Terriby Terribly off topic but great fun. -- Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark - a cockroach can live two weeks with its head cut off.
These topics were germane in 2009. The modern version is printed below each starred line.
* Most common languages: Mandarin (907 Mil); English (456); Hindi (383); Spanish (362)
-- MCL is @#@#%@# when examining one's portfolio. In 37 countries.
* Most common name in the world is Mohammed.
* Coca-cola was originally green.
* Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than US Treasury.
-- Now officially reversed.
* It takes 1.3 seconds for light to travel from the Moon.
* The Nile and the Amazon two longest rivers but no one knows which is longer.
* Smartest dogs: 1) Border Collie; 2)Poodle; 3)Golden Retriever; dumbest--Afghan
-- george w's lap dog is now officially the dumbest mutt
* Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
* Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better. A women can tell the denomination of money by its rustle when it still in your wallet.
-- no change.
* World's smallest country: Vatican City 0.17 sq. mi.
* Chances that am American lives within 50 miles of where he or she grew up: 1 in 2
Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000
-- Looks like Ford Ttrimotors and passengers packing their own lunches will be the future of aviation.
* The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
* Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
-- in New York the honk in slightly off the key of F. Or F off for short.
* Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
* City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
* State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
* Most common street name in US: Park
* Number one convention city in the world: Paris
* Average number of words added to the English language each year: 450
* Percentage of board members of Fortune 1000 companies that are run by white males: 92
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-- percentage of Fortune 1000 companies losing money. 92.
* Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4
-- chances of losing your wallet if you hang around Time's Square at Christmas. 2/4
* Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12
* Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28
* Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38
* Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44
* Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 6
-- Number of days in one week West Germans spend circling around each other to get up wind: 6
* Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36
Percentage of Americans who god has actually spoken to: 100 The rest were not listening.
* Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43
Percent of Americans who really believe in god. 1%.
Percent who believe in hedging their bets. 21
Percent of Americans who want other people to believe they believe in god. 21
* City with the highest per capita viewership of television evangelists: Washington DC
* Driest place on earth--Antarctica
* Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80
Percent of those surveyed who believed their wife, mother in law or children were within earshot when they responded to the survey. 79
* Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50
Percent of women planning divorce. 50.
* Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58
* Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85
* Percentage of men in the US between ages of forty and sixty-four that snore heavily: 60
Percentage of women who wish they were divorced. 60.
* Youngest American President. Theodore Roosevelt was 42 (Kennedy was 43).
* The Statue of Liberty is not in New York state, but in New Jersey.
* Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
* Average number of calories an American consumes during Thanksgiving dinner: 1,960.
* Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Average number of couples conceiving offspring today. 11,415.
* Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70
Number of of people visiting Disneyland today. 7990
* Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
* Average number of laughs a person has in a day: 17
* Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7
* Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90
* Percentage of mammal species that are: 3
* Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50
Percent of state legislators and civil servants that passed high school math. 49
* Percentage of recruited student athletes at Division 1 NCAA universities who graduate: 47
* Percentage of all students at Division 1 NCAA universities who graduate: 47
* Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
* Number of the last 10 presidential elections won by the taller candidate: 8
Number of the last 10 presidential candidates that wore a red tie in all their speeches. 8.
* Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7.
Chances that the police employ or are corrupted by local crime syndicates 6 in 7.
* Countries with highest per capita prison population: US and South Africa.
Country with the higher murder rate. Mexico or the US? Mexico. -- Country with the higher gun death rate. Mexico/US? US -- Of the larger cities of Europe and North America which has lowest murder rate? Mexico City.
* Chances that a married American working woman earns more than her husband: 1 in 5
* Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
* Pencils are hexagonal because they're cheaper. You can make 9 hexagon pencils with the same wood it takes to make 8 round.
* Herbert Hoover only president to turn over entire salary to charity.
President to give his entire sex life to other women. WJC.
* World's tallest pyramid in San Francisco.
Largest financial pyramid scheme. Miami Florida.
* Only actress to win 4 Oscars for best actress: Katherine Hepburn
* Only black to win Oscar for best actor: Sidney Poitier.
