Most people move about forty times in their sleep during the night.
Most-visited presidential grave: John F. Kennedy's in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. The only other president buried in Arlington: William Howard Taft.
Mount Everest is a foot higher today than it was a century ago, and it's believed to still be growing.
Mount Everest moves approximately 2.4 inches (10 cm) in a Northeasterly direction every year.
Mount Everst in Nepal, China: 29,035 feet / 8850 meters (seven feet [2.1 meters] above it's height of 29,028 feet which was determined in 1954).
Mountain Dew does reduce your sperm count significantly.
Movie detective Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.
Mozart sold one of his most prized pieces, Symphony No. 5 for under $20.
Mr Ennis used to be a singer for a jazz band (He's my modern history teacher)
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.
Mt. Athos, in northern Greece, likes to call itself an independent country. It has a population of about 4,000...all men. No females of any kind, including animals, are allowed. There are twenty monasteries within a space of twenty miles.
MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. on August 1, 1981 The first music-video shown on the rock-video cable channel was, appropriately, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. MTV's original five veejays were Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, J.J. Jackson and Alan Hunter.
Muhammad Ali won his heavyweight championships on three continents: North America, Asia and Africa.
Muhammad is the most common first name in the world.
Mules are genetically sterile. i.e. they cannot reproduce.
Murphy's oil soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
Mushrooms have no chlorophyll so they don't need sunshine to grow and thrive. Some of the earliest commercial mushroom farms were set up in caves in France during the reign of King Louis XIV (1638-1715).
Nabisco's "Oreo's" are the world's best-selling brand of cookie at a rate of 6 billion sold each year. The first Oreo was sold in 1912.
'Naked' means to be unprotected. 'Nude' means unclothed.
Names for Atlantic hurricanes can be only French, English, or Spanish.
Napoleon Bonaparte is the historical figure most often portrayed in movies. He has been featured in 194 movies, Jesus Christ in 152, and Abraham Lincoln in 137.
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
Napoleon took 14,000 French decrees and simplified them into a unified set of 7 laws. This was the first time in modern history that a nation's laws applied equally to all citizens. Napoleon's 7 laws are so impressive that by 1960 more than 70 governments had patterned their own laws after them or used them verbatim.
NASCAR stands for National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing.
Natural gas has no odor. The smell is added artificially so that leaks can be detected.
Nearly 400 cocoa beans are required to make a pound of chocolate liquor, the semi-liquid mass produced by grinding the beans. A non-alcoholic substance, chocolate liquor is the basis of all chocolate and cocoa products.
Nearly 50% of all bank robberies take place on Friday.Nearly half the people on the earth live in only one thirtieeth of the total land area.
Neck ties were first worn in Croatia.
Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
Neil Shoen, the guitarist from Journey got his start playing in San Francisco with Santana.
Neil Young was once roommates with Rick James.
Neither Fruit Flies nor May Flies are flies.
Nevada was the first state to sanction the use of the gas chamber, and the first execution by lethal gas took place in February, 1924.
New Hampshire law forbids you to tap your feet, nod your head, or in any way keep time to the music in a tavern, restaurant, or cafe.
New Hampshire's license plates are stamped with the motto "Live Free Or Die." They are made by prison inmates.
New Jersey, with 96, is the US state with the greatest number of hazardous waste sites.
New Orleans' first Mardi Gras celebration was held in February, 1826.
New York City has 570 miles of shoreline.
New York City's administrative code still requires that hitching posts be located in front of City Hall so that reporters can tie their horses.
New York City's nickname the "Big Apple" is named after an early swing-dance that originated in a South Carolina club (which used to be a church) called "The Big Apple."
New York's first St. Patrick's day parade was held on March 17, 1762.
New Zealand is the only country that contains every type of climate in the world.
Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They gradually merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5.
Next time you start a riot in Wisconsin remember that it is illegal to use a laser pointer to do so.
Nine U.S. Presidents never went to college: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, and Harry Truman.
Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.
No evidence of man's evolutionary ancestors has so far been found in either North or South America. Fossils and other remains suggest that the first Americans crossed the Bering Straits (which at the time was dry land) from Asia between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago.
No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second.No language has more synonyms than English.
No man is allowed to make love to his wife with the smell of garlic, onions, or sardines on his breath in Alexandria, Minnesota. If his wife so requests, law mandates that he must brush his teeth.
No one knows where Mozart is buried.
No one knows why there is a 33 on a Rolling Rock bottle... the secret died with the original brewer.
No one knows why, but 90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right....
No one may catch fish with his bare hands in Kansas.
No piece of dry square paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
No piece of square, dry paper can be folded more than seven times in half
No president of the United states was an only child.
No SEAL has ever surrendered and no wounded or dead SEAL has ever been left on the field during battle.
No solar eclipse can last longer than 7 minutes 58 seconds because of the speed at which the sun moves.No species of wild plant produces a flower or blossom that is absolutely black, and so far, none has been developed artificially.
No two human outer EARS (pinnae)-even your own- are exactly alike.Earology, as the system is called, was developed to supplement identification by fingerprints.
No two lions have the same pattern of whiskers, like a fingerprint.
No two spider webs are the same.
No woman may have sex with a man while riding in an ambulance within the boundaries of Tremonton, Utah. If caught, the woman can be charged with a sexual misdemeanor and "her name is to be published in the local newspaper." The man isn't charged nor is his name revealed.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
Nobel, actually invented dynamite, (Dynamite no.1 and Ballistite) but when he saw the destruction it caused, he decided to do something benevolent with all the money he made. Hence the Nobel Prize.
Nobody is buried in Grant's tomb. President & Mrs. Grant are entombed there. A body is buried only when it is placed in the ground and covered with dirt.
Nobody knows what happened to the body Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. During his funeral in 1791, a thunderstorm suddenly appeared and his funeral party dropped the coffin and ran for cover. When they returned, the coffin was gone.
Nobody knows where Mozart is buried.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
Non-married couples in Idaho who engage in sexual intercourse can be jailed for up to six months
No-one has ever died from smoking cannabis
North America was called Turtle Island by the Delaware Indians.
Not only do apple seeds contain cyanogens, precursors to cyanide, but peach pits, almond skins, citrus fruits and some berrys contain them aswell.
Nothing rhymes with the word 'month'
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Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously it can kill you.
Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are at least fifty years old.
October 1st is the official Coffee Day in Japan.
Oddly, no term existed for "homosexuality" in ancient Greece there were only a variety of expressions referring to specific homosexual roles. Experts find this baffling, as the old Greek culture regarded male/male love in the highest regard. According to several linguists, the word "homosexual" was not coined until 1869 by the Hungarian physician Karoly Maria Benkert.
Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.
Of all the languages in the world, English has the largest vocabulary about 800,000 words.
Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions.
Of Chief Executives, only Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of a President.
Of the 206 bones in the human body, 52 are in the feet.
Of the 2200 persons quoted in the current edition of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," only 164 are women.
Of the 25 highest mountains on earth, 19 are in the Himalayas.
Of the 266 men who have been pope, 33 have died violently.
Of the 3,000 islands in the Bahama chain in the Caribbean, only 20 are inhabited.
Of the 60,000 americans who fled to Canada during the Viet Nam war 30,000 still reside there.
Of the estimated 162 million land-based telephones in the U.S., 25 million have unlisted numbers.
Of the Top 10 grossing movies of the 1980s, seven were either produced or directed by Stephen Spielberg or George Lucas. They also represent the men behind the top three grossing films of the 1970s.
Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
Officially, the term "boulder" is applied only to stones larger than 10 inches in diameter.
Ok food fans! Whats in an oxtail soup? "Oxen tails!" i hear you say...well, wrong. Try beef cattle.
Okay, ketchup actually began in Thailand. There it was labelled "Kachiap".
Olympic badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers.Olympic pools are 50 meters long.
Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system.
On a bingo card of 90 numbers there are approximately 44 million possible ways to make bingo.
On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.
On a clear night in the Northern Hemisphere the naked eye can discern some 5000 stars.
On an American one-dollar bill there is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the upper-right-hand "1" and a spider hidden in the front upper-right-hand corner.
On April 12, 1938, the state of New York passed a law requiring medical tests for marriage license applicants, the first state to do so.
On April 25, 1889, The Kansas Times and Star was the first newspaper to use the phrase “bestseller.” On that day the newspaper listed six books as the “best sellers here last week.”
On August sixth, 1945, during World War Two, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated 140,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.
On average 150,000 pints of Guiness are lost each year in the mustaches of English tavern-goers.
On average 900 people start the Navy SEALs training program. On average 650 people drop out.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day.
On average, 42,000 balls are used and 650 matches are played at the annual Wimbledon tennis tournament.
On average, 90% of the people that have the disease Lupus are female.
On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
On average, about 500 meteorites strike the surface of the Earth each year. The calculated risk of being struck by a meteorite in the United States is once every 9,300 years.
On average, adults watch double the amount of TV as teenagers do.
On average, Americans consume eighteen acres of pizza daily
On average, Americans spend about 6 months of their lives waiting at red traffic lights.On average, cows poop 16 times a day.
On average, every American consumes 109 pounds of beef a year. It takes eight pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef.
On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.
On average, every person in the United States owns 2.1 radios.
On average, more people fear spiders than death.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do dying. However, statistically you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by the bite of a poisonous spider.
On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
On average, right-handed people live 9 years longer than their left-handed counterparts.
On average, twelve newborns are given to the wrong parents each day.
On average, we lose 11 oz. of weight while we are asleep at night.
On average, we spend 6 months of our lives waiting for red lights.
On average, when asked for a color, 3 out of 5 people will say red.
On Dec. 10th 1901 the 1st Nobel prizes were awarded. Literature Rene Sully-Prudhomme; Physiology Emil von Behring; Chemistly Jacobus van't Hoff; Physics Wilhelm Roentgen; Peace Jean Henri Dunant Frederic Passy.
On December 20, 1860, South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union.
On February 6, 1971 the first golf ball was hit on the moon by Alan Shepard.
On February 7, 1969 a meteorite weighing over 1 ton fell in Chihuahua, Mexico.
On February 9, 1993, "Dateline NBC" was forced to publicly apologize, and NBC president Michael Gartner resigned for a scandal caused by "Dateline" rigging a GM truck with explosives to simulate a "scientific" crash-test demo.
On Hilton Head Island, South Carolina it is illegal to shine a flashlight on a sea turtle.
On its trip around the sun, the earth travels over a million and a half miles per day.
On July 28th, 1945, a US Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York's Empire State Building, killing 14 people.
On July 4, 1776, King George III of England noted in his diary: "Nothing of importance happened today."
On June 26th, 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco. (The text of the charter was in five languages: Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.)
On May 25, 1957, two men with the same name scored holes in one on the same golf course. Edward Chapman got a hole in one on the eighth hole at Richmond, Surrey in England. Later that day, Edward Chapman hit one from from the sixth tee.
On record, the largest iceberg ever, was larger than the country of Belgium.
On record, the only time it recently snowed in the Sahara Desert was on Feb.18,1979.
On September 13th, 1916 an elephant that had killed a man was hanged until dead from a rail road crain in Erwin, Tennesee. On their first attempt the elephant fell to the ground. It was very sad.
On the cartoon show "The Jetsons," Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15 years old.
On the old Canadian 2 dollar bill,the flag flying over the Parliament Building is NOT an American flag.
On this planet there is a can of SPAM opened every four seconds.
Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.
One - quarter of the world's cattle live in India.
One 75-watt light bulb gives off more light than three 25-watt light bulbs.
One American of every 16 will have one of the Top 12 most common last names.
One beaver can cut down as many as 216 trees per year.
One in about eight million people has progeria, a disease that causes people to grow faster than they age.
One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
One in every 9000 people is an albino.
One in every four Americans has appeared on television.
One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.
One light year the distance light travels in a year at the speed of 186,000 miles per second is just under six thousand billion miles. Earth's nearest neighbor in space, outside our own solar system is four light years away (about 24 trillion miles).
