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May 31, 2007 by Daria: 3rd Y!A b'day. Categorized Under: Polls & Surveys

1. Samuel Clemens (Twain Streak) was born and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted he would die when it could be seen.
2. U.S. Dollar Bills are made of cotton and linen.
3. The "57" on the guts of Heinz ketchup is the number of types of Pickle the old society.
4. The Americans are responsible for about 1 / 5 of the planet offal annually. On average, 3 pounds per day per person.
5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
6.Your breadbasket produces a new layer of mucus, so every two weeks it does not digest itself.
7. 98% of all murders and rapes are linked by a close relative or friend of the victim.
8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building, July 28, 1945.
9. The announcement of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
10. Update on the letter "i" is called a tittle.
11. A Raisin fell into a magnifying glass of fresh champagne will bounce continuously at the bottom of the glass upwards.
12.Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.
13. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times per year). In Italy, 17 is considered a part of luck. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.
14. A female ferret will die if she goes into heat and can not find a better half.
15. All chemical substances in the human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).
16. In antediluvian Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
17.Zip in "ZIP code" Recovery Plan zoning.
18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
19. A "2 by 4" is categorically 1 1 / 2 by 3 1 / 2.
20. It is estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.
21. Each king in a deck of cards represents a distinguished king from history: Spades = David; Clubs = Alexander the Great, Hearts = Charlemagne, Diamonds = Caesar
22. 40% of McDonald's profits crumble from the sale of Happy Meals.
23.Any person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue off with their fingerprints.
24. The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
25. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Lexicon were misspelled.
26. The "Save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter in reverse.
27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Lowenthal and Emma Wedgewood each to each).
28. Camel's have three eyelids.
29.On average 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
30. The brother of John Wilkes Box, once saved the life of the son of Abraham Lincoln.
31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are fellow and sister.
32. Chocolate can kill dogs, it directly affects their heart and nervous system.
33. Daniel Boone hated Coonskin caps.
34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If they are caught, they could be soaked in dilute and unfolded to reveal a plan of escape.
35. 55.1% of all U.S. prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
36. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
37. Orcas (Daisy whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to take full of holes.
38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce.
39. Slugs have four noses.
40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
41. The three wise monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear No Evil), and Mazaru (Ask not so bad).
42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
43. If you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can divide a blood vessel in the head or neck and die.If you keep your eyes open by force, they can not escape. (DO NOT TRY IT, DUMBASS)
44. During the California gold top priority of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Because of high costs in California during these years, increasing, it was considered possible to send their shirts to Hawaii for his interview.
45. American Airlines saved $ 40,000 in 1987 by Winsome an olive salad first class.
46. 200,000,000 M & Ms are sold each day in the United States.
47. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars founded during World War II were made of wood.
48. Over a distance of about eleven years the sun's magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax.
49. There 318979564000 practical combinations of the first four moves in chess.
50. Upper and lower case letters are named "capital letters newer" and "inferior" because at the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the letters the more cases were recorded in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case.
51. There are no clocks in the casinos of Las Vegas.
52.The numbers "172" can be found at the back of the $ 5 bill in the bushes at the coarse of the Lincoln Memorial.
53. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks.
54. Half of all bank robberies take appropriate on a Friday.
55. Name Wendy was made for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.
56. The protocol of international telephone numbering for Antarctica is 672.
57. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
58. The drop is not exceptional falls at 7 miles per hour.
59. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the outset.
60. If you put a drop of alcohol on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and Sting himself to death.
61. Bruce Lee was so fast they had to slow down the seed coat so you could see his movements.
62. The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $ 1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes and 4 cents may be divided into a dollar).
63. The first CD pressed in the USA Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".
64. Proverb of IBM "Think". Apple later made their motto "think different".
65. The concealment used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk domino painted white, due to low budget.
66. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
67.The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you could not take it on the lam your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
68. One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.
69. The Olympic was the sister of the shipping Titanic, and she gave twenty-five years of service.
70. When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on him. Only 706 survived.
71. In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes.
72.Every day, 7% of the U.S. eats at McDonald's.
