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Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
registered blood donors.
Congo is the world leader in cobalt mining, producing
two-thirds of the world's cobalt.
Michael Jordan shaves his head on Tuesdays and Fridays.
59 tons of the Berlin wall have been shipped to the U.S. since November
1989 by a company from St. Louis
The international telephone dialling code for Antarctica is
672.
Powdered non-dairy creamer is flammable.
Raindrops are not tear-drop shaped. They are rounded at the
top and flat on the bottom.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have written a book in all
10 Dewey-decimal categories.
The purpose of the indentation at the bottom of a wine bottle
is to strengthen the structure of the bottle and to trap the
sediments in the wine.
The tip of a whip moves so fast that it breaks the sound
barrier. The "crack" of a whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.
In a deck of cards, the King of Hearts (AKA the suicide
King) appears to be sticking his sword through his head.
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright
Brothers' first flight.
The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick.
If done perfectly, any Rubik's Cube combination can be solved in
17 turns.
If a statue of a
person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in
battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result
of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to
the top and sinking to the bottom.
Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Tequila is made from the root of the blue agave cactus.
Only one person in two million will live to be 116 or older.
A duck's quack does not echo.
Cranberry is the only flavour of Jelly that is made from real fruit,
not artificial flavouring
Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real
ones every year since 1991
In the English hospitals of the seventeenth
century, children were
entitled to two gallons of beer as part of their weekly diet
Coca Cola contains neither Coca nor Cola
The architect that designed the Glen Abbey, one of Canada's most
famous golf courses, was Jack Nicklaus
A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was
Periwinkle Blue
The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F."
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an
albino.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the
distance.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
Most lipstick contains fish scales. Yum.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served in first class.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in
a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
Wellfleet, Massachusetts has the only town clock in the world that
strikes ship's time. (Rings every half hour, to a maximum of 8 rings at the
end of each four hour period.)
Scissors as we know them today (well, pretty much) were invented in Rome
in about 100 AD (or CE, if you want to be politically correct).
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you
could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
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.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the
USA.'
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a
Captain Kirk mask painted white.
The first product Motorola developed was a record player for
automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the
Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
Roses MAY be red, but violets ARE, indeed, violet.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in
quicksand. One should carry a stout pole while travelling in quicksand
country...when placed under one's back, it helps one to float out of the
quicksand.
Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike
contest.
In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars,
Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did
this more than one hundred years before either moon was discovered.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson." For that
matter, Sherlock Holmes never existed in the first place. But the address
where he supposedly lived, 221B Baker Street, still gets a lot of fan mail.
Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most
often stolen from public libraries.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit will damage it.
The number one selling CD in history is the third Beatles anthology. It
recently beat out the Eagles' "Their Greatest Hits."
If you drop a penny off of the Empire State Building, it will be going
106 miles per hour (terminal velocity) when it reaches the ground. Something
moving this fast may actually cause head injuries if it lands on you. (OUCH)
Francis Bacon died in his attempt to find a better way to serve food. He
caught a case of pneumonia while attempting to stuff a chicken with snow.
Ironically, the chicken survived the ordeal.
Dachshunds were originally bred in 1600 to hunt dachs, which is
German for badgers. (Historically speaking, 1600 was a slow year.)
Houdini's real name was Ehrich Weiss.
The first zoo in America was in Philadelphia.
The world's first passenger train made its debut in England in 1825.
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.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the
mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. Also, the powder on the
bark of a quaking aspen tree works as a mosquito repellent.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away
from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
No piece of paper can be folded in half consecutively more than 7 times
(doubling factor... you end up folding 27 == 128 sheets of
paper).
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The king of hearts on playing cards is the only king without a
moustache.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was
talked out of it by her doctor.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing their hands in
jelly.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
47.2% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los
Angeles de Porciuncula."
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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."
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and
a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. That researcher also invented microwave popcorn.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
The data track on a CD is a very long spiral. If it were unwound and
laid out in a straight line, it would be over 3.5 miles long.
It is impossible to lick your elbow or stick your elbow in your ear.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a
telephone call.
A lot of photocopier faults world-wide are caused by people sitting on
them and photocopying their buttocks.
The oldest standing building in Australia is Captain James Cook's house,
brought over from England brick by brick. Why? :)
Paul McCartney's real first name is James - Paul is his middle name.
Thus, all the Beatles (including Ringo, whose first name is Richard) were
named after kings.
The hole inside a CD is exactly the same size as an old Dutch 10 cent
coin, called the "dubbeltje". (?!) Of course, all the European countries
(save a few) have gone Euro now.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Almost everyone who reads this page will end up trying to lick their
elbow.
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