One million tons of oil is equivalent to about 13,000,000,000 kilowatt hours of electricity.
One of the greatest soldiers in history, Alexander the Great, was tutored by the greatest thinker of all time, Aristotle.
One of the holiest Christian holidays is named after a pagan goddess. The name "Easter" derives from the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre, who governed the vernal equinox.
One of the largest carriers of hepitius B is diner mints.
One of the many Tarzans, Karmuala Searlel, was mauled to death by a raging elephant on set.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as competition).
One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured.
One penny doubled everyday becomes over 5 million dollars in just 30 days.
One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.
One pound of tea can make 300 cups of the beverage.
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
One square mile of land contains more insects than total number of human beings on earth.
One tonne of uranium produces the same amount of energy as 30,000 tonnes of coal.
Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.
Only 16% of able-bodied males in the American colonies participated in the Revolutionary War.
Only 4 mayors of U.S. cities went on to become president: Calvin Coolidge, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Andrew Johnson.
Only 3 words in the English language end in "ceed": "proceed," "exceed," and "succeed."
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
Only about 20% of harvested coffee beans are considered to be a premium bean of the highest quality.
Only female mosquitoes bite. Females need the protein from blood to produce their eggs. Males only drink water and plant juice.
Only four countries in the world start with the letter 'D'. They are Denmark, Dominica, Djibouti and the Dominican Republic
Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.
Only 1 out of 100 people have a computerOnly one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.
Only one movie has had three Academy Award nominees in the same category. In 1963, Tom Jones earned Best Supporting Actress nominations for Diane Cilento, Dame Edith Evans and Joyce Redman.
Only one of the 88 stable chemicals are named after a person gadolinium. It's named after Finnish chemist Johan Gadolin.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 years old.
Only six baseball teams remain from the original National League, which was founded in 1876.
Only three horses who had never previously won a race earned their first victories at the Kentucky Derby. They were Buchanan in 1884, Sir Barton in 1919 and Brokers Tip in 1933.
Only three Presidents graduated from the military academies: Grant, Eisenhower (West Point) and Carter (Annapolis).
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
Orange juice helps the body absorb iron easily when consumed with a meal.
Oranges, lemons, watermelons, and tomatoes are berries.
Orca (killer) whales can grow to b 30ft long.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Orchids have the smallest seeds. It takes more than 1.25 million seeds to weigh 1 gram.
Orville Wright was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
Ostriches swallow pebbles to aid in indigestion.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Our galaxy has approximately 250 billion stars.
Our nerves system transmits messages at up to 300 ft. per second.
Our sun and the surrounding planets orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy once every 250 million years.
Our sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years.
Out of all the eight letter words in the English language, only one has only one vowel in it: "strength"
Ovaltine was originally called Ovamaltine. A clerical error forced the name to be changed when the manufacturer registered the name.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows
Over 10,000 coffee cafes plus several thousand vending machines with both hot and cold coffee serve the needs of Tokyo alone.
Over 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their asses.
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people. "left" in Latin is "sinister" and "right" is "dexter". Ambidextrous simply means "both right".
Over 2500 left handed people are killed each year from using products made for right handed people.
Over 5 million people in Brazil are employed by the coffee trade. Most of those are involved with the cultivation and harvesting of more than 3 billion coffee plants.
Over 53 countries grow coffee worldwide, but all of them lie along the equator between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
Over 80% of professional boxers have suffered brain damage.
Over 96% of American households purchase bananas at least once each month.
Over billions of years, black holes become white holes and they spit out all of the things they sucked in. the atoms are completely jumbled, so no one knows what will ever come out. Theoratically they'll also turn into a white hole. If you were unfortunate enough to fall within one, you would never actually hit -- because time would stop at some point within the event horizon (space outside) of the black hole. Thanx De Composed
Over the course of his lifetime, the average man will ejaculate approximately 18 quarts of semen, containing about a half trillion sperm.
Over the last 50 years in the United States, approximately 9,000 people have died as a result of tornadoes, 5,000 as the result of floods, and 4,000 as the result of hurricanes.
Over-roasted coffee beans are very flammable during the roasting process.
Owls are one of the only birds that can see the color blue.
Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
Pablo Picasso almost died at birth. The midwife present though he was stillborn and left him on the table. His father, a physician, revived Pablo by breathing air into his lungs.
Pablo Picasso has sold more works of art individually costing over one million dollars than any other artist. His 211 is well ahead of the 168 for Pierre Auguste Renoir.
Pablo Picasso's career lasted seventy-eight years, from 1895 until his death in 1973.
Pac-Man, Namco's 1979 arcade game, was originally called "Puck Man". The name was changed when they realized that vandals could easily scratch out part of the letter "P".Pakistan was named in 1933 and is derived from the first letters of "Punjab," "Afghan," "Kashmir," "Sind," and "Tan." All of these are districts or states of what is now Pakistan.
Pamela Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence (7/1/1967).
Panama is the only place in the world where someone can see the sun rise on the Pacific Ocean and set on the Atlantic.
Paper bags are outlawed in grocery stores in Afghanistan. They believe paper is sacred.
Paper was invented in the early second century by a Chinese eunuch.
Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in one year, which is more than the real money printed in a year.
Parker Brothers was founded by George Swinerton Parker, 18, in 1885. The first game produced was 'Banking,' in which the player who amasses the most wealth is the winner.
Parrots, most famous of all talking birds, rarely acquire a vocabulary of more than twenty words, however Tymhoney Greys and African Greys have been know to carry vocabularies in excess of 100 words.
Patagonia at the southern tip of South America is the only populated land area south of 40 degrees South Latitude. By comparison, most of Europe, Asia, and two-thirds of North America are north of 40 degrees North Latitude.
Paul Gauguin's Marquesas Island neighbor, Tioka, bit him on the head after he died. Tioka was following a Marquesan custom of verifying the dead.
Paul Hornung holds the NFL record for the most points in a single season. He scored 176 points in 1960.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the two left-handed Beatles.
Paul Quincy Randolph Shermasn Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Sr.
Paul Reiser played the piano in the "Mad about You" theme.
PcGamer readers are all mighty and should be obeyed explicitly, lest they release the wrath of the Coconut Monkey upon the wrong doers.
Peanuts are beans.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Peanuts are one of the main ingredients in dynamite.
Peanuts are salted in the shell by boiling them in a heavily salted solution, then allowing them to dry.
Pearl Jam's first album, 10, was named in tribute of basketball player Mookie Blaylock who's number is 10
Pearls can melt/dissolve in vineger.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Pears ripen from the inside out, and according to a survey on the lifestyle channel, men prefer hard pears while women prefer soft pears.
Pedals were added to the bicycle in 1839.
Penguins are not found in the North Pole
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
Penguins can leap to heights as high as six feet.
Penguins feathers are covered in fat, which helps keep them warm.
Penicillin was first produced synthetically in a laboratory in 1946.
Pennies are made of 95% copper and 5% zinc.
Penny Marshall was the first woman film director to have a film take in more than $100 million at the box office she accomplished this with the 1988 flick Big.
People do not get sick from cold weather. It is mostly from being indoors more.
People drank gold powder mixed in with water in medieval Europe to relieve pain from sore limbs.
People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.
People say "bless you" when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.
People say that cracking your bones will cause arthritis when you get older. Actually all you are doing is popping air pockets, and does not cause arthritis.
People sneeze at about 90 miles per hour.
People will swallow about 8 spiders in their lifetime...mmm....yummy
Per capita, the Irish eat more chocolate than Americans, Swedes, Danes, French, and Italians.
Per-capita, Israel eats the most turkey based products in the world.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Perfume contains ethyl alcohol and 25% fragrant oils. Cologne is cheaper to produce and to purchase because the oil content in cologne is only 3%. Cologne was named for the German city in which it was first produced. The original formula combined alcohol, lemon spirits, orange bitters and mint oil.
Persians first began using colored eggs to celebrate spring in 3,000 B.C. 13th century Macedonians were the first Christians on record to use colored eggs in Easter celebrations. Crusaders returning from the Middle East spread the custom of coloring eggs, and Europeans began to use them to celebrate Easter and other warm weather holidays.
Pet parrots can eat virtually any common "people-food" except for chocolate and avocados. Both of these are highly toxic to the parrot and can be fatal.
Pierce Brosnan's first appearance as James Bond was in 1995 Golden Eye.
Pierre, the capital of South Dakota, is the only state capital name that shares no letters with the name of its state.
Pig vomit is used in perfume and cologne to hold the scent in
Pigeons can be killed by feeding them uncooked rice, either coz their stomach can't handle the carbohydrates or it swells in their throats and chokes them. No head popping.
Pigs cannot sweat because they don't have sweat glands. Instead, they roll around in mud to keep cool.Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
Pine, spruce, or other evergreen wood should never be used in barbecues. These woods, when burning or smoking, can add harmful tar and resins to the food. Only hardwoods should be used for smoking and grilling, such as oak, pecan, hickory, maple, cherry, alder, apple, or mesquite, depending on the type of meat being cooked.
Pineapples are classified as berries.
Pink elephants can be found in some regions of India. Because of the red soil, elephants take on a permanent pink color because the spray dust over their bodies to protect themselves from insects.
Pinocchio is Italian for 'Pine Eye'.
Pitcher Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds hurled his first major-league game in 1944. Nuxhall, the youngest pitcher in major league baseball, was only 15 years, 10 months and 11 days old when he pitched that game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
Planet Jupiter spins so fast that there are 2 sunrises and 2 sunsets every 24 hours by earth time.
Planet Venus is the only planet to spin counter-clockwise.
Plant life could not exist without lightning. Nitrogen, an essential food for plants, comprises 80% of the atmosphere, but in a form that is insoluble and unusable. It's the intense heat of lightning that forces the nitrogen to combine with oxygen in the air, forming nitrogen oxides that are soluble in water and fall to the earth in rain as dilute nitric acid. This reacts with minerals in the ground to become the nitrates on which the plants depend.
Plants that need to attract moths for pollination are generally white or pale yellow, to be better seen when the light is dim. Plants that depend on butterflies, such as the poppy or the hibiscus, have more colorful flowers.
Playboy debuted the triple-page centerfold in the March 1956 issue. Marian Stafford took the honors.
Playing cards in India are round.
Playing cards were issued to British pilots in World War II. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map fpr escape.
Pluto has the longest year, lasting 247 years and 256 days in Earth time (90,472 days including 61 leap years).
Poland's Stella Walsh (Stanislawa Walasiewicz)-won the women's 100-meter race at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, becoming the first woman to break the 12-second barrier. When she was killed in 1980 as an innocent victim in a robbery attempt, an autopsy declared her to be a male.
Polar bears are left handed.
Polar bears are the only mammal with hair on the soles of its feet.
polar bears do not have white fur, it is actually clear and hollow. the skin underneath this fur is actually black
Polaris is the closest visible star to true north and is thus referred to as the North Star. By sometime around the year 2100, the wobble of the Earth's axis will slowly begin pointing the North Pole away from Polaris. By the year 14,000 A.D., the new North Star will be Vega.
Police dogs were first used in 1816 in Scotland.
Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
Poor whites in Florida and Georgia are called "crackers." They got the name from their principal staple food, cracked corn. Another theory states that the name comes from the days when they would drive cattle southward using the "crack" of their bullwhips to keep the animals in line and moving.
Pope Adrian VI choked to death after a fly got stuck in his throat as he was taking a drink from a fountain
Pope John XXIII served as a sergeant in the Italian army during World War I.
Pope Leo VII (936-9) died of a heart attack during sex, Pope John VII (955-64) and John XIII (965-72) were bludgeoned to death by the husband of the woman he was with at the time, and Pope Paul II (1467-71) allegedly died while being sodomized by a page boy.
Porcupines float in water.
Portugal is the world's largest producer of cork.
POSSLQ in a census form means "Person of opposite sex sharing living Quarters"
Potato chips are American's favorite snack food. They are devoured at a rate of 1.2 billion pounds a year.
Potato chips were invented in Saratoga Springs in 1853 by chef George Crum. They were a mocking response to a patron who complained that his French fries were too thick.
