July 11, 2007

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Anyone know of these useless facts?

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050
Vincent Van Gogh comitted suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows.
Hacky-sack was invented in Turkey.
Elizabeth I of England suffered from anthophobia, a fear of roses.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
"Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? The word formis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.'"
The two quickest goals scored in the NHL were three seconds apart.
The geographical center of North America is near Rugby, North Dakota.
Armadillos can be housebroken.
Eleven square miles of southwest Kentucky (Fulton County) is cut off from the rest of the state by the
The word "queueing" is the only English word with five consecutive vowels.
Seattle, Washington, like Rome, was built on seven hills.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The first video ever played on MTV Europe was "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits.
Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show GrowingPains wrote the theme songs for The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes.
Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988 g/cc
Of all the East Coast States, New Hampshire has the shortest coastline, about fourteen miles.
Richard Nixon's favorite drink was a dry martini.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
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 recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
St. Augustine was the first major proponent of the "missionary" position.
Pacific Ocean
The expression "What in tarnation" comes from the original meaning: "What in eternal damnation"
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The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead".
Zaire is the world leader in cobalt mining, producing two-thirds of the world's cobalt supply.
The poisonous copperhead smells likefresh cut cucumbers.
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Images for picture stamps in the United States are commissioned by the United States Postal Service Department of Philatelic Fulfillment.
The penguins that inhabit the tip of South America are called jackass penguins.
The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.
On a dewy morning, if you look at your shadow in the grass, the dew drops shine light back to your eye creating a halo called a heilgenschein (German for halo.)
An ant lion is neither an ant nor a lion.
They Might Be Giants is the first modern band with an Accordion and a Glockenspiel
The most sensitive finger is the forefinger.
The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continually held sports event in the United States (1875); the second oldest is the Westminister Kennel Club Dog Show (1876.)
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
In every show that Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (The Fantasticks) wrote, there is at least one song about rain.
Velcro was invented by a Swiss guy who was inspired by the way burrs attached to clothing.
The 1957 Milwaukee Braves were the first baseball team to win the World Series after being relocated.
Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
Dinosaur droppings are called coprolites, and are actually fairly common.
The antifungal, nystatin, which is sometime used for treating thrush, is named after New York State Institute for Health (Acronym)
In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as 'Fred.'
Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tetonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.)
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive–so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.
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An enneahedron is solid with nine faces.
The word "hangnail" comes from Middle English: ang- (painful) + nail. Nothing to do with hanging.
Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
A winged penis was the city symbol of Pompeii, the ancient Roman resort town destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius' eruption.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the
The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is called a harp.
A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
Mt. Vernon Washington grows more tulips than the entire country of Holland.
Swahili is a combination of African tribal languages, Arabic and Portuguese.
A person from the country of Nauru is called a Nauruan; this is the only palindromic nationality.
Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott".
"Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.
Michigan was the first state to have roadside picnic tables.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.
In case you ever find yourself piloting a dogsled, shout "Jee!" to make the dogs turn left and "Ha!" to go right.
Medieval knights put sharkskin on their swordhandles to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.
AM and PM stand for "Ante-Meridian" and "Post-Meridian," respectively, and A.D. actually stands for "Anno Domini" rather than "After Death."
Kudzu is not indigenous to the South, but in that climate it can grow up to six inches a day.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
The letters H I O X in the latin alphabet is the only ones that look the same if you turn them upside down or see them from behind.
Professional ballerinas use about twelve pairs of toe shoes per week. The anteater, aardvark, spiny anteater (echidna), and scaly anteater (pangolin) are completely unrelated - in fact, the closest relatives to anteaters are sloths and armadillos, the closest relative to the spiny anteater is the platypus, and the aardvark is in an order all by itself.
There is no such thing as naturally blue food, even blueberries are purple.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
All three major 1996 Presidential candidates, Clinton, Dole and Perot, are left-handed.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
A rhinoceros's horn is made of hair.
Hungarian or some other Slavic tongue.
Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'.
The Canadian province of Newfoundland has its own time zone, which is half an hour behind Atlantic standard time.
Thats funny- your fact about the Dollar sign is true- but the way you do it is wrong. Bear in mind, the dollar sign used to have 2 lines running down through it- which was the U and the S. Its now been shortened to 1 line (thats all your keyboard will even put on the screen), so half of the U has been deleted! So your fact there has really become incorrect with the changes that time has impased on the symbol!
conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. (Texas Stadium, home of the Cowboys, is not a dome, there is a large hole in the roof.)
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield it's first consumable fruit.
The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."
During conscription for WWII, there were nine documented cases of men with three testicles.
A twelve-foot anaconda can catch, kill, and eat a six-foot caiman, a close relative of crocodles and alligators. While these snakes are not usually considered to be the *longest* snake in the world, they are the heaviest, exceeding the reticulated python in girth.
Fitchburg, Massachusetts is the second hillest city in the US.
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
The tango originated as a dance between two men (for partnering practice).
The "Grinch" singer and voice of Tony the Tiger is a charming man named Thurl Ravenscroft.
Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6 g/cc
Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.
The Earth-Moon size ratio is the largest in the our solar system, excepting Pluto-Charon.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
While the Chinese invented gunpowder, they were not the first to develop firearms. Sam Colt invented the
The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.
A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.
Japan is the third most densely populated country in the world. First is the Netherlands, followed by Belgium.
A person from Glasgow, is called a Glaswegian.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.) Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should
The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.
Andy Warhol created the Rolling Stone's emblem depicting the big tongue. It first appeared on the cover of the 'Sticky Fingers' album.
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy ) are the only two Disney cartoon features
Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII 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."
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Sheriff came from Shire Reeve. During early years of feudal rule in England, each shire had a reeve who was the law for that shire. When the term was brought to the United States it was shortned to Sheriff.
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain smoked forty cigars a day for the last years of his life.
Scottish is the language called Gaelic, whereas Irish is actually called Gaeilge.
The ampersand (&) is actually a stylised version of the Latin word "et," meaning and."
Singpore is the only country with one train station.
The word denim comes from 'de Nimes', or from Nimes, a place in France.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sidewards, like a scissor, to extract the juices from the food.
Thank you! I absolutely loved this question and I took the time to read some of them.They were all very interesting! Specially I loved "checkmate" and "the number of vocal sounds in dogs and cats".Now that you've been kind enough to give us so much info, I'd love to give you some interesting info, so that you can be proud of knowing this cos no one else seems to know even one of these facts!
here you are.hope you like it.

I believe that if you spend 10 minutes reading this essay, you will be better informed than if you listen to a lifetime's worth of Major Media news. This article has two parts:
1. Cultural and general info
2. Political info.
Note: I've explained everything.Any answers before reading the whole thing will prove to be wrong.Specially the political part.I've provided evidance for whatever I say.It's just the way it is.
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Part 1: Cultural and general info
Hi. I'm a 19 year old Iranian who has spent his life in Iran.I study English.When I chat with people from other countries, I am shocked to see how totally wrong their ideas are about Iran. I wrote this article in an attempt to help correct those ideas.
The first thing the West accuses our government of is that we don't allow personal freedoms. Actually, Iranians disobey laws they don't like as much as anyone.There are only a few restrictions.It's cool over here. People here do whatever they wish to! Many strict rules in other countries don't even exist in Iran. Also, you should understand that what may seem so normal to you, may be a nightmare for us and vise versa.Some of Iran's laws are based on OUR culture. You look at our country from "your own point of view"! In Iran most houses have a sattelite dish. Sattelite television has a serious influence on our people, and Iranians wear very fashionable clothing. Maybe it is a kind of imitation, but we still have our own unique Iranian style. A visitor might wonder if this is a country or a fantasy pageant of beauty queens! Make-up and fashionable clothing are everywhere.I ignore a few fuddy-duddies though!

