Please note, I have not verified any of these and some of the statistics provided may be outdated!)

Coca-Cola was originally green.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collie 2) Poodle 3) Golden retriever.

Dumbest dog: Afghan hound.

Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.

City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.

State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%.

Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.

Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman it to do all over again: 80%.

Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%.

Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400.

Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70%.

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and in lived in China in = 1910.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

First novel ever written on a typewriter: "Tom Sawyer."

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, etc) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel = 1.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

Hang On Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.

Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =3D 12,345,678,987,654,321

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.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down - hence the _expression "to get fired."

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II 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."

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

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.

An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

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.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have = $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sport games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

The nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosey" is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosey..."), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of poseys..."). People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Polar bears are left-handed.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Starfish haven't got brains.

The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime after they crawl into their mouths as they sleep.

In the great Fire of london, 1666, half the city burnt down. Only six people were injured.

The heart makes enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft out of the body.

Rhinoceros horns are made of compacted hair.

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Interesting & Amazing Facts


Technology



Aircraft Carrier

An aircraft carrier gets about 6 inches per gallon of
fuel.

Airplanes

* The first United States coast to coast airplane
flight occurred in 1911 and
took 49 days.

* A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright
brother's first flight
(120ft).



Aluminum

The Chinese were using aluminum to make things as
early as 300 AD Western

civilization didn't rediscover aluminum until 1827.

Automobile

George Seldon received a patent in 1895 - for the
automobile. Four years later,
George sold the rights for $200,000.


Coin Operated Machine

The first coin operated machine ever designed was a
holy-water dispenser that
required a five-drachma piece to operate. It was the
brainchild of the Greek
scientist Hero in the first century AD.



Compact Discs

Compact discs read from the inside to the outside
edge, the reverse of how a
record works.

Computers

* ENIAC, the first electronic computer, appeared 50
years ago. The original
ENIAC was about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons, had
17,000 tubes. By comparison,
a desktop computer today can store a million times
more information than an
ENIAC, and 50,000 times faster.

* From the smallest microprocessor to the biggest
mainframe, the average
American depends on over 264 computers per day.

* The first "modern" computer (i.e., general-purpose
and program-controlled) was
built in 1941 by Konrad Zuse. Since there was a war
going on, he applied to
the German government for funding to build his
machines for military use, but
was turned down because the Germans did not expect the
war to last beyond
Christmas.

* The computer was launched in 1943, more than 100
years after Charles Babbage
designed the first programmable device. Babbage
dropped his idea after he
couldn't raise capital for it. In 1998, the Science
Museum in London, UK, built
a working replica of the Babbage machine, using the
materials and work methods
available at Babbage's time. It worked just as Babbage
had intended.



Electric Chair

The electric chair was invented by a dentist, Alfred
Southwick.

E-Mail

The first e-mail was sent over the Internet in 1972.



Eye Glasses

The Chinese invented eyeglasses. Marco Polo reported
seeing many pairs worn by
the Chinese as early as 1275, 500 years before lens
grinding became an art in
the West.



Glass

If hot water is suddenly poured into a glass that
glass is more apt to break if
it is thick than if it is thin. This is why test tubes
are made of thin glass.



Hard Hats

Construction workers hard hats were first invented and
used in the building of
the Hoover Dam in 1933.



Hoover Dam

The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The
concrete in it will not even
be fully cured for another 500 years.



Limelight

Limelight was how we lit the stage before electricity
was invented. Basically,
illumination was produced by heating blocks of lime
until they glowed.

Mobile (Cellular) Phones

As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are
absorbed by your head.



Nuclear Power[B]

Nuclear ships are basically steamships and driven by
steam turbines. The reactor
just develops heat to boil the water.



Oil

The amount of oil that is used worldwide in one year
is doubling every ten
years. If that rate of increase continues and if the
world were nothing but
oil, all the oil would be used up in 400 years.



Radio Waves

Radio waves travel so much faster than sound waves
that a broadcast voice can be
heard sooner 18,000 km away than in the back of the
room in which it
originated.



Rickshaw

The rickshaw was invented by the Reverend Jonathan
Scobie, an American Baptist
minister living in Yokohama, Japan, built the first
model in 1869 in order to
transport his invalid wife. Today it remains a common
mode of transportation in
the Orient.



Ships & Boats

* The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six
inches for each gallon of
diesel that it burns.

* The world's oldest surviving boat is a simple 10
feet long dugout dated to
7400 BC. It was discovered in Pesse Holland in the
Netherlands.

* Rock drawings from the Red Sea site of Wadi
Hammamat, dated to around 4000 BC
show that Egyptian boats were made from papyrus and
reeds.

* The world's earliest known plank-built ship, made
from cedar and sycamore wood
and dated to 2600 BC, was discovered next to the Great
Pyramid in 1952.

* The Egyptians created the first organized navy in
2300 BC.

* Oar-powered ships were developed by the Sumerians in
3500 BC.

* Sails were first used by the Phoenicians around 2000
BC.



Silicon Chip

A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the
capacity of the original 1949
ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.


Skyscraper

The term skyscraper was first used way back in 1888 to
describe an 11-story
building.


Sound

Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than
through the air.



Telephones

There are more than 600 million telephone lines today,
yet almost half the
world's population has never made a phone call.



Television

Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave the first
public demonstration of
television in 1926 in Soho, London. Ten years later
there were only 100 TV sets
in the world.


Traffic Lights

Traffic lights were used before the advent of the
motorcar. In 1868, a lantern
with red and green signals was used at a London
intersection to control the
flow of horse buggies and pedestrians.


Transistors

More than a billion transistors are manufactured...
every second.



VCR's

The first VCR, made in 1956, was the size of a piano.



Windmill

The windmill originated in Iran in AD 644. It was used
to grind grain.



World Trade Center

The World Trade Center towers were designed to
collapse in a pancake-like
fashion, instead of simply falling over on their
sides. This design feature
saved hundreds, perhaps thousands of lives on Sept.
11, 2001, when they were
destroyed by terrorists.

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What animal sounds are called...

Apes gibber
Asses bray
Bears growl
Bees hum, buzz, murmur
Beetles drone
Birds sing
Bitterns boom
Blackbirds whistle
Bulls bellow
Calves bleat
Cats meow, mew, purr, caterwal
Chickens peep, cackle
Cocks crow
Cows moo, low
Crows caw
Cuckoos cuckoo
Deer bell
Dogs bark, woof, arf
Dolphins click
Doves coo, moan
Ducks quack
Eagles scream
Elephants trumpet
Falcons chant
Flies buzz
Foxes bark, yelp
Frogs croak
Geese cackle, hiss, honk
Giraffes bleats, grunts
Grasshoppers chirp, pitter
Grouse drum
Guinea fowl cry
Guinea pigs squeak, whistle
Gulls squawk
Hares squeak
Hawks scram
Hippos bray
Horses neigh, whinny
Hyenas laugh
Kittens mew
Lions roar
Loons howl
Magpies chatter
Mice squeak, squeal
Monkeys chatter, gibber
Nightingales pipe, warble, jug-jug
Owls hoot, screech, wail
Oxen low, bellow
Parrots talk
Peacocks scream
Penguin babies bleat
Pigeons coo
Pigs grunt, squeal, squeak
Ravens croak
Rhinos snort
Rooks caw
Sandpipers pipe, whistle
Shearwaters shrill
Sheep bleat, baa
Snake hiss
Sparrow chirp
Stags bellow, call
Swallows titter
Swans crey, hiss, grunt
Tigers roar, growl
Tortoises grunt
Turkeys gobble
Wolves howl

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