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A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

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.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

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

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line
Would never end be cause of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or
purple.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, t he flag flying over the Parliament
building is an American flag.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand;
lo llipop" with your right.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there
were three gifts.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel
that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube
And a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

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

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely
solid.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are
read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels
In order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
otherwise it will digest itself.

Americans eat 18 acres of pizza a day

4 people are killed a year by randomly falling vending machines.

There are more English speakers resident in China than in the USA

It would take six years and 9 months of non-stop farting to produce enough gas to equal the power of an atomic bomb.

Lions can mate up to 50 times a day.

The average bolt of lightening is 6 miles long. It's temperature can reach 50,000 °F - over four times that of the sun.

By the time he or she is 18, a young Brit will have spent 12,000 hours in school. And will have watched 14,000 hours of TV.

Right-handed people live an average of 9 years longer than left-handers.

There are 20 billion active processors on the planet.

There are 2,000 chemicals in the average cup of coffee, only 27 of which have been tested for carcinogens.

A pig's orgasm lasts for half an hour.

The average adult will eat- inadvertently, mind- a pound of insects over the course of a lifetime.

You are more likely to die from a rogue champagne cork than a poisonous spider.

There is an average of 3,000 ft of electrical wiring in every car.

Twenty-five million people have downloaded the phantom menace trailer since it was first posted on the internet at the beginning of the year.

For every second of operation, the space shuttle's main booster rocket, firing at full capacity, consumes as much oxygen as a billion people inhaling at the same time.

You could comfortably fit the entire population of the planet in a cube with sides measuring just 1km in length.

The earth is hit by lightening some 100 times a second.

Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number

"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

Strawberries have more vitamin C in them than oranges.

Due to precipitation, for a few weeks K2 is bigger than Mt Everest.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

German chemists have made a replica of the football World Cup trophy that is the size of one molecule. That is less than 100-millionth the size of the original. They were bored.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

There is cyanide in apple pips.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The first owner of the Marlboro (Marblo?) company died of lung cancer.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change

More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.

Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

The entire length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).

The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.

The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.

If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, including the uninhabitable areas, everyone would get roughly 100 square feet (30.4 m).

It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilised world.

The first city in modern history to reach 1 million people was London in 1811.

The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people.

The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's.

All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

If she were life size, Barbie's measurements are: 39-23-33.

The longest place-name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

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"

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 giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Why it's Paul Reiser himself.

The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

Bananas aren't grown on trees. They're part of the lily family, a cousin of the orchid, nothing but a very yellow and plump member of the herb family. With stalks 25 feet high, they're the largest plant on earth without a woody stem.


Bananas are thought to have originated in Malaysia but spread throughout Asia, India and Africa before Columbus discovered America. Unknown in this hemisphere before then, bananas came to the New World in 1516 when Spanish missionary Friar Tomas de Berlanga brought over the first root stocks.


The word banana is African, a word carried to the New World by Portuguese slave traders. In Alexander the Great's time, bananas were called "pala" in Athens.


North America got its first taste of the tropical fruit in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. Each banana was wrapped in foil and sold for 10 cents.


Today the average American consumes about 25 pounds a year of the mellow yellow, every one of them imported from Latin America, where the climate favors the warmth-loving plant. Rich in potassium, vitamins B, A and C, bananas are not only popular but considered healthy by most of us. In fact, there are funny numbers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that a banana can cut the risk of death from strokes by as much as 40 percent in certain cases. If you actually read all of this, then you should seek medical or psychological assistance.


A man in India holds the record for eating bananas - 81 in a half-hour.


Half the world's banana crops are grown in Africa.


Bananas have been grown for over 1 million years.


Over 4 million tons of bananas are imported into the United States every year.


Bananas are harvested every day of the year, and are available year-round.


Bananas are a good source of vitamin C, fiber, and potassium.


Bananas is the most popular fruit in America.


Bananas received a new name each time a different group of people were introduced to them. In fact, centuries ago bananas were called "banna" and "ghana" and even "funana." The Africans are credited with giving the banana its permanent name.


In India, bananas were called "Fruit of the Wise Men." According to Indian legend, wise men meditated under the shady, green leaves of banana plants. Don't you wish you had a banana plant in your backyard?


Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

Daffy Duck's middle name is Dumas.


Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.


Betty Boop is a red head.


In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's last name is Gail.


Red Dawn was the first movie to have a PG-13 rating.


In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field.


In Return of the Jedi, there is a tennis shoe hidden among the rebel fleet.


There are Star Wars ships hidden in Star Trek: First Contact, Space Balls, and Independence Day among others.


In Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a wall carving of R2-D2 and C-3P0 behind the ark.


James Bond's car had three different license plates in Goldfinger.


Sherlock Holmes never said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."


In Italian, Pinocchio means "pine head".


Ewan McGregor's (Obi Wan in the new Star Wars movies) uncle Denis Lawson played Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars.


Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.


46% of all violence on TV happens in cartoons.

The first word spoken by an ape in Planet of the Apes was "Smile".


Internationally, Baywatch is the most popular TV show in history.


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 longest interruption of a TV program was when the BBC interrupted a Mickey Mouse cartoon to announce the beginning of World War II. Over 6 years later, the cartoon was resumed in the exact spot it had been cut.

Deborah Winger was the voice of E.T.

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." - Dune


"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." - FDR

According to Wild Discoveries, it takes a monkey ten years of instruction to learn how to crack a nut open (which is achieved by placing the nut in a knoll of a tree and then striking it with a tree limb).
Chimpanzees will actually hunt and kill monkeys and sometimes human infants.
The smallest monkey is about the size of your index finger.
Monkeys have a varied diet, including fruit, leaves, flowers, insects, eggs, small reptiles, and even cariion; most species, however, are primarily herbivorous.
In addition, some species have a prehensile, or grasping, tail, like a fifth hand, which they use for clinging to branches.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal during World War I.
The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off, thus the saying.
If monkeys eat too many unripe bananas their tongue and eyes will turn green.
Monkeys are found every place in the world except in Anaritica.
Rhesus macaque monkeys are diurnal, which means that they are generally shy in forested areas, but bold in urban areas.
The Rhesus factor (or Rh factor) was discovered by K. Landsteiner and A. S. Wiener in 1940 by injecting blood of a Rhesus monkey into rabbits and noticing an antigenic reaction.
Proboscis monkeys are also known as "Dutchman monkeys", for both have long red noses and potbellies.