* Only father and daughter to win acting Oscars: Henry & Jane Fonda
* Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanon
* Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt
* Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for Profiles in Courage
Best ghost writer for a president. John F. Kennedy.
* Only President awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for a system of buoying vessels over shoals.
Only pro boxer to patent a device. Jack Johnson. The Twist handle wrench, now sold by Canadian Tire. Floyd Patterson's rabbit punch and rope a dope don't count as devices. OK. The George Foreman grill, but he did not invent it.
* Only European country where every man is member of armed forces: Switzerland
* Only mammal with 4 knees? Elephant
* There are many animals which can put their foot in their mouth, but none faster or more often than Phil Simborg.
* Only continent with no desert: Europe
This is false. There are intellectual deserts in Europe.
* Only man to win Nobel Prize in two categories: Linus Pauling, Science & Peace
* Only food that does not spoil: honey
Wonder bread is a close second.
* Only woman to establish a religion: Mary Baker Eddy, founded Christ. Sc. in 1886
Women don't need to invent a religion. They worship money and they get men to pray for sex, which produces money.
* Only tree that can survive in salt water: mangrove
* actual length of a year=365.24 days
* Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (subject is boxing)
* chow chow only dog with black tongue.
* Istanbul only city in two continents: Europe and Asia.
* Australia only continent without active volcanoes.
* Liver only organ that can regenerate.
* Irving Berlin wrote every composition in F-sharp.
* longest tunnel 33.1 mi. under Tsugara Strait, Japan.
* Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
* Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica
* Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig
* Only Great Lake entirely in US: Michigan
* Only country with 100 percent literacy rate: Iceland (They also have to speak 3 languages)
They wish that would save their economy. But at least every Icelandic child can read ,write and say "bankrupt" in three languages.
* Yo-yo's were originally deadly weapons in the Philippines.
* 58% of American men prefer Betty Rubble over Wilma Flintstone.
Quick, which girls turns your crank more, Ginger or Mary Anne? The choice tells us what sort of man your are.
* A squirrel forgets where he hid most of his food.
* Cows are louder than gorillas.
* Laughing sickness is fatal.
Depression has its merits after all.
* Dolphins have three stomachs.
* Alpine Salamanders always have twins.
* In Australia there are earthworms 10' long.
* An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
* The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
* Elephants can swim.
A moose can swim at ten miles per hour.
* A geep is a cross between a GOAT and a sheep.
* Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
* Man is the only animal that cries.
* A bee can smell odors 2 mi. away.
* An ant can live underwater for 15 days.
* A giraffe cleans its ears with its tongue.
* Cold blooded animals don't dream.
* An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
* In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
* Wahoo is the fastest fish at 60 MPH.
* Frigate Bird is the fastest bird at 200 MPH.
* Polar bears are left-pawed.
* World's tallest woman was 8'2" from China.
* World's shortest man was 27" "Major Mite" who died in NY in 1990.
* Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
* Eskimos never gamble. (They don't have any money, and walking on thin ice weeded out the risk takers)
Amerindians, by contrast love gambling. Games of chance were a major past time. The Amerindian was supposed in popular parlance to be lazy. i.e South American Indians were executed by the Inca for not showing up for work. We may take it this tendency wore off fast in this locale.
* The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
They were married at 3, but stayed out of trouble for the first 6 years.
* The youngest pope was 11 years old.
* Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
* Ben Franklin was fired from his job as the first Postmaster General of the US
* Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
* An infant has 300 bones. An adult 206.
* A fourth of all the bones in your body are in your feet.
* There are enough blood vessels in your body to wrap around the Earth 3 times.
* Tobacco auctioneers speak 400 words per minute.
* An infant cries without tears until 3 months old.
* Paul Revere didn't say "The Redcoats are Coming!" because he was captured before he got there.
Paul Revere may have been a British spy. Reverse ditto Laura Secord, the Canadian hero of the war of 1812 who was an America spy "for sure". She warned General Fitzgibbons about the US advance. The idea really was to scare him, and find out the strength of this position. Wisely, Fitsgibbons made her stick around. This may surprise many as she came from a loyalist family and her brother fought on the British side. But families are diverse in their political cants. The dead giveaway: she would never tell a straight story about where she got top secret military information.