Pound cake is so named not just because of the pound of butter, but more precisely because each of the four main ingredients (flour, butter, sugar and eggs) are weighed out as a pound.
Prague consumes 3 times more beer than all the soft drinks combined
Prairie dogs are not dogs. A prairie dog is a kind of rodent.
Precipitation causes K2 to be taller than Mount Everest for several weeks out of each year.
Pregnancy in humans lasts on average about 270 days (from conception to birth).
Pregnant female polar bears will not eat for several months while resting in her den under the snow. Thanx Tony W.
President Eisenhower also banished squirrels from the grounds because they were ruining the green.
President George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart in 1782. It's a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and non-commissioned officers.
President Lincoln proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day in 1863.
Preys like buffalos react poorly to slow movements. That's why crocs can swim slowly over to them without them scuttering off.
Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash.
Prior to 1907, when the United States started mass production of asphalt from crude oil, the roads were paved from asphalt bought from Trinidad, which had a pitch lake that was the world’s first large commercial source of natural asphalt.
Probably the best known multiple meaning is the hebrew word "SHALOM" which means, alternately, "hello", "good-bye", and "peace"
Proctor & Gamble originally manufactured candles before moving on to soap.
Producer Paul Maslansky was on the set of The Right Stuff when a bus from the local police academy rolled up. After a bunch of freaks walked off, a sergeant explained that the mayor had forced the department to loosen its acceptance standards. Not too long afterwards, Police Academy hit the theaters.
Professor Moriarity was Sherlock Holmes' archenemy.
Prostitution is legal in Canada, however running a brothel is not.
Prussic acid, in a crystalline powder called Zyklon B, was used to kill in Germany's gas chambers. The gas would paralyze the victim's lungs, causing them to suffocate.
Public telephones in Israel are no longer operated by tokens as they were in the past. They are now operated by magnetic cards known in Hebrew as a telecart (tel-eh-cart). These plastic cards, the same size and shape as a credit card, are available at post offices, some hotel reception desks, street kiosks and dispensing machines.
Pure electricity, when photographed, shows up as a brightly glowing liquid droplet flowing inside a tiny crystal.
Put fish skin or isinglass size of a nine-pence in pot when put on to boil or else the white and shell of half an egg to a couple of quarts of coffee."
Putty is a cement compound of fine powdered chalk or oxide of lead mixed with linseed oil.
Q is the only letter that does not appear in the names of any state of the Unites States.
Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.
Quinine, one of the most important drugs known to man, is obtained from the dried bark of an evergreen tree native to South America.
Quito in Ecuador, South America, is said to have the most pleasant climate in the world. It is called the 'Land of Eternal Spring.' The temperature rarely drops below 46 degrees Fahrenheit during the night, or exceed 72 degrees Fahrenheit during the day.
Rabbits aren't rodents like most people think. They are actually Lagomorphs.
Rabbits can suffer from heat stroke.
Rabbits do in fact make sounds. When angry, upset, or frightened, a rabbit makes a sort of grunting/whimpering sound. It's actually quite interesting.
Rabbits have been the emblem of fertility because of its well-known talents for multiplying.
Rabbits have three eyelids, they also are incapable of burping or farting.
Racecar spelled backwards is racecar.
Radio and TV producer John Guedel was the originator of the musical commercial.
Rain falls at 11kmph (7mph)
Raindrops aren't actually tear-drop shaped. They are rounded at the top and flat on the bottom.
Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S.
Raphael died on his birthday in 1520 at the age of 37. His artwork was so popular that he essentially worked himself to death.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
Rats are omnivorous, eating nearly any type of food, including dead and dying members of their own species.
Rats can survive without water longer than camels.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
Recent epidemiological studies have shown that while excessive intake of alcohol kills off brain cells, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. Thus, regular consumption of beer helps eliminate the weaker cells, constantly making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.
Recent scientific research has has shown Duck's quacks DO echo, even though they are commonly thought not to because the echo is can not be heard by the human ear.
Red is the most commonly colored vehical involved in accidents each year.Red is the most popular car color in the U.S.
Red paint is the cheapest color to make.
Refried beans aren't really what they seem. Although their name seems like a reasonable translation of Spanish frijoles refritos, the fact is that these beans aren't fried twice. In Spanish, refritos literally means "well-fried," not "re-fried."
Reggie Jackson holds the major league record for most strikeouts with 2,597.
Regular coffee drinkers have about one-third less asthma symptoms than those non-coffee drinkers. So says a Harvard researcher who studied 20,000 people.
Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
Rembrandt died broke. A friend had to come up with the $5.20 it cost to bury the great master.
Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Research show that only 43% of homemade dinners served in the US include vegetables.
Retail espresso vendors report an increase in decaffeinated sales in the month of January due to New Year's resolutions to decrease caffeine intake.
Rhinos are part of the same family as horses.
Ribbon worms eat themselves if they cant find food
Rice and some other grains contain chemicals that can enhance brain functions.
Rice is the staple food of more than one-half of the world's population.
Rice paper isn't made from rice but from a small tree which grows in Taiwan.
Richard F. has pointed out possible inaccuracies with the trivia for December 16th and January 1st. For this reason, I have decided to pull them.
Richard Henry and Francis Lightfoot Lee are the only brothers who signed the Declaration of Independence. Their cousin, Henry Lee, was a famous Revolutionary War commander and the father of General Robert E. Lee.
Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." William Jefferson Clinton is the second.
Richard Nixon was the 1st US president to visit China in February, 1972.
Ricin is a protein produced by the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis, which is highly toxic (the minimal lethal dose is around 1 µg / kg body weight, that means 1/15th of a milligram could kill a 150 lb. person). Ricin can be a dangerous contaminant, making the production of castor oil a precisely controlled process.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.Rin Tin Tin was born to a war-dog mother in a German trench in France during World War I. Deserted when the Germans retreated, the German shepherd puppy was found by an American officer who happened to be a police-dog trainer from California. During Rin Tin Tin's training after the war, the dog's intelligence came to the attention of Warner Brothers, which signed the dog up for what turned out to be a long career as one of the biggest box-office draws of the silent screen era.
Rising sea levels caused by global warming could lead to major flooding in Shanghai and Guangzhou and other Chinese coastal cities by year 2050. This could cause 76 million people to become homeless.
Roasted coffee beans start to lose small amounts of flavor within two weeks. Ground coffee begins to lose its flavor in one hour. Brewed coffee and espresso begins to lose flavor within minutes.
Robert Goddard a scientist and holder of 214 patents fired the first rocket using liquid propellant in 1926.
Robert Peary, who left pieces of the flag scattered at the North Pole was honored for doing this.
Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's oldest son) was in Washington DC during his father's assassination as well as during President Garfield's assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated.
Robert Wadlow is regarded as the tallest man ever known. He was 8'11" at the time of his death at the age of 21.
Robert William Thomson, a Scottish engineer, invented the first rubber tire in 1845.
Rodents teeth never stop growing.
Roger Bannister of Great Britain was the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. On May 6, 1954, he ran the mile in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds.
Roman statues were made with detachable heads, so that one head could be removed and replaced by another.
Ronald Reagan married his first wife, Jane Wyman, at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
Rosalind Franklin was the woman behind Watson and Crick's doudle helix DNA model. She did all the experiments, but died before she was paid credit. Watson and Crick merely took her results and interpreted it.
Roseanne's fear is anyone touching her toes.
Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
Rudolph the Red-nosed reindeer was actually created as a promotional figure for Montgommery Wards department stores.
Roulette was invented by the French mathematician Blaise Pascal. It was a by-product of his experiments with perpetual motion.Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Rubbing cocoa butter on your abdomen during pregnancy will prevent stretch marks.
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, was created in 1939, in Chicago, for the Montgomery Ward department stores for a Christmas promotion. The lyrics were written as a poem by Robert May, but weren't set to music until 1947. Gene Autry recorded the hit song in 1949.
Rudyard Kipling was fired as a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner. His dismissal letter was reported to have said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language. This isn't a kindergarten for amateur writers."
Running cold water over the onion and the knife will keep you from crying when you cut it, because water neutralizes the chemical that makes you cry.
Rutgers beat Princeton 6-4 in the first ever college football game. At the time, a touchdown was worth only two points.
Rutherford Hayes became U.S. President by one vote.
Saffron, made from the dried stamens of cultivated crocus flowers, is the most expensive cooking spice.
Saint Isidore, or Seville, who lived in the 17th century, was believed to have written the world's first encyclopedia, the Etymologies. It included entries on medicine, mathematics, history and theology.
Salt caravans crossing the Sahara desert sometimes numbered as many as 40,000 camels.
Salt is mentioned more than 30 times in the Bible.
Salt was once a very precious commodity, so much that many people were paid
Samual Morse, who invented the telegraph, was originally a portrait painter and didn't give up painting to turn to inventing until he was 46 years old.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
Samuel Clemens [AKA Mark Twain] was born in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
Sandy Koufax threw a no-hitter in four consecutive seasons between 1962-65. He's the only player to throw no-hitters in more than two straight seasons.
Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nicholas who brings presents to children on New Year's Eve.
Santa's reindeer are: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen.
Saudi Arabia covers an area of 830,000 sq. miles, yet there is not a single river in the whole country.
Scandinavia has the world's highest per capita annual coffee consumption, 26.4 pounds. Italy has an annual consumption per capita of only 10 pounds.
Scarecrows frighten birds because of the human odor emitted from the clothes they wear. Come rain and wind, this odor dissapears. (tip for people who dont bathe often)
Scholars estimate that the 66 books of the King James version of the Bible were written by some 50 different authors.
Scholars have named the highest number that's been counted, a googleplex.
Scientists have discovered that the mating call of the Mediterranean fruit fly has exactly the same frequency as lower F# on a harmonica.
Scientists have figured out that the speed of nerve impulses in the brain is 404 feet per second. If an idea is complex enough to take 100 nerve messages from one side of the brain to the other, the thought could be completed in less than a tenth of a second.
Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
Scorpions can be killed by pouring vinegar over them. They'll 'snap' and sting themself.
Scorpions can withstand 200 times more nuclear radiation than humans can.
Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world.
Sea otters have the thickest fur of all animals.
Sea turtles don't age-they wont die unless they get an infection or get eaten by a larger animal. This means there could be a thousand year old turtle swimming around somewhere.....
Sea water is approximately 3.5 percent salt.
Sea water weighs about a pound and a half more per cubic foot than fresh water at the same temperature.
Sea water, loaded with mineral salts, weighs about a pound and a half more per cubit foot than fresh water at the same temperature.
Sears Roebuck and Company was founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears, a former railroad worker turned watch salesman, and Alvah Roebuck, a watchmaker.
Seattle passed an ordinance that states that goldfish could ride the city buses in bowls only if they kept still.
Second and third Presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, both died on July 4, 1826.
Seeing eye dogs are color blind but can still read stop lights by the position of the 'on' light
Self-annointing is something only hedgehogs do, in which they lick or nibble on something, make a foamy paste in their mouths, and then spread it with their long tongues in little spots on their quills. No one has ever determined exactly why they do this.
Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language.
Seven cities claim to be the birthplace of the Greek epic poet Homer. He is also thought to have been born in either 1159 B.C., 1102 B.C., 1044 B.C., 830 B.C., or 685 B.C.
Seven of the eight US Presidents who have died in office either through illness or assassination were elected at precisely 20-year intervals.
Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.
Seven thousand years ago, the ancient Egyptians bowled on alleys similar to the ones in use today.
Several buildings in Manhattan, NY have their own zip code. For example the former World Trade Center has several.
Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616.
Shaquelle O'Neal [AKA Shaq] wears a size 22EEE shoe.
Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.
Sharks are immune to cancer.
Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.
Shell color is determined by the breed of hen and has no effect on its quality, nutrients or flavor.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson".
Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective, arrived on the mystery scene in the late nineteenth century in "A Study in Scarlet" (1887).
