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"Be to yourself as you would to your friend."
~ Shakespeare ~

"All that we see or seem is but a drean within a dream "

(Edgar Allan Poe)
" I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, ya know?"

(Earnest Hemingway)
"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
(Samuel Johnson)


"But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."

(Thomas Paine)


"The White House has always attracted the mentally ill."

(unattributed, a Secret Service Agent explaining the need for security at the White House)


"All natural goods perish; Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish."

(William James, American psychologist)


"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

(Mark Twain)


"Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse."

(James Dean)


"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

(Edgar Allen Poe)


"The truth is an ambition which is beyond us."
(Peter Ustinov)


"Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all."

(Bernard Levin)


"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."

(C. S. Lewis)


"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance."

(Anne Sexton)


"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

(Albert Einstein}


"Beauty without expression is boring."

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)


"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

(Andy Warhol)





"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

(Thomas Alva Edison)


"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

(Abraham Lincoln)


I have realized that the past and future are real illusions that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."

(Alan Watts)


The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one."

(Joan Baez)


You don't cleanse your heart to come to God, you come to God to cleanse your heart."

(Stephanie Boven)


"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die."

(Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes)


"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."

(Chapman Cohen)


"I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details."

(Albert Einstein)


It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well."

(Joseph Ross)


"If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed."

(unattributed)


The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."

(Albert Eistein)


"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid."

(John Wayne)


If you can't convince them, confuse them."

(Harry S. Truman)


"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull."

(W.C. Fields)


"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."

(Helen Keller)


"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

(Albert Einstein)


"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."

(William Blake)


Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

(Ben Franklin)


"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."

(Don Herold)


"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

(Confucius)


"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.
One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."

(Sandra Carey)


"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."

(Samuel Johnson)


"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."

(Thomas Paine)


"All natural goods perish.
Riches take wings;
fame is a breath;
love is a cheat;
youth and health and pleasure vanish."

(William James, American psychologist)


"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

(Mark Twain)





"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

(Edgar Allen Poe)


"The truth is an ambition which is beyond us."

(Peter Ustinov)


"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance."

(Anne Sexton)


"Beauty without expression is boring."

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)


"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

(Andy Warhol)


"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"

(Ernest Hemingway)


"Beware the fury of a patient man." (John Dryden)





"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be."

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)


"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me."

(George Bernard Shaw)


"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."

(Stella Adler)


"Every artist was first an amateur."

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)


"People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place."

(Irving Kristol)


"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."

(The Dalai Lama)


"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

(unattributed)


"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."

(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)


"There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions." (Pen Densham, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)


"There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers."

(William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)


"Thought can make you; thought can break you."

(Swami Sukhabodhananda)


"Man can alter his life by altering his thinking."

(William James)


"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."

(Benjamin Franklin)


"The time to hesitate is through."

(James Douglas Morrison)


"Less is more."

(Robert Browning)


"A place for everything, everything in its place."

(Benjamin Franklin)


"Don't agonize, organize."

(Florynce Kennedy)


"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

(William James)


"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

(Anais Nin)


"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

(Elbert Hubbard)


"Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker."

(Ogden Nash)


"Nobody can hurt me without my permission." (Mohandas Gandhi)


"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!"

(William Allen White)


"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

(Abraham Lincoln)


"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

(Albert Einstein)


"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."
(Alan Watts)


"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."

(George Bernard Shaw)


"Intense love does not measure, it just gives."

(Mother Teresa)


"If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room."

(Jayne Howard)


"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one."

(Joan Baez)


"You don't cleanse your heart to come to God, you come to God to cleanse your heart." (Stephanie Boven)


"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die."

(Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes)


"If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed."

(unattributed)


"Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy."

(John Dewey)


"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."

(Albert Eistein)


"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid."

(John Wayne)


"If you can't convince them, confuse them."

(Harry S. Truman)


"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull."

(W.C. Fields)


"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other."

(Donald G. Smith)


"Wisdom begins in wonder."

(Socrates)


"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

(Anne Frank )


"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."

(William Goldman, The Princess Bride)


"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."

(Helen Keller)


"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake)


"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."

(G. Randolf)


"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."


(Ben Franklin)


"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."

(Don Herold)


"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

(Confucius)


"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."

(Sandra Carey)


"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you."

(Bert Leston Taylor)


"The White House has always attracted the mentally ill."

(unattributed, a Secret Service Agent explaining the need for security at the White House)


"All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish."

(William James, American psychologist)


"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

(Mark Twain)


"Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse."

(James Dean)


"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

(Edgar Allen Poe)


"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

(Andy Warhol)





"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"

(Ernest Hemingway)


"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

(Thomas Alva Edison)


"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be."

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)


"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me."

(George Bernard Shaw)


"Every artist was first an amateur."

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)


"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."

(The Dalai Lama)


"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

(unattributed)


"There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions."

(Pen Densham, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)


"Thought can make you; thought can break you."

(Swami Sukhabodhananda)


"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."

(Benjamin Franklin)


"Less is more."

(Robert Browning)


"Whatever you are, be a good one."

(Abraham Lincoln)


"Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker."

(Ogden Nash)


"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

(Mohandas Gandhi)


"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

(Abraham Lincoln)


. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

(Eleanor Roosevelt)


"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!"

(William Allen White)


"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

(Abraham Lincoln)


"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

(Albert Einstein)


"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."

(Alan Watts)


"Intense love does not measure, it just gives."

(Mother Teresa)


"If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room."

(Jayne Howard)


"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one."

(Joan Baez)


"You don't cleanse your heart to come to God, you come to God to cleanse your heart."

(Stephanie Boven)




"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die." (Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes)

~Abdul Kassem Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. The 117,000 volumes were carried by 400 camels which were trained to walk in alphabetical order.

~The human body contains about 60,000 miles of blood vessels.

~The deepest hole ever drilled was in the Kola Peninsula (Former USSR) - 7 miles deep.

~The height of the 984-foot-tall Eiffel Tower varies by as much as six inches, depending on the temperature.

~Flamenco dancer Jose Greco took out an insurance policy through Lloyd's of London against his pants splitting during a performance.

