Factoids
Odds and Ends and Humor
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has
memorized all 158 verses.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or
purple.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill.
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
- Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
- There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous":
tremendous, horrendous,
stupendous, and hazardous.
- Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de
los
Angeles de Porciuncula"-and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size:
"L.A."
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Tigers have stripped skin, not just stripped fur.
- In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a
watch is 10:10.
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
- When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the
stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
- The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert
the
cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
- A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
- On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand
corner of the "1"encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the
front
upper right-hand corner.
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this @
home!)
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
-Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser
himself.
- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
- The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator,
Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence
"Oz."
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube
and a
chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
- John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
- "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left
hand.
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