12/31/98 - In the English language, there is only one word that has a masculine and feminine spelling: Blond (masc.) Blonde (fem.).
12/30/98 - ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)
12/29/98 - A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge..
12/28/98 - If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
12/27/98 - The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
12/26/98 - Total number of frequent flier miles U.S. Airlines owes its passengers : 870,000,000,000
12/25/98 - We owe our popular image of Santa Claus as a portly, vivacious, and grandfatherly figure above all to artist Haddon Sundblom, who for more than thirty years painted ads for the Coca-Cola Company that featured St. Nick and it's product.
12/24/98 - "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" was written in 1939 by Robert L. May as a Christmas promotion for Montgomery Ward.
12/23/98 - The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.
12/22/98 - Percentage of Ireland's annual barley crop that goes into the production of Guiness beer : 7
12/21/98 - Number of glasses of Guiness beer enjoyed around the world per day : 10 million
12/20/98 - Assumed age of the oldest living tree, a bristle pine in California named Methuselah : 4700 years
12/19/98 - Average amount of water dropped by a typical thunderstorm measured in tons : 500,000
12/18/98 - Percentage of Peru's coca crop destroyed by insects : 20
12/17/98 - Percentage of Peru's annual coca crop destroyed by U.S. assisted forces in 1989 : 1
12/16/98 - Reindeer like to eat bananas.
12/15/98 - The average human body contains enough :Iron to make a 3 inch nail . Sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog . Carbon to make 900 pencils. Potassium to fire a toy cannon . Fat to make 7 bars of soap . Phosphorus to make 2,200 match heads . Water to fill a ten gallon tank
12/14/98 - Approximate number of Cracker Jack prizes given away since start-up in 1912 : 16,000,000,000
12/13/98 - Number of minutes spent debating a proposal to renovate the capitol hairdressing salon : 40
12/12/98 - Number of minutes the U.S. Congress spent in October 1990 debating the administration's request for new S&L bailout funds : 23
12/11/98 - Average number of frogs eaten by the French yearly : 200,000,000
12/10/98 - The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's 'Its A Wonderful Life.'
12/09/98 - Number of British Roads marked to protect toads crossing during the mating season : 357
12/08/98 - A winged penis was the city symbol of Pompeii, the ancient Roman resort town destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius' eruption.
12/07/98 - The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
12/06/98 - The narrator of Dr. Seuss' Christmas TV classic "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" : Boris Karloff
12/05/98 - In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)
12/04/98 - Chia Pets are only sold in December.
12/03/98 - Number of Twinkies that Twinkie inventor Jimmy Dewie ate in his lifetime : 40,177
12/02/98 - Years it would take for Jim Bakker to earn enough to pay his federal fine on his wages cleaning prison toilets : 2,331
12/01/98 -The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
11/30/98 - Amount of money the U.S. government spent on paper shredders in 1989 : $7,000,000
11/29/98 - Number of calories in a Hershey's kiss : 25
11/28/98 - Number of calories burned in a one minute kiss : 26
11/27/98 - Cathy Rigby is the only woman to pose nude for Sports Illustrated
11/26/98 - Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean McBricker.
11/25/98 - Number of Betty Rubble tablets in a bottle of Flinstones chewable vitamins : 0
11/24/98 - There are four cars and eleven light posts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
11/23/98 - A group of geese on the ground is gaggle, a group of geese in the air is skein.
11/22/98 - Cinderella, popularized by the famous Grimms’ Fairy Tales of 1812, was chauffeured to the ball in a pumpkin turned by magic into a glittering horse-drawn carriage. The first Cinderella story was written by Perrault in 1697 and made into a movie by Walt Disney in 1950.
11/21/98 - Miss Piggy's measurements are 27-20-32.
11/20/98 - Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
11/19/98 - If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
11/18/98 - The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
11/17/98 - Crickets hear through their knees.
11/16/98 - The last Playboy centerfold to have staples was published in 1985. Venice Kong was the model.
11/15/98 - Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
11/14/98 - The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
11/13/98 - Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
11/12/98 - "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the very first video ever played on MTV.
11/11/98 - A duck's quack does not echo.
11/10/98 - Dart boards are made out of horsehair.
11/09/98 - After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came... head to toe.
11/08/98 - The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
11/07/98 - The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box is Bingo.
11/06/98 - The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
11/05/98 - Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth...and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
11/04/98 - It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was translated. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the lastword is spear.
11/03/98 - Sherlock Holmes never said 'Elementary, my dear Watson.'
11/02/98 - Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of linen.
11/01/98 - The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.
10/31/98 - Months that begins with a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
10/30/98 - Captain Kirk never said 'Beam me up, Scotty,' but he did say, 'Beam me up, Mr. Scott'.
10/29/98 - The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive so much so that they will set off an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
10/28/98 - Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize witchcraft.
10/27/98 - In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said 'Play it again, Sam.'
10/26/98 - 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.
10/25/98 - Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.