Yogurt intake among North Americans has quadrupled in the past 20 years.


It takes 720 peanuts to make a jar of peanut butter.


Root beer is made from roots of plants such as sarcaparilla.


There are 0.1 calories on the back of a stamp.


Ketchup was once sold as a patent medicine known as Dr. Miles' Compound Extract of Tomato.


The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span.


Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness.


Americans eat 4 million pounds of bacon everyday, and 175 million eggs.


Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.


Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.


There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.


Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

The full name of Bangkok is Krungthep Mahanakhon Bovorn Ratanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok pop Noparatratchathani Burirom Udomratchanivetmahasathan Avatarnsathit Sakkathattivavisnukarmprast.


Maine produces more toothpicks than any other state.


In Nova Scotia there is a certain Sober Island, 30 miles from Wine Harbor.


The Leaning Tower of Pisa leans toward the south.


Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonald's.


Morocco was the first country to recognize the new United States in 1789.


Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1000 and a size of 108.7 acres.


The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.


2/3 of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.


In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."


It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know today as the "honeymoon."


The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.


The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.


In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day.


Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.


The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.


Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.


In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.


According to 1649 Massachusetts law, punishment for children over the age of 16 acting stubborn or rebellious was death.


In ancient Sparta, the penalty for remaining a bachelor was that the unmarried men were not allowed to watch the gymnastics exersizes of the women. (Sparta was a totalitarian community full of warriors)


In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.


In Tennessee, it's illegal for a female to drive a motor vehicle, unless there's a man on the hood of the car, with a shot gun which is used to shoot off rounds of ammunition to alert oncoming drivers that there is a women at the wheel.


Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.


When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.


Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.


Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.


The Vatican (Papal States) was the only political entity to grant recognition to the Confederate States of America during the Civil War (1861-1865).


Marvin Gardens in the Monopoly game is not spelled the same as the Marven Gardens outside of Atlantic City, NJ, which the board game is based on.


In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day.


Australia is home to the koala bear, the platypus, and the kangaroo, but not one active volcano or glacier. It is the only continent that lacks either one.


There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.


The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island. It comprises 1.25 million acres and was the first ranch in the world to be completely fenced in. At one time, its borders were guarded by armed patrol.


The land area of the country of Greece is slightly smaller than Alabama.


Monaco sits on the southern coast of France, near the border with Italy, and covers 0.73 square miles (approximately 1/2 the size of New York's Central Park).


St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.


Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.


The only two nations whose names begin with an "A" but do not end with an "A" are Afghanastan and Azerbaijan.


The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.


There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.


Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.


Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.


England held the first cat show in 1871.


A Helena, Montana law states that a woman cannot dance on a saloon table unless her clothing weights more than three pounds, two ounces.


Tectonic plates move at about the same speed that your fingernails grow.


Plastic vomit and wind-up chattering teeth were both invented in Chicago.


In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.


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.


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 distance between Los Angeles and Tokyo is 5451 miles.


In French, the title of the movie City Slickers translates to "Life, Love, Cows".


A pier runs perpendicular to the shoreline, while a wharf runs parallel to the shoreline.

Believing that it made thier teeth whiter, medieval Spaniards brushed their teeth with urine.


The Navajo helped the Allies win World War II because their language was the hardest code to break.


"Thinking caps", a special wig, were once actually worn by judges for sentencing convicted criminals.


Ancient Romans smeared pidgeon droppings in their hair to bleach it.


The Cherokee addressed poison ivy as "my friend" to keep it from attacking.


The Mayans used the wheel as a toy, while the Mesopotamians used it to work.


In place of clothes, people in Japan once covered themselves with tattoos.


Body fleas always jump to the north. This helped Vikings navigate their ships.


To make their hands look younger, women once covered them with the skin of a chicken.


In ancient Babylonia, men acquire their wives at auctions.


Dead Egyptian noblewomen were given the special treatment of being allowed a few days to ripen, so that the embalmers wouldn't find her too attractive.


In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
The loudest recorded snore is 87.5 decibels.


More people are killed by donkeys than in airplane crashes.


The smelliest animal in the world is the Zorilla. It can discharge a nauseous fluid from it's anal glands which can be smelled over a radius of half a mile.


Cats have 32 muscles in each ear.


Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.


The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.


A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.


An electric eel will short circuit if put into salt water.


Starfish don't have brains.


400 quarter-pounders can be made from 1 cow.


Polar bears are left-handed.


A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.


Alligators cannot move backwards.


Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.


Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners or their eyes.


Canada imports approximately 822 Russian-made hockey sticks on an average day.


97% of Canadians say they would not borrow a toothbrush if they forgot to pack their own.


Boanthropy is a disease in which a man thinks he's an ox.


The name Wendy was made up for the book, Peter Pan.


40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.


1/3 of all Americans flush the toilet while still on it.


Female lions do 90% of the hunting.


You speak about 4,800 words per day.


We spend about 6 months of our lives waiting at red lights.


Hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen make up 90% of your body.


Smokey the Bear's zip code is 20252.


Camels have three eyelids.


You breathe 13 pints of air every minute.


Slugs have 4 noses.


Shirley Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday.


Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes.


Elephants can't jump.


Dogs are color-blind.


If you feed a pigeon or a seagull an Alka Seltzer, the bird will explode, because it cannot burp.


Cows and deer stand facing east is good weather is coming, and west if it's not.


The human eye can see 7,000,000 colors.


Throughout Mexico, over 200 different insects are eaten.


By the time you're 75 years old, you will have spent 23 years sleeping.


Somebody with Munchausen's Syndrome make up illnesses to get attention.


The chances of death from a shark are 1 in 300,000,000 vs. 1 in 6,000,000 for a bee.


A cow moves its bowels 16 times a day.


A bladderwort is a plant that eats insects that it catches in the bladders on its leaves, which spring open when touched.


Gorillas can lift up to 850 times their weight.


Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.


American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.


No president of the United States was an only child.


1 in 8 people have been employed by McDonald's.


Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
Lions are the only cats that live in packs.


A warthog only has 4 warts.


Snails have teeth.


Squirrels cannot see the color red.


India has 550 million voters.


The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than your brain.


In rural Iran, it is rude to look at people while they are eating.


41% of balding men wear hats.


John F. Kennedy competed in the backstroke when he attended Harvard.


Karl Marx's favorite color was red.


Roughly 400 people are struck by lightning every year in the U.S.


