THE ZIP CODE : 123456 is assigned to General Electric Company, in Schenectady, New York.

     PENNSYLVANIA : was the first colony to legalize witchcraft.

     FACT : By the time a child finishes elementary school, he or she
will have witnessed 8,000 murders, and 100,000 acts of
violence on television.

     THE MOST COMMON NAME : in Italy is " Mario Rossi. "

     THE WORLD'S : costliest coffee, at $130.00 a pound, is called
Kopi Luwak. It is the droppings of a type of marsupial that
eats only the very best coffee beans. Plantation workers track
them and scoop up their precious poop.

     PAUL REVERE : rode on a borrowed horse that belonged to Deacon Larkin.

     THE FINGERPRINTS : of Koala bears are virtually indistinguishable
from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at
a crime scene.

     IT IS BELIEVED : that Shakespeare was about 46 years of age,
around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was
written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is
" shake " and the 46th word from the last word is " spear. "

     IN DISNEY'S : " Fantasia " the Sorcerers name was Yensid,
which is Disney spelled backwards.

     CHRYSLER : built B-29's that bombed Japan; Mitsubishi built
Zerow's that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now
build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.

     LINCOLN LOGS : were invented by the son of architect
Frank Lloyd Wright.

     SHEEP : will not drink from running water, hence, the line
in the twenty-third Psalm: " He leadeth me beside the still
waters. "

     VATICAN CITY, ITALY : is the only country with the world's
lowest divorce rate: " 0. "

     THERE ARE : 42 dots on a pair of dice.

     THE NAME : of the statue a top the hood of every Rolls
Royce automobile is: " the Spirit of Ecstasy. "

     IT COSTS : $6,400 to raise a medium size dog to age 11.

     WHY DIET : when you can just type - - or snooze ? You can
burn 110 calories per hour typing _ _ only 30 more than
use sleeping.

     ANY MONTH : that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday
the 13th in it.

     DONALD DUCK'S : middle name is: " Fauntleroy. "

     THE LONE RANGER'S : " real " name is John Reid.

     ON A : Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the
Parliament building is an American flag.

     THE GENIUS : inventer Thomas A. Edison was afraid of the
dark. May be thats why he invented the light bulb ?

     TIME TO : grow a beard ? In his life-time, the average man
will spend3,350 hours shaving. That's about 19 solid weeks
of lathering up and smoothing down. Sun up to sundown.

     IN PLAYING CARDS : The King of Hearts is the only King
with-out a mustache.

     ONE OF : the main ingredients in chocolate is.....Vanilla !

     LEVAN, UTAH : is " navel " spelled backwards. It was so
named because it is in the middle of Utah.

     ELASTIC - FACED : comedian Jim Carrey's middle name is:
" Eugene. "

     A " JIFFY " : is a actual unit of time. It is 1/100 of a second.

     THE EARLY : stage names of Sonny and Cher were: " Cleo and Caesar. "

     THE FIRST : skyscraper in the United States was built in Chicago.

     CHASE AND SANBORN : was the first coffee to be sold in
sealed cans in the United States in 1879.

     WHO PUT THE : " X " in Xmas ? The ancient Greeks did. " X "
in Greek is pronounced like a hard " ch. " X was
also an abbreviation for Christ and the first letter of
Christos - meaning " the annointed one, " or " Messiah. "

     THE LONGEST NAME : in the Bible is:
" MAHERSHALALBAZ. "

     A deltiologist is a person that collects postcards.

     ON A BINGO CARD : of 90 numbers, there are approximatly
44 million ways to make B - I - N - G - O.

     OHIO : the 17th State, technically did not become a
State until August 7, 1953. Due to an oversight, Congress
never voted on the resolution to admit Ohio to the
Union until that date.

     THE LAST : original " Peanuts " comic strip was published
Feb. 13, 2000 - the morning after its creator, Charles
M. Schultz died.

     THE ACCORDIAN : is the official musical instrument of:
Detroit, Michigan, Skokie, Illinois and St. Paul, Minnesota.

     IN 1848 : Niagara Falls stopped flowing for 30 hours,
because of a ice jam blocking the Niagara River.

     THE WORD : " corduroy " comes fron the French,
" cord du roi " or " cloth for the king. "

     THE ABBREVIATION : " ORD " for Chicago's O'Hare airport comes
from the old name: " Orchard Field. "

     IF : you stretch a standard Slinky out flat, it measures
87 feet long.

