- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
- Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth
- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
- A cockroach can live up to a week with its head cut off!
- Tiger's have striped skin, not only striped fur
- In some parts of Texas, it is illegal to lasso a fish
- There is a telephone company whose name is "Any Company" (Be careful when asked to choose a long distance phone company!)
- 30% of couples which adopted a child will have a natural child
- There is a city called Usa, (Not U.S.A.) which manufactures products with the label of "Made in USA"
- Nostradomus predicted that the antichrist would be named, "Hisler"
- An anagram (Re-arranging letters of a word) for Evangelist is "Evil's Agent"
- The only planet without a ring is Earth
- Horses and Rabbits cannot vomit
- The lighter was invented before the match
- F.Y.I. - Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy
- The only real person to ever be put on a Pez despenser head was Betsy Ross
- F.Y.I. - Those plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world
- Almonds are members of the peach family
- Ingrown toenails are actually hereditary
- Los Angeles full name is, "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
- In most advertisements in the world, the time on clocks is usually 10:10
- Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button (It was eliminated when he was sewn up after a surgery!)
- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the 5 dollar bill
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and the chocolate bar in his pocket melted
- The elephant is the only mammal which cannot jump
- On the set of "Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark" Harrison Ford shoots a villian he was supposed to have a lengthy duel with. This was not in the script, he had disentary and wanted to end the scene
- If Bill Gates saw a $1,000 bill on the ground, it would not be worth it for him to take the time to pick it up (He makes more money in that time)
- A man once kept having a reoccuring problem called, "Seinfeld Syndrome." He would laugh too hard at Seinfeld, and pass out
- A woman in Europe killed her children over a fight and blamed it on "that time of the month." She was found not-guilty
- One of Robert Frost's books/novels contains a single sentence 40 pages long
- There are 5 golf balls on the moon
- Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married
- The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1
- Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars
- In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined
- Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 5 pitches
- Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo"
True Stories...
Ever wondered why in tennis zero is love? Well, when tennis was first established, people in France would play as well. They felt is was silly to put a zero on the scoreboard because it looked so much like an egg. So, they would call it l'oeuf, egg in French. Then the English accepted it and pronounced the word incorrectly: "love"
A representative from Lego went out to find all the different companies worldwide which have violated the Lego patent idea. One representative reported a "Lego-like toy which seemed an exact copy of Lego" a definate case. He said the name of the company which made this was O937. This representative further investigated this company until it was discovered that the company was in fact, Lego itself. He was reading the label upside-down.
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