~The average flea can leap about 8 inches, more than 100 times its own height.

~The skin of the adult human body weighs approximately 6 pounds.

~The wind speed inside a tornado is 310 mph.

~Mayflies live only one day as an adult. During that day they molt twice, mate, and lay eggs in water.

~In Britain, banks are required to accept any check that's correctly made out, no matter what it's written on. It took the editor of the humor magazine Punch to put this rule to a test: he made out a check to a writer on the side of a cow.

~Crickets hear with their legs.

~Electrical stimulation of certain areas of the brain can revive long-lost memories.

~The great pyramid of King Khafu is so big that 10 football fields could fit onto the ground area covered by the pyramid.

~During the blackout of 1977 when New York City was without power from early evening to late the next afternoon, a record 80 million telephone calls were made.

~During the Roman Empire, the Romans used lead as sweetening agent.

~Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%

~Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man if they had it to do all over again: 50%

~Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70%

~Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for Profiles in Courage.

~Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

~By the age of 60, most people have lost 50% of their taste buds.

~Queen Supayalat of Burma ordered about 100 of her husband's relatives clubbed to death. She did this to ensure the throne to her husband.

~Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

~The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

~In Lehigh, Nebraska it's against the law to sell donut holes.

~We'll never know Albert Einstein's last words. He spoke them in German, and his attending nurse didn't speak the language.

~Napoleon suffered from a fear of cats.

~In many countries, urine was once used as a cleaning detergent.

~Eskimos do use refrigerators, only they use them to keep their food from freezing.

~Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev composed an opera, The Giant, at the age of seven years old.

~The first children's book that was published in the US was called "Spiritual Mild for Boston Babes in wither England Drawn from the Breast of Both Testaments for Their Soul's Nourishment".

~The largest hailstone to fall in the U.S. weighed 1.67 pounds and was 17 1/2 inches in circumference.

~In 1908, Michael Murphy proposed that sprinters on track teams be allowed to start form a crouching position. This was the first time this was permitted.

~Stonewall Jackson died when he was accidentally hit by fire from his own troop.

~Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

~Theaters in Glendale, California can legally show horror films only on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday.

~Sixty cows can produce a ton of milk a day.

~The "lock" in the word "wedlock" comes from the Old English word "lac," which means "action" ("wed" is Old English for "pledge").

~Strawberries, blueberries, and other "berries" are not actually berries according to botanical definition. The botanical group "berry" actually consists of things like cucumbers, oranges, and grapes.

~Tmesis is the act of putting one word inside another, for example, abso-bloody-lutely.

~The opening to the cave in which a bear hibernates is always on the north slope. ~The first national park, Yellowstone, was proclaimed a national park in 1872 however there was no National Park Service until 1916. Until then, the parks were administered by the U.S. Army. When the Park Service was formed they got their first uniforms from the Army, hence the ranger (campaign) hats.

~A lead pencil is good for about 50,000 words.

~At St. Helen's school in Newbury, OH, students are required to learn to ride a unicycle in gym class.

~The headmaster believes that everyone should have one daffy skill.

~The middle initial in Harry S Truman stands for nothing. Or, if you will, the "S" stood for serenity - both grandfathers' names started with S and Harry's parents didn't want any family squabbles.

~It's against the law to plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.

~In 1961, Matisse's Le Bateau hung in New York's Museum of Modern Art for 47 days before someone noticed it was upside down.

~Against Army regulations, George Armstrong Custer often wore a blue velvet uniform.

~At 101, Larry Lewis ran the 100 yard dash in 17.8 seconds, setting a new world record for runners 100 years old or older.

~Not one drop of rainfall has ever been recorded in Calama in the Atacama Desert.

~Karmuela Searle died while playing Tarzan. During the filming of The Son of Tarzan he was mauled to death by an elephant.

~Pope John Paul II wrote a play that premiered on a theater in London.

~Margaret Higgins Sanger, a pioneer of birth control, was one of 11 children.

~The female lion does 90% of the hunting.

~The average human eats 8 spiders in his/her lifetime at night.

~The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

~A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

~Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.

~More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

~Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

~Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

~If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

~Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

~The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

~TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

~If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction

~A snail can sleep for 3 years.

~China has more English speakers than the United States.

~The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

~Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size of 108.7 acres.

~The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.

~You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

~The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

~No president of the United States was an only child.

~Japanese Kamikaze pilots of WWII underwent rigorous training that prepared them for their suicide mission. If they refused to stay in the corps, they were shot as traitors.

~H.C. Andersen died a virgin.

~In 1555, Ivan the Terrible ordered the construction of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. He was so thrilled with the work done by the two architects that he had them blinded so they could never be able to build anything else more beautiful.

~At one time chocolate was considered a temptation of the devil.

~Singer/actress Bette Midler and commodities trader Martin von Hasselberg were married on December 15, 1986 in Las Vegas by an Elvis impersonator, licensed to officiate at weddings.

~If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

~Membership in the rose family (Rosaceae) is not limited to roses. It also includes almonds, apples, apricots, blackberries, cherries, nectarines, peaches, pears, plums, raspberries and strawberries.

~The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

~Rhode Island was the only state to reject the 18th Amendment to the Constitution (you may remember that was the one that prohibited alcohol).

~Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisma Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.

~Ben Franklin didn't want the national symbol to be the eagle, he wanted it to be the turkey.

~Birds don't sing because they are happy, they sing because they are territorial.

~Only one major league player legally ran around the bases backwards after hitting a homerun. It was Jimmy Piersall of the New York Mets.

~The day after Piersall ran around the bases backwards, guess what was rule was added to the rule book? You got it. The rule that players can't run the bases backwards.

~With the end of the commercial use of the Morse Code this year, 1999, no sailor will ever again send an "SOS" signal. Those letters, by the way, stood for nothing. They were chosen because 4 dots, 3 dashes, 4 dots were easy to remember, easy to send, and easy to pick up.

~The distress signal "Mayday" also means nothing - in English, that is. But the French phrase from which it comes, via corruption, m'aidez, is very meaningful: it means "help me."

