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The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. (yuck)
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on TV.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. (Is Starbucks going to start selling apples?)
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing their hands in jelly.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, Budweiser, in that order.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
The reason firehouses have circular staircases is from the 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.
Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal"......The second? William Jefferson Clinton.
In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants
Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star
You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog
Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head
Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991. And, rightfully so
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley
27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die. (OH MY GOD)
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?)
Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajoe
Be careful, vigorous nose picking can lead to brain damage. If you break the skin and cause an infection, it wouldn't take much to get a clot inside your blood vessels that could lead to death.
Every year, 150 outer-space rocks actually make it through the atmosphere and hit Earth. While most do no damage, how'd you like to be under one that does?
Over the past 300 years, ther have been more than 200 reports of spontaneous human combustion, where people have mysteriously and for no reason suddenly burst into flames of 3,000 degrees and disintegrated. Nobody knows why this happens.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!!!
It's possible to laugh yourself to death. Most commonly, you can suffocate during even a small but intense laugh or you can starve to death during a prolonged session, as when more than 1,000 people laughed themselves silly for several days straight in East Africa in 1963.
The seeds of certain fresh fruits-such as cherries, apples, plums, almonds, peaches, and apricots-release deadly cyanide gas inside you when you eat them. Usually the quantities are too low to matter though.
Hard to believe, but true... more Monopoly money exists than real money for the entire world.
If somebody dropped a 100 megaton nuclear bomb directly on top of you, you'd have to run about 10 miles just to escape the blast crater. Then you'd have to run another 20 to get out of firestorm range. Outrunning the radiation is a whole nother matter though.
Be careful where you take that dump. There have been numerous reported painful incidents involving toilets operating on vacuum systems-mainly found on planes and cruise ships; in 1987, one sucked the intestines right out of a woman's tush.
Check out that buck in your wallet. Though the founding fathers claimed the eye symbolized God and the pyramid stands for strength and durability, both are symbols of the Freemasons, an organization that-purportedly-secretly rules the world. And you thought voting made a difference.
In psychological studies, it was found that left-handers, on average, die 9 years earlier than righties. How you southpaws feelin'?
Some scientists believe that incoded in your inactive DNA are the blueprints for ancient diseases-which could spring back to life with no warning. Better step back from that microwave, Junior.
The wrath of God is terrible, so don't tick him off. Check out 1 Samuel 4-6. Translations vary; either God gave the offending Philistines tumors-or hemorrhoids
Air travel brings you closer to space, exposing you to higher levels of cosmic radiation, and will cause cancer in a "statistically insignifigant" amount of travelers, according to a government study.
Egypt's Nile river is so polluted at its mouth by nasty microbes that locals who drink its water for an extended period of time find their cheeks dissolving from the inside.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute around the world.
Every episode of "Seinfeld" contains at least one Superman.
Hummingbirds can't walk.
Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.
"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 shark.
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
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.
The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be it's country of origin.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter.
It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
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.
Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
If all retired US ships that now serve as memorials were used to form a new navy, it would rank as the third largest in the world.
Samuel Colt's first gun manufacturing factory went bankrupt.
During the Manhatten Project, 18 people were injected with plutonium to test the effects of nuclear weapons on humans, which caused numerous health problems, and most were not even aware it had occurred.
Chartered on January 27, 1785, the University of Georgia is the oldest state-chartered University in the United States.
Gene Simmons, of the shock-rock group Kiss, earned a B.A. in education and speaks four languages.
The New York Board of Education barred the whipping of children in its schools on March 4, 1908.
During the Stalin era, education in Russia was stressed. As a result, a majority of Russian women and men are very intelligent and hold degrees. In fact, Russia's literacy rate is about 98 percent.
The H-4, more commonly known as the "Spruce Goose", was the largest airplane ever to be built, and first lifted off on November 2,1947. The unexpected flight lasted for approximately a minute and stunned onlookers who had never seen a plane so massive (the Spruce Goose's wingspan was 320 feet). Designed, constructed, and flown by Howard Hughes at the first trial run, the plane would never fly again. Final cost: 22 million dollars paid by the federal government and 18 million dollars paid by Hughes personally (numbers not adjusted for inflation).
The Amended Georgia FY 2002 Budget gives 4.7 million dollars to the department of human resources for postage alone!
In the Amended Georgia FY 2002 Budget, $65,000 was spent to buy a new cooler for the Georgia School for the Deaf.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
In ancient Egypt, people used to shave their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
In ancient China doctors would only receive fees if the patient stayed in good health. Sometimes if the patients health became to bad, the doctor had to pay them.
Glasses have been worn for about 700 years.
About 300 years ago, people used toothbrushes made from hog bristles.
During the Middle Ages, people used spider webs to try to cure warts.
Rockets were first made by the Chinese more than 750 years ago.
The 100 years war lasted 116 years.
During Martin Luther's Reformation, he claimed the Catholic Church to be the anti-christ, and in response, they claimed he was the anti-christ. The common people, assuming one must be the anti-christ, believed that the acopalypse was coming. It never did.
The first sound recording ever made: "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in 1877.
In 1848, Niagara Falls stopped flowing for 30 hours because of an ice jam blocking the Niagara River.
In Victorian times, estate gardeners never planted grape vines without first burying a dead donkey underneath the plot.
In the 1800's anyone in England who unsucessfully attempted suicide faced the death penalty.
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.
In 1960, an estimated 4,000 people were over 100 years old in the U.S. By 1995 the number had jumped to 55,000.
In 1921 76 inches of snow fell over Silver Lake, Colorodo, the heaviest snowfall ever recorded.
