in the 1986 FA Cup final
2158.
Eric Cantona was sent off twice in four days whilst playing for Man U in 1994
2159.
Newport County was John Aldridge's first club
2160.
Andy Cole hit 34 goals in Newcastle's first season in the Premier League
2161.
Real Madrid won the first five European Cup finals
2162.
Ally McCoist was Scotlands only goal scorer in Euro 96
2163.
Tony Adams scored for both sides in the 1998 friendly between England and Holland
2164.
QPR were once known as St Judes
2165.
During the 1930-1931 season Manchester United lost the first 12 games
2166.
Bob Paisley took Liverpool to Wembley 12 times
2167.
Neville Southall made his League debut with Bury
2168.
Turkey were the only club not to score in Euro 96
2169.
Alan Mullery was the first England player to be sent off
2170.
Numbers were worn on the back of football shirts for the first time on August 25 1928.
2171.
The lowest ever English Premier League attendance of 3,039 was at Wimbledon v Everton January 1993.
2172.
The English League adopted 3 points for a win in 1981.
2173.
Lincoln City were the first club to be automatically demoted from the League.
2174.
Dynamo Berlin won 10 successive League titles in East Germany.
2175.
The first professional to play for England against Scotland was James Forrest.
2176.
Yugoslavia qualified for the European Championship in 1992 but were excluded. Their replacements were Denmark, who went on to win the tournament.
2177.
Boris Becker had trials with Bayern Munich before becoming a tennis champion.
2178.
Plymouth Argyle were once known as the Argyle Athletic Club
2179.
Howard Wilkinson was player/manager at Boston United during their non-league days?
2180. In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.
2181. The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.
2182. The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.
2183. Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.
2184. Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.
2185. Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.
2186. The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.
2187. The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.
2188. The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.
2189. Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed.
2190. Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.
2191. SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.
2192. Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.
2193. Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.
2194. Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
2195. The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.
2196. The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly.
2197. You can get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.
2198. Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.
2199. Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.
2200. The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.
2103. The city of Mt. Vernon, Washington ... grows more tulips than the entire country of Holland.
2104. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
2105. Eighty percent of the world's rose species come from Asia.
2106. Bananas are considered the world's largest herb. They are related to the lily and orchid family.
2107. Rosemary, sage, oregano, thyme and marjoram all belong to the mint plant family.
2108. Every plant in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, is edible.
2109. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep cool. He changed it every two innings.
2110. Computers only understand two digits, 0 and 1. This base two math is known as Binary. 1 represents on and 0 is off. When you type the letter M on your keyboard, it is translated to the Binary code of, 01001101. Every letter, number, pixel you see on your monitor is a binary set of 1's and 0's .
2111. An Intel 600 mhz CPU today has 9.5 million transistors and the aluminum conducting wires in the chip are 1/100,000th of an inch thick .
2112. An Athlon 600 mhz CPU has 22 million transistors.
2113. Moore's Law states that computer performance doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since Intel's 4004 chip in 1971, this has been true.
2114. The IBM RAMAC 305 in 1956 stored 5 megabytes of data which cost $10,000 per megabyte. Compared to today at less than a buck a megabyte.
2115. In 1998, 9.4 billion E-mail messages were sent per day.
2116. There are an estimated 800 million web pages available on the web and experts estimate the web doubles in size every 8 months.
2117. Most of your computer electronics use from 3 to 5 volts - Electrostatic discharge you can feel has around 3,000 volts - an ESD shock you can see carries 20,000 volts - an ESD shock of only 30 volts can destroy a computers circuit.
2118. In 1983 Microsoft built it's first mouse but only sold 5,000 of the 100,000 units built. It wasn't until Apple released the Macintosh a year later that a mass audience viewed the mouse as a tool to make computing easier.
2119. The term "Hypertext" was coined in 1965 by Ted Nelson who used it to describe the multimedia system he proposed called "Xanadu"
2120. Microsoft's TerraServer database stores more than one terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) of detailed aerial and satellite photos.
2121. SGI's Blue Mountain super computer at Los Alamos has 1.5 terabytes of RAM, more than any other computer on earth.
2122. In 1981 Bill Gates made the bold statement " 640kb of memory ought to be enough for anybody"
2123. Originally the WWW prefix was used by the scientists at CERN (the European laboratory for Particle Physics) to distinguish Web files from other Internet documents. Today, it's a completely unnecessary part of a Web address. (Personally, I can't forget to stop using it :-)
2124. The largest network on earth, the Internet, started in 1969 with four nodes installed at the University of California-Los Angeles, the University of Califorina-Santa Barbera, the Stanford Research Institute, and the University of Utah.
2125. A speck of dust inside a processor, although only the relative size of a soccer ball in the entire country of Ireland, is large enough to cause problems for the chip.
2126. A Bit stands for "Binary Digit" a Bit can hold only one of two values 0 or 1. (see above) A Byte is composed of 8 consecutive bits.
2127. Clock speeds are expressed in megahertz (MHZ) 1 MHZ is equal to one million cycles per second. The computer I'm using now is running at 850 million cycles per second. In the old days an 80286 required 20 cycles to multiply two numbers, today, Processors can execute more than one instruction per clock cycle.
