-Katydids have ears on their knees
-Kermit the Frog has 11 points on his collar
-Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C"
-In the Mario brothers movie and all the early Mario games, Princess Toadstool's name is Daisy, but in the N64 games her name is Peach
-The full name of the UK is "The United Kingdom of Britain, Ireland, and Berwick-Upon-Tweed"
-Jerry Seinfeld's apartment nomber is 5A. Kramer's is 5B
-The Ostrich yolk is the largest single cell in the world
-Most drugs, especially LSD and marijuana, are on the rise again in Canada after briefly losing popularity in the 80's and early 90's
-The only word in the English language composed entirely of consonants is "crwth", a 14th century word meaning "crowd" that no one uses anymore.
-In the 30's, orange painted dishes from a popular company called Fare Ware were found to be radioactive. The other colours were fine.
-In Italy, it's illegal to make coffins out of anything other than nut shells or wood.
-Mickey's ears are always pointing towards you, no matter which direction he's facing
-In the English language, "four" is the only number with the same number of letters as its value
-The King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache
-A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute
-A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
-That little hole in the sink that lets water drain out instead of overflowing when it gets too high is called a "porcelator"
-It is physically impossible for a pig to look up at the sky
-A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge, a dime has 118
-"Evian", as in Evian mineral water, is "naive" backwards
-The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets
-A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat
-Gatorade was named after the University of Florida Gators
-It's illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there's a law against selling dolls without human faces
-Moisture, not air, causes superglue to dry
-The grateful dead were once called The Warlocks
-The only bone that's never been broken in a skiing accident is one in the inner ear
-Many psychiatrists say Bill Clinton shows signs of being addicted to sex
-the cover of Celine Dion's CD "Let's talk about love" is featured on the box for Columbia 1998 Canadian World Encyclopedia, Student Edition
-Drinking soda through a straw may help minimize damage to teeth through sugar
-Researchers at MIT are trying to develop a lego robot that dances the cha-cha
-The saxophone is considered a woodwind, not a brass
-A piano is considered percussion, although it uses strings
-The really big ferris wheel at the Ex is the largest portable ferris wheel in North America
-Most stress balls are just balloons with sand in them
-1 000 000 bottle caps would completely fill a school gym
-US patent #7 was a device called a tapeworm trap. You bait it with food, and lower it down your throat on a string. The tapeworm would bite the bait, get caught in the trap, and you would pull it out through your mouth
-In English pubs, it's considered rude to tip the bartender or to call him sir
-98% of parents claim they want a non - violent TV channel for their children
-a common medicine in Medieval England was water a murderer has washed his hands in
-Cats don't have tastebuds for "sweet" taste
-The blue flecks in cambazola cheese are mold
-'N Sync is working on a recording of "blues" versions of all their songs
-A lot of cheese has animal rennet in it
-It's genetically impossible for a blue eyed couple to have a brown eyed child
-Jacques Cartier had a face shaped like a banana
-It's really hard to dive in the Dead Sea, because there's so much salt, you float.
-Marilyn Manson was a regular actor on the wonder years
-The guy who wrote the rubber duckie song and co-conceived Sesame Street died recently
-At http://members.aol.com/seussnavy/whiskers.html you can buy cat in the hat whiskers for a halloween costume
-David Duchovny's senior thesis at Princeton was titled "The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels"
-The Klondike Gold Rush was started by Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie, two native Canadians, who discovered it in Bonanza river.
-The name Ania is the 58th most popular girl's name, and about 50% of people with that name spell it Anya.
-The heart pumps 1800 gallons of blood a day.
-There will probably be a world chocolate shortage around the year 2000 The name Bianca is Italian and means air, fair, or white. It's the 56th most popular girl's name.
-Scientists at Harvard have pretty concrete evidence that reincarnation exists
-Beastie Boys stands for: Boys Entering Anarchistic States Towards Internal Excellence
-The 'pound' key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph
-The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat
-The "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle
-Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/h
-Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name
-The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy"
-Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
-Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. What about milk you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living
-The most common name in the world is Mohommed
-Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
-The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean
-Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster than the rest of us
-Ham radio operators got the term "ham" coined from the expression "ham fisted operators," a term used to describe early radio users who sent Morse code (i.e. pounded their fist)
-The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." These license plates are manufactured by prisioners in the state prison in Concord
-Chinese Crested dogs can get acne
-Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc
-Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc
-Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman and child in the world
-The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F
-The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one end point is P
-he giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun
-The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill
-Los Angeles's full name is: "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Poriuncula" and can be abbeviated to 3.63% of its size, "LA"
-Only 1 in 2 000 000 000 will live to be 116 or older
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
-Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
-When you tie a noose, the rope is wrapped 12 times around because it's the same length as a persons head
-Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards
-A cat's jaw cannot move sideways
-According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go the speed of light. Also, there is a particle called tackyon which is supposed to go faster than light. This means if you fire a tackyon beam, it travels before you fire it
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