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Daffy Duck made his debut in 1937 in 'Porky's Duck Hunt'.
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
David Rice Atchinson was President of the United States for exactly one day.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
Depending on the temperature, the height of the Eiffel Tower varies by as much as six inches.
Despite accounting for just one-fiftieth of body weight, the brain burns as much as one-fifth of our daily caloric intake.
Despite being a nine-inch-tall bird (unlike in cartoons), the roadrunner can run as fast as a human sprinter.
Despite the fact that no unknown dead existed in the Viernam war, cemetary planners at Arlington county cemetary went ahead with a tomb to America's unknown dead worth $15,000 , just in case any turn up.
Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.
Devoid of its cells and proteins, human blood has the same general makeup as seawater.
Devo's original name was going to be De-evolution. They shortened it to Devo.
Diphenhydramine, one of the original antihistamines, is used as a sleeping capsule.
Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year!
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that paws?!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Don't know why, but people living in mountain states eat 30% more cookies than other people.
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth, and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, His name is Mudd.
Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his characters.
Dr. Seuss coined the word -nerd- in his 1950 book -If I Ran The Zoo-
Dr. Seuss pronounced Seuss such that it rhymed with rejoice.
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
Due to precipitaion, for a few weeks, K2 is taller than Mt. Everest.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Dunkin' Donuts serves about 112,500 doughnuts each day.
During a lifetime, one person generates more than 1,000 pounds of red blood cells.
During a severe windstorm or rainstorm the Empire State Building may sway several feet to either side.
During Abraham Lincoln's campaign for the presidency, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat named Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri, swore that he would never shave again if Abe were elected. Tapley kept his word and his chin whiskers went unshorn from November 1860 until he died in 1910, attaining a length of twelve feet six inches.
During freezing conditions spraying fruit can help protect itself from freezing. The heat given off by the heating process protects the fruit. The ice then forms a barrier of protection from the outside air.
During it's lifetime an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times.
During one four-year period, Thomas Edison obtained 300 patents, or one every five days.
During the California Gold Rush of 1849 miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years it was deemed more feasible to send the shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
During the Cambrian period, about 500 million years ago, a day was only 20.6 hours long.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
During the eighteenth century, books that were considered offensive were sometimes punished by being whipped.
During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who wore a beard was required to pay a special tax.
During World War II, W.C. Fields kept US $50,000 in Germany 'in case the little bastard wins'.
During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs. They failed.
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
Each episode of 'Dr. Kildare' contained 3 suffering patients.
Each of us generates about 3.5 pounds of trash each day. Most of our personal trash consists of paper products.
Each square inch of human skin contains about 19 miles of blood vessels.
Each year lightning causes about 10,000 fires in the U.S. alone.
Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
Earth's atmosphere is, proportionally, thinner than the skin of an apple.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
Einstein discovered the reason for meandering in rivers and streams
Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.
Elizabeth I of England suffered from anthophobia, a fear of roses.
Elton John has a pet cockatoo named Ollie.
Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth, which is why
Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
Elzie Crisler Segar created the comic strip character Popeye in 1919
EMI stands for ' Electrical and Musical Instruments'.
England is smaller than New England
England's Stonehenge is 1500 years older than Rome's Coliseum.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, Gadsby, which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E !
Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!
Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
Even though the tail of a comet can extend to great lenghts - greater even than the distance from the Earth to the sun - there is so little matter contained in the tail that it could fit into an ordinary suitcase.
Ever wonder where the term Work Smarter...Not Harder originated? Allan F. Mogensen, the creator of Work Simplification, coined the phrase in the 1930s. The 1990s equivalent term is probably Business Process Reengineering.
Every 24 hours a leaking water faucet with an opening the size of a pin will waste 170 gallons.
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
Every day of the year, 100 whales are killed be whale fisherman.
Every episode of Seinfeld contains at least one Superman.
Every hour, 12,500 puppies are born in the United States!
Every major league baseball team in the U.S. buys about eighteen thousand baseballs each season.
Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter.
Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Every year 8800 people injure themselves with a Toothpick
Every year, spain produces enough olives to feed every man, woman, and child 70.
Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury.
Evian (the bottled water) spelled backwards is naive.
Experiments conducted in Germany and at the University of Southampton in England show that even mild and incidental noises cause the pupils of the eyes to dilate. It is believed that this is why surgeons, watchmakers, and others who perform delicate manual operations are so bothered by noise. The sounds cause their pupils to change focus and blur their vision.
Facetiously is the only(?) word in the English language in which all vowels appear, in alphabetical order.
Fanta Orange is the third largest selling soft drink in the world.
