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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.

State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400

Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
 

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Warning, adding zinc and copper to your hair may attract lightning, but will not make you smarter.
 

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Seals used for their fur get extremely sick when taken aboard ships.

Lyndon B. Johnson was the first president of the United States to wear contact lenses.

Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.

Robert Kennedy was killed in the Ambassador Hotel, the same hotel that housed Marilyn Monroe's first modeling agency.

The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.

George Washington died the last hour of the last day of the last week of the last month of the last year of the 18th century.

Deer can't eat hay.

Noah Webster was referred to as "the walking question mark" during his student days at Yale.

Actor Steve McQueen encouraged his karate teacher to pursue a career in acting. The teacher? Chuck Norris. McQueen is quoted as telling Norris, "If you can't do anything else' there's always acting."

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

One year, Elvis Presley paid 91% of his annual income to the IRS.

Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.

Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.

Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
 

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Actor Steve McQueen encouraged his karate teacher to pursue a career in acting. The teacher? Chuck Norris. McQueen is quoted as telling Norris, "If you can't do anything else' there's always acting."
Guns don't kill people. Chuck Norris kills People.

There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of animals Chuck Norris allows to live.

Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

The chief export of Chuck Norris is Pain.

There is no chin under Chuck Norris' Beard. There is only another fist.

Chuck Norris has two speeds. Walk, and Kill.

The leading causes of death in the United States are: 1. Heart Disease 2. Chuck Norris 3. Cancer

Chuck Norris drives an ice cream truck covered in human skulls.

Chuck Norris is my Homeboy.

Chuck Norris doesn't go hunting.... CHUCK NORRIS GOES KILLING
 

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Giraffes can't cough.

The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.

All shrimp are born male, but slowly grow into females as they mature.

According to experts, large caves tend to "breathe"; they inhale and exhale great quantities of air when the barometric pressure on the surface changes, and air rushes in or out seeking equilibrium.

Birds cannot go into outer space, because they use gravity to assist them in swallowing, so they'd quickly choke and die in a non-gravity environment.

Guam has seven public elementary schools.

Humans have three color receptors in their eyes, while goldfish have four, and mantis shrimp have ten.

Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.

Birds do not sleep in their nests, although they may rest in them from time to time.

Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names.

There are more psycho-analysts per capita in Buenos Aires than any other place in the
world.

The German Bundestag, or Parliament, has 672 members and is the world's largest elected legislative body.

The mako shark and great white shark are two of the few species of shark that are warm blooded.

England is smaller than New England.

The giant crab of Japan can be as large as 12 feet across.

In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.

The snapping turtle eats carrion and is used by police to find dead bodies in lakes, ponds and swamps

Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
 

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* Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

* Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?

* The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

* The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

* The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

* Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

* Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

* 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.

* "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

* Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

* The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

* David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

* The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

* The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

* The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

* Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

* The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

* Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

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

* No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.

* The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".

* The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.

* Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
 

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The first man to distill bourbon whiskey in the United States was a Baptist preacher, in 1789.

Lobsters are scared of octopuses. The sight of one makes a lobster freeze.

The ancient Egyptians recommended mixing half an onion with beer foam as a way of warding off death.

Dogs have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them made with the ears.

The first dictionary of American English was published on April 14th, 1828, by - who else? - Noah Webster.

In 1992 five cows were killed in drive by shootings in Clay County, Missouri.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

In a test performed by Canadian scientists, using various different styles of music, it was determined that chickens lay the most eggs when pop music was played.

In ancient times, any Japanese who tried to leave his homeland was summarily put to death. In the 1630's, a decree in Japan forbade the building of any large ocean-worthy ships to deter defection.

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

Alexander Hamilton and his son, Philip, both died on the same spot, and both during duels. Philip went first, 3 years before his father would be killed in that same field by Aaron Burr.

A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.

Emir Beysari (1233-1293), an Egyptian of great wealth, drank wine from gold and silver cups, yet he never in all his life used the same cup twice.

A top freestyle swimmer achieves a speed of only 4 miles per hour. Fish, in contrast, have been clocked at 68 mph.

All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park.

Did you know that at Disneyland they have hundreds of wild domesticated cats running around the park? They never come out during the day because there's too many people, but the reason they're there is to catch the mice.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

Minnows have teeth in their throat.

Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."

More than one million stray dogs and over 500,000 stray cats live in the New York City metropolitan area.

Shakespeare spelled his OWN name several different ways.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.

It took 20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal.

The bottle-nosed whale can dive to a depth of 3,000 feet in two minutes.

Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published a novel called "Futility". The story was about an ocean liner that struck an iceberg on an April night. The name of the ship in his novel - The Titan.

Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating, they sweat through the pads of their feet.

The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.

During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.

The practice of exchanging presents at Christmas originated with the Romans.

Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

The 1,340-foot-long wall that gave New York's Wall Street its name was only 12 feet tall and erected in 1653 by Dutch colonists to protect against their enemies.

The bite of a leech is painless due to its own anesthetic.


Pope Paul IV, who was elected on 23 May 1555, was so outraged when he saw the naked bodies on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel that he ordered Michelangelo to paint on to them.

Most tropical marine fish could survive in a tank filled with human blood.

The Coliseum received its name not for its size, but for a colossal statue of Nero that stood close by, placed there after the destruction of his palace.

In Northern parts of China it was once a common practice to shave pigs. When the evenings got cold the Chinese would take a pig to bed with them for warmth and found it more comfortable if the pig was clean-shaven.

Shock treatment for epilepsy was once administered by electric catfish.
 

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-Each year, Americans spend more on cat food than on baby food.

-Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson.

-The flamingoes of East Africa have few natural enemies. In general, the only predators an adult flamingo need fear are the fish eagle and the marabou stork.

-James Garfield, 20th President of the United States, lived in the White House with his mother.

-Rats can swim for a 1/2 mile without resting, and they can tread water for 3 days straight.

-Alexander Hamilton has been credited with writing George Washington's famous Farewell Address.

-The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

-Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.

-Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.

-William Howard Taft is the only man ever to be President AND Chief Justice. The US Supreme Court appointment came second and was a job Taft enjoyed much more than the presidency.

-A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.

-By age 16, Andre the Giant (who's real name is Andre Russimof) was 6'10' tall. He had a rare glandular disorder that made his body continue to grow. Even as he died, his body was still growing.

-A robin's egg is blue, but if you put it in vinegar for thirty days it turns yellow.

-Before he pursued his acting career, Jack Nicholson worked as an office boy in MGM's cartoon department.

-Elephants often communicate at sound levels as low as 5Hz. This means that if you flap your hands back and forth faster than five times a second, an elephant can actually hear the tone produced.

-Hitler was claustrophobic. They had to install a mirror in an elevator just to keep him from being scared.

-Mongooses were brought to Hawaii to kill rats. This plan failed because rats are nocturnal while the mongoose hunts during the day.

-Green Bay Packers backup quarterback, Matt Hasselbeck, has been struck by lightning twice in his life.

-Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surroundings by osmosis.

-The Taco Bell dog is a girl. Her name is Gidget.

-Lobsters can move up to 25 feet per second underwater.

-Attila the Hun was a dwarf. Pepin the Short, Aesop, Gregory the Tours, Charles 3 of Naples, and the Pasha Hussein were all less than 3.5 feet tall.

-Octopi and squid have three hearts. Their main systemic heart pumps blood throughout the circulatory system, and two branchial hearts provide some additional push at each of the paired gills.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger paid $772,500 for President John F. Kennedy's golf clubs at a 1996 auction.

-Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.

-Whoopi Goldberg was a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer before becoming an actress.

-The digestive juices of crocodiles contain so much hydrochloric acid that they have dissolved iron spearheads and six-inch steel hooks that the crocodiles have swallowed.

-During World War II, W.C. Fields kept US $50,000 in Germany 'in case the little bastard wins'.

-The domestic cat is the only species able to hold its tail vertically while walking. Wild cats hold their tail horizontally, or tucked between their legs while walking.

-WWI flying ace Jean Navarre attacked a zeppelin armed with only a kitchen knife.

-When two zebras stand side by side, they usually face in opposite directions. They say this is so they can keep an eye out for predators.

-The U.S. Automobile Association was formed in 1905 for the purpose or providing "scouts" who could warn motorists of hidden police traps.

-A typical day for a gorilla is to get up early and eat. It eats until it gets hot, then it will nap. When it gets up from its nap, they resume eating until the sun goes down.

-When Napoleon wore black silk handkerchiefs around his neck during a battle, he always won. At Waterloo, he wore a white cravat and lost the battle and his kingdom.

-The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.

-Although most people think that Napoleon was short, he was actually five feet six inches tall (1.676 meters), an average height for a Frenchman in those days.

-Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

-Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

-The Portuguese jellyfish tentacles have been known to grow a mile in length, catching anything in it's path by stinging it's prey.

-At the outbreak of World War I, the American air force consisted of only fifty men.

-The African lungfish can live out of water for up to four years.

-The leech has 32 brains, 32 more than most humans.

-Galileo became totally blind just before his death. This is probably because of his constant gazing at the sun through his telescope.
 
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