     MEMORABLE MOTOR CITY MOMENTS: Woodward Avenue in Detroit,
Michigan carries the designation " M-1, " named so because it
was the world's first paved road. Michigan was also the first
state to plow its roads and the first to adopt a yellow dividing line.

     THE SOUTHERN MOST CITY : in the United States is Na'alehu, Hawaii.

     THE PENTAGON, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms
as necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the State of
Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet
facilities for blacks and whites.

     IF : you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies,
you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money
in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

     VELCO : patented in 1955, was developed by a Swiss inventer
and amateur mountain climber George DeMestral who was inspired
by the way burrs attach to clothing.

     DURING : your lifetime, you'll eat 60,000 pounds of food, thats
the weight of about six elephants.

     RIGHT HANDED: people live, on a average, nine years longer than
left handed people.

     OVER 30 MILION : people in U. S. " suffer " from diastima.
Diastima is having a gap between your front teeth.

     PEANUTS: are not nuts - - they are legumes.

     ACTOR : Arnold Schwarzenegger bought the first HUMMER
manufactured for civilian use.

     IN 1969 : the last Corvair manufactured was painted gold.

     THE SLOGAN : on New Hampshire license plates is :
" Live Free or Die. " Prisoners in the state prison in
Concord manufacture these license plates.

     THE : most sensitive finger is the forefinger.

     THE TERM : " Devil's Advocate " comes from the Roman
Catholic church. When deciding if someone should be Sainted,
a Devil's Advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.

     THE NAME : of Mickey Mouse is known as " Topolino " in Italy.

     THE AVERAGE : Talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva
droplets per minute, or about 2.5 droplets per word.

     IF THE SAME : Mortality rate that existed in the 1900's,
was applied and in effect today, more than half of the
people in the world today would not be alive.

     THE WORLD'S : Number one producer and consumer
of fresh pork is China.

     IN THE YEARS : 1500's to the 1700's, tobacco was
prescribed by Doctors to treat a variety of ailments
including headaches, toothaches, arthritis
and bad breath.

     THE YO-YO : Was originally a weapon in the Philippines.

     BETTY CROCKER : Never existed. she got her name
in honor of a former company director :
the company added " BETTY " because they thought
recipes should come from a woman with a familiar
and friendly name.

     COTTEN AND LINEN : Those are the fibers that give
dollar bills their unique feel.

     ONLY ONE-THIRD : Of the American presidents
have not been lawyers.

     AMERICAN COMPOSER : Stephan Foster had two of his songs
adopted as official state tunes :
" My Old Kentucky Home " is the state
song of Kentucky and " The Old Folks At Home "
is Florida's state song.

     BY PHOTGRAPHING : the eyes of murder victims,
early students of forensics hoped to see
a reflection of the murderer lingering in
the victim's eyes.

Author : I. M. USELESS 1

     A leach has 32 brains.

     Michael Jordan shaves his head every Tuesday and Friday.

     More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.

     Adolph Hitler's favorite movie was King Kong.

     Bruce Willis's real name is Walter.

     Actor Andy Garcia was a Siamese twin.

     1961 is the last year that reads the same upside-down until 6009.

     All the clocks in the hit movie Pulp fiction are stuck at 4:20.

     Bats always turn left when flying out of a cave.

     Barbie doll's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

     Atilla the Hun was a dwarf.

     Walnuts get a tan in the summer.

     The heat of peppers is measured on the Scoville scale.

     One in four American's has appeared on T. V.

     The rock group Duran Duran was named after a astronaut from the 1968 Jane Fonda film, Barbella.

     No piece of paper can be folded more than seven times.

     The odds of being killed falling out of bed :
1 in 2 million.

     The average human hair can support six pounds.

     Starfish do not have brains.

     There are a wopping 78 bathrooms in Buckingham Palace.

     The odds of being killed by a dog :
1 in 700,000.

     The odds of being killed by falling space debris :
1 in 5 billion.

     There is a 1000 to 1 ratio of dead to living people in
Colma, California, a town with 17 cemeteries.

     The worlds record for tossing one rubber rain boot is 179 feet.

     Because of heave traffic congestion, Julius Caesar banned
all wheeled vehicles from Rome during the daylight hours.

     The average life span of an NBA basketball is 10,000 bounces.

     CONGRATULATIONS : YOU NOTICED THAT THERE WERE ONLY TWENTY SIX OF THESE FACTS, ISN'T THAT FACINATING AND TOTALLY USELESS ?
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