~The oyster is usually ambisexual. Through its life it will change from male to female and back again numerous times.

~The world record for a photographic memory feat is held by a man in Burma who recited 16,000 pages of Buddhist canonical texts from memory.

~Only male crickets chirp.

~Shirley Temple, child star of the 1930s, almost became a teenager without knowing it. On what she though was her 12th birthday, her mother informed her that she had lied to the Fox studio about her daughter's age when they signed her in 1933. Mom had made Shirley a year "younger" to make her seem even more precocious than she was.

~Crickets don't chirp by rubbing their legs together, they make the noise by rubbing their wings together.

~A 50 pound bag of popcorn kernels costs the theater approximately $7.50. One pound of popcorn makes a whopping 64 cups of popped popcorn.

~The words racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

~The name of the country of Australia comes from Terra Incognita Australis - 'The Unknown Southern Land' - the name European mappers of half a millena ago put to a continent in the south nobody had been to, but that they were convinced existed.

~We can see more shades of the color green that of any other color. This is because it was a necessity in days of yore, when we had to be able to tell edible plants from poisonous ones.

~Blackbird, chief of the Omaha Indian Tribe, was buried perched upon his favorite horse.

~President James Garfield was ambidextrous and could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other simultaneously.

~Lobsters can move up to 25 feet per second underwater.

~Some spiders have eight eyes.

~The monarch butterfly's sense of taste is about 12,000 times more sensitive than a human's.

~In 1932, the town of Tenino, Washington solved the cash flow problem by issuing wooden money.

~7-foot 2-inch tall Peter Mayhew wore elevated boots under his Chewbacca costume, in Star Wars.

~Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

~Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

~On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

~If you play a lower F# on a harmonica you will be sounding a note that has the same frequency as the mating call of the Mediterranean fruit fly. ~If you look closely at a black panther, you can see the spots in its coat - they're really leopards.

~The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

~Squirrels don't dig up nuts they previously buried. They actually track down nuts other squirrels buried. You see, squirrels have a keen sense of smell but a lousy memory. They forget where they buried their own stash, but can sniff out others'.

~You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

~Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

~It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

~If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

~In 1815 French chemist Michael Eugene Chevreul realized the first link between diabetes and sugar metabolism when he discovered that the urine of a diabetic was identical to grape sugar.

~Noah Webster was the first epidemiologist in the United States.

~Rain contains vitamin B12.

~Blind and deaf from an early age, Helen Keller developed a keen sense of smell. It was stated that she could identify her friends simply by their odor.

~Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.

~74 million years ago, the primitive ancestors of man were the first creatures with the ability to grasp an object in their hands.

~"Stewardesses" and "reverberated" are the two longest words (12 letters each) that can be typed using only the left hand.

~Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.

~How most of us spend our lives:

25 years sleeping

14 years at work and at school

12 years watching tv

5 years socializing

3 years reading

3 years eating

2 years bathing and grooming

1 year on the telephone

10 months on the toilet

5 months having sex

10 years miscellaneous activity: housekeeping, shopping, waiting in lines, walking, driving, entertainment, and doing nothing

~In 1986 Danny Heep became the first player in a World Series to be a designated hitter (DH) with the initials "D.H."

~Before Prohibition, Shlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except The Catholic Church.

~Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversiary of Canada's independence.

~The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.

~Scientists have found that chocolate has a chemical that helps counteract depression.



~On May 8, 1902, with less than a minute's warning, the eruption of the Mt. Pelee volcano killed 30,000 people in St. Pierre on the Caribbean island of Martinique. Only two people survived one of history's greatest disasters: a shoemaker on the periphery of the fire and Auguste Ciparis, who was imprisoned underground in a cell in which the only opening faced away from the killer mountain. Although Ciparis was burned, his cell served as a crude storm cellar from which he was later pulled by rescuers. His story was so strange and compelling that afterward he became an attraction with the Barnum and Bailey Circus.

~Richard Nixon was the only President to have his name inscribed on a plaque that was left on the moon.

~In Britain's House of Commons, the government and opposition sides of the House are separated by two red lines. The distance between the lines is two swords' lengths, a reminder of just how seriously the Brits used to take their politics.

~The British once went to war over a sailor's ear. It happened in 1739, when Britain launched hostilities against Spain because a Spanish officer had supposedly sliced off the ear of a ship's captain named Robert Jenkins.

~Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his characters. ~The word "Vader" (as in Star Wars' Darth Vader) means 'father' in Dutch.

~If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.

~The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was Rock the Casbah by the Clash.

~It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breath-alyzer to read 0.

~Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.

~James Buchanan has been the only bachelor to serve as President of the United States.

~The highest scoring word in the English language game of Scrabble is 'Quartzy'. This will score 164 points if played across a red triple-word square with the Z on a light blue double-letter square. It will score 162 points if played across two pink double-word squares with the Q and the Y on those squares.'Bezique' and 'Cazique' are next with a possible 161 points. All three words score an extra 50 points for having seven letters and therefore emptying the letter rack in one go.

~The ashes of the average cremated person weighs nine pounds.

~Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.

~The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F".

~Original name of Star Wars character Luke Skywalker: Luke Skykiller.

~The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

~In the four major US professional sports, (Baseball, Basketball,football, and Hockey), there are only seven teams whose nicknames do not end with an "S:"

Basketball: The Miami Heat, The Utah Jazz,The Orlando Magic. Baseball: The Boston Red Sox, The Chicago White Sox.

Hockey: The Colorado Avalanche, The Tampa Bay Lightning. Football: None.

~Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for Lord of the Flies, and this is where the book's title comes from.

~The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.

~There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts until 1989.

~The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."

~The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.

~When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

~John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

~Considered for the role in Star Wars of Han Solo, before it went to Harrison Ford: Nick Nolte, Christopher Walken, and Burt Reynolds.

~In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.

~When Saigon fell the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.

~The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.

~The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.

~The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.

~You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

~Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

~In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

~A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

~James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars, is not listed in the movie credits.

~The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

~Most extras assembled for a single scene: 300,000, for the two-minute funeral scene in Gandhi.

~Most insects used in a film: 22 million bees in The Swarm.