* Married people live longer than single people.
And it seem that way to them too.
* People can smell a skunk a mile a way.
* Attractive people get better jobs with higher pay.
* American President James Madison weighed less than 100 lbs.
* Only 7 people have gone over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survived.
* There are 20,000 living organisms in a glass of water.
* There are 600,000 kinds of insects.
* Your nose and ears never stop growing.
* The Pacific Ocean is larger than all the land mass of the Earth.
In area.
* You can boil water in a paper bag over an open flame.
Have you ever tried to pour boiling water from a paper bag?
* The mayfly lives for one day.
* Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
* Every day the Earth travels 12 Million Miles.
* World's record snowfall for one day: 1921, 6 ft., Silver Lake, Co.
* The sun is only one of 120 million stars in our galaxy.
* The hardest substance in your body is the enamel in your teeth.
Enamel is the rock mineral apatite, which is calcium phosphate.
* Highest recorded temperature on Earth: 136 degrees F. in Lybia, 1922.
* Hot water is heavier than cold.
* Some redwoods are 3,000 years old.
* Your brain feels no pain.
Every boxer know this. Only the body feels pain in a boxing match. Getting knocked out is totally painless.
* The center of the Earth has a liquid core as hot as the sun's surface.
This is false. The center of the earth has zero gravity - just as in space, because gravity, which Newton discovered is equivalent to mass, pulls equally in all directions at that point. Therefore there can be no mass or compression at the earth's centre. Maximum gravity according to Newton is about 1/3 of the way out from the center, where the pull of the entire earth's mass is by the distance the square root, and by the mass the cube of the volume, the greatest in one direction, which it must be for compression. At maximum compression, the heat increases, but the resultant crystal deformation increases the solidity of the molecules to resist this compression, which makes a perovskite crystal, which is a solid. It can no longer flow because of pressure, and the form locks it in anyway. Thus it is solid not liquid, no matter the heat. For it to become liquid it must expand to amorphous structure. "Below this stucture as compressions eases and the distance and mass balances, the rock freezes to below the eutectic and the mass passes from liquid to solid again, and cools. The center therefore is, to balance the heat of the earth, frozen solid i.e ice at zero gravity. Since pressure is equal outwards it follows the center core is in fact hollow or gaseous. This can easily be seen in geology. Hot liquid magma ascends through the crust driven by hot but solid mantle rocks. The diamond and perovskite crystal and garnet structures form 120 miles down, and the ascending rocks become liquid on pressure relief. If this were not true, the rocks would never stay molten. If the crystal structures were not solidly formed and metastable on pressure relief at lower pressure and temperature, they would not exist at the surface. If they were liquid at depth, they would never exist at all. Hence they are solid, as the mantle must be. And to go to greater depth, they must stay solid. To illustrate. Draw a circle. Put a diameter line thru its center for reference. Then estimate a line 1/3 the distance to the circumference from the center diameter line. Estimate the center of gravity of the two shapes divide by this line. Simply a line crossing the diameter at 90 degrees has a point on the larger part of the circle just beyond the centre. The meta center of the small half pie shaped piece defined by this chord is about 1/3 the distance from the chord to the circumferential line. This is 2188 miles from the center, or about triple mantle depth. This is the centre of gravity of the smaller section. The center of gravity of the larger section is about 230 miles from the center of the earth in the other direction. The distance between the centroids of the two sections is approximately 2418 miles. The larger mass is in circular parlance to keep it simple is 3 times the smaller. The gravitational pull thus as the cube is 27 times the smaller at a distance from its base chord of 875 miles. The larger part of the circle in this instance is 1547 miles from the base chord of the smaller part. Thus the pull in the direction of the larger part is 27/3.12= 8.65 while the pull in the direction of the smaller part is 1/1 as we take it the smaller as unity for distance and gravity for comparison. I take it the gravity pull at this depth equals the maxima of compression i.e, the pull on each unit mass is maximum in one direction - i.e. the mass "above" that point weighs on what is below it by overarching pull of the larger mass on the smaller in one direction, hence we get compression of the two