In my view, everything is great, if you ignore unemployment, drugs, inflation and air pollution. Also, you can't compare Iran today with the Iran you remember. The Shah and the Iatollah Khomini are both some 30 years in the past! 70% of Iran's population is a new generation (Under age 30) without the biases of the past and we've transformed everything.
Ever heard Iranian girls are terrific?I've collected some photos showing Iranian girls! Look! Poeple are like this!
http://www.salijoon.ir/bazigar/hedye%20t…
http://www.30nema.com/images/gallery/30n…
http://i10.tinypic.com/4clk3us.jpg…
http://tinypic.com/2d0nfao.jpg Is that enough?!
Some people think women don't have any rights in Iran. But in my view, women are overrunning the place. They're very respectful, and they've been the winners in so many cases: Most of them get into the best universities because they're very smart. And they get the best jobs because of their high university degrees. They've got Islamic rights, and that has in some cases made it difficult for men to marry them, because husbands are supposed to buy them expensive things and treat them very well, otherwise women have the right to ask a great amount of money (called Mehr) according to the law, which most husbands cannot afford, so men will be imprisoned.The only thing that women are not allowed to do in Iran is getting into public football stadiums and that's because such places are full of cheeky guys. They do anything from taking part in rallies to singing pop songs.Anything! I've put a sample here.
Another funny thing: Your footage about stoning the women who have committed adultery. Have you ever asked yourselves how many years ago that footage related to? But in one case the thing that had happened was incest not adultery. Most of those footages relate to the early days just after Iran's revolution! Otherwise you'd get new footages at least once a month!What exactly makes you think women are treated differently?The way they are treated in Saudi Arabia? Try to think of the racism in your country too. Each country has its own problems.I found a BOOK of the U.S problems and it got me dizzy! Iran has its own problems too.

Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan are ——— SEPERATE COUNTRIES! ——— Even within Iran, 60% of us are Persian and 30% are Turkish! Iran is a normal country like any other in the world. The Media are very good at creating really scary stuff: "IRAN BEHIND THE CLOSED DOORS!!!" "IRAN UNDERCOVER!!!" Some of that garbage would be enough to scare ME away! But in truth, Iranians are far more open-minded than you have been led to believe.
There are lots of Iranians today who are geniuses and scientists, and are all under age 25. For instance a 17 year old boy has invented 72 amazing inventions. Every year a special scientific compeition is held here and students assemble to show off hundreds of inventions. Iranian students and sportsmen win gold and silver medals in different competitions in the world all the time, in robotics, biology, maths, physics, sports, anything! Why don't the Media talk about them? Please don't summarize our nation and culture with the single word "nuclear". Although we're proud of this achievement because we believe that having nuclear energy means that a country is developed.

A few months ago Iran uncovered the most effective anti-H.I.V medicine. I searched for news of that on the internet, but there was no single sign of it.Now, I found it among the English news: "The medicine is produced from herbs using nano technology" The link to read about it is: http://www.payvand.com/news/07/feb/1032….
The Media are unjust. They never talk about facts!
Some interesting facts:
Iran is a pioneer in medicine and genetics, and Iranian surgeons have found lots of new methods for treating spinal defects, and many diseases (mainly the treatment for different types of cancer) and the best brain and heart surgeons are Iranian.The pioneer in heart transplants and artificiall hearts and so on and so! (I've put two websites below) The head of the Mars Mission in NASA is Iranian. One of the best designers of sports cars working in Germany is Iranian. Some of the best 3D animators are Iranian. Iran is one of the best countries in counter-engineering. Holds the second place in building dams and in loads of other things! It's one of the top countries in bio-technology and nano-technology. The 4th highest tower in the world (Milad tower) is in Tehran (visit it at this link from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/image:milad… ). 51 of the top 100 universities in the Mid-East are in Iran, and they're among the top universities of the world as well. The champion weight-lifter, a woman the nobel peace prize are Iranian. The 6th top movie director in the world is Iranian.(Abbas Kiarostami) http://arts.guardian.co.uk/fridayreview/…
These are just small samples.If the media told you about Iran's achievemens everyday and didn't hide them, your news would be full of Iranian news!
Iranian girls are famous for being terrific. We have Persian rugs and Persian literature, many Persian poets, artists and scientists that are world famous. Iranian culture is now westernized and only a little of the ancient culture has survived. According to statistics Tehran is the cheapest capital city in the world (one Dollar =about 950 Tomans) There are many other things. How many pages would you need to describe a country? Iran has nearly all the industries and technologies found in 'developed' countries. Oh, and we have four seasons! We get a lot of snow and there are skating rinks! lol The list is endless.

I'm gonna introduce Iran's international news website to you (Press TV) which was established recently. It's fully in English. In the "Sic / Tech" section you'll always see Iran's discoveries. The address is: http://www.presstv.ir/news.aspx… Press TV news: Iranian scientists have registered more than 4800 inventions during the last Iranian calendar year of 1385 (April 21 2006-April 20, 2007). 4800 inventions in just one year!
The list of highly-respected Iranian scientists in the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/modern_iran…
The list of notable Iranian figures and pioneers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/contemporar…
An extract: Iranian medical community is a significant part of medical community in US and Europe
Enough evidence?

Some people think Iran is a desert! Well, it is, if you consider California a desert. We share the same latitude. Iran is a modern country with breathtakingly beautiful nature and lots of historic places to visit. Please take a look at the following links to see if Iran looks like what you think or not! This is a photo of Tehran (Awesome, Isn't it?): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tehran…

If you like you can visit these too, hundreds of pretty photos from the cities, nature and historic places:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/image:hills…
http://www.pbase.com/k_amj/throughout_ir…
http://www.pbase.com/k_amj/throughout_ir…
http://www.pbase.com/k_amj/throughout_ir…
http://www.bigsoccer.com:80/forum/showth…
http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthrea…
http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthrea…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/iran…

Some people think music is forbidden in Iran. "Music of Iran and Iranian musicians have received countless awards in the course of history. Every year from 1977 to 2007.Evidence? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/music_of_ir…
I send Iranian music to my American and Canadian chat friends and they all say they're some of the best songs they've ever heard.
Here's a sample of the latest hits from two official Iranian music websites.You can just right click on the links below and choose "Save Target As" to download them. Iranian music is just modern pop and the best sort of it.
1.(You know this: 2007) http://download.bia2music.com/music/iran…
2.(Hold my hand: 2007) http://www.sarzaminmp3.com/sarzaminmusic…
3.(The wetness of your eyes: 2006) http://download.bia2music.com/music/iran…
4.(I just want you: 2003) http://download.bia2music.com/music/iran…
5.(The rain: 2007) http://download.bia2music.com/music/iran…
6.(The window: 2005) http://www.sarzamin.org/sarzaminmusic/pe…
7.(Keep me in your memory: 2005) http://www.sarzamin.org/sarzaminmusic/pe…
8.(Farangis "A female name" 2007) http://download.bia2music.com/music/iran…
9.(The distance: 2007) http://www.sarzaminsong.com/sarzaminmusi…
10.(Sunrise: 2007) http://www.sarzaminsong.com/sarzaminmusi…
11.(Stop world:2006) http://www.sarzaminmusic.com/sarzaminmus…
12.(You can't: 2007) http://www.sarzaminmp3.com/sarzaminmusic…

And so on and on!

