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wanna know 320 useless facts tht u dont know and probably will never use!!? 1. Samuel Clemens (Account succeed Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen. During his mortal he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen. 3. The "57" on the Heinz ketchup guts represents the number of pickle types the company once had. 4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the fantastic's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person. 5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without soften than camels. 6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't comprehend itself. 7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim. 8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th drub of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945. 9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) thesis. 10. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. 11. A raisin dropped in a plate glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. 12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son. 13. Triskaidekaphobia means horror of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky loads. 14. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. 15. All the chemicals in a human main part combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately). 16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would forgo on his testicles. 17. The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Diagram. 18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903. 19. A "2 by 4" is exceptionally 1 1/2 by 3 1/2. 20. It's estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's people is drunk. 21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great majesty from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar 22. 40% of McDonald's profits on from the sales of Happy Meals. 23. Every person, including identical twins, has a single eye and tongue print along with their finger print. 24. The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino. 25. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 glossary were misspelled. 26. The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on rearward. 27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood separately). 28. Camel's have three eyelids. 29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the err parents every day. 30. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son. 31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are kin and sister. 32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and excitable system. 33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps. 34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in damp and unfolded to reveal a map for escape. 35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses. 36. Most lipstick contains fish scales. 37. Orcas (iceman whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to refute. 38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce". 39. Slugs have four noses. 40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as drug. 41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no foul), and Mazaru (Speak no evil). 42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows. 43. If you sneeze too earnestly, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes stretch out by force, they can pop out. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMBASS) 44. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and portentous. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more attainable to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing. 45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by winning out an olive from First Class salads. 46. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States. 47. Because metal was wanting, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. 48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun's winning poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax". 49. There are 318,979,564,000 viable combinations of the first four moves in Chess. 50. Upper and lower case letters are named "more northerly" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in discrete letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lessen case letters. 51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. 52. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the evil of the Lincoln Memorial. 53. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks. 54. Half of all bank robberies take part of the country on a Friday. 55. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it. 56. The international a call dialing code for Antarctica is 672. 57. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. 58. The typically raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour. 59. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to revel Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had equal bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the eccentric. 60. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. 61. Bruce Lee was so unshakeable that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves. 62. The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar). 63. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA". 64. IBM's saw is "Think". Apple later made their motto "About different". 65. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was truly a Captain Kirk mask painted white, due to low budget. 66. The original name for butterfly was flutterby. 67. The adjectival phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't bash your wife with anything wider than your thumb. 68. One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is. 69. The Olympic was the sister deliver of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service. 70. When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived. 71. In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes. 72. Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald's. 73. The first produce Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known speculator on the market was Victrola, which Motorola got their name from. 74. In the US, about 127 million adults are overweight or rotund; worldwide, 750 million are overweight and 300 million more are obese. In the US, 15% of children in understandable school are overweight; 20% are worldwide. 75. In Disney's Fantasia, the Witch-doctor to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled bashful). 76. During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, "Red Vineyard at Arles". 77. By raising your legs slowly and deceitful on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. 78. One in ten people live on an island. 79. It takes more calories to eat a what for of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. 80. 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%. 81. Charlie Chaplin once won third first-rate in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. 82. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. 83. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elemental, my dear Watson", Humphrey Bogart NEVER said "Diminish it again, Sam" in Casablanca, and they NEVER said "Beam me up, Scotty" on Brilliant Trek. 84. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. 85. Sharon Stone was the first Celebrated Search spokes model. 86. The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your guv'nor. 87. More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia). 88. The gum on Israeli postage is certified kosher. 89. There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas. 90. The Guinness Order of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. 91. Thirty-five percent of the people who use offensive ads for dating are already married. 92. Back in the mid to late '80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Exit Simulator. 93. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S. 94. Every US president has worn glasses (nothing but not always in public). 95. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. 96. Jim Henson first coined the consultation "Muppet". It is a combination of "marionette" and "sucker." 97. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words "North" and "South). 98. The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the establishment's first ads in 1896. 99. About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of human being activity. 100. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being skilled to remember the word you want. 101. About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV encouraging. 102. A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome". 103. A snail can saw wood for 3 years. 104. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide. 105. China has more English speakers than the Synergetic States. 106. Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland to enunciate gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko rather than. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols, who visits homes on New Year's Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a cut is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes. 107. One in every 9000 people is an albino. 108. The electric moderate was invented by a dentist. 109. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. 110. Unimaginative, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury. 111. Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on. 112. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten. 113. Our eyes are always the same estimate from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing. 114. In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman representation or reference somewhere. 115. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches lanky and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. 116. Rats multiply so post-haste that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants. 117. Wearing headphones for impartial an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 118. Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to corpulence. 119. About 55% of all movies are rated R. 120. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually. 121. Arabic numerals are not Non-Standard real Arabic; they were created in India. 122. Title 14, Section 1211 of the Lex scripta 'statute law' of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any phone with extraterrestrials or their vehicles. 123. The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. 124. The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is fated. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring apart toilet facilities for blacks and whites. 125. There is actually no danger in swimming principled after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable. 126. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. 127. More than 50% of the people in the overjoyed have never made or received a telephone call. 128. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 129. There are about 2 chickens for every forgiving in the world. 130. The word "maverick" came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to name brand his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick. 131. Two-thirds of the set's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. 132. For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the living soul died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died of battle wounds; if all four of the horse's legs are on the dregs, the person died of natural causes. 133. On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American taper off is flying over the Parliament Building. 134. An American urologist bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000. 135. No parley in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. 136. Dreamt is the only English consultation that ends in the letters "MT". 137. $283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy. 138. Almonds are members of the peach m. 139. Rats and horses can't vomit. 140. The penguin is the only bird that can't fly but can swim. 141. There are generally 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day. 142. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies stay during a dance. 143. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. 144. There are only four words in the English patois that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 145. Americans on normally eat 18 acres of pizza every day. 146. Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie. 147. "101 Dalmatians" and "Peter Pan" are the only Disney animations in which both of a expected's parents are present and don't die during the movie. 148. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a pernicious spider. 149. Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure. 150. Ancient Egyptian priests would catch at every hair from their bodies. 151. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. 152. Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed by people ancient 13-21. 153. An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. 154. All polar bears are left-handed. 155. The catfish has over 27000 soup buds (more than any other animal) 156. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to expiry. 157. Butterflies taste with their feet. 158. Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump. 159. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its acumen. 160. Starfish have no brains. 161. 11% of the world is left-handed. 162. John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to extraordinary the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later. 163. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 164. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. 165. The subject anthem of Greece has 158 verses. 166. There are 293 ways to make modulation for a dollar. 167. A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray. 168. A fecund goldfish is called a twit. 169. Lizards can self-amputate their tails for safeguard. It grows back after a few months. 170. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". It can be skimpy to 3.63% of its size: L.A. 171. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 172. A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour. 173. Tigers have striated skin, not just striped fur. 174. A "jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of a newer. 175. The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first state. 176. The youngest pope ever was 11 years old. 177. The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer. 178. One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from choky. 94% are recaptured. 179. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. 180. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs melted into it. 181. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted fraction. 182. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. 183. Elwood Edwards did the vehicle for the AOL sound files (i.e. "You've got Mail!"). He is heard about 27 million times a day. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as "Q-Tie." 184. A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears chaste. 185. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis waist name was spelled Aron, in honor of his brother. 186. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as wish as both parties are registered blood donors. 187. Donkeys kill more people than unbroken crashes. 188. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "eliminate." 189. There are a million ants for every person on Earth. 190. If you keep a goldfish in the dark stay, it will eventually turn white. 191. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 192. The name Jeep comes from "GP", the army initialism for General Purpose. 193. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left side handed people do. 194. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. 195. Cats' urine glows under a foul light. 196. A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest rumour and gossip. 197. The first US Patent was for manufacturing potassium carbonate (used in glass and gunpowder). It was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1970. 198. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other exhibit day items. 199. In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated. 200. 25% of a human's bones are in its feet. 201. David Sarnoff received the Titanic's hardship signal and saved hundreds of passengers. He later became the head of the first radio network, the Governmental Broadcasting Company (NBC). 202. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. 203. Michael Jordan makes more specie from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined. 204. One of the reasons marijuana is illegitimate today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as rivalry). 205. "Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". 206. Only one in two billion people will dynamic to be 116 or older. 207. If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough perceptive energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to spawn the energy of an atomic bomb. 208. Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S. 209. The human marrow creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet. 210. A jellyfish is 95% shower. 211. Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by accidental deaths (799 in 2001). 212. Banging your chairwoman against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. 213. Elephants only sleep for two hours each day. 214. On generally people fear spiders more than they do death. 215. The strongest muscle in the human association is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle) 216. In golf, a 'Bo Derek' is a lots of 10. 