~Most kisses in a movie: 127, by Lionel Barrymore in Don Juan (1926). The recipients were Mary Astor and Estelle Taylor. This was also the first feature film with a musical soundtrack (but no dialogue).

~Polar bears are left handed.

~The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, taking first place in the animals' taste bud league.

~The flea can jump 350 times its body length, It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. ~The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. ~Some lions mate over 50 times a day. ~Butterflies taste with their feet. ~The producer's second choice to play Princess Leia in Star Wars: Jodie Foster. ~Starfishes haven't got brains. ~There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses. ~The White House was originally gray. After the war of 1812, it was rebuilt and painted. In 1902 it was remodeled and acquired the name "White House." ~It isn't illegal to send a chain letter. It is, however, illegal to threaten lives or solicit money, two things chain letters were noted for. ~Bulletproof glass really isn't. Repetitive attacks will eventually penetrate the glass, but it does offer a little time to get away. ~Honeybees have hair on their eyes. ~Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy. ~In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals. ~The first U.S. coins were made of silver from Martha Washington's silver service. ~Despite their differences, diamonds and coal are made of the same element: carbon. ~Some insects, after having their heads removed, can live up to a year. ~This 1993 film is said to have the longest title in cinema history; Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Zombified, Flesh-eating, Sub-Humanoid Living Dead - Part 4 ~The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs. ~The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out. ~It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland. ~The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump. ~The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly. ~The record for a person being covered by bees - and living to tell about it - is held by bee-keeper Jed Shaner, who had 80 pounds of them on his body. He says that his feat was sponsored by "a police group that helps teens at risk." ~The longest word in Turkish is Cekoslovakyalilastirabilemediklerimizlerdenmisiniz. According to the Guinness Book of Records, it means "are you not of that group of persons that we were said to be unable to Czechoslovakianize?" ~Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States. ~One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet. ~America once issued a 5-cent bill. ~Plymouth was the second choice of the Mayflower settlers, who picked the harbor location only after Captain Miles Standish scouted out and rejected Cape Cod as unfit for habitation. ~You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime. ~Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. ~Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings. ~Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung. ~A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years. ~A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. ~Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. ~166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S. ~1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S. ~123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways. ~85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S. ~56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year. ~The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head. ~In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs. ~There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S. ~Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year. ~The Tokyo World Lanes Bowling Center is the largest bowling establishment in the world. It has 252 lanes and one very tired pinsetter. ~Money man Cornelius Vanderbilt was an insomniac and a believer in the occult. He was not able to fall asleep unless each leg of his bed was planted in a dished filled with salt. He felt this kept out the evil spirits. ~Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. ~You blink over 20,000,000 times a year. ~Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day. ~In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word. ~Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. ~The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice. ~The average person laughs 15 times a day. ~On an average day you swallow almost a quart of mucus. ~Elvis' real hair color was dirty blond - he dyed it black. ~Electrical storms will make a person dream more frequently in sleep. ~Male sperm (Y) swim faster than female sperm (X), which is why more males are conceived than females. Female sperm are slower because they contain heavier genetic material, which slows them down. Once in the womb, females mature faster than males. ~Guinea pigs' teeth never stop growing. That's why they gnaw on wood - to keep their teeth worn down. ~Donald Duck comics were once banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. ~Vladimir Lenin, capitalism's fierce opponent, bought nine Rolls Royces while heading the Soviet Union. ~When George Washington was elected President, there was a king in France, a czarina in Russia, an emperor in China, and a shogun in Japan. The office of President is the only one still around today. ~In Brazil, Christmas is celebrated with fireworks. ~Almost 2 billion cells in your body die every day, and they're constantly replaced by new cells. ~The earth revolves around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour. ~The core of a pineapple contains enzymes that can eat away at your gums. ~More people die from bee stings every year than the number of people who die from shark bites. ~The only three US presidents who ever had to deal with real or impending impeachment - Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton - all have names that are euphemisms for "penis" - johnson, dick and willie. ~If you attempted to count the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second, it would take you around 3,000 years to count them all. ~Coca-Cola was originally green. ~The electric eel, which lives in Brazil and the Guianas, can release a shock of up to 650 volts. The force, which is used to immobilize prey, is strong enough to stun an adult human. ~Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury. ~It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. ~Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collie; 2) Poodle; 3) Golden retriever. Dumbest: Afghan hound ~The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters. ~A grasshopper's blood is white. ~A cricket's chirps can tell you the temperature. Just count the number of chirps it makes in fifteen seconds and add 40. The result is a good approximation for the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. ~The cheetah is the only cat that can't retract its claw. ~Vincent van Gogh didn't cut off his ear - not all of it anyway. He only cut a portion of the lobe. ~Rhinos' horns are not made of bone or ivory. They are made of hairs coated with a resin. ~Eskimos do not and did not live in igloos. Generally an igloo is an emergency shelter. ~Your hair grows faster at night. ~Koalas never drink water. They get fluids from the eucalyptus leaves they eat. ~Cockroaches were on the earth even before the dinosaurs. ~Baby rattlesnakes are born without rattles. ~Elephants eat up to 500 lbs of food a day. ~Early guns weren't much of an improvement over the bow and arrow because they took too long to load and fire. In fact, in the right hands, a bow and arrow were 12 times more efficient than a gun. ~When shoes were created by hands they were "straight" - each shoe could be worn on either foot. Right and left shoes weren't introduced until machines started making shoes. ~Charles Lindbergh, the first person to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic, was only the 67th person overall to do it. ~Lindbergh did not sleep for 24 hours preceding his 33 1/2 hour flight, and kept awake by holding his eyes open with his fingers, slapping himself, and opening the cockpit window. ~Lindbergh flew at a top speed of only about 110 mph. ~Lindbergh carried with him five sandwiches he bought at a drugstore at the last minute. He is reported to have said that he wouldn't need more than five if he made it across the Atlantic, and he wouldn't need more than five if he didn't. ~Lindbergh still holds the record for "ticker tape," 1,750 tons, tossed on him in his parade up New York City's "Canyon of Heroes". ~Your hair grows at a rate of one-hundredth of an inch per day. ~The Bible listed a woman's worth at 30 shekels and a man's worth at 50 shekels. A 1987 issue of MONEY magazine said that women earn 64 cents for every dollar a man earns. After thousands of years, the 3 to 5 ratio survives. ~Elephants can be pregnant for 24 months. ~Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better. ~Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000 ~City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong ~You are taller when you wake up in the morning, but you go back to normal during the day. As well, astronauts are taller in space than they are on earth since they don't have gravity dragging them down. ~The common toad swallows its own skin several times a year. ~The mouths of the President's faces on Mt. Rushmore are 18 feet wide. ~Yo-yos were used as weapons by warriors in the Philippines in the 16th century. ~You only breathe through one nostril at a time - one nostril rests while the other does the work. ~State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska ~Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38% ~Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. ~Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" was used by Francis I, King of France, as bathroom decoration. ~Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33 ~There is no synonym for thesaurus.