It's now 2007 and most people still think we are uneducated people living in deserts, riding camels!

Part 2: Political info.
Let's clarify some political issues as well: Some of the Americans think that president Ahmadinejad hates the U.S and Israel and wants to nuke them!! The Media are good at putting lying comments out there. I really don't get the point why our politicians defame themselves by talking about things that have got nothing to do with us. The thing is that they occasionally make some statements that the media would make them controversial topics to interest its viewers! For example they pick up some specific phrases of a long speech (without refering to the main points and reasons for that speech) and put so many bad comments on that.
First of all, Iranians don't hate anyone.We hate neither Jews nor Americans. How would our guys dream of America, want to be like them as much as possible, and hate them at the same time?! SECRET: Iranians are the only people in the Mid-East that are pro-American! Being agaisnt the U.S policies is a different story! We live basically the same lives.Don't look at the way women dress at the public places! You've got to see them in other places!I've got to say that for Iran, Israel is not equal with Jews! Israel is a gov't. Jews are faithful people! 20,000 Jews and lots of Christians live here equally with Iranians and two of Iran's parliment members are Jews. Who says we want to force others to convert to Islam? Have you ever found a Muslim knocking at your door asking you to do so?
Christians and Jews are both God-believers and respectful to us.

I wonder who Iran is really a threat to. Is it logical to say someone's guilty because we THINK / PREDICT that he's going to do something wrong? And they repeat the same "nuclear weapons" tosh over and over and brainwash people! Correction! It's "nuclear energy". Besides, how many "nuclear weapons" do they have themselves? Hundreds of thousands? Has Iran ever attacked any countries? No. Has it developed any nukes? No! That's what nuclear agency says. Only Iran's opponents are pulling Iran's leg and what they say is just based on political conflicts. What we're doing is legal. Iran is a peaceful country. Why? It's the regional super-power and if she wanted, she could easily invade the countries in our neibourhood just like what Saddam did to our country, but as you see Iran has peaceful relations with all of them.

Some people say he said: Israel should be wiped off the map! the thing is that he exactly said: "The Imam "Khomeyni" said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time."They've only told you this phrase not the whole thing and it's mistranslated intentionally. Besides, they've been saying such things for a long time.It's their habit.Here's an article."Wiped off the map….The roumor of the century.Read how the media and the U.S newspapers have twisted it into a controvertioal topic. http://www.antiwar.com/orig/norouzi.php?… Now you see that you were wrong.Iran has always defended itself, but it's not an offensive country.

Some say he's said: "The Holocaust is a myth!" Again, this is a single phrase taken from a long speech and there are totally logical reasons for saying so. If 6,000,000 Jews were killed, that's terrible, but 300,000 Shiite Moslems killed by Saddam aren't important at all? Over 650,000 Iraqi people are killed and that's not important?! When Fox News simply says that America and Israel are capable of destroying and killing Iran's population of 69,000,000 within two weeks, it's OK and no one says they're threatening other countries to nuke them (I saw this with my own eyes on the Fox News website) Millions of people killed in Afghanistan, Hiroshima & Nagasaki and the Vietnam war are not considered human beings at all! Now I think you'd get the point why he's IRONICALLY said it's a myth. Moreover, don't you believe in freedom of speech/mind?

Some countries are using Iran as a scapegoat to put the blame (for their own faults) on.
This part is just for Americans:
Those of you who say why Iran says "Death to America":
1. 'America' to us means the U.S govt, not the people. How do you expect Iranians to mean "American people" when our media admires Americans for marching and holding up "no war" placards?! Also, I see a lot of "Let's nuke Iran"s on YA.Isn't that a kind of "Death to Iran"?
2. The new generation don't say such things and if some of them occasionally march in the streets that's because some of the stupid guys enjoy making noise and they mainly go out there to meet their girlfriends/boyfriends! Strange. Isn't it?
3. Such mottos are not just said in Iran and as you know whatever you hear is a response to the U.S govt's terrible actions which has made life for many people hell (You wouldn't deny that attacking countries is a mistake. Would you?)
4. U.S. companies assistance in developing Iraq's chemical weapons facilities during the Iran-Iraq war which killed over a million Iranians
5. USS Vincennes shooting down Iran Air Flight 655 with many civilian fatalities
6.U.S. Support for anti-Iranian terrorist organisations (I.e. the MKO);
7. Economic damage caused by U.S. sanctions and political pressure; U.S. UAV overflights over Iran violating Iranian airspace since 2003.

When you call Ahmadinejad a nutcase for what he's said, what do you call Bush for his war crimes?
To those who are upset with American hostages taken for 444 days:
1. Firstly, It's related to so many years ago and it's almost a part of history, and don't forget that when there's a revolution, there'd be chaos and people may do things that they should not, moreover they're all alive and healthy. Aren't they?
2.The U.S has arrested Iranian diplomats in Iraq and had tortured the one who was freed. Now you decide who has the right to be upset with whom. How do you believe in their lies about politics when they hide both the most and the least important things from you considering the fact that politics is the world of lies in its nature?!!!

If you like to insist on your theory of attacking Israel, I'll tell you our logical theory: "The moment that Iran attacks Israel, Iran will be wiped off the face of the earth by the U.S and its allies and Iran is far more logical than doing such a stupid thing" So, forget about it.I'm quite sure you know that all the events and lies in the world are a part of a pre-planned scenario by major world-powers (Iran as an important country has always been a part of their plans)And the first step is to brainwash people.They excactly know what will happen even 50 years later! I think Iraq is such a good example.Attacking it with the excuse of removing Seddam while they'd put Seddam there themselves and had supported him for years! The same is true with al Qaeda if you do some research!

