Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients
of dynamite.
the national anthem of Greece has
158 verses. No one in Greece has
memorized all 158 verses.
There are 293 ways to make change
for a dollar.
The average person's left hand does
56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can
blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people
in the world.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant
is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in
the English language is "screeched."
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the
flag flying over the Parliament
Building is an American
flag.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp
Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes
with month, orange, silver, or purple
"Dreamt" is the only English word
that ends in the letters "mt."
All 50 states are listed across the
top of the Lincoln Memorial on back
of the $5 bill
Almonds are a member of the peach
family.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies'
room during a dance.
Maine is the only state whose name
is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the
English language which end in "-dous":
tremendous, horrendous,
stupendous, and hazardous.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its
brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just
striped fur.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24
hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three
seconds.
A dime has 118 ridges around the
edge.
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.
It's impossible to sneeze with your
eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)
The giant squid has the largest eyes
in the world.
In England, the Speaker of the House
is not allowed to speak.
The microwave was invented after
a researcher walked by a radar tube
and a chocolate bar melted
in his pocket.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was
named Thelma Pickles.
The average person falls asleep in
seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation
golf ball.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word
that is typed with only the left hand.
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."
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.
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses
were secured on bed frames by ropes,
when you pulled on the
ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed
firmer to sleep on. That's
where the phrase, "good night, sleep
tight" came from.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came
from WW II fighter pilots in the
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."
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.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation
used in the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle,
GP
The first toilet ever seen on television
was on "Leave It To Beaver."
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the
NFL with enough leather for a year's
supply of footballs.
Thirty-five percent of the people
who use personal ads for dating are
already married.
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.
BE CAREFUL!