Things you don”t really need to know but are interesting… (if you like that sort of thing)
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- The average person”s left hand does 56% of the typing.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
- On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
- All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
- “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- There are only 4 words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- An ostrich”s eye is bigger than its brain.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
- Al Capone”s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra”s “It”s a Wonderful Life.”
- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
- A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
- It”s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
- A polar bear”s skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
- Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis” middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.
- 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 words “assassination” and “bump.”
- Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
- 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 names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
- 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.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
- “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- No president of the United states was an only child.
- The average chocolate bar has 8 insects” legs in it.