The tallest giraffe ever recorded is 19 feet, 3 inches.


The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.


It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.


The feet contain 1/4 of all bones in the human body.

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Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."


There are only 4 words in the English language that end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.


People originally said "Bless You" when people sneezed because they thought the person was possessed by the devil.


"Fido" comes from Latin meaning "I trust thee".


Donkeys get their names from "key" (meaning color), and "dung".


"Go." is the shortest sentence in the English language.

The only word in the English language with all five vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental."
The Wright brothers airplane had a 12hp engine.


Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.


Prince Charles collects toilet seats.


The only "real" food that U.S. astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.


August 8th begins "National Pickle Week".


Most toliets flush in the key of E flat.


Most car horns are in the key of F.


There are 333 squares of toilet paper are on a roll.


The "Save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, but with the shutter on backwards.


Velcro was inspired by the way cockleburs cling to your clothes when you walk through a field.


The Hundred Years' War lasted 116 years, from gibberish to 1453.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

The statue of Liberty's fingernails weigh 100 pounds each.

In the early days of sailing, a ship would never set sail on a Friday, as it was beleived to be bad luck.


The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.


The pelican was adopted as a Christian symbol early on because mother pelicans would pierce their own breasts to feed their brood with blood - seen as a sacrifice not unlike to that of Jesus by the Church leaders.


Many Japanese hospitals do not have a fourth floor because 4 is an unlucky number in Japan (The Japanese word for "four" sounds like the word for "death".)


"Coca-Cola" was originally translated into Chinese as "Bite the Wax Tadpole".


It has been estimated that all the gold ever mined would form a block only 60 cubic feet.


In medieval times, it was believed that all the wine in a wine cellar would go bad if a woman were to enter a wine cellar.
Four out of five middle school students admit to acting like bullies at least once a month, according to a study released by U.S. researchers.


Washington Today: Tired teenagers need more sleep.


Study suggests girls who drink soft drinks more likely to break bones.


Study: Children benefit from fathers’ involvement.


Studies find flu is common in kids.


U.S. kids eat badly but are less likely to die.


Study: keep babies out of adult beds.


Study: Day care slightly weakens child-mother bond.


Kids watch too much TV, study finds.


Study links lying to popularity in teenagers.


Poll: Teens’ greatest pressure is grades.


U.S. kids exercise less, eat more potato chips than kids elsewhere.


Leave it on: Study says night lighting won’t harm children’s eyesight.


Laughing gas may help smokers kick habit, study suggests.


Scandinavians are most prone to breast cancer, study suggests.


Bicycles waste little energy - study.


Gene study suggests: Eat less, live longer.

U.S. study shows stressed workers calling in sick.


Study finds drinking lots of caffeine doubles miscarriage risk.


Medicine: One drinking binge by pregnant woman can hurt baby’s brain.


Women often bear emotional brunt of illness, study says.


Depression pills may double as treatment for hot flashes.


Hearing loss is increasing along with noise levels.


Regular, brisk walking lowers risk of stroke in women, study says.


U.S. says men have worst health habits than women.


Study: Overweight moms can diet without hurting breast-feeding babies.


Obesity raises depression risk in women.


Modest weight loss helps people with everyday activities.


Report: Miss America winners getting skinnier.


Study: Holiday weight gain less than feared, but it lingers for years.


A study suggests that survivors of air crashes could end up in mental health better than air travelers who have never had such an experience, perhaps because the traumatic experience changes victims' perspective on life.


According to one study, 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament in their yard.

A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats 9,192,631,770 times a second.


If you divide the Great Pyramid's perimeter by two times it's height, you get pi to the fifteenth digit!


The billionth digit of pi is 9.


The first one-hundred digits of pi are:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950
2884197169399375105820974944592307
816406286208998628034825342117067


A syzygy occurs when all the planets of our Solar System line up.


In the U.S. and France, a septillion is represented by the number 1 followed by 24 zeroes; in Great Britain and Germany, it is the number 1 followed by 42 zeroes.


A "googol" is the number 10100. The name is said to have come from the nine-year-old nephew of the American mathematician, Edward Kasner. A "googolplex" is the number 10(10100).


The arrangement of characters on a QWERTY keyboard was designed in 1868 by Christopher Sholes, the inventor of the typewriter. According to popular myth, Sholes arranged the keys in their odd fashion to prevent jamming on mechanical typewriters by separating commonly used letter combinations.


An acre was the descriptive name given in about 1300 AD to the amount of land that one man with his oxen and plough could plough in one day. This amount tended to vary since some land is easier to plough than others but now, in the U.S., one acre is 4,840 square yards; 640 acres is one square mile.


To play some parts of an etude by Chopin a pianist needs to be able to read and play 3,950 notes in two and a half minutes. A piece (Mouvement Perpetuel) by Weber requires the pianist to play 4,541 notes in less than four minutes.


Light travels through the vacuum of space at 299,792,458 m/s (which is 1,079,252,849 km per hour); or 186,282 mi/s (which is 670,616,629 mi/hr). The speed of light is not constant; it travels about 3 percent more slowly through air and much more slowly through glass or water.


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

The Olympic gold medal contains 92.5% silver.


In the 656 BC Olympics, Chionis registered a distance of 23 feet 1 1/2 inches in the long jump.


The first official baseball hat was made of straw.


The first outdoor miniature golf courses in the United States were built on rooftops in New York City in 1926.


A 27-inch-high silver America's Cup holds no liquid – it is bottomless.


A sport practiced in ancient China consisted of placing two angry male quails in a large glass bowl and watching as the creatures clawed each other to death.


According to manufacturer Spalding, the average lifespan of an NBA basketball is 10,000 bounces.


The average major league baseball lasts 7 pitches.


A bowling pin needs to tilt only 7.5 degrees to fall.

Author: nsr81
Subject: Bricks
Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.


Author: Bubble Monkey
Subject: Apple
The first trees to produce sweet, flavorful apples similar to those we enjoy today, were located many thousands of years ago near the modern city of Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. The ancient Greeks were growing several varieties of apples by the late 300’s BC, and the ancient Romans also grew and loved the fruit. Researchers have even found the charred remains of apples at a Stone Age village in Switzerland.


Author: Ohamsie
Subject: Scotch Tape
During World War II, England's Ministry of Home Defense used more than ten million yards on windows to minimize flying glass during air raids.


Author: Bloop182
Subject: Asbestos
The six minerals in asbestos are chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, anthophyllite, tremolite and actinolite.



