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Re: So You Think You Know Everything?
haha nice one Rikky....
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08-28-06, 00:01
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08-28-06, 00:23
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lol infoseeker where do u keep coming up with these lists
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08-28-06, 01:43
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08-28-06, 16:25
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Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
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 liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma. American car horns beep in the tone of F. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA." Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. The shortest poem in the world is, "Fleas" There are only seven professional (MLB), (NHL), (NBA), (NFL) that do not end in "s" Colorado Avalanche, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Orlando Magic, Miami Heat, Tampa Bay Lightning, and the Utah Jazz. The children's song "Ring around the Rosy" originated in medieval Europe during the time of the Black Plague. Ring around the rosy refers to dark rings that appeared on the skin of infected people. Pocket full of posies refers to the belief that if rose petals were carried in one's pocket they would not be infected. Ashes to ashes refers to the burning of the corpses. And of course, we all fall down meant that everyone infected died. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together." The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the 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." What occurs more often in December than any other month? Conception. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show? No theme song. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? Their birthplace. This is propinquity. Grabatology is the collecting of ties. In 1982, Englishman William Hall committed suicide by drilling holes into his head with a power drill...it took 8 holes! Human hair and finger nails continue to grow after death. There is no single word given to describe the back of the knee. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton. The average American has two credits cards. The international telephone area code for Antarctica is 672. The glue on postage stamps in Israel is certified kosher. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in W.W.II killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo. A 'Jiffy' is actually a unit of time for 1/100th of a second. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California. Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years. Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6. Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate. There are coffee flavored PEZ. 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 realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself. (How did they study this?) "Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog" is a palindrome. The Sun is moving l65 miles a second, the earth is moving l8.l miles a second, think about that when you are about to pee The Atlantic Ocean is Saltier then the Pacific Ocean. In medieval England, beer was often served with breakfast. (I love this one) The right lung takes in more air then the left At 90 degrees (F) below zero your breath will freeze in midair and fall to the ground. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas. Only female mosquitoes bite. There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the beaches in the world. Everyday more money is printed for monopoly than for the US Treasury. Men get hiccups more often than women. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men. The percentage of American men who say they would wed the same woman if they had to do it all over again: 80%. The percentage of women who say they would wed the same man if they had to do it all over again: 50% Percentage of men who say the are happier after a divorce or separation: 58% Percentage of women who say they are happier after a divorce or separation: 85% Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. 7% of Americans will eat McDonalds today. The chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7. The only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird. Polar bears are left handed. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China. The youngest pope was 11 years old. Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving. Scientists say the average person eats about 2 pounds of bugs a year. That's mostly because insects accidentally get ground up in foods like peanut butter, strawberry jelly, and spaghetti sauce. They won't hurt you, they're actually full of protein. If an insect flies in your ear, shine a light in you ear, chances are it will crawl or fly back out. There are 240 white dots on a Pac-man video game. According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg. "Race car" is a palindrome. Debra Winger was the voice of E.T. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is 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. Pearls melt in vinegar. While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. Pound for pound, hamburgers can cost more than a new car. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands. Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications) The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable." "Go!" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.) 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. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." 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. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law that stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P. 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. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". 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. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white. If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom. Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits. Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce. Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th." James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan. While at Harvard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom." The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola. Melanie Griffith's mother is actress Tippi Hendren, best known for her lead role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. 142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142 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. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. The shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. There are more chickens than people in the world. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. The longest one-syllable word in the English language are "Screeched, Scratched, Scrounged, Scrunched, Splotched, Squinched, and Squelched." Most of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. No word in the English language rhymes with: month, orange, silver or purple. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt." All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. Almonds are a member of the peach family. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"-and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A." A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life." A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? -- Paul Reiser himself. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. 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." Other reports indicate the story was really about changing from the gold standard to the silver standard. OZ is the abbreviation for ounce and the "yellow brick road" represents gold bars. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. It is impossible to lick your elbow. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out. A shrimp's heart is in their head. People say, "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so - apart from Bones). It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetic Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. Rats and horses can't vomit. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing - SCARY!!! The electric chair was invented by a dentist. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles? The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders. {Yuck!} Most lipstick contains fish scales. Cat's urine glows under a black-light. Only 14% of Americans say they've done this with the opposite sex. What is it? -- Skinny dipping. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS, from every other TV show? -- No theme song/music. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? -- Their birthplace. This is propinquity. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? -- Obsession More women do this in the bathroom than men. -- Wash their hands. Women ~ 80% Men ~ 55% What do 100% of all lottery winners do? -- Gain weight. In a recent survey, Americans revealed that this was their favorite smell. -- Banana If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? -- One thousand What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? -- All invented by women. Married men revealed that they do this twice as often as single men. -- Change their underwear. This stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals causing relaxation. Women seem to like it light and frequent, men like it more strenuous. -- A kiss This is the only food that doesn't spoil. -- Honey There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year. -- Father's Day What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is most ironic? -- He was allergic to carrots. 40% of all people who come to a party in your home do this? -- Snoop in your medicine cabinet. 3.9% of all women surveyed say they never do this. -- Wear underwear. What common everyday occurrence is composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen and 9% dioxide? -- A fart. About 1/3 of all Americans say they do this while sitting? -- Flush the toilet. 85% of the guys who die while having sex are doing this. -- Cheating on their wives.
