We've been collecting little items like these for years.
- Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
- The first toilet ever seen on television was on 'Leave It To Beaver'.
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
- Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
- The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
- The jack of spades isn't wearing any pants.
- A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.
- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
- Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.
- The actor 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.
- Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
- In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
- Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about
ten.
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon.
- Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a
McDonalds.
- 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.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month or orange.
- The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.
- There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
- Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal
category.
- Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City,
after the Catholic Church.
- 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.
- The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a
gallon to clean the pot.
- Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2-6 years of age.
- The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in
Colorado.
- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
- 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.
- The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
- Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the
Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
- No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever
won a Superbowl.
- In the great fire of London in 1666, half of London was burnt down but
only 6 people were injured.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.
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