Feb. 22,1992 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA- Funeral home employee 60 year old Bill Whitehead of Falls, NC was caught in the act of having sex with the corpse of a 72 pound 40 year old woman. The victim was being transported from Dorthea Dix Mental Hospital to Nowell-Johnstone Funeral Home of Falls. Person County sheriff's deputies found Whitehead in a funeral home station wagon several hundred yards off US 401 in southern Person Co. Whitehead who confessed to the crime was sentenced to 30 days in jail and five years probation.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Finger nails grow 4 times faster than Toenails
Five million teeth are knocked out annually in the U.S.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
For a while Frederic Chopin, the composer and pianist, wore a beard on only one side of his face. It does not matter, he explained. My audience sees only my right side.
Former US President Ulysses S. Grant had the boyhood nickname 'Useless'.
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.
France contains the greatest length of paved roads.
Francis Seldon, had mad a pun about the king's bald head. Louis was furious. He had a secret warrant drawn up for the child's arrest, and young Seldon was thrown into solitary confinement in the Bastille. His parents, members of one of Europe's richest merchant families, were told simply that the child had disappeared. Days turned to months, months to years, and Louis himself passed away. But Francis spent sixty-none years in the hole for making fun of the king's baldness.
Frank Sinatra was once quoted as saying rock 'n' roll was only played by 'cretinous goons'.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
From the Middle Ages up until the end of the 19th century, barbers performed a number of medical duties including bloodletting, wound treatment, dentistry, minor operations and bone-setting. The barber's striped red pole originates in the Middle Ages, when it was a staff the patient would grip while the barber bled the patient.
From the proclamation of her independence in 1804 until the intervention of the United States in 1915, Haiti had 24 presidents, 17 of whom mysteriously disappeared with the contents of her treasury.
Fulgurite is formed when lightning strikes sand.
Gen. U.S.Grant owned slaves.
General Grant graduated at the bottom of his class at West Point.
George Bernard Shaw refused an Oscar in 1938, for the screenplay Pygmalion.
George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach were both born in 1685.
George Lumley, aged 104, married Mary Dunning, aged 10, in Nortallerton, England on August 25, 1783. She was the great-great granddaughter of the woman who'd broken her engagement to Lumley, eighty years before.
George Washington carried a portable sundial.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason.
Ghosts appear in 4 Shakespearian plays; Julius Caesar, Richard III, Hamlet and Macbeth.
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on the radio newscast about the wreck. The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
Giraffes are unable to cough.
Giraffes fall six feet when they're born.
Goat milk is used to produce Roquefort cheese.
Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
Gold is so ductile that a single ounce can be drawn into a fine wire 50 miles long.
Golden toads are so rare that a biological reserve has been specifically created for them.
Goldfish can suffer motion sickness.
Gorillas often sleep for up to fourteen hours a day.
Greenland, named this to attract settlers, was discovered by Eric the Red in the 10th century.
Greyhound dogs have the best eyesight of any breed of dog!
Ground visibility in the Antarctic during the summer is 285 miles.
Groundhog's day comes from a German legend but the animal was a porcupine.
Half of all people who have ever smoked have now quit.
Half the foods eaten throughout the world today were developed by farmers in the Andes Mountains. Potatoes, maize, sweet potatoes, squash, all varieties of beans, peanuts, manioc (manioc?), papayas, strawberries, mulberries and many other foods were first grown in this region.
Hallmark makes cards for 105 different relationships.
Halloween took place in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois but almost all the cars in the film had California license plates.
Handel's Messiah was written in 3 weeks.
Hara kiri is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word seppuku which means, literally, belly splitting.
Harriet lasky of denver colorado has been chewing the same peice of gum for 33 years
Hawaii officially became apart of the US on June 14, 1900.
Hawaii's Mt Waialeale is the wettest place in the world - it rains about ninety per cent of the time, about 480 inches per annum.
Hay fever is the sixth most prevalent chronic condition in the United States.
Here is the literal translation of one of the standard traffic signs in China. It reads: Give large space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway.
Heroin is derived from the opium poppy, Papaver Somniferum, which means the poppy that brings sleep.
Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.
Heroin was first synthesized in 1898 from morphine (a drug derived from opium).
Herons have been observed to drop insects on the water and then catch the fish that surface for the bugs.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Hindu men believe(d) it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marrying a tree first. The tree ( his third wife ) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again.
Honey is used as the center of some golf balls.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes!
How many people on this planet share your birthday?... about 10 million.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
Human blood travels 60,000 miles per day on its journey through the arteries, arterioles and capillaries and back through the venules and veins.
Human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
Humans are the only animals that cry tears.
Humans cause, on average, one species of animal to become extinct each year.
Hummingbirds can't walk.
Hungry sports fans who attend football or baseball games games at Candlestick Park in San Francisco cn order 40- clove garlic sandwich.
Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
'I am a Walrus', by John Lenon, was inspired by a police two tone siren.
I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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.

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