217. In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined. 218. In most watch advertisements the without surcease displayed on a watch is 10:10. 219. If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a strange type of apple. 220. Al Capone's business card said he was a tolerant of furniture dealer. 221. The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross. 222. There are about 450 types of cheese in the have. 240 come from France. 223. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers plays football at cosy the stadium becomes Nebraska's third largest city. 224. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Suiting someone to a T were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Lifetime". 225. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. 226. In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50. 227. Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers. 228. Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They drop by drop merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5. 229. There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal. 230. In a scanning of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand. 231. A dime has 118 ridges around the rim. A quarter has 119. 232. On an American one-dollar bill there is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the capitals-right-hand "1" and a spider hidden in the front upper-in a beeline-hand corner. 233. Judy Scheindlin ("Judge Judy") has a $25,000,000 emolument, while Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a $190,100 remuneration. 234. The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing chifferobe and saw A-N and O-Z. 235. Andorra, a tiny country on the border between France and Spain, has the longest customary lifespan: 83.49 years. 236. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pinch. 237. Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister. 238. In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day. 239. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. 240. You can example a cow upstairs but not downstairs. 241. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 242. "The sixth offended sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest vernacular twister in English. 243. There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330. 244. The Toltecs (a 7th century clan) used wooden swords so they wouldn't kill their enemies. 245. "Inoperable" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor. 246. The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined. 247. There have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Grahm Bell over rights to the trade mark of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history. 248. Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the age). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world). 249. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters. 250. In 10 minutes, a typhoon releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. 251. At the level of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves. 252. Julius Caesar's autograph is value about $2,000,000. 253. The tool doctors wrap around a patient's arm to measure blood crushing is called a sphygmomanometer. 254. People say "bless you" when you sneeze because your compassion stops for a millisecond. 255. US gold coins used to say "In Gold We Delegate". 256. In "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks. 257. A shrimp's will is in its head. 258. In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion. 259. The bestselling books of all era are The Bible (6billion+), Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (900million+), and The God Almighty of the Rings (100million+) 260. Pearls melt in vinegar. 261. "Lassie" was played by a order of male dogs; the main one was named Pal. 262. In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to subsistence in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself. 263. Nepal is the only mountains that doesn't have a rectangular flag. Switzerland is the only country with a square ensign. 264. Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible. 265. Tiger Woods' physical first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname "Tiger" in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier his pater had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War. 266. Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to distinguish alcohol. 267. Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the Whitish House. 268. God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther. 269. The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census. 270. Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the area. 271. There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment. 272. Prince Charles and Prince William never junkets on the same airplane in case there is a crash. 273. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. The most common name (of any fount) in the world is Mohammed. 274. The surface of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice. 275. For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen. 276. Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a sanitarium. 277. Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day. 278. Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to suggestive use of equipment designed only for right handed people. 279. The "if" and "then" parts of conditional ("if P then Q") averral are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q). 280. Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speaking. 281. If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode. 282. Only female mosquitoes sting. 283. The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world's letters. 284. Most household dust is made of dead skin cells. 285. One in about eight million people has progeria, a condition that causes people to grow faster than they age. 286. The male seahorse carries the eggs until they dream up instead of the female. 287. The "countdown" (counting down from 10 for an affair such as New-Years Day) was first used in a 1929 German silent film called "Die Frau Im Monde" (The Popsy in the Moon). 288. Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system. 289. There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul's armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas. 290. A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a settlings squirrel. 291. Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died. 292. Mercury is the only planet whose circle is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the operation of their orbit. 293. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Reputedly, Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives." 294. The Pamper Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the baseball jock. 295. Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open. 296. The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per human being). 297. There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today. 298. While many treaties have been signed at or nearby Paris, France (including many after WWI and WWII), nine are actually known as the "Concordat of Paris": Seven Years' War (1763), American Revolutionist War (1783), French-Swede War (1810), France vs Sixth Coalition (1814), Conflict of Waterloo (1815), Crimean War (1856), Spanish-American War (1898), unity of Bessarabia and Romania (1920), establishment of European Coal and Steel Community (1951). 299. Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's oldest son) was in Washington DC during his forebear's assassination as well as during President Garfield's assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated. 300. The borough of Venice stands on about 120 small islands. 301. The past-tense of the English dialogue "dare" is "durst". 302. Don Mac Lean's flap "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who all died in the same unbroken crash. 303. The drummer for ZZ Top (the only one without a beard) is named Frank Beard. 304. Hummingbirds can't traipse. 305. When movie directors do not want their names to be seen in the credits, they use the pseudonym "Allen Smithee" in place of. It has been used over 50 times, starting with "Death of a Gunfighter" (1969). 306. Four diverse people played the part of Darth Vader (body, face, voice, and breathing). 307. Pamela Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada on the centennial anniversary of Canada's self-confidence (7/1/1967). 308. There is about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout history. 309. William Shatner is credited for being the first bodily on TV to say "hell" as well as to have the first inter-racial kiss (with Nichelle Nichols), both in episodes of Major Trek. 310. While the US government's supply of gold is kept at Fort Knox, its provision of silver is kept at the Military Academy at West Point, NY. 311. Alexander Graham Bell's old lady and mother were both deaf. 312. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside peevish, the reverse of how a record works. 313. In the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, if a man was not married by age 30, he would not be allowed to suffrage or watch athletic events involving nude young men. 314. Attila the Hun (invader of Europe; 406-453), Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), Pope Leo VII (936-939), Pope John VII (955-964), Pope Leo VIII (963-965), Pope John XIII (965-72), Pope Paul II (1467-1471), The Creator Palmerston (British Prime Minister, 1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (US Sinfulness President, 1908-1979), and John Entwistle (The Who's bassist, 1944-2002) all died while having sex. 315. Humans and dolphins are the only animals known to have sex for happiness. 316. Pac-Man, Namco's 1979 arcade game, was originally called "Puck Man". The name was changed when they realized that vandals could indubitably scratch out part of the letter "P". 317. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616. 318. There are about 7.7 million millionaires in the great (more than 1/1000th of the population). 319. The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina. She gave origin to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother's Day), at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days. 320. The "mid-point finger" gesture originates back to 423 BC in Aristophanes play "The Clouds". |
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anybody intrested check this out? 1. Samuel Clemens (Splodge Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen. During his memoirs he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen. 3. The "57" on the Heinz ketchup booze represents the number of pickle types the company once had. 4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the life's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person. 5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without weaken than camels. 6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't weigh itself. 7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim. 8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th rout of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945. 9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) letter-paper. 10. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. 11. A raisin dropped in a microscope spectacles of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. 12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son. 13. Triskaidekaphobia means be afraid of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky numbers. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number. 14. A female ferret will die if it goes into eagerness and cannot find a mate. 15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold individually). 16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles. 17. The ZIP in "ZIP encipher" means Zoning Improvement Plan. 18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose dynamic ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903. 19. A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2. 20. It's estimated that at any one however around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk. 21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a grand king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar 22. 40% of McDonald's profits blow in from the sales of Happy Meals. 23. Every person, including identical twins, has a unrivalled eye and tongue print along with their finger print. 24. The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino. 25. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 thesaurus were misspelled. 26. The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on regressively. 27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood individually). 28. Camel's have three eyelids. 29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the injudicious parents every day. 30. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the person of Abraham Lincoln's son. 31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are fellow-clansman and sister. 32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and fidgety system. 33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps. 34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in pee and unfolded to reveal a map for escape. 35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses. 36. Most lipstick contains fish scales. 37. Orcas (Bluebeard whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to lose one's cool. 38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce". 39. Slugs have four noses. 40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medication. 41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no unpropitious), and Mazaru (Speak no evil). 42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows. 43. If you sneeze too dark, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes unsealed by force, they can pop out. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMBASS) 44. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and urgent. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more achievable to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing. 45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by irresistible out an olive from First Class salads. 46. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States. 47. Because metal was scant, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. 48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun's inviting poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax". 49. There are 318,979,564,000 plausible combinations of the first four moves in Chess. 50. Upper and lower case letters are named "upland" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in distinct letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the humble case letters. 51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. 52. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the bad of the Lincoln Memorial. 53. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks. 54. Half of all bank robberies take point on a Friday. 55. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it. 56. The international a buzz dialing code for Antarctica is 672. 57. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. 58. The typical raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour. 59. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to step out Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had same bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the archetype. 60. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. 61. Bruce Lee was so dissolutely that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves. 62. The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar). 63. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA". 64. IBM's byword is "Think". Apple later made their motto "Think about different". 65. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was in truth a Captain Kirk mask painted white, due to low budget. 66. The original name for butterfly was flutterby. 67. The adverbial phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't run your wife with anything wider than your thumb. 68. One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is. 69. The Olympic was the sister despatch of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service. 70. When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived. 71. In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes. 72. Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald's. 73. The first by-product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known trouper on the market was Victrola, which Motorola got their name from. 74. In the US, about 127 million adults are overweight or corpulent; worldwide, 750 million are overweight and 300 million more are obese. In the US, 15% of children in fundamental school are overweight; 20% are worldwide. 75. In Disney's Fantasia, the Witch to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled retrogressive). 76. During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, "Red Vineyard at Arles". 77. By raising your legs slowly and treacherous on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. 78. One in ten people live on an island. 79. It takes more calories to eat a share of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. 80. 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%. 81. Charlie Chaplin once won third superior in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. 82. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. 83. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Primary, my dear Watson", Humphrey Bogart NEVER said "Tease it again, Sam" in Casablanca, and they NEVER said "Beam me up, Scotty" on VIP Trek. 84. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. 85. Sharon Stone was the first Falling star Search spokes model. 86. The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your brain. 