Meteuro's add-ins:

A polar bear is left-handed.

If you yelled for 8 years,7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Starfish have no brains.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

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

It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile. But it doesn't take any to just sit there with a dumb look on your face.

Elzaban's add-ins:

If you cut a plantine's head in half, it grows two heads

You can teach a plantine something, and then feed it to another plantine, and that other plantine will learn the same thing. That's pretty freaky...

More stupid useless facts:

Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.

On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.

At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.

A cosmic year is the amount of time it takes the sun to revolve around the center of the Milky Way, about 225 million years.

A dog was killed by a meteor at Nakhla, Egypt, in 1911. The unlucky canine is the only creature known to have been killed by a meteor.

Rain contains vitamin B12.

A bowl of lime Jell-O, when hooked up to an EEG machine, exhibited movement which is virtually identical to the brain waves of a healthy adult man or woman.

A "fulgerite" is fossilized lightning. It forms when a powerful lightning bolt melts the soil into a glass-like state.

The proper name of earth's satellite is Luna. The grammar books say that "moon" (and likewise "earth" and "sun") should be lower case, with the exception of when "earth" is in a list with other planets. The earth is Terra; the sun is Sol. This is where we get the words "extraTERREstrial" and "SOLar".

Sumerians (from 5000 BC) thought that the liver made blood and the heart was the center of thought.

In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot.

The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.

During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged.

A passionate kiss uses up 6.4 calories per minute. (Now what happens if it lasts for an hour )

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

It only takes 7 lbs of pressure to rip off your ears.

Brain surgery is done with the patient still awake. The brain has no nerves therefore it has no sensation. The person is put to sleep to open the skull but after that the person wakes up to see the operation be completed.

In 1990, a 64-year old Hartsville, Tennessee, woman entered a hospital for surgery for what doctors diagnosed as a tumor on her buttocks. What surgeons found, however, was a four-inch pork chop bone, which they removed. They estimated that it had been in place for five to ten years. The woman could not remember sitting on it, or eating it for that matter.

Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful plough man strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women.

The most common letters in the English language are R S T L N E. Sound familiar? Watch an episode of "Wheel of Fortune"...

The longest word used by Shakespeare in any of his works is "honorificabilitudinitatibus," found in "Love's Labors Lost." Unfortunately he's no longer around to tell us what it means.

OK is the most successful of all Americanisms. It has invaded hundreds of other languages and been adopted by them as a word. Mencken claims that US troops deployed overseas during WWII found it already in use by Bedouins in the Sahara to the Japanese in the Pacific. It was also the fourth word spoken on the surface of the moon. It stands for oll korrect, a misspelling of all correct.

MAFIA is an acronym for Morte Alla Francia Italia Anela, or "Death to the French is Italy's Cry"

The @ symbol has become an important part of e-mail culture. It separates the User Name from the Domain Name. All countries throughout the world use the same symbol but it obviously has a different name in other tongues. In English it is simply the 'at' sign.
Here are just a few of the more endearing terms:
Italy: 'chiocciolina' - which, in Italian, means 'little snail'
France: 'petit escargot' - also 'little snail'
Germany: 'klammeraffe' - which means 'spider monkey'.
Dutch: 'api' - a shortened version of 'apestaart' or 'monkey's tail'.
Finland: 'miau' or 'cat's tail'.
Norway: 'kanel-bolle', a spiral shaped cinnamon cake
Israel: 'shtrudel' - following the pastry concept
Denmark: 'snabel', an 'A' with a trunk.
Spain: 'arroba'. the Spanish symbol for a unit of weight of about 25 pounds.

The equivalent of calling someone a j*rk in English is calling them a pickle in French.

Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book "If I Ran The Zoo"

Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.

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

Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.'


There.... I think that's enough for the moment... what do you think?

-Elzaban

Ohhrahk's addins:

The average Adult Males's Veins Can Strecth Round The Earth 3 1/2 Times I Belive

-A Dumb Fact From the Empty Mind Of Ohhrahk Inc.


Prove me wrong! (if you think someting is wrong I'll put it here) :

Sephiroth Master of Darkness:

wrong, orange rhymes with doorhinge, and with a lisp, month rhymes with dunth (dunce)

post here about this totally useless stuff!

....................now you know everything!

This post has been edited by Bizo Nuva: Jul 13 2003, 02:23 PM

[Guest_Elzaban_*]

Thanks for all the information. I knew about 10% of it already, but some of it was pretty facinating. I really liked that fact about the goldfishes lifespan. It reminded me (for some odd reason ) about something my dad had told me once, that you can teach a plantine something, and then feed it to another plantine, and that other plantine will learn the same thing. That's pretty freaky...

Anyhow, thanks for the info. I'll just store that in the "Trivia" section of my brain....

-Elzaban

[Bizo Nuva]

QUOTE (Elzaban @ Jul 12 2003, 05:50 PM)

Thanks for all the information. I knew about 10% of it already, but some of it was pretty facinating. I really liked that fact about the goldfishes lifespan. It reminded me (for some odd reason ) about something my dad had told me once, that you can teach a plantine something, and then feed it to another plantine, and that other plantine will learn the same thing. That's pretty freaky... Anyhow, thanks for the info. I'll just store that in the "Trivia" section of my brain.... -Elzaban

what's a plantine?

[Guest_Elzaban_*]

QUOTE (Bizo Nuva @ Jul 12 2003, 09:55 PM)

what's a plantine?

A plantine's a kind of flat worm. If you cut it's head in half, it grows two heads That is, if I recall grade 8 science correctly...

-Elzaban

[Jemina]

Wow. Most of those I never knew But most of those do make sence.

QUOTE

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line Would never end be cause of the rate of reproduction.

Makes sence . Did you know the youngest parents in China were 8 and 9 years of age?

This post has been edited by Jemina: Jul 12 2003, 08:49 PM

[Bizo Nuva]

QUOTE (Elzaban @ Jul 12 2003, 06:26 PM)

QUOTE (Bizo Nuva @ Jul 12 2003, 09:55 PM) what's a plantine? A plantine's a kind of flat worm. If you cut it's head in half, it grows two heads That is, if I recall grade 8 science correctly... -Elzaban

oh. thanks. I'm going into seventh grade, so I might learn that this year or next year.

[Ferrari 360 Mode...]

WOW! All that Info is interesting...

[Meteuro]

A couple more things:

A polar bear is left-handed.