2128. The word "boot" or "booting" comes from the concept of bootstrapping, or pulling oneself up by the bootstraps. Before PC's, computer operators would run a program called the bootstrap loader. This loader did the initialization that is now automatic. The process became known as bootstrapping and later booting.
2129. As of March of 1999, there were over 364 million PC's in use worldwide with 129 million of those in the U.S
2130. In 1977, Kenneth Olsen, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., stated: "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home"
2131. The personal computer runs 400 times faster than the main frames of 30 years ago.
2132. There are 18 million lines of code in Windows 98.
2133. The first all purpose computer ENIAC required so much electricity to process information that the lights in the nearby town dimmed each time it was used.
2134. The fastest computer in the world is the CM-5 "thinking machine" at the Los Alamos National Labratories, USA. It can perform 131 billion operations per second.
2135. In 1963, Douglas Englebart, invented the computer mouse which was later pioneered by Xerox.
2136. Information is exchanged on every man, woman and child an average of 5 times a day in the US.
2137. The Amazon Forest holds some 2,500 tree species and 30,000 plant species (30 percent of all plant species.
2138. The Amazon River - the world's largest water basin, covering a total extension of approximately 2.3 million square miles - discharges around 40,000 gallons of water into the Atlantic Ocean every second.
2139. The water volume flow of the Amazon River equals 20 percent of the joint volume of all rivers on Earth.
2140. The biggest fresh water fish in the world is found in the Amazon. The pirarucu (paiche in Spanish) can weigh 550 pounds, measuring up to 8 feet in length.
2141. The Brazilian Amazon's Tumucumaque Mountains National Park, the first national park formally established by the government of Brazil in 2002 is the world's largest tropical forest national park and the second largest national park overall.
2142. The Jaú National Park, created in 1986, is the second largest tropical forest park in the world, with an area that is bigger than the entire state of Massachusetts (8,772 square miles).
2143. Traditional logging methods end up causing great waste. The total number of trees taken down for each tree actually extracted can be reduced significantly, by almost 50 percent, when using appropriate logging management plans.
2144. The vitória-régia, considered to be one of the Amazon's symbols, is the world's largest flower. Some can measure more than 6 feet in diameter.
2145. The Amazon's largest animal is the manatee, which can weigh half a ton and measure almost 10 feet in length.
2146. The Amazon anaconda can reach 33 feet in length.
2147. Newcastle United played Portsmouth in the first English League game to be played under floodlights.
2148.
Coventry City were the first team to beat Tottenham Hotspur in an FA Cup final.
2149.
Ray Wilkins won 84 England caps in his career.
2150.
QPR were the first English club to install an artificial pitch
2151.
Tommy Lawton scored 22 times in 23 appearances for England
2152.
Ian Wright was Arsenal's top scorer for six consecutive seasons
2153.
Billy Wright was the first man to win 100 caps for England
2154.
Greece failed to score in the 1994 World Cup
2155.
The first corner kick was taken in the 1870s
2156.
Hungary lost just once in 48 matches between 1950 and 1956
2157.
Mark Lawrenson was Liverpool's only English-born player in the 1986 FA Cup final
2158.
Eric Cantona was sent off twice in four days whilst playing for Man U in 1994
2159.
Newport County was John Aldridge's first club
2160.
Andy Cole hit 34 goals in Newcastle's first season in the Premier League
2161.
Real Madrid won the first five European Cup finals
2162.
Ally McCoist was Scotlands only goal scorer in Euro 96
2163.
Tony Adams scored for both sides in the 1998 friendly between England and Holland
2164.
QPR were once known as St Judes
2165.
During the 1930-1931 season Manchester United lost the first 12 games
2166.
Bob Paisley took Liverpool to Wembley 12 times
2167.
Neville Southall made his League debut with Bury
2168.
Turkey were the only club not to score in Euro 96
2169.
Alan Mullery was the first England player to be sent off
2170.
Numbers were worn on the back of football shirts for the first time on August 25 1928.
2171.
The lowest ever English Premier League attendance of 3,039 was at Wimbledon v Everton January 1993.
2172.
The English League adopted 3 points for a win in 1981.
2173.
Lincoln City were the first club to be automatically demoted from the League.
2174.
Dynamo Berlin won 10 successive League titles in East Germany.
2175.
The first professional to play for England against Scotland was James Forrest.
2176.
Yugoslavia qualified for the European Championship in 1992 but were excluded. Their replacements were Denmark, who went on to win the tournament.
2177.
Boris Becker had trials with Bayern Munich before becoming a tennis champion.
2178.
Plymouth Argyle were once known as the Argyle Athletic Club
2179.
Howard Wilkinson was player/manager at Boston United during their non-league days?
2180. In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.
2181. The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.
2182. The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.
2183. Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.
2184. Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.
2185. Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.
2186. The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.
2187. The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.
2188. The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.
2189. Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed.
2190. Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.
2191. SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.
2192. Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.
2193. Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.
2194. Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
2195. The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.
2196. The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly.
2197. You can get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.
2198. Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.
2199. Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.
2200. The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.
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