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• Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI. -KH
• In 1980, there was only one country without telephones - Bhutan. -KH
• Most American cars honk in the key of F. -KH
• Some toothpaste contains antifreeze. -KH
• Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific. -KH
• Most lipstick contains fish scales. -KH
• Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego. -KH
• Hobart, Tasmania was founded in 1804. -MP
• Page 97 of Trollope's Chronicles of Barset contains the word "sent." -MP
• The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters. -AN
• Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royces per capita. -AN
• On average, there are 61,000 people airborn over the USA all the time. -AN
• The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments. -AN
• The longest word that has no repeated letters is "uncopyrightable." -AN
• "Hang On Snoopy" is the official rock song of Ohio. -AN
• Firehouses have circular stairways because in the olden days, the engines were pulled by horses. They were kept in stables on the ground floor, and they learned how to walk up straight staircases. -AN
• "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. -AN
• The term "the whole nine yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole nine yards." -AN
• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law that stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. -AN
• The Eisenhower Interstate System requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. -AN
• The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the Army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P. -AN
• 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. -AN
• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. -JH
• The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one has ever memorized all 158. -JH
• The longest one-syllable word is "screeched". -JH
• On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag. -JH
• 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. -JH
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!) -JH
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. -JH
• "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. -JH
• "Bookkeeppers" is the only word with four double letters in a row. -DS
• At 6.5 million square feet, the Pentagon is the largest office building in the world. -TM
• Levan, Utah is "navel" spelled backwards. It is so named because it is in the middle of Utah. -DS
• "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. -IA
• There are more than 200 different types of Barbies. -ED
• In order of ascending intelligence are the following terms: idiot, imbecile, moron. -DS
• The largest prime number ever found is over 10,000 digits long. -DC
• When a piece of glass cracks, the crack travels at over 3000 miles per hour. -AN
• The word "sophomore" means "sophisticated moron." -TR
• There is a town in Sweden called "A" and a town in France called "Y". -AN
• An "anatomical juxtaposition of two orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction" is a kiss. -AN
• The largest diamond weighed 567 grams. -AN
• The longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is "floccinaucinihilipilification" which means "the act of estimating as worthless." -AN
• Every continent has a city called "Rome." -AN
• The name "Vaseline" is a combination of the German word for "water" - wasser - and the Greek word for "olive oil" -elaion. -KW
• The Maybelline Company is named after the founder's sister, Mabel. -KW
• The Colgate Company started out making starch, soap, and candles. -KW
• The name "Crayola" is a combination of the French word for chalk - craie - and "ola" from the "oleanginous" which means "oily". -KW
• April Fool's Day is the Pagan New Year. -TR
• The word "Lucifer" is only mentioned once in the Bible. -CS
• It is not sweat that stinks, but the excrement of the bacteria that eat sweat. -KS
• 100,000 cubic feet of water pours over the Niagra Falls every second. -CS
• Each day, 7,500,000 tons of water evaporate from the Dead Sea. -AN
• If she were life-size, Barbie's measurements would be 39-23-33. -CS
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. -CS
• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". -CS
• Maine is the only whose name is just one syllable. -CS
• There are only four words in the English language which ends in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, hazardous. -CS
• The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill. -CS
• Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestro Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciucula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A." -CS
• A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. -CS