~Favorite pizza toppings, from a Domino's survey; United States: pepperoni Japan: squid Australia: eggs Brazil: green peas India: pickled ginger Chile: mussels & clams Bahamas: barbecue chicken France: fresh cream England: tuna & corn

~Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7 ~Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400 ~Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000 ~Americans spend more on dog food every year than they spend on baby food. ~You have over 2 million sweat glands in your skin. ~If you lined up all of the red blood cells in your body, they would reach all of the way around the equator, and then some. ~23 publishers rejected Dr. Seuss's first book. ~Michael Jordan's high school basketball team cut him. ~Richard Hooker's novel, M*A*S*H, was rejected by 21 publishers. ~Henry Ford went broke five times before succeeding. ~The 'catgut' used in violins actually comes from the intestines of sheep or hogs. ~Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. ~Tests show that your nose's memory is more powerful than your eye's memory, which explains why certain scents will trigger memories years after you've smelled them. Your visual memory may decline as much as 50% within a mere 3 months, but your scent memory will lose only 20% in a full year. ~The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. ~Horses don't pull wagons with all four legs. Their real pulling power comes from their hind legs. The main purpose of a horse's front legs is to keep it up. ~If you get hurt in the wild, you should clean your wounds with urine. When it leaves your body, your urine is sterile. You can't say the same for water in the wild. ~The youngest pope was 11 years old. ~Kramer made his "entrance" into Jerry Seinfeld's apartment 284 times. ~Some dinosaurs were as small as hens. ~The average act of intercourse requires 30 strokes of 6 inches or, 180 inches per act. A healthy woman can take it 3 times per week, which is 540 inches, or 45 feet of dick per week which means she accepts 2,340 feet of it per year. Since a mile equals 5,280 feet, we learn that women get approximately half a mile of dick per year. Therefore, ladies, if you're not getting your half mile of dick per year you're getting screwed and don't know it. ~First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer. ~A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. ~In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1. ~How to tie something tightly; Before using your string, dip it in warm water. Then use it as usual. When the string dries, it will shrink and tighten up. ~How to eat yucky-tasting medicine; Eat strong peppermint or suck on an ice cube before taking the medicine. Either one will keep you from tasting the yuckiness. ~The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments. ~Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, was supposedly killed by a tortoise that was dropped on his head by an eagle who mistook the chrome dome for a rock. ~The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is 'uncopyrightable.' ~Hang On Snoopy is the official rock song of Ohio. ~The sorceror's name in 'Fantasia' is Yensid - Disney spelled backwards. ~Brain damage occurs at an internal temperature of 105 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees centigrade). ~The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma in an emergency. ~Cockroaches' favorite food is the glue on envelopes and on the back of postage stamps. ~Kermit the frog is a lefty. ~Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ? ~The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases. ~The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the 'American Pie.' (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.) ~When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not 'playing.' They actually pass out from sheer terror. ~27% of US Internet users use the internet to make travel plans or reservations. ~Aladin was the first Disney movie to show people (Jasmine) with belly buttons. ~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. ~Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar. ~There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada. ~111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 ~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. ~'I am.' is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. ~The term 'the whole 9 yards' came from W.W.II 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 pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got 'the whole 9 yards.' ~It is estimated that we eat a total of 115 pounds of salt and sugar a year. ~In the US, the error rate for doctors prescribing the wrong medicine for their patient's ailment is 12%. ~Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. ~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. ~An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain. ~Some people tear when they salivate. Called "crocodile-tear syndrome," this disorder is usually the result of an injury which caused the crossing of the nerves leading to and from the salivary and lachrymal glands. ~The reason you can't sneeze with your eyes open is that, if you did, your eyes would pop out. The sneeze is similar to a tiny 'explosion' in your body. It creates some force, and puts some pressure on the eyes. The protective action is to shut them. Granted, it may or may not totally pop them out of the sockets, but it's enough of a force that your body automatically tries to protect itself. ~85% of the guys who die while having sex are cheating on their spouse. ~Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots. ~The average woman spends 2.7 years of her life in the bathroom. ~40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet. ~3.9% of all women surveyed say they never wear underwear. ~What common everyday occurrence is composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen and 9% dioxide? A fart. ~A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away. ~101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie. ~12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. (That's one every two hours.) ~315 entries in Webster's Dictionary are misspelled. ~A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints. ~A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can. ~A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. ~A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off. ~A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water. ~According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying. ~Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard. ~Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles. ~About 1/3 of all Americans say they flush the toilet while sitting. ~Hawaii eats more spam than does any other state. ~The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. ~The bible is the most shoplifted book in the united States. ~Roughly 100,000 children take guns to school every day. ~The first 'puck' ever used in a hockey game was a frozen piece of cow dung. ~The Eisenhower interstate 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. ~David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie. ~The average person consumes 3 bottles of ketchup a year. ~The largest object ever found in the Los Angeles sewer system was a motorcycle. ~Most toilets flush in the tone of E flat. ~In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere, either by name or pictures on Jerry's refrigerator. ~The Medicis had a dwarf mansion complete with its own dwarfs. Apparently they thought of it as a working dollhouse. ~When Genghis Khan conquered a territory, he demanded 1,000 virgins a year from it. ~The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. ~The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the 'General Purpose' vehicle, G.P. ~Conception occurs more often in December than in any other month. ~The average life of a tastebud is 10 days. ~February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. ~A survey of 1000 American women and men revealed vacuuming the stairs as their least favorite household chore. ~It is estimated that 9 out of 10 American women wear shoes at least 2 sizes too narrow. ~More people die on Monday mornings from a heart attack than any other time during the week. ~Many scientists say that the most effective sleeping position is the fetus position. Reason? That position allows the body to experience the best blood circulation. ~In a recent survey, Americans were asked what one modern convenience they could not live without. The most common answer... Scotch tape. ~There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C. ~Only 14% of Americans say they've skinny dipped with the opposite sex. ~The world's most common animal is the rat. It can be found everywhere in the world, including Antarctica. ~What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show? It has no theme song. ~Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. This is propinquity. ~The average person will spend approximately one year out of their lifetime searching for lost or misplaced items. ~Most boat owners name their boats. The most popular boat name requested is Obsession. ~More women wash their hands in the bathroom than men. 80% of the women do it, 55% of the men. ~If you're single, there's a 1 in 3 chance you lied the last time you were with your significant other. ~Surveys reveal that most girls first kiss in their back yard.