87. More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia). 88. The paste on Israeli postage is certified kosher. 89. There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas. 90. The Guinness Engage of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. 91. Thirty-five percent of the people who use particular ads for dating are already married. 92. Back in the mid to late '80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Exaltation of larks Simulator. 93. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S. 94. Every US president has worn glasses (unprejudiced not always in public). 95. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. 96. Jim Henson first coined the discussion "Muppet". It is a combination of "marionette" and "finger-puppet." 97. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words "North" and "South). 98. The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the society's first ads in 1896. 99. About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of accommodating activity. 100. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being adept to remember the word you want. 101. About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV favourable. 102. A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome". 103. A snail can zizz for 3 years. 104. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide. 105. China has more English speakers than the Cooperative States. 106. Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland to discharge gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko as contrasted with. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols, who visits homes on New Year's Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a lamination is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes. 107. One in every 9000 people is an albino. 108. The electric bench was invented by a dentist. 109. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. 110. Quotidian, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury. 111. Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on. 112. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten. 113. Our eyes are always the same square footage from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing. 114. In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman perfect or reference somewhere. 115. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches high and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. 116. Rats multiply so on the double that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants. 117. Wearing headphones for unprejudiced an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 118. Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to portliness. 119. About 55% of all movies are rated R. 120. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually. 121. Arabic numerals are not in actuality Arabic; they were created in India. 122. Title 14, Section 1211 of the Unwritten law' of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any friend with extraterrestrials or their vehicles. 123. The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. 124. The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is compulsory. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring isolated toilet facilities for blacks and whites. 125. There is actually no danger in swimming amend after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable. 126. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. 127. More than 50% of the people in the planet have never made or received a telephone call. 128. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 129. There are about 2 chickens for every gentle in the world. 130. The word "maverick" came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to identify his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick. 131. Two-thirds of the have's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. 132. For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the individual died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died of battle wounds; if all four of the horse's legs are on the set, the person died of natural causes. 133. On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American die is flying over the Parliament Building. 134. An American urologist bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000. 135. No dialogue in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. 136. Dreamt is the only English parley that ends in the letters "MT". 137. $283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy. 138. Almonds are members of the peach family. 139. Rats and horses can't belch forth. 140. The penguin is the only bird that can't fly but can swim. 141. There are approximately 100 million acts of voluptuous intercourse each day. 142. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance. 143. Maine is the only land whose name is just one syllable. 144. There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and dickey. 145. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. 146. Every time you lick a sort you consume 1/10 of a calorie. 147. "101 Dalmatians" and "Peter Pan" are the only Disney animations in which both of a label's parents are present and don't die during the movie. 148. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a deleterious spider. 149. Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure. 150. Ancient Egyptian priests would catch at every hair from their bodies. 151. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. 152. Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed by people superannuated 13-21. 153. An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. 154. All polar bears are left-handed. 155. The catfish has over 27000 soup buds (more than any other animal) 156. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to ruin. 157. Butterflies taste with their feet. 158. Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump. 159. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its sagacity. 160. Starfish have no brains. 161. 11% of the world is left-handed. 162. John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to warning the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later. 163. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 164. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. 165. The inhabitant anthem of Greece has 158 verses. 166. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. 167. A vigorous (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray. 168. A pregnant goldfish is called a reproach. 169. Lizards can self-amputate their tails for protection. It grows back after a few months. 170. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". It can be revealing to 3.63% of its size: L.A. 171. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 172. A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour. 173. Tigers have lined skin, not just striped fur. 174. A "jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of a deficient. 175. The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first classify. 176. The youngest pope ever was 11 years old. 177. The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer. 178. One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from incarcerate. 94% are recaptured. 179. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. 180. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs melted into it. 181. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted tresses. 182. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. 183. Elwood Edwards did the forum for the AOL sound files (i.e. "You've got Mail!"). He is heard about 27 million times a day. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as "Q-Join." 184. A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears dead white. 185. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis mid name was spelled Aron, in honor of his brother. 186. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as hunger as both parties are registered blood donors. 187. Donkeys kill more people than even crashes. 188. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "clunk." 189. There are a million ants for every person on Earth. 190. If you keep a goldfish in the dark stay, it will eventually turn white. 191. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 192. The name Jeep comes from "GP", the army contraction for General Purpose. 193. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than fist handed people do. 194. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. 195. Cats' urine glows under a ebon light. 196. A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest dirt and gossip. 197. The first US Patent was for manufacturing potassium carbonate (used in glass and gunpowder). It was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1970. 198. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other award day items. 199. In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated. 200. 25% of a human's bones are in its feet. 201. David Sarnoff received the Titanic's calamity signal and saved hundreds of passengers. He later became the head of the first radio network, the Chauvinistic Broadcasting Company (NBC). 202. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. 203. Michael Jordan makes more kale from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined. 204. One of the reasons marijuana is forbidden today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as struggle). 205. "Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". 206. Only one in two billion people will subsist to be 116 or older. 207. If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough firm energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to beget the energy of an atomic bomb. 208. Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S. 209. The human magnanimity creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet. 210. A jellyfish is 95% splash. 211. Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by accidental deaths (799 in 2001). 212. Banging your run against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. 213. Elephants only sleep for two hours each day. 214. On generally people fear spiders more than they do death. 215. The strongest muscle in the human bulk is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle) 216. In golf, a 'Bo Derek' is a succeed of 10. 217. In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined. 218. In most watch advertisements the stretch displayed on a watch is 10:10. 219. If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a bizarre type of apple. 220. Al Capone's business card said he was a Euphemistic pre-owned furniture dealer. 221. The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross. 222. There are about 450 types of cheese in the earth. 240 come from France. 223. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers plays football at stamping-ground the stadium becomes Nebraska's third largest city. 224. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Circle were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Moving spirit". 225. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. 226. In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50. 227. Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers. 228. Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They gradually fuse and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5. 229. There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal. 230. In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to absorbed its head in the sand. 231. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119. 232. On an American one-dollar bill there is a elfin owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the upper-right-hand "1" and a spider concealed in the front upper-right-hand corner. 233. Judy Scheindlin ("Connoisseur Judy") has a $25,000,000 salary, while Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a $190,100 earnings. 234. The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing chest-on-chest and saw A-N and O-Z. 235. Andorra, a tiny country on the border between France and Spain, has the longest ordinary lifespan: 83.49 years. 236. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his reticule. 237. Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister. 238. In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day. 239. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. 240. You can get under way a cow upstairs but not downstairs. 241. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 242. "The sixth far-out sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest speech twister in English. 243. There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330. 244. The Toltecs (a 7th century people) used wooden swords so they wouldn't kill their enemies. 245. "Fake" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor. 246. The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined. 247. There have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Grahm Bell over rights to the conspicuous of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history. 248. Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the fabulous). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world). 249. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters. 250. In 10 minutes, a storm releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. 251. At the zenith of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves. 252. Julius Caesar's autograph is merit about $2,000,000. 253. The tool doctors wrap around a patient's arm to measure blood influence is called a sphygmomanometer. 254. People say "bless you" when you sneeze because your guts stops for a millisecond. 255. US gold coins used to say "In Gold We Bank". 256. In "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks. 257. A shrimp's sincerity is in its head. 258. In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion. 259. The bestselling books of all unceasingly a once are The Bible (6billion+), Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (900million+), and The Christ of the Rings (100million+) 260. Pearls melt in vinegar. 261. "Lassie" was played by a collect of male dogs; the main one was named Pal. 262. In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to sentience in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself. 263. Nepal is the only sticks that doesn't have a rectangular flag. Switzerland is the only country with a square sag. 264. Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible. 265. Tiger Woods' actual first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname "Tiger" in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier his pater had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War. 266. Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to pass alcohol. 267. Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the Pallid House. 268. God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther. 269. The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census. 270. Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the in every respect. 271. There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment. 272. Prince Charles and Prince William never wanderings on the same airplane in case there is a crash. 273. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. The most common name (of any kidney) in the world is Mohammed. 274. The surface of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice. 275. For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen. 276. Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a sickbay. 277. Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day. 278. Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to impolite use of equipment designed only for right handed people. 279. The "if" and "then" parts of conditional ("if P then Q") communiqu are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q). 280. Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in spiel. 281. If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode. 282. Only female mosquitoes piece. 283. The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world's correspondence. 284. Most household dust is made of dead skin cells. 285. One in about eight million people has progeria, a ailment that causes people to grow faster than they age. 286. The male seahorse carries the eggs until they incubate instead of the female. 287. The "countdown" (counting down from 10 for an outcome such as New-Years Day) was first used in a 1929 German silent film called "Die Frau Im Monde" (The Irish colleen in the Moon). 288. Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system. 289. There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul's armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas. 290. A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a dregs squirrel. 291. Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died. 292. Mercury is the only planet whose circle is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the regulation of their orbit. 293. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Rumour has it, Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives." 294. The Toddler Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the baseball actress. 295. Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open. 296. The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per in the flesh). 297. There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today. 298. While many treaties have been signed at or nearly Paris, France (including many after WWI and WWII), nine are actually known as the "Concordat of Paris": Seven Years' War (1763), American Anarchist War (1783), French-Swede War (1810), France vs Sixth Coalition (1814), Affray of Waterloo (1815), Crimean War (1856), Spanish-American War (1898), mixture of Bessarabia and Romania (1920), establishment of European Coal and Steel Community (1951). 299. Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's oldest son) was in Washington DC during his forebear's assassination as well as during President Garfield's assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated. 300. The megalopolis of Venice stands on about 120 small islands. 301. The past-tense of the English discussion "dare" is "durst". 302. Don Mac Lean's at a bargain price a fuss "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who all died in the same airliner crash. 303. The drummer for ZZ Top (the only one without a beard) is named Frank Beard. 304. Hummingbirds can't walk. 305. When talking picture directors do not want their names to be seen in the credits, they use the pseudonym "Allen Smithee" in preference to. It has been used over 50 times, starting with "Death of a Gunfighter" (1969). 306. Four assorted people played the part of Darth Vader (body, face, voice, and breathing). 307. Pamela Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada on the centennial anniversary of Canada's self-reliance (7/1/1967). 308. There is about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout history. 309. William Shatner is credited for being the first yourselves on TV to say "hell" as well as to have the first inter-racial kiss (with Nichelle Nichols), both in episodes of Play Trek. 310. While the US government's supply of gold is kept at Fort Knox, its purvey of silver is kept at the Military Academy at West Point, NY. 311. Alexander Graham Bell's partner and mother were both deaf. 312. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside sensitive, the reverse of how a record works. 313. In the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, if a man was not married by age 30, he would not be allowed to suffrage or watch athletic events involving nude young men. 314. Attila the Hun (invader of Europe; 406-453), Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), Pope Leo VII (936-939), Pope John VII (955-964), Pope Leo VIII (963-965), Pope John XIII (965-72), Pope Paul II (1467-1471), Christ Palmerston (British Prime Minister, 1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (US Sinfulness President, 1908-1979), and John Entwistle (The Who's bassist, 1944-2002) all died while having sex. 315. Humans and dolphins are the only animals known to have sex for wish. 316. Pac-Man, Namco's 1979 arcade game, was originally called "Puck Man". The name was changed when they realized that vandals could obviously scratch out part of the letter "P". 317. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616. 318. There are about 7.7 million millionaires in the far-out (more than 1/1000th of the population). 319. The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina. She gave parturition to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother's Day), at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days. 320. The "stomach finger" gesture originates back to 423 BC in Aristophanes play "The Clouds". |
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Would you like to check out these 320 useless facts? 1. Samuel Clemens (Brand Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen. During his duration he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen. 3. The "57" on the Heinz ketchup pluck represents the number of pickle types the company once had. 4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the rapturous's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person. 5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without bear scrutiny than camels. 6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't reflect on itself. 7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim. 8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th worst of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945. 9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) certificate. 10. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. 11. A raisin dropped in a sun-glasses of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. 12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son. 13. Triskaidekaphobia means stand in awe of of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky bevy. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number. 14. A female ferret will die if it goes into stimulation and cannot find a mate. 15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold individually). 16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles. 17. The ZIP in "ZIP regulations" means Zoning Improvement Plan. 18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose acting ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903. 19. A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2. 20. It's estimated that at any one heyday around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk. 21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a proficient king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar 22. 40% of McDonald's profits total from the sales of Happy Meals. 23. Every person, including identical twins, has a unrivalled eye and tongue print along with their finger print. 24. The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino. 25. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 thesaurus were misspelled. 26. The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on counter-clockwise. 27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood each to each). 28. Camel's have three eyelids. 29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the improper parents every day. 30. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the sustenance of Abraham Lincoln's son. 31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are fellow-citizen and sister. 32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and worked up system. 33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps. 34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in soften and unfolded to reveal a map for escape. 35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses. 36. Most lipstick contains fish scales. 37. Orcas (bee's knees whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to go through. 38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce". 39. Slugs have four noses. 40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as cure-all. 41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no deleterious), and Mazaru (Speak no evil). 42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows. 43. If you sneeze too intensely, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes unobstruct by force, they can pop out. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMBASS) 44. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and vital. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more viable to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing. 45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by winsome out an olive from First Class salads. 46. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States. 47. Because metal was insufficient, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. 48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun's attractive poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax". 49. There are 318,979,564,000 practicable combinations of the first four moves in Chess. 50. Upper and lower case letters are named "more elevated" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in living soul letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the bring case letters. 51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. 52. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the shoddy of the Lincoln Memorial. 53. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks. 54. Half of all bank robberies take hit pay dirt on a Friday. 55. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it. 56. The international buzz dialing code for Antarctica is 672. 57. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. 58. The normally raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour. 59. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had equal bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the primary. 60. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. 61. Bruce Lee was so unshakably that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves. 62. The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar). 63. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA". 64. IBM's gnome is "Think". Apple later made their motto "Believe different". 65. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was in fact a Captain Kirk mask painted white, due to low budget. 66. The original name for butterfly was flutterby. 67. The saying "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't take it on the lam your wife with anything wider than your thumb. 68. One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is. 69. The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of mending. 70. When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived. 71. In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes. 72. Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald's. 73. The first yield Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known actress on the market was Victrola, which Motorola got their name from. 74. In the US, about 127 million adults are overweight or gross; worldwide, 750 million are overweight and 300 million more are obese. In the US, 15% of children in straightforward school are overweight; 20% are worldwide. 75. In Disney's Fantasia, the Magus to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled behindhand). 76. During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, "Red Vineyard at Arles". 77. By raising your legs slowly and hypocritical on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. 78. One in ten people live on an island. 79. It takes more calories to eat a type of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. 80. 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%. 81. Charlie Chaplin once won third plunder in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. 82. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. 83. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Clear, my dear Watson", Humphrey Bogart NEVER said "Pleasure it again, Sam" in Casablanca, and they NEVER said "Beam me up, Scotty" on Pre-eminent Trek. 84. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. 85. Sharon Stone was the first Matchless Search spokes model. 86. The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your crescendo. 87. More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia). 88. The paste on Israeli postage is certified kosher. 89. There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas. 90. The Guinness Words of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. 91. Thirty-five percent of the people who use familiar ads for dating are already married. 92. Back in the mid to late '80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Send off Simulator. 93. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S. 94. Every US president has worn glasses (by the skin of one's teeth not always in public). 95. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. 96. Jim Henson first coined the dialogue "Muppet". It is a combination of "marionette" and "yes-man front man." 97. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words "North" and "South). 98. The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the actors's first ads in 1896. 99. About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of magnanimous activity. 100. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being masterful to remember the word you want. 101. About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV matter-of-fact. 102. A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome". 103. A snail can slumber for 3 years. 104. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide. 105. China has more English speakers than the Amalgamated States. 106. Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland to give gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko rather than. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols, who visits homes on New Year's Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a cover is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes. 107. One in every 9000 people is an albino. 108. The electric seat was invented by a dentist. 109. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. 110. Routine, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury. 111. Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on. 112. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten. 113. Our eyes are always the same vastness from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing. 114. In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman image or reference somewhere. 115. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches long-legged and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. 116. Rats multiply so speedily that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants. 117. Wearing headphones for valid an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 118. Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to weight. 119. About 55% of all movies are rated R. 120. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually. 121. Arabic numerals are not remarkably Arabic; they were created in India. 122. Title 14, Section 1211 of the Encipher of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any get in touch with with extraterrestrials or their vehicles. 123. The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. 124. The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is high-priority. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring shut toilet facilities for blacks and whites. 125. There is actually no danger in swimming honestly after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable. 126. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. 127. More than 50% of the people in the the public have never made or received a telephone call. 128. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 129. There are about 2 chickens for every kindly in the world. 130. The word "maverick" came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to trade mark his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick. 131. Two-thirds of the domain's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. 132. For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the personally died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died of battle wounds; if all four of the horse's legs are on the dirt, the person died of natural causes. 133. On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American weaken is flying over the Parliament Building. 134. An American urologist bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000. 135. No little talk in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. 136. Dreamt is the only English dialogue that ends in the letters "MT". 137. $283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy. 138. Almonds are members of the peach relatives. 139. Rats and horses can't vomit. 140. The penguin is the only bird that can't fly but can swim. 141. There are close to 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day. 142. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies allowance during a dance. 143. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. 144. There are only four words in the English argot that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 145. Americans on usual eat 18 acres of pizza every day. 146. Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie. 147. "101 Dalmatians" and "Peter Pan" are the only Disney animations in which both of a personage's parents are present and don't die during the movie. 148. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a foul spider. 149. Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure. 150. Ancient Egyptian priests would moxie every hair from their bodies. 151. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. 152. Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed by people venerable 13-21. 153. An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. 154. All polar bears are left-handed. 155. The catfish has over 27000 soup buds (more than any other animal) 156. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to expiry. 157. Butterflies taste with their feet. 158. Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump. 159. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its thought. 160. Starfish have no brains. 161. 11% of the world is left-handed. 162. John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to engage the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later. 163. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 164. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. 165. The citizen anthem of Greece has 158 verses. 166. There are 293 ways to make variation for a dollar. 167. A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray. 168. A in the pudding club goldfish is called a twit. 169. Lizards can self-amputate their tails for aegis. It grows back after a few months. 170. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". It can be revealing to 3.63% of its size: L.A. 171. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 172. A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour. 173. Tigers have striated skin, not just striped fur. 174. A "jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of a other. 175. The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first organize. 176. The youngest pope ever was 11 years old. 177. The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer. 178. One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from coop. 94% are recaptured. 179. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. 180. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs melted into it. 181. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted tresses. 182. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. 183. Elwood Edwards did the express for the AOL sound files (i.e. "You've got Mail!"). He is heard about 27 million times a day. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as "Q-Bond." 184. A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears light-skinned. 185. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis centre name was spelled Aron, in honor of his brother. 186. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as hanker as both parties are registered blood donors. 187. Donkeys kill more people than even crashes. 188. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "execute." 189. There are a million ants for every person on Earth. 190. If you keep a goldfish in the dark cubicle quarters, it will eventually turn white. 191. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 192. The name Jeep comes from "GP", the army acronym for General Purpose. 193. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do. 194. There are two probity cards for every person in the United States. 195. Cats' urine glows under a disgraceful light. 196. A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest talk and gossip. 197. The first US Patent was for manufacturing potassium carbonate (used in glass and gunpowder). It was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1970. 198. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other remaining day items. 199. In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated. 200. 25% of a human's bones are in its feet. 201. David Sarnoff received the Titanic's grief signal and saved hundreds of passengers. He later became the head of the first radio network, the State Broadcasting Company (NBC). 202. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. 203. Michael Jordan makes more specie from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined. 204. One of the reasons marijuana is prohibited today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as match). 205. "Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". 206. Only one in two billion people will red-hot to be 116 or older. 207. If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough logical energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to produce the energy of an atomic bomb. 208. Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S. 209. The human guts creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet. 210. A jellyfish is 95% wastefully. 211. Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by accidental deaths (799 in 2001). 212. Banging your peak against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. 213. Elephants only sleep for two hours each day. 214. On mediocre people fear spiders more than they do death. 215. The strongest muscle in the human centre is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle) 216. In golf, a 'Bo Derek' is a grounds of 10. 217. In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined. 218. In most watch advertisements the period displayed on a watch is 10:10. 219. If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a divergent type of apple. 220. Al Capone's business card said he was a familiar furniture dealer. 221. The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross. 222. There are about 450 types of cheese in the circle. 240 come from France. 223. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers plays football at make clear the stadium becomes Nebraska's third largest city. 224. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame In someone's bailiwick were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Moving spirit". 225. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. 226. In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50. 227. Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers. 228. Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They scale merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5. 229. There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal. 230. In a inspection of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand. 231. A dime has 118 ridges around the urgency. A quarter has 119. 232. On an American one-dollar bill there is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the characters upper class-right-hand "1" and a spider hidden in the front upper-propriety-hand corner. 233. Judy Scheindlin ("Judge Judy") has a $25,000,000 pay, while Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a $190,100 remuneration. 234. The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing chiffonier and saw A-N and O-Z. 235. Andorra, a tiny country on the border between France and Spain, has the longest average lifespan: 83.49 years. 236. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his rip off. 237. Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister. 238. In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day. 239. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. 240. You can place a cow upstairs but not downstairs. 241. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 242. "The sixth unbalanced sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest speech twister in English. 243. There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330. 244. The Toltecs (a 7th century class) used wooden swords so they wouldn't kill their enemies. 245. "Fake" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor. 246. The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined. 247. There have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Grahm Bell over rights to the transparent of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history. 248. Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the exceptional). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world). 249. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters. 250. In 10 minutes, a storm releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. 251. At the elevation of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves. 252. Julius Caesar's autograph is value about $2,000,000. 253. The tool doctors wrap around a patient's arm to measure blood influence is called a sphygmomanometer. 254. People say "bless you" when you sneeze because your generosity stops for a millisecond. 255. US gold coins used to say "In Gold We Trusteeship". 256. In "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks. 257. A shrimp's middle is in its head. 258. In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion. 259. The bestselling books of all term are The Bible (6billion+), Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (900million+), and The Act big of the Rings (100million+) 260. Pearls melt in vinegar. 261. "Lassie" was played by a classify of male dogs; the main one was named Pal. 262. In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to soul in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself. 263. Nepal is the only state that doesn't have a rectangular flag. Switzerland is the only country with a square ebb. 264. Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible. 265. Tiger Woods' official first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname "Tiger" in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier his pop had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War. 266. Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to coin alcohol. 267. Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the Ashen House. 268. God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther. 269. The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census. 270. Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the cosmos. 271. There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment. 272. Prince Charles and Prince William never tourism on the same airplane in case there is a crash. 273. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. The most common name (of any keyboard) in the world is Mohammed. 274. The surface of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice. 275. For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen. 276. Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a convalescent home. 277. Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day. 278. Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to false use of equipment designed only for right handed people. 279. The "if" and "then" parts of conditional ("if P then Q") expression are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q). 280. Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in line. 281. If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode. 282. Only female mosquitoes morsel. 283. The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world's letters. 284. Most household dust is made of dead skin cells. 285. One in about eight million people has progeria, a malady that causes people to grow faster than they age. 286. The male seahorse carries the eggs until they originate instead of the female. 287. The "countdown" (counting down from 10 for an anyhow such as New-Years Day) was first used in a 1929 German silent film called "Die Frau Im Monde" (The Girlfriend in the Moon). 288. Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system. 289. There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul's armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas. 290. A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a excuse sediment squirrel. 291. Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died. 292. Mercury is the only planet whose path is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the instructing of their orbit. 293. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Reputedly, Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives." 294. The Coddle Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the baseball Thespian. 295. Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open. 296. The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per individual). 297. There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today. 298. While many treaties have been signed at or approaching Paris, France (including many after WWI and WWII), nine are actually known as the "Concordat of Paris": Seven Years' War (1763), American Insurgent War (1783), French-Swede War (1810), France vs Sixth Coalition (1814), Donnybrook of Waterloo (1815), Crimean War (1856), Spanish-American War (1898), amalgamation of Bessarabia and Romania (1920), establishment of European Coal and Steel Community (1951). 299. Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's oldest son) was in Washington DC during his old boy's assassination as well as during President Garfield's assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated. 300. The borough of Venice stands on about 120 small islands. 301. The past-tense of the English discussion "dare" is "durst". 302. Don Mac Lean's number cheaply "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who all died in the same horizontal crash. 303. The drummer for ZZ Top (the only one without a beard) is named Frank Beard. 304. Hummingbirds can't lane. 305. When movie directors do not want their names to be seen in the credits, they use the pseudonym "Allen Smithee" in place of. It has been used over 50 times, starting with "Death of a Gunfighter" (1969). 306. Four remarkable people played the part of Darth Vader (body, face, voice, and breathing). 307. Pamela Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada on the centennial anniversary of Canada's freedom (7/1/1967). 308. There is about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout history. 309. William Shatner is credited for being the first bodily on TV to say "hell" as well as to have the first inter-racial kiss (with Nichelle Nichols), both in episodes of Play Trek. 310. While the US government's supply of gold is kept at Fort Knox, its up of silver is kept at the Military Academy at West Point, NY. 311. Alexander Graham Bell's spouse and mother were both deaf. 312. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside irritable, the reverse of how a record works. 313. In the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, if a man was not married by age 30, he would not be allowed to attest to or watch athletic events involving nude young men. 314. Attila the Hun (invader of Europe; 406-453), Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), Pope Leo VII (936-939), Pope John VII (955-964), Pope Leo VIII (963-965), Pope John XIII (965-72), Pope Paul II (1467-1471), Baron God Palmerston (British Prime Minister, 1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (US Evil-doing President, 1908-1979), and John Entwistle (The Who's bassist, 1944-2002) all died while having sex. 315. Humans and dolphins are the only animals known to have sex for entertainment. 316. Pac-Man, Namco's 1979 arcade game, was originally called "Puck Man". The name was changed when they realized that vandals could conclusively scratch out part of the letter "P". 317. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616. 318. There are about 7.7 million millionaires in the circle (more than 1/1000th of the population). 319. The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina. She gave family to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother's Day), at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days. 320. The "mean finger" gesture originates back to 423 BC in Aristophanes play "The Clouds". Have fun reading it. Some provocative stuff on there. I didn't type them up myself either. Just copied and pasted them. No offense infatuated. Just skim through it, it ain't rocket science. Yes there is a one thousand limit on characters but i don't heedfulness. And i am not bored for a change. Triple Ho took hostage of my avatar. It's speculator than the male face though. Triple Ho took hostage of my avatar. It's raise than the male face though. |
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320 useless facts that you most likely didn't know and most likely won't need to know ♥? 1. Samuel Clemens (Label Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen. During his biography he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen. 3. The "57" on the Heinz ketchup spirits represents the number of pickle types the company once had. 4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the sphere's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person. 5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without fizzy water be illogical than camels. 6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't grasp itself. 7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim. 8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th parquet of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945. 9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) deed. 10. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. 11. A raisin dropped in a drinking-glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. 12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son. 13. Triskaidekaphobia means veneration of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky mob. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number. 14. A female ferret will die if it goes into ignite and cannot find a mate. 15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold alone). 16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles. 17. The ZIP in "ZIP structure" means Zoning Improvement Plan. 18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose efficacious ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903. 19. A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2. 20. It's estimated that at any one term around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk. 21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a marvy king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar 22. 40% of McDonald's profits fingers on from the sales of Happy Meals. 23. Every person, including identical twins, has a corresponding exactly eye and tongue print along with their finger print. 24. The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino. 25. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 thesaurus were misspelled. 26. The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on regressively. 27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood each to each). 28. Camel's have three eyelids. 29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the inexpedient parents every day. 30. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the spirit of Abraham Lincoln's son. 31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are chum and sister. 32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and jittery system. 33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps. 34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in cut and unfolded to reveal a map for escape. 35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses. 36. Most lipstick contains fish scales. 37. Orcas (assassin whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to give the lie to. 38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce". 39. Slugs have four noses. 40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as panacea. 41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no inauspicious), and Mazaru (Speak no evil). 42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows. 43. If you sneeze too urgently, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes establish by force, they can pop out. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMBASS) 44. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and grave. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more realistic to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing. 45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by engaging out an olive from First Class salads. 46. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States. 47. Because metal was far between, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. 48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun's arresting poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax". 49. There are 318,979,564,000 viable combinations of the first four moves in Chess. 50. Upper and lower case letters are named "later" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in single letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the mark down case letters. 51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. 52. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the basis of the Lincoln Memorial. 53. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks. 54. Half of all bank robberies take post on a Friday. 55. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it. 56. The international give someone a tinkle dialing code for Antarctica is 672. 57. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. 58. The regular raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour. 59. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to greasepaint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had indistinguishable bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the nonconformist. 60. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. 61. Bruce Lee was so securely that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves. 62. The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar). 63. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA". 64. IBM's saw is "Think". Apple later made their motto "About different". 65. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was indeed a Captain Kirk mask painted white, due to low budget. 66. The original name for butterfly was flutterby. 67. The clich "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't blend your wife with anything wider than your thumb. 68. One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is. 69. The Olympic was the sister steamer of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service. 70. When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived. 71. In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes. 72. Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald's. 73. The first yield Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known jock on the market was Victrola, which Motorola got their name from. 74. In the US, about 127 million adults are overweight or fleshy; worldwide, 750 million are overweight and 300 million more are obese. In the US, 15% of children in simple school are overweight; 20% are worldwide. 75. In Disney's Fantasia, the Witch to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled unwilling). 76. During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, "Red Vineyard at Arles". 77. By raising your legs slowly and untruthfulness on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. 78. One in ten people live on an island. 79. It takes more calories to eat a interest of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. 80. 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%. 81. Charlie Chaplin once won third superior in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. 82. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. 83. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Rudimentary, my dear Watson", Humphrey Bogart NEVER said "Put on it again, Sam" in Casablanca, and they NEVER said "Beam me up, Scotty" on Lady Trek. 84. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. 85. Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes dummy. 86. The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head. 87. More people are apprehensive of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia). 88. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher. 89. There is a 1 in 4 unforeseen that New York will have a white Christmas. 90. The Guinness Book of Records holds the archives for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. 91. Thirty-five percent of the people who use intimate ads for dating are already married. 92. Back in the mid to late '80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Away Simulator. 93. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S. 94. Every US president has worn glasses (condign not always in public). 95. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. 96. Jim Henson first coined the parley "Muppet". It is a combination of "marionette" and "tool." 97. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words "North" and "South). 98. The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the comrades's first ads in 1896. 99. About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of android activity. 100. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being skilful to remember the word you want. 101. About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV forceful. 102. A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome". 103. A snail can beauty sleep for 3 years. 104. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide. 105. China has more English speakers than the Coalesced States. 106. Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland to carry gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko as contrasted with. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols, who visits homes on New Year's Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a plating is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes. 107. One in every 9000 people is an albino. 108. The electric chairperson was invented by a dentist. 109. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. 110. Dull, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury. 111. Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on. 112. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten. 113. Our eyes are always the same gauge from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing. 114. In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman representation or reference somewhere. 115. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches giant and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. 116. Rats multiply so hurriedly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants. 117. Wearing headphones for objective an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 118. Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to portliness. 119. About 55% of all movies are rated R. 120. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually. 121. Arabic numerals are not absolutely Arabic; they were created in India. 122. Title 14, Section 1211 of the Jurisprudence of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any communication with extraterrestrials or their vehicles. 123. The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. 124. The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is inevitable. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring codify toilet facilities for blacks and whites. 125. There is actually no danger in swimming set to rights after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable. 126. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. 127. More than 50% of the people in the area have never made or received a telephone call. 128. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 129. There are about 2 chickens for every individual in the world. 130. The word "maverick" came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to kind his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick. 131. Two-thirds of the in all respects's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. 132. For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in Donnybrook; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died of battle wounds; if all four of the horse's legs are on the instruct, the person died of natural causes. 133. On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American diminish is flying over the Parliament Building. 134. An American urologist bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000. 135. No chat in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. 136. Dreamt is the only English consultation that ends in the letters "MT". 137. $283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy. 138. Almonds are members of the peach kinfolk. 139. Rats and horses can't vomit. 140. The penguin is the only bird that can't fly but can swim. 141. There are roughly 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day. 142. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies flat during a dance. 143. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. 144. There are only four words in the English idiolect that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 145. Americans on common eat 18 acres of pizza every day. 146. Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie. 147. "101 Dalmatians" and "Peter Pan" are the only Disney animations in which both of a quality's parents are present and don't die during the movie. 148. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. 149. Hedenophobic means awe of pleasure. 150. Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies. 151. A crocodile cannot charge its tongue out. 152. Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed by people elderly 13-21. 153. An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. 154. All polar bears are left-handed. 155. The catfish has over 27000 soup buds (more than any other animal) 156. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to finish. 157. Butterflies taste with their feet. 158. Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump. 159. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its wisdom. 160. Starfish have no brains. 161. 11% of the world is left-handed. 162. John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to banner the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later. 163. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 164. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. 165. The public anthem of Greece has 158 verses. 166. There are 293 ways to make variation for a dollar. 167. A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray. 168. A meaningful goldfish is called a twit. 169. Lizards can self-amputate their tails for safe keeping. It grows back after a few months. 170. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". It can be skimpy to 3.63% of its size: L.A. 171. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 172. A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour. 173. Tigers have lined skin, not just striped fur. 174. A "jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second. 175. The mean child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first cut it. 176. The youngest pope ever was 11 years old. 177. The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer. 178. One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from choky. 94% are recaptured. 179. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. 180. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs melted into it. 181. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted plaits. 182. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. 183. Elwood Edwards did the expression for the AOL sound files (i.e. "You've got Mail!"). He is heard about 27 million times a day. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as "Q-Concatenate." 184. A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears ashen. 185. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis centre name was spelled Aron, in honor of his brother. 186. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as extended as both parties are registered blood donors. 187. Donkeys kill more people than glide crashes. 188. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "destroy." 189. There are a million ants for every person on Earth. 190. If you keep a goldfish in the dark abide, it will eventually turn white. 191. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 192. The name Jeep comes from "GP", the army acronym for General Purpose. 193. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than radical handed people do. 194. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. 195. Cats' urine glows under a outrageous light. 196. A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest hearsay and gossip. 197. The first US Patent was for manufacturing potassium carbonate (used in glass and gunpowder). It was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1970. 198. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other contribution day items. 199. In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated. 200. 25% of a human's bones are in its feet. 201. David Sarnoff received the Titanic's torment signal and saved hundreds of passengers. He later became the head of the first radio network, the Nationwide Broadcasting Company (NBC). 202. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. 203. Michael Jordan makes more well-to-do from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined. 204. One of the reasons marijuana is illicit today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as struggle). 205. "Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". 206. Only one in two billion people will fare to be 116 or older. 207. If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough peaceful energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to fabricate the energy of an atomic bomb. 208. Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S. 209. The human spirit creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet. 210. A jellyfish is 95% tap water. 211. Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by accidental deaths (799 in 2001). 212. Banging your conk against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. 213. Elephants only sleep for two hours each day. 214. On undistinguished people fear spiders more than they do death. 215. The strongest muscle in the human essentials is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle) 216. In golf, a 'Bo Derek' is a line of 10. 217. In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined. 218. In most watch advertisements the at intervals displayed on a watch is 10:10. 219. If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a multifarious type of apple. 220. Al Capone's business card said he was a acclimatized furniture dealer. 221. The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross. 222. There are about 450 types of cheese in the give birth to. 240 come from France. 223. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers plays football at refuge the stadium becomes Nebraska's third largest city. 224. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Lane were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Survival". 225. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. 226. In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50. 227. Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers. 228. Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They piecemeal merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5. 229. There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal. 230. In a size up of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand. 231. A dime has 118 ridges around the lead. A quarter has 119. 232. On an American one-dollar bill there is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the more elevated-right-hand "1" and a spider hidden in the front upper-licit-hand corner. 233. Judy Scheindlin ("Judge Judy") has a $25,000,000 compensation, while Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a $190,100 compensation. 234. The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing chest of drawers and saw A-N and O-Z. 235. Andorra, a tiny country on the border between France and Spain, has the longest customarily lifespan: 83.49 years. 236. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his filch. 237. Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister. 238. In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day. 239. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. 240. You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. 241. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 242. "The sixth sickly sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest parlance twister in English. 243. There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330. 244. The Toltecs (a 7th century gens) used wooden swords so they wouldn't kill their enemies. 245. "Worthless" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor. 246. The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined. 247. There have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Grahm Bell over rights to the tangible of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history. 248. Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the fraternity). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world). 249. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters. 250. In 10 minutes, a blow releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. 251. At the summit of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves. 252. Julius Caesar's autograph is benefit about $2,000,000. 253. The tool doctors wrap around a patient's arm to measure blood to is called a sphygmomanometer. 254. People say "bless you" when you sneeze because your mettle stops for a millisecond. 255. US gold coins used to say "In Gold We Upon". 256. In "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks. 257. A shrimp's consideration is in its head. 258. In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion. 259. The bestselling books of all in the good old days b simultaneously are The Bible (6billion+), Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (900million+), and The Nobleman of the Rings (100million+) 260. Pearls melt in vinegar. 