12/29/02 - Mice can't stand the smell of fresh peppermint.
12/27/02 - 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.
12/22/02 - Where on the modern map is the biblical hill of Calvary? It's in old Jerusalem in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. It is entirely inside the church and is one staircase high.
12/20/02 - Basketball players passed the ball but didn't bounce it for nine years before a rule change let them dribble.
12/19/02 - The large poultry companies gather eggs 4 times a day.
12/17/02 - In the cold, butterflies shiver, too.
12/16/02 - The original "moment" was an old English time unit about 1 minute and 30 seconds long.
12/15/02 - Half your conversation, if typical, repeats only about 100 words.
12/13/02 - Kansas has enough salt to supply the whole nation for 100,000 years.
12/12/02 - The Screen Actors Guild that hands out the Oscars has reserved the right to buy back any Oscar in danger of being pawned.
12/11/02 - Percentage of all paper money in the United States that contains traces of cocaine : 97
12/10/02 - Reindeer like to eat bananas.
12/09/02 - 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."
12/08/02 - 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.'
12/07/02 - The narrator of Dr. Seuss' Christmas TV classic "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" : Boris Karloff
11/30/02 - If you see a porpoise swimming slowly in a circle, you can be pretty sure it's taking a nap. That's what porpoises do when they sleep.
11/29/02 - Virginia goes farther west than West Virginia.
11/28/02 - A cat can purr continually without stopping between breaths because it has 2 vocal cords.. one purrs on the inhale the other on the exhale.
11/27/02 - The average summer temperature at Antarctica's South Pole is 47 degrees below zero.
11/26/02 - The longest lake in the world is Africa's lake Tanganyika which is 400 miles long.
11/25/02 - If it rains an inch in Cairo, Egypt, it's a wet year.
11/24/02 - Emotions that show up on one side of your face aren't exactly the same emotions that show up on the other side. The left side is said to be more revealing than the right.
11/23/02 - A vampire bat needs blood at least once every three nights.
11/22/02 - The hardest bone in your body is the one that shields your inner ear.
11/21/02 - Nov 21, 1620, The Mayflower reached Provincetown, MA. The ship discharged the Pilgrims at Plymouth, MA, on December 26, 1620.
11/20/02 - There are 3 tablespoons in a jigger.
11/19/02 - The Pentagon's very first Christmas tree, a Grand Fir, was harvested yesterday from Potlatch, Idaho. Let's not holler "Timber!" Let's holler "Easy Over!" ~ Steve Hash
11/18/02 - American colonists ate popcorn with cream and honey for breakfast.
11/17/02 - Several drinks of fresh water will make a penguin sick... they must like the salty stuff.
11/16/02 - Fewer than half the members of the National Rodeo Cowboys Association have ever worked on a ranch.
11/15/02 - The world's earthworms outweigh the world's people ten to one.
11/14/02 - Grown male cats are called Toms... grown female cats are called Cattas.
11/13/02 - A horse's hind hooves grow faster than the front hooves do. Eh Jason?
11/12/02 - All polar bears have bad breath. Well Duh!!
11/11/02 - In 1922, Briggs and Stratton made a car called the Red Bug Buckboard. It was priced from $125 to $150 and was the least expensive car ever marketed.
11/09/02 - Pepper is a vine.
11/08/02 - Little Redwood trees were sent to Great Britain more than a century ago. Now they are Britain's heaviest stand of timber.
11/07/02 - Three times as many people are murdered in New York City every year as are murdered in all of Canada.
11/05/02 - 1957 was the last year piano makers anywhere used ivory for keys.
11/04/02 - A hopping kangaroo takes one breath per hop.
11/03/02 - During Prohibition doctors could write prescriptions for scotch.
11/02/02 - The day Tiffany's opened, Septmber 21, 1837, it grossed $4.98.
11/01/02 - Rhubarb leaves are poisonous.
10/31/02 - Moisture, not air, causes superglue to dry.
10/30/02 - Women eat more hotdogs than men do.
10/29/ow - Tennessee has the nations's slowest drivers.
10/28/02 - Stalactites grow on the average one inch a century.