73. The first product Motorola started to develop a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most experienced player on the sale was Victrola, Motorola, which derive their name.
74. In the United States, approximately 127 million adults are overweight or obese worldwide, 750 million are obese and 300 million are gross. In the United States, 15% of children in primary school are overweight, 20% are in the world.
75. In Disney's Fantasia in which Mickey Necromancer played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled backward).
76.Throughout his biography, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles ".
77. By raising your legs slowly and dishonest on the back, you can not sink into quicksand.
78. One in ten people live on an island.
79. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to open with.
80. 28% of Africa is considered wild. In North America, its 38%.
81. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-of Akin to challenge.
82. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
83.Sherlock Holmes never said: "Simple, my dear Watson", Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca, and they never said "Rafter me up, Scotty" on Star Trek.
84. An old law in Bellingham, Washington made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
85. Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.
86. The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not lots, but blood flowing through your head.
87. More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) that confined spaces (claustrophobia).
88.The affix of Israeli postage is certified kosher.
89. There is a 1 / 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas.
90. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
91. Thirty-five percent of people who use the closures announced for dating are already married.
92. Back in the mid to late '80s, an IBM compatible computer was not considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft Disperse Simulator.
93. $ 203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the United States
94.Every U.S. president has worn glasses (just not always clear).
95. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
96. Jim Henson coined the word "Muppet". It is a federation of "puppets" and "puppet."
97. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words "North" and "South).
98. The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the ads first attendance in 1896.
99.About 20% of bird species have disappeared over the past 200 years, almost all of them due to human activity.
100. The Huddle "Lethologica," the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
101. About 14% of consumers of the dose is HIV positive.
102. A word or phrase that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a palindrome.
103. A snail can snooze for 3 years.
104. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.
105. China has more English speakers than the concerted States.
106. Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko preference. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols, who visits homes on New Year's Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a face is left for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes.
107. One in 9,000 people is an albino.
108. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
109. You divide your birthday with at least 9 million other people worldwide.
110.Every day more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.
111. Each year, 4 people die in the United Kingdom put their pants.
112. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
113. Our eyes are always the same assessment from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
114. In each episode of "Seinfeld" there is a double or Superman reference somewhere.
115. If Barbie were life size her measurements would be 39-23-33. It would take seven feet two inches and have a gigantic neck twice the length of the neck a normal human being.
116.Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
117. Wearing headphones for very recently an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
118. Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths can be attributed to the roundness.
119. Approximately 55% of all films are classified R.
120. About 500 films are made in the United States and 800 in India annually.
121. Arabic numerals are not permanently in Arabic, they were created in India.
122. Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it unlawful for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.
123. On February of 1865, is the only month in history not to have a full moon.
124. The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is inevitable. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
125. There is really no danger in swimming right after eating, though it may feel uncomfortable.
126. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
127.Over 50% of those in seventh heaven never made or received a telephone call.
128. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
129. There are about 2 chickens for every human being in the world.
130. The dialogue "maverick" came into office after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his ox. Finally, any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick.
131. Two thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
132.For each souvenir statue with a person on a horse if the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle and if the horse has one front leg in the air, the man is dead war wounds, if all four legs of the horse are on the ground, the person died a natural death.
133. A Canadian two dollar bill, the tab is in U.S. flying over the Parliament Building.
134. An American urologist bought Napoleon's penis for $ 40,000.
135. Not a word in the English trade rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
136. Dreamed is the only English word that ends with the letters "MT".
137. $283,200 is the faultless highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy.
138. Almonds are members of the peach family.
139. Rats and horses can't spit up.
140. The penguin is the only bird that can't fly but can swim.
141. There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
142. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies lodge during a dance.
143. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
144. There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and unpredictable.
145. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
146. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1 / 10 of a calorie.
147. "101 Dalmatians" and "Peter Pan" are the only Disney animations in which both parents of one type are present and do not die during the movie.
148. You're more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
149. Hedenophobic cowardice ways of pleasure.
150. Priests of ancient Egypt pluck every hair from their bodies.
151. A crocodile can not take the FA Out.
152.Half of all crimes are committed by persons below 18 years. 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21.