masses. But as we get closer to the center the effect of pullback of the smaller part increases as the cube of its increase in volume, and its field has the effect of the comparative square of a diminishing distance from any intermediate point between the two volumes we wish to measure, and the other larger part decreases in its pull until we are at the center at minimum compression and gravity. Play with calculus to get the maxima. This is somewhat more complicated for the sphere as the fall off in volume of the smaller part is more severe as the chord diminishes than it is in a circle. So the max compression is probably closer to the center than we calculated but the minima is definitely at the center. Compare this to a tug of war. We ask ourselves, is the center of the rope between the two parties pulling in opposite directions in maximum compression? We would say tension. If the ropes were disconnected, and a mass put between them pulling on opposite side, they then compress that mass. But internally they do not compress any part of themselves as each particle pulls infintesimally from each other particle. Similarly in gravitational terms the effect of opposite "tensions" is to negate gravity. Gravity is not a rope connection but a mass effect. Two opposite masses cancel each other out directionally at their gravitational center. If this were not so, the center between two planets where they spun around each other would be a crushing force, since it is where their gravity meets and pulls equally in opposite directions. We know that this points is a point of gravitational zero force where nothing falls in either direction nor feels any compressive force. Any body at that point simply floats in space. The same effect exists at the centre of any planet. The center of the moon earth system is a few inches below the skin of the earth. Nothing is crushed by the weight of the two body's gravity there. And again between the earth and moon there is a second minima of pull by gravitational cancellation due to mass and distance. Again no mass effect there either. An experiment in gravity is proposed in many engineering texts whereby one imagines a mass of rock supported on diamond pedestals at the earth's surface. underneath this mass, of mountain size, a small object could be placed which would float in space, as the mass of the overweight would cancel earth's gravity. Gravity meters can measure the unequal pull of mountains, so we know this effect to be true. The mass has to be very high SG, about the size of Everest and the gap between the mountain the earth about 3 feet and it works. Why don't we feel this effect in a tunnel in a mine at the base of the mountain? The earth is pulling with 5.5 SG average and the mountain is normally a SG of 2.65 You lose in mass. The effect of the solid wide base is very high pulling down. So we need an air base and the mountain has to be uranium for it to work. To float a freight train you need small moon made of iron floating about a 1/10 of a mile up. You have 5.74 seconds to observe, record and report. Good luck. By the way, Newton discovered the average SG of the earth, by observing the lunar perturbations. No dummy he. he also by the same means figured the distance from the earth to the moon. The average weight of the earth is 3/4 the weight of iron and slightly (6.3%) heavier than magnetite iron oxide. It is highly probable much of the earth below the mantle is heavy metal magnetic iron oxide. In other words, cobalt iron lodestone. it would get is magnetic field by spinning through the magnetic field of the sun. Iron oxides of low oxygen spinning in a magnetic field become magnetized. A mineral that is the same weight as the earth in general, and is high in cobalt is Glaucadot. Tellingly is diamond crystal shaped and 5.9 SG. If the crust for 240 miles thick is silicate material then the rest Glaucadot, the SG works out fine as 5.6 (Co,Fe)AsS Unfortunately Glaucadot is not magnetic, so the mineral the earth must be made of is a high cobalt magnetite/iron mineral. This mineral may come close to 5.85 SG which is what is needed for our average. Penroseite, Linnaeite, and few others are nominated. Kamacite and taenite are also possibilitiers. Magentic iron nickel minerals, with cobalt replacing nickel.
* The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515.
False. The idea was proposed, but no implementation of a practical parachute was done.
* They have square watermelons in Japan...they stack better.
Sure they do.
* Blinking takes 1/4 second.
* Cucumbers, pumpkins, tomatoes and squash are fruit.
* House dust is 70% dead skin cells.
The rest is little bugs that eat dead skin.
* Scientists say the most relaxing image you can imagine is rain falling at a slant.
* Cream does not weigh as much as milk.
What? Wow.
* After 30 you start to shrink.
* Mercury is the only metal that's liquid at room temperature.