Shipwreck Kelly (1885-1952) set many flagpole-sitting records. He sat for 49 days on one flagpole. He once estimated that he spent a total of over 20,000 hours sitting on flagpoles. Flagpole sitting was a craze started in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1929.
Shirley Temple always has 56 curls in her hair. (talk about uptight).
Shirly Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday.
Shoe salesmen have been using those little wooden measuring sticks since 1657.
shrimp have their heart in their head
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Since Hindus don't eat beef, the McDonald's in New Delhi makes its burgers with mutton.
Since the beginning of this fact, 3000 puppies were born in the U.S.A
Sing Sing prison in New York has a name derived from the Indian words for "stony place."
Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes in New York in 1919, to become the first horse to capture the Triple Crown. This was the first time that the Belmont Stakes had been run as part of thoroughbred racing's most prestigious trio of events. Sir Barton had already won the first two jewels of the Triple Crown -the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky and the Preakness Stakes in Maryland.
Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.
Sir Isaac Newton was only 23 years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation.
Six checker cabs are still in use in NYC.
Six eight-stud Lego pieces can be combined 102,981,500 ways.
Six ounces of orange juice contains the minimum daily requirement for vitamin C.
Skin is thickest, 1/5 inch, on the upper back. It is thinnest on the eyelids, which are only 1/50th inch thick
Slaves who lived under the Manchus the last emperors of China who ruled from 1644-1912 wore pigtails so that they could be picked out quickly.
Sliced bread was introduced under the Wonder Bread label in 1930.
Sliced bread was patented in 1954.
Slicing the ear off the bull is the main object to bullfighting in one form...then stabbing the bull through the neck into the spinal cord to kill it is the next goal...the matadors are allowed two tries for that. Next, two mules take the dead carcass out of the stadium and where they have a celebration in honor of the owner of the bull and a feast (guess what the main course is!).
Slugs have four noses.
Smith is the most common last name in the United States. A little over 1% of all Americans share that last name.
Smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.
Smokey the Bear's zip code is 20252.
Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.Snakes are immune to their own poison.
Snakes have two sex organs... in case one drops off in their fervent attempt to trick females into mating..
'Soldiers disease' is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.
Some baby giraffes are more than six feet tall at birth.
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say 'many things' and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -in many places -refers to '40 days,' they meant many days.
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible in many places refers to "40 days," they meant many days.
Some cultures kiss by biting off each other's eyelashes.
Some frogs like the wood frog and some turtles can stop their heart and frost their tissues during winter and defrost after that
Some frogs use sugars as an antifreeze for vital organs
Some horticulturists suspect that the banana was the earth's first fruit. Banana plants have been in cultivation since the time of recorded history. One of the first records of bananas dates back to Alexander the Great's conquest of India where he first discovered bananas in 327 B.C.
Some large clouds store enough water for 500000 showers
Some lions mate 50 times a day.
Some people have more bones in their feet than others.
Some reconstituted tobacco contains the same ingredients found in fart.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
Somebody actually timed a rattlesnake mating session that lasted 22.75 hours.
Sometime around 1050 some English boys looking for a diversion blew up an old cow bladder and began to kick it around. The new game would go on to be called soccer.
Sometime around 1325, the Aztecs were looking for a place to build their capital. A priest had interpreted an omen to mean the site should be where the found an eagle, perched on a cactus, devouring a snake. And that's why they chose what is now Mexico City; they found the eagle eating a snake while resting on a cactus. The scene is depicted on the Mexican flag.
son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called
Sound carries so well in the Arctic that on a calm day, a conversation can be heard from 1.8 miles away.
Source: Another Site
Source: Growing up jewish
Source: In an old dictionary (70 years old) in my basement
Source: Rabbit shows/fact books
South Africa is the only country to have three capital cities: one for each branch of its government (Administrative, Legislative, and Judicial).
South Africa used to have two official languages, now it has eleven.
Southbridge, Massachusetts, makes it illegal to read books or newspapers after 8 p.m. in the streets.
Soybean actually has Diadzein and genistein that act like weak estrogen.
Special studies conducted about the human body revealed it will usually absorb up to about 300 milligrams of caffeine at a given time. About 4 normal cups. Additional amounts are just cast off, providing no further stimulation. Also, the human body dissipates 20% of the caffeine in the system each hour.
Sperm banks keep their donor semen at approximately -321 degrees Fahrenheit. At that temperature, it could be kept indefinitely.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
Squirrels eat through 40,000 pine cones a year.
St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in the US.
St. Teresa of Avila is the patron saint of chess-players!!
Stag beetles have stronger mandibles than humans.
Stage bows were originally devised as a way for actors to thank the audience. The audience would or would not acknowledge each of the actors in turn, depending on how much they enjoyed the performance.
Stamp collecting is the most popular hobby in the world.Stanford University engineers Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started their company in a Palo Alto garage with $1,538. Their first product was an audio oscillator bought by Walt Disney studios for use in the movie Fantasia.
Stanley Kubrick approached Lloyd's of London about an insurance policy in case extraterrestrial life was discovered before the release of his movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Starfish eat by regurgitating their stomach on top of their food. If they dont like what they are eating they detach the stomach and grow a new one.
Starfish have eight eyes, one at the end of each leg.
Starfish have no brains.
Stars come in different colors; hot stars give off blue light, and the cooler stars give off red light.
Stars with really strong gravity cause themselves to become smaller and smaller and eventually turn into black holes.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died.
Sterling silver contains 7.5% copper.
Steve McQueen persuaded his karate teacher, kickboxing champion Chuck Norris, to pursue acting.
Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Steven Speilberg calls Gweneth Paltrow "Gwynnie the pooh."
Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed using only the left hand.
Sting got his name from a black and yellow striped sweater he would wear a lot.
Sting was a high school teacher
Strawberries, raspberries, and cherries are not actually berries.
Streetcar conductors, taxi drivers, and business executives have the highest statistical chance of getting peptic ulcers.
Strength is the longest english word with only one vowel.
Strict Puritan laws had their origins from practical reasons. Smoking was banned farmers would raise badly needed food crops instead of tobacco. Cooking was banned on Sundays to prevent house fires during the long hours the family was at church. Young men were banned from hunting to prevent weapons from falling into Indian hands.
Studies have proven that it's harder to tell a convincing lie to someone you find sexually attractive.
Studies have shown that men become sexually aroused nearly every time they dream.
Studies show that, for some unknown reason, the higher the level of education, the more men tend to have wet dreams.
Stuttering is 4 to 6 times more common in boys than in girls.
Subbookkeeper is the only word with four pairs of double letters in a row.
Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist (William Semple).
Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869. Ironically, a dentist named William Semple was behind the decision.
suit against G-d. He won because the defendant never showed up in court.
Sunday, July 20, 1969: Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, Edwin Aldrin was the second. They were members of Apollo 11, and landed in the Sea of Tranquility. The Lunar Excursion Module was named the "Eagle." Michael Collins stayed onboard the mother ship, "Columbia."
Swans are the only birds with penises.
Swaziland has banned miniskirts in schools in an effort to slow the spread of AIDS.
Swearing at someone over the phone in virginia is punishable by a $100 fine.
Sweden is the largest spender on ketchup. $4 per capita. Australia is second at $2.50
Sweden will be home of the worlds first fermented harring museum.
SWIMS is the longest word with 180-degree rotational symmetry (if you were to view it upside-down it would still be the same word and perfectly readable).
Swiss Steak, Chop Suey, Russian Dressing, and a Hamburger all originated in the US.
Syzygy is the term referring to when the moon is in a direct line with the earth and the sun. The average person knows this time to be a full or new moon.
Table tennis balls have been known to travel off a paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr (approx. 100mph).
Talking on a cellular phone while driving is against the law in Israel.
Tallahassee, FL was the only Southern capital east of the Mississippi not captured during the U.S. Civil War.
Tangerines are named after the Moroccan city of Tangiers.
Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
Tapioca is made from the starch in the roots of a poisonous plant known as bitter cassava.
Tarantulas can go up to 2 years without eating or drinking. Sea turtles can go up to 35 years without eating or drinking.
Tarantulas have retractable claws like cats and the hairs on their abdomen and back legs can stick into an enemy and itch. They also get bald on their thorax when they get old. Thanx Laura
Tasmania has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.
Tatum O’Neal is the youngest Oscar winner not to receive a Special Award. O’Neal was just 10 years old when she won the Best Supporting Actress award for Paper Moon. Shirley Temple is the youngest person to win an Academy Award when she was given the Special Award for Outstanding Contribution in 1934 at the age of 6.
Taurine, the main ingredient in Red Bull, is an extract of the stomach lining of cows
Tea was so expensive when it was first brought to Europe in the early 17th century that it was kept in locked wooden boxes.
Ten inches of snow equals one inch of rain in water content.
Ten percent of the salt mined in the world each year is used to de-ice the roads in America.
Tequila is made from the root of the blue agave cactus.
Tequila is thought to be the first distilled liquor in the Americas. The Aztecs were known to have drunk it before Cortez arrived.
Termites outnumber humans ten to one
Tessenjutsu is a deadly martial art in Japan that is based solely on the use of a fan.
Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners or their eyes.
Texas is the only state that allows its residents to cast absentee ballots from space. This is because the Houston Space Center is home to most of the United States' astronauts. Texas was one of the first states to adopt capital punishment by lethal injection -in 1977.
Thanks to the electric light, the average American today sleeps 1.5 hours less each day than Americans of 60 years ago.
That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life.
That white, powdery stuff on the wings of moths is actually the way moths dispose of waste.
The "57" on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
The "caduceus" the classical medical symbol of two serpents wrapped around a staff comes from an ancient Greek legend in which snakes revealed the practice of medicine to human beings.
The "countdown" (counting down from 10 for an event such as New-Years Day) was first used in a 1929 German silent film called "Die Frau Im Monde" (The Girl in the Moon).
The "Daddy long legs" spider has venom to be used as a defensive mechanism. Don't worry though, coz it cannot puncture human skin, and even if it did, it would PROBABLY only cause a allergic reaction
the "honey month" or what we know today as the "honeymoon."
The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him.
The "if" and "then" parts of conditional ("if P then Q") statement are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q).
The "London Bridge" is now in Arizona in the U.S.A. This fat cat(rich guy) bought it for only $2.46 million dollars.
The "Miss America" pageant made its network TV debut on ABC In 1954. Miss California, Lee Ann Meriwether, was crowned the winner.
The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."
The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
The "save" icon in Microsoft©®™ Word's toolbar shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
The "Sesame Street" characters Bert and Ernie were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the cab driver in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Like."
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
The "Spruce Goose" flew on November 2, 1947, for one mile, at a maximum altitude of 70 feet. Built by Howard Hughes, it is the largest aircraft ever built, the 140-ton eight-engine seaplane, made of birch, has a wingspan of 320 feet. It was built as a prototype troop transport. Rejected by the Pentagon, Hughes put the plane into storage, never to be flown again.
The "Twelve Days of Christmas" gifts: A partridge in a pear tree, two turtledoves, three French hens, four calling birds, five gold rings, six geese laying, seven swans swimming, eight maids milking, nine ladies dancing, ten lords leaping, eleven pipers piping, and twelve drummers drumming. (There are 364 gifts altogether)
The "y" in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a "th" sound, not "y". The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England used the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".
The "You Are Here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator.
The # symbols is often referred to as a "number sign" or "pound sign." Its actual name is an octothorpe
The 1922 Essex was the first popularly priced car available with a closed body. The two-door, six-cylinder sedan was called the Essex Coach and sold for $945.
The 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles was the first time the three-level winner's stand was used for the medal ceremony.
The 1st 20 African slaves were brought to the US, to the colony of Virginia in 1619, by a Dutch ship.
The 1st Academy Awards ceremony to be telecast was the 25th, in 1953.
The 1st Academy Awards were presented in 1927.
The 1st annual Grammy Awards were awarded in 1959. The Record of the Year was "Volare" by Domenico Modugno, the Album of the Year was "Peter Gunn" by Henry Mancini and the winner of the best R&B performance was "Tequila" by Champs.