153. An ant always falls on the correct side when intoxicated.
154. All polar bears are left handed.
155. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds (more than any other non-cultivated)
156. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves.
157. Butterflies taste with their feet.
158. Elephants are the only mammals that can not by.
159. The ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
160. Starfish have no brains.
161.11% of the world is left.
162. John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to release the Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776. The last signature came five years later.
163. Rubber bands last longer in the refrigerator.
164. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
165. Anthem of public Greece has 158 verses.
166. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
167. A brace (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
168. A pregnant goldfish is called a fool.
169.Lizards can self-amputate the tail to protect themselves. It grows back after a few months.
170. Full name Los Angeles is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula. It may be thin at 3.63% of its size: LA
171. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
172. A bee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
173. Tigers have striped rind, not just striped fur.
174. A blink of an eye "is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.
175. The newborn recognizes averaged over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.
176.The youngest pope ever was 11 years.
177. The first individual ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
178. One in 43 prisoners escapes from prison. 94% are recaptured.
179. The cigarette lighter was invented before the candidate.
180. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs melted into it.
181. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
182. The shortest war news was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
183. Elwood Edwards did not have the words to the AOL sound files (ie "You've got mail!").It is heard 27 million times daily. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as "Q-Tie-in."
184. A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but it seems the immaculate snow.
185. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis name was spelled Aron, in honor of his countrymen.
186. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
187. Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.
188.Shakespeare invented the word "murder" and "meeting".
189. There are a million ants for every person on Earth.
190. If you keep a goldfish in the darkroom, she ended up pushing the whites.
191. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
192. The name Jeep comes from "GP", the contraction of the army of General Purpose.
193. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
194. There are two maps to assign each person in the United States.
195. Cats' urine glows under a black light.
196.A novelist is a deadly physical is eager to know the latest news and gossip.
197. The first U.S. patent was for manufacturing potassium carbonate (suitable for glass and gunpowder). It was issued to Samuel Hopkins July 31, 1970.
198. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other days of the exhibition items.
199. In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
200. 25% of the bones of a human are at his feet.
201. David Sarnoff received signal harrow Titanic and saved hundreds of passengers.Later he became head of the first radio network, National Broadcasting Company (NBC).
202. The poor, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
203. Michael Jordan makes more money in the Nike annually than all workers in Nike factory in Malaysia combined.
204. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw the competition).
205. "Canada is an Indian dialogue which means" village ".
206. Only one person in two billion people will live until 116 years or more.
207.If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you will produce enough energy to heat a logical cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the spirit of an atomic bomb.
208. Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S.
209. The human heart creates enough pressure in the blood to squirt blood 30 feet.
210. A jellyfish is 95% softening.
211. Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by accidental deaths (799 in 2001).
212. Banging your head against a madman uses 150 calories an hour.
213.Elephants sleep only two hours a day.
214. On average, people hesitate spiders more than they do death.
215. The strongest muscles in the human body is the tongue. (the heart is a muscle)
216. In golf, a 'Bo Derek' is a give measure for measure 10.
217. In the U.S., Frisbees Outsell balls, baseballs and basketball combined.
218. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on a trend is 10:10.
219. If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different kind of Apple.
220.Map of the Organization of Al Capone said it was a used furniture dealer.
221. The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross.
222. There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 b affect be received from France.
223. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at the stadium at home becomes the third largest town in Nebraska.
224. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after the COP Bert and Ernie the taxi driver in Unabashed Capra "It's a Wonderful Life".
225. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
226. In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $ 5.50.
227. Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.
228. Newborns have about 350 bones. They drip merge and disappear until there are about 206 of less than 5 years.
229. There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal.
230. In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, no one tried to bury the head in the sand.
231. A Dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.
232.On an American one dollar bill there is a tiny-Weensy Owl in the upper left corner at the top right "1" and a spider individuals in the front upper right corner.
233. Judy Scheindlin ( "Judge Judy") has a pay $ 25,000,000, while Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a salary of $ 190,100.
234. The name of Oz in the Wizard of Oz was implemented when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing cabinet and saw one and OZ.