Depends on the temperature of the room. Gallium melts at 98 degrees.
* Room temperature is 68 degrees.
The person who wrote this never lived in the tropics.
* There are three places in North America below sea level...two in the California desert and the third? New Orleans.
Now the economy joins the crowd.
* What animal holds the record for having killed the most humans? Mosquitoes
* Sharks can live to be 100 years old. Only 50 to 75 people are attacked world wide by sharks each year.
* There are 13 sexes of slime molds. A slime mold can mate with any of the other 12.
I guess one of them is lounge lizard.
* 90 percent of the world's ice in is Antarctica.
* Every diamond, no matter how big, is only one molecule. So by the way is every body of water.
* 23 people in a room--50/50 odds that two will have the same birthday. 14 people--50/50 odds that two will have birthday within a day of each other. Only 7 people to get 50/50 odds of being in a week of each other.
* Heaviest dog ever was a St. Bernard--310 lbs.
* Iceland consumes more Coca-cola per capita than any other nation.
* It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with footballs for one season.
* First novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.
Last novel to be written on a typewriter was Valley of the Dolls.
* There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year. 98% of the calls ask for money.
Family love is a wonderful thing. You can measure it in dollars.
* States with the highest divorce rates: Arkansas, Wyoming, Tennessee in that order.
* More Americans lose their virginity in June than any other month.
* The 3 most valuable brand names in the world: Marlboro, Coca-cola, Budweiser in that order.
* Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
* It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
* Men get hiccups more often than woman.
* An average American spends 6 months of his life waiting at red lights.
* The No. 1 use of gold in the US is class rings.
* If you're average weight, multiply weight by .02 and that's the weight of your brain.
* Armadillos can be housebroken.
* Red headed men are the most likely to go bald.
* According to NASA, it's nearly impossible to shed tears in zero gravity.
* Why is prostitution legal all over Nevada but not in the cities of Las Vegas and Reno? Because studies proved that men gamble more when they bring their wives.
* There were never any ponies in the Pony Express.
* 90% of all New York cab drivers are recent immigrants to the US
* November 19 is Have a Bad Day Day.
* Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
* More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
Still, a donkey has a better chance of getting an airworthiness certificate and they have far fewer air safety directive than a 747.
* Most common street name in America: Park Ave.
* A bowl of Wheaties contains twice as much sodium as a bowl of potato chips.
This is a dead lie. The bowl has no sodium. It is mostly silica. You can eat the bowl with zero health issues.
* Fingernails grow 4 times faster than toenails.
* Dogs don't eat citrus fruit...they make their own vitamin C.
* The average person looks at 8 houses before buying.
* Wilt Chamberlain's parents were both 5'8" tall.
* Baby giraffes drop 6 feet to the ground when they're born.
* Every 2.7 seconds, a Tupperware party begins somewhere in the world.
* The average US marriage lasts 9.4 years.
9.4 years of getting bitched at seems to the maximum
* Snow White was given Marilyn Monroe's measurements by Disney.
* Who has the 4th largest navy in the world? Disneyland.
* Gone With the Wind is the only Civil War epic filmed without a single battle scene.
* Who was the No. 1 box office star in both the 70's and 80's? Clint Eastwood
* Mahatma Gandhi is buried in California.
* A cab from New York to LA would cost $8,325 (not including tip).
9 out of ten Cab rides from New York to LA would not take the shortest route. The above is hooey.
* Tweetie Pie won an Oscar in 1940.
* In parts of Africa, ostriches are used to herd sheep.
* 96% of Americans ate at McDonald's last year.
* The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the US
Once you have that kind of guilty conscience you don't tend to sweat the small stuff.
* Most hummingbirds weigh less than a penny.
* Shrimp can only swim backwards.
* On a clear day you once could see 5 different states from the top of the World Trade Center.
No, you can't.
* 75% of divorced women eventually remarry.
* It takes 12 ears of corn to produce a single tablespoon of corn oil.
* Horses can only breathe through their nostrils.
* It's estimated that you will spend 1 year of your life looking for misplaced objects.