Most-visited presidential grave: John F. Kennedy's in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. The only other president buried in Arlington: William Howard Taft.
Mount Everest is a foot higher today than it was a century ago, and it's believed to still be growing.
Mount Everest moves approximately 2.4 inches (10 cm) in a Northeasterly direction every year.
Mount Everst in Nepal, China: 29,035 feet / 8850 meters (seven feet [2.1 meters] above it's height of 29,028 feet which was determined in 1954).
Mountain Dew does reduce your sperm count significantly.
Movie detective Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.
Mozart sold one of his most prized pieces, Symphony No. 5 for under $20.
Mr Ennis used to be a singer for a jazz band (He's my modern history teacher)
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.
Mt. Athos, in northern Greece, likes to call itself an independent country. It has a population of about 4,000...all men. No females of any kind, including animals, are allowed. There are twenty monasteries within a space of twenty miles.
MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. on August 1, 1981 The first music-video shown on the rock-video cable channel was, appropriately, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. MTV's original five veejays were Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, J.J. Jackson and Alan Hunter.
Muhammad Ali won his heavyweight championships on three continents: North America, Asia and Africa.
Muhammad is the most common first name in the world.
Mules are genetically sterile. i.e. they cannot reproduce.
Murphy's oil soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
Mushrooms have no chlorophyll so they don't need sunshine to grow and thrive. Some of the earliest commercial mushroom farms were set up in caves in France during the reign of King Louis XIV (1638-1715).
Nabisco's "Oreo's" are the world's best-selling brand of cookie at a rate of 6 billion sold each year. The first Oreo was sold in 1912.
'Naked' means to be unprotected. 'Nude' means unclothed.
Names for Atlantic hurricanes can be only French, English, or Spanish.
Napoleon Bonaparte is the historical figure most often portrayed in movies. He has been featured in 194 movies, Jesus Christ in 152, and Abraham Lincoln in 137.
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
Napoleon took 14,000 French decrees and simplified them into a unified set of 7 laws. This was the first time in modern history that a nation's laws applied equally to all citizens. Napoleon's 7 laws are so impressive that by 1960 more than 70 governments had patterned their own laws after them or used them verbatim.
NASCAR stands for National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing.
Natural gas has no odor. The smell is added artificially so that leaks can be detected.
Nearly 400 cocoa beans are required to make a pound of chocolate liquor, the semi-liquid mass produced by grinding the beans. A non-alcoholic substance, chocolate liquor is the basis of all chocolate and cocoa products.
Nearly 50% of all bank robberies take place on Friday.Nearly half the people on the earth live in only one thirtieeth of the total land area.
Neck ties were first worn in Croatia.
Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
Neil Shoen, the guitarist from Journey got his start playing in San Francisco with Santana.
Neil Young was once roommates with Rick James.
Neither Fruit Flies nor May Flies are flies.
Nevada was the first state to sanction the use of the gas chamber, and the first execution by lethal gas took place in February, 1924.
New Hampshire law forbids you to tap your feet, nod your head, or in any way keep time to the music in a tavern, restaurant, or cafe.
New Hampshire's license plates are stamped with the motto "Live Free Or Die." They are made by prison inmates.
New Jersey, with 96, is the US state with the greatest number of hazardous waste sites.
New Orleans' first Mardi Gras celebration was held in February, 1826.
New York City has 570 miles of shoreline.
New York City's administrative code still requires that hitching posts be located in front of City Hall so that reporters can tie their horses.
New York City's nickname the "Big Apple" is named after an early swing-dance that originated in a South Carolina club (which used to be a church) called "The Big Apple."
New York's first St. Patrick's day parade was held on March 17, 1762.
New Zealand is the only country that contains every type of climate in the world.
Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They gradually merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5.
Next time you start a riot in Wisconsin remember that it is illegal to use a laser pointer to do so.
Nine U.S. Presidents never went to college: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, and Harry Truman.
Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.
No evidence of man's evolutionary ancestors has so far been found in either North or South America. Fossils and other remains suggest that the first Americans crossed the Bering Straits (which at the time was dry land) from Asia between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago.
No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second.No language has more synonyms than English.
No man is allowed to make love to his wife with the smell of garlic, onions, or sardines on his breath in Alexandria, Minnesota. If his wife so requests, law mandates that he must brush his teeth.
No one knows where Mozart is buried.
No one knows why there is a 33 on a Rolling Rock bottle... the secret died with the original brewer.
No one knows why, but 90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right....
No one may catch fish with his bare hands in Kansas.
No piece of dry square paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
No piece of square, dry paper can be folded more than seven times in half
No president of the United states was an only child.
No SEAL has ever surrendered and no wounded or dead SEAL has ever been left on the field during battle.
No solar eclipse can last longer than 7 minutes 58 seconds because of the speed at which the sun moves.No species of wild plant produces a flower or blossom that is absolutely black, and so far, none has been developed artificially.
No two human outer EARS (pinnae)-even your own- are exactly alike.Earology, as the system is called, was developed to supplement identification by fingerprints.
No two lions have the same pattern of whiskers, like a fingerprint.
No two spider webs are the same.
No woman may have sex with a man while riding in an ambulance within the boundaries of Tremonton, Utah. If caught, the woman can be charged with a sexual misdemeanor and "her name is to be published in the local newspaper." The man isn't charged nor is his name revealed.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
Nobel, actually invented dynamite, (Dynamite no.1 and Ballistite) but when he saw the destruction it caused, he decided to do something benevolent with all the money he made. Hence the Nobel Prize.
Nobody is buried in Grant's tomb. President & Mrs. Grant are entombed there. A body is buried only when it is placed in the ground and covered with dirt.
Nobody knows what happened to the body Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. During his funeral in 1791, a thunderstorm suddenly appeared and his funeral party dropped the coffin and ran for cover. When they returned, the coffin was gone.
Nobody knows where Mozart is buried.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
Non-married couples in Idaho who engage in sexual intercourse can be jailed for up to six months
No-one has ever died from smoking cannabis
North America was called Turtle Island by the Delaware Indians.
Not only do apple seeds contain cyanogens, precursors to cyanide, but peach pits, almond skins, citrus fruits and some berrys contain them aswell.
Nothing rhymes with the word 'month'
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Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously it can kill you.
Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are at least fifty years old.
October 1st is the official Coffee Day in Japan.
Oddly, no term existed for "homosexuality" in ancient Greece there were only a variety of expressions referring to specific homosexual roles. Experts find this baffling, as the old Greek culture regarded male/male love in the highest regard. According to several linguists, the word "homosexual" was not coined until 1869 by the Hungarian physician Karoly Maria Benkert.
Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.
Of all the languages in the world, English has the largest vocabulary about 800,000 words.
Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions.
Of Chief Executives, only Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of a President.
Of the 206 bones in the human body, 52 are in the feet.
Of the 2200 persons quoted in the current edition of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," only 164 are women.
Of the 25 highest mountains on earth, 19 are in the Himalayas.
Of the 266 men who have been pope, 33 have died violently.
Of the 3,000 islands in the Bahama chain in the Caribbean, only 20 are inhabited.
Of the 60,000 americans who fled to Canada during the Viet Nam war 30,000 still reside there.
Of the estimated 162 million land-based telephones in the U.S., 25 million have unlisted numbers.
Of the Top 10 grossing movies of the 1980s, seven were either produced or directed by Stephen Spielberg or George Lucas. They also represent the men behind the top three grossing films of the 1970s.
Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
Officially, the term "boulder" is applied only to stones larger than 10 inches in diameter.
Ok food fans! Whats in an oxtail soup? "Oxen tails!" i hear you say...well, wrong. Try beef cattle.
Okay, ketchup actually began in Thailand. There it was labelled "Kachiap".
Olympic badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers.Olympic pools are 50 meters long.
Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system.
On a bingo card of 90 numbers there are approximately 44 million possible ways to make bingo.
On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.
On a clear night in the Northern Hemisphere the naked eye can discern some 5000 stars.
On an American one-dollar bill there is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the upper-right-hand "1" and a spider hidden in the front upper-right-hand corner.
On April 12, 1938, the state of New York passed a law requiring medical tests for marriage license applicants, the first state to do so.
On April 25, 1889, The Kansas Times and Star was the first newspaper to use the phrase “bestseller.” On that day the newspaper listed six books as the “best sellers here last week.”
On August sixth, 1945, during World War Two, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated 140,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.
On average 150,000 pints of Guiness are lost each year in the mustaches of English tavern-goers.
On average 900 people start the Navy SEALs training program. On average 650 people drop out.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day.
On average, 42,000 balls are used and 650 matches are played at the annual Wimbledon tennis tournament.
On average, 90% of the people that have the disease Lupus are female.
On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
On average, about 500 meteorites strike the surface of the Earth each year. The calculated risk of being struck by a meteorite in the United States is once every 9,300 years.
On average, adults watch double the amount of TV as teenagers do.
On average, Americans consume eighteen acres of pizza daily
On average, Americans spend about 6 months of their lives waiting at red traffic lights.On average, cows poop 16 times a day.
On average, every American consumes 109 pounds of beef a year. It takes eight pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef.
On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.
On average, every person in the United States owns 2.1 radios.
On average, more people fear spiders than death.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do dying. However, statistically you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by the bite of a poisonous spider.
On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
On average, right-handed people live 9 years longer than their left-handed counterparts.
On average, twelve newborns are given to the wrong parents each day.
On average, we lose 11 oz. of weight while we are asleep at night.
On average, we spend 6 months of our lives waiting for red lights.
On average, when asked for a color, 3 out of 5 people will say red.
On Dec. 10th 1901 the 1st Nobel prizes were awarded. Literature Rene Sully-Prudhomme; Physiology Emil von Behring; Chemistly Jacobus van't Hoff; Physics Wilhelm Roentgen; Peace Jean Henri Dunant Frederic Passy.
On December 20, 1860, South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union.
On February 6, 1971 the first golf ball was hit on the moon by Alan Shepard.
On February 7, 1969 a meteorite weighing over 1 ton fell in Chihuahua, Mexico.
On February 9, 1993, "Dateline NBC" was forced to publicly apologize, and NBC president Michael Gartner resigned for a scandal caused by "Dateline" rigging a GM truck with explosives to simulate a "scientific" crash-test demo.
On Hilton Head Island, South Carolina it is illegal to shine a flashlight on a sea turtle.
On its trip around the sun, the earth travels over a million and a half miles per day.
On July 28th, 1945, a US Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York's Empire State Building, killing 14 people.
On July 4, 1776, King George III of England noted in his diary: "Nothing of importance happened today."
On June 26th, 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco. (The text of the charter was in five languages: Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.)
On May 25, 1957, two men with the same name scored holes in one on the same golf course. Edward Chapman got a hole in one on the eighth hole at Richmond, Surrey in England. Later that day, Edward Chapman hit one from from the sixth tee.
On record, the largest iceberg ever, was larger than the country of Belgium.
On record, the only time it recently snowed in the Sahara Desert was on Feb.18,1979.
On September 13th, 1916 an elephant that had killed a man was hanged until dead from a rail road crain in Erwin, Tennesee. On their first attempt the elephant fell to the ground. It was very sad.
On the cartoon show "The Jetsons," Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15 years old.
On the old Canadian 2 dollar bill,the flag flying over the Parliament Building is NOT an American flag.
On this planet there is a can of SPAM opened every four seconds.
Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.
One - quarter of the world's cattle live in India.
One 75-watt light bulb gives off more light than three 25-watt light bulbs.
One American of every 16 will have one of the Top 12 most common last names.
One beaver can cut down as many as 216 trees per year.
One in about eight million people has progeria, a disease that causes people to grow faster than they age.
One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
One in every 9000 people is an albino.
One in every four Americans has appeared on television.
One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.
One light year the distance light travels in a year at the speed of 186,000 miles per second is just under six thousand billion miles. Earth's nearest neighbor in space, outside our own solar system is four light years away (about 24 trillion miles).
One million tons of oil is equivalent to about 13,000,000,000 kilowatt hours of electricity.