~A "Bridal Guide" survey reveals that 77% of all newlywed couples have sex in rooms other than the bedroom.

~In a recent survey, Americans revealed that bananas was their favorite smell.

~It takes an average woman 14 minutes to turn off the lights after she gets in bed.

~If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? One thousand.

~The odds are 1 in 2 that your best friend will fantasize about your wife if you are a married man.

~Hockey legend Wayne Gretsky only tucks in the right side of his jersey, for good luck.

~Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.

~Some men are pee pee shy in public. Experts agree that multiplying numbers in their head will help them go.

~John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

~Married men revealed that they change their underwear twice as often as single men.

~A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals causing relaxation. Women seem to like it light and frequent, men like it more strenuous.

~Birth control pills first went on sale to the public in pharmacies on May 9, 1960.



~"Lisa Gheradini" is DaVinci's Mona Lisa.

~Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.

~There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.

~The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

~The average woman consumes 6 lbs of lipstick in her lifetime.

~The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

~Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

~The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

~Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp).

~In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.

~Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

~Inflammable is not the opposite of flammable. Both words mean "easily set on fire." The prefix "in" caused many people to think that inflammable meant "will not burn," a potentially deadly misunderstanding. To prevent this confusion, warning labels switched to the word flammable instead. (Nonflammable, however, means "not burnable.")

~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.

~No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.

~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. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. The Professor was named Roy Hinkley.

~The first toilet ever seen on television was on 'Leave It To Beaver'.

~The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.

~Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

~The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan.'

~In the Great Fire of London in 1666, half of the city was burned down but only 6 people were injured.

~The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.

~Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

~One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers - they saw them as competitors.

~The geographical center of North America is near Rugby, North Dakota.

~The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.

~Hacky-sack was invented in Turkey.

~While trying to improve the telegraph, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

~Smart as he was, Freud couldn't read a railway timetable.

~Isaac Newton dropped out of school because his mother wanted him to be a successful farmer.

~If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long. ~Next time you feel queasy on a boat, it may comfort you to know that fish can also get seasick. Scientists were able to make goldfish seasick by creating artificial waves in a glass bowl.

~There are only three words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum and continuum.

~The "Calabash" pipe, most often associated with Sherlock Holmes, was not used by him until William Gillette (an American) portrayed Holmes onstage. Gillette needed a pipe he could keep in his mouth while he spoke his lines.

~The only word in the English language with all five vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental."

~Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.

~Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.

~The pupil of an octupus' eye is rectangular.

~The shortest French word with all five vowels is "oiseau" meaning bird.

~Camel's milk does not curdle.

~Students at the German University of Trier wanted to test people's willingness to obey orders. They found two phone booths. On one they posted a sign that read "men only." On the other, a sign that said "women only." Almost every one of the women observed and 75% of the men observed obeyed the signs.

~Some sharks have a bad attitude even before they're born. While examining a pregnant sand tiger shark, scientist Stewart Springer was bitten by its embryo.

~"Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.

~The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.

~How to peal an onion without your eyes tearing; get a big bowl and fill it with water, then peal the onion underwater.

~A person from the country of Nauru is called a Nauruan; this is the only palindromic nationality.

~The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate." (MOdulateDEModulate)

~Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated two years after he had died.

~When a whale wants to change its line of sight, it must move its whole body because its eyeballs are fixed.

~The longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is "floccinaucinihilipilification," which means "the act of estimating as worthless."

~In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

~The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.

~Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S.

~The Western-most point in the contiguous United States is Cape Alava, Washington.

~There are only three animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard.

~The first fossilized specimen of Austalopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the palentologists' favorite song, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, by the Beatles.

~Iowa has more independent telephone companies than any other state.

~The first prime number after 1,000,000 is 1,000,003.

~Hamster Useless Facts: Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

~The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.

~Though bigger than any other animal's, an elephant's ears don't help it hear better. Elephants have poor hearing.

~Fish can't blink. They don't have eyelids.

~Penguins don't always live in cold climates. Though they can be found in the South Pole, they can also be found on the equator.

~The word "queueing" is the only English word with five consecutive vowels.

~The first Eagle Scout west of the Mississippi is buried in San Marcos, Texas.

~The two candies most likely to cause tooth decay are dark chocolate and fudge.

~Los Angeles is more than one-third the size of the entire state of Rhode Island.

~The first motion picture copyrighted in the United States showed a man sneezing.

~Men laugh longer, more loudly, and more often than women.

~Roberta Flack wrote "Killing Me Softly" about singer Don McLean.

~The Greek version of the Old Testament is called the Septuagint.

~Spencer Eldon was the name of the naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's album Nevermind.

~All three major 1996 Presidential candidates, Clinton, Dole and Perot, are left-handed.

~The Madagascan Hissing Cockroach is one of the few insects who give birth to live young, rather than laying eggs.

~The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention the name of God.