10/26/02 - Miners don't kill rats underground.
10/25/02 - In a glass of water with melting ice in it, the water stays as cold as the ice as long as there's any ice chip left.
10/24/02 - Amount the U.S. Government spent in 1990 on lead-lined trucks to house the administration during a nuclear attack : $57,990,000
10/23/02 - This is a natural fact listed under "Masculine Mating Behavior." Once a male bird with an elaborate courtship ritual gets started, he loses himself in his own performance. Take the female away and he doesn't even notice her absence until he's finished the whole show.
10/22/02 - The water in Brazil's Rio Negro is black. In the Rio Solimoes it's muddy brown. Those rivers flow into each other, but their waters don't. They flow side by side without mingling for about 12 miles.
10/21/02 - In the Basilica of San Nicola at Bari, Italy, are bones identified as those of Santa Claus.. I'm sure it's an imposter. :o(
10/20/02 - 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.
10/19/02 - Irvine, California was the first U.S. city to start mass recycling.
10/17/02 - A set in the poultry business is 2 roosters and 5 hens.
10/16/02 - Your own body, pound for pound, produces more heat than the sun.
10/15/02 - The Library of Congress acquires 10,000 new items every 24 hours.
10/13/02 - U.S. troops weren't allowed to have whiskey in early Alaska. They made due with a powerful potable made by the Tlingit Indians from the village of Hoochinoo.. hence our word "hooch."
10/12/02 - In a traditional Italian dinner the salad comes just before the dessert.
10/11/02 - How many bones your cat has depends on the length of his tail.
10/10/02 - Los Angeles has more palm trees and poodles than any other city in the United States.
10/09/02 - A passenger jet is going approximately 155 mph at liftoff.
10/08/02 - 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.
10/05/02 - Nine out of ten people are naturally immune to leprosy.
10/04/02 - If you are a dieter and keeping a food diary, make a daily item about the weather. Researchers say those who do will find they eat more on rainy days.
10/03/02 - You don't feel the blow that knocks you unconscious.
10/02/02 - The first food canned in the United States was salmon.
10/01/02 - 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.
09/30/02 - "Aftermath" originally was the second mowing of hay.
09/28/02 - The legendary train called the Wabash Cannon Ball ran between Detroit and St. Louis.
09/26/02 - A caterpillar has 12 eyes.
09/23/02 - The entire lining of your stomach and intestines is replaced every three days.
09/22/02 - Your spinal cord, if typical, is about a foot and a half long.
09/19/02 - Early farmers in Tennessee revolutionized their local economy with one simple discovery about transportation. A pack mule can carry 4 bushels of corn, raw, or 24 bushels of corn, distilled.
09/18/02 - Bloodless corpses of polar bears have been found on the summer tundra in Alaska. It is blamed on mosquitoes.
09/17/02 - Finnish doctors say heavy snorers are more likely to have a heart attack. The risk is doubled for the "habitual and frequent snorer."
09/16/02 - Enough morphine to kill a human just puts a dog to sleep.
09/14/02 - At the end of WW II, only one in every 5,000 drinking Americans had ever tasted vodka.
09/11/02 - White-Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith, formerly of the Monkees.
09/10/02 - On the town green in Union, Conn., is a cannon set up as a memorial to Civil War Veterans. It is aimed due south.
09/09-02 - There used to be millions of mummies before the Egyptian railroads bought them by the ton for locomotive fuel.
09/08/02 - The common cold doesn't stunt a child's growth, but delays it for the duration of the illness.
09/07/02 - Children conceived during cool months average slightly higher on IQ tests than those conceived during warm months... no explanation.
09/04/02 - The most sparsely populated country in the world is Canada.
09/03/02 - The sunflower is the state flower of Kansas.
09/02/02 - In Michelangelo's ceiling paining of the Sistine Chapel, Pope Julius II pressured him to finish the giant painting on time. For this, Michelangelo didn't like the Pope, and placed him, and others he didn't like, in hell when he painted the Judgment day scene.
09/01/02 - The Roman Catholic Church did not acknowledge that the earth revolves around the sun until the mid 1990's.