One of the greatest soldiers in history, Alexander the Great, was tutored by the greatest thinker of all time, Aristotle.
One of the holiest Christian holidays is named after a pagan goddess. The name "Easter" derives from the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre, who governed the vernal equinox.
One of the largest carriers of hepitius B is diner mints.
One of the many Tarzans, Karmuala Searlel, was mauled to death by a raging elephant on set.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as competition).
One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured.
One penny doubled everyday becomes over 5 million dollars in just 30 days.
One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.
One pound of tea can make 300 cups of the beverage.
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
One square mile of land contains more insects than total number of human beings on earth.
One tonne of uranium produces the same amount of energy as 30,000 tonnes of coal.
Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.
Only 16% of able-bodied males in the American colonies participated in the Revolutionary War.
Only 4 mayors of U.S. cities went on to become president: Calvin Coolidge, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Andrew Johnson.
Only 3 words in the English language end in "ceed": "proceed," "exceed," and "succeed."
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
Only about 20% of harvested coffee beans are considered to be a premium bean of the highest quality.
Only female mosquitoes bite. Females need the protein from blood to produce their eggs. Males only drink water and plant juice.
Only four countries in the world start with the letter 'D'. They are Denmark, Dominica, Djibouti and the Dominican Republic
Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.
Only 1 out of 100 people have a computerOnly one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.
Only one movie has had three Academy Award nominees in the same category. In 1963, Tom Jones earned Best Supporting Actress nominations for Diane Cilento, Dame Edith Evans and Joyce Redman.
Only one of the 88 stable chemicals are named after a person gadolinium. It's named after Finnish chemist Johan Gadolin.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 years old.
Only six baseball teams remain from the original National League, which was founded in 1876.
Only three horses who had never previously won a race earned their first victories at the Kentucky Derby. They were Buchanan in 1884, Sir Barton in 1919 and Brokers Tip in 1933.
Only three Presidents graduated from the military academies: Grant, Eisenhower (West Point) and Carter (Annapolis).
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
Orange juice helps the body absorb iron easily when consumed with a meal.
Oranges, lemons, watermelons, and tomatoes are berries.
Orca (killer) whales can grow to b 30ft long.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Orchids have the smallest seeds. It takes more than 1.25 million seeds to weigh 1 gram.
Orville Wright was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
Ostriches swallow pebbles to aid in indigestion.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Our galaxy has approximately 250 billion stars.
Our nerves system transmits messages at up to 300 ft. per second.
Our sun and the surrounding planets orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy once every 250 million years.
Our sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years.
Out of all the eight letter words in the English language, only one has only one vowel in it: "strength"
Ovaltine was originally called Ovamaltine. A clerical error forced the name to be changed when the manufacturer registered the name.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows
Over 10,000 coffee cafes plus several thousand vending machines with both hot and cold coffee serve the needs of Tokyo alone.
Over 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their asses.
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people. "left" in Latin is "sinister" and "right" is "dexter". Ambidextrous simply means "both right".
Over 2500 left handed people are killed each year from using products made for right handed people.
Over 5 million people in Brazil are employed by the coffee trade. Most of those are involved with the cultivation and harvesting of more than 3 billion coffee plants.
Over 53 countries grow coffee worldwide, but all of them lie along the equator between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
Over 80% of professional boxers have suffered brain damage.
Over 96% of American households purchase bananas at least once each month.
Over billions of years, black holes become white holes and they spit out all of the things they sucked in. the atoms are completely jumbled, so no one knows what will ever come out. Theoratically they'll also turn into a white hole. If you were unfortunate enough to fall within one, you would never actually hit -- because time would stop at some point within the event horizon (space outside) of the black hole. Thanx De Composed
Over the course of his lifetime, the average man will ejaculate approximately 18 quarts of semen, containing about a half trillion sperm.
Over the last 50 years in the United States, approximately 9,000 people have died as a result of tornadoes, 5,000 as the result of floods, and 4,000 as the result of hurricanes.
Over-roasted coffee beans are very flammable during the roasting process.
Owls are one of the only birds that can see the color blue.
Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
Pablo Picasso almost died at birth. The midwife present though he was stillborn and left him on the table. His father, a physician, revived Pablo by breathing air into his lungs.
Pablo Picasso has sold more works of art individually costing over one million dollars than any other artist. His 211 is well ahead of the 168 for Pierre Auguste Renoir.
Pablo Picasso's career lasted seventy-eight years, from 1895 until his death in 1973.
Pac-Man, Namco's 1979 arcade game, was originally called "Puck Man". The name was changed when they realized that vandals could easily scratch out part of the letter "P".Pakistan was named in 1933 and is derived from the first letters of "Punjab," "Afghan," "Kashmir," "Sind," and "Tan." All of these are districts or states of what is now Pakistan.
Pamela Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence (7/1/1967).
Panama is the only place in the world where someone can see the sun rise on the Pacific Ocean and set on the Atlantic.
Paper bags are outlawed in grocery stores in Afghanistan. They believe paper is sacred.
Paper was invented in the early second century by a Chinese eunuch.
Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in one year, which is more than the real money printed in a year.
Parker Brothers was founded by George Swinerton Parker, 18, in 1885. The first game produced was 'Banking,' in which the player who amasses the most wealth is the winner.
Parrots, most famous of all talking birds, rarely acquire a vocabulary of more than twenty words, however Tymhoney Greys and African Greys have been know to carry vocabularies in excess of 100 words.
Patagonia at the southern tip of South America is the only populated land area south of 40 degrees South Latitude. By comparison, most of Europe, Asia, and two-thirds of North America are north of 40 degrees North Latitude.
Paul Gauguin's Marquesas Island neighbor, Tioka, bit him on the head after he died. Tioka was following a Marquesan custom of verifying the dead.
Paul Hornung holds the NFL record for the most points in a single season. He scored 176 points in 1960.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the two left-handed Beatles.
Paul Quincy Randolph Shermasn Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Sr.
Paul Reiser played the piano in the "Mad about You" theme.
PcGamer readers are all mighty and should be obeyed explicitly, lest they release the wrath of the Coconut Monkey upon the wrong doers.
Peanuts are beans.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Peanuts are one of the main ingredients in dynamite.
Peanuts are salted in the shell by boiling them in a heavily salted solution, then allowing them to dry.
Pearl Jam's first album, 10, was named in tribute of basketball player Mookie Blaylock who's number is 10
Pearls can melt/dissolve in vineger.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Pears ripen from the inside out, and according to a survey on the lifestyle channel, men prefer hard pears while women prefer soft pears.
Pedals were added to the bicycle in 1839.
Penguins are not found in the North Pole
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
Penguins can leap to heights as high as six feet.
Penguins feathers are covered in fat, which helps keep them warm.
Penicillin was first produced synthetically in a laboratory in 1946.
Pennies are made of 95% copper and 5% zinc.
Penny Marshall was the first woman film director to have a film take in more than $100 million at the box office she accomplished this with the 1988 flick Big.
People do not get sick from cold weather. It is mostly from being indoors more.
People drank gold powder mixed in with water in medieval Europe to relieve pain from sore limbs.
People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.
People say "bless you" when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.
People say that cracking your bones will cause arthritis when you get older. Actually all you are doing is popping air pockets, and does not cause arthritis.
People sneeze at about 90 miles per hour.
People will swallow about 8 spiders in their lifetime...mmm....yummy
Per capita, the Irish eat more chocolate than Americans, Swedes, Danes, French, and Italians.
Per-capita, Israel eats the most turkey based products in the world.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Perfume contains ethyl alcohol and 25% fragrant oils. Cologne is cheaper to produce and to purchase because the oil content in cologne is only 3%. Cologne was named for the German city in which it was first produced. The original formula combined alcohol, lemon spirits, orange bitters and mint oil.
Persians first began using colored eggs to celebrate spring in 3,000 B.C. 13th century Macedonians were the first Christians on record to use colored eggs in Easter celebrations. Crusaders returning from the Middle East spread the custom of coloring eggs, and Europeans began to use them to celebrate Easter and other warm weather holidays.
Pet parrots can eat virtually any common "people-food" except for chocolate and avocados. Both of these are highly toxic to the parrot and can be fatal.
Pierce Brosnan's first appearance as James Bond was in 1995 Golden Eye.
Pierre, the capital of South Dakota, is the only state capital name that shares no letters with the name of its state.
Pig vomit is used in perfume and cologne to hold the scent in
Pigeons can be killed by feeding them uncooked rice, either coz their stomach can't handle the carbohydrates or it swells in their throats and chokes them. No head popping.
Pigs cannot sweat because they don't have sweat glands. Instead, they roll around in mud to keep cool.Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
Pine, spruce, or other evergreen wood should never be used in barbecues. These woods, when burning or smoking, can add harmful tar and resins to the food. Only hardwoods should be used for smoking and grilling, such as oak, pecan, hickory, maple, cherry, alder, apple, or mesquite, depending on the type of meat being cooked.
Pineapples are classified as berries.
Pink elephants can be found in some regions of India. Because of the red soil, elephants take on a permanent pink color because the spray dust over their bodies to protect themselves from insects.
Pinocchio is Italian for 'Pine Eye'.
Pitcher Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds hurled his first major-league game in 1944. Nuxhall, the youngest pitcher in major league baseball, was only 15 years, 10 months and 11 days old when he pitched that game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
Planet Jupiter spins so fast that there are 2 sunrises and 2 sunsets every 24 hours by earth time.
Planet Venus is the only planet to spin counter-clockwise.
Plant life could not exist without lightning. Nitrogen, an essential food for plants, comprises 80% of the atmosphere, but in a form that is insoluble and unusable. It's the intense heat of lightning that forces the nitrogen to combine with oxygen in the air, forming nitrogen oxides that are soluble in water and fall to the earth in rain as dilute nitric acid. This reacts with minerals in the ground to become the nitrates on which the plants depend.
Plants that need to attract moths for pollination are generally white or pale yellow, to be better seen when the light is dim. Plants that depend on butterflies, such as the poppy or the hibiscus, have more colorful flowers.
Playboy debuted the triple-page centerfold in the March 1956 issue. Marian Stafford took the honors.
Playing cards in India are round.
Playing cards were issued to British pilots in World War II. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map fpr escape.
Pluto has the longest year, lasting 247 years and 256 days in Earth time (90,472 days including 61 leap years).
Poland's Stella Walsh (Stanislawa Walasiewicz)-won the women's 100-meter race at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, becoming the first woman to break the 12-second barrier. When she was killed in 1980 as an innocent victim in a robbery attempt, an autopsy declared her to be a male.
Polar bears are left handed.
Polar bears are the only mammal with hair on the soles of its feet.
polar bears do not have white fur, it is actually clear and hollow. the skin underneath this fur is actually black
Polaris is the closest visible star to true north and is thus referred to as the North Star. By sometime around the year 2100, the wobble of the Earth's axis will slowly begin pointing the North Pole away from Polaris. By the year 14,000 A.D., the new North Star will be Vega.
Police dogs were first used in 1816 in Scotland.
Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
Poor whites in Florida and Georgia are called "crackers." They got the name from their principal staple food, cracked corn. Another theory states that the name comes from the days when they would drive cattle southward using the "crack" of their bullwhips to keep the animals in line and moving.
Pope Adrian VI choked to death after a fly got stuck in his throat as he was taking a drink from a fountain
Pope John XXIII served as a sergeant in the Italian army during World War I.
Pope Leo VII (936-9) died of a heart attack during sex, Pope John VII (955-64) and John XIII (965-72) were bludgeoned to death by the husband of the woman he was with at the time, and Pope Paul II (1467-71) allegedly died while being sodomized by a page boy.
Porcupines float in water.
Portugal is the world's largest producer of cork.
POSSLQ in a census form means "Person of opposite sex sharing living Quarters"
Potato chips are American's favorite snack food. They are devoured at a rate of 1.2 billion pounds a year.
Potato chips were invented in Saratoga Springs in 1853 by chef George Crum. They were a mocking response to a patron who complained that his French fries were too thick.
