12/31/99 - In every episode of Seinfeld there is a superman somewhere.
12/29/99 - Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
12/28/99 - Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.
12/25/99 - Beaver Cleaver's locker number was 9.
12/20/99 - The name of the dog from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas was Max.
12/19/99 - A two-bit moon is in the first quarter.
12/18/99 - The A & P was the first chain-store business to be established. It began in 1842.
12/11/99 - We are in the middle of an ice age. Ice ages include both cold and warm periods; at the moment we are experiencing a relatively warm span of time known as an "interglacial period." Geologists believe that the warmest part of this period occurred from 1890 through 1945 and that since 1945 things have slowly begun freezing up again. So much for the greenhouse effect.
12/10/99 - It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
12/09/99 - The town of Tidikelt in the Sahara Desert once went ten years without a rainfall.
12/08/99 - Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.
12/07/99 - The Grand Canyon was not seen by a white man until after the Civil War. It was first entered on May 29,1869, by the geologist John Wesley Powell.
12/06/99 - Andrew Jackson was the first President to be the object of an assassination attempt. Jackson had attended a funeral, and a man named Richard Lawrence came up to him and fired a pistol at point-blank range. The pistol missfired, and before anyone could react, Lawrence pulled another pistol and it too missfired! Instead of running or taking cover, President Jackson preceded to beat the man over the head with his cane. The odds were astronomical that two pistols would missfire.
12/05/99 - President John Tyler had fifteen children.
12/04/99 - In 1865 opium was grown in the state of Virginia and a product was distilled from it that yielded 4 percent morphine. In 1867 it was grown in Tennessee: six years later it was cultivated in Kentucky. During these years opium, marijuana and cocaine could be purchased legally over the counter from any druggist.
12/03/99 - Oak trees don't have acorns until they are at least 50 years old.
11/24/99 - A rainbow can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
11/23/999 - A bolt of lighting can strike the earth with a force as great as 100 million volts.
11/22/99 - James Buchanan was the only United States president never to marry. During his term in office, his niece Harriet Lane played the role of First Lady.
11/06/99 - President Grover Cleveland was a draft dodger. He hired someone to enter the service in his place, for which he was ridiculed by his political opponent, James G. Blaine. It was soon discovered, however, that Blaine had done the same thing himself.
11/05/99 - Benjamin Franklin was the first head of the United States Post Office.
11/04/99 - All snow crystals are hexagonal.
11/03/99 - Atila the Hun was a dwarf. Pepin the Short, Aesop, Gregory the Tours, Charles 3 of Naples, and the Pasha Hussain were all less than 3.5 feet tall.
11/02/99 - There is absolutely no documented proof that Betsy Ross designed the American Flag.
11/01/99 - During the heating months of winter, the relative humidity of the average American home is 13% nearly twice as dry as the Sahara Desert.
10/30/99 - The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle is the Picayune Intellegence.
10/29/99 - Dirty Snow melts faster than clean.
10/28/99 - Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew Cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations.
10/27/99 - Clouds fly higher during the day than the night.
10/18/99 - A power plant was installed at The Gardens in 1946.
10/12/99 - 950,000 board-feet of lumber was used to build The Gardens.
10/11/99 - Sept. 7, 1964 - The Beatles performed at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto... the top ticket price was $5.50.
09/10/99 - In 1976, before over twenty witnesses, a Los Angeles secretary legally married a 50-pound rock.
09/09/99 - In California, it's against the law to set a mousetrap unless you have a hunting license.
09/08/99 - Number of curbside frog ramps in the streets of Stevens Point, Wisconsin : 4
09/07/99 - Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.
09/06/99 - The world's largest K-Mart is on the island of Guam.
09/05/99 - Three out of every four women wear the wrong size bra.
09/04/99 - Soceraphobia - fear of in-laws.
09/03/99 - Twenty-four percent of Los Angeles is paved.
09/02/99 - There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts until 1989.
08/17/99 - Pluto, the Astrological sign for death was directly above Dallas, Texas when John F. Kennedy was born.
08/12/99 - The human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
07/31/99 - Australia's first fifty cent piece contained two dollars worth of silver.
07/30/99 - The phrase ' The 3 R's ' ( standing for 'reading, writing and arithmetic' ) was created by Sir William Curtis, who was illiterate.
07/29/99 - Rank of the Navajo tribe among the largest suppliers of potatoes to Frito Lay : 1
07/28/99 - Watson, the assistant of Alexander Graham Bell, to whom the first telephone message was directed, invented the phone booth.
07/27/99 - The oldest-known goldfish lived to the age of forty-one.
