Did You Know...
-that Tom Cruise is dyslexic?
-a newspaper publisher once fired Walt Disney because he "had no good ideas"?
-that Leonardo di Vinci was left-handed?
-in Saco, Missouri it is illegal to wear a hat that might frighten a child?
-that in Halethorpe, Maryland a kiss cannot last more than a second?
-that in 1901, Wilbur Wright said to his brother that man won't fly for a thousand years?
-girls see better in the dark than boys do?
-in New Hampshire you can marry at the age of 13?
-that the oldest amusement park is Lake Compounce Amusement Park in Bristol, CT and was built in 1846?
-that pogonoophobia is a fear of beards?
-that if you see a black cat with green eyes, pet it 10 times, then make a wish, it is considered good luck?
-peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite?
-the worst hiccups lasted 25,355 days?
-it would take about 3,085,209,600,000 rolls of wallpaper to cover the Sahara desert?
-all of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Ficton" are stuck on 4:20.?
-Coca-Cola was originaly green?
-the ashes of the average cremated person weighs nine pounds?
-the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off?
-the giraffe's heart is huge; it weighs twenty-five pounds, is two feet long, and has walls up to three inches thick?
-the wedding ring is worn on the 3rd finger because it was once believed that a vein of blood ran directly from the third finger on the left hand to the heart? The vein was called "vena amoris", or the vein of love, and early writings on matrimonial procedure suggested that it would be appropriate for one's wedding finger to be worn on that special finger.
-on average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year?
-the world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1?
-thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married?
-the most commonly used password on computer systems is "password"?
-baseball player Jackie Mitchell was the first female to pitch in organized baseball? She played for the Chattanooga Lookouts in 1931. During an exhibition game she pitched to and struck outboth Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
-no words in the english language rhyme with orange or purple?
-the longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai- whenuakitanatahu--a New Zealand hill?
-Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrot?
-oysters can change from male to female and back again?
-in the Philippine jungle, the yo-yo was first used as a weapon?
-the average person swallows 8 spiders in their sleep without knowing?
-a crocodile can't stick it's tongue out?
-Michael Jordan makes more money than all the workers of Nike in Malaysia?
-Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants?
-Marilyn Monroe had six toes?
-if you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white?
-the average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it?
-the sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language?
-American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class?
Got any good facts? Send'em our way!
Home
