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The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
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 realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers
and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.
101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where
both parents are present and don't die throughout the movie.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go
instantly.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II Killed the only elephant in
the Berlin Zoo.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes.
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
The average person spends 6 months of their life sitting at red lights.
In 1912 a law passed in Nebraska where drivers in the country at night were required to stop every
150 yards, send up a skyrocket, wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding
cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the world.
Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesars. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana,
Mexico, in the 1920's.
Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile.
So, if being chased by one, run in a zigzag line to lose him or her.
Seattle’s Fremont Bridge rises up and down more than any drawbridge in the world.
Right-handed people live, on average; nine years longer than left handed people.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of
potatoes.
A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if a strong-tasting
substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as
a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This
is true for all foods.
Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.
There is approximately one chicken for every human being in the world.
The first automobile race ever seen in the United States was held in Chicago in 1895. The track
ran from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois. The winner was J. Frank Duryea, whose average speed
was 71/2 miles per hour.
Women manage the money and pay the bills in 75% of all Americans households.
A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40
degrees or less above the horizon.
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to
equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
Daylight Saving Time is not observed in most of the state of Arizona and parts of Indiana.
Ants closely resemble human manners: When they wake, they stretch & appear to yawn in a
human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
Count the number of cricket chirps in a 15-second period, add 37 to the total, and your result will
be very close to the actual outdoor Fahrenheit temperature.
One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive
on less than $75 a year.
Only female mosquito’s' bite and most are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any
other color.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to
swallow the dice if there was a police raid.
The human tongue tastes bitter things with the taste buds toward the back. Salty and pungent
flavors are tasted in the middle of the tongue, sweet flavors at the tip!
When you sneeze, air and particles travel through the nostrils at speeds over100 mph. During this
time, all bodily functions stop, including your heart, contributing to the impossibility of keeping
one's eyes open during a sneeze.
In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod
attached to their hats.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the
bottom of the glass to the top.
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in
it.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English
words. More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were
laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.
The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas burning.
A literal translation of a standard traffic sign in China: "Give large space to the festive dog that
makes sport in the roadway."
Larry Lewis ran the 100-yard dash in 17.8 seconds in 1969, thereby setting a new world's record
for runners in the 100-years-or-older class. He was 101.
In a lifetime the average human produces enough quarts of spit to fill 2 swimming pools.
It's against the law to doze off under a hair dryer in Florida/against the law to slap an old friend on
the back in Georgia/against the law to Play hopscotch on a Sunday in Missouri.
THE MOST UNUSUAL CANNONBALL: On two occasions, Miss 'Rita Thunderbird' remained
inside the cannon despite a lot of gunpowder encouragement to do otherwise. She performed in a
gold lamé bikini and on one of the two occasions (1977) Miss Thunderbird remained lodged in the
cannon, while her bra was shot across the Thames River.
It has been estimated that humans use only 10% of their brain.
Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri grew chin whiskers attaining a length of twelve feet
six inches from 1860 until his death 1910, protesting Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency.
Most Egyptians died by the time they were 30 about 300 years ago,
For some time Frederic Chopin, the composer and pianist, wore a beard on only one side of his
face, explaining: "It does not matter, my audience sees only my right side."
Studies have shown that children laugh an average of 300 times/day and adults 17 times/day,
making the average child more optimistic, curious, and creative than the adult.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered
after 38 minutes.
You were born with 300 bones, but by the time you are an adult you will only have 206.
If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-
class.
A palindrome is a sentence or group of sentences that reads the same backwards as it does
forward: Ex: 'Red rum, sir, is murder.' 'Ma is as selfless as I am.' 'Nurse, I spy gypsies. Run!' 'A
man, a plan, a canal - Panama.' 'He lived as a devil, eh?'
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'
In 1986 Congress & President Ronald Reagan signed Public Law 99-359, which changed Daylight
Saving Time from the last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in April. It was estimated to save the
nation about 300,000 barrels of oil each year by adding most of the month April to D.S.T.
The thumbnail grows the slowest, the middle nail the fastest, nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
The Human eyes never grow, but nose and ears never stop growing.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once
had.
If Texas were a country, its GNP would be the fifth largest of any country in the world.
Odds of being killed by lightening? 1 in 2million/killed in a car crash? 1 in 5,000/killed by falling out
of bed? 1 in 2million/killed in a plane crash? 1 in 25 million.
Since 1978, 37 people have died by Vending Machine's falling on them. 13 people are killed
annually. All this while trying to shake merchandise out of them. 113 people have been injured.
