These were sent to me through emails that friends have sent me...
Hope you like them...
Some are interesting...
Some you may already know...
Some just make you go hummmmmmm...*S*
1} The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.
2} On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
3} Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
4} All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
5} No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
6} Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters.
7} All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
8} Almonds are members of the peach family.
9} Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
10} Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
11} There are only four words in the English language which end in dous:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
12} The longest place-name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupoka iwen uaki ta natahu, is the name for a hill in New Zealand.
13} Los Angeles's full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinadelos Angeles de Porciuncula and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, L.A.
14} A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
15} An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
16} Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
17} In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
18} Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
19} The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
20} The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
21} When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
22} 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.
23} A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
24} A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
25} A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
26} On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the encased in the and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
27} It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
28} The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
29} Who's that playing the piano on the Mad About You theme?
Paul Reiser himself.
30} The male gypsy moth can smell the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away. (pretty good trick)
31} In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
32} The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence Oz.
33} The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
34} Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
35} John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
36} The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
37} There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
38} Stewardesses: is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
39} To testify was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
40} Opinion is typed using only your right hand.
41) Coca-Cola was originally green.
42) Every day, more money is printed for Monopoly than the US treasury prints.
43) It is possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
44) Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish Border Collie; 2) Poodle; 3) Golden Retriever
Dumbest dog: Afghan Hound
45) The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
46) Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
47) Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000
48) City with the most number of Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong
49) State with the highest percentage per capita of people who walk to work: Alaska
50) Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
51) Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had to do it over again: 80%
52) Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50%
53) Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven years: $6,400.00
54) Average number of people airborne over the US at any given hour: 61,000
55) Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disneyworld: 70%
56) Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 7 pitches
57) Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage"
58) Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
59) The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
60) The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
61) Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
62) First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer
63) A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
64) In the 1940's, the FCC assigned television's channel #1 to mobile services (2-way radios in taxicabs, now an amateur radio band) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why TV sets usually start at channel 2 and up.
65) The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
66) The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
67) "Hang On Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.
68) Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ ?
69) The reason firehouses have circular staircases is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by a team of horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
70) The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie", thus the name of Don McLean's song.
71) When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing". They actually pass out from sheer terror.
72) The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
73) Each king in a standard deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
74) Some math: 111,111,111 times 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
75) If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. With one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of the wounds received in battle. If all four legs are on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
76) Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired".
77) Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th: John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed it on August 2nd, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later
78) "I am," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
79) The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.ll 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 pilot fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards".
80) Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it is kissing the conveyor belt.
81) 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.
82) The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
83) The Eisenhower interstate highway system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
84) David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in "Star Wars". He spoke all of Darth Vader's lines, and did not know he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the film.
85) In every episode of Seinfield there is a Superman somewhere.
86) The name "Jeep" came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle: G.P.
87) The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940's, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
88) The cruise line, Queen Elizabeth ll, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
89) Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
90) The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
91) Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
92) If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19.
You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
93) No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Super Bowl.
94) The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
95) The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games played (MLB, NBA, NHL or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star game.
96) Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 years or older.
97) The name "Wendy" was made up for the book "Peter Pan".
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