More Facts You Likey Didn't Know (Or don't care)

[Kramer]

Coca Cola was originally green

The most common name in the world is Mohammed

All continents end in the same letter they start with

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue

There are 2 credit cards for every U.S. citizen

Typewriter is the longest word you can type with letters in one row of a keyboard

Women blink twice as much as men

Women say 2.5 more words per day than men

People say bless you when you sneeze because you hold your breath for a millisecond.

If you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib.
If you try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

Each King in a deck of cards represents a great king from history :
Spades = King David
Clubs = Alexander the GReat
Hearts = Charlemagne
Diamonds = Julius Ceaser
Now you can impress your friends next time you play cards..

Bullet proof vests , fire escapes , weinshield wipers and laser printers were invented by women.

The only food that won't spoil is Honey

A crocodile can't stick its tongue out

A snail can sleep for 3 years

American airlines saved $ 40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 11 olive from each first class meal.

elephants are the only animals that can''t jump

the ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated

the cigarette lighter was invented before the match

most lipstick contains fish scales

[Pudge]

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[Pudge]

Random much? Got to love it Hah-Ha!

[sappapy]

Originally Posted by Kramer

the ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated

Me Too!

[Steel]

Kramer, this is some good stuff and I am now twice as smart as I was before I read it. Enjoy your threads, you always have something to share. Your humnor is appreciated. GL

[WildKat]

Ditto on enjoying your threads...I'm no stranger repeationg these amongst friends hoping they think that I am superior in knowledge......

[Fat Tony]

freaky coincidence, I heard about Mohammed being the most common name the other day and shared it with my buddies.

Keep up the good work Kramer

giddy up

[Kramer]

tnx guys here's some more :

Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!

One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!

It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!


The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!


No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!



If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

Clinophobia is the fear of beds!

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!

Porcupines float in water!

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet.

The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!

The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!





........1..2..3...you know the drill...........





The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed

[Kramer]

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!

In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!

More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!

In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!

Slugs have 4 noses!

Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!


Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!


The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
(1.6 per day)

It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!

There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!

Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!

[Kramer]

George W. Bush, who presents himself as a man of faith, rarely goes to church. Yet he received votes from nearly two out of three voters who attend church at least once a week.

In 2015, it is estimated that half the federal budget will be spent on programs for the elderly.

Dolly Parton is planning on having breast reduction surgery soon to relieve the pain on her back.

A private elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia, accidentally served margaritas to its schoolchildren, thinking it was limeade.

The Chicago Cubs are suing former Hartford Courant newspaper carrier Mark Guthrie to get back $301,000 in pay that was intended to go to a Cubs pitcher with the same name. The Tribune Company owns both the Hartford Courant and the Chicago Cubs.

In February 2004, a Disney World employee was killed when he fell from a parade float and was trapped between two float sections. OSHA termed this a serious workplace violation, but Disney was fined only $6,300.

Even today, 90% of the continental United States is still open space or farmland.

The second Saturday in September is usually a popular time for weddings. Not in 2004, as most couples did not want their anniversaries on September 11.

Mel Gibson has personally earned almost $400,000,000 from his movie "The Passion of the Christ".

Austin High School in Texas has removed candy from its vending machines. Now some enterprising students are earning $200 per week dealing in black market candy.

In 2004, Virgin Atlantic Airlines introduced a double bed for first class passengers who fly together.

The world's largest book, "Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey" is in a Chicago public library. The book measures 5 feet tall by 7 feet wide when open. It weighs 133 pounds.

If the recent U.S. election was held in Canada, John Kerry would have beaten George Bush in a landslide - 64% to 19%.

Oprah Winfrey and Elvis Presley are distant cousins.

55% of Americans claim they would continue working even if they received a $10,000,000 lottery prize.

The company that manufactures the greatest number of women's dresses each year is Mattel. Barbie's got to wear something.

All radios in North Korea have been rigged so listeners can only receive a North Korean government station. The United States recently announced plans to smuggle $2,000,000 worth of small radios into the country so North Koreans can get a taste of (what their government calls) "rotten imperialist reactionary culture".

La Paz, Bolivia is the world's most fireproof city. At 12,000 feet about sea level, the amount of oxygen in the air barely supports a flame.

