The name Wendy was made up for the book
"Peter Pan."
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent
Roberts.
Every time you lick a stamp, you consume
1/10 of a calorie.
The average person falls asleep in seven
minutes.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the
seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of
surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly
takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax
and correct itself.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of
mucus every 2 weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929;
'7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the
direction of the bubbles.
101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the
Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are
present and don't die throughout the movie. .
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is
typed with only the left hand.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws,
push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
No word in the English language rhymes
with month, orange, silver and purple.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels
together."
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was
allergic to carrots.
The electric chair was invented by a
dentist.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies
on Berlin during World War II Killed the only elephant in the Berlin
Zoo.
More people are killed annually by donkeys
than airplane crashes.
A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of
a second.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
Because of the rotation of the earth, an
object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
The average person spends 6 months of
their life sitting at red lights.
In 1912 a law passed in Nebraska where
drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards,
send up a skyrocket, wait eight minutes for the road to clear before
proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off
flares.
More Monopoly money is printed in a year,
than real money throughout the world.
Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of
the Caesars. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the
1920's.
One quarter of the bones in your body are
in your feet.
Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly
fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile.
So, if being chased by one, run in a zigzag line to lose him or her.
Seattle’s Fremont Bridge rises up and down
more than any drawbridge in the world.
Right-handed people live, on average; nine
years longer than left handed people.
Ten percent of the Russian government's
income comes from the sale of vodka.
In the United States, a pound of potato
chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
A giraffe can go without water longer than
a camel.
A person cannot taste food unless it is
mixed with saliva. For example, if a strong-tasting substance like salt
is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it.
As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however,
a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods.
Nearly 80% of all
animals on earth have six legs.
In the marriage
ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered
officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each
other.
Ninety percent of all species that have
become extinct have been birds.
There is approximately one chicken for
every human being in the world.
Most collect calls
are made on father's day.
The first automobile
race ever seen in the United States was held in Chicago in 1895. The
track ran from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois. The winner was J. Frank
Duryea, whose average speed was 71/2 miles per hour.
Each of us generates about 3.5 pounds of
rubbish a day, most of it paper.
Women manage the money and pay the bills
in 75% of all Americans households.
A rainbow can be seen only in the morning
or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less
above the horizon.
It has NEVER rained in Calama, a town in
the Atacama Desert of Chile.
It costs more to buy a new car today in
the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and
undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces
are called aglets.
An eighteenth-century German named Matthew
Birchinger, known as "the little man of Nuremberg," played four musical
instruments including the bagpipes, was an expert calligrapher, and was
the most famous stage magician of his day. He performed tricks with the
cup and balls that have never been explained. Yet Birchinger had no
hands, legs, or thighs, and was less than 29 inches tall.
Daylight Saving Time is not observed in
most of the state of Arizona and parts of Indiana.
Ants closely resemble human manners:
When they wake, they stretch & appear to yawn in a human manner before
taking up the tasks of the day.
Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes
on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
Count the number of cricket chirps in a
15-second period, add 37 to the total, and your result will be very
close to the actual outdoor Fahrenheit temperature.
One-fourth of the world's population lives
on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less
than $75 a year.
Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
Only female mosquito’s' bite and most are
attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a
scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state
of Arizona.
In eighteenth-century English gambling
dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if
there was a police raid.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling
casinos.
The human tongue tastes bitter things with
the taste buds toward the back. Salty and pungent flavors are tasted in
the middle of the tongue, sweet flavors at the tip!
The first product to
have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
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When you sneeze, air
and particles travel through the nostrils at speeds over100 mph.
During this time, all bodily functions stop, including your heart,
contributing to the impossibility of keeping one's eyes open during a
sneeze.
Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%
%60 of all people using the Internet, use
it for pornography.
In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never
went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their
hats.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh
champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the
glass to the top.
Celery has negative calories! It takes
more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.
The average lead pencil will draw a line
35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More
than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States.
If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.
The pop you hear
when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas burning.
A literal
translation of a standard traffic sign in China: "Give large space to
the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway."
You burn more
calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
Larry Lewis ran the
100-yard dash in 17.8 seconds in 1969, thereby setting a new world's
record for runners in the 100-years-or-older class. He was 101.
In a lifetime the average human produces
enough quarts of spit to fill 2 swimming pools.
It's against the law to doze off under a
hair dryer in Florida/against the law to slap an old friend on the back
in Georgia/against the law to Play hopscotch on a Sunday in Missouri.
