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  1. Today is Adolf Hitler's birthday. Along with National Weed Day.


  2. Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time.

  3. if you want to know what 2 multiplied by 9 is, put down your ring finger on your left hand, (second finger from the left). your fingers up will say what it is. (your pinky left up = 1, your remaining finger = 8, 2 x 9 = 18). 1 x 9 = pinky down 9 fingers up.... works up to 9 x 9.

  4. 1. 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.

    2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.

    3. The "57" on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.

    4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person.

    5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.

    6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.

    7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.

    8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

    9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

    10. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

    11. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

    12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.

    13. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.

    14. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

    15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).

    16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

    17. The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.

    18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.

    19. A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.

    20. It's estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.

    21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar

    22. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

    23. Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.

    24. The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

    25. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

    26. The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

    27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively).

    28. Camel's have three eyelids.

    29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.

    30. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.

    31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.

    32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.

    33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.

    34. 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.

    35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.

    36. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

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

    38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce".

    39. Slugs have four noses.

    40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

    41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

    42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

    43. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMBASS)

    44. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.

    45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.

    46. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.

    47. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

    48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun's magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax".

    49. There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.

    50. Upper and lower case letters are named "upper" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.

    51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

    52. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

    53. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks.

    54. Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.

    55. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.

    56. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

    57. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

    58. The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.

    59. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the original.

    60. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

    61. Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.

    62. The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar).

    63. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".

    64. IBM's motto is "Think". Apple later made their motto "Think different".

    65. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white, due to low budget.

    66. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

    67. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

    68. One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.

    69. The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.

    70. When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived.

    71. In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes.

    72. Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald's.

    73. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, which Motorola got their name from.

    74. In the US, about 127 million adults are overweight or obese; worldwide, 750 million are overweight and 300 million more are obese. In the US, 15% of children in elementary school are overweight; 20% are worldwide.

    75. In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled backward).

    76. During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, "Red Vineyard at Arles".

    77. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

    78. One in ten people live on an island.

    79. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

    80. 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.

    81. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

    82. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

    83. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson", Humphrey Bogart NEVER said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca, and they NEVER said "Beam me up, Scotty" on Star Trek.

    84. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

    85. Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.

    86. The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head.

    87. More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).

    88. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.

    89. There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas.

    90. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

    91. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

    92. Back in the mid to late '80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

    93. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

    94. Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public).

    95. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

    96. Jim Henson first coined the word "Muppet". It is a combination of "marionette" and "puppet."

    97. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words "North" and "South).

    98. The Michelin man is known as Mr. B

  5. Dophins and humans are the only mammals that have s*x for fun.

  6. mountain dew doesnt reduce sperm count

  7. I just ate a KFC.

  8. More people die from bee stings than attacks from the Great White Shark

  9. if antarctica and greenland melted we would have 7 more miles deeper of water on earth

  10. If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

    The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

    President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

    In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

    Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

    The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

    In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"

    The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.

    According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

    Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

    The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

    It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

    Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.

    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.

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

    Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."

    When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

    There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

    Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

    The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.

    It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.

    The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927.

    The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.

    It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".

    The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

    On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

    Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

    The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

    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.

    The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

    Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, [when he could find it!]).

    The pancreas produces Insulin.

    1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

    There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).

    A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.

    The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

    The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

    Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.

    Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.

    The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

    Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.

    Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

    The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

    World Tourist day is observed on September 27.

    Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.

    The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).

    Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.

    There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.

    When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

    American car horns beep in the tone of F.

    Turning a clock's hands counterclockwise while setting it is not necessarily harmful. It is only damaging when the timepiece contains a chiming mechanism.

    There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.

    Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.

    The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.

    St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.

    The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.

    Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.

    If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.

    Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.

    Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

    Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

    Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

    You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

    A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

    The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

    Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.

    The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.

    The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

    The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.

    Beatrix Potter created the first of her legendary "Peter Rabbit" children's stories in 1902.

    In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

    The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."

    A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.

    The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.

    The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.

    Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.

    Liberace Museum has a mirror-plated Rolls Royce; jewel-encrusted capes, and the largest rhinestone in the world, weighing 59 pounds and almost a foot in diameter.

    A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.

    Cats can hear ultrasound.

    Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

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

    The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

    Children grow faster in the springtime.

    On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.

    Paul Revere rode on a horse that belonged to Deacon Larkin.

    The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

    Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

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

    Nobody knows who built the Taj Mahal. The names of the architects, masons, and designers that have come down to us have all proved to be latter-day inventions, and there is no evidence to indicate who the real creators were.

    Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

    7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.

    The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

    A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.

    The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.

    "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

    February is Black History Month.

    Jane Barbie was the woman who did the voice recordings for the Bell System.

    The first drive-in service station in the United States was opened by Gulf Oil Company - on December 1, 1913, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

    The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.

    Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.

  11. The smallest mammal known to man is the Bumblebee Bat. It's actually the size of a bumblebee!

  12. Today:

    1989 - Scientist announced the successful testing of high-definition TV.

    1964 - The Elvis Presley movie "Viva Las Vegas" premiered.

    1960 - Elvis Presley's returned to Hollywood to film "G.I. Blues."

  13. The loose skin on your elbow is called wenis.

    the matrix is the highest ranking r-rated flim.

  14. Butterflies smell with thier feet.

  15. blades of grass actually are cutting u but u cant see it because its microsopic and thats why if u sit in the grass for a long time u feel itchy

    clouds can weigh more than a humpback whale

    sharks have existed longer than trees

    when you talk ur using 72 muscles

    dogs arnt allowed in antartica

    palm trees once lived on the north pole

    your right nostril can smell better

    horses run on their toes

    the monalisa has no eyebrows

    you cant whistle on the moon

    in russia red means beautiful

    4 astroids are named after "the Beatles"

    traffic lights were invented before cars

    if u run in the rain your get 50% more than if u stand still

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