If you yelled for 8 years,7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Starfish have no brains.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

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

It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile. But it doesn't take any to just sit there with a dumb look on your face.

Meteuro.

[therahk]

cool! I probably never half of that before!

[Bizo Nuva]

I'm adding things to the list that people say here. If you post something, I'll put it in there, unless it's innapropiate or totaly made up.

[Guest_Elzaban_*]

More stupid useless facts:

Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.

On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.

At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.

A cosmic year is the amount of time it takes the sun to revolve around the center of the Milky Way, about 225 million years.

A dog was killed by a meteor at Nakhla, Egypt, in 1911. The unlucky canine is the only creature known to have been killed by a meteor.

Rain contains vitamin B12.

A bowl of lime Jell-O, when hooked up to an EEG machine, exhibited movement which is virtually identical to the brain waves of a healthy adult man or woman.

A "fulgerite" is fossilized lightning. It forms when a powerful lightning bolt melts the soil into a glass-like state.

The proper name of earth's satellite is Luna. The grammar books say that "moon" (and likewise "earth" and "sun") should be lower case, with the exception of when "earth" is in a list with other planets. The earth is Terra; the sun is Sol. This is where we get the words "extraTERREstrial" and "SOLar".

There.... I think that's enough for the moment... what do you think?

-Elzaban

[Savior Sephiroth]

QUOTE (Bizo Nuva @ Jul 12 2003, 05:34 PM)

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

wrong, orange rhymes with doorhinge, and with a lisp, month rhymes with dunth (dunce)

[Bizo Nuva]

QUOTE (Elzaban @ Jul 12 2003, 09:32 PM)

More stupid useless facts: Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced. On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass. At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale. A cosmic year is the amount of time it takes the sun to revolve around the center of the Milky Way, about 225 million years. A dog was killed by a meteor at Nakhla, Egypt, in 1911. The unlucky canine is the only creature known to have been killed by a meteor. Rain contains vitamin B12. A bowl of lime Jell-O, when hooked up to an EEG machine, exhibited movement which is virtually identical to the brain waves of a healthy adult man or woman. A "fulgerite" is fossilized lightning. It forms when a powerful lightning bolt melts the soil into a glass-like state. The proper name of earth's satellite is Luna. The grammar books say that "moon" (and likewise "earth" and "sun") should be lower case, with the exception of when "earth" is in a list with other planets. The earth is Terra; the sun is Sol. This is where we get the words "extraTERREstrial" and "SOLar". There.... I think that's enough for the moment... what do you think? -Elzaban

cool, yet stupid and pointless! thanks, I'm trying to find more.

QUOTE

QUOTE (Bizo Nuva @ Jul 12 2003, 05:34 PM) QUOTE No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. wrong, orange rhymes with doorhinge, and with a lisp, month rhymes with dunth (dunce)

orange, I don't think so, because you don't say "orinj" you say "ornj"
Your right about month, but dunth isn't used unless you talk like that.

[Bizo Nuva]

sorry for the double post, but:


Americans eat 18 acres of pizza a day

4 people are killed a year by randomly falling vending machines.

There are more English speakers resident in China than in the USA

It would take six years and 9 months of non-stop farting to produce enough gas to equal the power of an atomic bomb.

Lions can mate up to 50 times a day.

The average bolt of lightening is 6 miles long. It's temperature can reach 50,000 °F - over four times that of the sun.

By the time he or she is 18, a young Brit will have spent 12,000 hours in school. And will have watched 14,000 hours of TV.

Right-handed people live an average of 9 years longer than left-handers.

There are 20 billion active processors on the planet.

There are 2,000 chemicals in the average cup of coffee, only 27 of which have been tested for carcinogens.

A pig's orgasm lasts for half an hour.

The average adult will eat- inadvertently, mind- a pound of insects over the course of a lifetime.

You are more likely to die from a rogue champagne cork than a poisonous spider.

There is an average of 3,000 ft of electrical wiring in every car.

Twenty-five million people have downloaded the phantom menace trailer since it was first posted on the internet at the beginning of the year.

For every second of operation, the space shuttle's main booster rocket, firing at full capacity, consumes as much oxygen as a billion people inhaling at the same time.

You could comfortably fit the entire population of the planet in a cube with sides measuring just 1km in length.

The earth is hit by lightening some 100 times a second.

Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number

"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

Strawberries have more vitamin C in them than oranges.

Due to precipitation, for a few weeks K2 is bigger than Mt Everest.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

German chemists have made a replica of the football World Cup trophy that is the size of one molecule. That is less than 100-millionth the size of the original. They were bored.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

There is cyanide in apple pips.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The first owner of the Marlboro (Marblo?) company died of lung cancer.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change

More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.

Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

The entire length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).

The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.

The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.

If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, including the uninhabitable areas, everyone would get roughly 100 square feet (30.4 m).

It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilised world.

The first city in modern history to reach 1 million people was London in 1811.

The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people.

The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's.

All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

If she were life size, Barbie's measurements are: 39-23-33.

The longest place-name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

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"

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 giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Why it's Paul Reiser himself.

The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

Bananas aren't grown on trees. They're part of the lily family, a cousin of the orchid, nothing but a very yellow and plump member of the herb family. With stalks 25 feet high, they're the largest plant on earth without a woody stem.


Bananas are thought to have originated in Malaysia but spread throughout Asia, India and Africa before Columbus discovered America. Unknown in this hemisphere before then, bananas came to the New World in 1516 when Spanish missionary Friar Tomas de Berlanga brought over the first root stocks.


The word banana is African, a word carried to the New World by Portuguese slave traders. In Alexander the Great's time, bananas were called "pala" in Athens.


North America got its first taste of the tropical fruit in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. Each banana was wrapped in foil and sold for 10 cents.


Today the average American consumes about 25 pounds a year of the mellow yellow, every one of them imported from Latin America, where the climate favors the warmth-loving plant. Rich in potassium, vitamins B, A and C, bananas are not only popular but considered healthy by most of us. In fact, there are funny numbers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that a banana can cut the risk of death from strokes by as much as 40 percent in certain cases. If you actually read all of this, then you should seek medical or psychological assistance.


A man in India holds the record for eating bananas - 81 in a half-hour.


Half the world's banana crops are grown in Africa.


Bananas have been grown for over 1 million years.


Over 4 million tons of bananas are imported into the United States every year.


Bananas are harvested every day of the year, and are available year-round.


