Strange Facts 2

[Steven Pusateri]

Yet again, some more of those facts that you didn't know you didn't know!!

*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
memorised all 158
verses.
*There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
*The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
*A 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 is "screeched.
*On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
Building is an American flag
*All 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 members 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.
*An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
*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.
*It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
*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.
*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.
*The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
*There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
*Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
*Typewriter is the only ten letter word you can type on the top of your
keyboard.

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