Isn't it better for both countries to forget past conflicts and to have peaceful relations? Our two gov'ts are like 10 year old children playing a stupid, harsh, rhetorical game. They don't care about hurting people's feelings. They just try to make our two peoples enemies to achieve their own goals. We, as the people of these countries, MUST NOT allow these conflics into our hearts. Now, what do you think? You'll have elections soon and we'll have one in 2009.You just vote for a Democrate and we'll find someone who'd get along with the U.S (Our former pres is a nice bet).Deal? I can't wait to see both nations in peace. It'd be marvelous!
BTW, Did you find my article informative? : )
Thanks for your time
The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
from the Greek, they numbered the pages in each "book."
Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement.
Mr. Spock's (of Star Trek) blood type was T-Negative
On a trip to the South Sea islands, French painter Paul Gauguin stopped off briefly in Central America, where he worked as a laborer on the Panama Canal.
Bananas do not grow on trees, but on rhizomes.
The tailless dinner jacket was invented in Tuxedo Park, New York. Thus it is called the "tuxedo dinner jacket" and is named after the town…not the other way around.
Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed.
New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400 spoons from every state and almost every country.
Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate."
I had to stop reading it was so long, but it's some good facts I'll be back later to read the rest
A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards
Counter-clockwise
The silhouette on the Major League Baseball logo is Harmon Killebrew.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
Benito Mussolini would ward off the evil eye by touching his testicles.
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What is the lowest # on the FM dial?
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.
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 *this* was the day of the changeover.
Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language.
The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one endpoint is P.
The Holland and Lincoln Tunnels under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and New York are an engineering feat. The air circulators in the tunnels circulate fresh air completely every ninety seconds.
Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
A type of jellyfish found off the coast of England is the longest animal in the world.
In the Dutch province of Twente people live on average half a year shorter than in the rest of the Netherlands.
Olympic Badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers
Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.
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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."
Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason.
The Velvet Underground's first manager was Andy Warhol, who also produced their first album and designed the cover artwork. The cover artwork for the album (called "The Velvet Underground and Nico") featured a bright yellow banana that could be peeled off to reveal a bright pink banana underneath, with the label "Peel Slowly and See." "Peel Slowly and See" is the title of the Velvet Underground comprehensive boxed set, which is the only currently-available Velvet Underground recording to feature a peelable banana. The peelable banana caused substantial delays in the production of the VU's first album and contributed to Lou Reed's firing Andy Warhol as the group's manager.
On which side of a venetian blind is the cord that adjusts the opening between the slats?
Point Roberts in Washington State is cut off from the rest of the state by British Columbia, Canada. If you wish to travel from Point Roberts to the rest of the state or vice versa, you must pass through Canada, including Canadian and U.S. customs
In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.
On which card in a deck, is the cardmaker's trademark?
The "second unit" films movie shots that do not require the presence of actors.
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Polar bears' fur is not white, it's clear. Polar bear skin is actually black. Their hair is hollow and acts like fiber optics, directing sunlight to warm their skin.
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
The "wild" horses of western North America are actually feral, not wild.
Only humans and horses have hymens.
Ham radio operators got the term "ham" coined from the expression "ham-fisted operators", a term used to describe early radio users who sent Morse code (I.e. pounded their fists).
When ocean tides are at their highest, they are called "spring tides." When they are at their lowest, they are call "neep tides."
Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc. Who's missing?
The Dutch town of Abcoude is the only reasonably sized town/city in the world whose name begins with ABC.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the Pulitzer prize.
There were no squirrels on Nantucket until 1989.
World War II.
White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees)
There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.
The female ferret is referred to as a `jill'.
Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticably shorter than his right.
Today's cattle are descended from two species: wild aurochs — fierce and agile herd animals that populated
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured
In Chinese, the words for crisis and opportunity are the same.
On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
A peanut is not a nut; it is a legume.
Jean Harlow was the first actress to appear on the cover of Life magazine.
Ontario is the only Canadian Province that borders the Great Lakes.
Libya is the only country in the world with a solid, single-colored flag — it's green.
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Paul McCartney's mother was a midwife.
Woodward Ave in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere.
Dracula is the most filmed story of all time, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is second and Oliver Twist is third.
wasn't that a form of abuse. not that I am going to report it…
Mississippi River. If you wish to travel from this cut off section to the rest of the state or vice-versa, you must first cross a bordering state.
Dalmatian dogs are born pure white, they don't start getting spots until they are three or four days old.
The only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is one located in the inner ear.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
become a saint, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.
Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.
It is a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly — so says City Ordinance No. 352 in Pacific Grove, California.
In left hand drive countries, such as the UK, Ireland, Japan, and Australia, drivers sit on the right hand side of the car. Except for Sweden, where drivers sat on the left, as in North-America.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The airport in La Paz, Bolivia is the world's highest airport.
If you come from Manchester, you are a Mancunian.
Devo's original name was going to be De-evolution. They shortened it to Devo.
Linn's Stamp News is the world's largest weekly newspaper for stamp collectors.
The roads on the island of Guam are made with coral. Guam has no sand. The sand on the beaches is actually ground coral. When concrete is mixed, the coral sand is used instead of importing regular sand from thousands of miles away.
The only way to stop the pain of the flathead fish's sting is by rubbing the same fish's slime on the wound it gave you.
The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons."
Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
A bullet fired from the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge (also called the .308 Winchester) is still supersonic at 1000 yards.
Alaska has the longest border with Canada of all the fifty states.
The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism"…
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Which way do fans rotate?
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the two left-handed Beatles.
Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.
"Video Killed the Radio Star" was the very first video ever played on MTV.
QANTAS, the name of the Australian national airline, is a (former) acronym, for Queensland And Northern
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
The Fort George Point in Belize City was formed by the silt runoff of Hurricane Hattie.
St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
Rabbits love licorice.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Some female hyenas have a pseudo-penis.
How many channels on a VHF TV dial?
Jamie Farr (who played Klinger on M*A*S*H) was the only member of the cast who actually served as a soldier in the Korean war.
Samuel Clemens's pseudonym "Mark Twain" was the nickname of a riverboat pilot about whom Clemens wrote a needless nasty satirical piece. Apparently, Clemens felt guilt later and adopted the name as a nom de plume as some sort of expiation. The phrase does not mean measuring the depth of the river; it means a specific depth, to wit, two fathoms (twelve feet.)
The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean
Grover Cleveland's real first name is Stephen, Grover is his middle name.
When Voyager 2 visited Neptune it saw a small irregular white cloud that zips around Neptune every sixteen hours or so now known as "The Scooter".
Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.
Mustard gas was invented in the McKinley Building on the American University campus. Additionally, preliminary work on the Manhattan Project was done in that building. The government used the McKinley Building because of its unusual archticture. If there would be any type of large explosion inside the building, the building would implode onto itself, containing any lethal gas or nuclear material. The building now houses the Physics Department.
Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern state; it also has the highest latitude,the most eastern longitude and the most western longitude.
Michigan was the first state to plow it's roads and the first to adopt a yellow dividing line.
At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' symbolizes 'two women living under one roof'.
projected death toll while it was being built. No one died. The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go at the speed of light.
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Reindeer like to eat bananas.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an aligator while he hosted "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
Clockwise as you look at it
The hieroglyph for 100,000 is a tadpole.
The southern most city in the United States is Na'alehu, Hawaii.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". Wally and Beaver had a baby alligator which they kept in the toilet.
No modern language has a true concept of "I am." It is always used linked with are in reference of another verb.
The only borough of New York City that isn't an island (or part of an island) is the Bronx.
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle
The word "moose" was originally Algonquin.
Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
Sting got his name because of a yellow-and-black striped shirt he wore until it literally fell apart.
The state of Maryland has no natural lakes.
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.
The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."
Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
School busses in the United States are Chrome Yellow and used to be Omaha Orange.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
The youngest letters in the English language are "j," "v" and "w."
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
The forward pass was created by the football team at Saint Louis University.
The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
Starfish don't have brains.
Studebaker still exists, but is now called Worthington.
The shortest verse in the Bible is "Jesus wept."
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
The original plan for Disneyland included a Lilliputland.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Gary Burgough who played Walter Radar O'Reily on M*A*S*H has a deformed left thumb. If you watch closely you will see that he never shows his left hand.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
The "Calabash" pipe, most often associated with Sherlock Holmes, was not used by him until William Gillette (an American) portrayed Holmes onstage. Gillette needed a pipe he could keep in his mouth while he spoke his lines.
Genghis Khan started out life as a goatherd.
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Montana also borders the most Canadian Provinces of all the fifty states. It borders three of them.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
The term "Mayday" used for signaling for help (after SOS), it comes from the French term "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MayDay" and means, "Help Me"
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
Nepal is the only country without a rectangular flag (it looks like two pennants glued on on top of the other)
The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin," pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "Star Trek" lore.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.
The Hudson River along the island of Manhattan flows in either direction depending upon the tide.
Seven Olympic gold medal winners eventually went on to win the Heavyweight Championship of the World
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
The music group Simply Red is named because of its love for the football team, Manchester United, who have a red home strip.
The arteries and veins surrounding the brain stem called the "circle of Willis" looks like a stick person with a large head.
