>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.
>2/3 of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
>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."
>All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back
>of the $5.00 bill.
>Almonds are a member of the peach family.
>Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
>Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
>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.
>A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
>A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
>A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
>It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.(DON'T try this at work!)
>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.
>Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. (Presbyterian)
>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. (ick)
>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.
>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 words racecar, radar and kayak are the same whether they are read left
>to right or right to left.
>The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
>Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1000
>& 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.
>
>And, last, and definitely most important:
>The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

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Topic revision: r1 - 21 Dec 2001 - MattWalsh
 
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