* Sound travels 5 times faster in water than in air.
* The state capital of Texas has moved 15 times.
Man that was on hell of a lot of long wide loads.
* Toads don't have teeth. Frogs do.
* Singer Wayne Newton is a descendant of Pocahontas.
* Coca-Cola was originally green.
* Napoleon Bonaparte was afraid of cats.
* How can you tell if a pig is sick...it stops curling its tail.
* The housefly's tastebuds are in its feet.
* In Kentucky its illegal to marry your wife's grandmother. That is because in Kentucky generally she is your grandmother too.
* Do you know why so many doctors are Jewish? Because their mothers are.
* The average baby spends 27.5 months in diapers.
* Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
* It takes a ton of ore to produce enough gold for one ring.
* Camel's hair brushes are made from squirrel hair.
* 32% of all land in the US is owned by the federal government.
* The alligator on the alligator shirt is actually a crocodile.
* The French poodle originated in Germany.
* In Switzerland, it's against the law to slam your car door.
* No where in the bible does it say or suggest that angels have wings. But they do have wings.
* The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific.
* 50% of all bank robberies occur on Friday.
This by the way is what is meant by the blues lyric, "the eagle flies on friday."
* Thunder is caused by air rushing into the vacuum created by lightening...you can't have thunder without lightening.
* Salt is the only edible rock.
Nonsense. You can eat any rock. Most on the average are better for you than salt. People who live the shortest on the average eat the most salt and the most food..
* Like gentlemen, mosquitoes prefer blondes.
* Sigmund Freud smoked 20 cigars a day.
* Wild Bill Hickock had a brother. His name was Tame Bill.
* Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
* Fake Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991.
* Mick Jagger runs the equivalent of 5 miles on stage during each Rolling Stones concert.
* NASA invented the Dust-buster.
* Vanilla is used to make chocolate.
* Damascus, Syria, is the oldest continuously occupied city in the world.
* Say "3,000 puppies." In the time it took to say it, about 3,000 puppies were born in the US
* England's Prince Charles won the Alfred E. Newman look-alike contest in 1992.
* Number one dispenser of college scholarships for women in the US: Miss America Pageant.
* What city has more tanning salons than any other in the US? Dallas.
* On average, men are 40% muscle and 15% fat; women are 23% muscle and 25% fat.
As long as the fat is in the right places, we are not complaining.
* US Census calls a place with 2500 people a town; 2501 a city.
* According to one estimate, Ben Franklin had 24 illegitimate children.
* Scientists invented straight bananas in the 60's but the public rejected them.
* Cat's urine glows under a blacklight. So does mice and most other rodent urine. Hawks can see UV reflections which aids their hunting of rodents.
* The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
* On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
* All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
* The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
* Dudley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
* The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
* If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
* Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
* Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
He wasn't lying. The furniture he sold was caskets.
* When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel= motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a"portmanteau."
* Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
* The Ramses brand condom is named after the great Pharoah Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
This is Irony, right?
* Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
* A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Hog heaven.
* "Evian" spelled backvards is naive.
The joke is on those who drink it.
* Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
* A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Stupid people believe EVERYTHING they read.
* The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
* Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
These were rumours started by Wellington and Montgomery.
* The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.
* Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
* Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
* In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
* Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
* There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Only 30% of adults have a credit card. Some people must have a lot of cards. The average credit card holder owns nine.
* Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
* Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.
* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
* Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
* There has never been a super bowl champion with a league leading rusher.
* In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
* To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
I never thought of that. Try to remember that when a crocodile has you by the balls. Try to reach his eyes at that point.
* In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
He did say, Play it, Sam. Ingrid Bergman said, Play it again. But she omitted the Sam part.
* Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Awe shit, there goes my entire belief system.
* In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
Don't forget cousins.
* In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
* About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
* You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
* Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
* The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
I think this should read, "The average bank tellers finds $250 every year."
* 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
* Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
* Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
This is where musicians came to say, "Hey man, that's cool!"
* It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
We can easily see that this is patently unfair to a native of Kansas.
* There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
* Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
* "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
In Cherokee, Tonto's language, it means, "Here come the Indians, white man". |
