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25-09-2002, 21:44
1- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
3- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
4 The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
5- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
6- There are more chickens than people in the world.
7- 2/3 of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
8- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched."
9- On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building
is an American flag.
10- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
11- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
12- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
13- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back
of the $5 bill.
14- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
15- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
16- Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
17 There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
18- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
19- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
20- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
21- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 1:50
22- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
23- The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop
and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
24- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
25- A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
26- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
27- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
28- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
29- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
30- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a
chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
31- Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.(Presbyterian)
32- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
33- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
34- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
35- A ****roach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
36- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
37- Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis'
middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on
his tomb stone.
38- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
39- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
40- Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
41- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
42- Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
43- If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
44- Women blink nearly twice as much as men
45- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people do.
46- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter
in the English language.
47- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they
start.
48- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only
one row of the keyboard.
49- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right
or right to left.
50- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
51- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each
salad served in first-class.
2- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
3- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
4 The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
5- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
6- There are more chickens than people in the world.
7- 2/3 of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
8- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched."
9- On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building
is an American flag.
10- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
11- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
12- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
13- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back
of the $5 bill.
14- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
15- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
16- Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
17 There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
18- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
19- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
20- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
21- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 1:50
22- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
23- The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop
and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
24- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
25- A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
26- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
27- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
28- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
29- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
30- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a
chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
31- Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.(Presbyterian)
32- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
33- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
34- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
35- A ****roach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
36- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
37- Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis'
middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on
his tomb stone.
38- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
39- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
40- Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
41- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
42- Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
43- If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
44- Women blink nearly twice as much as men
45- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people do.
46- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter
in the English language.
47- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they
start.
48- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only
one row of the keyboard.
49- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right
or right to left.
50- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
51- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each
salad served in first-class.