51. 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.
52. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a
Superbowl.
53. The first toilet ever seen on television was on 'Leave It To Beaver'.
54. 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-stars Game.
55. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
56. The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan.'
57. The Black Cauldron is the only PG-rated Disney animated feature.
58. If you were to toss the new 10p coin (Pounds Sterling), 10000 times, the average odds of it being heads/tails would not be 50/50. It would be closer to 45/55 in favour of tails because the new picture of the Queen's head is
slightly larger than it used to be (she has gone a bit saggy) and so it makes the heads side heavier than thetails side, thus it has more chance of landing on tails.
59. On the Roseanne show, D.J. stood for David Jacob.
60. The first letter Vanna White ever turned on Wheel of Fortune was the letter T.
61. New Zealand was the first country to give woman the vote, in 1890.
62. Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor -- the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
63. The snapping turtle eats carion and is used by police to find dead bodies in lakes, ponds and swamps.
64. The roaring lion in the MGM logo was named Volney and lived at the Memphis Zoo.
65. 1961 was the most recent year that could be written both upside-down and rightside-up and appear the same. The next year that this will be possible will be 6009!
66. Kermit the Frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.
67. The extras in the the battle scenes in the movie Braveheart were reserves in the Irish army.
68. In Italy, it is illegal to make coffins out of anything except nutshells or wood.
69. A railroad tanker car carrying propane traveled over 3,000 feet when it exploded during a train wreck in Illinois, sheering off a steel tower in its path. It's the longest flight on record for a propane explosion.
70. Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting while he was alive, Red Vineyard at Arles.
71. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
72. 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"
73. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
74. Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed.
75. There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
76. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
77. The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
78. In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home
run.
79. M & M's were developed so that soldiers could eat candy without getting their fingers sticky.
80. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
81. The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
82. Libya is the only country in the world with a solid, single-colored flag -- it's green.
83. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
84. Orcas kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
85. Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Halley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Halley's Comet was again in the sky.
86. Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
87. The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars is 3263827.
88. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
89. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
90. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
91. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
92. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
93. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
94. Will Clark of the Texas Rangers is a direct descendant of William Clark of Lewis and Clark.
95. Barbie's full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.
96. The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
97. A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peel and raisins.
98. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired."
99. In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)
100. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."