1. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
2. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
3. Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University.
4. Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say 'many things' and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the Bible in many places refers to '40 days', they meant many days.
5. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
6. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn down their houses - hence the expression 'to get fired'.
7. Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
8. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
9. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
10. 'I am.' is the shortest complete sentence in the Englishlanguage.
11. The term 'the whole 9 yards' came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the 50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got 'the whole 9 yards'.
12. The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, 'Aladdin was a little Chinese boy'.
13. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
14. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
15. The 'y' in signs reading 'ye olde...' is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The 'th' sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune 'thorn' to represent 'th' sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case 'y'.
16. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
17. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
18. Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.
19. It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.
20. Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. The time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize *this* was the day of the changeover.
21. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
22. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
23. Dr. Suess pronounced 'Suess' such that it rhymed with 'rejoice'.
24. In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said 'Play it again, Sam'.
25. Sherlock Holmes never said 'Elementary, my dear Watson'.
26. Captain Kirk never said 'Beam me up, Scotty', but he did say 'Beam me up, Mr. Scott'.
27. Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
28. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in aircrashes.
29. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's 'It's a WonderfulLife'.
30. The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown differently during times of peace and war. A portion of the flag is blue, while the other is red. The blue portion is flown on top in times of peace and the red portion is flown in war time.
[COMMENT: US Military Code declares that any flag 'flown' (i.e. on a pole) is a 'war flag'. In times of peace, the flag is draped on the wall as a 'banner'. What does this tell you?]
31. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern militarysalute.
32. The 'huddle' in football was formed due to a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him.
33. If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon monoxide poisoning first before you would die of oxygendeprivation.
34. Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
35. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
36. Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.
37. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
38. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 39. Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continueliving.
40. The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
41. The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
42. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it is kissing the conveyor belt.
43. Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
44. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of linen.
45. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
46. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letter is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural. Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
47. Los Angeles's full name is 'El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles Porcincula'. This translated means 'The people of madam who is a Quin of los Angeles de Porcincula.
48. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
49. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
50. Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local farmers to use as feed. The pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: mint oreo.
51. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
52. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
53. Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's maiden name was Betty Jean McBricker.
54. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
55. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II, who fathered over 160 children.
56. If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die because they need gravity to swallow.
57. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
58. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only theleft hand.
60. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
61. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - - it will let you go instantly.
62. Reindeers like to eat bananas.
63. A group of unicorns is called a blessing. Twelve or more cows are known as a flink. A group of frogs is called an army. A group of rhinos is called a crash. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. A group of geese is called a gaggle. A group of ravens is called a murder. A group of officers is called a mess. A group of larks is called an exaltation. A group of owls is called aparliament.
64. The phrase 'sleep tight' derives from the fact that early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bed frame. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.
65. "Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.
66. Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. 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 thewreck.
67. In England, the Speaker of the House is the only member of Parliament not allowed to make speeches.
68. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map forescape.
69. Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
70. Studies show that if a cat falls off the 7th floor of a building, it has about 30% less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the 20th floor. It supposedly takes about 8 floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax, and correct itself.
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