On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.<\/p>\n
All of the clocks in “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.<\/p>\n
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.<\/p>\n
“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.<\/p>\n
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.<\/p>\n
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.<\/p>\n
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.<\/p>\n
There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous.<\/p>\n
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels: “abstemious” and “facetious.”<\/p>\n
The longest place-name still in use is a New Zealand Hill called:
\nTaumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateatuipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu<\/p>\n
It is estimated that Americans consumed 10 million tons of turkey on Thanksgiving Day. Due to turkey’s high sulphur content, Americans also produced enough gas to fly a fleet of 75 Hindenbergs from L.A. to New York in 24 hours. (non-smoking flights, of course)<\/p>\n
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.<\/p>\n
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.<\/p>\n
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.<\/p>\n
Al Capone’s business cards said he was a used furniture dealer.<\/p>\n
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.<\/p>\n
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.<\/p>\n
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state’s third largest city.<\/p>\n
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life”.<\/p>\n
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.<\/p>\n
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.<\/p>\n
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.<\/p>\n
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 upper right-hand corner.<\/p>\n
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. <\/p>\n
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.<\/p>\n
Paul Reiser plays the piano on the “Mad About You” theme song.<\/p>\n
The male gypsy moth can “smell” the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.<\/p>\n
The name for “Oz” in “The Wizard of Oz” was thought up when creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence “Oz”.<\/p>\n
The microwave was invented after a reseacher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.<\/p>\n
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.<\/p>\n
John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.<\/p>\n
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.<\/p>\n
The average person wakes up instantaneously.<\/p>\n
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.<\/p>\n
“Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed exclusively with the left hand and “lollipop” with the right hand.<\/p>\n
“Typewriter” is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.<\/p>\n
The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.<\/p>\n
“Testify” comes from the the Roman practice of affirming the truth of a statement made in court by swearing on one’s testicles.<\/p>\n
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”<\/p>\n
Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.<\/p>\n
Almonds are members of the peach family.<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.<\/p>\n
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.<\/p>\n
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.<\/p>\n
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.<\/p>\n
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.<\/p>\n
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.<\/p>\n
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.<\/p>\n
There are more chickens than people in the world.<\/p>\n
Two-thirds of the world’s eggplants are grown in New Jersey.<\/p>\n
A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1\/100th of a second.<\/p>\n
A snail can sleep for three years.<\/p>\n
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.<\/p>\n
Butterflies taste with their feet.<\/p>\n
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.<\/p>\n
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.<\/p>\n
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.<\/p>\n
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.<\/p>\n
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.<\/p>\n
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.<\/p>\n
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.<\/p>\n
The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet.<\/p>\n
The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).<\/p>\n
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.<\/p>\n
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.<\/p>\n
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel
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