The estates of 22 dead celebrities earned over $5 million in 2004. These celebrities include Elvis Presley, Dr. Seuss, Charles Schulz, J.R.R. Tolkien and John Lennon.

George Washington spent about 7% of his annual salary on liquor.

Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

If you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Cheops, you would get enough stones to encircle the earth with a brick wall twenty inches high.

Nearly one third of New York City public school teachers send their own children to private schools.

The New York City Police Department has a $3.3 billion annual budget, larger than all but 19 of the world's armies.

CBS's fine for Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" in the 2004 Super Bowl show was $550,000. This could be paid with only 7.5 seconds of commercial time during the same Super Bowl telecast.

In September 2004, a Minnesota state trooper issued a speeding ticket to a motorcyclist who was clocked at 205 mph.

Al Gore's roommate in college (Harvard, class of 1969) was Tommy Lee Jones.

In her later years, Florence Nightingale kept a pet owl in her pocket.

The New York Jets were unable to find hotel rooms for a game in Indianapolis recently because they had all been booked up by people attending Gencon, a gaming convention.

China is the world's largest market for BMW's top of the line 760Li. This car sells for $200,000 in China - more than almost all people in China make in a lifetime.

A chef's hat is shaped the way it is for a reason: its shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool in a hot kitchen.

Life expectancy for Russian men has actually gone down over the past 40 years. A Russian male born today can expect to live an average 58 years.

Each year, sixteen million gallons of oil run off pavement into streams, rivers and eventually oceans in the United States. This is more oil than was spilled by the Exxon Valdez.

An employee of the Alabama Department of Transportation installed spyware on his boss's computer and proved that the boss spent 10% of his time working (20% of time checking stocks and 70% of the time playing solitaire). The employee was fired, the boss kept his job.

In 1985, the most popular waist size for men's pants was 32. In 2003, it's 36.

Solid structures (parking lots, roads, buildings) in the United States cover an area the size of Ohio.

A Brussels Airlines flight to Vienna was aborted because the pilot was attacked in the cockpit. The attacker was a passenger's cat, who got out of its travel bag.

Physicists have already performed a simple type of teleportation, transferring the quantum characteristics of one atom onto another atom at a different location.

[Steel]

My son is getting married in Spetember Kramer. This is damn good reading and you hit home on the September wedding date. Keep it coming, very much appeciated and you are a must read.

[Kramer]

weird laws :
America
In Ohio the following laws exist:

if you ignore an orator on Decoration Day to such an extent as to publicly play croquet or pitch horseshoes within one mile of the speakers stand, you can be fined $25.


it is illegal to get a fish drunk.


it is illegal to hunt for whales on Sunday. (Surely it's illegal to hunt whales full stop?)


In Alaska, the following laws apply to moose:

a moose may not be viewed from an aeroplane.


it is illegal to give alcoholic beverages to a moose.


it is an offence to push a live moose out of a moving aeroplane.


In Texas the following laws apply:

it is illegal to take more than three sips of beer whilst standing.


the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica is also banned, as it contains a formula for making beer at home.


a new anti crime law has been introduced, requiring criminals to give their intended victims 24 hour notice, either orally or in writing to explain the nature of the crime.


In Pennsylvania the following laws apply:

Because of the farmers Anti-automobile society, these are some of the rules of the road:


Automobiles travelling on country roads at night must send up an rocket every mile, then wait ten minutes for the road to clear.


If a driver sees a team of horses, they are to pull to the side of the road, and cover their machine with a blanket or dust cover that has been painted to blend into the scenery.


In the event that a horse refuses to pass a car on the road, the owner of the car must take their car apart and conceal the parts in nearby foliage.


In Alabama it is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.

In Jasper, Alabama, it is illegal for a husband to beat his wife with a stick larger in diameter than his thumb.

In Arizone it is illegal for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs.

Also from Arizona, if a person is caught stealing soap, they must wash themselves until it is all used up.

In California, it is illegal to ride a bicycle in a swimming pool.

In L.A., it is an offence to lick a toad. Apparently, this is because people were getting high off them! (How!??)

In New England, fire engines are not allowed to exceed 25mph - strangely, this includes the journey to the fire!

In Devon (yes there is a place called Devon in the US), it is illegal to walk backwards after sunset.

In Hartford, it is considered an offense to cross the road on your hands.