Pound cake is so named not just because of the pound of butter, but more precisely because each of the four main ingredients (flour, butter, sugar and eggs) are weighed out as a pound.
Prague consumes 3 times more beer than all the soft drinks combined
Prairie dogs are not dogs. A prairie dog is a kind of rodent.
Precipitation causes K2 to be taller than Mount Everest for several weeks out of each year.
Pregnancy in humans lasts on average about 270 days (from conception to birth).
Pregnant female polar bears will not eat for several months while resting in her den under the snow. Thanx Tony W.
President Eisenhower also banished squirrels from the grounds because they were ruining the green.
President George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart in 1782. It's a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and non-commissioned officers.
President Lincoln proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day in 1863.
Preys like buffalos react poorly to slow movements. That's why crocs can swim slowly over to them without them scuttering off.
Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash.
Prior to 1907, when the United States started mass production of asphalt from crude oil, the roads were paved from asphalt bought from Trinidad, which had a pitch lake that was the world’s first large commercial source of natural asphalt.
Probably the best known multiple meaning is the hebrew word "SHALOM" which means, alternately, "hello", "good-bye", and "peace"
Proctor & Gamble originally manufactured candles before moving on to soap.
Producer Paul Maslansky was on the set of The Right Stuff when a bus from the local police academy rolled up. After a bunch of freaks walked off, a sergeant explained that the mayor had forced the department to loosen its acceptance standards. Not too long afterwards, Police Academy hit the theaters.
Professor Moriarity was Sherlock Holmes' archenemy.
Prostitution is legal in Canada, however running a brothel is not.
Prussic acid, in a crystalline powder called Zyklon B, was used to kill in Germany's gas chambers. The gas would paralyze the victim's lungs, causing them to suffocate.
Public telephones in Israel are no longer operated by tokens as they were in the past. They are now operated by magnetic cards known in Hebrew as a telecart (tel-eh-cart). These plastic cards, the same size and shape as a credit card, are available at post offices, some hotel reception desks, street kiosks and dispensing machines.
Pure electricity, when photographed, shows up as a brightly glowing liquid droplet flowing inside a tiny crystal.
Put fish skin or isinglass size of a nine-pence in pot when put on to boil or else the white and shell of half an egg to a couple of quarts of coffee."
Putty is a cement compound of fine powdered chalk or oxide of lead mixed with linseed oil.
Q is the only letter that does not appear in the names of any state of the Unites States.
Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.
Quinine, one of the most important drugs known to man, is obtained from the dried bark of an evergreen tree native to South America.
Quito in Ecuador, South America, is said to have the most pleasant climate in the world. It is called the 'Land of Eternal Spring.' The temperature rarely drops below 46 degrees Fahrenheit during the night, or exceed 72 degrees Fahrenheit during the day.
Rabbits aren't rodents like most people think. They are actually Lagomorphs.
Rabbits can suffer from heat stroke.
Rabbits do in fact make sounds. When angry, upset, or frightened, a rabbit makes a sort of grunting/whimpering sound. It's actually quite interesting.
Rabbits have been the emblem of fertility because of its well-known talents for multiplying.
Rabbits have three eyelids, they also are incapable of burping or farting.
Racecar spelled backwards is racecar.
Radio and TV producer John Guedel was the originator of the musical commercial.
Rain falls at 11kmph (7mph)
Raindrops aren't actually tear-drop shaped. They are rounded at the top and flat on the bottom.
Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S.
Raphael died on his birthday in 1520 at the age of 37. His artwork was so popular that he essentially worked himself to death.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
Rats are omnivorous, eating nearly any type of food, including dead and dying members of their own species.
Rats can survive without water longer than camels.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
Recent epidemiological studies have shown that while excessive intake of alcohol kills off brain cells, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. Thus, regular consumption of beer helps eliminate the weaker cells, constantly making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.
Recent scientific research has has shown Duck's quacks DO echo, even though they are commonly thought not to because the echo is can not be heard by the human ear.
Red is the most commonly colored vehical involved in accidents each year.Red is the most popular car color in the U.S.
Red paint is the cheapest color to make.
Refried beans aren't really what they seem. Although their name seems like a reasonable translation of Spanish frijoles refritos, the fact is that these beans aren't fried twice. In Spanish, refritos literally means "well-fried," not "re-fried."
Reggie Jackson holds the major league record for most strikeouts with 2,597.
Regular coffee drinkers have about one-third less asthma symptoms than those non-coffee drinkers. So says a Harvard researcher who studied 20,000 people.
Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
Rembrandt died broke. A friend had to come up with the $5.20 it cost to bury the great master.
Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Research show that only 43% of homemade dinners served in the US include vegetables.
Retail espresso vendors report an increase in decaffeinated sales in the month of January due to New Year's resolutions to decrease caffeine intake.
Rhinos are part of the same family as horses.
Ribbon worms eat themselves if they cant find food
Rice and some other grains contain chemicals that can enhance brain functions.
Rice is the staple food of more than one-half of the world's population.
Rice paper isn't made from rice but from a small tree which grows in Taiwan.
Richard F. has pointed out possible inaccuracies with the trivia for December 16th and January 1st. For this reason, I have decided to pull them.
Richard Henry and Francis Lightfoot Lee are the only brothers who signed the Declaration of Independence. Their cousin, Henry Lee, was a famous Revolutionary War commander and the father of General Robert E. Lee.
Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." William Jefferson Clinton is the second.
Richard Nixon was the 1st US president to visit China in February, 1972.
Ricin is a protein produced by the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis, which is highly toxic (the minimal lethal dose is around 1 µg / kg body weight, that means 1/15th of a milligram could kill a 150 lb. person). Ricin can be a dangerous contaminant, making the production of castor oil a precisely controlled process.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.Rin Tin Tin was born to a war-dog mother in a German trench in France during World War I. Deserted when the Germans retreated, the German shepherd puppy was found by an American officer who happened to be a police-dog trainer from California. During Rin Tin Tin's training after the war, the dog's intelligence came to the attention of Warner Brothers, which signed the dog up for what turned out to be a long career as one of the biggest box-office draws of the silent screen era.
Rising sea levels caused by global warming could lead to major flooding in Shanghai and Guangzhou and other Chinese coastal cities by year 2050. This could cause 76 million people to become homeless.
Roasted coffee beans start to lose small amounts of flavor within two weeks. Ground coffee begins to lose its flavor in one hour. Brewed coffee and espresso begins to lose flavor within minutes.
Robert Goddard a scientist and holder of 214 patents fired the first rocket using liquid propellant in 1926.
Robert Peary, who left pieces of the flag scattered at the North Pole was honored for doing this.
Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's oldest son) was in Washington DC during his father's assassination as well as during President Garfield's assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated.
Robert Wadlow is regarded as the tallest man ever known. He was 8'11" at the time of his death at the age of 21.
Robert William Thomson, a Scottish engineer, invented the first rubber tire in 1845.
Rodents teeth never stop growing.
Roger Bannister of Great Britain was the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. On May 6, 1954, he ran the mile in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds.
Roman statues were made with detachable heads, so that one head could be removed and replaced by another.
Ronald Reagan married his first wife, Jane Wyman, at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
Rosalind Franklin was the woman behind Watson and Crick's doudle helix DNA model. She did all the experiments, but died before she was paid credit. Watson and Crick merely took her results and interpreted it.
Roseanne's fear is anyone touching her toes.
Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
Rudolph the Red-nosed reindeer was actually created as a promotional figure for Montgommery Wards department stores.
Roulette was invented by the French mathematician Blaise Pascal. It was a by-product of his experiments with perpetual motion.Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Rubbing cocoa butter on your abdomen during pregnancy will prevent stretch marks.
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, was created in 1939, in Chicago, for the Montgomery Ward department stores for a Christmas promotion. The lyrics were written as a poem by Robert May, but weren't set to music until 1947. Gene Autry recorded the hit song in 1949.
Rudyard Kipling was fired as a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner. His dismissal letter was reported to have said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language. This isn't a kindergarten for amateur writers."
Running cold water over the onion and the knife will keep you from crying when you cut it, because water neutralizes the chemical that makes you cry.
Rutgers beat Princeton 6-4 in the first ever college football game. At the time, a touchdown was worth only two points.
Rutherford Hayes became U.S. President by one vote.
Saffron, made from the dried stamens of cultivated crocus flowers, is the most expensive cooking spice.
Saint Isidore, or Seville, who lived in the 17th century, was believed to have written the world's first encyclopedia, the Etymologies. It included entries on medicine, mathematics, history and theology.
Salt caravans crossing the Sahara desert sometimes numbered as many as 40,000 camels.
Salt is mentioned more than 30 times in the Bible.
Salt was once a very precious commodity, so much that many people were paid
Samual Morse, who invented the telegraph, was originally a portrait painter and didn't give up painting to turn to inventing until he was 46 years old.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
Samuel Clemens [AKA Mark Twain] was born in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
Sandy Koufax threw a no-hitter in four consecutive seasons between 1962-65. He's the only player to throw no-hitters in more than two straight seasons.
Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nicholas who brings presents to children on New Year's Eve.
Santa's reindeer are: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen.
Saudi Arabia covers an area of 830,000 sq. miles, yet there is not a single river in the whole country.
Scandinavia has the world's highest per capita annual coffee consumption, 26.4 pounds. Italy has an annual consumption per capita of only 10 pounds.
Scarecrows frighten birds because of the human odor emitted from the clothes they wear. Come rain and wind, this odor dissapears. (tip for people who dont bathe often)
Scholars estimate that the 66 books of the King James version of the Bible were written by some 50 different authors.
Scholars have named the highest number that's been counted, a googleplex.
Scientists have discovered that the mating call of the Mediterranean fruit fly has exactly the same frequency as lower F# on a harmonica.
Scientists have figured out that the speed of nerve impulses in the brain is 404 feet per second. If an idea is complex enough to take 100 nerve messages from one side of the brain to the other, the thought could be completed in less than a tenth of a second.
Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
Scorpions can be killed by pouring vinegar over them. They'll 'snap' and sting themself.
Scorpions can withstand 200 times more nuclear radiation than humans can.
Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world.
Sea otters have the thickest fur of all animals.
Sea turtles don't age-they wont die unless they get an infection or get eaten by a larger animal. This means there could be a thousand year old turtle swimming around somewhere.....
Sea water is approximately 3.5 percent salt.
Sea water weighs about a pound and a half more per cubic foot than fresh water at the same temperature.
Sea water, loaded with mineral salts, weighs about a pound and a half more per cubit foot than fresh water at the same temperature.
Sears Roebuck and Company was founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears, a former railroad worker turned watch salesman, and Alvah Roebuck, a watchmaker.
Seattle passed an ordinance that states that goldfish could ride the city buses in bowls only if they kept still.
Second and third Presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, both died on July 4, 1826.
Seeing eye dogs are color blind but can still read stop lights by the position of the 'on' light
Self-annointing is something only hedgehogs do, in which they lick or nibble on something, make a foamy paste in their mouths, and then spread it with their long tongues in little spots on their quills. No one has ever determined exactly why they do this.
Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language.
Seven cities claim to be the birthplace of the Greek epic poet Homer. He is also thought to have been born in either 1159 B.C., 1102 B.C., 1044 B.C., 830 B.C., or 685 B.C.
Seven of the eight US Presidents who have died in office either through illness or assassination were elected at precisely 20-year intervals.
Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.
Seven thousand years ago, the ancient Egyptians bowled on alleys similar to the ones in use today.
Several buildings in Manhattan, NY have their own zip code. For example the former World Trade Center has several.
Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616.
Shaquelle O'Neal [AKA Shaq] wears a size 22EEE shoe.
Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.
Sharks are immune to cancer.
Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.
Shell color is determined by the breed of hen and has no effect on its quality, nutrients or flavor.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson".
Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective, arrived on the mystery scene in the late nineteenth century in "A Study in Scarlet" (1887).
