Imbasan Sejarah Thomas Jefferson telah menjadi kaya dengan memperkenalkan vanila ke Amerika Syarikat pada tahun 1700. Semasa menjadi utusan kepada Raja Loius XVI Perancis, beliau mula mengenali vanila dan telah membawa 200 biji buah vanila apabila beliau kembali ke Amerika Syarikat. Ais krim menjadi sangat popular sebelum Perang Revolusi dan menjadi hidangan di kedai - kedai konfeksi, di New York City. George Washington menyukai ais krim dan menyimpan dua pasu ais krim sebagai barangan hiasan di Gunung Vernon semasa pemerintahan beliau pada tahun 1789 – 1797. Dolly Madison telah menjadi sensasi apabila beliau menghidangkan ais krim sebagai pencuci mulut untuk Rumah Putih semasa mesyuarat kedua pada tahun 1812. Kon ais krim yang pertama telah dikeluarkan di New York City pada tahun 1896 oleh Italo Marchiony, seorang yang berpindah dari Itali pada akhir 1800. Acuan tersebut telah dijadikan paten pada Disember 1903. Pada tahun 1904, kon ais krim telah diperkenalkan kepada St. Louis World’s Fair apabila pembuat wafel dari Syria bernama E.A. Hamwi mula membuat wafel dalam bentuk kon untuk kegunaan pengeluar ais krim yang bekerjasama. Kon ini telah digunakan sehingga sekarang dimana berbilion kon dikeluarkan setiap tahun Fakta Menarik Mengenai Lintah Email Oleh : Sirajuddin Abbas oleh : NazirTechno

Mungkin anda telah pun sedia maklum, penggunaan lintah dalam rawatan perubatan adalah salah satu sejarah perbatan paling lama telah direkodkan.

Penggunaannya boleh di dokumenkan sehingga zaman keunggulan pemerintahan Mesir dan cara penggunaannya adalah secara aplikasi perubatan yang standard sehinggalah pertengahan tahun 1800 apabila ahli terapi mengambil alih tugas mereka. Beberapa dekat yang lalu, penggunaan lintah perubatan sekali lagi menjadi satu cabang utama dalam amalan perubatan moden. Para penyelidik dan pakar bedah sangat tertarik dengan kelebihan terapi lintah sebagai aplikasi untuk memulihkan pengaliran darah dalam venus setelah menjalani pembedahan kosmetik dan pembedahan penjanaan semula. Biologi Lintah Dalam dunia, didapati 650 spesis lintah yang telah wujud dikawasan paya, kolam, laut dan kawasan berair. Seekor lintah mempunyai kedua-dua jenis organ pembiakan iaitu jantan dan betina. Walau pun begitu, ia tidak boleh membiak secara sendiri tetapi perlu megawan dengan lintah lain untuk membiak. Kebanyakkan lintah memiliki penghisap di bahagian hujung badannya untuk berpegang pada perumah ketika makan. Sesetengah lintah memiliki organ penghisap yang dimasukkan untuk menghisap keluar cecair. Lintah penghisap darah perlu mempunyai kemahiran untuk makan. Air liur mereka mengandungi bahan bius, bahan anti pembekuan darah dan bahan kimia yang membantu penghasilan bahan kimia melalui tisu setempat. Factor penyebaran ini memecahkan ikatan semen yang mengikat sel bersama dan ia juga menunjukkan sebagai bahan antibiotic yang berkesan. Lintah itu juga mempunyai bacterium Aeromonan hydrophila. Bacteria ini digunakan oleh lintah untuk mencerna darah dan ia sebenarnya menhasilkan bahan antibiotic untuk membunuh bacteria lain yang mungkin menyebabkan pembekuan. Kajian perubatan terus menemui bahan-bahan kimia yang menarik dalam air liur lintah dari spesis yang lain. Di Amazon, lintah menghasilkan bahan anti pembekuan darah dikenali sebagai hematin. Bahan ini menyerang fibrinogen dan mempunyai potensi sebagai antipembekuan yang berkesan. Pada masa kini, kejuruteraan genetic digunakan untuk menghasilkan hematin dalam kuantiti yang banyak.

