Interesting Facts

1. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
2. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
3. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
4. America once issued a 5-cent bill.
5. Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
6. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
7. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
8. Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
9. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
10. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
11. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant “plenty of excrement.”
12. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.
13. Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
14. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
15. Back in the mid to late 1980’s, an IBM-compatible computer wasn’t considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.
16. Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
17. Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
18. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
19. Ben and Jerry’s send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
20. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
21. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
22. Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
23. Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
24. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader’s lines, and didn’t know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
25. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
26. Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
27. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
28. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
29. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth… and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, “His name is Mudd.”
30. Dr. Seuss pronounced “Seuss” such that it rhymed with “rejoice.”
31. In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
32. In England, in the 1880’s, “Pants” were considered a dirty word.
33. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
34. In every episode of “Seinfeld” there is a Superman somewhere.
35. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
36. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
37. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
38. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow.
39. In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television’s Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
40. In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
41. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
42. It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
43. 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 of the stomach’s contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
44. It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
45. It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
46. It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
47. It’s against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
48. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don’t try this at home!)
49. 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.
50. John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
51. “Kemo Sabe” means “soggy shrub” in Navajo.
52. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
53. Lee Harvey Oswald’s cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
54. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
55. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
56. Mosquitoes have teeth.
57. Most Americans’ car horns beep in the key of F.
58. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
59. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
60. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
61. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
62. Murphy’s Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
63. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
64. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
65. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
66. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
67. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the “1″ encased in the “shield” and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
68. One in every 4 americans has appeared on television.
69. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930’s lobbied against hemp farmers — they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
70. One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
71. Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
72. Pinocchio is Italian for “pine head.”
73. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
74. Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws.
75. Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
76. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
77. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
78. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
79. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
80. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
81. Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear Watson.”
82. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
83. Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
84. Slugs have 4 noses.
85. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
86. Some toothpaste’s contain antifreeze.
87. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
88. “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
89. The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
90. 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”.
91. The combination “ough” can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: “A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”
92. The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.
93. The condom – made originally of linen – was invented in the early 1500s.
94. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
95. The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
96. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
97. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
98. The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump.
99. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

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