Shipwreck Kelly (1885-1952) set many flagpole-sitting records. He sat for 49 days on one flagpole. He once estimated that he spent a total of over 20,000 hours sitting on flagpoles. Flagpole sitting was a craze started in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1929.
Shirley Temple always has 56 curls in her hair. (talk about uptight).
Shirly Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday.
Shoe salesmen have been using those little wooden measuring sticks since 1657.
shrimp have their heart in their head
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Since Hindus don't eat beef, the McDonald's in New Delhi makes its burgers with mutton.
Since the beginning of this fact, 3000 puppies were born in the U.S.A
Sing Sing prison in New York has a name derived from the Indian words for "stony place."
Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes in New York in 1919, to become the first horse to capture the Triple Crown. This was the first time that the Belmont Stakes had been run as part of thoroughbred racing's most prestigious trio of events. Sir Barton had already won the first two jewels of the Triple Crown -the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky and the Preakness Stakes in Maryland.
Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.
Sir Isaac Newton was only 23 years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation.
Six checker cabs are still in use in NYC.
Six eight-stud Lego pieces can be combined 102,981,500 ways.
Six ounces of orange juice contains the minimum daily requirement for vitamin C.
Skin is thickest, 1/5 inch, on the upper back. It is thinnest on the eyelids, which are only 1/50th inch thick
Slaves who lived under the Manchus the last emperors of China who ruled from 1644-1912 wore pigtails so that they could be picked out quickly.
Sliced bread was introduced under the Wonder Bread label in 1930.
Sliced bread was patented in 1954.
Slicing the ear off the bull is the main object to bullfighting in one form...then stabbing the bull through the neck into the spinal cord to kill it is the next goal...the matadors are allowed two tries for that. Next, two mules take the dead carcass out of the stadium and where they have a celebration in honor of the owner of the bull and a feast (guess what the main course is!).
Slugs have four noses.
Smith is the most common last name in the United States. A little over 1% of all Americans share that last name.
Smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.
Smokey the Bear's zip code is 20252.
Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.Snakes are immune to their own poison.
Snakes have two sex organs... in case one drops off in their fervent attempt to trick females into mating..
'Soldiers disease' is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.
Some baby giraffes are more than six feet tall at birth.
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say 'many things' and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -in many places -refers to '40 days,' they meant many days.
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible in many places refers to "40 days," they meant many days.
Some cultures kiss by biting off each other's eyelashes.
Some frogs like the wood frog and some turtles can stop their heart and frost their tissues during winter and defrost after that
Some frogs use sugars as an antifreeze for vital organs
Some horticulturists suspect that the banana was the earth's first fruit. Banana plants have been in cultivation since the time of recorded history. One of the first records of bananas dates back to Alexander the Great's conquest of India where he first discovered bananas in 327 B.C.
Some large clouds store enough water for 500000 showers
Some lions mate 50 times a day.
Some people have more bones in their feet than others.
Some reconstituted tobacco contains the same ingredients found in fart.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
Somebody actually timed a rattlesnake mating session that lasted 22.75 hours.
Sometime around 1050 some English boys looking for a diversion blew up an old cow bladder and began to kick it around. The new game would go on to be called soccer.
Sometime around 1325, the Aztecs were looking for a place to build their capital. A priest had interpreted an omen to mean the site should be where the found an eagle, perched on a cactus, devouring a snake. And that's why they chose what is now Mexico City; they found the eagle eating a snake while resting on a cactus. The scene is depicted on the Mexican flag.
son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called
Sound carries so well in the Arctic that on a calm day, a conversation can be heard from 1.8 miles away.
Source: Another Site
Source: Growing up jewish
Source: In an old dictionary (70 years old) in my basement
Source: Rabbit shows/fact books
South Africa is the only country to have three capital cities: one for each branch of its government (Administrative, Legislative, and Judicial).
South Africa used to have two official languages, now it has eleven.
Southbridge, Massachusetts, makes it illegal to read books or newspapers after 8 p.m. in the streets.
Soybean actually has Diadzein and genistein that act like weak estrogen.
Special studies conducted about the human body revealed it will usually absorb up to about 300 milligrams of caffeine at a given time. About 4 normal cups. Additional amounts are just cast off, providing no further stimulation. Also, the human body dissipates 20% of the caffeine in the system each hour.
Sperm banks keep their donor semen at approximately -321 degrees Fahrenheit. At that temperature, it could be kept indefinitely.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
Squirrels eat through 40,000 pine cones a year.
St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in the US.
St. Teresa of Avila is the patron saint of chess-players!!
Stag beetles have stronger mandibles than humans.
Stage bows were originally devised as a way for actors to thank the audience. The audience would or would not acknowledge each of the actors in turn, depending on how much they enjoyed the performance.
Stamp collecting is the most popular hobby in the world.Stanford University engineers Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started their company in a Palo Alto garage with $1,538. Their first product was an audio oscillator bought by Walt Disney studios for use in the movie Fantasia.
Stanley Kubrick approached Lloyd's of London about an insurance policy in case extraterrestrial life was discovered before the release of his movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Starfish eat by regurgitating their stomach on top of their food. If they dont like what they are eating they detach the stomach and grow a new one.
Starfish have eight eyes, one at the end of each leg.
Starfish have no brains.
Stars come in different colors; hot stars give off blue light, and the cooler stars give off red light.
Stars with really strong gravity cause themselves to become smaller and smaller and eventually turn into black holes.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died.
Sterling silver contains 7.5% copper.
Steve McQueen persuaded his karate teacher, kickboxing champion Chuck Norris, to pursue acting.
Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Steven Speilberg calls Gweneth Paltrow "Gwynnie the pooh."
Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed using only the left hand.
Sting got his name from a black and yellow striped sweater he would wear a lot.
Sting was a high school teacher
Strawberries, raspberries, and cherries are not actually berries.
Streetcar conductors, taxi drivers, and business executives have the highest statistical chance of getting peptic ulcers.
Strength is the longest english word with only one vowel.
Strict Puritan laws had their origins from practical reasons. Smoking was banned farmers would raise badly needed food crops instead of tobacco. Cooking was banned on Sundays to prevent house fires during the long hours the family was at church. Young men were banned from hunting to prevent weapons from falling into Indian hands.
Studies have proven that it's harder to tell a convincing lie to someone you find sexually attractive.
Studies have shown that men become sexually aroused nearly every time they dream.
Studies show that, for some unknown reason, the higher the level of education, the more men tend to have wet dreams.
Stuttering is 4 to 6 times more common in boys than in girls.
Subbookkeeper is the only word with four pairs of double letters in a row.
Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist (William Semple).
Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869. Ironically, a dentist named William Semple was behind the decision.
suit against G-d. He won because the defendant never showed up in court.
Sunday, July 20, 1969: Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, Edwin Aldrin was the second. They were members of Apollo 11, and landed in the Sea of Tranquility. The Lunar Excursion Module was named the "Eagle." Michael Collins stayed onboard the mother ship, "Columbia."
Swans are the only birds with penises.
Swaziland has banned miniskirts in schools in an effort to slow the spread of AIDS.
Swearing at someone over the phone in virginia is punishable by a $100 fine.
Sweden is the largest spender on ketchup. $4 per capita. Australia is second at $2.50
Sweden will be home of the worlds first fermented harring museum.
SWIMS is the longest word with 180-degree rotational symmetry (if you were to view it upside-down it would still be the same word and perfectly readable).
Swiss Steak, Chop Suey, Russian Dressing, and a Hamburger all originated in the US.
Syzygy is the term referring to when the moon is in a direct line with the earth and the sun. The average person knows this time to be a full or new moon.
Table tennis balls have been known to travel off a paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr (approx. 100mph).
Talking on a cellular phone while driving is against the law in Israel.
Tallahassee, FL was the only Southern capital east of the Mississippi not captured during the U.S. Civil War.
Tangerines are named after the Moroccan city of Tangiers.
Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
Tapioca is made from the starch in the roots of a poisonous plant known as bitter cassava.
Tarantulas can go up to 2 years without eating or drinking. Sea turtles can go up to 35 years without eating or drinking.
Tarantulas have retractable claws like cats and the hairs on their abdomen and back legs can stick into an enemy and itch. They also get bald on their thorax when they get old. Thanx Laura
Tasmania has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.
Tatum O’Neal is the youngest Oscar winner not to receive a Special Award. O’Neal was just 10 years old when she won the Best Supporting Actress award for Paper Moon. Shirley Temple is the youngest person to win an Academy Award when she was given the Special Award for Outstanding Contribution in 1934 at the age of 6.
Taurine, the main ingredient in Red Bull, is an extract of the stomach lining of cows
Tea was so expensive when it was first brought to Europe in the early 17th century that it was kept in locked wooden boxes.
Ten inches of snow equals one inch of rain in water content.
Ten percent of the salt mined in the world each year is used to de-ice the roads in America.
Tequila is made from the root of the blue agave cactus.
Tequila is thought to be the first distilled liquor in the Americas. The Aztecs were known to have drunk it before Cortez arrived.
Termites outnumber humans ten to one
Tessenjutsu is a deadly martial art in Japan that is based solely on the use of a fan.
Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners or their eyes.
Texas is the only state that allows its residents to cast absentee ballots from space. This is because the Houston Space Center is home to most of the United States' astronauts. Texas was one of the first states to adopt capital punishment by lethal injection -in 1977.
Thanks to the electric light, the average American today sleeps 1.5 hours less each day than Americans of 60 years ago.
That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life.
That white, powdery stuff on the wings of moths is actually the way moths dispose of waste.
The "57" on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
The "caduceus" the classical medical symbol of two serpents wrapped around a staff comes from an ancient Greek legend in which snakes revealed the practice of medicine to human beings.
The "countdown" (counting down from 10 for an event such as New-Years Day) was first used in a 1929 German silent film called "Die Frau Im Monde" (The Girl in the Moon).
The "Daddy long legs" spider has venom to be used as a defensive mechanism. Don't worry though, coz it cannot puncture human skin, and even if it did, it would PROBABLY only cause a allergic reaction
the "honey month" or what we know today as the "honeymoon."
The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him.
The "if" and "then" parts of conditional ("if P then Q") statement are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q).
The "London Bridge" is now in Arizona in the U.S.A. This fat cat(rich guy) bought it for only $2.46 million dollars.
The "Miss America" pageant made its network TV debut on ABC In 1954. Miss California, Lee Ann Meriwether, was crowned the winner.
The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."
The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
The "save" icon in Microsoft©®™ Word's toolbar shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
The "Sesame Street" characters Bert and Ernie were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the cab driver in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Like."
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
The "Spruce Goose" flew on November 2, 1947, for one mile, at a maximum altitude of 70 feet. Built by Howard Hughes, it is the largest aircraft ever built, the 140-ton eight-engine seaplane, made of birch, has a wingspan of 320 feet. It was built as a prototype troop transport. Rejected by the Pentagon, Hughes put the plane into storage, never to be flown again.
The "Twelve Days of Christmas" gifts: A partridge in a pear tree, two turtledoves, three French hens, four calling birds, five gold rings, six geese laying, seven swans swimming, eight maids milking, nine ladies dancing, ten lords leaping, eleven pipers piping, and twelve drummers drumming. (There are 364 gifts altogether)
The "y" in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a "th" sound, not "y". The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England used the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".
The "You Are Here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator.
The # symbols is often referred to as a "number sign" or "pound sign." Its actual name is an octothorpe
The 1922 Essex was the first popularly priced car available with a closed body. The two-door, six-cylinder sedan was called the Essex Coach and sold for $945.
The 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles was the first time the three-level winner's stand was used for the medal ceremony.
The 1st 20 African slaves were brought to the US, to the colony of Virginia in 1619, by a Dutch ship.
The 1st Academy Awards ceremony to be telecast was the 25th, in 1953.
The 1st Academy Awards were presented in 1927.
The 1st annual Grammy Awards were awarded in 1959. The Record of the Year was "Volare" by Domenico Modugno, the Album of the Year was "Peter Gunn" by Henry Mancini and the winner of the best R&B performance was "Tequila" by Champs.