07/26/99 - When flying from London to New York on the Concorde, the change in time zones results in the fact that you arrive two hours before you left.
07/25/99 - Ten per cent of the people on board the Mayflower were named John.
07/23/99 - An ounce of platinum can be stretched into a wire ten thousand miles long.
07/22/99 - The distance between an alligator's eyes in inches is directly proportional to the alligator's length in feet.
07/14/99 - In Ancient Greece a woman's age was counted from her marriage date as the starting point. Supposedly, the wedding marked the start of a woman's real life.
07/09/99 - The flag of the United Kingdom is more properly called the Union Flag, it is only known as the Union Jack when being flown from a ship.
07/08/99 - A Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight.
07/07/99 - Tons of the Berlin wall that were shipped to the U.S. since November 1989 by Hymen Products of St. Louis : 59
07/06/99 - An average of 5 foreign tourists are killed every year by the pigeons in Trafalgar Square in London.
07/05/99 - Tons of Barbecue sold each July 4th at Maurice Bessinger's Piggy Park Barbecue in Columbia, South Carolina : 10
07/04/99 - Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
07/02/99 - Average number of muscles needed for a frown : 43
06/27/99 - Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
06/26/99 - The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have one syllable, it has three.
06/25/99 - Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts. -Nikki Giovanni
06/24/99 - There are no public toilets in Madrid.
06/23/99 - The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
06/22/99 - Leonard Nimoy can lick his own elbows ( you try it ! )
06/21/99 - A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
06/20/99 - According to recently released figures there are currently 9 giraffes living wild in Scotland.
06/19/999 - Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.
06/18/99 - Whipsnade Zoo in England is home to a halibut called Dave. At 75 years old he is the world's oldest captive halibut.
06/17/99 - The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
06/16/99 - Keanu Reeves is Jim Reeves' grandson.
06/15/99 - In Switzerland it is illegal to make model space ships out of cheese.
06/14/99 - It is illegal not to smoke on trains in Kenya.
06/13/99 - Every member of Aerosmith has a pet aardvark called Julie.
06/12/99 - REO Speedwagon's next world tour is to be sponsored by the food manufacturer Nabisco. As part of the deal the band will temporarily change their name to Oreo Speedwagon.
06/11/99 - Ford markets all their cars in Norway under then name Fjord.
06/10/99 - The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
06/09/99 - Dr. Seuss pronounced 'Seuss' such that it rhymed with 'rejoice.'
06/08/99 - Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
06/07/99 - The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural. Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
06/06/99 - Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
06/05/99 - Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
06/04/99 - Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
06/03/99 - The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
06/02/99 - Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
06/01/99 - If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.
05/31/99 - The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown differently during times of peace or war. A portion of the flag is blue, while the other is red. The blue portion is flown on top in time of peace and the red portion is flown in war time.
05/30/99 - The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
05/29/99 - It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
05/17/99 - Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University. (but you knew that didn't you)
05/16/99 - No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
05/15/99 - If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
05/14/99 - More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
05/13/99 - There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
05/12/99 - Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
05/11/99 - The pilot in the first fatal plane crash was Orville Wright. It took place on September 17, 1908. Wright survived but his passenger died.
05/10/99 - Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
05/09/99 - In 1958 as a fraternity initiation, a bunch of MIT freshmen had to see how many times one of their fellow students, Oliver Smoot, could be laid head-to-toe across the Harvard Bridge over Boston’s Charles River. They reported the length of the bridge as "364.4 Smoots + 1 ear." A bronze plaque on the bridge commemorates the event.
05/08/99 - Pounds of silicon and collagen implanted in Americans each year : 60,000
05/07/99 - The 'huddle' in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him.
05/06/99 - The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
05/05/99 - City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
05/04/99 - Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.
05/03/99 - Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall. Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticeably shorter than his right.
05/02/99 - The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
05/01/99 - Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90
04/30/99 - Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
04/29/99 - 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.
04/28/99 - Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize *this* was the day of the changeover.
04/27/99 - An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
04/26/99 - 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.
04/25/99 - Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.
04/24/99 - The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
04/23/99 - Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
04/22/99 - Armadillos can be housebroken.
04/21/99 - The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'.
04/20/99 - A full grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
04/19/99 - Cats can hear ultrasound.
04/18/99 - Pounds of fat that cosmetic surgeons remove from Americans each year : 200,000
04/17/99 - Tons of gold made into class rings in the United States each year : 7.5
04/16/99 - 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
04/15/99 - The longest English word that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'
04/06/99 - Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
04/05/99 - Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
04/04/99 - Academic credentials of Dr. Seuss : attended Oxford but dropped out prior to his PhD's completion.