Barbie's measurements, if she were
life-size, would be 39-29-33.
The human heart
creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.
One third of all
cancers are sun related.
THE MOST UNUSUAL CANNONBALL: On two
occasions, Miss 'Rita Thunderbird' remained inside the cannon despite a
lot of gunpowder encouragement to do otherwise. She performed in a gold
lamé bikini and on one of the two occasions (1977) Miss Thunderbird
remained lodged in the cannon, while her bra was shot across the Thames
River.
It has been estimated that humans use only
10% of their brain.
Valentine Tapley from Pike County,
Missouri grew chin whiskers attaining a length of twelve feet six
inches from 1860 until his death 1910, protesting Abraham Lincoln's
election to the presidency.
Most Egyptians died by the time they were
30 about 300 years ago,
For some time Frederic Chopin, the
composer and pianist, wore a beard on only one side of his face,
explaining: "It does not matter, my audience sees only my right side."
1 in every 4
Americans has appeared someway or another on television.
1 in 8 Americans has
worked at a McDonalds restaurant.
70% of all boats sold are used for
fishing.
Studies have shown
that children laugh an average of 300 times/day and adults 17 times/day,
making the average child more optimistic, curious, and creative than the
adult.
A pregnant goldfish
is called a twit.
The
shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.
Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
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You were born with 300
bones, but by the time you are an adult you will only have 206.
If you go blind in
one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense
of depth.
Women blink nearly
twice as much as men.
The strongest muscle
(Relative to size) in the body is the tongue.
A Boeing 747's
wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
American Airlines saved
$40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in
first-class.
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Average life span of
a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
A palindrome is a sentence or group of
sentences that reads the same backwards as it does forward: Ex:
'Red rum, sir, is murder.' 'Ma is as selfless as I am.' 'Nurse, I spy
gypsies. Run!' 'A man, a plan, a canal - Panama.' 'He lived as a
devil, eh?'
The first CD pressed
in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'
In 1986 Congress &
President Ronald Reagan signed Public Law 99-359, which changed Daylight
Saving Time from the last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in April.
It was estimated to save the nation about 300,000 barrels of oil each
year by adding most of the month April to D.S.T.
The thumbnail grows the slowest, the
middle nail the fastest, nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
The Human eyes never grow, but nose and
ears never stop growing.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents
the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.[link]
Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on
a typewriter.
If Texas were a country, its GNP would be
the fifth largest of any country in the world.
There are 1 million ants for every human
in the world.
Odds of being killed by lightening? 1 in
2million/killed in a car crash? 1 in 5,000/killed by falling out of bed?
1 in 2million/killed in a plane crash? 1 in 25 million.
Since 1978, 37 people have died by Vending
Machine's falling on them. 13 people are killed annually.
All this while trying to shake merchandise out of them. 113 people have
been injured.
Half the foods eaten throughout the world
today were developed by farmers in the Andes Mountains (including
potatoes, maize, sweet potatoes, squash, all varieties of beans,
peanuts, manioc, papayas, strawberries, mulberries and many others).
The 'Golden Arches' of fast food chain
McDonalds is more recognized worldwide than the religious cross of
Christianity.
Former basketball superstar Michael Jordan
is the most recognized face in the world, more than the pope himself.
The average talker sprays about 300
microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.
The Earth experiences 50,000 Earth quakes
per year and is hit by Lightning 100 times a second.
Every year 11,000 Americans injure
themselves while trying out bizarre sexual positions.
If we had the same mortality rate now as
in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be
alive.
On average, Americans eat 18 acres of
pizza everyday.
Researchers at the Texas Department of
Highways in Fort Worth determined the cow population of the U.S. burps
some 50 million tons of valuable hydrocarbons into the atmosphere each
year. The accumulated burps of ten average cows could keep a small
house adequately heated and its stove operating for a year.
During a severe windstorm or rainstorm the
Empire State Building sways several feet to either side.
In the last 3,500 years, there have been
approximately 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.
The Black Death
reduced the population of Europe by one third in the period from 1347 to
1351.
The average person
spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime.
Length of beard an average man would grow
if he never shaved 27.5 feet
Over 60% of all
those who marry get divorced.
400-quarter pounders
can be made from 1 cow.
A full-loaded supertanker traveling at
normal speed takes at least 20 minutes to stop.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Men can read smaller print than women;
women can hear better.
Hong Kong holds the most Rolls Royce’s per
capita.
