Trivia

• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
• Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
• If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand 7' 2" tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
• There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time. Reason: under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins to marry. (What an interesting job to have, don't you think?)
• In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. (the husband's lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired.)
• Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England - but only in tropical fish stores. (makes sense to me!)
• Most Middle Eastern countries recognize the following Islamic law: "After having sexual relations with a lamb, it is a mortal sin to eat its flesh."
• In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death. (That makes sense :-))
• Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.
• Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
• By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
• Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
• In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
• An old law in Bellingham, Wash. made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves.
• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'
• The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
• The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'.
• The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola
• The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
• 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.
• The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
• There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a $10 dollar bill.
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
• Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
• Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
• The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 8 to 1.
• Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than most new cars.
• The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
• When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
• It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
• Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo."
• It takes 3000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
• Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
• There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
• The Bible has been translated into Klingon and Ongbun.
• Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hand.
• Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
• On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
• Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 5 pitches.
• Elephants can't jump. Every other land mammal can.
• Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
• The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the company once had.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
• The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
• The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
• A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
• 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
• Every person has a unique tongue print.
• The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had a red eyes. He was an albino.
• 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
• During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
• John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
• Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog.
• Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
• When World War I broke out, there were only 50 men in the U.S. Air Corp.
• After a good shot, a golf ball can reach speeds of 250 m.p.h.
• Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US President whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal'.
• William Jefferson Clinton is the 2nd.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
• can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
• there are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
• The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.
• The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as 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.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
• The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
• The human heart creates enough pressure it can pump out blood 30 feet.
• The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
• Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
• Starfish haven't got brains.
• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
• The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime while asleep at night. (In this case I HOPE I am not average!)
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
• One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers - they saw it as competition.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
• Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
• Tiger Woods gets more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month.
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

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