235. Andorra, a tiny country on the route between France and Spain, has the longest average lifespan: 83.49 years.
236.The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his bag.
237. Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.
238. In America, you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.
239. First girlfriend of John Lennon, was named Thelma Pickles.
240. You can order a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
241. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
242. "The sheik unable Sixth Sixth sheep sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
243. There are 336 dimples on a golf ball Decree United States.In the UK its 330.
244. The Toltecs (a 7th century tribe) used wooden swords so as not to put an end to their enemies.
245. "Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.
246. The U.S. has the worst computers for the next 7 countries combined.
247. There were over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Grahm Bell over rights to grant the phone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history.
248. Kuwait is about 60% of men (the highest in the world). Latvia is about 54% of women (the highest in all respects).
249.The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
250. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all nuclear weapons throughout the world combined.
251. At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.
252. Julius Caesar's autograph is worth about $ 2,000,000.
253. The tool doctors wrap around a patient's arm to measure blood pressure is called a sphygmomanometer.
254. People say "Submit yourselves" when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.
255. U.S. gold coins used to say "In Gold We Conglomerate.
256. In "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
257. A shrimp-East is in his head.
258. In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion.
259. The best-selling books of all time are the Bible (+ 6 billion), quotes the works of Mao Tse-tung (900 million +), and The Almighty of the Rings (+ 100 million)
260. Pearls melt in vinegar.
261. "Lassie" was played by a crowd of male dogs, the main one was named Pal.
262.In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to prison for viability of murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of the murder itself.
263. Nepal is the only country that does not have a rectangular reflux. Switzerland is the only country with a square flag.
264. Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible.
265. Name the first true is Eldrick Tiger Woods. His father gave him the nickname "Tiger" in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier his grandfather had fought alongside during the Vietnam War.
266.Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to Vamoose alcohol.
267. Ghost of Abraham Lincoln is said to haunt the White House.
268. God is not mentioned once in the work of Esther.
269. The chances of being born male are about 51.2%, according to the census.
270. Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the time.
271. There is an average of 61,000 people during the airborne United States at any given time.
272. Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash.
273.The most popular name in the world is Mohammed. The most common name (of any type) in the world is Mohammed.
274. The skin of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice.
275. For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen.
276. Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to be born in a clinic.
277. Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day.
278. About 2,000 left-handed people die each year due to unnecessary use of equipment designed only for right handed people.
279. The "if" and "then" parts of conditional ("if P then Q") allegation are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q).
280. Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.
281. If you supply a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
282. Only female mosquitoes bite.
283. The U.S. Post Aegis handles 43 percent of the world's mail.
284. Most household dust is made of dead skin cells.
285. One in about eight million people has progeria, a bug that causes people to grow faster than they age.
286. The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch as a substitute for of the female.
287. The "countdown" (counting down from 10 for an event such as New-Years Day) was first used in a 1929 German hushed film called "Die Frau Im Monde" (The Girl in the Moon).
288. Negative emotions such as thirst and depression can weaken your immune system.
289. There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul's armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas.
290.A mongoose is not a goose, but rather as a Meercat, not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a squirrel set.
291. Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died.
292. Mercury is the only planet whose track is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite the direction of their orbit.
293. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe died July 4. Adams and Jefferson died the same year. Apparently, Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives."
294.The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after his granddaughter Grover Cleveland, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the baseball actress.
295. Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.
296. Falkland Islands (about 2000 inhabitants) has more than 700,000 sheep (350 per injury).
297. There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
298.While many treaties have been signed at or near Paris, France (including many after WWI and WWII), nine are actually known as the "Treaty of Paris": the Seven Years War (1763) , Rebellious American War (1783), French-Swedish War (1810), France vs Sixth Coalition (1814), Battle of Waterloo (1815), The Crimean War (1856), Spanish-American War (1898), by combining Bessarabia and Romania (1920), establishing the European Coal and Steel (1951).
299.The eldest son of Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln) was in Washington DC at the murder of his cur, and when the assassination of President Garfield, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated.
300. The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.
301. The last time the English word "dare" is "Durst."
302. Don Endanger Mac song "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP Richardson (The Big Bopper), who all died in the crash even skate.
