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Here are some very interesting facts even I didn't know!!

DID YOU KNOW?

* All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

* Maine is the only state with just one syllable.

* A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

* A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

* "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

* Almonds are members of the peach family.

* There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous:" tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, hazardous.

* The average person falls asleep in seven seconds.

* No word in the English language rhymes with purple, month, silver, or orange.

* A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

* Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

* A microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft) is the richest man in the world. To put his wealth into terms we (the little people) understand, the Reader's Digest published these statistics:

* If Bill Gates purchased a $250,000 Lambourghini, it would be like us making a $0.63 purchase.

* Based on Bill Gates' hourly wage, if he saw a $100 bill laying on the ground, it wouldn't be worth his time to bend over and pick it up!

*There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States.

*Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

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

*Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of "F."

*Camel's milk does not curdle.

*Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

*In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

*Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.

*Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.

*Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

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

*It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.

*Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.

*Giraffes have no vocal cords.

*The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as are necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

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

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

*Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

*Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the Pulitzer prize.

*Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

*Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

*An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

*The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

*Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

*It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.

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

*Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

*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.

*No NFL team that 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".

*In the great fire of London in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.

*Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.

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

*There are only two days of the year on which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) - the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star 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."

Facts About Texas....

*The population of Texas is 18 million, not including the 16 million cattle.

*70% of the population of Texas lives within 200 miles of Austin.

*Texas possesses three of the Top Ten most populous cities in the U.S. - Houston, Dallas and San Antonio.

*Texas includes 267,339 square miles, or 7.4% of the nation's total area.

*El Paso, Texas is closer to Needles, California (516 miles) than it is to Dallas, Texas (571 miles)

*Texas' largest county is Brewster with 6,208 square miles. Connecticut (5,544 Sq Mi), Delaware (2,489 Sq Mi) and Rhode Island (1,545 Sq Mi) can fit inside this county.

*The King Ranch itself near Corpus Christi is larger than the state of Rhode Island and includes 50,000 head of cattle.

*Texas posseses 23,292 farms with 1,000 acres or more with a total of 132 million acres, or 80% of the state land area,

*Texas has 90 mountains a mile or more high, with Guadalupe Peak in West Texas at 8,751 feet being the tallest.

*Almost 10% of Texas is covered by forest which includes four national forests.

*Average yearly rainfall totals in West Texas are less than 8 inches while in East Texas totals exceed 56 inches.

*The average January temperature for Amarillo is 36.7 degrees while in Brownsville the average is 61.4.
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*Men get the hiccups more than women do.

*Women dream in color more often than men.

*The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

*Coca-Cola was originally green.

*Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

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

*Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collie; 2) Poodle; 3) Golden Retriever. Dumbest: Afghan hound.

*The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.

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

*Amount that American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served 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%

*Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

*Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7

*Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had 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.

*Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for Profiles in Courage

*Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

*The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and 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, 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.

*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 Snoopy is the official rock song of Ohio. (Note: Real title is "Sloopy")

*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 airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of theDon McLean song.)

*When possums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually passout from sheer terror.

*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.

*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."

*Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

*"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 maks 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.

*How about this.... 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!")

*111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.

*Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

*The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

*The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

*Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

*Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that *this* was the day of the changeover.

*The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

*Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."

*In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."

*Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

*More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

*The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.

*A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

*Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

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

*RACECAR spelled backwards is RACECAR.

*The longest place-name still in use is : Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukaka-pikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.

*In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

*Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

*The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

*The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

*The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

*John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

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

*MTV (Music Television) first aired at 12:01 AM on August 1, 1981. The first video was 'Video Killed the Radio Star' by the Bugles. MTV boasted that it showed music videos, twenty four hours a day.

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