The first minimum wage to be established in America was 25 cents an hour, it was in 1938.
In 1980 the yellow pages listed a funeral Home under "frozen foods".
In 1962 an outbreak of contagious laughter in Tanganyika lasted for six months and caused schools to be closed.
Sunglasses became popular in the 1920's when movie stars began wearing them to cut the camera's bright lights.
Bubonic plague killed millions of people throughout Europe in the Dark Ages, and in 1996, five cases of plague were reported in the U.S.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
The world's biggest clam weighs almost 500 pounds.
Sharks have no air bladders, so they must swim constantly or they'll sink.
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.
A lobster can lay up to 150,000 eggs at one time.
More than 20,000,000 seahorses are harvested each year for folk medicinal purposes.
The world seahorse population has dropped 70% in the past 10 years.
Starfish have eight eyes; one at the end of each leg.
The eyes of a giant squid can be up to 15 inches across - the biggest in the world.
More types of fish swim in Brazil's Amazon River than in the entire Alantic Ocean.
Tuna swim an average of 9 mph constantly. They never stop moving.
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for an animal having the most taste buds.
A shrimp's heart is located in it's head.
Starfish have no brain.
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
Only male turkeys (Toms) gobble, females make a clicking noise.
Turkeys will peck to death members of the flock that are physically inferior or different.
Unlike humans, canaries can regenerate their brain cells.
Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
Flamingos lay their eggs on top of volcano-shaped nests made of mud.
California condors can fly 10 miles without flapping their wings.
The ostrich yolk is the largest single cell in the world.
In Miami, Florida, roosting vultures have taken to snatching poodles from rooftop patios.
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.
The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.
An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
The pouch under a pelican's bill holds up to 25 pounds of fish and water.
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
Six people can feast on one ostrich egg for breakfast.
The peacock male is called a male and the female, a peahen.
Flamingo's can only eat with their head upside down.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
How many times can a woodpecker peck? 20 Times a second.
5,865,696,000,000 - The amount of miles in a light year.
The largest painting on earth is a 72437 square foot smiley face.
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years.
The winds on Saturn blow at 1,200 mph. 10 times faster than a strong Earth hurricane.
Earth's oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water.
The energy given off by a hurricane in one day would power the entire U.S for three years.
There is enough energy in one bolt of lightning to power a home for two weeks.
Io, a moon of jupiter, has the most active volcanoes in the solar system.
Hydrogen can be a metal, but it is only in a solid state under extreme conditions such as being in the core of Jupiter!
Rain falls at an average speed of 22 mph.
There is a canyon on Mars that would stretch from New York to San Francisco.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year as a result of draining the water table for human consumption.
Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system.
All the moons of the Solar System are named after Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus, which are named after Shakesperean charcters.
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
Most stars shine for at least 10 billion years.
White dwarf stars can be as small as 1,000 miles across.
Footprints astronauts make on the moon will remain for millions of years due to the fact that there's no wind to blow them away.
A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
The clouds on Venus are made of deadly sulfuric acid.
The Galileo spacecraft traveled to Jupiter at a speed of 107,000 mph; fast enough to cross the U.S. in 85 seconds.
The rings of Saturn are made of ice chunks; some as small as an ice cube and some are as big as a house.
Scientists think the universe is 15 billion years old.
Saturn isn't the only planet with rings: Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune have them, too.
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
The Sun shrinks in diameter by 5 feet every hour.
Dirty snow melts faster than white snow because it's darker and absorbs more heat.
At 90' below zero your breath will freeze in mid-air and fall to the ground.
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women!
Slugs have 4 noses.
A leech can drink up to eight time its weight in blood at one sitting.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Cockroaches can survive underwater for up to 15 minutes.
Since the successful launch of space shuttle Columbia on mission STS-90 there have been more crickets in space than humans.
The average caterpillar has 2000 muscles. The average human has 700.
If you take one pound of cob webs and spread them out in one straight line, it will go around the earth 2 times.
Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a by a poisonous spider?
The female preying mantis initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
Earthworms have 5 hearts.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, and can pull 30 times its own weight.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like human jumping the length of about 7 football fields.
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
The average caterpillar has 16 legs.
In the 17th century, Sawney Beane, his wife, eight sons, six daughters, eighteen grandsons, and fourteen granddaughters, who were all born in incest, were a family of cannibals that lived in caves in Scotland. They murdered hundreds of men, women and children and then ate them. The entire family was executed in Edinburgh without a trial.
It is a misconception to believe that watching TV in a dark room is bad for your eyes. This myth was created to help sell lamps in the early 1950's.
One billion seconds is about 32 years.
One legend claims stealing someone's shadow (by measuring it against a wall and driving a nail through its head) can turn the victim into a vampire.
One year contains 31,557,600 seconds.
One year is exactly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 54.5 seconds.
Original 'Indian Yellow' was obtained at Monghyr, a town in Benghal, from the urine of cows which had been fed on mango leaves. It was found in the bazaars of Panjab in the form of large balls, having an offensive urinous odor. True Indian yellow has been absent from the market for some time; its production is said to have been prohibited in 1908. Present day Indian yellow colors are made of synthetic pigments, alternatives that are less fugitive and less offensive to the nose!
Paranormal experts say people reach the peak of their ability to see ghosts when they're 7 years old.
Plaster of Paris is naturally fire retardant. At about 600 degrees Farenheit the chemical water that is stored in it is released. That is why walls are often sweaty after a fire.
Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.
Sinbad made a total of seven voyages.
Since 1978, at least 37 people have died as a result of shaking vending machines, in an attempt to get free merchandise. More than 100 people have been injured.
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