DID YOU KNOW ?
The Internet was "born" on Jan. 1, 1983.
Annual growth of WWW traffic is 341,000%.
Only 1 child in 20 are born on the day predicted by the doctor.
The first toilet ever shown on national TV appeared on 'Leave It To Beaver'.
You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
The average slug lives from one to six years, depending on its species.
No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Aelurophobia is the fear of cats.
Americans spend $10 million each day on potato chips.
There are more nutrients in the cornflake packet itself than there are in the actual cornflake.
A camel can drink up to 30 gallons of water in ten minutes and be without drinking again for 10 months!
Maine is the only state in the United States whose name has one syllable.
Herpetology is the study of reptiles.
Nine Inch Nails, the rock group headed by Trent Reznor, stands for the 9" nails used by Morticians to nail coffins in the Old West.
Virginia Woolf wrote most of her work standing up.
Goldfish have a memory span of three seconds.
The first US consumer product sold in the Soviet Union was Pepsi-Cola.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
If it were possible to drive through space at 75mph (120 km/h), you could reach the sun in a little over 142 years. But at that same speed it would take more than 38 million years to reach the stars of the Alpha Centauri system, the closest to ours.
The first Marvel Comics super hero was the Human Torch.
The Eiffel Tower is 984 feet high.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City hung Matisse's "Le Bateau"
upside-down for 47 days before an art student noticed the error.
Nothing can be burned again that has already been burned once.
There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
Kemo Sabe, the name Tonto called the lone ranger means 'Soggy Shrub' in Navajo Indian.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black unless they belong to a high official.
Originally February had 30 days. Julius Caesar took one day and added it to the month named after him--July. Later, Emperor Augustus took another day from February and added it to the month named for him--August.
Sliced bread was introduced under the Wonder Bread label in 1930.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for
automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
A six-pound sea hare can lay 40,000 eggs in a single minute.
Iceland is the world's oldest functioning democracy.
Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by
automobiles.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
There are 6 grams of gold in an olympic gold medal.
The last NASCAR driver to serve jail time for running moonshine was Buddy Arrington.
If you go blind in one eye, you'll only lose about one-fifth of your vision (but all your depth perception).
The yo-yo was originally a weapon in the Philippines.
There is approximately one chicken for every human being in the world.
Personal letters make up only 4.5 percent of the mail delivered by the U.S. Postal Service; the majority is bulk mail.
Mexico City has the largest population of any city in the world with nearly 29 million inhabitants.
Only Greece and Australia have participated in every Olympics since 1896.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
It take a spider less than 60 minutes to weave a complete web from start to finish.
The Nile River is over 4000 miles long making it the longest river in the world.
In Blythe, CA a city ordinance delares that a person must own at least two cows before he can wear cowboy boots in public.
A single share of Coca-Cola stock, purchased in 1919, when the company
went public, would have been worth $92,500 in 1997.
Tokyo was once called Edo.
In 1647 the English Parliament abolished Christmas.
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said, "Play it again, Sam."
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
General "Stonewall" Jackson ate a lemon before every battle.
The ball in jai alai can travel over 180 mph, which makes it the fastest moving ball, puck, etc. in any sport.
Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
When angered, the ears of Tasmanian devils turn a pinkish-red.
No rain has ever been recorded falling in the Atacama desert in Chile.
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles
Jung.
Twelve or more cows are known as a flink.
Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
The first electronic digital computer weighed 30 tons.
St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was not Irish.
The Ketchua Indians of the Andes Mountains in South America have 2 to 3
more pints of blood in their bodies than people who live at lower elevations.
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