Fakta Lintah 1. terdapat 650 spesis lintah 2. lintah terbesar dijumpai berukuran 18 inci 3. kira-kira 1/5 dari sepsis lintah hidup dilaut yang mana memakan ikan 4. lintah mempunyai 32 otak iaitu 31 lebih dari manusia 5. lintah Hirudo mengeluarkan anak dalam kokun dimana lintah itu membawa anak-anaknya diatas perut sendiri. Kadangkala mencapai sebanyak 300 ekor 6. tidak semua lintah adalah penghisap darah.kebanyakkanny a adalah pemburu yang memakan cacing tanah dan lain-lain. 7. Lintah Amazon menggunakan kaedah yang berlainan untuk menghisap darah. Ia memasukkan proboscic panjang ke dalam mangsa tanpa menggigitnya 8. Gigitan lintah tidak menyakitkan kerana mempunyai bahan bius 9. Lintah Hirido menyuntik anti pembekuan serum ke dalam mangsanya untuk mengelakkan pembekuan darah 10. Lintah akan mengembang sendiri sehingga kenyang dan jatuh dari mangsa dengan sendiri 11. Lintah akan memgembang sendiri sehingga 5 kali berat badannya 12. Lintah pertama yang digunakan dalam perubatankira- kira pada 1000 sebelum masihi. Kemungkinan ketika India purba 13. Pada masa lampau, orang ramai akan berdiri di tepi tasik dan kolam, bila lintah melekat pada kaki mereka, ia dimasukkan dalam bakul untuk dijual. Pada masa kini, lintah Hirudo merupakan spesis terancam 14. Pakar bedah yang asal adalah seorang tukang dan mereka menggunakan lintah untuk memulihkan apa sahaja penyakit bermula dari sakit kepala ke penyakit gaut 15. Sistem saraf lintah mempunyai banyak persamaan dengan sistem saraf manusia 16. Saudara terdekat lintah adalah cacing tanah 17. Lintah boleh menggigit walaupun pada paha badak air yang tebal

Canada adalah perkataan Red Indian yang bermaksud "Lembah Besar" Pada tahun 1984, peladang Canada menyewakan badan lembu mereka untuk ruang iklan. 0.3% kemalangan jalanraya di Canada membabitkan rusa. Dalam kebakaran terbesar di London pada tahun 1966, separuh dari kota London terbakar tapi cuma 6 orang yg tercedera. Bolivia ada dua ibu negara. Amazon adalah sungai yang terbesar di dunia, 6,259 km Bandar Calma di Chile tidak pernah langsung menerima hujan Orang Francis makan lebih banyak keju dari negara lain di dunia Ada sebuah tempat di Francis yang bernama "Y" Raja Louis XIX memerintah Perancis selama 15 minit sahaja. Ketinggian Eifel Tower di Perancis sentiasa berubah mengikut suhu. Adakalanya sehingga 6 inci. Lagu kebangsaan Greece ada 158 versi. Orang Bulgaria paling banyak makan yogurt di dunia Belanda telah melaksanakan kempen menentang sikap sumpah menyumpah. Stesen Keretapinya mula meletakkan tanda 'Ketinggalan Keretapi?Menyumpah tidak membantu' Belanda adalah satu-satunya negara di dunia yang ada anjing kebangsaan. King George I di England tidak boleh berbahasa Enggeris. Beliau di besarkan di Jerman.

Mesin pengeluaran wang (ATM) mula-mula di cipta di England pada 1965 Buku panduan talipon di negara Iceland kadangkala turut memuatkan pekerjaan seseorang. Ini adalah kerana terlalu banyak penduduknya yang memiliki nama yang sama. Sehingga tahun 1997, lebih banyak babi dari manusia di Denmark. Sweden mempuyai kadar kelahiran paling sedikit (1 dlm 100) Komik kartun Donald Duck pernah diharamkan di Finland kerana ia tak pakai seluar. Lithuania adalah negara yg punyai paling banyak orang bunuh diri. Kod talipon untuk Russia ialah ' 007 ' Harga bagi burger McDonald's Extra Value di Russia sama dengan purata sebulan gaji pekerja Russia Orang Russia menjawab talipon dengan menyebut'saya mendengar' Amerika beli Alaska dengan harga 2 sen seekar dari Russia 1 dari 5 doktor di seluruh dunia adalah orang Russia Keretapi yg bergerak setiap hari pergi dan balik ke Bombay di India dibuat untuk menampung 1,700 penumpang tetapi ianya di naiki oleh 7000 penumpang setiap perjalanan. Nepal adalah satu-satunya negara yang mempunyai bendera yang bukan empat segi. Setiap perokok di China menghisap 1,800 batang rokok setiap tahun. Lebih banyak orang China yang berbahasa Inggeris dari org Amerika. Berus gigi dicipta di China pada tahun 1498