Half the foods eaten throughout the world today were developed by farmers in the Andes
Mountains (including potatoes, maize, sweet potatoes, squash, all varieties of beans, peanuts,
manioc, papayas, strawberries, mulberries and many others).
The 'Golden Arches' of fast food chain McDonalds is more recognized worldwide than the religious
cross of Christianity.
Former basketball superstar Michael Jordan is the most recognized face in the world, more than
the pope himself.
The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets
per word.
The Earth experiences 50,000 Earth quakes per year and is hit by Lightning 100 times a second.
Every year 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out bizarre sexual positions.
If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today
would not be alive.
Researchers at the Texas Department of Highways in Fort Worth determined the cow population
of the U.S. burps some 50 million tons of valuable hydrocarbons into the atmosphere each year.
The accumulated burps of ten average cows could keep a small house adequately heated and its
stove operating for a year.
During a severe windstorm or rainstorm the Empire State Building sways several feet to either
side.
In the last 3,500 years, there have been approximately 230 years of peace throughout the civilized
world.
The Black Death reduced the population of Europe by one third in the period from 1347 to 1351.
The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime.
Length of beard an average man would grow if he never shaved 27.5 feet
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific armed their airplanes while stationed with .50 caliber
machine gun ammo belts measuring 27 feet before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots
fired all their ammo at a target, he went through "the whole 9 yards", hence the term.
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
In the early 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (like two-way
radios in taxis) but did not re-number the other channel assignments.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
Firehouses have circular stairways originating from the old days when the engines were pulled by
horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight
staircases.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built,
engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Statues in parks: If the 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 received in battle; if the horse
has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
The expression 'to get fired' comes from long ago Clans that wanted to get rid of unwanted people,
so they would burn their houses instead of killing them, creating the term 'Got fired'.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the
conveyor belt.
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.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight in case of
war or emergency, they could be used as airstrips.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army. G.P. for 'General Purpose' vehicle.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary, because
when it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate
toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19, the largest amount of
money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
In Aspen Colorado, you can have a maximum income of $104,000 and still receive government
subsidized housing.
Honking of car horns for a couple that just got married is an old superstition to insure great sex.
Dr. Kellogg introduced Kellogg's Corn Flakes in hopes that it would reduce masturbation.
In medieval France, unfaithful wives were made to chase a chicken through town naked.
The Black Widow spider eats her mate during or after sex.
Eating the heart of a male Partridge was the cure for impotence in ancient Babylon.
When a Hawaiian woman wears a flower over her left ear, it means that she is not available.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
The following sentence: 'A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the
streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.' Contains the nine
different pronunciations of "ough" in the English Language.
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other:
adhere and separate.
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
The shape of plant collenchyma’s cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same -
they are orthotetrachidecahedrons.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that
reason.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean
song.)
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David,
Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
The average person will accidentally eat just under a pound of insects every year.
Until 1994, world maps and globes sold in Albania only had Albania on them.
The value of Pi will be officially "rounded down" to 3.14 from 3.14159265359 on December 31,
1999.
The Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure visible from space.
The amount of computer Memory required to run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount
needed aboard the space shuttle.
The average North American will eat 35,000 cookies during their life span.
Between 25% and 33% of the population sneeze when exposed to light.
Mount Olympus Mons on Mars is three times the size of Mount Everest.
2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth every day.
Each month, there is at least one report of UFOs from each province of Canada.
The serial number of the first MAC ever produced was 2001.
More bullets were fired in 'Starship Troopers' than any other movie ever made.
The buzz from an electric razor in America plays in the key of B flat; Key of G in England.
There are 1,575 steps from the ground floor to the top of the Empire State building.
The world's record for keeping a Lifesaver in the mouth with the hole intact is 7 hrs 10 min.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
The three most recognized Western names in China are Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, & Elvis
Presley.
There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
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.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
In space, astronauts are unable to cry, because there is no gravity and the tears won't flow.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S that there are real ones.
The crack of a whip is actually a tiny sonic boom, since the tip breaks the sound barrier.
Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined.
The common idea that only 10% of the brain is used it not true as it is impossible to determine the
actual percentage because of the complexity of the brain.
There are more psychoanalysts per capita in Buenos Aires than any other place in the world.
5,840 people with pillow related injuries checked into U.S. emergency rooms in 1992.
Some individuals express concern sharing their soap, rightly so, considering 75% of all people
wash from top to bottom.
If one spells out numbers, they would have to count to One Thousand before coming across the
letter "A".
This common everyday occurrence composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, and 9% dioxide is
called a 'fart'.