08/29/02 - Aristotle ate crickets.
08/26/02 - Ancient Indians used chile peppers as money. Even in the 1950's shoppers in the market places of Cuzco, Peru would use handfuls of chile peppers to buy other foodstuffs.
08/25/02 - The oceans average out to be four times deeper than the land is high.
08/24/02 - Capsaicin is the substance that makes chile peppers hot, and is used in isolated form in many pain relief ointments for arthritis and muscle soreness and after surgical procedures.
08/23/02 - 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.
08/22/02 - Average amount of water dropped by a typical thunderstorm measured in tons : 500,000
08/21/02 - 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.
08/19/02 - When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
08/18/02 - 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
08/16/02 - The dog days of summer begin mid-July, and end Labor Day. The dogstar Sirus rises and sets with the sun during this time.
08/15/02 - Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
08/02/02 - Number of Twinkies that Twinkie inventor Jimmy Dewie ate in his lifetime : 40,177
07/27/02 - The quaking aspen quivers not just during a storm, but before. A naturalist says the trees know. They feel the barometric pressures.
07/26/02 - Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
07/22/02 - It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
07/21/02 - Coca-cola was originally green.
07/20/02 - Months that begins with a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
07/19/02 - 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.
07/18/02 - 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.
07/11/02 - Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize witchcraft.
07/10/02 - The cells which make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.
07/07/02 - Years it would take for Jim Bakker to earn enough to pay his federal fine on his wages cleaning prison toilets : 2,331
07/06/02 - A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
07/05/02 - The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
07/03/02 - Months that begins with a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
07/01/02 - The national flower of Russia is the Sunflower.
06/28/02 - Australia's first fifty cent piece contained two dollars worth of silver.
06/26/02 - When fully open, most sunflowers face East.
06/23/02 - More US servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine Corps. While completing the required 30 missions your chance of being killed was 71%. ~ Col. D.G. Swinford, USMC, Rte., HISTORY BUFF
06/20/02 - The paws of a lioness get damp when she's nervous.
06/19/02 - Among the first "Germans" captured at Normandy were several Koreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until they were captured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the German Army until they were captured by the US Army.
06/18/02 - The Cincinnati Red Sox were the first professional team in organized baseball history.(1876) They were at that time known as the Cincinnati Red Stockings. They won the pennant 100 years later in 1976. They had won the pennant in 1975 also.
06/15/02 - A starving octopus will eat it's own arms.
06/13/02 - Following a massive naval bombardment, 35,000 US and Canadian troopsstormed ashore at Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands. 21 troops were killed in the firefight. It would have been worse if there had been any Japanese on the island. ~ Col. D.G. Swinford, USMC, Rte., HISTORY BUFF
06/12/02 - German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet. ~ Col. D.G. Swinford, USMC, Rte., HISTORY BUFF
06/11/02 - At the time of Pearl Harbor the top US Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced "sink us"), the shoulder patch of the US Army's 45th Infantry division was the Swastika, and Hitler's private train was named "Amerika." All three were soon changed for PR purposes. ~ Col. D.G. Swinford, USMC, Rte., HISTORY BUFF
06/10/02 - During growth stages, the sunflower heads face and follow the path of the sun.
06/09/02 - Sunflowers can grow up to 12 inches a day during peak growing season.
06/07/02 - Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
06/05/02 - The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old Calvin Graham,USN. He was wounded and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. (His benefits were later restored by act of Congress)
06/04/02 - The first German serviceman killed in WW II was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937), the first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940), the highest ranking American killed was Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps... So much for allies. ~ HISTORICAL INFORMATION from Col. D.G. Swinford, USMC, Rte., HISTORY BUFF
06/03/02 - The Scottish word for grief is "teen".
06/01/02 - The man who invented the modern day yo-yo, Donald Duncan, also invented the parking meter.
05/31/02 - The first golf course in the United States was in Sarasota, Florida.
05/29/02 - The mating call of alligators sounds so much like cannon fire that even the alligators can't always tell the difference. A Pensacola fellow alludes to this curiosity when he says a 21-gun salute by naval ships has been known to turn on a whole swamp.
