Fun facts
Given to me by a student in class  Thank you very much!
1. 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
2. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon
features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the
movie.
3. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
4. 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5. 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
6. 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the
world's widest road.
7. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
8. 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential
hell."
9. 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
10.
5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian
anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
11.
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
12.
7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American
anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
13.
85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
14.
99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
15.
A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
16.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
17.
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
18.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat
your plate.
19.
A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
20.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
21.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
22.
A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least
twenty minutes to stop.
23.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
24.
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
25.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
26.
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the
sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.
27.
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
28.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child
inside.
29.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
30.
A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
31.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
32.
A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
33.
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles
away.
34.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.
35.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
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36.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in
South Bend, Indiana.
37.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
38.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
39.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give
her coffee.
40.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
41.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
42.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
43.
A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
44.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
45.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
46.
A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the
background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually
talking.
47.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
48.
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
49.
About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more
money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
50.
According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit
suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
51.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were
freshman roommates at Harvard.
52.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
53.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill.
54.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
55.
All porcupines float in water.
56.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
57.
Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by
automobiles.
58.
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
59.
America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
60.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
61.
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
62.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
63.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
64.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
65.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
66.
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the
same sex.
67.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they
rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
68.
Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name
meant "plenty of excrement."
69.
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool. He
changed it every 2 innings.
70.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2-6 years of age.
71.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
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72.
Back in the mid to late 1980's, an IBM-compatible computer wasn't
considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's
Flight Simulator.
73.
Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
74.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
75.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
76.
Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig
farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
77.
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the
Western Pacific.
78.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
79.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
80.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
81.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
82.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
83.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
84.
Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only
produce about ten.
85.
Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous
transatlantic flight.
86.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
87.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people
without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression
"to get fired."
88.
Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
89.
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York
City, after the Catholic Church.
90.
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.
91.
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
92.
Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
93.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
94.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't
wear pants.
95.
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."
96.
Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
97.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
98.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.
99.
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's
the weight of about 6 elephants.
100.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents
thought he might be retarded.
101.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the
Australian coat of arms for that reason.
102.
Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
103.
Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
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104.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
105.
Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water
over his head.
106.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
107.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order,
as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
108.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a
full moon.
109.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
110.
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by
Charles Jung.
111.
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.
112.
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
113.
Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write
if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
114.
Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
115.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes
them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
116.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
117.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
118.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
119.
Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are
the largest anagrams.
120.
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
121.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
122.
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.
123.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity
to swallow.
124.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town
hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
125.
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.
126.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but
more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the
bottom.
127.
If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon
will be about three statute miles away.
128.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when
patients would die.
129.
In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones Bhutan.
130.
In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely
out of toast.
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131.
In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
132.
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay
the bills.
133.
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their
finals.
134.
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" were considered a dirty word.
135.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
136.
In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.
137.
In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first
time are teenagers.
138.
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
139.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on
a watch is 10:10.
140.
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the
tears can't flow.
141.
In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile
services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the
other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up,
but no channel 1.
142.
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down
but only 6 people were injured.
143.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
144.
In the movie "Casablanca," Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it
again, Sam."
145.
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
146.
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
147.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Deweydecimal category.
148.
It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one
pound.
149.
It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a
gallon to clean the pot.
150.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The
frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its
mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's
contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
151.
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
152.
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in
Switzerland.
153.
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha,
Nebraska.
154.
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
155.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don't try this at home!)
156.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the
soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers
wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever
since.
157.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
158.
"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
159.
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
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160.
Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in
1992.
161.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
162.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
163.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
164.
Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
165.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while
he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
166.
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 original
size: "L.A."
167.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
168.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
169.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
170.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the
Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
171.
Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as
President Bush in 1991.
172.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
173.
Montpelier, VT is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
174.
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed
throughout the world.
175.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
176.
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
177.
Mosquitoes have teeth.
178.
Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
179.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
180.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
181.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
182.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
183.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean
elephants.
184.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver,
and purple.
185.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
186.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
187.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
Building looks like an American flag, but is actually the flag that flew over
to Dominion of Canada before the Maple Leaf .
188.
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.
189.
One in every 4 americans has appeared on television.
190.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton
growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as
competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or
caffeine.
191.
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
192.
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
193.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
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194.
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.
195.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.
196.
Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
197.
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
198.
Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first
baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
199.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
200.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
201.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
202.
Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they
could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
203.
Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up
their black nose with their paws.
204.
Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of
the pets in their wallets.
205.
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name
of any of the United States.
206.
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3
hours.
207.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
208.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have
recently eaten bananas.
209.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
210.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
211.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
212.
Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and
Australia have participated in every Games.
213.
Slugs have 4 noses.
214.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
215.
Some toothpaste's contain antifreeze.
216.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
217.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left
hand.
218.
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.
219.
Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an
Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
220.
Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the
same height as the U.S. flag.
221.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the
name of the Don McLean song.)
222.
The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
223.
The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
224.
The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
225.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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226.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
227.
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
228.
The average person laughs 15 times a day.
229.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
230.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover
Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
231.
The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968
Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella.
232.
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as
grapejuice.
233.
The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston,
Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a
train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
234.
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".
235.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways.
The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced,
thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after
falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
236.
The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican
National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden
voyage of the RMS Titanic.
237.
The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early
1500s.
238.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.
239.
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
240.
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.
241.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
242.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
243.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
244.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians
in 2000 B.C.
245.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
246.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
247.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
248.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in
Colorado.
249.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
250.
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
251.
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
252.
The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
253.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
254.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
255.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford
English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The
Fun facts
only other word with the same amount of letters is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
256.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year
because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight
of all the books that would occupy the building.
257.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar
tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
258.
The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance
from the earth every year. Do the math and you will clearly see that 85
million years ago it was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet
from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosours; the
tallest ones, anyway.
259.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
260.
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."
261.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
262.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
263.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has
memorized all 158 verses.
264.
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
265.
The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was
Fred.
266.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter
is uncopyrightable.
267.
The only nation whose name begins with an "A" but doesn't end in an
"A" is Afghanistan.
268.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional
sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after
the Major League All-Star Game.
269.
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
270.
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.
271.
The phrase, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is
from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye
gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified
was to poke someone's eye out.
272.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your
thumb.
273.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all
four feet at all times.
274.
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
275.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses
II who fathered over 160 children.
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276.
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.
277.
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
278.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the
shutter on backwards.
279.
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.
280.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands
in Jello.
281.
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach
inside-out.
282.
The state of Florida is bigger than England.
283.
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."
284.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard
Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
285.
The United States Government keeps its supply of silver at the United
States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
286.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
287.
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which
are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
288.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War
II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
289.
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah
Mat," which means "the king is dead".
290.
The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate,
demodulate." (MOdulate DEModulate)
291.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
292.
The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of
people.
293.
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
294.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
295.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
296.
There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
297.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
298.
There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
299.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
300.
There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the
United States.
301.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
302.
There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
303.
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
Fun facts
304.
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
305.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
306.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its
eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
307.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
308.
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin.
Today it is known as Tennessee.
309.
Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in
Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All
traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to
prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and
been too sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.
310.
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They
actually pass out from sheer terror.
311.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
312.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home,
the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
313.
White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (formerly of
the Monkees).
314.
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul
Reiser himself.
315.
Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty
Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
316.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in
Ireland.
317.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
318.
Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
319.
You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
320.
You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
321.
You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
322.
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you
only have 206.
323.
You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any
other
weather.
324.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
325.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
326.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
327.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks
otherwise it will digest itself.
328.
Your body is worth $42,810,000
329.
A 1910 Honus Wager T-206 baseball card is worth over $2,000,000