Bananas are a good source of vitamin C, fiber, and potassium.


Bananas is the most popular fruit in America.


Bananas received a new name each time a different group of people were introduced to them. In fact, centuries ago bananas were called "banna" and "ghana" and even "funana." The Africans are credited with giving the banana its permanent name.


In India, bananas were called "Fruit of the Wise Men." According to Indian legend, wise men meditated under the shady, green leaves of banana plants. Don't you wish you had a banana plant in your backyard?


Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

Daffy Duck's middle name is Dumas.


Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.


Betty Boop is a red head.


In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's last name is Gail.


Red Dawn was the first movie to have a PG-13 rating.


In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field.


In Return of the Jedi, there is a tennis shoe hidden among the rebel fleet.


There are Star Wars ships hidden in Star Trek: First Contact, Space Balls, and Independence Day among others.


In Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a wall carving of R2-D2 and C-3P0 behind the ark.


James Bond's car had three different license plates in Goldfinger.


Sherlock Holmes never said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."


In Italian, Pinocchio means "pine head".


Ewan McGregor's (Obi Wan in the new Star Wars movies) uncle Denis Lawson played Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars.


Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.


46% of all violence on TV happens in cartoons.

The first word spoken by an ape in Planet of the Apes was "Smile".


Internationally, Baywatch is the most popular TV show in history.


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 longest interruption of a TV program was when the BBC interrupted a Mickey Mouse cartoon to announce the beginning of World War II. Over 6 years later, the cartoon was resumed in the exact spot it had been cut.

Deborah Winger was the voice of E.T.

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." - Dune


"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." - FDR

According to Wild Discoveries, it takes a monkey ten years of instruction to learn how to crack a nut open (which is achieved by placing the nut in a knoll of a tree and then striking it with a tree limb).
Chimpanzees will actually hunt and kill monkeys and sometimes human infants.
The smallest monkey is about the size of your index finger.
Monkeys have a varied diet, including fruit, leaves, flowers, insects, eggs, small reptiles, and even cariion; most species, however, are primarily herbivorous.
In addition, some species have a prehensile, or grasping, tail, like a fifth hand, which they use for clinging to branches.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal during World War I.
The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off, thus the saying.
If monkeys eat too many unripe bananas their tongue and eyes will turn green.
Monkeys are found every place in the world except in Anaritica.
Rhesus macaque monkeys are diurnal, which means that they are generally shy in forested areas, but bold in urban areas.
The Rhesus factor (or Rh factor) was discovered by K. Landsteiner and A. S. Wiener in 1940 by injecting blood of a Rhesus monkey into rabbits and noticing an antigenic reaction.
Proboscis monkeys are also known as "Dutchman monkeys", for both have long red noses and potbellies.

Yogurt intake among North Americans has quadrupled in the past 20 years.


It takes 720 peanuts to make a jar of peanut butter.


Root beer is made from roots of plants such as sarcaparilla.


There are 0.1 calories on the back of a stamp.


Ketchup was once sold as a patent medicine known as Dr. Miles' Compound Extract of Tomato.


The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span.


Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness.


Americans eat 4 million pounds of bacon everyday, and 175 million eggs.


Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.


Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.


There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.


Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

The full name of Bangkok is Krungthep Mahanakhon Bovorn Ratanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok pop Noparatratchathani Burirom Udomratchanivetmahasathan Avatarnsathit Sakkathattivavisnukarmprast.


Maine produces more toothpicks than any other state.


In Nova Scotia there is a certain Sober Island, 30 miles from Wine Harbor.


The Leaning Tower of Pisa leans toward the south.


Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonald's.


Morocco was the first country to recognize the new United States in 1789.


Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1000 and a size of 108.7 acres.


The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.


2/3 of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.


In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."


It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know today as the "honeymoon."


The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.


The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.


In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day.


Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.


The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.


Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.


In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.


According to 1649 Massachusetts law, punishment for children over the age of 16 acting stubborn or rebellious was death.


In ancient Sparta, the penalty for remaining a bachelor was that the unmarried men were not allowed to watch the gymnastics exersizes of the women. (Sparta was a totalitarian community full of warriors)


In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.


In Tennessee, it's illegal for a female to drive a motor vehicle, unless there's a man on the hood of the car, with a shot gun which is used to shoot off rounds of ammunition to alert oncoming drivers that there is a women at the wheel.


Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.


When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.


Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.


Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.


The Vatican (Papal States) was the only political entity to grant recognition to the Confederate States of America during the Civil War (1861-1865).


Marvin Gardens in the Monopoly game is not spelled the same as the Marven Gardens outside of Atlantic City, NJ, which the board game is based on.


In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day.


Australia is home to the koala bear, the platypus, and the kangaroo, but not one active volcano or glacier. It is the only continent that lacks either one.


There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.


The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island. It comprises 1.25 million acres and was the first ranch in the world to be completely fenced in. At one time, its borders were guarded by armed patrol.


The land area of the country of Greece is slightly smaller than Alabama.


Monaco sits on the southern coast of France, near the border with Italy, and covers 0.73 square miles (approximately 1/2 the size of New York's Central Park).


St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.


Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.


The only two nations whose names begin with an "A" but do not end with an "A" are Afghanastan and Azerbaijan.


The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.


There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.


Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.


Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.


England held the first cat show in 1871.


A Helena, Montana law states that a woman cannot dance on a saloon table unless her clothing weights more than three pounds, two ounces.


Tectonic plates move at about the same speed that your fingernails grow.


Plastic vomit and wind-up chattering teeth were both invented in Chicago.


In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.


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.


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 distance between Los Angeles and Tokyo is 5451 miles.


In French, the title of the movie City Slickers translates to "Life, Love, Cows".


A pier runs perpendicular to the shoreline, while a wharf runs parallel to the shoreline.

Believing that it made thier teeth whiter, medieval Spaniards brushed their teeth with urine.


The Navajo helped the Allies win World War II because their language was the hardest code to break.


"Thinking caps", a special wig, were once actually worn by judges for sentencing convicted criminals.


Ancient Romans smeared pidgeon droppings in their hair to bleach it.


The Cherokee addressed poison ivy as "my friend" to keep it from attacking.


The Mayans used the wheel as a toy, while the Mesopotamians used it to work.


In place of clothes, people in Japan once covered themselves with tattoos.


Body fleas always jump to the north. This helped Vikings navigate their ships.


To make their hands look younger, women once covered them with the skin of a chicken.