Average number of days a West German goes
without washing his underwear: 7
WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific
armed their airplanes while stationed with .50 caliber machine gun ammo
belts measuring 27 feet before being loaded into the fuselage. If the
pilots fired all their ammo at a target, he went through "the whole 9
yards", hence the term.
Average number of people airborne over the
US any given hour: 61,000.
Intelligent people have more zinc and
copper in their hair.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita
than any other nation.
In the early 1940s, the FCC assigned
television's Channel 1 to mobile services (like two-way radios in taxis)
but did not re-number the other channel assignments.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only
mobile National Monuments.
Firehouses have circular stairways
originating from the old days when the engines were pulled by horses.
The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk
up straight staircases.
The Main Library at Indiana University
sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers
failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would
occupy the building.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321
Statues in parks: If the horse has both
front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one
front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in
battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of
natural causes.
The expression 'to get fired' comes from
long ago Clans that wanted to get rid of unwanted people, so they would
burn their houses instead of killing them, creating the term 'Got
fired'.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence
in the English language.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because
the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from
an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with
anything wider than your thumb.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken
is thirteen seconds.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires
that one mile in every five must be straight in case of war or
emergency, they could be used as airstrips.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation
used in the army. G.P. for 'General Purpose' vehicle.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms
as is necessary, because when it was built in the 1940s, the state of
Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities
for blacks and whites.
The
cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon
of diesel that it burns.
If
you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19,
the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change
for a dollar.
In Aspen Colorado, you can have a maximum income of $104,000 and
still receive government subsidized housing.
Honking
of car horns for a couple that just got married is an old superstition
to insure great sex.
Dr. Kellogg introduced Kellogg's Corn
Flakes in hopes that it would reduce masturbation.
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The sperm of a mouse is actually longer
than the sperm of an elephant.
In medieval France, unfaithful wives were
made to chase a chicken through town naked.
The Black Widow spider eats her mate
during or after sex.
Napoleon's penis was sold to an American
Urologist for $40,000.
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Eating the heart of a male Partridge was
the cure for impotence in ancient Babylon.
A bull can inseminate 300 cows from one
single ejaculation.
When a Hawaiian woman wears a flower over
her left ear, it means that she is not available.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a
floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
The only nation whose name begins with an
"A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
The following sentence: 'A rough-coated,
dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of
Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.'
Contains the nine different pronunciations of "ough" in the English
Language.
The verb "cleave" is the only English word
with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
The only 15-letter word that can be
spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
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The shape of plant collenchyma’s cells and
the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are
orthotetrachidecahedrons.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards,
and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds,
while dogs only have about ten.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created
especially for Ronald Reagan.
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PEZ candy even comes in a Coffee flavor.
The first song played on Armed Forces
Radio during operation Desert Shield was "Rock the Casba" by the Clash.
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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.
Golf courses cover 4% of North America.
The average person
will accidentally eat just under a pound of insects every year.
Until 1994, world maps and
globes sold in Albania only had Albania on them.
The value of Pi will
be officially "rounded down" to 3.14 from 3.14159265359 on December 31,
1999.
The Great Wall of China is the only
man-made structure visible from space.
A piece of paper can be folded no more
then 9 times.
The amount of computer Memory required to
run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount needed aboard the space
shuttle.
The average North American will eat 35,000
cookies during their life span.
Between 25% and 33% of the population
sneeze when exposed to light.
The most common name in world is Mohammed.
Mount Olympus Mons on Mars is three times
the size of Mount Everest.
Most toilets flush in E flat.
2,000 pounds of space dust and other space
debris fall on the Earth every day.
Each month, there is at least one report
of UFOs from each province of Canada.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets
each year.
You can be fined up to $1,000 for
whistling on Sunday in Salt Lake City, Utah.
It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the
center of a Tootsie pop.
The serial number of the first MAC ever
produced was 2001.
It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing
in California.
If done perfectly, a rubix cube
combination can be solved in 17 turns.
The average American butt is 14.9 inches
long.
More bullets were fired in 'Starship
Troopers' than any other movie ever made.
60% of electrocutions occur while talking
on the telephone during a thunderstorm.
The name of the girl on the statue of
liberty is Mother of Exiles.
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3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second.
There's a systematic lull in conversation
every 7 minutes.
The buzz from an electric razor in America
plays in the key of B flat; Key of G in England.
There are 1,575 steps from the ground
floor to the top of the Empire State building.
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The world's record for keeping a Lifesaver
in the mouth with the hole intact is 7 hrs 10 min.