05/27/02 - People are three times more likely to have a heart attack at 9 a.m. than at 11:00 p.m. according to Harvard doctors.
05/26/02 - The only difference between a ruby and a sapphire is color.
05/23/02 - When George Washington was president the nation's capital was called Federal City.
05/22/02 - On May 22, 1761, In Philadelphia, the first life insurance policy was issued in the U.S.
05/21/02 - In the 11 years after Ireland ran out of potatoes in 1845, more people left that country than had left it in the previous 250 years.
05/20/02 - Sigmund Freud smoked approximately 20 cigars a day.
05/18/02 - Secenty-five percent of industrial accidents happen to people who don't eat breakfast.
05/16/02 - The average professional burglar is said to be 27 years old and more often than not, he has been to college.
05/15/02 - Jimmy Carter is the first American President to meet with Castro in Cuba.
05/14/02 - No place in Denmark is more than 40 miles from the open sea.
05/13/02 - Jimmy Carter was the first American president to be born in a hospital.
05/12/02 - Dahlias were first brought to this country not as flowers but as food. There were those who thought the tubers tasty.
05/11/02 - Little dogs hear better than big dogs.
05/09/02 - In an analysis of male and femaile mentality, a Dr. Pierre Flor-Henry, clinical professor of psychiatry at Canada's University of Alberta, said "The male brain is the more likely to malfunction." Well Duh!!
05/08/02 - Israeli agents grabed Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
05/07/02 - Venetian blinds originated in Japan.
05/05/02 - K. Mikimoto, Inc. makes very nice pearl necklaces.
05/03/02 - The strike zone in baseball varies from batter to batter.
05/02/02 - The United States won the first gold medal in the first modern-day olympics.
05/01/02 - In the illegal extraction of money from banks, statistics suggest that embezzlers get twice as much as robbers.
04/29/02 - Fish both in number and variety exceed everything else with backbones.
04/25/02 - Orville Wright was the pilot in the first fatal plane crash.
04/24/02 - Rudolf Hess, one of Hitler's deputies, parachuted into Scotland to negotiate peace terms.
04/23/02 - Copper and tin together make bronze.
04/22/02 - Paul Revere was a silversmith by profession.. midnight riding was just a side line..
04/20/02 - People named Chang worldwide outnumber the combined populations of Great Britan and Canada.
04/19/02 - The water in Florida's Everglades is not stagnant. It's a great river actually... it moves steadily towards the gulf.
04/18/02 - A few mountain roads in Peru are so narrow the haulers have an understanding : Traffic goes one way Monday's, the other way on Tuesdays.. etc..
04/17/02 - The male camel doesn't spit randomly at the object of his anger. He aims for their eyes.
04/16/02 - The United States received all of the Nobel Prizes awarded in 1976.
04/15/02 - April 15, 1912 the ocean liner Titanic sank at 2:27 a.m. in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before. More than 700 people survived.
04/14/02 - Most people can hear better with their right ear.
04/13/02 - VCR's do not eject PB&J sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do.
04/12/02 - The Arab workers who built the Suez Canal thought it was undignified to push wheelbarrows, so they carried them the way they had been taught to carry all heavy things.. on their heads.
04/10/02 - The Seven Deadly Sins are lust, pride, anger, envy, sloth, avarice and gluttony.
04/07/02 - The Sahara Desert has been called The Garden Of Allah.
04/06/02 - Windsor Castle is the world's largest inhabited castle.
04/05/02 - White is the most common color of houses in the North America.
04/04/02 - Pool filters do not like Jell-O.
04/03/02 - No matter how much Jell-O you put into a swimming pool, you still can't walk on water.
04/02/02 - If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite. (*L* NO LES... I HAVEN'T TRIED THIS!)
04/01/02 - The sun has a diameter of 864,000 miles.
03/27/02 - Kathy Whitworth was the first woman golfer to earn a million dollars.
03/26/02 - The positive electrode of a battery is called an anode.
03/25/02 - The code name for the development of the A-Bomb was the Manhattan Project.
03/24/02 - The Liberty Bell was made in England.