261. "Lassie" was played by a corps of male dogs; the main one was named Pal. 262. In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to person in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself. 263. Nepal is the only motherland that doesn't have a rectangular flag. Switzerland is the only country with a square droop. 264. Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible. 265. Tiger Woods' honest first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname "Tiger" in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier his author had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War. 266. Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to muddle through alcohol. 267. Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the Milky House. 268. God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther. 269. The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census. 270. Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the fraternity. 271. There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment. 272. Prince Charles and Prince William never tour on the same airplane in case there is a crash. 273. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. The most common name (of any epitome) in the world is Mohammed. 274. The surface of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice. 275. For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen. 276. Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a dispensary. 277. Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day. 278. Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to inopportune use of equipment designed only for right handed people. 279. The "if" and "then" parts of conditional ("if P then Q") annunciation are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q). 280. Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in enunciation. 281. If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode. 282. Only female mosquitoes gnaw. 283. The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world's despatch. 284. Most household dust is made of dead skin cells. 285. One in about eight million people has progeria, a infirmity that causes people to grow faster than they age. 286. The male seahorse carries the eggs until they concoct instead of the female. 287. The "countdown" (counting down from 10 for an as it such as New-Years Day) was first used in a 1929 German silent film called "Die Frau Im Monde" (The Wench in the Moon). 288. Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system. 289. There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul's armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas. 290. A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a set squirrel. 291. Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died. 292. Mercury is the only planet whose orbit is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that interchange opposite to the direction of their orbit. 293. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Reputedly, Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives." 294. The Newborn Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the baseball sportswoman. 295. Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open. 296. The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per bodily). 297. There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today. 298. While many treaties have been signed at or penurious Paris, France (including many after WWI and WWII), nine are actually known as the "Accord of Paris": Seven Years' War (1763), American Revolutionary War (1783), French-Swede War (1810), France vs Sixth Coalition (1814), Affray of Waterloo (1815), Crimean War (1856), Spanish-American War (1898), consortium of Bessarabia and Romania (1920), establishment of European Coal and Steel Community (1951). 299. Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's oldest son) was in Washington DC during his old boy's assassination as well as during President Garfield's assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated. 300. The diocese of Venice stands on about 120 small islands. 301. The past-tense of the English tete- "dare" is "durst". 302. Don Mac Lean's kerfuffle b evasion "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who all died in the same level surface crash. 303. The drummer for ZZ Top (the only one without a beard) is named Frank Beard. 304. Hummingbirds can't amble. 305. When movie directors do not want their names to be seen in the credits, they use the pseudonym "Allen Smithee" as a substitute for. It has been used over 50 times, starting with "Death of a Gunfighter" (1969). 306. Four singular people played the part of Darth Vader (body, face, voice, and breathing). 307. Pamela Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada on the centennial anniversary of Canada's self-confidence (7/1/1967). 308. There is about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout history. 309. William Shatner is credited for being the first themselves on TV to say "hell" as well as to have the first inter-racial kiss (with Nichelle Nichols), both in episodes of Celebrity Trek. 310. While the US government's supply of gold is kept at Fort Knox, its distribute of silver is kept at the Military Academy at West Point, NY. 311. Alexander Graham Bell's strife and mother were both deaf. 312. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside irascible, the reverse of how a record works. 313. In the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, if a man was not married by age 30, he would not be allowed to guarantee or watch athletic events involving nude young men. 314. Attila the Hun (invader of Europe; 406-453), Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), Pope Leo VII (936-939), Pope John VII (955-964), Pope Leo VIII (963-965), Pope John XIII (965-72), Pope Paul II (1467-1471), Viscount Palmerston (British Prime Minister, 1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (US Frailty President, 1908-1979), and John Entwistle (The Who's bassist, 1944-2002) all died while having sex. 315. Humans and dolphins are the only animals known to have sex for comfort. 316. Pac-Man, Namco's 1979 arcade game, was originally called "Puck Man". The name was changed when they realized that vandals could without a hitch scratch out part of the letter "P". 317. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616. 318. There are about 7.7 million millionaires in the unbelievable (more than 1/1000th of the population). 319. The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina. She gave ancestry to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother's Day), at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days. 320. The "central finger" gesture originates back to 423 BC in Aristophanes play "The Clouds". some of these might be repeats of my preceding list sorry sorry sorry i didn't have time to go through and copy-edit check ya later ♥ "The human heart is a muscular empty. While most of the hollow organs of the body do have muscular layers, the heart is almost entirely muscle." Composed of muscle but not truly a muscle |
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Check this out! Anyone know of these usuless facts? 1. Samuel Clemens (Goal Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen. During his subsistence he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen. 3. The "57" on the Heinz ketchup gumption represents the number of pickle types the company once had. 4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the area's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person. 5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels. 6. Your thirst produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself. 7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close one's nearest member or friend of the victim. 8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire Style Building on July 28, 1945. 9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) letterhead. 10. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. 11. A raisin dropped in a looking-glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. 12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son. 13. Triskaidekaphobia means respect of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky billion. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number. 14. A female ferret will die if it goes into ardour and cannot find a mate. 15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold alone). 16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles. 17. The ZIP in "ZIP cypher" means Zoning Improvement Plan. 18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose bustling ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903. 19. A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2. 20. It's estimated that at any one moment around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk. 21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a prominent king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar 22. 40% of McDonald's profits advance from the sales of Happy Meals. 23. Every person, including identical twins, has a together eye and tongue print along with their finger print. 24. The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino. 25. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 thesaurus were misspelled. 26. The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on widdershins. 27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood singly). 28. Camel's have three eyelids. 29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the unjust parents every day. 30. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the lifestyle of Abraham Lincoln's son. 31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are buddy and sister. 32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and on tenterhooks system. 33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps. 34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in unstintingly and unfolded to reveal a map for escape. 35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses. 36. Most lipstick contains fish scales. 37. Orcas (lollapalooza whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to blow one's top. 38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce". 39. Slugs have four noses. 40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as nostrum. 41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no dirty), and Mazaru (Speak no evil). 42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows. 43. If you sneeze too ineluctable, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes spread out by force, they can pop out. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMBASS) 44. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and portentous. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more sensible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing. 45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by prepossessing out an olive from First Class salads. 46. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States. 47. Because metal was thin on the ground, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. 48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun's spellbinding poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax". 49. There are 318,979,564,000 imaginable combinations of the first four moves in Chess. 50. Upper and lower case letters are named "more northerly" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in single letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the take down case letters. 51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. 52. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the miserable of the Lincoln Memorial. 53. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks. 54. Half of all bank robberies take set out on a Friday. 55. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it. 56. The international the horn dialing code for Antarctica is 672. 57. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. 58. The undistinguished raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour. 59. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to describe Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had indistinguishable bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the novel. 60. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. 61. Bruce Lee was so hasty that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves. 62. The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar). 63. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA". 64. IBM's precept is "Think". Apple later made their motto "Muse on different". 65. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was literally a Captain Kirk mask painted white, due to low budget. 66. The original name for butterfly was flutterby. 67. The saying "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't pound your wife with anything wider than your thumb. 68. One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is. 69. The Olympic was the sister ferry of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service. 70. When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived. 71. In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes. 72. Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald's. 73. The first produce Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known sportsman on the market was Victrola, which Motorola got their name from. 74. In the US, about 127 million adults are overweight or pot-bellied; worldwide, 750 million are overweight and 300 million more are obese. In the US, 15% of children in clear school are overweight; 20% are worldwide. 75. In Disney's Fantasia, the Magus to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled reticent). 76. During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, "Red Vineyard at Arles". 77. By raising your legs slowly and untruthfulness on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. 78. One in ten people live on an island. 79. It takes more calories to eat a express one's opinion of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. 80. 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%. 81. Charlie Chaplin once won third gain in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. 82. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. 83. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Introductory, my dear Watson", Humphrey Bogart NEVER said "Misbehave it again, Sam" in Casablanca, and they NEVER said "Beam me up, Scotty" on Pre-eminent Trek. 84. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. 85. Sharon Stone was the first Personage Search spokes model. 86. The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your brains. 87. More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia). 88. The fix on Israeli postage is certified kosher. 89. There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas. 90. The Guinness Log of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. 91. Thirty-five percent of the people who use intimate ads for dating are already married. 92. Back in the mid to late '80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Away Simulator. 93. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S. 94. Every US president has worn glasses (simply not always in public). 95. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. 96. Jim Henson first coined the discussion "Muppet". It is a combination of "marionette" and "cat's-paw." 97. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words "North" and "South). 98. The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the fellowship's first ads in 1896. 99. About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of humanitarian activity. 100. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being gifted to remember the word you want. 101. About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV unambiguous. 102. A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome". 103. A snail can catch for 3 years. 104. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide. 105. China has more English speakers than the Collaborative States. 106. Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland to yield gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko as contrasted with. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols, who visits homes on New Year's Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a overlay is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes. 107. One in every 9000 people is an albino. 108. The electric direct was invented by a dentist. 109. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. 110. Ordinary, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury. 111. Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on. 112. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten. 113. Our eyes are always the same value from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing. 114. In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman spitting image or reference somewhere. 115. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches huge and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. 116. Rats multiply so very soon that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants. 117. Wearing headphones for ethical an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 118. Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to grossness. 119. About 55% of all movies are rated R. 120. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually. 121. Arabic numerals are not very Arabic; they were created in India. 122. Title 14, Section 1211 of the Encypher of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any get in touch with with extraterrestrials or their vehicles. 123. The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. 124. The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is resulting. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring apart toilet facilities for blacks and whites. 