Post by Critter on May 21, 2005 19:47:56 GMT -5
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating
a letter is 'uncopyrightable'
Disney World is bigger than the world's 5 smallest countries.
If the population of China walked past you in a single file,
the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
50% of all people kiss have their first kiss before they
are 14.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China
in 1910.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver or purple
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to
have a full moon.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
There are more than 1000 chemicals in a cup of coffee; of
these, only 26 have been tested, and half of them caused
cancer in rats
If all the Antartic ice melted, the ocean level would rise
nearly 250 feet, and 25 percent of the world's land surface
would be flooded.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in
the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archae-
ologists and found edible.
Abraham Lincoln, who invented a hydraulic device for lifting
ships over shoals, was the only US president ever granted a
patent.
The Beatles held the Top Five spots on the April 4th, 1964
Billboard singles chart. To date, they're the only band that
has ever accomplished that.
Kermit the Frog is left handed and has 11 points on his collar.
Marilyn Monroe never received an Academy Award nomination.
Martial artist film star Jackie Chan's birth name was Kong
Sung Chan.
The word nightmare is the private name of a medieval female
demon that attacked sleeping people. "Mare" means goblin in
Old English.
The planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise,
except Venus, Uranus and Pluto which rotate clockwise.
No one knows why.
Mary Phelps Jacob - received the first patent for a bra in
1914. Her corset - replete with whaleback bones was visible
under a brand new evening gown she purchased. She used hand-
kerchiefs and ribbon to replace the bones. She sold the patent
to Warner Brothers Corset Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut,
for $1,500.
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
Mr. Peanut was created by 13 year-old Antonio Gentile in a
logo contest held by Planters in 1916. He won the grand
prize of $5.00. His drawing of a peanut person with arms
and crossed legs was refined by a professional illustrator
who added the top hat, monocle, white gloves and cane.
An estimated 500 million players from around the globe have
enjoyed the MONOPOLY game since its creation in 1935. The
MONOPOLY game is published in 26 languages and available in
80 countries around the world.
Googal is a number. (1 followed by 100 zeros)
There are 18 different animal shapes in the animal
crackers zoo.
Add up opposing sides of a dice cube and you will always
get 7.
Chewbacca's name is inspired by the name of Chebika City,
in Tunisia, near the place where Tatooine scenes where shot.
Next time you enjoy Star Wars: A New Hope, watch the scene
in which stormtroopers enter the Death Star control room
where C-3PO and R2-D2 are hiding. One of the stormtroopers
accidentally bumps his head on the door.
The average age for first time brides is 24.5 years.
For grooms it's 26.5 years.
The average wedding costs $18,874 with 186 guests.
(thats it, no ones coming to my wedding)
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a
cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
20% of American women think their feet are too big.
1 in ten truck drivers are women.
There are more cars in Southern California than there are
cows in India.
If you've got a normal head of hair, you have about 100,000
hairs on it.
An average person has about 6 quarts of blood running
through their body.
If your sense of smell isn't working, you can't taste an
onion.
The normal adult has 656 muscles. 42% of an average male's
body weight is muscle. 38% of an average female's body weight
is muscle.
The average adult gets 7 1/2 hours of sleep every night.
As we age, we need less sleep- until we hit our 60s, when
the need starts to increase again.
Elvis didn't sing well enough to make his high school
glee club.
Elvis's favorite sandwich: grilled peanut butter and
banana.
There are 50 dogs named Elvis registered in Los Angeles
county.
Over the years, Elvis bought more than 100 Cadillacs and
gave away around 20 of them. The first one he bought was
a pink one for his mom.
The size of your foot is approximately the size of your
forearm.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Cat's urine glows under a black light
(thats just nasty)
The most dangerous animal in the world is the common house-
fly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they
transmit more diseases than any other animal.
Super Glue was invented by accident. The researcher was
trying to make optical coating materials, and would test
their properties by putting them between two prisms and
shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acry-
late, he couldn't get the prisms apart.
All 17 children of Queen Anne died before she did.
Leonardo d Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the
other at the same time.
Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith. He set out
to invent a game to occupy students between the football and
baseball seasons.
It is impossible to lick your elbows.
Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set'
has the most definitions!
Elmer's Glue-All is the best selling glue in America.
German chocolate cake did not originate in Germany. In 1852,
Sam German developed a sweet baking bar for Baker's Chocolate
Co. The product was named in honor of him -- Baker's German's
Sweet Chocolate
Yo-Yos originated in ancient China.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
(careful you don't kill yourself with this stuff)
The turtle has the lowest pulse rate of any animal:
13 beats per minute.
Levi Strauss blue jeans with copper rivets were priced
at $13.50 per dozen in 1874.
The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
Bayer was advertising cough medicine containing heroin
in 1898.
The Brownie box camera, introduced by Eastman Kodak, sold
for $1.00 in 1900. The camera's 6-exposure film sold for
15 cents.
When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet
paper they did not put their name on the product because
of embarrassment.
Laser stands for; Light Amplification by Stimulated Emis-
sion of Radiation.
A pineapple is a berry.
The modern sneaker was introduced in 1917, when the National
India Rubber Company came up with Peds. Or at least, that's
what they wanted to call their new shoe. It turned out that
the name Peds was already registered; so they quickly changed
the name to Keds (with a K for 'kids')
The dog on the Cracker Jack package is named Bingo, after
the folk song that generations of kids were forced to learn
in grade school.
A perfect game in baseball is one in which the same player
pitches the entire game without allowing any player of the
opposing team to reach first base -- by any means.
At Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Florida, on June
26, 1985, organist Wilbur Snapp played "Three Blind Mice"
following a call by umpire Keith O'Connor. The umpire was
not amused, and saw to it that Mr. Snapp was ejected from
the game.
a letter is 'uncopyrightable'
Disney World is bigger than the world's 5 smallest countries.
