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~In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
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~Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book "If I Ran the -Zoo"
~It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
~Thirtyfive percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
~There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
~The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
~Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
~The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, CocaCola, and Budweiser, in that order.
~When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
~It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
~The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
~Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
~Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
~Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
~On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
~In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the
world's nuclear weapons combined.
~Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
~Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 5 pitches.
~Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years.
~Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6. (an old figure)
~Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
~The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
~Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
~According to one study, 24% of Iowans have some sort of lawn ornament in their yard.
~All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
~On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
~If she were life size, Barbie's measurements are: 39-23-33.
~No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
~"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
~The 13 original colonies are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
~Almonds are members of the peach family.
~Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
~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 place-name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahor-onukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, 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.
~In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
~Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
~The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
~The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
~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 goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
~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.
~The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
~Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Why it's Paul Reiser himself.
~The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
~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 tubeand a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
~Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
~John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
~The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
~There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
~"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
~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.
~Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with bacteria.
~Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendents.
~You are more likely to be struck by lightning that to be eaten by a shark.
~You are more likely to be infected by flesh-eating bacteria than you are to be struck by lightning.
~If you urinate when swimming in a South American river, you may encounter the candiru. Drawn to warmth, this tiny fish is known to follow a stream of urine to its source, swim inside the body, and flare is barbed fins. It will remain firmly embedded in the flesh until surgically removed.
~When a pilot light in a gas barbecue fails to ignite the gas jets properly, it is easy for you to inhale gas accidentally while trying to light it by hand. If this has happened, when the match does light, sometimes a trail of flame will blaze from the jet onto your mouth, filling your lungs with fire. Oddly enough, you would suffocate before burning to death as the flame would consume the oxygen in every breath you would take.
~The soft plastic headphones used on airplanes create a warm, moist environment in the ear canal that is ideal for breeding bacteria. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
~On a plane, if the passenger in your seat on the incoming flight had serious gas, then you are sitting on a cushion full of disease-causing microbes.
~Homely criminals get 50% longer jail sentences, on average, than
good-looking criminals.
~Four sunken nuclear submarines sit at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. One, a Russian sub resting in deep water off of Bermuda, holds 16 live nuclear warheads. Scientists and oceanographers are unsure what the impact of the escaping plutonium will have, but warn that corrosion could create the proper chemical environment for a massive nuclear chain reaction.
~In 1994, electromagnetic interference (EMI) from a nearby cellular telephone captivated a power wheelchair at a scenic vista in Colorado, sending the passenger over a cliff.
~If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
~More people working in advertising died on the job in 1996 than died while working in petroleum refining.
~A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
~In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
~The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
~The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
~The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
~The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
~Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order,as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
~Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
~Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
~The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
~Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
~Camel's milk does not curdle.
~In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman figure somewhere on the set.
~An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
~Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
~The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
~Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
~All porcupines float in water.
~There are coffee flavored PEZ.
~If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
~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.
~Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
~The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
~Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
~The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an"A" is Afghanistan.
~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. since 12/05/99.
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