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08-28-06, 20:00
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I always thought it was no paper can be TORN in half more than 7 times.
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08-29-06, 02:32
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The most truly amazing fact I've come across is that the first international cricket match was played between Canada and the USA and USA won.
Where did you go wrong, Yanks?
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08-29-06, 21:26
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Mine are that all propellers have been made from aluminium since the thirties courtesy of GT BUT my fav is that passenger air line crews are exposed to the equivalent of 1000 x-rays per year of cosmic radiation due to being at 30000 feet
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08-29-06, 21:30
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My turn now
A few repeats but some new good ones...The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis There are more chickens in the world than people Pinocchio was made of pine. Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes. The hundred billionth Crayola crayon ever produced was Perriwinkle Blue. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth. Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges. More people in China speak English than in the United States. An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes. Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland. There are more chickens in the world than people. A prune is a dried plumb. Denver was chosen to host the 1976 Winter Olympics, but later refused. Another name for the card game "Solitaire" is "Patience". Saturday was named for the planet saturn. The abbreviation a.m. stands for "ante meridiem". The abbreviation p.m. stands for "post meridiem". The best beaches for surfing face west. Wheat is the worlds most grown, and the world's most eaten food Gibraltar is the only place in Europe were you can find wild monkeys. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. The first American dictionary was writen by Noah Webster. An elephant raises it's trunk when it senses danger. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds Pigs can run a mile in 7 ½ minutes The shortest word in the English language to contain the letters A,B,C,D,E, and F is: ‘Feedback’ If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream. After eating too much food, your hearing becomes less sharp. Jack is the most common name in a fairy tale. A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body. 45% of dollar bills you'll ever own have been in a stripper's g-string. After the "Popeye" comic strip started in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States. The largest recorded kidney stone weighed 1.36 kg. Kidney stones range in color. The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps. The average person laughs 13 times a day. The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. Australia is the only continent without an active volcanoe. The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. 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. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". Frogs do not drink water. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps. The two most commonly sold items in grocery stores are breakfast cereals and soda. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. The average person spends 30 years mad at a family member. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. There are three golf balls sitting on the moon. It's impossible to lick your elbow. It was so cold that in the winter of 1932, Niagra Falls froze completly solid! The average American spends 6 years in the bathroom, and 6 months at a stoplight. Babies have no kneecaps when they are born. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton. In 10 minutes, a hurrican releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." 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. King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie. 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." A snail can sleep for three years. Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. 30% of people asked to participate in an opinion poll refuse. Most productive day of the workweek: Tuesday. The higher the income, the more likely an American man will cheat on his wife. Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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 : )The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20. No word in the English language rhymes with month. A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.' The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.' Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight. The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines. 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. On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. Almonds are members of the peach family. If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050 The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. 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." The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse." Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again. Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T. The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes. 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. Charlie Brown's father was a barber. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously 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. 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. Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time. The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean Ingrown toenails are hereditary. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15. In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role. Only humans and horses have hymens. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan. 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.) Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries. Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation , was played by six different cats. Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston. The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California... 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". The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer. 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 housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F. Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus. 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. 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.' Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural. The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwh enuakita natahu, a New Zealand hill. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A." A cat has 32 muscles in each ear An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for damages that were caused by them building ships for the Confederacy. We originally asked for $1 billion but settled on $25 Million. There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo. Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility. In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is 'angstschreeuw'. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery. The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin. The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile". Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order. 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. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism". 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." 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." The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers. In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold. The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore. Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth. Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement. The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross. Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'. Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman. Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker. Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons." Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children. 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. Canola oil is actually grapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city. Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life" A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner. No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. "Evian" spelled backvards is naive. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Maine is the toothpick capital of the world. 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 A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright. A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat. Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box. Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world. Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts." There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill. ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of theirfirst names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.) What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same number with the digits in reverse order? 21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912. It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces. 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. Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off. 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. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there. 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. Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969.) Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser himself.. And Greg Evigan sang the "My Two Dads" theme. Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser. Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show Growing Pains wrote the theme songs for The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes . 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 Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks. Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never- aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck. The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth. The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk. The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood. 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. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti. Alexander the Great was an epileptic. The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger. 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." The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. 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 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. Horses cannot vomit. Rabbits cannot vomit. S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international 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.. Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875. When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny. The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse. A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister. The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan." John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money. The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head. Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living. Dartboards are made out of horsehairs. One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant. Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. Octopi have gardens. "Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? The word for mis-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.'" Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way 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. Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox. 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.' When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt. Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing. 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. To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles. Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall. Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticably shorter than his right. Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would and therefore forstall curses. The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans. (Watch out Inigo Montoya...) The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water. Medieval knights put sharkskin on their swordhandles to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode. The only planet without a ring is earth. Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks. If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode. The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots. Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." A group of unicorns is called a blessing. Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink." A group of frogs is called an army. A group of rhinos is called a crash. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. A group of geese is called a gaggle. A group of ravens is called a murder. A group of officers is called a mess. A group of larks is called an exaltation. A group of owls is called a parliament. The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister. Starfish don't have brains. Shrimps' hearts are in their heads. 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."
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why not just post the link
 EDIT I dont think I have to willpower to read through all those without catagorys
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Pinocchio was made of pine.......what a sap!!:
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