Friday, May 11, 2007
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- Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
- The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one.
- During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
- The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
- The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
- Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
- Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
- The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
- The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.
- There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.
- Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to other plants.
- A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
- Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.Long Beach, WA
- The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
- The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named "El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula"
- 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.
- Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
- Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."
- The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.
- The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds.
- Pinocchio was made of pine.
- Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
- A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
- Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
- New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
- There was once a town in West Virginia called "6."
- The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
- Napoleon made his battle plans in a sandbox.
- Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
- Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
- The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
- "Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
- On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
- 2,500 lefties die each year using products designed for rightists.
- Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
- On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
- Blue and white are the most common school colors.
- Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
- The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
- The bulls-eye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
- The doorbell was invented in 1831.
- The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
- Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
- There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
- Napoleon was terrified of cats.
- The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.
- The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
- Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
- The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
- The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
- France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
- The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback."
- The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
- George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
- Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.
- The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
- Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
- The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.
- The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
- Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.
- Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
- If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.
- The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.
- The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
- When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.
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