Vatican City adalah negara terkecil di dunia dengan penduduk 1000 orang dan bersaiz 108 ekar. Di Jepun, tembikai berbentuk empat segi. 98% mayat di Jepun dibakar. Nombor 'four' di Jepun dianggap nombor sial kerana sebutannya dalam bahasa Jepun sama dengan perkataan 'mati' Ada tempat di Jepun dinamakan 'O' Pada kurun ke 16, orang Philipina menggunakan 'yo-yo' sebagai senjata perang. Nama tempat terpanjang di dunia ialah 'Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakpikimaungahoronukupokai- iwhenuakitanatahu' iaitu nama sebuah bukit di New Zealand. Pulau terbesar di dunia ialah Greenland. Sotong raksasa mempunyai mata yang terbesar diantara semua binatang. Jika anda letak ikan emas di bilik gelap, ianya akan kelihatan berwarna putih. Siput boleh tidur sehingga 3 tahun. Kebanyakan ayam jantan berkelip sebelah mata saja pada satu satu masa. Seekor kuda punya lebih 18 tulang dari seorang manusia. Tikus tak boleh muntah. Sebab itu racun tikus amat berkesan membunuhnya. Kucing boleh dengar bunyi ultrasound Gajah adalah satu-satunya mamalia yang tidak boleh melompat Beruang dewasa boleh berlari sepantas kuda.

Air kencing kucing bercahaya dalam gelap Rama-rama terbesar di dunia ialah Queen Alexandra Birdwing di Papua New Guniea, sayapnya lebih kurang 11 inci. Mamalia terkecil di dunia adalah sejenis spesis kelawar di Thailand yang beratnya hanya seberat duit syiling 1 sen. Lipas boleh hidup selama sembilan hari tanpa kepala sebelum ia mati kelaparan. Deria rasa rama-rama di kakinya. Seekor kucing ada 32 otot di setiap telinganya Tapak Sulaiman tak ada otak 95 % dari badan obor-obor adalah air. Jantung ikan paus biru hanya berdenyut 9 kali seminit. Panjang lidah sesumpah dua kali panjang dari badannya. Lidah buaya melekat pada lelangit di mulutnya. Ikan jerung boleh mengesan satu bahagian darah dari 100 juta bahagian air. Tapak Sulaiman boleh pusing perutnya keluar. Cacing pita akan makan diri sendiri kalau tak jumpa makanan. Lintah ada empat hidung Burung hantu adalah satu-satunya burung yang boleh lihat warna biru. Penguin adalah satu-satunya burung yang boleh berenang tapi tak boleh terbang. Ngauman singa boleh didengar sehingga jarak 5 batu

Kanggaru dan burung emu tak boleh berjalan ke belakang. Kucing ada lebih 100 nada vokal (bunyi), anjing ada sepuluh saja. Tikus mondok boleh menggali lubang sedalam 91 meter ( 300 kaki ) dalam tempoh satu malam. Serangga mengatasi jumlah manusia dgn nisbah 100,000,000 serangga -seorang manusia Sesumpah boleh menggerakkan mata mereka ke arah yg bertentangan pada satu masa. Seekor lembu sepanjang hayatnya memberikan sebanyak 200,000 gelas susu. Bila ikan jerung menggigit, matanya bertukar hitam dan giginya terkeluar. Lalat bergerak ke belakang ketika mula-mula terbang Serangga terbesar yang pernah ada di bumi ialah pepatung yg mempunyai sayap sepanjang 3 kaki. Unta mengunyah makanan dalam bentuk no 8. Ikan Paus Biru adalah binatang terbesar di dunia, panjangnya 100 kaki dan seberat 150 tan. Dinasor terbesar di dunia hanya seberat 110 tan. Kucing, unta dan zirafah berjalan dengan cara kaki kanan, kaki kanan, kaki kiri, kaki kiri. Seekor singa di hutan biasanya membunuh lebih dari 20 mangsa setiap tahun. Lebah madu ada bulu pada matanya. Untuk sampai ke sungai atau tasik dimana belut menghabiskan sebahagian besar hidupnya, ia berenang sehingga 4,827 km tanpa henti.

