- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front
legs 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.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver, and purple.
- 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."
- Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
- There are two credit cards for every person in the United
States.
- 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.
- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the
English language.
- 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 most common name in the world is Mohammed.
- The word "samba" means "to rub navels
together."
- The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is
672.
- The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
- Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
- 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.
- The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during
World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
- Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed
with "rejoice."
- In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it
again, Sam."
- Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear
Watson."
- More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air
crashes.
- The term, "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 bedisqualified was to poke someone's eye out.
- A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
- Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that
makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
- Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a
calorie.
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