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* 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 * 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 received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. * No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple. * 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." * Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". * There are 2 credit cards for every person in the United States. * Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later. * "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.. * 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." * 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. * "Sleep tight" came from: beds before the 19th century were made of frames of wood that had holes for ropes that were laticed to hold a matress (such as they were). There was a wooden peg/pole that could be placed so that it fitted around the ropes going out and back in on the outside of the bedframe to tighten the lattice of ropes so the bed would not sag. This was done right before you got in bed. (explanation from Gale Barker) * The most common name in the world is Mohammed. * The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P. * The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/twx communications) * The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. * In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. * Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. * A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. * The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. * The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore 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 airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.) * The word "samba" means "to rub navels together." * The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. * The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. * Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. * 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. * No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. * The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". * 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. * Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. * The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." -1-



* In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license. * It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs. * 35% of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. * Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars. * The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca- Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. * It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. * Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands. * 10% of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka. * On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. * In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. * Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California. * Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years. Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6. * Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can. * The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. * Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate. * Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. * Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand 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 that *this* was the day of the changeover. * The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. * Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice." * In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam." * Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." * More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. * The term, "It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone’s eye out. * A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. * The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. * Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt. * Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton. * Cat's urine glows under a blacklight. * Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie. * The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. * 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. * An ostrich’s eye is bigger that it’s brain. * The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. * A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair. * The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896, Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. * A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear. * Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. * Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. * More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. -2-



* Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." * Marilyn Monroe had six toes. * If you keep a Goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white. * Women blink nearly twice as much as men. * Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do. * The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they startwith. * If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. * A snail can sleep for 3 years. * China has more English speakers than the United States. * The electric chair was invented by a dentist. * You share your birthday with at least 9 million people. * The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is one of the few places in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane. * Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten. * Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. * Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time. * If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. * Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald's. * No word in the English language rhymes with month. * Cat's urine glows under a black light. * The first Ford cars had Dodge engines. * Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. * It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot. * Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. * Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. * 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 as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine. * The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." * The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. * Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. * Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. * On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. * The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. * Americans on average eat a total of 18 acres of pizza every day. * Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. * Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. * The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. * Polar bears are left-handed. * A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. * The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. * Some lions mate over 50 times a day. * Butterflies taste with their feet. * Starfish haven't got brains. -3-



1) Longest English Word: Praetertranssubstantiationalistically has 37 letters. 2) Book Without the Letter "e": GADFY , written by Earnest Wright in 1939 is a 50,000+ word book, which doesn't contain a single word with 'e' in it 3) Words without Vowel: Rhythm Sky Fry Cry 4) Human Brain: Organ of body which has no sensation when cut. 5) Crocodile: Only animal & reptile which sheds tear while eating. 6) No of Letters, which SOUND AS WORDS: They are ** **B* Bee * ** **C* Sea* ** **G** * Zee* ** ** I* Eye * ** ** Q* Queue* ** ** R* Are * ** ** S* Yes * ** **T* Tea* ** ** ** U* You * ** ** Y* Why Fascinating Animals, Birds, Trees: 1) SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue. 2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes. 3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open. 4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months. 5) The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species. 6) The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs. 7) DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal. 8) CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw. 9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body. 10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food. 11) POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed. 12) KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell. -4-



13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds. 14) OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees. What are They : 1) If we say 'MUMMY', they come together & go apart when we say DADDY': LIPS 2) What goes up & never comes down: AGE 3) Patches over patches but no stitches: CABBAGE 4) What is that we cannot see, but is always before you: FUTURE 5) What goes up & down a hill, but never moves: ROAD 6) You can never wet it: SHADOW 7) What belongs to You, but used by your friends more often you do: YOUR NAME In 24 Hours Average Human: 1) HEART beats 1,03,689 times. 2) LUNGS respire 23,045 times. 3) BLOOD flows 16,80,000 miles. 4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches 5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches 6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids) 7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD. 8) Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR. 9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEMPERATURE. 10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT. 11) Speak 4,800 WORDS. 12) During SLEEP move 254 times

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