The top layer of a wedding cake, known as the groom's cake, traditionally is a fruit cake. That way it will save until the first anniversery.
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Not all of West Virginia voted to go with the North. When the State of West Virginia was formed from Virginia in 1863 the three western counties in Virginia voted to go with West Virginia, but West Virginia didn't take them because they were poor. Instead they took three counties that voted to stay with Virginia, because they were richer and they had the B&O railroad. Those counties since split and are 5 Jefferson, Hampshire, Berkley, Mineral, and Morgan.
Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle.
Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)
Some of Beethoven's symphonies were performed in Kentucky before they were performed in Paris, France.
Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
Pinocchio was made of pine.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die because they need gravity to swallow.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor
Lucy Ricardo's maiden name was McGillicudy.
right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties in climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.
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Soweto in South Africa ws derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.
There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
Studebaker was the only major car company to stop making cars while making a profit from them.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
Chris Ford scored the first ever NBA three-point shot.
All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park.
Asia, North Africa and Europe — and eotragus — an antelope-like, Asian forest creature.
Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of "The Boy General" is one of the few women buried at the U.S. Military academy at West Point, New York.
Over 30 million people in the US "suffer" from Diastima. Diastima is having a gap between your front teeth.
All porcupines float in water.
There are only thirteen blimps in the world.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.
A flea expert is a pullicologist.
Which side of a woman's blouse are the buttons on?
There are more bald eagles in the province of British Columbia then there are in the whole United States.
A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background — when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
"Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occuring, relax and correct itself. At about that height it hits maximum speed and when it hits the ground it's rib cage absorbs most of the impact. So throw your cat off a building today!"
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
Race car is a palindrome.
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There are only three animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard.
A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peel and raisins.
Top English soccer club Liverpool were formed because their local enemies, Everton, couldn't pay the rent for their stadium. Therefore Liverpool took over at the stadium (Anfield) and became England's top soccer team ever.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
Yucatan, as in the peninsula, is from Maya "u" + "u" + "uthaan," meaning "listen to how they speak," what the Maya said when they first heard the Spaniards.
The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
Way back when they were using marble columns, the people selling the columns would carve out the centers and fill it with wax.So the people buying them started asking "Is it without wax?" Or in other words "Are you sincere?"
The smallest port in Canada is Port Williams, Nova Scotia.
The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
Rabbits cannot vomit.
Carbonated water, with nothing else in it,can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Moh's hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient in soda pop.
"Evian" spelled backvards is naive.
The only social fraternity founded during the Civil War was Theta Xi fraternity, at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1864.
The three largest land-owners in England are the Queen, the Church of England and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S
The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was a spin-off of the Danny Thomas Show.
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.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
The U.S. Mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that marks its pennies.
On a standard traffic light, is the green on the top or bottom?
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
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Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
On a NY license plate, is New York on the top or bottom?
Venetian blinds were invented in Japan.
Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
The legbones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry, founder of Blues Inc. They were the first electric white blues band ever seen in England–1961
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
"Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting."
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
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The Phillips-head screwdriver was invented in Oregon.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
The Greek version of the Old Testament is called the Septuagint.
Glass flutes do not expand with humidity so their owners are spared the nuisance of tuning them.
Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
The real name of Astro (the dog fromThe Jetsons) is "Tralfaz" — his real owner appeared one day to claim him but wound up giving him back to the Jetsons.
The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.'
The difference between male and female blue crabs is the design located on their apron (belly.) The male blue crab has the Washington Monument while the female apron is shaped like the U.S. Capitol.
The existing biggest blimp is the Fuji Film blimp.
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The newest dog breed is the Bull Boxer, first bred in the United states in 1990-91.
"adversary", devil means "liar".
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way
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Iowa has more independent telephone companies than any other state.
Armadillos can walk underwater.
Dublin comes from the Irish Dubh Linn which means Blackpool
The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
There are six five words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate and duumvir, residuum.
Crickets hear through their knees.
The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
The last NASCAR driver to serve jail time for running moonshine was Buddy Arrington.
Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
The gene for the Siamese coloration in animals such as cats, rats or rabbits is heat sensitive. Warmth produces a lighter color than does cold. Putting tape temporarily on Siamese rabbit's ear will make the fur on that ear lighter than on the other one.
The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.
"Xmas" does not begin with the Roman letter X. It begins with the Greek letter "chi," which was used in medieval manuscripts as an abbreviation for the word "Christ" (xus = christus, etc.)
South Africa is the only country with three official capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein.
Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
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.
Astronauts in the Space Shuttle are weightless not because there is no gravity in space, but because they are in free fall around the Earth.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were all cousins through one connection or another. (FDR and Eleanor were about five times removed.)
The first electric Christmas lights were created by a telephone company PBX installer. Back in the old days, candles were used to decorate Christmas trees. This was obviously very dangerous. Telephone employees are trained to be safety concious. This installer took the lights from an old switchboard, connected them together, strung them on the tree, and hooked them to a battery.
The Swiss flag is square.
Brooklyn is the Dutch name for "broken valley"
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Welsh mercenary bowmen in the medieval period only wore one shoe at a time.
Only three angels are mentioned by name in the Bible: Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer.
Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
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Little known Cathedral Caverns near Grant, Alabama has the world's largest cave opening, the largest stalagmite (Goliath), and the largest stalagmite forest in the World.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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.
A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.
The lot numbers for the cyanide-tainted Tylenol capsules scare back in 1982 were MC2880 and 1910MD.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
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."
Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch.
The Velvet Underground was named after a book on the S&M culture.
The Ganges River in India boasts the only genuine fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
Tennessee is bordered by more states than any other. The eight states are Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.
The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and compline.
Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age 31 by sticking her head in an oven.
When angered, the ears of Tazmanian devils turn a pinkish-red.
At McDonalds in New Zealand, they serve apricot pies instead of cherry ones.
Female orcas live twice as long as male orcas. The larger numbers of female orcas in a pod are because of the female's longer lifespan, not because the males have collected a harem.
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.
Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would and therefore forstall curses.
The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.
There are four states where the first letter of the capital city is the same letter as the first letter of the state: Dover, Delaware; Honolulu, Hawaii; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Ronald Regan sent out the army phoyographer who first discovered Marilyn Monroe.
The physically smallest post office in the United States is in Ochopee, Florida in the heart of the everglades.
The dirt road that General Washington and his soldiers took to fight off General Clinton during the Battle of Monmouth was called the Burlington Path.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
What 2 letters don't appear on the telephone dial?
The "Hallelujah Chorus" fits into the Easter portion of Handel's Messiah, not Christmas.
The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified is to poke someone's eye out.
The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone.
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The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick.
What 6 colors are on the classic Campbell's soup label?
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.
Theworld's largest wine cask is in Heidleberg, Germany.
Many species of bird copulate in the air. In general, a couple will fly to a very high altitude, and then drop. During their descent, the birds mate. Sometimes the couple gets too involved and SPLAT!
The word posh, which denotes luxurious rooms or accomodations, originated when ticket agents in England marked the tickets of travelers going by ship to the Orient. Since there was no air conditioning in those days, it was always better to have a cabin on the shady side of the ship as it passed through the Mediterranean and Suez area. Since the sun is in the south, those with money paid extra to get cabin's on the left, or port, traveling to the Asia, and on the right, or starboard, when returning to Europe. Hence their tickets were marked with the initials for Port Outbound Starboard Homebound, or POSH.
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 did start in a barn belonging to Patrick and Katherine O'Leary. The O'Leary's house was one of the few that survived the fire. The O'Leary's house had to be guarded by soldiers for weeks afterwards, however, because many enraged residents wanted to burn it down.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously
Kerimski Church in Finland is world's biggest church made of wood.The St. Louis Gateway Arch had a
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S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" — It was just chosen by an 1908 international
When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."
Cranberry Jello is the only jello flavor that comes from real fruit, not artificial flavoring.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
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In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's last name is Gail. It is shown on the mail box.
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
Original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington D.C. is what is referred to as a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy of a document and is not the same as a laser produced hologram.
The shortest French word with all five vowels is "oiseau" meaning bird.
Kitsap County, Washington, was originally called Slaughter County, and the first hotel there was called the Slaughter House.
very long to read but some of the facts are false:
like:Common Folklore suggests that the silhouette of Harmon Killebrew swinging a bat is the official logo of Major League Baseball. However, MLB.com states the following: "The MLB logo: No one player has ever been identified as the model of the 1969 Major League Baseball batter logo".

