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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 pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
There is actually a word for a 64th note -- a hemidemisemiquaver.
No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same number with the digits in reverse order? 21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
Leon Trotsky, the Russian Communist, was assassinated in Mexico City with an ice-axe. It went through his skull and he actually struggled with the assassin with the ice-ax stuck in his brain. The assassin had a hard time pulling it out for another blow.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988 g/cc.
Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6 g/cc.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, the plural form.
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts until 1989.
Barbie's full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.
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.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired."
In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.'
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