California's Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11-years-old. 
Capsaicin, which makes hot peppers "hot" to the human mouth, is best neutralized by casein, the main protein found in milk. 
China's Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat 9,000 people at one time. 
Goulash, a beef soup, originated in Hungary in the 9th century AD. 
Swiss Steak, Chop Suey, Russian Dressing, and a Hamburger all originated in the US.
Hungarian brothers George and Lazlo Biro invented the ball point pen in 1938. (Which is what it is called in Europe, the "Biro")
In 4000 BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles. 
In M&M candies, the letters stand for Mars and Murrie, the developers of the candy in 1941.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral. 
About one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice. 
Alaska, with 8, is the US state with the most national park sites. 
All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black, unless they belong to a high official.
At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world.
Australia is the only country that is also a continent. 
Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'. 
Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence. 
Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts. 
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day. 
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph. 
An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime. 
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs. 
A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows. 
A pineapple is a berry.
An average ear of corn has 800 kernels, arranged in 16 rows. 
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams. 
Banana oil never saw a banana; it's made from petroleum. 
It is impossible to lick your elbow
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in their head.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
One in every ten people live on an island.
The rose is the official National Floral Emblem of the United States.
There are over 17 basement chambers under the Taj Mahal.
There are more statues of Sacajewa, Lewis & Clark's female Indian guide, in the United States than any other person. 
Wyoming was the first US state to allow women to vote. 
Yellowstone is the world's 1st national park. It was dedicated in 1872.
The tallest monument built in the US, the Gateway Arch, in St. Louis, Missouri, is 630 feet tall. 
The Vatican's Swiss Guard still wears a uniform designed by Michelangelo in the early 16th century. 
The water in the Great Salt Lake of Utah is more than four times as salty as any ocean. 
The wettest spot in the world is located on the island of Kauai. 
The world's smallest independent state is the Vatican City, with a population of about 1,000 - and a zero birthrate. 
The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime. 
There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower. 
There are 132 rooms in the US White House. 
There are 403 steps from the foundation to the top of the torch in the Statue of Liberty. 
Work on St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, began in 1506. Construction took over a century, reaching completion in 1612. 
X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one.
The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean. 
The border between Canada and the U.S. is the world's longest frontier. It stretches 3,987 miles (6,416 km). 
The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair. 
The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome, Italy in 133 B.C.
Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
The first 100 numbers of Pi are:3.1415926535897932384 6264338327950288419716939 9375105820974944592307816 4062862089986280348253421 170679.
An American quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
The mass of the earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Thomas Jefferson invented the revolving chair.
A cucumber is not a vegetable. It's a fruit.
The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.
The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
A bushel of apples weighs about 42 pounds.
Eggplant is a member of the thistle family
Onions get their distinctive smell by soaking up sulfur from the soil.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
Ants never sleep.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Bees kill more people per year than even sharks or snakes.
The first word spoken on the moon was "Okay".
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
Aristotle thought that blood cooled the brain.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was "Moon."
Astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
At a fair in Maine, a boy spat a watermelon seed 38 ft.
At age 16, Confucius was a corn inspector.
All 17 children of Queen Anne died before she did.
Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.
Puppies generally don't wag their tails until they are about a month old.
The smallest type of cow is a breed called Dexter.
The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
A young shepherd boy discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumram, Jordan, in 1947.
The first spacecraft to visit Mars was Mariner 4 in 1965.
A full moon always rises at sunset.
A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
All the stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, revolve around the center of the galaxy every 200 million years.
If you attempted to count the stars in the Milky Way galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
Bookkeeper is the only word in the English language with three consecutive double letters.
Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book "If I Ran The Zoo."
American's throw away enough office and writing paper annually to build a wall 12 feet high stretching from New York to Los Angeles.
Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
"I Me Mine" was the last song all four Beatles' recorded together.
20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.
Giraffes can grow over 20 feet tall.
The lowest possible temperature when all molecules stop moving is -273.15 degrees Celsius. This is called Absolute Zero.
A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.
The extended right arm of the Statue of Liberty is 42 feet long.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.'
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean
The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California
The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is neumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakita natahu, a New Zealand hill.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de losAngeles de Porciuncula" and can  be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
The first jukebox was located in San Francisco in 1899
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.
Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".
In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.
The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.
Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons.
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
"Evian" spelled backwards is naive.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.
Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969.)
The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once - His first name was Willy.
The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. 
The Professor's real name on Gilligan's Island was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and  Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.
Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.
The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Starfish don't have brains.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969.
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.
Some toothpaste and makeup contain crushed volcanic stone.
There is 1 mile of railroad track in Belgium for every one and a half square miles of land.
A pregnant goldfish is called a “twit.”
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
The ambidextrous 20th President Garfield could simultaneously write in Greek with one hand and in Latin with the other.
Cocoa Cola was originally green.
A ten gallon hat holds less than a gallon of liquid.
A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip travels faster than the speed of sound. 
The average person will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime. 
Every human spends about half an hour as a single cell. 
The first video on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. 
Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836. 
Dry cereal was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century. 
Edgar Allan Poe's epitaph says "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'." 
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the US. 
Every year, about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced. 
One lemon tree will produce about 1,500 lemons a year.