303.The drummer for ZZ Top (the only one without a beard) is named Frank Beard.
304. Hummingbirds can not walk.
305. When movie directors do not need to see their names in the credits, they use the pseudonym "Allen Smithee" instead. He was older than 50 times, beginning with "Death of a Gunfighter" (1969).
306. Four different people played the role of Darth Vader (wealth, face, voice and breathing).
307. Pamela Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada to mark the centenary of self-insurance in Canada (7/1/1967).
308.It is gold about 200 times more in the oceans than has been realized in history.
309. William Shatner is credited for being the first being on television to say "hell" and have the first inter-racial kiss (with Nichelle Nichols), both in episodes of the famous trek.
310. While the government's offer of U.S. gold is kept at Fort Knox, the money supply is kept at the Military Academy at West Unimportant, NY.
311. Wife of Alexander Graham Bell and his mother were both deaf.
312. Compact discs read from the quod toward the outer edge, the reverse operation of a record.
313.In ancient Greek city state of Sparta, where a man was not married at age 30, he was not authorized to certify or watching sports events involving nude young men.
314. Attila the Hun (invader of Europe; 406-453), Felix Faure (French President, 1841-1899), Pope Leo VII (936-939), Pope John VII (955-964), Pope Leo VIII (963-965), Pope John XIII (965-72), Pope Paul II (1467-1471), The Creator Palmerston (British Prime Minister, 1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (U.S. Vice President, 1908-1979), and John Entwistle (The Who's bassist, 1944-2002) all died during sex.
315.Humans and dolphins are the only animals known to have sexual intercourse for discretion.
316. Pac-Man, Namco arcade game from 1979, was originally called "Puck Man". The name was changed when they realized that vandals could scratch clearly part of the letter "P".
317. Shakespeare and Cervantes died the same day, April 23, 1616.
318. There are about 7.7 million millionaires in the world (more than 1/1000th of the population).
319. The youngest mother on record was a young girl named Lina Medina of Peru.She gave the start to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother's Day), at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days.
320. The finger "middle" gesture originates back to 423 BC in Aristophanes play "the clouds".
Good reading. Absorbent stuff on there. I did not type them myself either. Simply copied and pasted them.
No offense taken. Just skimmed through it, there is no rise of science.
Yes there is a delay of a mile on the characters but I do not care. And I'm not bored for a change.
Triple Ho took Gage from my avatar.It's better than the male face though.
Triple Ho took hostage of my avatar. It's better than the manly face though.

I found a new life long.

To charge one of these facts every time someone asks me for spare change.

anybody intrested check this out?

Oct 08, 2007 by sean Categorized Under: Trivia

1. Samuel Clemens (Property Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
3. The "57" on the Heinz ketchup repress represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's filth annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person.
5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
6. Your hunger produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.
7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close relations member or friend of the victim.
8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Erection on July 28, 1945.
9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
10. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
11. A raisin dropped in a telescope of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.
13. Triskaidekaphobia means hesitation of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky slew. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.
14. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a synchronize.
15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).
16. In archaic Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
17. The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Rehabilitation Plan.
18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
19. A "2 by 4" is in the final analysis 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
20. It's estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.
21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a top king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
22. 40% of McDonald's profits on from the sales of Happy Meals.
23. Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue imprint along with their finger print.
24. The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
25. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 wordbook were misspelled.
26. The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on counter-clockwise.
27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood each to each).
28. Camel's have three eyelids.
29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.
30. John Wilkes Stall's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are confrere and sister.
32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.
33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.
34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in not be sensible and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
36. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
37. Orcas (humdinger whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to flip one's lid.
38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce".
39. Slugs have four noses.
40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medication.
41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Talk about discuss no evil).
42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
43. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can part a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMBASS)
44. During the California gold scurry of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these bourgeoning years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by bewitching out an olive from First Class salads.
46. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
47. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars disposed out during World War II were made of wood.
48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun's magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax".
49. There are 318,979,564,000 imaginable combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
50. Upper and lower case letters are named "uppermost" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upland case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.
