06-08-2007, 02:52 PM
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
-Pearls melt in vinegar.
-Santa Claus (St. Nick) is the second most recognized fictional character in the world. Number one is Ronald McDonald.
-It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for an entire year's supply of footballs.
-Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
-The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
-It's possible to lead a cow up stairs...but not down.
-Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
-Over ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
-The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)
-The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
-"Strengths" is the longest word in the English language using only one vowel.
-Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
-No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
-"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
-Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
-A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
-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.)
-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
-Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down hence the expression "to get fired."
-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.
-Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
-An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
-The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
-The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
-The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
-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 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 mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
-If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
-Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard
-The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
-Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
-James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
-The Eisenhower interstate system (North America) requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
-There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
-All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
-There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
-The ZIP in Zip-code stands for Zoning Improvement Plan.
-A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
-Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
-Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
-The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing
-A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
-There are more chickens than people in the world
-Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey
-The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched"
-On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag
-All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill
-Almonds are a member of the peach family
-Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance
-Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable
-There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous" - tremendous,horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
-Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
-A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
-In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
-Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer
-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"
-A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours
-A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
-A dime has 118 ridges around the edge
-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
-The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world
-In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak
-The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
-Mr Rogers is an ordained minister
-The average person falls asleep in seven minutes
-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
-Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
-A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
-When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop...even your heart!
-Only 7% of the population are lefties.
-40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
-Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
-The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
-The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
-The average housefly lives for one month.
-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
-A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
-Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
-About 20% of all adults in the US have or have had a cockroach that called their inner ear canal HOME. They enter while you sleep!
-The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
-The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
-John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie".
-Among the music catalogues that Michael Jackson owns the rights to is the South Carolina State anthem.
-Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
-The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
-Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
-Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were seventh cousins.
-If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green
-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.
-Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
-Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
-The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
-American car horns beep in the tone of F.
-No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
-Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
-1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
-You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
-Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
-The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
-The St. Louis Cardinals baseball team has more losses than any other team in major league history.
-The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
-American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
-Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
-The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
-The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
-The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
-Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
-The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
-Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
-Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.
-Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
-Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
-Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
-All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
-Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
-The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
-If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
-If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
-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.
-On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
-The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
-You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
-Americans on the average eat 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?
-Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
-In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, Including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
-A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
-The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
-Polar bears are left handed.
-The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
-The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
-A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
-The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body.
-Butterflies taste with their feet.
-Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (thankfully)
-Starfishes haven't got brains.
-After about a million years diamonds turn slowly to coal
-Pearls melt in vinegar.
-Santa Claus (St. Nick) is the second most recognized fictional character in the world. Number one is Ronald McDonald.
-It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for an entire year's supply of footballs.
-Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
-The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
-It's possible to lead a cow up stairs...but not down.
-Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
-Over ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
-The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)
-The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
-"Strengths" is the longest word in the English language using only one vowel.
-Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
-No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
-"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
-Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
-A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
-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.)
-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
-Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down hence the expression "to get fired."
-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.
-Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
-An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
-The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
-The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
-The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
-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 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 mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
-If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
-Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard
-The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
-Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
-James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
-The Eisenhower interstate system (North America) requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
-There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
-All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
-There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
-The ZIP in Zip-code stands for Zoning Improvement Plan.
-A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
-Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
-Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
-The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing
-A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
-There are more chickens than people in the world
-Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey
-The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched"
-On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag
-All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill
-Almonds are a member of the peach family
-Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance
-Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable
-There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous" - tremendous,horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
-Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
-A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
-In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
-Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer
-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"
-A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours
-A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
-A dime has 118 ridges around the edge
-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
-The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world
-In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak
-The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
-Mr Rogers is an ordained minister
-The average person falls asleep in seven minutes
-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
-Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
-A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
-When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop...even your heart!
-Only 7% of the population are lefties.
-40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
-Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
-The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
-The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
-The average housefly lives for one month.
-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
-A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
-Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
-About 20% of all adults in the US have or have had a cockroach that called their inner ear canal HOME. They enter while you sleep!
-The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
-The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
-John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie".
-Among the music catalogues that Michael Jackson owns the rights to is the South Carolina State anthem.
-Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
-The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
-Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
-Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were seventh cousins.
-If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green
-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.
-Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
-Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
-The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
-American car horns beep in the tone of F.
-No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
-Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
-1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
-You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
-Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
-The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
-The St. Louis Cardinals baseball team has more losses than any other team in major league history.
-The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
-American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
-Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
-The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
-The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
-The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
-Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
-The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
-Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
-Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.
-Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
-Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
-Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
-All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
-Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
-The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
-If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
-If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
-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.
-On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
-The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
-You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
-Americans on the average eat 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?
-Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
-In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, Including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
-A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
-The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
-Polar bears are left handed.
-The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
-The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
-A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
-The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body.
-Butterflies taste with their feet.
-Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (thankfully)
-Starfishes haven't got brains.
-After about a million years diamonds turn slowly to coal