The mouth of the Statue of Liberty is 3 feet wide.
The year that read the same upside down was 1961. That won't happen again until 6009.
Porcupines each have 30,000 quills.
Honeybees navigate by using the Sun as a compass.
Pigs get sunburn.
A human brain weighs around 3 pounds.
Beavers were once the size of bears.
The popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy.
Connecticut was the first state to pass a Lemon Law in 1982.
The only food that doesn't spoil is honey.
11% of the people in the world are left-handed.
The "high five" was introduced by a professional baseball player in 1977.
A jackrabbit can travel more than 12 feet in one hop.
Bamboo makes up 99% of a panda's diet.
It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down stairs.
It is illegal for a portrait of a living person to appear on U.S. postage stamps.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
Squids can have eyes the size of a volleyball.
An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.
The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by as much as 6 inches depending on the temperature.
A hummingbirds' heart beats fourteen hundred times a minute.
Blackboard chalk contains no chalk.
A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways.
An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye.
The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,061 lbs.
Each year, the average American eats about 15 lbs. of apples.
A bee has 5 eyelids.
Horseback riding can improve your posture.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
The first food eaten in space by a US astronaut was applesauce.
Long Island is the largest island in the Continental U.S.
A camel has 3 eyelids.
There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.
Lemon sharks can give birth to about 36 babies at one time.
There are more French restaurants in New York City than in Paris.
A male firefly's light is twice as bright as a female's.
Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand while writing with the other.
A single coffee tree produces only about a pound of coffee beans per year.
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln grew a beard at the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl.
Chewing gum was invented in New York City in 1870 by Thomas Adams.
It is estimated that the world's oceans contain 10 billion tons of gold.
A flea can jump 30,000 times without stopping.
The only bird who can see the color blue is the owl.
Storm clouds hold about 6 trillion raindrops.
Detroit has the greatest number of registered bowlers in the U.S.
Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.
Frogs can't swallow with their eyes open.
Grapes are the most popular fruit in the world.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
In 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC.
Among North Atlantic lobsters, 1 in 5,000 is born bright blue.
A turkey can run 20 M.P.H.
A duck's quack doesn’t echo.
The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.
Ohio is the only U.S. state that does not have a rectangular flag.
Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles a day.
"I read the newspapers, hear the radio and feel they're raging on me. But in the morning I relieve myself: I look myself in the mirror and I think I'm a saint" (Silvio Berlusconi)
"Death is just an apparent state... it is like dreaming to fall from thirtieth floor, a dream which you can't get rid of" (Vincent - Cowboy Bebop)
"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the former" (Einstein)
"If Gauss would still be alive, he'd be a hacker" (Peter Sarnak)
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" (Mahatma Ghandi)
They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you can hear satanic messages. That's nothing, 'coz if you play it forwards, it installs Windows!
"It's in changes that you find the meaning of life" (Eraclito)
"Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand" (Bertrand Russell)
"No matter if they talk good or bad about me, as long they talk about me" (Oscar Wilde)
"A good friend stabs you in the front" (Oscar Wilde)
"War doesn't determine who's right, only who's left" (Bertrand Russel)
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying
Rock is a soul's vibration
"No matter how great a man can be, if he's alone he's just half a man" (Skizo)
"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy" (Friedrich Nietzsche)
"The best way to keep a secret it's to know nothing about it" (Skizo)
"The difference between a politician and a statist relies in the fact that politician thinks about next elections, while statist thinks about next generations" (Alcide Degasperi)
"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." (Marthin Luther King, Jr.)
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." (Eleanor Roosevelt)
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." (Mahatma Gandhi)
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." (Mark Twain)
"Don't take life too seriously: you'll never get out of it alive." (Elbert Hubbard)
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." (Mark Twain)
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." (Arthur Schopenhauer)
"At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there I carry on as usual." (Patrick Moore)
The Elephant has eight knees. The snake has one lung. The Dragon has two hearts.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.'
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes.
In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
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.
Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean
Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.
In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
Only humans and horses have hymens.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.
We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)
Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.
Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation , was played by six different cats.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...
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 use 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 number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive-so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum)is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as 'Fred.'
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwh enuakita natahu, a New Zealand hill.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for damages that were caused by them building ships for the Confederacy. We originally asked for $1 billion but settled on $25 Million.
There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.
Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is 'angstschreeuw'.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.
The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distrubution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being.
Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".
When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.
The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.
Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons."
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
Canola oil is actually grapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
"Evian" spelled backvards is naive.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of theirfirst names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)
What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same number with the digits in reverse order? 21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.
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.
Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969.)
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser himself.. And Greg Evigan sang the "My Two Dads" theme.
Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show Growing Pains wrote the theme songs for The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes .
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never- aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck. The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry, founder of Blues Inc. They were the first electric white blues band ever seen in England--1961
The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.
Horses cannot vomit.
Rabbits cannot vomit.
S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..
Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant.
Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Octopi have gardens.
"Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.'"
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.
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticably shorter than his right.
Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would and therefore forstall curses.
The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans. (Watch out Inigo Montoya...)
The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
Medieval knights put sharkskin on their swordhandles to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
The only planet without a ring is earth.
Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Starfish don't have brains.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streeets in Rome (or some other Italian place), they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of "trivia."