can anyone find any others?
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint — no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
Cyano-acrylate glues (Super glues) were invented by accident. The researcher was trying to make optical coating materials, and would test their properties by putting them between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acrylate, he couldn't get the prisms apart
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
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Richard Nixon left instructions for "California, Here I Come" to be the last piece of music played at his funeral ("softly and slowly") were he to die in office.
The Soviet Sukhoi-34 is the first strike fighter with a toilet in it.
Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman, and child in the world.
Polar bears camouflage themselves more completely during a hunt by covering their black noses with their
Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting while he was alive, Red Vineyard at Arles.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
The topknot that quails have is called a hmuh.
A scholar who studies the Marquis de Sade is called a Sadian, not a Sadist (of course).
The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.
There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
Opossums have forked penises.
The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention the name of God.
Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY
A byte, in computer terms, means 8 bits. A nibble is half that: 4 bits. (Two nibbles make a byte!)
Physicist Murray Gell-Mann named the sub-atomic particles known as quarks for a random line in James Joyce, "Three quarks for Muster Mark!"
Maine is the only state that borders on only one state.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
"revolving pistol." Therefore, all revolvers are correctly called pistols.
How many curves are in a standard paper clip?
Ralph Kramden made 62 dollars a week.
Whose face is on a dime?
Now the Test
Walt Disney had wooden teeth.
U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.
Most spiders belong to the orb weaver spider family, Family Aranidae. This is pronounced "A Rainy Day."
'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
If you come from Birmingham, you are a Brummie.
The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.
In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers — they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
The Cincinnati Reds baseball team name was officially changed to the Redlegs during the anti-communist movement.
ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant.
Urea is found in humnan urine and dalmatian dogs and nowhere else.
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
Crows have the largest cerebral hemispheres, relative to body size, of any avian family.
Vietnamese currency consists only of paper money; no coins.
The Red sea in the Bible is a long-perpetuated mistranslation of the Reed sea.
The one-hundred eleventh element is known as "unnilenilenium"
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Sirimauo Bandranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first popularly elected female head of state in 1960.
The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'
with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
Tigars have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Jet lag was once called boat lag, back before jets existed.
Jesus Christ died at age 33.
A full moon always rises at sunset.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently
The first Eagle Scout west of the Mississippi is buried in San Marcos, Texas.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
Will Clark of the Texas Rangers is a direct descendant of William Clark of Lewis and Clark.
The only planet without a ring is earth.
The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are "screeched" and "strengths."
John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas
No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon wil be about three statute miles away.
There are 12 buttons on a touch tone phone. What 2 symbols bear no digits?
A whale's penis is called adork.
The Bronx, New York got its name from explorer Henry Bronk.
If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
On the back of a $1 bill, what is in the center?
Hamsters love to eat crickets.
Martha's Vineyard once had its own dialect of Sign Language. One deaf person arrived in 1692 and after that there was a relatively large genetically deaf population that had their own particular dialect of sign language. From 1692-1910 nearly all hearing people on the island were bilingual in sign language and English.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
The first fossilized specimen of Austalopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the palentologists' favorite song, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, by the Beatles.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
A kind of tortoise in the Galapagos Islands has an upturned shell at its neck so it can reach its head up to eat cactus branches.
All of the cobble stones that used to line the streets in New York were originally weighting stones put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even keel.
Michael Di Lorenzo, who plays Eddie Torres on New York Undercover is one of the lead dancers in Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video.
An elephant can be pregnant for up to two years.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
The world's second largest pipe organ is located at the Organ Grinder on 82nd avenue in Portland, Oregon.
to say "many things" and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible — in many places — refers to "40 days," they meant many days.
M & M's were developed so that soldiers could eat candy without getting their fingers sticky.
The name for fungal remains found in coal is sclerotinite.
Cheryl Ladd (of Charlie's Angels fame) played the voice, both talking and singing, of Joise in the 70s Saturday morning cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats."
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
The German Kaiser Wilhelm II had a withered arm and often hid the fact by posing with his hand resting on a sword, or by holding gloves.
Write down your answers to check them at the end.
It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.
The home team must provide the referee with 24 footballs for each National Football League game.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
What 2 #'s on the telephone dial don't have letters by them?
Alma mater means bountiful mother.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated two years after he had died.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
"Bookkeeper" and "bookkeeping" are the only words in the English language with three consecutive double letters.
Ogdensburg, New York is the only city in the United States situated on the St. Lawrence River.
The oldest word in the English language is "town"
John Lennon's assassin was carrying a copy of "The Catcher in the Rye" when he shot the famous Beatle in 1980.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 105.6 miles per hour.
Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
How many matches are in a standard pack?
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
Revolvers cannot be silenced, due all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
Swans are the only birds with penises.
Very small clouds that look like they have been broken off of bigger clouds are called scuds.
Jersey (in the Channel Islands, UK) was the only place that the Nazi's occupied in Great Britain during
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
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.
How many hot dog buns are in a standard package?
Both writer Edgar Allen Poe and LSD advocate Timothy Leary were kicked out of West Point.
The term the "Boogey Man will get you" comes from the Boogey people,who still inhabit an area of Indonesia. These people still act as pirates today and attack ships that pass. Thus the term spread "if you don't watch out the Boogey man will get you."
A game of pool is referred to as a "frame."
Sunbeams that shine down through the clouds are called crespucular rays.
Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came — head to toe.
On Sesame Street, Bert's goldfish were named Lyle and Talbot, presumably after the actor Lyle Talbot.
The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
Blue, red, white, yellow, black, and gold
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
Artist Constantino Brumidi fell from the done of the U.S. Capitol while painting a mural around the rim. He died four months later.
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
Territories Air Service.
Many northern parishes (counties) of Louisiana did not agree with the Confederate movement. To show their disapproval, they changed their names. That's why there is a Union Parish, Jefferson Parish, etc.
The silhouette on the NBA logo is Jerry West.
Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
straight into the air.
When you walk does your left arm swing w/ your right or left leg?
Algeria. (Cork comes from trees.)
In which hand is the Statue of Liberty's torch?
Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day.
Scientists found a whole new phylum of animal on a lobster's lip.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
The words 'sacrilegious' and 'religion' do not share the same etymological root.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.
It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
The concerti on the two Voyager probes' information discs are performed by famed Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.
October 4, 1957 is a historic date to be remembered, it is the day both "Leave it to Beaver" and the Russian satellite Sputnik 1 were launched.