"Evaluation and Parameterization of Stability and Safety Performance Characteristics of Two and
Three Wheeled Vehicular Toys for Riding." Title of a $230,000 research project proposed by the
Department of Health, Education and Welfare, to study the various ways children fall off bicycles.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Meteorologists claim they're right 85% of the time (think about that one!)
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
Los Angeles' full name 'El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula' is
reduced to 3.63% of its size in the abbreviation 'L.A.'.
If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air
pressure.
The only real person to ever to appear on a pez dispenser was Betsy Ross.
Mike Nesmith's (the guitarist of The Monkeys) mom invented White Out.
In a test performed by Canadian scientists, using various different styles of music, it was
determined that chickens lay the most eggs when pop music was played.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
The first contraceptive was crocodile dung used by the ancient Egyptians.
A signature is called a John Hancock because he signed the Declaration of Independence. Only 2
people signed the declaration of independence on July 4. The Last person signed 2 years later.
Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidecaphobia, the fear of the number 13. He died at 13
minutes from midnight on Friday the 13th.
Mozart wrote the nursery rhyme 'twinkle, twinkle, little star' at the age of 5.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally
retarded.
Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
Thomas Edison, acclaimed inventor of the light bulb, was afraid of the dark.
You can sail all the way around the world at latitude 60 degrees south.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20, a national pot-smokers hour.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous,
stupendous, and hazardous.
Tigers not only have striped fur, they have striped skin!
To Ensure Promptness, one is expected to pay beyond the value of service – hence the later
abbreviation: T.I.P.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the
state's third largest city.
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."
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1"encased in
the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
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 the name "OZ."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar
melted in his pocket.
The scene where Indiana Jones shoots the swordsman in Raider’s of the Lost Ark was Harrison
Ford's idea so that he could take a bathroom break.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the
rate of reproduction.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to
heat one cup of coffee.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930s lobbied
against hemp farmers they saw it as competition.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
The name of all continents in the world end with the same letter that they start with.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
The longest word comprised of one row on the keyboard is: TYPEWRITER
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und"
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis..
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharoh Ramses II who fathered over 160
children.
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, ere, therein, herein.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled
like a basketball.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
The word "dexter" whose meaning refers to the right hand is typed with only the left hand.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on
their testicles.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning
"containing arsenic."
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the
king is dead."
The first episode of "Joanie Loves Chachi" was the highest rated American program in the history
of Korean television, a country where "Chachi" translates to "penis".
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The eyes of a donkey are positioned so that it can see all four feet at all times.
Rhode Island is the only state which the hammer throw is a legal high school sport.
The sweat drops drawn in cartoon comic strips are called pleuts.
Jefferson invented the dumbwaiter, the monetary system, and the folding attic ladder.
A horse can look forward with one eye and back with the other.
NBA superstar Michael Jordan was originally cut from his high school basketball team.
A family of 26 could go to the movies in Mexico city for the price of one in Tokyo.
10,000 Dutch cows pass through the Amsterdam airport each year.
Approximately every seven minutes of every day, someone in an aerobics class pulls their
hamstring.
The top 3 health-related searches on the Internet are (in this order): Depression, Allergies, &
Cancer.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid
airborne particles resulting from the flush.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
All US Presidents have worn glasses; some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they
don't know you're there.
The site with the highest number of women visitors between the age of 35 and 44 years old: Alka-
Seltzer.com
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
Thirty-five percent of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth are Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser (in that
order).
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a 'Friday the 13th'.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so
that they can be easily confused at a crime scene.
The mask worn by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask
painted white.
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 All-Star Game.
When the French Academy was preparing its first dictionary, it defined "crab" as, "A small red fish,
which walks backwards." This definition was sent with a number of others to the naturalist Cuvier
for his approval. The scientist wrote back, "Your definition, gentlemen, would be perfect, only for
three exceptions. The crab is not a fish, it is not red and it does not walk backwards."
Fictional/horror writer Stephen King sleeps with a nearby light on to calm his fear of the dark.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach
first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of
the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down.
The very first song played on MTV was 'Video Killed The Radio Star' by the Buggles.
William Marston engineered one of the earliest forms of the polygraph in the early 1900's. Later he
went on to create the comic strip Wonder Woman, a story about a displaced Amazon princess
who forces anyone caught in her magic lasso to tell the truth
The the U.S. you dial '911'. In Stockholm, Sweden you dial 90000
38% of American men say they love their cars more than women
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's
Wild Kingdom."
Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial
anniversary of Canada's independence.
When possums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer
terror.
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head
In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field
Walt Disney holds the world record for the most Academy Awards won by one person, he has won
twenty statuettes, and twelve other plaques and certificates
South Dakota is the only U.S state which shares no letters with the name of it's capital
There are 269 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand while drawing with the other