~Sheriff came from Shire Reeve. During early years of monarchial rule in England, each shire had a reeve who was the law for that shire. When the term was brought to the United States it was shortned to Sheriff.

~An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.

~Dracula is the most filmed story of all time, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is second and Oliver Twist is third.

~The silhouette on the NBA logo is Jerry West

~The silhouette on the Major League Baseball logo is Harmon Killebrew.

~The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

~Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.

~Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.

~Lucifer is latin for "Light Bringer". It is a translation of the Hebrew name for Satan, Halael. Satan means "adversary", devil means "liar".

~A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

~Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distrubution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being.

~Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle.

~The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.

~Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

~In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is10:10.

~The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.

~The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

~Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

~Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

~Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.

~The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.

~Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

~Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

~Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.

~Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were all cousins through one connection or another. (FDR and Eleanor were about five times removed.)

~The Earth-Moon size ratio is the largest in the our solar system, excepting Pluto- Charon.



~Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tetonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.)

~Most snakes have either only one lung, or in some cases, two, with one much reduced in size. This apparently serves to make room for other organs in the highly-elongated bodies of snakes. A twelve-foot anaconda can catch, kill, and eat a six-foot caiman, a close relative of crocodles and alligators. While these snakes are not usually considered to be the *longest* snake in the world, they are the heaviest, exceeding the reticulated python in girth.

~The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

~A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

~Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.

~Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator. The story was probably not changed deliberately by the 17th century translator. The glass slipper is more likely to have arisen from a confusion between the French, "une pantoufle en vair" (a fur slipper) and, "une pantoufle en verre" (a glass slipper.) It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.

~Cinderella is known as Tuhkimo in Finland.

~If you come from Birmingham, you are a Brummie.

~To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

~The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with, e.g. Asia, Europe. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.

~The smallest port in Canada is Port Williams, Nova Scotia. The Canadian province of Newfoundland has its own time zone, which is half an hour behind Atlantic standard time. Cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have a very high probability of having six toes.

~The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".

~Rats like boiled sweets better than they like cheese.

~Big Ben was slowed five minutes one day when a passing group of starlings decided to take a rest on the minute hand of the clock.



~The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.

~Soweto in South Africa ws derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.

~Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.

~The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with theshutter on backwards.

~The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: A rough-coated,dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

~The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

~Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

~Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

~Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

~The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means, "the king is dead".

~The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

~Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.

~All porcupines float in water.

~If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.

~The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

~Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

~The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.

~If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

~The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified.

~The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other wordwith the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

~Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosteronesare the largest anagrams.



~Ben and Jerry's sends the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.

~A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

~If NASA send birds into space, they would soon die because birds need gravity to swallow.

~When the University of Wyoming Cowboys play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's largest city.

~The computer term "byte" is a contraction of "by eight".

~Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean McBricker.

~The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

~Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

~A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

~It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. The frog then uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

~The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

~Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.

~In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we Get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."

~Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

~Underground is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und".

~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 ravens is called a murder. A group of officers is called a mess. A group of larks i scalled an exaltation. A group of owls is called a parliament.

~Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

~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. ~"Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.



~In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

~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. [It floats in gasoline, too.]

~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.

~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.

~Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

~The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."

~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. (if the rider's head is up the horse's ass, the rider died a politician.)

~The idea that "the Boogey Man will get you" comes from the Boogey people, who still inhabit an area of Indonesia. These people still act as pirates today, and attack passing ships.

~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."

~Most people waste 30 minutes every day simply looking for papers lost on their desk tops.

~Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."

~There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

~The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

~The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin", pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom".

As a boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; he was eventually able to add it to Star Trek lore.

~Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

~February 1965 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

~Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book published in every major Dewey Decimal category.

~Columbia University is the second largest land owner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

~Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle," is the phrase inspired by this practice.

~Head injuries occur about every 15 seconds in the United States.

~Back in the mid-80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

~Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

~Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child is 2-6 years of age.

~The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

~Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

~Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

~Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar, in "Midnight Cowboy". Her entire role lasted only 6 minutes.

~Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.

~It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know today as the "honeymoon."

~In some Eskimo tribes, it is customary for mothers to suck the snot from their baby's noses and spit it upon the ground.

~Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.

~To escape the jaws of a crocodile, push your thumbs into its eyes - it will release you instantly. ~Los Angeles' full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Pornciuncula.

~You can't swing on vines in the jungle because they're attached to the ground.

~The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. It was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications.

~In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

~Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

~It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

~There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.

~Thinking thin can work as a diet strategy if you concentrate hard enough. Intense concentration can burn as many calories as physical exercise.

~If you find that your eyes are puffy in the mornings, it could be that your head isn't high enough when you sleep.

If your head is below or at the same level as your heart, the blood is going to pool and cause puffiness. Raise your pillow.

~It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.

~Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words - none of them with the letter E.

~Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.

~A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

~On one square mile of rural land, there are more insects than there are human beings on the entire earth.

~The average American walks 92,375 miles in a lifetime.

~There are no turkeys in Turkey.

~Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.

~The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

~The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used.

~There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year.

~The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'.

~Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that pawed?

~The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

~Mosquitos are most likely to bite you if you have just eaten a banana.

~7% of dog owners throw birthday parties for their pets.

~The flu virus is more than 1,000 years old.

~Major airlines in the United States lose about 200 suitcases a day.

~Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

~Anne Boleyn, the second wife of English King Henry the Eighth, had six fingers on one hand.

~The world's fastest rapper set a Guiness Record when he rapped out 597 syllables in 55.12 seconds. ~Fish can't swim backwards.

~A jellyfish is 95% water.

~A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat. Once you finish your dinner, you can eat the plate too.

~Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints.

~Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is - be it red or neon yellow.

~Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.

~Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight.

~A hard-working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though.

~The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons.

~The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

~A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

~After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again.

~The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.

~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.

~Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

~On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

~In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

~Technically, the United States has only forty-six states. Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Massachusetts are commonwealths.

~The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.

~The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched".

~No word in the English language rhymes with- month, orange, purple, or silver.

~Models twenty years ago weighed 8% less than the average woman, today they weigh 23% less.

~"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "-mt".

~There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, hazardous.