The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
The first letters of the names of the Great Lakes spell HOMES.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
The most eastern part of the western world is located in Ilomantsi, Finland.
The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum.
A group of officers is called a mess.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
Native speakers of Japanese learn Spanish much more easily than they learn English. Native speakers of English learn Spanish much more easily than they learn Japanese.
The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.
The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
The world's largest four-faced clock sits atop the Allen-Bradley plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The earliest document in Latin in a woman's handwriting (it is from the first century A.D.) is an invitation to a birthday party.
"Quisling" is the only word in the English language to start with "quis."
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
Former US Senator Barry Goldwater attended the opening night ceremonies and festivities at Bugsy Siegel's famous Las Vegas casino. They left him out of the movie Bugsy. He is pissed.
Soldiers from every country salute with their right hand.
"John has a long moustache" was the coded-signal used by the French Resistance in WWII to mobilize their forces once the Allies had landed on the Normandy beaches.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
Which way does a "no smoking" sign's slash run?
A penguin only has sex twice a year.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.
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There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Many Japanese golfers carry "hole-in-one" insurance, because it is traditional in Japan to share one's good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an "ace." The price for what the Japanese term an "albatross" can often reach $10,000.
Cleopatra used pomegranate seeds for lipstick.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Only thirty percent of the famous Maryland blue crabs are actually from Maryland, the rest are from North Carolina and Virginia.
The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue.
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 posies…"), 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!")
"shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
Emus cannot walk backwards.
There are eight different sizes of champagne bottle and the largest is called a Nebuchadnezzar (after the Biblical king who put Daniel's three friends into the oven).
A family of six died in Oregon during WWII as a result of a Japanese balloon bomb.
The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
St. Bernard is the patron saint of skiers.
No animal, once frozen solid (I.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.
Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.
Most armadillos seen dead on the road did not get hit by the wheels. When an armidillo is frightened it jumps
There is a type of parrot in New Zealand that likes to eat the rubber strips that line car windows.
Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
Cathy Rigby is the only woman to pose nude for Sports Illustrated. (August 1972)
Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
The top three cork-producing countries are Spain, Portugal and
Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States.
There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.
How many states are there?
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California…
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.
The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5 megabytes.
Nauru is the only country in the world with no official capital. (Its government offices are all in Yaren
Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distrubution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being.
"I'd like clarify the comment about iguanas and komodo dragons having two penises. In fact, they have a single penis, but it is split in two (pretty much 'Y'-shaped.) This organ is known as a hemipenes. Snakes also share this interesting feature. Apparently, the dual penis is for ease of left-handed or right-handed mating.
Ace of spades
If you were standing in the northernmost point in the contiguous (48) states, you'd be standing in Minnesota.
The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
Lynyrd Skynard was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, "You boys ain't never gonna to nothin'."
District, but there's no official capital.)
The coast line around Lake Sakawea in North Dakota is longer than the California coastline along the
Horses cannot vomit.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
The word "Boondocks" comes from the Tagalog (Filipino) word "Bundok," which
The Basset Horn, a kind of alto clarinet, was named after its inventor — a man named Horn. "Basset" is from "Basetto," or "little bass" in Italian.
The Dodge brothers Horace and John were Jewish, that's why the first Dodge emblem had a star of David in it.
Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second.
Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off… Thus the saying.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.
Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin. However, every stamp carries a relief image or a silhouette of the monarch's head instead.
The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have 1 syllable… it has three.
The Beatles song "Martha My Dear" was written by Paul McCartney about his sheepdog Martha.
The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with, e.g. Asia, Europe.
Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streeets in Rome (or some other Italian place), they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of "trivia."
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The growth rate of some bamboo plants can reach three feet (91.44 cm) per day.
A cat has four rows of whiskers.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
A bear has 42 teeth.
The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.
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Leon Trotsky, the seminal Russian Communist, was assassinated in Mexico with an ice-pick.
Tribeca in Manhattan stands for TRIangle BElow CAnal street. Soho stands for SOuth of HOuston street.
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The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
A Laforte fracture is a fracture of all facial bones. It would allow one to pull on another face and remove it like a mask if not held on by skin.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
M&M's stands for the last names of Forrest Mars, Sr., then candymaker, and his associate Bruce Murrie.
The straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process beer without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the top of the container.
Coca-Cola contains neither coca nor cola.
Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
There was once a town named "6" in West Virginia.
The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".
The Dutch town of Leeuwarden can be spelled 225 different ways.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.
New Zealand is also the only country that contains every type of climate in the world.
25-27 Not too shabby!
Robert Kennedy was killed in the Ambassador Hotel, the same hotel that housed Marilyn Monroe's first modelling agency.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
The Earl of Condom was a knighted personal physician to England's King Charles II in the mid-1600's. The Earl was requested to produce a method to protect the King from syphillis.(Charles the II's pleasure-loving nature was notorious.) The result should be obvious.
Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
Jethro Tull is not the name of the rock singer/flautist responsible for such songs as "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick." Jethro Tull is the name of the band. The singer is Ian Anderson. The original Jethro Tull was an English horticulturalist who invented the seed drill.
The oldest exposed surface on earth is New Zealand's south island.
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
Several buildings in Manhattan have their own zip code! The World Trade Center has several.
Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him.
In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
Games Slayter, a Purdue graduate, invented fiberglass.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
that was uber long but some of them I knew….
A group of whales is called a pod.
All swans and all sturgeons in England are property of the Queen. Messing with them is a serious offense.
The "D" in D-day means "Day". The French term for "D-Day" is "J-jour".
The "heat" of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale.
If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe.
Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
Chia Pets are only sold in December.
Madrid is the only European capital city not situated on a river.
Carson City, Nevada. October 31 is Nevada Day and is celebrated with a large stret party.
The naval rank of "Admiral" is derived from the Arabic phrase "amir al bahr", which means "lord of the sea".
During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to drop bomb.
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Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Rats like boiled sweets better than they like cheese. Big Ben was slowed five minutes one day when a passing group of starlings decided to take a rest on the minute hand of the clock.
The Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
The little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side, is called a "porcelator".