03/23/02 - The Seattle Mariners and the Toronto Blue Jays joined baseball's American League in 1977.
03/22/02 - To a handwriting analyst pointed letters mean competitive and aggressive behavior.
03/21/02 - Fourteen out of fifteen of the jockeys in the first Kentucky Derby were.. African Americans.
03/20/02 - Barbara Walters was the first woman to anchor a TV network evening newscast.
03/19/02 - The opposite faces of a die add up to 7. (dice)
03/15/02 - The first Olympic games to be televised were in 1954.
03/13/02 - John Wayne turned down the lead in "Gunsmoke" for fear he would be stereotyped as a cowboy.
03/12/02 - Paris was the first home of the Statue of Liberty.
03/11/02 - Cat's urine glows under a black-light.
03/09/02 - The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
03/07/02 - The exclusion of Isreal in the 1948 Summer Olympics averted a boycott of the games by the Arabs.
03/06/02 - When you combine gasoline and napthenic and palmatic acid you have Napalm.
03/05/02 - If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out. Do you actually believe all of that?
03/03/02 - Rocky Marciano died in a plane crash.
03/02/02 - The longest war in U.S. history was the Viet Nam War.
03/01/02 - The most popular registered dog in America is the poodle.
02/28/02 - Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
02/27/02 - Boston was the first US city to have a subway.(Not the fast food place!)
02/26/02 - A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
02/25/02 - Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
02/24/02 - People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a mili-second.
02/23/02 - Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
02/22/02 - Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
02/21/02 - If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16,1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
02/20/02 - Rats and horses can't vomit... a useful bit of info...
02/19/02 - A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
02/18/02 - 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
02/17/02 - It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
02/16/02 - More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
02/15/02 - In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders. Isn't that a pleasant thought! How do they know this stuff!
02/14/02 - Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetic Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
02/13/02 - In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
02/12/02 - It is impossible to lick your elbow. (Thanks Sharon)
02/11/02 - The crossbar on a football goalpost is 10 feet high.
02/10/02 - No state permits its wine retailers to give away corkscrews.
02/09/02 - The oldest city in the United States is St. Augustine, Florida.
02/08/02 - The impoverished people of Peru, Mass., didn't know how they could survive in the early 1800's... so the town's bigwigs held a public auction and sold off the poor people as servants.
02/06/02 - The word "bride" comes from the ancient Teutonic "to cook."
02/05/02 - There was a time, an ancient time, when first prize in an Olympic event was not a gold medal but a stalk of celery.
02/04/02 - If your wrist measures more than six inches around you can blame your weight on large bones.
02/03/02 - Bubbles are round because the air in them presses outward equally in all directions.
02/02/02 - The tendency to get dark circles under your eyes is an inherited trait. Thanks mom.....
02/01/02 - Rodeo cowboys never wear yellow shirts in competition.
01/31/02 - That dream you dream when you sleep ordinarily lasts 20 minutes.
01/30/02 - Real cowboys don't wear short-sleeved shirts.
01/29/02 - The biggest encyclopedia in the set is always labled "S".
01/28/02 - The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle is the Picayune Intellegence.
01/27/02 - Hangovers are native to Mexico.
01/10/01 - The typical African pygmy does not live long. The tribal elders usually are in their 30's.
01/09/02 - Carrots are native to Afghanistan.
01/08/02 - When a male camel takes an interest in a female camel, it wards off other interested parties by spitting in their eyes.
01/07/02 - The oldest known fruit is the fig.
01/06/02 - It rains in the Amazon jungle about an hour every afternoon from January through June.
01/05/02 - A two day old gazelle can outrun a two year old horse.
01/04/02 - What actually started the infamous feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys? The trigger moment came when Ellison Hatfield called Tolbert McCoy a S.O.B., although much had preceeded it.
01/03/02 - Both the penguin and the albatross have natural desalinization devices in their bodies that strip the salt out of seawater before it is digested.
01/02/02 - The milk production of dairy cows falls off sharply just before an earthquake.
01/01/02 - Oliver Pollock created the world's most popular secular symbol.. the dollar sign ($) on April 1, 1778.