In ancient Babylonia, men acquire their wives at auctions.


Dead Egyptian noblewomen were given the special treatment of being allowed a few days to ripen, so that the embalmers wouldn't find her too attractive.


In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
The loudest recorded snore is 87.5 decibels.


More people are killed by donkeys than in airplane crashes.


The smelliest animal in the world is the Zorilla. It can discharge a nauseous fluid from it's anal glands which can be smelled over a radius of half a mile.


Cats have 32 muscles in each ear.


Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.


The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.


A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.


An electric eel will short circuit if put into salt water.


Starfish don't have brains.


400 quarter-pounders can be made from 1 cow.


Polar bears are left-handed.


A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.


Alligators cannot move backwards.


Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.


Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners or their eyes.


Canada imports approximately 822 Russian-made hockey sticks on an average day.


97% of Canadians say they would not borrow a toothbrush if they forgot to pack their own.


Boanthropy is a disease in which a man thinks he's an ox.


The name Wendy was made up for the book, Peter Pan.


40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.


1/3 of all Americans flush the toilet while still on it.


Female lions do 90% of the hunting.


You speak about 4,800 words per day.


We spend about 6 months of our lives waiting at red lights.


Hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen make up 90% of your body.


Smokey the Bear's zip code is 20252.


Camels have three eyelids.


You breathe 13 pints of air every minute.


Slugs have 4 noses.


Shirley Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday.


Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes.


Elephants can't jump.


Dogs are color-blind.


If you feed a pigeon or a seagull an Alka Seltzer, the bird will explode, because it cannot burp.


Cows and deer stand facing east is good weather is coming, and west if it's not.


The human eye can see 7,000,000 colors.


Throughout Mexico, over 200 different insects are eaten.


By the time you're 75 years old, you will have spent 23 years sleeping.


Somebody with Munchausen's Syndrome make up illnesses to get attention.


The chances of death from a shark are 1 in 300,000,000 vs. 1 in 6,000,000 for a bee.


A cow moves its bowels 16 times a day.


A bladderwort is a plant that eats insects that it catches in the bladders on its leaves, which spring open when touched.


Gorillas can lift up to 850 times their weight.


Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.


American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.


No president of the United States was an only child.


1 in 8 people have been employed by McDonald's.


Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
Lions are the only cats that live in packs.


A warthog only has 4 warts.


Snails have teeth.


Squirrels cannot see the color red.


India has 550 million voters.


The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than your brain.


In rural Iran, it is rude to look at people while they are eating.


41% of balding men wear hats.


John F. Kennedy competed in the backstroke when he attended Harvard.


Karl Marx's favorite color was red.


Roughly 400 people are struck by lightning every year in the U.S.


The tallest giraffe ever recorded is 19 feet, 3 inches.


The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.


It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.


The feet contain 1/4 of all bones in the human body.

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Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."


There are only 4 words in the English language that end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.


People originally said "Bless You" when people sneezed because they thought the person was possessed by the devil.


"Fido" comes from Latin meaning "I trust thee".


Donkeys get their names from "key" (meaning color), and "dung".


"Go." is the shortest sentence in the English language.

The only word in the English language with all five vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental."
The Wright brothers airplane had a 12hp engine.


Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.


Prince Charles collects toilet seats.


The only "real" food that U.S. astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.


August 8th begins "National Pickle Week".


Most toliets flush in the key of E flat.


Most car horns are in the key of F.


There are 333 squares of toilet paper are on a roll.


The "Save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, but with the shutter on backwards.


Velcro was inspired by the way cockleburs cling to your clothes when you walk through a field.


The Hundred Years' War lasted 116 years, from gibberish to 1453.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

The statue of Liberty's fingernails weigh 100 pounds each.

In the early days of sailing, a ship would never set sail on a Friday, as it was beleived to be bad luck.


The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.


The pelican was adopted as a Christian symbol early on because mother pelicans would pierce their own breasts to feed their brood with blood - seen as a sacrifice not unlike to that of Jesus by the Church leaders.


Many Japanese hospitals do not have a fourth floor because 4 is an unlucky number in Japan (The Japanese word for "four" sounds like the word for "death".)


"Coca-Cola" was originally translated into Chinese as "Bite the Wax Tadpole".


It has been estimated that all the gold ever mined would form a block only 60 cubic feet.


In medieval times, it was believed that all the wine in a wine cellar would go bad if a woman were to enter a wine cellar.
Four out of five middle school students admit to acting like bullies at least once a month, according to a study released by U.S. researchers.


Washington Today: Tired teenagers need more sleep.


Study suggests girls who drink soft drinks more likely to break bones.


Study: Children benefit from fathers’ involvement.


Studies find flu is common in kids.


U.S. kids eat badly but are less likely to die.


Study: keep babies out of adult beds.


Study: Day care slightly weakens child-mother bond.


Kids watch too much TV, study finds.


Study links lying to popularity in teenagers.


Poll: Teens’ greatest pressure is grades.


U.S. kids exercise less, eat more potato chips than kids elsewhere.


Leave it on: Study says night lighting won’t harm children’s eyesight.


Laughing gas may help smokers kick habit, study suggests.


Scandinavians are most prone to breast cancer, study suggests.


Bicycles waste little energy - study.


Gene study suggests: Eat less, live longer.

U.S. study shows stressed workers calling in sick.


Study finds drinking lots of caffeine doubles miscarriage risk.


Medicine: One drinking binge by pregnant woman can hurt baby’s brain.


Women often bear emotional brunt of illness, study says.


Depression pills may double as treatment for hot flashes.


Hearing loss is increasing along with noise levels.


Regular, brisk walking lowers risk of stroke in women, study says.


U.S. says men have worst health habits than women.


Study: Overweight moms can diet without hurting breast-feeding babies.


Obesity raises depression risk in women.


Modest weight loss helps people with everyday activities.


Report: Miss America winners getting skinnier.


Study: Holiday weight gain less than feared, but it lingers for years.


A study suggests that survivors of air crashes could end up in mental health better than air travelers who have never had such an experience, perhaps because the traumatic experience changes victims' perspective on life.


According to one study, 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament in their yard.

A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats 9,192,631,770 times a second.


If you divide the Great Pyramid's perimeter by two times it's height, you get pi to the fifteenth digit!


The billionth digit of pi is 9.


The first one-hundred digits of pi are:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950
2884197169399375105820974944592307
816406286208998628034825342117067


A syzygy occurs when all the planets of our Solar System line up.


