The original jukeboxes came with
earphones~only one person could listen at a time.
The average person develops their
first phobia at age 13 1/2.
Bela Lugosi was buried in the cape
he wore as Dracula.
It takes seven standard shuffles
to thoroughly mix a 52 card deck.
TV sitcom characters rarely say
good-bye when they hang up the phone.
What do raccoons, slugs, and ants
have in common? They all like to get drunk.
More people watch primetime TV
on Thursday night than any other night.
Elvis's favorite amusement park
ride was the bumper cars.
Seven percent of Americans think
Elvis is still alive.
Cab fare from New York to Los Angeles
(not including tip) $15,325.
Cracker Jack is the world's largest
purchaser of popcorn.
The oldest American university
is Harvard, founded in 1636.
Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as
U S president by his father.
The ballpoint pen was patented
in 1938.
Iceland enforces a TV-free day
every Tuesday to encourage family interaction.
Tweety Pie won an oscar in 1940.
A can of cat food contains as much
meat as five adult mice.
In some parts of Africa, ostriches
are used to herd sheep.
The only contemporary words that
end in gry are angry and hungry.
Alaska has more outhouses than
any other state.
Only 4% of Americans can say they
didn't eat at McDonald's last year.
World's first copyrighted motion
picture: Record of a sneeze, by Thomas Edison.
The bible is the most shoplifted
book in the United States.
Most hummingbirds weigh less than
a penny.
Louis XIV bathed once a year.
In 1910 Georgia Tech's football
team beat Cumberland University 222 to 0.
In 1994 personal computers outsold
TVs in the United States.
Americans smoked 485 billion cigarettes
in 1993~down from 594 billion in 1985.
Take your weight, multiply it by
.6. That's how many pounds of water are in your body.
The Hundred Year War lasted 116
years.
64% say they have confidence in
the military. 19% say they same thing about the congress.
Denver, CO consumes less prune
juice per capita than any other city in the U S.
There are 364 gifts in "The Twelve
Days of Christmas."
Honey never goes bad.
It takes about 3 1/2 hours for
sound waves to travel from San Francisco to New York.
Tennessee got its name in 1796;
before that it was known as "Franklin."
It takes about 4 hours to hard-boil
an ostrich egg.
Pure alcohol freezes at -125F.
The hippo weighs about 100 pounds
at birth.
William Howard Taft was the first
golfer to become the President of the United States.
Nine most used words in the English
language; and, be, it, of, the, will, I, have, you.
Shrimp can only swim backward.
Colonial Governor John Winthrop
introduced the table fork to America in 1620.
The word "sermon" does not appear
in the Bible.
A cubic yard of air weighs about
two pounds.
Fish with forked tails swim faster
than fish with straight tails.
90% of Americans aren't aware that
being overweight increases the chance of strokes.
28% of household injuries in the
summer are caused by yardwork.
October is traditionally the cheapest
month to buy a bicycle.
40% of Americans say they believe
in love at first sight.
Fifty percent of Americans have
gray hair by the time they're 50.
Seventy percent of the worlds oxygen
supply is produced by marine plants.
If a frog keeps its mouth open
too long, it will suffocate.
On a clear day, you can see five
different states from the top of the World Trade Center.
A black widow spider's venom is
more potent than a rattlesnake's.
Eighty percent of Americans will
be fired from at least one job in their lifetime.
In 1994, there were 397 ships in
the U S Navy~fewer than any year since 1939.
On average, males spend 11 minutes
taking a shower. Females take 13 minutes.
57% of U S households have three
or more telephones.
King George I of England couldn't
speak a word of English. (He spoke German)
The New York phone book had 22
Hitler's listed before WWII.... and none after.
8% of Americans twiddle their thumbs;
25% bite their fingernails.
The U S bought Alaska from Russia
in 1867 for two cents an acre.
Don't let the bumps fool you: A
camel's back is as straight as a horse's.
Male seals don't eat during mating
season. (Too many other things on their mind)
95% of food-poisoning cases are
never reported.
There's about 1/4 pound of salt
in every gallon of seawater.
King Henry VI banned kissing in
England in 1439. He thought it spread disease.
There are about 10 million bricks
in the Empire State Building.
Why does the pelican breathe through
its mouth? It doesn't have any nostrils.
Four of the five hottest cities
in the U S are in Florida, one is in California.
75% of divorced women will eventually
remarry.
Like cats, Brahma bulls purr when
they're happy.
Around the world, 16 millions tons
of rain falls to the Earth every second.
Cleopatra tested the potency of
her poisons by feeding them to her slaves.
An average American eats at McDonald's
1,811 times in their lifetime.
There are an estimated three hundred
$10,000 bills in circulation in the U S.
There are an estimated 10 trillion
cells in your body.
In Kentucky it's illegal to marry
your wife's grandmother.
The average American eats 21.4
pounds of snack food each year.
It takes 12 ears of corn to produce
a single tablespoon of corn oil.
One billion seconds is about 31.7
years.
It takes 7 to 8 tons of sugarcane
to produce 1 ton of sugar.
A swarm of 50,000 bees weighs about
10 pounds.
Horses can only breathe through
their nostrils.
You'd have to walk 5 miles to burn
off the calories of a single hot fudge sundae.
15% of U S women say they send
flowers to themselves on Valentine's Day.
Henry Ford was the very first billionaire
in America.
It is estimated that you will spend
a year of your life looking for misplaced objects.
Some material brought back from
the moon is 4.72 billion years old.
Haircut hint: Thursday is the least
busy day for barbershops.
Sound travels five times faster
under water than in air.
Fish can get seasick. But can they
get airsick?
Only 2% of Americans say they're
in a good mood every day.
It's against the law to drink beer
in Cedar City, Utah, if your shoelaces are untied.
Tony the Tiger turned 45 in 2000;
The Jolly Green Giant turned 72.
Why did polyester jeans bomb in
the 70's? They wouldn't fade.
Top-selling comic book of all time:
August 1990 issue of Spider Man~2.7 million copies.
53% of high school grads and 27%
of college grads "get most of their information from TV."
Model railroaders spend more than
$200 million a year on their trains.
Hottest peppers on earth: Habaneros,
Sweetest: Bells.
When he needed inspiration, Ludwig
von Beethoven poured water on himself.
Every 2.4 seconds, a Tupperware
party begins somewhere in the world.
The average child eats 15 pounds
of cereal a year.
Full-grown grizzly bears can bite
through 1/2-inch steel.
Errol Flynn once worked on an Australian
sheep ranch, castrating sheep with his teeth.
The word noon originally meant
"3 p.m."
According to the U S Census Bureau,
the average American marriage lasts 9.4 years.
Australian soldiers used "We're
of to see the Wizard" as a marching song during WWII.
Worldwide, there are 8,600 chapters
of the Barbie Fan Club.
Weight-loss tip: Melting an ice
cube in your mouth burns 2.3 calories.
Twenty percent of all publications
sold in Japan are comic books.
There's a town in Texas called
"Ding Dong".
21% of children say that if they
were president, they'd "eat ice-cream for every meal."
World's record: A New York man
carried a milk bottle on his head continuously for 24 miles.
Ancient Roman banquet halls had
"vomitoriums," so people could keep on eating when full.
The Pilgrims refused to eat lobsters.
They thought they were really big insects.
There are 550 hairs in the average
eyebrow.
Believe it or not: Internationally,
"Baywatch" is the most popular TV show in history.
Disneyland has the fourth largest
navy in the world.
Americans consume more than 20
pounds of candy per person per year.
Snakes are immune to their own
poison.
Why were schoolhouses traditionally
painted red? Red was the cheapest color available.
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