A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. All porcupines float in water. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Regan. Camel's milk does not curdle. Cats urine glows under a black light. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ? Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic." Hang On Snoopy is the official rock song of Ohio. If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. In the 1940's, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments, That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1. Lorne Green had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom." Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants. Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head." Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U. S. flag. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.) The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. The combination "ouch" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hicoughed." The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was build, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses. The only 15 letter word than can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan. The reason firehouse have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horse. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used. The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead." There are more chickens than people in the world. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. When opossums are playing possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror. ~~06-15-99~~
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
All porcupines float in water.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Regan.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
Cats urine glows under a black light.
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
Hang On Snoopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
In the 1940's, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments, That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
Lorne Green had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom."
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U. S. flag.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The combination "ouch" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hicoughed."
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was build, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
The only 15 letter word than can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
The reason firehouse have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horse. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
When opossums are playing possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