In the U.S. and France, a septillion is represented by the number 1 followed by 24 zeroes; in Great Britain and Germany, it is the number 1 followed by 42 zeroes.


A "googol" is the number 10100. The name is said to have come from the nine-year-old nephew of the American mathematician, Edward Kasner. A "googolplex" is the number 10(10100).


The arrangement of characters on a QWERTY keyboard was designed in 1868 by Christopher Sholes, the inventor of the typewriter. According to popular myth, Sholes arranged the keys in their odd fashion to prevent jamming on mechanical typewriters by separating commonly used letter combinations.


An acre was the descriptive name given in about 1300 AD to the amount of land that one man with his oxen and plough could plough in one day. This amount tended to vary since some land is easier to plough than others but now, in the U.S., one acre is 4,840 square yards; 640 acres is one square mile.


To play some parts of an etude by Chopin a pianist needs to be able to read and play 3,950 notes in two and a half minutes. A piece (Mouvement Perpetuel) by Weber requires the pianist to play 4,541 notes in less than four minutes.


Light travels through the vacuum of space at 299,792,458 m/s (which is 1,079,252,849 km per hour); or 186,282 mi/s (which is 670,616,629 mi/hr). The speed of light is not constant; it travels about 3 percent more slowly through air and much more slowly through glass or water.


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

The Olympic gold medal contains 92.5% silver.


In the 656 BC Olympics, Chionis registered a distance of 23 feet 1 1/2 inches in the long jump.


The first official baseball hat was made of straw.


The first outdoor miniature golf courses in the United States were built on rooftops in New York City in 1926.


A 27-inch-high silver America's Cup holds no liquid – it is bottomless.


A sport practiced in ancient China consisted of placing two angry male quails in a large glass bowl and watching as the creatures clawed each other to death.


According to manufacturer Spalding, the average lifespan of an NBA basketball is 10,000 bounces.


The average major league baseball lasts 7 pitches.


A bowling pin needs to tilt only 7.5 degrees to fall.

Author: nsr81
Subject: Bricks
Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.


Author: Bubble Monkey
Subject: Apple
The first trees to produce sweet, flavorful apples similar to those we enjoy today, were located many thousands of years ago near the modern city of Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. The ancient Greeks were growing several varieties of apples by the late 300’s BC, and the ancient Romans also grew and loved the fruit. Researchers have even found the charred remains of apples at a Stone Age village in Switzerland.


Author: Ohamsie
Subject: Scotch Tape
During World War II, England's Ministry of Home Defense used more than ten million yards on windows to minimize flying glass during air raids.


Author: Bloop182
Subject: Asbestos
The six minerals in asbestos are chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, anthophyllite, tremolite and actinolite.

[Blue Convoy]

I HAve One:
The average Adult Males's Veins Can Strecth Round The Earth 3 1/2 Times I Belive

-A Dumb Fact From the Empty Mind Of Ohhrahk Inc.

[Dragon Zaita]

here's one for you:




simple actually the jellyfish is 90% water and has like 6 stomachs and no brain.

[Guest_Elzaban_*]

Just a note: BN, you said a bunch of stuff twice in that last installement. Just wanted to tell you that. Anyway, moving on to more useless facts:

Sumerians (from 5000 BC) thought that the liver made blood and the heart was the center of thought.

In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot.

The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.

During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged.

A passionate kiss uses up 6.4 calories per minute. (Now what happens if it lasts for an hour )

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

It only takes 7 lbs of pressure to rip off your ears.

Brain surgery is done with the patient still awake. The brain has no nerves therefore it has no sensation. The person is put to sleep to open the skull but after that the person wakes up to see the operation be completed.

In 1990, a 64-year old Hartsville, Tennessee, woman entered a hospital for surgery for what doctors diagnosed as a tumor on her buttocks. What surgeons found, however, was a four-inch pork chop bone, which they removed. They estimated that it had been in place for five to ten years. The woman could not remember sitting on it, or eating it for that matter.

Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful plough man strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women.

The most common letters in the English language are R S T L N E. Sound familiar? Watch an episode of "Wheel of Fortune"...

The longest word used by Shakespeare in any of his works is "honorificabilitudinitatibus," found in "Love's Labors Lost." Unfortunately he's no longer around to tell us what it means.

OK is the most successful of all Americanisms. It has invaded hundreds of other languages and been adopted by them as a word. Mencken claims that US troops deployed overseas during WWII found it already in use by Bedouins in the Sahara to the Japanese in the Pacific. It was also the fourth word spoken on the surface of the moon. It stands for oll korrect, a misspelling of all correct.

MAFIA is an acronym for Morte Alla Francia Italia Anela, or "Death to the French is Italy's Cry"

The @ symbol has become an important part of e-mail culture. It separates the User Name from the Domain Name. All countries throughout the world use the same symbol but it obviously has a different name in other tongues. In English it is simply the 'at' sign.
Here are just a few of the more endearing terms:
Italy: 'chiocciolina' - which, in Italian, means 'little snail'
France: 'petit escargot' - also 'little snail'
Germany: 'klammeraffe' - which means 'spider monkey'.
Dutch: 'api' - a shortened version of 'apestaart' or 'monkey's tail'.
Finland: 'miau' or 'cat's tail'.
Norway: 'kanel-bolle', a spiral shaped cinnamon cake
Israel: 'shtrudel' - following the pastry concept
Denmark: 'snabel', an 'A' with a trunk.
Spain: 'arroba'. the Spanish symbol for a unit of weight of about 25 pounds.

The equivalent of calling someone a j*rk in English is calling them a pickle in French.

Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book "If I Ran The Zoo"

Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.

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

Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.'

That's it for now.

-Elzaban

[Bizo Nuva]

thanks guys! I'll be looking for more.

[Bowser's #1 Fan]

Hey, nurple rhymes with purple. Ha! Proved you wrong.

[toa_hunter]

cool facts man, but i found a new one, It would only take one complete cool dude to read over 100 questions that i......they will forget in 10 seconds, and doorhidge ryhmes with orange, it was in some guys name, i cant remember his name though.................

[RedQuark]

QUOTE

It only takes 7 lbs of pressure to rip off your ears.

7 lbs is not a pressure, it is a weight. 7 lbs per square inch perhaps? That is a far different thing. I know I have had at least 7 lbs of tension on my ears before, and they are still quite firmly attached.