If the population of China walked past you in a single file,
the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
50% of all people kiss have their first kiss before they
are 14.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China
in 1910.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver or purple
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to
have a full moon.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
There are more than 1000 chemicals in a cup of coffee; of
these, only 26 have been tested, and half of them caused
cancer in rats
If all the Antartic ice melted, the ocean level would rise
nearly 250 feet, and 25 percent of the world's land surface
would be flooded.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in
the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archae-
ologists and found edible.
Abraham Lincoln, who invented a hydraulic device for lifting
ships over shoals, was the only US president ever granted a
patent.
The Beatles held the Top Five spots on the April 4th, 1964
Billboard singles chart. To date, they're the only band that
has ever accomplished that.
Kermit the Frog is left handed and has 11 points on his collar.
Marilyn Monroe never received an Academy Award nomination.
Martial artist film star Jackie Chan's birth name was Kong
Sung Chan.
The word nightmare is the private name of a medieval female
demon that attacked sleeping people. "Mare" means goblin in
Old English.
The planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise,
except Venus, Uranus and Pluto which rotate clockwise.
No one knows why.
Mary Phelps Jacob - received the first patent for a bra in
1914. Her corset - replete with whaleback bones was visible
under a brand new evening gown she purchased. She used hand-
kerchiefs and ribbon to replace the bones. She sold the patent
to Warner Brothers Corset Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut,
for $1,500.
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
Mr. Peanut was created by 13 year-old Antonio Gentile in a
logo contest held by Planters in 1916. He won the grand
prize of $5.00. His drawing of a peanut person with arms
and crossed legs was refined by a professional illustrator
who added the top hat, monocle, white gloves and cane.
An estimated 500 million players from around the globe have
enjoyed the MONOPOLY game since its creation in 1935. The
MONOPOLY game is published in 26 languages and available in
80 countries around the world.
Googal is a number. (1 followed by 100 zeros)
There are 18 different animal shapes in the animal
crackers zoo.
Add up opposing sides of a dice cube and you will always
get 7.
Chewbacca's name is inspired by the name of Chebika City,
in Tunisia, near the place where Tatooine scenes where shot.
Next time you enjoy Star Wars: A New Hope, watch the scene
in which stormtroopers enter the Death Star control room
where C-3PO and R2-D2 are hiding. One of the stormtroopers
accidentally bumps his head on the door.
The average age for first time brides is 24.5 years.
For grooms it's 26.5 years.
The average wedding costs $18,874 with 186 guests.
(thats it, no ones coming to my wedding)
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a
cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
20% of American women think their feet are too big.
1 in ten truck drivers are women.
There are more cars in Southern California than there are
cows in India.
If you've got a normal head of hair, you have about 100,000
hairs on it.
An average person has about 6 quarts of blood running
through their body.
If your sense of smell isn't working, you can't taste an
onion.
The normal adult has 656 muscles. 42% of an average male's
body weight is muscle. 38% of an average female's body weight
is muscle.
The average adult gets 7 1/2 hours of sleep every night.
As we age, we need less sleep- until we hit our 60s, when
the need starts to increase again.
Elvis didn't sing well enough to make his high school
glee club.
Elvis's favorite sandwich: grilled peanut butter and
banana.
There are 50 dogs named Elvis registered in Los Angeles
county.
Over the years, Elvis bought more than 100 Cadillacs and
gave away around 20 of them. The first one he bought was
a pink one for his mom.
The size of your foot is approximately the size of your
forearm.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Cat's urine glows under a black light
(thats just nasty)
The most dangerous animal in the world is the common house-
fly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they
transmit more diseases than any other animal.
Super Glue was invented by accident. The researcher was
trying to make optical coating materials, and would test
their properties by putting them between two prisms and
shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acry-
late, he couldn't get the prisms apart.
All 17 children of Queen Anne died before she did.
Leonardo d Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the
other at the same time.
Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith. He set out
to invent a game to occupy students between the football and
baseball seasons.
It is impossible to lick your elbows.
Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set'
has the most definitions!
Elmer's Glue-All is the best selling glue in America.
German chocolate cake did not originate in Germany. In 1852,
Sam German developed a sweet baking bar for Baker's Chocolate
Co. The product was named in honor of him -- Baker's German's
Sweet Chocolate
Yo-Yos originated in ancient China.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
(careful you don't kill yourself with this stuff)
The turtle has the lowest pulse rate of any animal:
13 beats per minute.
Levi Strauss blue jeans with copper rivets were priced
at $13.50 per dozen in 1874.
The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
Bayer was advertising cough medicine containing heroin
in 1898.
The Brownie box camera, introduced by Eastman Kodak, sold
for $1.00 in 1900. The camera's 6-exposure film sold for
15 cents.
When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet
paper they did not put their name on the product because
of embarrassment.
Laser stands for; Light Amplification by Stimulated Emis-
sion of Radiation.
A pineapple is a berry.
The modern sneaker was introduced in 1917, when the National
India Rubber Company came up with Peds. Or at least, that's
what they wanted to call their new shoe. It turned out that
the name Peds was already registered; so they quickly changed
the name to Keds (with a K for 'kids')
The dog on the Cracker Jack package is named Bingo, after
the folk song that generations of kids were forced to learn
in grade school.
A perfect game in baseball is one in which the same player
pitches the entire game without allowing any player of the
opposing team to reach first base -- by any means.
At Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Florida, on June
26, 1985, organist Wilbur Snapp played "Three Blind Mice"
following a call by umpire Keith O'Connor. The umpire was
not amused, and saw to it that Mr. Snapp was ejected from
the game.