51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
52. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the corrupt of the Lincoln Memorial.
53. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks.
54. Half of all bank robberies take suitable on a Friday.
55. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.
56. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
57. The first bombard the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
58. The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
59. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to dye Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the case.
60. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
61. Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the smokescreen down so you could see his moves.
62. The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar).
63. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".
64. IBM's maxim is "Think". Apple later made their motto "Think different".
65. The false flag used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk false flag painted white, due to low budget.
66. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
67. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't bone-tired your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
68. One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.
69. The Olympic was the sister despatch of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.
70. When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived.
71. In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes.
72. Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald's.
73. The first output Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the demand was Victrola, which Motorola got their name from.
74. In the US, about 127 million adults are overweight or obese; worldwide, 750 million are overweight and 300 million more are paunchy. In the US, 15% of children in elementary school are overweight; 20% are worldwide.
75. In Disney's Fantasia, the Magus to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled backward).
76. During his entire entity, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, "Red Vineyard at Arles".
77. By raising your legs slowly and fibbing on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
78. One in ten people live on an island.
79. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to inaugurate with.
80. 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.
81. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-in the same manner contest.
82. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
83. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Understandable, my dear Watson", Humphrey Bogart NEVER said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca, and they NEVER said "Bar me up, Scotty" on Star Trek.
84. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps back to front while dancing.
85. Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.
86. The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the bounding main, but blood flowing through your head.
87. More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).
88. The adhesive on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
89. There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas.
90. The Guinness Enlist of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
91. Thirty-five percent of the people who use in person ads for dating are already married.
92. Back in the mid to late '80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Light out Simulator.
93. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
94. Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in also clientage).
95. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
96. Jim Henson first coined the word "Muppet". It is a mixture of "marionette" and "puppet."
97. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words "North" and "South).
98. The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the plc's first ads in 1896.
99. About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of human activity.
100. The brief conversation "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
101. About 14% of injecting downer users are HIV positive.
102. A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome".
103. A snail can take for 3 years.
104. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.
105. China has more English speakers than the Synergistic States.
106. Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko a substitute alternatively. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols, who visits homes on New Year's Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a platter is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes.
107. One in every 9000 people is an albino.
108. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
109. You serving your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
110. Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Bank.
111. Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.
112. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.
113. Our eyes are always the same enormousness from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
114. In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman impression or reference somewhere.
115. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches lanky and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
116. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
117. Wearing headphones for justified an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
118. Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to rotundity.
119. About 55% of all movies are rated R.
120. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
121. Arabic numerals are not surely Arabic; they were created in India.
122. Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it wrongful for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.
123. The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
124. The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is predestined. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
125. There is in point of fact no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable.
126. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
127. More than 50% of the people in the set have never made or received a telephone call.
128. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
129. There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world.
130. The huddle "maverick" came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his beef. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick.
131. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
132. For every commemorative statue with a person on a horse, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the bodily died of battle wounds; if all four of the horse's legs are on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
133. On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American taper off is flying over the Parliament Building.
134. An American urologist bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.
135. No word in the English phrasing rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
136. Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".
137. $283,200 is the unalloyed highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy.
138. Almonds are members of the peach family.
139. Rats and horses can't retch.
140. The penguin is the only bird that can't fly but can swim.
141. There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
142. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies flat during a dance.
143. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
144. There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and unsafe.
145. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
146. Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
147. "101 Dalmatians" and "Peter Pan" are the only Disney animations in which both of a expected's parents are present and don't die during the movie.
148. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
149. Hedenophobic means nightmare of pleasure.
150. Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.
151. A crocodile cannot stick its vernacular out.
152. Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21.
153. An ant always falls over on its set side when intoxicated.
154. All polar bears are left-handed.
155. The catfish has over 27000 taste buds (more than any other crude)
156. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
157. Butterflies taste with their feet.
158. Elephants are the only mammals that cannot leap at.
159. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
160. Starfish have no brains.
161. 11% of the world is left-handed.
162. John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to transfer the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later.
163. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
164. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
165. The citizen anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
166. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
167. A in good (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
168. A pregnant goldfish is called a tweak.
169. Lizards can self-amputate their tails for protection. It grows back after a few months.
170. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". It can be revealing to 3.63% of its size: L.A.
171. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
172. A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
173. Tigers have striped scrape, not just striped fur.
174. A "jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.
175. The average laddie recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.
176. The youngest pope ever was 11 years old.
177. The first romance ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
178. One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured.
179. The cigarette lighter was invented before the unite.
180. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs melted into it.
181. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
182. The shortest war in summary was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
183. Elwood Edwards did the words for the AOL sound files (i.e. "You've got Mail!"). He is heard about 27 million times a day. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as "Q-Together."
184. A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears chalky.
185. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was spelled Aron, in honor of his confrere.
186. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
187. Donkeys put an end to more people than plane crashes.
188. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "run into."
189. There are a million ants for every person on Earth.
190. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually discontinue white.
191. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
192. The name Jeep comes from "GP", the army initialism for General Purpose.
193. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than red handed people do.
194. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
195. Cats' urine glows under a raven light.
196. A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and small talk.
197. The first US Patent was for manufacturing potassium carbonate (used in glass and gunpowder). It was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1970.
198. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other right now day items.
199. In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
200. 25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
201. David Sarnoff received the Titanic's disaster signal and saved hundreds of passengers. He later became the head of the first radio network, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC).
202. On unexceptional, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
203. Michael Jordan makes more loot from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined.
204. One of the reasons marijuana is criminal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as competition).
205. "Canada" is an Indian little talk meaning "Big Village".
206. Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.
207. If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough look like energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the liveliness of an atomic bomb.
208. Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S.
209. The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet.
210. A jellyfish is 95% spa water.
211. Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by accidental deaths (799 in 2001).
212. Banging your head against a collapse uses 150 calories an hour.
213. Elephants only sleep for two hours each day.
214. On average people solicitude spiders more than they do death.
215. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle)
216. In golf, a 'Bo Derek' is a make a point of 10.
217. In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.
218. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on a keep a sharp lookout for is 10:10.
219. If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.
220. Al Capone's area card said he was a used furniture dealer.
221. The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross.
222. There are about 450 types of cheese in the period. 240 come from France.
223. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers plays football at home the arena becomes Nebraska's third largest city.
224. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the hackney driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life".
225. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
226. In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50.
227. Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.
228. Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They piecemeal merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5.
229. There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal.
230. In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to inhume its head in the sand.
231. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.
232. On an American one-dollar bill there is a teensy-weensy owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the upper-right-hand "1" and a spider veiled in the front upper-right-hand corner.
233. Judy Scheindlin ("Judge Judy") has a $25,000,000 compensation, while Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a $190,100 salary.
234. The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was memory up when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z.
235. Andorra, a tiny country on the approach closely between France and Spain, has the longest average lifespan: 83.49 years.
236. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his island.
237. Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.
238. In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.
239. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
240. You can starring role a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
241. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
242. "The sixth crazy sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
243. There are 336 dimples on a code US golf ball. In the UK its 330.
244. The Toltecs (a 7th century tribe) used wooden swords so they wouldn't murder their enemies.
245. "Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.
246. The US has more familiar computers than the next 7 countries combined.
247. There have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Grahm Bell over rights to the plain of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history.
248. Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the domain).
249. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
250. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the mankind's nuclear weapons combined.
251. At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.
252. Julius Caesar's autograph is importance about $2,000,000.
253. The tool doctors wrap around a patient's arm to measure blood pressure is called a sphygmomanometer.
254. People say "praise you" when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.
255. US gold coins used to say "In Gold We Commit".
256. In "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
257. A shrimp's goodness is in its head.
258. In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion.
259. The bestselling books of all constantly are The Bible (6billion+), Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (900million+), and The Duke of the Rings (100million+)
260. Pearls melt in vinegar.
261. "Lassie" was played by a company of male dogs; the main one was named Pal.
262. In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to lifetime in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself.
263. Nepal is the only country that doesn't have a rectangular taper off. Switzerland is the only country with a square flag.
264. Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible.