In Cleveland it is illegal to drive whilst sitting on another persons lap.

In New Jersey you can be arrested for slurping soup in public.

Zoin city, Illinois, has a law that states that you cannot make faces at anyone.

A Kentucky law states that burglary can only be committed at night.

Fishing from the back of any animal is illegal in Idaho.

In Sheridan, Wyoming, a policeman can bite a barking dog, in order to quiet him.

Citizens in New York may not greet each other by putting ones thumb to the nose and wriggling the fingers.

When you pass a cow in Pine Island, Minnesota it is illegal not to tip your hat.

Georgia has a law prohibiting people from saying ‘oh boy’ in public.

In Atlanta its illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or lamppost.

In Hawaii it is illegal to insert pennies into your ear.

It is illegal in Idaho for a man to give his sweetheart a box of chocolates that weighs less than 50 pounds.

Women in Joliet, Illinois, can be arrested for trying on more than six dresses in one store.

In Chicago it is illegal to eat in an establishment that is on fire.

In Winnetka, Illinois, theatre managers can kick out any patron who has ‘odorous feet’.

In Lawrence, Kansas, it is forbidden for anyone to carry bees in their hat, whilst on the city streets.

In McLough, Kansas, it is against the law to wash your false teeth in a public drinking fountain.

In Natoma, Kansas, it is illegal to practise knife throwing at men wearing striped suits.

In Lexington, Kentucky, it is against the law to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket.

In Owensboro, Kentucky, it is illegal for a woman to buy a new hat without her husband trying it on first.

In Canton, Mississippi, it is illegal to kill a squirrel with a gun whilst in a courtroom.

Any city in Missouri can levy a tax to support a band, as long as the mayor plays piccolo and each band member can eat peas with a knife.

In Greene, New York, it is illegal to eat peanuts and walk backwards down a street, whilst a concert is on.

In North Carolina it is illegal to use elephants to plough cotton fields.

It’s illegal in Oklahoma to get a fish drunk.

In Seattle, goldfish can ride the city buses in bowls, but only if they keep still.

It is illegal in Maine to step out of a plane, whilst it is in flight.

In Florida, you can be fined to fall asleep under a hair dryer, and so can the salon owner.

Also in Florida, if an elephant is left tied to an parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid, just as it would be for a vehicle.

Again in Florida, it is illegal to have sexual relations with a porcupine.

In New York, you need a license to use a clothesline outdoors.

In Minnesota, you may not cross state lines with a duck on top of your head.

In Carmel, New York, it is illegal for a man to go outside if his jacket and trousers do not match.

In Baltimore, it is illegal to throw bales of hay out of a second storey window, within the city limits.

Also in Baltimore, it is illegal to take a lion to the movies.

The state of Washington has passed a law stating that it is illegal to paint polka dots on the American flag.

In Conneticut, for a pickle to be officially be considered a pickle, it must bounce.

In Bexley, Ohio, it is prohibited to install or use slot machines in outhouses.

In Harthahorne city, Oklahoma, it is unlawful to put any hypnotised person I an display window.

In Clawson, Michigan, there is a law that makes it LEGAL for a farmer to sleep with his animals.

In Gary, Indiana, persons are prohibited from attending a movie theatre or riding an street car within four hours of eating garlic.

In California, animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500ft of a pub, school or place of worship.

In Kentucky, no female is allowed to appear in a bathing suit on a highway unless she is escorted by at least two police officers, or armed with a club.

In Russel, Kansas, it is against the law to have an musical car horn.

It is illegal to hum in public on Sundays in Cicero, Illinois.

In Clinton county, Ohio, there is a fine for anyone caught leaning against an public building.

In Kenosha , Wisconsin it is illegal to have an erection in public. Even if you have clothes on.

In Kansas it is illegal to swim with a polka dotted bathing suit before 12:00 noon.

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Britain
In London, Hackney taxis must carry a bale of hay and a sack of oats.

It is illegal to be drunk in a pub or club, or any other licensed premises.

Oddly, it is illegal to consume a mince pie on Christmas Day.

In Hereford, you may not shoot a Welsh person on Sunday with a longbow in the Cathedral Close.

However, in Chester you can only shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight.

Also in York, excluding Sundays, it is apparently legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.

In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless in public unless they are a clerk in a tropical fish store.