~A cat has 32 muscle in each ear.

~An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

~The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life". ~A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24hours. ~A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

~It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

~The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

~Who's that playinig the piano on the "Mad About You " theme? Paul Reiser himself. ~The average American woman weighs 144 lbs. and wears between a size 12 and 14.



~In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

~There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

~"Stweardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

~A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head before starving to death.

~On average, a human being will have sex more than 3000 times and spend 2 weeks kissing in their life time.

~You blink 20,000 times a day.

~Girls see better than boys in the dark.

~Blue is the favorite color of 80% of americans.

~Rats can't vomit.

~85% of people killed by lightning are male.

~We've eaten 400 billion oreos since they were introduced in 1912.

~Carson Daly was OJ simpsons golf caddie.

~Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

~Snickers is the number one selling candy bar in vending machines.

~Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendants. There are 4.3 births and 1.7 deaths per second in the world.

~A starfish is the only fish/animal life form that has it's stomach on the outside.

~The drink Coca-Cola originally contained the drug cocaine in it.

~1/4 of La is taken up of automobiles.

~Marilyn Monroe wore a size 14.

~Pheumononoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest english word. There are 47 letters.

~The ashes of the average cremated person weighs nine pounds.

~Ancient Eygptians shaved their eyebrows off to mourn the deaths of their cats. Coca-Cola was originaly green

~Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time!

~The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

~All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Ficton" are stuck on 4:20.

~Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly it's State flag the same height as the US flag.

~The odds of finding a pearl in an oyster are 1 in 12,000

~You will use about 68,250 gallons of water brushing your teeth during your lifetime.

~At-90 degrees F, your breath freezes and falls to the floor.

~Some bacteria can produce 16,000,000 offspring in 8 hours.

~It would take about 3,085,209,600,000 rolls of wallpaper to cover the Sahara desert.

~2 out of 5 people live in China or India.

~Right now, about 61,000 people are flying over the USA.

~You will laugh about 5,479 times this year.

~An ounce of platinum can be stretched up to 10,000 feet.

~The worst hiccups lasted 25,355 days.

~Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

~Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

~There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

~The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

~There are more chickens than people in the world.

~Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

~On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

~All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

~Almonds are a member of the peach family.

~Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

~Kermit the Frog is left-handed.

~The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.

~Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

~The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F".

~If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

~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.

~Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his strange characters.

~Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for "Lord of the Flies", and this is where the book's title comes from.

~It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is 'shake' and the 46th word from the last word is 'spear'.

~The word "thousand" is the first number word with an "A" in it. All the words for 1 through 999 don't have any "A's" in them.

~There are 116 ridges on a quarter. There are 115 ridges on a dime.

~v The space shuttle, discovery, travels at speeds up to 17,00 MPH, over 300 times the speed limit.

~If shop mannequins were real women, they'd be too thin to menstruate.

~There are 3 billion women who don't look like super models and only eight who do.

~500,000,000 years ago, Antarcitca was on the equator.

~224,000 copies of Moby Dick weigh as much as the largest animal on earth, the blue whale.

~A snail's pace is 0.00625 miles per hour.

~The average smell weighs 750 nanograms.

~Impluses can travel through your nervous system at 1,177,440 feet per hour.

~Your lungs have a surface area of up to 144,000 square inches.

~The odds that the world will be destroyed by a metorite in the next 50 years is 1 in 1,200,000.

~The average person weighs as much as 1,440,000 postage stamps.

~An average of three people a year die from vending machines falling on them.

~Tweety bird was originally colored pink. He was changed to yellow because Warner Bros. didn't want to have people thinking he was a "naked" bird.

~20 vegetarians can be fed on the land needed to feed 1 person eating a meat based diet.

~A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

~The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

~It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

~Wild turkeys can run at speeds of at least 12 miles an hour, and fly at speeds up to 55 miles per hour.

~Baseball player Jackie Mitchell was the first female to pitch in organized baseball. She played for the Chattanooga

Lookouts in 1931. During an exhibition game she pitched to and struck outboth Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.

~The most commonly used password on computer systems is "password".

~Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

~The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.

~On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

~On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

~Coca-Cola was first sold in bottles in 1894.

~When a piece of glass cracks, the crack travels at over 3000 miles per hour.

~Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.

~The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.

~Queen Victoria's first act after her coronation was to remove her bed from her mother's room.

~Argentineans eat more meat than any other nation in the world--an average of 10 ounces per person per day.

~Mosquitos are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.

~There are more than 200 different types of Barbies.

~The first product to have a UPC bar code on its packaging was Wrigley's gum.

~The United States Department of Agriculture reports that the average American eats eight and a half pounds of pickles a years. Dill pickles are twice as popular as sweet.

~The giraffe's heart is huge; it weighs twenty-five pounds, is two feet long, and has walls up to three inches thick.

~Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone. Whispering and shouting stretch the vocal cords.

~The name 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."

~It was once believed that a vein of blood ran directly from the third finger on the left hand to the heart. The vein was called "vena amoris", or the vein of love, and early writings on matrimonial procedure suggested that it would be appropriate for one's wedding finger to be worn on that special finger.

~You speak about 4,800 words per day.

~The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog.

~We spend about 6 months of our lives waiting at red lights.

~90% of your body is hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen.

~Smokey the Bear's zip code is 20252.

~Camels have 3 eyelids.

~The second full moon in one month is called a blue moon.

~We have about 5,000,000,000 years of sunlight left.

~You breathe 13 pints of air a minute.

~Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes.

~In the 1800's, the United States had 1, 2, 3, and 20 cent coins.

~New York City's Central Park is almost twice as large as Monaco.



~Shirley Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday.

~Slugs have 4 noses.


~The famous novel Robinson Crusoe, a bestseller for 215 years, was turned down by 20 publishers.>




~A magnifying glass can start a fire even on an overcast day.



< ~A king-size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2,000 sq ft house almost 4 inches deep.


~Legos will pass through the digestive tract of a 4-year-old.

~No matter how much Jell-O you put in the pool, you still can't walk on water.

~Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.

~Women blink more than men.

~The longest-running TV show ever is Saturday Night Live.






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