125. There is actually no danger in swimming avenge after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable. 126. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. 127. More than 50% of the people in the age have never made or received a telephone call. 128. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 129. There are about 2 chickens for every woman in the world. 130. The word "maverick" came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to maker his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick. 131. Two-thirds of the mankind's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. 132. For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the personally died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died of battle wounds; if all four of the horse's legs are on the deposit, the person died of natural causes. 133. On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American bunting is flying over the Parliament Building. 134. An American urologist bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000. 135. No chat in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. 136. Dreamt is the only English huddle that ends in the letters "MT". 137. $283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy. 138. Almonds are members of the peach household. 139. Rats and horses can't vomit. 140. The penguin is the only bird that can't fly but can swim. 141. There are close to 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day. 142. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies flat during a dance. 143. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. 144. There are only four words in the English patois that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 145. Americans on ordinary eat 18 acres of pizza every day. 146. Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie. 147. "101 Dalmatians" and "Peter Pan" are the only Disney animations in which both of a person's parents are present and don't die during the movie. 148. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a malicious spider. 149. Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure. 150. Ancient Egyptian priests would gameness every hair from their bodies. 151. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. 152. Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed by people elderly 13-21. 153. An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. 154. All polar bears are left-handed. 155. The catfish has over 27000 drop buds (more than any other animal) 156. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to finish. 157. Butterflies taste with their feet. 158. Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump. 159. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its sense. 160. Starfish have no brains. 161. 11% of the world is left-handed. 162. John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to conspicuous the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later. 163. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 164. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. 165. The state anthem of Greece has 158 verses. 166. There are 293 ways to make coppers for a dollar. 167. A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray. 168. A weighty goldfish is called a twit. 169. Lizards can self-amputate their tails for charge. It grows back after a few months. 170. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". It can be skimpy to 3.63% of its size: L.A. 171. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 172. A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour. 173. Tigers have lined skin, not just striped fur. 174. A "jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of a patronize. 175. The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first level. 176. The youngest pope ever was 11 years old. 177. The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer. 178. One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from coop. 94% are recaptured. 179. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. 180. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs melted into it. 181. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted whisker. 182. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. 183. Elwood Edwards did the utter for the AOL sound files (i.e. "You've got Mail!"). He is heard about 27 million times a day. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as "Q-In." 184. A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears light-skinned. 185. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis medial name was spelled Aron, in honor of his brother. 186. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as fancy as both parties are registered blood donors. 187. Donkeys kill more people than skid crashes. 188. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "put away." 189. There are a million ants for every person on Earth. 190. If you keep a goldfish in the dark dwell, it will eventually turn white. 191. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 192. The name Jeep comes from "GP", the army contraction for General Purpose. 193. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than Heraldry sinister handed people do. 194. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. 195. Cats' urine glows under a dark light. 196. A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest information and gossip. 197. The first US Patent was for manufacturing potassium carbonate (used in glass and gunpowder). It was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1970. 198. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other allowance day items. 199. In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated. 200. 25% of a human's bones are in its feet. 201. David Sarnoff received the Titanic's unhappiness signal and saved hundreds of passengers. He later became the head of the first radio network, the National Broadcasting Players (NBC). 202. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. 203. Michael Jordan makes more notes from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined. 204. One of the reasons marijuana is illicit today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as championship). 205. "Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". 206. Only one in two billion people will existent to be 116 or older. 207. If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough substantial energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to sire the energy of an atomic bomb. 208. Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S. 209. The human nerve creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet. 210. A jellyfish is 95% dishwater. 211. Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by accidental deaths (799 in 2001). 212. Banging your head for against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. 213. Elephants only sleep for two hours each day. 214. On run-of-the-mill people fear spiders more than they do death. 215. The strongest muscle in the human fullness is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle) 216. In golf, a 'Bo Derek' is a make a hit of 10. 217. In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined. 218. In most watch advertisements the period displayed on a watch is 10:10. 219. If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a multifarious type of apple. 220. Al Capone's business card said he was a employed furniture dealer. 221. The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross. 222. There are about 450 types of cheese in the time. 240 come from France. 223. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers plays football at deeply the stadium becomes Nebraska's third largest city. 224. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Way were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Moving spirit". 225. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. 226. In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50. 227. Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers. 228. Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They little by little merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5. 229. There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal. 230. In a view of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand. 231. A dime has 118 ridges around the bourn. A quarter has 119. 232. On an American one-dollar bill there is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the more elevated-right-hand "1" and a spider hidden in the front upper-repay-hand corner. 233. Judy Scheindlin ("Judge Judy") has a $25,000,000 pay, while Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a $190,100 remuneration. 234. The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing cupboard and saw A-N and O-Z. 235. Andorra, a tiny country on the border between France and Spain, has the longest ordinary lifespan: 83.49 years. 236. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his snaffle. 237. Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister. 238. In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day. 239. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. 240. You can supervise a cow upstairs but not downstairs. 241. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 242. "The sixth gruesome sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest fa twister in English. 243. There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330. 244. The Toltecs (a 7th century breed) used wooden swords so they wouldn't kill their enemies. 245. "Broken" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor. 246. The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined. 247. There have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Grahm Bell over rights to the plain of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history. 248. Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the elated). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world). 249. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters. 250. In 10 minutes, a blow releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. 251. At the tallness of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves. 252. Julius Caesar's autograph is benefit about $2,000,000. 253. The tool doctors wrap around a patient's arm to measure blood constraints is called a sphygmomanometer. 254. People say "bless you" when you sneeze because your nerve stops for a millisecond. 255. US gold coins used to say "In Gold We Depend". 256. In "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks. 257. A shrimp's affection is in its head. 258. In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion. 259. The bestselling books of all perpetually are The Bible (6billion+), Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (900million+), and The Sovereign of the Rings (100million+) 260. Pearls melt in vinegar. 261. "Lassie" was played by a band of male dogs; the main one was named Pal. 262. In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to mortal in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself. 263. Nepal is the only mother country that doesn't have a rectangular flag. Switzerland is the only country with a square banneret. 264. Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible. 265. Tiger Woods' true first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname "Tiger" in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier his progenitor had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War. 266. Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to present alcohol. 267. Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the Caucasian House. 268. God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther. 269. The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census. 270. Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the age. 271. There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment. 272. Prince Charles and Prince William never take on the same airplane in case there is a crash. 273. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. The most common name (of any keyboard) in the world is Mohammed. 274. The surface of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice. 275. For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen. 276. Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a sanitarium. 277. Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day. 278. Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to unbefitting use of equipment designed only for right handed people. 279. The "if" and "then" parts of conditional ("if P then Q") communication are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q). 280. Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in address. 281. If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode. 282. Only female mosquitoes taste. 283. The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world's dispatch. 284. Most household dust is made of dead skin cells. 285. One in about eight million people has progeria, a affliction that causes people to grow faster than they age. 286. The male seahorse carries the eggs until they originate instead of the female. 287. The "countdown" (counting down from 10 for an upshot such as New-Years Day) was first used in a 1929 German silent film called "Die Frau Im Monde" (The Bit of skirt in the Moon). 288. Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system. 289. There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul's armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas. 290. A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a coach squirrel. 291. Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died. 292. Mercury is the only planet whose revolution is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the information of their orbit. 293. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Hypothetically, Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives." 294. The Newborn Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the baseball gamester. 295. Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open. 296. The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per in the flesh). 297. There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today. 298. While many treaties have been signed at or mean Paris, France (including many after WWI and WWII), nine are actually known as the "Accord of Paris": Seven Years' War (1763), American Original War (1783), French-Swede War (1810), France vs Sixth Coalition (1814), Donnybrook of Waterloo (1815), Crimean War (1856), Spanish-American War (1898), coalition of Bessarabia and Romania (1920), establishment of European Coal and Steel Community (1951). 299. Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's oldest son) was in Washington DC during his priest's assassination as well as during President Garfield's assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated. 300. The municipality of Venice stands on about 120 small islands. 301. The past-tense of the English little talk "dare" is "durst". 302. Don Mac Lean's bother "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who all died in the same airliner crash. 303. The drummer for ZZ Top (the only one without a beard) is named Frank Beard. 304. Hummingbirds can't march. 305. When movie directors do not want their names to be seen in the credits, they use the pseudonym "Allen Smithee" as an alternative. It has been used over 50 times, starting with "Death of a Gunfighter" (1969). 306. Four another people played the part of Darth Vader (body, face, voice, and breathing). 307. Pamela Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada on the centennial anniversary of Canada's self-direction (7/1/1967). 308. There is about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout history. 309. William Shatner is credited for being the first yourselves on TV to say "hell" as well as to have the first inter-racial kiss (with Nichelle Nichols), both in episodes of VIP Trek. 310. While the US government's supply of gold is kept at Fort Knox, its provisioning of silver is kept at the Military Academy at West Point, NY. 311. Alexander Graham Bell's old lady and mother were both deaf. 312. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside force, the reverse of how a record works. 313. In the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, if a man was not married by age 30, he would not be allowed to opinion or watch athletic events involving nude young men. 314. Attila the Hun (invader of Europe; 406-453), Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), Pope Leo VII (936-939), Pope John VII (955-964), Pope Leo VIII (963-965), Pope John XIII (965-72), Pope Paul II (1467-1471), Noble Palmerston (British Prime Minister, 1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (US Venality President, 1908-1979), and John Entwistle (The Who's bassist, 1944-2002) all died while having sex. 315. Humans and dolphins are the only animals known to have sex for satisfaction. 316. Pac-Man, Namco's 1979 arcade game, was originally called "Puck Man". The name was changed when they realized that vandals could doubtlessly scratch out part of the letter "P". 317. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616. 318. There are about 7.7 million millionaires in the the human race (more than 1/1000th of the population). 319. The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina. She gave descent to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother's Day), at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days. 320. The "centre finger" gesture originates back to 423 BC in Aristophanes play "The Clouds". I Non-Standard real loved these facts, so I thought I'd share them with you guys. Please don't be mad! Have a perilous day! :) |
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God glorify you tired little fingers. I enjoyed them all. I wonder how many people pull out a dollar to look for the owl?
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