It is illegal for a Member of Parliament to enter the House of Commons wearing a full coat of armour.

Sleeping with a consort of the queen is classified as treason, and as such carries a maximum penalty of death.

Placing a postage stamp of the queen upside down, is also considered treason.

It is unlawful to impersonate an Chelsea pensioner.

It is illegal to sell most goods on a Sunday. It is however legal to sell a carrot. It is also legal to sell it at any price, and to give free gifts with it, such as anything else one might want to buy on a Sunday.

The following are legal though:

a male may urinate in public, so long as it is on the rear wheel of his motor vehicle, and his right hand is on the vehicle.


all English males over the age of 14 are to carry out approximately two hours of longbow practice a week, supervised by the local clergy.


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Australia
It is illegal to roam the streets wearing black clothes, felt shoes and have black shoe polish on your face as these are the items of an cat burglar.

It is illegal to walk on the right hand side of the pavement.

Taxi cabs are required to carry a bale of hay in the trunk.

In Victoria, it is illegal to wear hot pink shorts after midday on a Sunday.

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Canada
In Alberta, there is a city law that states that any person being released from prison must be given a handgun with bullets, and a horse so that they can ride out of town.

In British Colombia, it is illegal to kill a sasquatch.

In New Brunswick, driving on the roads is not permitted.

In Etobicoke, the bylaw states that ‘no more than 3.5 inches of water is allowed in a bathtub’.

Guelph, is an official ‘NO-PEE’ zone.

In Toronto, it is illegal to drag a dead horse down Yonge Street on a Sunday.

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Denmark
Before starting your car, you are legally required to make an visual check to make sure there are no children underneath your car.

When driving, you must have someone in front of your car with a flag, to warn horse drawn carriages that a car is coming.

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Scotland
It is illegal to be drunk and in possession of a cow.

For some crimes, you are presumed guilty until proven innocent.

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Switzerland
It is illegal to flush the toilet after 10pm if you live in an apartment.

A man may not relieve himself while standing up, after 10pm.

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Thailand
It is illegal to step on any of the nations currency.

It is illegal to leave the house if you are not wearing underwear.

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[Kramer]

If you lined up all the slinkys ever made in a row they could wrap around the Earth 126 times.

-In medievil Japan, dentists extracted teeth with their hands.

-Technically speaking, a female "dude" is known as a "dudine."

-Belgains have tried to deliver mail using cats. It didn't work.

-In ancient Egypt, pillows were made of stone.

-In the middle ages chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac.

-Ancient Rome had a rent-a-chariot business.

-In snow skiing, most men fall on their faces while most women fall on their behinds.

-Ropesville, Lariat, and Loop are all towns in Texas.

-The average cat has 24 whiskers.

-Fort Worth Texas was never a fort.

-There are more telephones than people in Washington D.C.

-The Oval Office is only 22 feet long.

-When astronomer Tycho Brahe lost the tip of his nose in a duel he replaced it with a gold one.

-The fish reel was invented around 300 A.D.

-Grocery shoppers spend an average of 8 minutes waiting in line at the supermarket.

-The average cost of a movie ticket in 1940 was 24 cents.

-If you are standing on a mountain top and the conditions are just right you can see a lit match from 50 miles away.

-There are 68,000 miles of phone line in the Pentagon.

-When the golf ball was introduced in 1848, it was called a "gutta-percha."

-The average car in Japan is driven 4,400 miles per year, in the U.S. its 9,500 miles per year.

-The gnomon is the thing that casts the shadow on a sundial.

-The oldest person to ever be issued a driver's license in the U.S. was 109.

-The Statue of Liberty's fingernails weigh about 100 pounds apiece.

-A rouleau is another name of coins wrapped in a roll of paper.

-A single pair of Elvis' underpants has an estimated value of $1,300.

-In the 13th century, Europeans baptized children with beer.

-The typewriter was invented before the fountain pen.

-Before Prohibition, the most common form of drinking beer at home was drinking it out of a bucket filled at a local pub or brewery.

-The U.S. has never lost a war in which mules were used.

-Louis XIV owned 413 beds.

-If you were to count off 1 billion seconds it would take you 31.7 years.

-The Pentagon spent $50 million on Viagra for American troops and retirees in 1999.

-Each year, Americans use enough foam peanuts to fill ten 85-story buildings.