04/03/99 - Emu’s and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
04/02/99 - The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
04/01/99 - A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
03/31/99 - Weight of the world's largest living tree, a giant sequoia in California named General Sherman : 6167 tons
03/30/99 - Material used to make Big Bird's costume : dyed turkey feathers
03/29/99 - Estimated speed of human hair growth in miles per hour : 0.00000001
03/28/99 - Acres of crossword puzzles American fill-in each day : 54
03/27/99 - Hypothetical amount of money made per hour when taking one second to pick up a penny: $36
03/26/99 - Price of a flame retardant American flag from Freedom Writer Group of Great Barrington, Massachusetts : $10
03/25/99 - Amount the U.S. Government spent in 1990 on lead-lined trucks to house the administration during a nuclear attack : $57,990,000
03/24/99 - Amount the county paid to attorneys to prosecute and defend itself : $1,175
03/23/99 - Amount Ravelli County, Missouri, fined itself after one of its trucks was found to have exceeded the legal load limit : $350
03/22/99 - Average fine in Bavaria, Germany for calling a traffic officer a Damlischer Bulle (Stupid Bull) : $1,710
03/21/99 - Average fine for calling a traffic officer a Stinkstieful (Smelly Boot) : $51
03/20/99 - Total amount convicted drug traffickers in the United States owe in criminal fines : $108,000,000
03/19/99 - Before rice, the largest export of South Carolina during the 18th century : deer skins
03/18/99 - Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting while he was alive, Red Vineyard at Arles.
03/17/99 - Estimated number of M&Ms sold each day in the United States : 200,000,000
03/16/99 - Rank of Chicago in a 1990 study of the United States' windiest cities : 21
03/15/99 - The balls of purring fluff in the Star Trek series were 'Tribbles'
02/11/99 - Average blinks of the human eye per year : 6,205,000
02/10/99 - Percentage who could not recognize Mr. Clean : 7
02/09/99 - Percentage of Americans who can correctly name the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court : 9
02/08/99 - Percentage of Americans who can correctly name the judge on "People's Court" : 54
02/07/99 - The word 'samba' means 'to rub navels together.'
02/06/99 - Average beats of a human heart in a lifetime : 3000 million
02/05/99 - There are almost twice as many people in Rhode Island than there are in Alaska.
02/04/99 - Speed of an average size rain drop under normal conditions : 7 miles per hour
02/03/99 - Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
02/02/99 - Average amount of particles of varying size that fall to the earth each day measured in tons: 20,000,000
02/01/99 - The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
01/31/99 - Minutes of telephone calling on an average business day : 9,500,000,000
01/30/99 - The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.
01/29/99 - Translation of the Monongahela River's name : High banks breaking off and falling down in places.
01/28/99 - Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
01/27/99 - All porcupines float in water.
01/26/99 - Starfish don't have brains.
01/25/99 - Melting point of Dippity-Do : 122F
01/24/99 - Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing 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.
01/23/99 - Amount of time it would take for all the Coca-Cola ever produced to flow over Niagara Falls in hours : 23
01/22/99 - Barbie's full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.
01/21/99 - Total amount New York City drivers owe in parking fines : $461,000,000
01/20/99 - Total distance of a round trip to Pluto in miles : 7,000,000,000
01/19/99 - Paces at which the crunch of a pickle should be audible, according to Pickle Packers International : 10
01/18/99 - Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
01/17/99 - A group of unicorns is called a blessing. Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink." A group of frogs is called an army. A group of rhinos is called a crash. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. A group of geese is called a gaggle. A group of ravens is called a murder. A group of officers is called a mess. A group of larks is called an exaltation. A group of owls is called a parliament.
01/16/99 - M & M's were developed so that soldiers could eat candy without getting their fingers sticky.
01/15/99 - Estimated number of times the Earth is struck by lightning every second... 100
01/14/99 - The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
01/13/99 - Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen.'
01/12/99 - Everyone pronounces gigabyte as (gig) when it is really (jig). Check a dictionary and you'll see.
01/11/99 - 200,000,000 M&M's (estimated) are sold in the United States every day.
01/10/99 - The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
01/09/99 - Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down... hence the expression "to get fired."
01/08/99 - Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
01/07/99 - A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
01/06/99 - AM and PM stand for "Ante-Meridian" and "Post-Meridian," respectively, and A.D. actually stands for "Anno Domini" rather than "After Death."
01/05/99 - Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
01/04/99 - At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world.
01/03/99 - When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
01/02/99 - There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
01/01/99 - Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
