The following useless drivel is unverified by me…but supposedly true!

Lebanon is the only country in the Middle East that does not have a desert.
A geological survey in 1922 predicted US oil supply would be depleted in 20 years.
It took 214 crates to transport the Statue of Liberty from France to New York in 1885.
The world’s first movie theater opened in Paris in 1895.
Calvin Coolidge was sworn into office by his own father.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
The first color TV show was The Cisco Kid.
Florence Nightingale carried a pet owl in her pocket.
When a piece of glass cracks, the crack travels faster than 3,000 miles per hour.
The average person blinks 25 times per minute, which works out to about 13,140,000 blinks per year.
The first roll of toilet paper was introduced in 1871.
A stack of $1 dollar bills one mile high would be worth more than $14 million dollars.
A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
In the 10th century, the Grand Vizier of Persia took his 117,000-volume library with him everywhere. Camels trained to walk in alphabetical order carried it.
There are approximately 100,000 glaciers in Alaska.
The first successful parachute jump to be made from a moving airplane was made by Captain Berry in St. Louis, MO in 1912.
The pilgrims dismantled the Mayflower and used its lumber to build a barn because they did not intend to return to England.
Elephants are the only animals with 4 knees.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its circumference. A dime has one less.
A quart-size pail holds over 8 million grains of sand.
There are 3 completely different versions of the Mona Lisa under the final portrait, all painted by da Vinci, as revealed by X-rays.
A "funambulist" is a tightrope walker. (Microsoft word must not know that, it’s telling me it’s a misspell!)
The first letter of every continent’s name is the same as the last: AmericA, AntarcticA, AsiA, AustrailA, AfricA, EuropE.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
All the planets in our solar system could be placed inside the planet Jupiter.
It takes a ship an average of 33 hours to travel the length of the Panama Canal.
A 10-gallon hat holds three-fourths of a gallon.
In the city of Washington, DC, no building may be higher than the Washington Monument.
Dueling in Paraguay is legal as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.
The only survivor of Custer’s Last Stand was his horse, Commanche.
Bamboo can grow 4 feet in 24 hours.
When viewed from above, rainbows are doughnut-shaped.
A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.
An oak tree can take as long as 30 years to produce its first crop of acorns.
The great Red Spot on Jupiter is a swirling hurricane of gases, with winds reaching over 21,000 miles per hour.
The White House had a telephone before it had an indoor bathroom.
Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Camels have 3 eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
A human is born with 300 bones, but when you become an adult, you only have 206.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
The state of Florida is bigger than England.
A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles per hour.
George Washington had to borrow money to travel to his inauguration.
The human brain can hold 500 times the information in a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Humans and elephants are the only animals that can stand on their heads.
Every year, Mexico City sinks about 10 inches.
There is a city called Rome on every continent in the world.
It takes about 150 days for your nails to grow from your cuticles to your fingertips.
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America in 1918 by Charles Jung.
All polar bears are left-handed.
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.
The most used letter in the English alphabet is E, and Q is the least used.
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
The Statue of Liberty’s index finger is 8 feet long, and has a fingernail measuring 13 by 10 inches.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
The Roman Emperor Nero never wore the same clothes twice.
The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci has no eyebrows.
Eagles mate in the air.
CNN mogul Ted Turner, the largest private landowner in America, owns 1.1 million acres.
The Eiffel Tower is painted approximately once every 7 years, and required 50 tons of paint each time.
In Tibet, it is considered polite to stick out your tongue at your guests.
Swans live up to 70 years.
The African boabab tree can grow to a circumference of 100 feet. One such tree in Zimbabwe is so wide that its hollowed-out trunk serves as a bus-stop shelter.
President Warren G. Harding had 5 nervous breakdowns before he became President.
Ketchup was sold in the US as a patent medicine in the early 19th century-Dr. Miles’ Compound Extract of Tomato.
The diameter of the wheel on TV’s Wheel of Fortune is 8’6".
The official state sport of Alaska is dog mushing.
The length of an original slinky laid out flat is 87 feet.
An armadillo crosses a river by holding its breath and walking across the bottom.
Industrialist Henry Ford believed he was a reincarnated Civil War soldier who had died at Gettysburg.
Every person has a unique tongue print, just like fingerprints.
Every 60 seconds, your blood makes a complete trip through your body.
Napoleon Bonaparte was afraid of cats.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob, a group of whales a pod, and a group of owls is a parliament.
1 in 500 people have one blue eye and one brown eye.
Albert Einstein’s brain is stored in a mason jar in a Wichita, KS laboratory.
It takes 12 bees their entire lifetime to make a tablespoon of honey.
A watermelon is 92% water; a raw apple is 84% water.
When he’s feeling amorous, the male sea otter grabs the female’s nose with his teeth.
Bruce Lee was the 1958 Cha-Cha champ of Hong Kong.
Charlie Chaplin once entered a "Charlie Chaplin Look-alike" contest and only placed third.
Sigmund Freud had an intense fear of ferns.
A teaspoon holds 120 drops of water.
There are over 200 taste buds on each of the small bumps on your tongue.
The 100-Years War lasted 116 years.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
"Aglet" is the plastic tip of a shoelace.
Earthworms have 5 hearts.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins refrained from blinking in all his scenes as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.
Cats have 2 sets of vocal chords-one for purring, and one for meowing.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
TYPERWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: ABSTEMIOUS and FACETIOUS.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
No word in the English language rhymes with MONTH, ORANGE, SILVER, or PURPLE.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Cats have over 100 vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
DREAMT is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
There is no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": TREMENDOUS, HORRENDOUS, STUPENDOUS, and HAZARDOUS.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
STEWARDESSES is the longest word typed with only the left hand and LOLLIPOP with the right.
A snail can sleep for three years.

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