-The parents of the groom pay for the weddings in Thailand.

-Alaska is the state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work.

-The London Zoo employes an "entertainment director" for the animals.

-Blue neckties sell best, red ones sell second best.

-Top 4 high school hazing sports: swimming, diving, soccer, lacrosse.

-It is said the average person speaks only 10 minutes a day.

-The U.S. Postal Service owns 176,000 cars and trucks, the largest civilian vehicle fleet on earth.

-It is legal for the dead to vote if they die after they mail out their absentee ballot.

-In Venice, Venetian blinds are known as "Persian Blinds."

-Benjamin Franklin gave guitar lessons.

-When medievil Europeans burned witches, their families had to pay for the firewood.

-The two steps at the top and the two at the bottom are the four most dangerous steps in a stair case.

-French and African marigolds both come from North America.

-India has an estimated 550 million voters.

-It is illegal to water a garden in the rain in Montreal Canada.

-Minnesota has 99 lakes named mud lake.

-Adolph Hitler had his own private 15 car train named Amerika.

-You can loose your driver's license in Athens, Greece for being "poorly dressed" or "unbathed."

-Adults have, on average, 2 gallons of air in the space between their skin and their cloths.

-An exocannibal is a cannibal that eats only enemies and an indocannibal eats only friends.

-Al Capone's older brother Vince was a policeman in Nebraska.

-When the ancient Greeks played cards, aces were known as "dogs."

-The most used expression of any language is "OK."

-The average computer worker types 90,000 keystrokes in an 8-hour work shift.

-About 21,000 commercial airline flights are scheduled daily in the U.S. with only about 5,000 planes available to fly them.

-When Shakespeare moved to his new home, he named it "New Home".

-There is no ice covering Iceland.

-The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

-Oregon has the most ghost towns of any other state.

-Wyoming Valley is so difficult to find because it is in Pennsylvania.

-This year, Harvard University will deny admission to an estimated 1,600 High School valedictorians.

-The sun is visable 24 hours a day during the summer months in Reykjavik, Iceland.

-The busiest stretch of highway in the U.S. is New York's George Washington Bridge.

-The first golf rule booklet was published in Scotland in 1754.

-The higest denomination ever minted by the U.S. Treasury was the $100,000 bill, the lowest was the 5 cent bill.

-Quotation marks have only been around for about 300 years, they're the youngest punctuation marks in the english language.

-India imported ice harvested from ponds in the U.S. in the 19th century.

-Warsaw is the city with the largest Polish population on earth, Chicago has the second largest.

-In the 1820's, a temperance movement tried to ban coffee and nearly succeeded.

-In 1912, the Archbishop of Paris declared dancing the tango a sin.

-Another word for volleyball is minonette.

-There is 118 groves etched into U.S. dimes, 119 in quarters.

-In the 1500's England's Queen Elizabeth I outlawed wife beating after 10 p.m.

-Freud charged the equivilent of $8.10 per hour for his therapy lessons.

-Christopher Columbus's fee for "discovering" America was about $300.

-A person sneezing was the first thing Thomas Edison filmed with his movie camera.

-A champagne cork can travel as fast as 100 mph when it is popped.

-The "five golden rings" in the Twelve Days of Christmas weren't originally rings, they were ringed necked pheasants.

-Elvis was nearsighted and owned $60,000 worth of perscription sunglasses when he died.

-It isnt a "big band" unless it has 14 different instruments.

-The most popular T.V. show in Venezuela is the "Miss Venezuela Pagent."

-None of the characters in Shakespear's plays smoke.

-If you refrigerate your rubber bands, they last longer.

-Police are sometimes called the "fuzz" because London police used to wear fuzzy helmets.

-There are more than 5,500 islands in the British Isles.

-The oldest vehicle in human history is a floating log.

-Saunas outnumber cars in Finland.

-Oklahoma is the U.S. state with the highest population of Native Americans. It has no Indian Reservations.

-If an entire family is overweight, the odds are the dog is too.

-A gozzard is a person who owns geese.

-Plants can suffer from jet lag.

-Spains Queen Isabella bathed only twice in her entire lifetime.

-The word "gullible" is not in the dictionary.

[Kramer]

Penguins are not found in the North Pole

People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier errors worldwide.

