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America once issued a 5-cent bill!
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
American media mogul Ted Turner owns 1.5 percent of New Mexico.
American rock musician, Terry Kath, died in 1978 while playing Russian Roulette. His last words were Don't worry it's not loaded.
Americans jog 28 million miles every day.
Americans spend $10 million each day on potato chips.
Americans spend an average of about $3 per person on Halloween candy.
Americans spend an estimated $500 million each year on allergy treatments.
Americans spend more annually on cat food than on baby food.
Americans use over 16,000 tons of aspirin a year.
Americans, altogether, grow six square miles of skin each day.
An acre of soil six inches deep contains about one ton of fungi.
An average of 13 boxes of jello are purchased every second in the united states.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
An eighteenth-century German named Matthew Birchinger, known as the little man of Nuremberg, played four musical instruments including the bagpipes, was an expert calligrapher, and was the most famous stage magician of his day. He performed tricks with the cup and balls that have never been explained. Yet Birchinger had no hands, legs, or thighs, and was less than 29 inches tall!
An elephant can smell water three miles away.
An elephant may consume 500 pounds of hay and 60 gallons of water in a single day!
An estimated 80% of animals on Earth have six legs, i.e., are insects. The more than 10 quintillion bugs fall into some 800,000 species.
An old law in Bellingham,Wash., made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
Approximately 1 out of 25 people suffers from asthma.
Approximately 40 million Americans smoke cigarettes...25% of the adult population.
April is Earthquake Preparedness month. For a little added incentive, consider this- The most powerful earthquake to strike the United States occurred in 1811 in New Madrid, Missouri. The quake shook more than one million square miles, and was felt as far as 1,000 miles away.
Arctic terns migrate about 18,000 miles per year.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
Armadillos can be house broken.
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
Assuming you could walk to the sun, it would take about 2,000 years.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
At age 16 Confucius was a corn inspector.
At age ninety, Peter Mustafic of Botovo, Yugoslavia, suddenly began speaking again after a silence of 40 years. The Yugoslavian news agency quoted him as saying, I just didn't want to do military service, so I stopped speaking in 1920; then I got used to it.
At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.
At birth a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
At its zenith, about 200-250 A.D., the land area of the Roman Empire was roughly the size of the present-day United States.
At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
At the equator the Earth spins at about 1,000 miles per hour.
At the height of inflation in Germany in the early 1920s, one U.S. dollar was equal to 4 quintillion German marks.
At the height of the various ice ages of the last million years, as much as 30 percent of all the land on Earth was covered with a thick layer of ice.
At the nearest point , Russia and America are less than 4 km apart.
Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant plenty of excrement.
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
Back in medieval times, no one trusted each other. Everyone was a potential enemy. When two people approached they would stick out their hands to each other to show the stranger they were not carrying a weapon. Both strangers were put at ease knowing that they were not about to be killed. This action of outstretched hands grew and evolved to the modern gesture we know as the handshake.
Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
Bacteria, the tiniest free-living cells, are so small that a single drop of liquid contains as many as 50 million of them.
Bambi was originally published in 1929 in German.
Bamboo (the tallest grass in the world) can grow up to 90 cm in a day.
Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
Barbie's full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Based on various cosmological techniques the universe is estimated at 10 - 18 gigayears old. (1 gigayear = 1 000 000 000 years)
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
Bayer the company known for manufacturing aspirin gave its version of the new product the name Heroin and began an intense, though brief, marketing campaign near the end of the 19th century. It was included in such medications as cough suppressants.
Because he felt such an important tool should be public property, English chemist John Walker never patented his invention -- matches.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
Because of a large orbital eccentricity, Pluto is closer to the sun than Neptune between January 1979 and March 1999.
Because of heavy traffic congestion, Julius Caesar banned all wheeled vehicles from Rome during daylight hours.
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
Because of the salt content of the Dead Sea, it is difficult to dive below its surface.
Because they are on opposite sides of the San Andreas fault, Los Angeles and San Francisco become 2.5 inches closer together each year.
Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
Beethoven incorporated the tune of 'God Save the King' into his 'Battle' Symphony.
Beethoven's Fifth, was the first symphony to include trombones.
Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate.
Before Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat was the most popular cartoon character.
Before winning the election in 1860, Abraham Lincoln lost eight elections for various offices.
Bela Lugosi died during the filming of PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. Director Edward D. Wood Jr. used a taller relative who held a cape in front of his face so the audience wouldn't know the difference so he could complete filming.
Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
Benjamin Franklin invented the school desk.
Besides inventing the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell set a world water speed record of 70 miles per hour in a hydrofoil boat when he was 72.
Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement.
Betty Grable's legs were insured for one million dollars.
Between 1989 and 1994 natural disasters cost Californians $32 billion
Bill Clinton is the first left-handed American president to serve two terms.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
Black cats are considered lucky in England.
Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
Bob Dole is 10 years older than the Empire State Building.
Bob Dylan turned The Beatles on to marijuana.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
Bob May played the Robot on Lost In Space (1965-68) and Dick Tufeld was the voice.
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.
Brain damage occurs at an internal temperature of 105 degrees Fahrenheit.
Brazil got it's name from the nut, not the other way around.
Breath, by Samuel Beckett, was first performed in April, 1970. The play lasts thirty seconds, has no actors, and no dialogue.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
Burglars in Larch Barrens, Md., tried to cut through a safe using a Lazer Tag gun.
Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
By the time a rye plant is two feet tall, it has about 14 million roots and 14 billion root hairs - which cover more than 6,800 square feet of soil.
Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesars. It was first concocted in a bar in Tiajuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.
California staff attorneys are being paid $98 per hour to defend the state against the prisoner claims.
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.
Carolyn Shoemaker has discovered 32 comets and approximately 800 asteroids.
Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.
Caterpillars have about four thousand muscles. Humans, by comparison, have only about six hundred.
Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Cats possess an image intensifying device at the rear of their eyes. This is a light-reflecting layer called the tapetum lucidum, which acts like a mirror behind the retina, reflecting light back to the retinal cells. With this, the cat can utilize every scrap of light that enters its eyes. This is what causes cats eyes to glow at night.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
Cattle are the only mammals that are retro-mingent (they pee backwards).
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Certain fireflies emit a light so penetrating that it can pass through flesh and wood.
Chang is the most common last name.
Charles Baudelaire, referred to Wagners music as the sounds ' of a cat hung up by it's tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws'.
Charles Dickons was an insomniac, who believed his best chance of sleeping was in the center of a bed facing directly north.
Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
Charlie Chaplain's cane was made of bamboo.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest
Cheryl Ladd (of Charlie's Angels fame) played the voice, both talking and singing, of Josie in the 70s Saturday morning cartoon Josie and the Pussycats.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
Children grow faster in the springtime.
Children spend more time learning about life through media than in any other manner. The average child spends approximately 28 hours a week watching television, which is twice as much time as they spend in school.
Chinese scientists have identified an unusual ozone valley'' over the western Tibet-Qinghai plateau with alarmingly low levels of atmospheric ozone, more than ten percent less than in other areas in the same latitude.Chinese and US researchers are evaluating the potential causes of the hole (probably pollution) and potential health problems, including skin cancer.
Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocalate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog.
Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants.
Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan. Mitsubishi built the Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down -- hence the expression to get fired.
Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a day.
Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
'Cocksucker Blues' was a 1976 film about The Rolling Stones.
Colophony is a bow resin.
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
Composer Johann Sebastian Bach once walked 230 miles to hear the organist at Lubeck in Germany.
Cows burp a lot, but until recently no one paid much attention. Now researchers at the Texas Department of Highways in Fort Worth are sitting up and taking notice. Each year the cow population of the United States burps some fifty million tons of valuable hydrocarbons into the atmosphere. If they could only be captured and efficiently channeled, say the researchers, the accumulated burps of ten average cows could keep a small house adequately, if indirectly, heated and its stove operating for a year.
Cows have 4 stomaches!
Crickets hear through their knees.
Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them diver deeper.

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