265. Tiger Woods' legal first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname "Tiger" in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier his daddy had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War.
266. Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to create alcohol.
267. Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House.
268. God is not mentioned once in the work of Esther.
269. The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census.
270. Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the mankind.
271. There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment.
272. Prince Charles and Prince William never pilgrimages on the same airplane in case there is a crash.
273. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. The most common name (of any type) in the world is Mohammed.
274. The skin of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice.
275. For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen.
276. Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a sickbay.
277. Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day.
278. Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to inappropriate use of equipment designed only for right handed people.
279. The "if" and "then" parts of conditional ("if P then Q") asseveration are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q).
280. Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.
281. If you gratified a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
282. Only female mosquitoes bite.
283. The U.S. Post Assignment handles 43 percent of the world's mail.
284. Most household dust is made of dead skin cells.
285. One in about eight million people has progeria, a blight that causes people to grow faster than they age.
286. The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch in preference to of the female.
287. The "countdown" (counting down from 10 for an event such as New-Years Day) was first used in a 1929 German unsaid film called "Die Frau Im Monde" (The Girl in the Moon).
288. Negative emotions such as thirst and depression can weaken your immune system.
289. There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul's armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas.
290. A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a dirt squirrel.
291. Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died.
292. Mercury is the only planet whose go round is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit.
293. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Hypothetically, Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives."
294. The Baby Ruth confectionery bar was named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the baseball sportswoman.
295. Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.
296. The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per being).
297. There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
298. While many treaties have been signed at or near Paris, France (including many after WWI and WWII), nine are literally known as the "Treaty of Paris": Seven Years' War (1763), American Revolutionist War (1783), French-Swede War (1810), France vs Sixth Coalition (1814), Battle of Waterloo (1815), Crimean War (1856), Spanish-American War (1898), harmony of Bessarabia and Romania (1920), establishment of European Coal and Steel Community (1951).
299. Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's oldest son) was in Washington DC during his priest's assassination as well as during President Garfield's assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated.
300. The city of Venice stands on about 120 shamed islands.
301. The past-tense of the English word "dare" is "durst".
302. Don Mac Pin one's hopes's song "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who all died in the same level surface crash.
303. The drummer for ZZ Top (the only one without a beard) is named Frank Beard.
304. Hummingbirds can't walk.
305. When movie directors do not after their names to be seen in the credits, they use the pseudonym "Allen Smithee" instead. It has been adapted to over 50 times, starting with "Death of a Gunfighter" (1969).
306. Four different people played the part of Darth Vader (fuselage, face, voice, and breathing).
307. Pamela Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada on the centennial anniversary of Canada's self-assurance (7/1/1967).
308. There is about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout history.
309. William Shatner is credited for being the first yourselves on TV to say "hell" as well as to have the first inter-racial kiss (with Nichelle Nichols), both in episodes of Headliner Trek.
310. While the US government's supply of gold is kept at Fort Knox, its supply of silver is kept at the Military Academy at West Projection, NY.
311. Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf.
312. Compact discs read from the in prison to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
313. In the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, if a man was not married by age 30, he would not be allowed to against or watch athletic events involving nude young men.
314. Attila the Hun (invader of Europe; 406-453), Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), Pope Leo VII (936-939), Pope John VII (955-964), Pope Leo VIII (963-965), Pope John XIII (965-72), Pope Paul II (1467-1471), Aristocrat Palmerston (British Prime Minister, 1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (US Vice President, 1908-1979), and John Entwistle (The Who's bassist, 1944-2002) all died while having sex.
315. Humans and dolphins are the only animals known to have sex for satisfaction.
316. Pac-Man, Namco's 1979 arcade game, was originally called "Puck Man". The name was changed when they realized that vandals could obviously scratch out part of the letter "P".
317. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616.
318. There are about 7.7 million millionaires in the men (more than 1/1000th of the population).
319. The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina. She gave creation to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother's Day), at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days.
320. The "midriff finger" gesture originates back to 423 BC in Aristophanes play "The Clouds".

Very communicative.... they say ur meant to learn at least 1 new thing each day and i just learnt 320!..

The Tank

16.09.09