A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

Rudolf the Red-nosed reindeer was actually created as a promotional figure for Montgommery Wards department stores.

A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf .

The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."

Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.

Charlie Brown's dad was a barber.

Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks.

Frank Baum, the writer of "The Wizrd of OZ", looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (a variety of the marijuana plant) paper

On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.

Up until the early 20th century, New Jersey and Wisconsin had laws allowing the castration of epileptics

"A motion to table a motion to reconsider a vote to table an appeal of a ruling that a point of order was not in order against a motion to table another point of order against a motion to bring to a vote the motion to call up the resolution that would institute a rules change."

"Adcomsubordcomphibspac" is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command.

"Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, La Allah Il Allah, La Allah Il Allah U Mohammed Rassul Allah" is heard by more people than any other sound of the human voice. This is the prayer recited by muezzins from each of the four corners of the prayer tower as Moslems all over the world face toward Mecca and kneel at sunset. It means: "God is great. There is no God but God, and Mohammed is the prophet of God."

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

"Aromatherapy" is a term coined by French chemist René Maurice Gattefossé in the 1920's to describe the practice of using essential oils taken from plants, flowers, roots, seeds, etc., in healing.

"Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between.

"Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.

"Conservationalists" & "Conversationalists" (18 letters) are the longest non-scientific transposals (word formed from another by changing its letters).

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

"Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.

"Fickleheaded" and "fiddledeedee" are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet.

"Flushable" toilets were in use in ancient Rome.

"Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.

"Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

"Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.

"Hang on Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.

"Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.

""Kemo Sabe, meaning an all knowing one, is actually a mispronunciation by Native American of the Spanish phrase, Quien lo Sabe, meaning one who knows."

The lunula is the half-moon shaped pale area at the bottom of finger nails.

"Ma is as selfless as I am" can be read the same way backwards. If you take away all the spaces you can see that all the letters can be spelled out both ways.

"Mad About You" star Paul Reiser plays the piano on the show's theme song.

"One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.

"Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.

"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.

"Second string," meaning "replacement or backup," comes from the middle ages. An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke.

"Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when you're talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil."

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.

"Tautonyms" are scientific names for which the genus and species are the same.

"Taxi" is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.

"Teh" means "cool" in Thai. (Pronounced "tay").

"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

"THEREIN" is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein.

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

$203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

1 and 2 are the only numbers where they are values of the numbers of the factors they have.

1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

1 kg (2.2 pounds) of lemons contain more sugar than 1 kg of strawberries.

1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire are strung across the Unites States.

1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day. In Discovery Channel, its a quart.

10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria

11% of the world is left-handed.

111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321

1200 equals 1 pound (72 rupees).

123,000,000 cars are being driven on highways in the United States.

166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the United States.

1959's A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be produced on Broadway.

2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.

203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.

25% of a human's bones are in its feet.

259200 people die every day.

27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."

3% of all mammals are monogamous

315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

315 words in the 1996 Webster's dictionary were mispelled.

4 tablespoons of ketchup has about the same amount of nutrition as a ripe tomato.

40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.

40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

43.7% of all statistics are made up right on the spot

48% of astronauts experience motion sickness.

52% of Americans drink coffee.

55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.

56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball games each year

67 million pounds of pesticides and about 3 million tons of fertilizer are used annually on lawns in the US.

78 rpm albums, used prior to 1948, were only capable of recording for four minutes. It wasn’t until later that year that Columbia Records introduced 33 rpm albums capable of playing 23 minutes per side.

80% of animals on earth are insects.

80% of arrested criminals are male.

In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid, which is Disney spelled backward.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

One in ten people live on an island.

84% of a raw apple is water.

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

85% of men who die of heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives.

85,000,000 tons of paper are used in the United States each year.

28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson", Humphrey Bogart NEVER said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca, and they NEVER said "Beam me up, Scotty" on Star Trek.

90% of bird species are monogamous; only 3% of animals are.

90% of New York City cab drivers are recently arrived immigrants.

98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.

98% of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.

99% of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as jack-o-lanterns.

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Every clock in the movie "Pulp Fiction " reads 4:20

Walt Disney was terrified of mice.

A full grown bear can run as fast as a horse

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a spider

Citizen Kane , A movie widely regarded as the best film ever made didn't even win best Oscar in 1941 ( "How green was my Valley "won)