Australian Rules Football was originally designed to give cricketers something to play during the off season.
Lucifer is latin for "Light Bringer". It is a translation of the Hebrew name for Satan, Halael. Satan means
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
Only two states' names begin with double consonants: Florida and Rhode Island.
Spencer Eldon was the name of the naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's album
Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats.
The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu.
Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
Pickled herrings were invented in 1375.
Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
The "chapters" of the New Testament were not there originally. When monks in medieval times translated it
Cleopatra's last name was Ptolemy, and she was Greek rather than Egyptian.
Cockroaches' favorite food is the glue on envelopes and on the back of postage stamps
The amount of tropical rainforest cut down each year is an area the size of Tennessee.
One way to tell seals and sea lions apart is that, sea lions have external ears and testicles.
Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University.
There are almost twice as many people in Rhode Island than there are in Alaska.
"Freelance" comes from a knight whose lance was free for hire, I.e. not pledged to one master.)
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Skin is thickest is at the back — 1/6 of an inch.
The type specimen for the human species is the skull of Edward Drinker Cope, an American paleontologist of the late 1800's. A type specimen is used in paleontology as the best example of that species.
According to the ceremonial customs of Orthodox Judaism, it is officially sundown when you cannot tell the difference between a black thread and a red one.
Lizzie Borden was acquitted.
Parthenogenesis is the term used to describe the process by which certain animals are able to reproduce themselves in successive female generations without intervention of a male of the species. At least one species of lizard is known to do so.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
Roosevelt
A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON.
Chainsaw Massacre."
Naugahyde, plastic "leather" was created in Naugatuck, Connecticut.
Most snakes have either only one lung, or in some cases, two, with one much reduced in size. This apparently serves to make room for other organs in the highly-elongated bodies of snakes.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The only person ever to decline a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was Sinclair Lewis for his book Arrowsmith.
On our flag, is the top stripe red or white?
The dot over the letter 'I' is called a tittle.
Which way does water go down the drain, clockwise or counter-clockwise?
No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. (Guess that explains the Saints!)
Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
Montana has the longest border with Canada of the lower forty-eight States.
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When Saigon fell the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.
The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
The phrase "sleep tight" originated when mattresses were set upon ropes woven through the bed frame. To remedy sagging ropes, one would use a bed key to tighten the rope.
Elton John's uncle was a professional soccer player. He broke his leg playing for Nottingham Forest in the 1959 English FA Cup Final.
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The biggest bell is the "Tsar Kolokol" cast in the Kremlin in 1733. It weighs 216 tons, but alas, it is cracked and has never been rung. The bell was being stored in a Moscow shed which caught fire. To "save" it the caretakers decided to throw water on the bell. This did not succeed in — the water hit the superheated metal and a giant piece immediately cracked off, destroying the bell forever.
The smallest mountain range in the world is outside of Marysville, California and is named the Sutter Buttes.
If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birthplace was listed as a post office box in Albequerque.
Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.
Chicago is closer to Moscow than to Rio de Janeiro.
Cinderella is known as Tuhkimo in Finland.
A 12 gauge "rifled slug" does not spin, even though there are grooves on it's bearing surface. A slug actually travels like a dart.
The native tribe of Tierra del Fuego has a language so guttural it cannot have an alphabet.
New Zealand kiwis lay the largest eggs with respect to their body size of any bird.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.
Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
Only two people signed the Decleration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on Augest 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 year later.
Alaska was the only part of the United States that was invaded by the Japanese during WWII. The territory was the island of Adak in the Aleutian Chain.
The "ZIP" in Zip Code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."
Joe DiMaggio had more home runs than strikeouts during his career.
It takes a lobster approxiamately seven years to grow to be one pound.
Alexander Hamilton was shot by Aaron Burr in the groin.
The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie Barbarella.
The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827.
The longest time someone has typed on a typewriter continuously is 264 hrs., set by Violet Gibson Burns.
The only city in the United States to celebrate Halloween on the October 30 instead of October 31 is
You would have to count to one thousand to use the letter "A" in the English language to spell a whole number.
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.
On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.
The chemical formula for Rubidium Bromide is RbBr. It is the only chemical formula known to be a palindrome!
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
In 1976 Sarah Caldwell became the first woman to conduct the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
Jelly Belly jelly beans were the first jelly beans in outer space when they went up with astronauts in the June 21, 1983 voyage of the space shuttle Challenger (the same voyage as the first American woman in space, Sally Ride).
Don MacLean's song "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens. All three were on the same plane that crashed.
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Octopi have gardens.
The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119.
Cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have a very high probability of having six toes.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
How many sides are there on a standard pencil?
Baseballer Connie Mack's real name was Cornelius McGilicuddy.
Sames goes for the Italian lira which uses the same abbreviation ('lira' coming from 'libra'). So British currency (before it went metric) was always quoted as "pounds/shillings/pence", abbreviated "L/s/d" (libra/solidus/denarius).
The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown differently during times of peace or war.
Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
The language Malayalam, spoken in parts of India, is the only language whose name is a palindrome.
How many lug nuts are on a standard car wheel?
Libya has the only flag which is all one color with no writing or decoration on it
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A Holstein's spots are like fingerprints — no two cows have the same pattern of spots.
There are ten human body parts that are only three letters long: Eye, Ear, Leg, Arm, Jaw, Gum, Toe, Lip, Hip and Rib.
Turnips turn green when sunburnt.
Marijuana is Spanish for 'Mary Jane.'
'Crack' gets it name because it crackles when you smoke it.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
In Irian Jaya exists a tribe of tall, white people who use parrots as a warning sign against intruders.
Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penises.
Neck ties were first worn in Croatia. That's why they were called cravats (CRO-vats).
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Some carnivores, rodents, bats and insectivores have a penis bone, called a baculum.
Sylvia Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, was married three times, and two of the women he married committed suicide.
The Western-most point in the contiguous United States is Cape Alava, Washington.
The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'. The abbreviation for the British Pound Sterling comes from the same source: it is an 'L' for Libra/Lb. with a stroke through it to indicate abbreviation.
A group of frogs is called an army.
The only two Southern state capitals not occuppied by Northern troops during the American Civil War were Austin, Texas and Tallahasse, Florida.
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Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
Most of the little schoolhouses in the U.S. of yesteryear were painted red because red was the least expensive paint color.
The word rodent comes from the Latin word `rodere' meaning to gnaw.
The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
Arkansas is the only US State that begins with "a" but does not end with "a". All the other States that begin with "a", Arizona, Alabama and Alaska, also end with "a".
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan"
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
"Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when your talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil"
When a film is in production, the last shot of the day is the "martini shot", the next to last one is the "Abby Sin

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