10/24/98 - Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
10/23/98 - Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.)
10/22/98 - Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
10/21/98 - "Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.
10/20/98 - In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
10/19/98 - Percentage of all paper money in the United States that contains traces of cocaine : 97
10/18/98 - Name of the B-29 that dropped the atom bomb on Nagasaki : Bock's Car
10/17/98 - The term 'the whole 9 yards' came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got 'the whole 9 yards.'
10/16/98 - 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.
10/15/98 - Name of the B-29 that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima : Enola Gay
10/14/98 - Alaska was the only part of the United States actually invaded by the Japanese during WWII. The territory was the island of Adak in the Aleutian Chain.
10/13/98 - The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic. *LOL* President Clinton should love this fact!
10/12/98 - Canada is the world's second largest country (next to Russia)but houses only 27 million people - making it rank only 28th in population.
10/11/98 - Nine out of ten Canadians live within 100 miles of the United States.
10/10/98 - Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
10/09/98 - A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
10/08/98 - Meaning of YKK on zipper tabs : Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
10/07/98 - Beaver Cleaver's locker number was #9.
10/06/98 - Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
10/05/98 - Moisture, not air, causes superglue to dry.
10/04/98 - The cells which make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.
10/03/98 - White-Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith, formerly of the Monkees.
10/02/98 - Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
10/01/98 - Number of different family relationships for which Hallmark makes cards: 105
9/30/98 - Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43%
9/29/98 - Percentage of Americans that say God has spoken to them: 36%
9/28/98 - Portion of land in the U.S. owned by the government: 1/3
9/27/98 - Men get hiccups more often than women.
9/26/98 - The first novel ever written on a typewriter was *Tom Sawyer*.
9/25/98 - Eskimos never gamble.
9/24/98 - Only First Lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt
9/23/98 - Percentage of women who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 85%
9/22/98 - Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58%
9/21/98 - Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50%
9/20/98 - Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do over again: 80%
9/19/98 - Heinz catsup leaving the bottle travels 25 miles per year.
9/18/98 - Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
9/17/98 - The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925
Hupmobile.
9/16/98 - The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F"
9/15/98 - Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
9/14/98 - State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
9/13/98 - It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
9/12/98 - It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
9/11/98 - Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
9/10/98 -
In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile
services, two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not
re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set
has channels 2 and up but no channel 1.
9/09/98 - Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
9/08/98 - They have square watermelons in Japan...they stack better.
9/07/98 - Your nose and ears never stop growing.
9/06/98 - An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
9/05/98 - Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig
9/04/98 - Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
9/03/98 - Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for Lord of the
Flies, and this is where the book's title comes from.
9/02/98 - The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
9/01/98 - A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
8/31/98 - Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
8/30/98 - The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church.
When 20 of the church's most important convene in deciding if someone
should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give
an alternative view.
8/29/98 -
Former US Senator Barry Goldwater attended the opening night
ceremonies and festivities at Bugsy Siegel's famous Las Vegas Casino.
They left him out of the movie Bugsy. He is pissed.
8/28/98 - Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first
baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
8/27/98 - In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a
man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few
hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit
his first, and only, home run.
8/26/98 - The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore
a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or
his clothing.
8/25/98 - Coca-cola was originally green.
8/24/98 - Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it
is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a
resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
8/23/98 - Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
8/22/98 - Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
8/21/98 - Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. So that's why Saint has red hair.
8/20/98 - Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
8/19/98 - When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
8/18/98 - Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
8/17/98 - Before Prohibition, Shlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago
than anyone else, except The Catholic Church.
8/16/98 - Cream does not weigh as much as milk.
8/15/98 - Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
8/14/98 - In the four major US professional sports, (Baseball, Basketball,
Football, and Hockey), there are only seven teams whose nicknames
do not end with an "S:" Basketball: The Miami Heat, The Utah Jazz,
The Orlando Magic.
Baseball: The Boston Red Sox, The Chicago White Sox. Hockey: The
Colorado Avalanche, The Tampa Bay Lightning. Football: None.
8/13/98 - Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
8/12/98 - Polar bears are left-handed.
8/11/98 - Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40,320 ways to arrange the
other eight reindeer.
8/10/98 - The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on
the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
8/09/98 - The ashes of the average cremated person weighs nine pounds.
8/08/98 - Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used
once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.
8/07/98
It's said that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breath-alyzer to read 0.
8/06/98
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating
to the top and sinking to the bottom.
8/05/98
The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield
was Rock the Casbah by Clash.
8/04/98
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable
from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
8/03/98
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
8/02/98
Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by moving from where you left them to where you can't find them.
8/01/98
If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.
7/31/98
Law of Probability Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
7/30/98
Drinking tequila can be hazardous
to your health!
7/29/98
Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. If you have 3 friends who are OK, then you're it.
7/28/98
The 2 most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
7/27/98
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
7/26/98
The dog days of summer begin mid-July, and end Labor Day. The dogstar Sirus rises and sets with the sun during this time.
