STRANGE FACTS - 1
Every episode of "Seinfeld" contains at least one Superman.
Hummingbirds can't walk.
June Foray, the voice of the murderous Talking Tina doll from the classic Twilight Zone episode "Living Doll", was also the voice of Rocky the talking squirrel from "Rocky & Bullwinkle".
The dunce cap of schoolhouse fame originates from a paper cone that was placed on the heads of accused witches during the Middle Ages. When Joan of Arc was martyred, she was wearing one of them.
Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
"Rhythm" and "syzygy" are the longest English words without vowels.
There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible.
The largest eggs in the world are laid by a whale-shark.
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
"Halloween" took place in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois but almost all the cars in the film had California license plates.
There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.
The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.
Soda water does not contain soda.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith's (of the Monkees) mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.
The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be it's country of origin.
More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the U.S. Treasury.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
Four people played Darth Vader of Star Wars fame: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.
The name "Darth Vader" was a play on the words, "Dark Invader".
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theatre. Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy; Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter.
Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.'
Jean-Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original "PREDATOR" in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.
Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Huptmobile.
In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette.
Brazil got it's name from the nut, not the other way around.
A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his characters.
Turkeys often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
Albert Brooks's real name is Albert Einstein.
The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat droppings.)
Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job.
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breath-alyzer to read 0.
Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a day.
There are only three cities that are named exactly after the state they are located in: Maine, ME; New York, NY; and Wyoming, WY.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
Bela Lugosi died during the filming of "PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE". Director Edward D. Wood Jr. used a taller relative who held a cape in front of his face so the audience wouldn't know the difference so he could complete filming.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.
There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined from the ground in our entire history.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
The name of the Vulcan's heaven is Sha Ka Ree, this is a play on the name Sean Connery who was considered for the part of Sarek, Spock's father, in the Star Trek movies.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
The first time the word "hell" was spoken on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "City on the Edge of Forever". The exact quote was "...let's get the hell out of here...", spoken by William Shatner after the death of a woman he loved.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size; if we lived long enough would we become smaller than ants?
Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.
All of the officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated.
Human hair and fingernails do NOT continue to grow after death.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 116 years.
The first inter-racial kiss on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "Plato's Stepchildren". The kiss was between Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner.
No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die. Their is also a species of cricket from New Zealand that has the same ability.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.
The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."
Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
Martial Arts and Film Superstar Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother. They were both deaf.
Soweto in South Africa was derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.
The car manufacturer Henry Ford was awarded Hitler's Supreme Order of the German Eagle. Ford was a strong advocate of Adolf Hitler.
The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was spun-off from the Danny Thomas Show.
On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan.
Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that have blue eyes.
There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts until 1989.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
While at Havard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam.
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
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.
Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)
The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
It is a criminal offense to drive around in a dirty car in Russia. |