Adalah menyalahi undang-undang membela binatang di Iceland. Siput mengawan hanya sekali dalam hidupnya. Taik ayam keseluruhan hidupnya boleh menghasilkan electrik dan menyalakan mentol lampu 100 watt selama 5 jam. Kalajengking boleh bertahan 200 kali lebih dari manusia jika terkena radiasi bom nuklear. Ulat bulu ada purata 248 otot di kepalanya Anda mungkin boleh mendahului(di depan) seekor lembu ketika menaiki tangga tetapi tak boleh mendahuluinya ketika menuruni tangga... Kanggaroo tak boleh melompat melainkan ekornya menyentuh tanah dulu. Ikan lumba-lumba tidak bernafas secara automatik, sebaliknya mereka perlu memberitahu diri sendiri supaya bernafas. Kucing boleh tidur sehingga 16-18 jam sehari. Babi boleh menghasilkan banyak produk, antaranya butang, gelas, berus cat, krayon, kapur dan lain-lain. Permaisuri anai-anai boleh hidup sehingga 50 tahun dan melahirkan anak sebanyak 30,000 sehari. Makanan yg paling disukai oleh lipas ialah gam di belakang stem. Ikan tuna berenang pada kelajuan 14 km sejam dan menurut saintis seekor ikan tuna yang berusia 15 tahun biasanya telah berenang sejauh 1,609,000 km. Seekor badak yang dewasa boleh menelan separuh badan buaya yang se besar 12 kaki panjang. Daripada 4000 spesis mamalia di dunia, 900 darinya adalah spesis kelawar.

Anai-anai teransang dengan muzik. Jika anda memasang muzik, anai-anai akan memakan rumah anda 2 kali lebih pantas. Nama Kanggaroo asalnya ialah bila beberapa orang pengembara kulit putih ternampak seekor binatang yang terlompat-lompat, lantas mereka bertanya pada orang asli di sana apa nama binatang tu, Orang asli menjawab 'Kanguru' (yang bermaksud 'tak tahu') Otak manusia mempuyai lebih kurang 100 bilion sel saraf. Saraf berdenyut dari dan ke otak selaju 274km sejam. Mustahil anda boleh membuka mata ketika bersin. Interaksi 72 pelbagai otot diperlukan untuk manusia menghasilkan suara. Secara purata, kelajuan batuk yg keluar dari mulut anda ialah 96 km sejam. Bergantung pada saiz, otot paling kuat di tubuh manusia ialah lidah. Apabila anda bersin, seluruh fungsi badan anda berhenti termasuk jantung. Bayi lahir tanpa tempurung lutut hinggalah ia berusia 2-6 tahun. Secara purata, orang yang mempunyai tangan kidal hidup 9 tahun lebih pendek. Kanak-kanak membesar lebih cepat di musim panas. Perut memerlukan 1 jam untuk menghadam susu lembu. Orang yang berambut perang punyai lebih banyak rambut dari yang berambut hitam. Jika anda buta sebelang mata, anda hanya kehilangan 1/5 penglihatan, tetapi anda akan hilang langsung deria menjarak. Hidung dan telinga akan terus membesar sehingga anda mati.

Purata setiap kulit kepala ada 100,000 helai rambut. (Kecuali orang botak lerr) Purata setiap tahun manusia mengelipkan mata sebanyak 6,205,000 Jika diukur panjang bulu mata yang gugur sepanjang hidup seseorang manusia ialah 30 meter. Tengkorak anda terdiri 29 jenis tulang. Orang Mesir purba mencukur bulu kening mereka untuk berkabung di atas kematian kucing mereka. Setelah anda mati, tubuh anda akan mula mengecut dan ini mencipta satu ilusi seolah-olah rambut dan kuku terus panjang. Rambut dan kuku adalah dari satu bahan. Seorang manusia boleh menyedut sehingga 4 liter udara, tetapi hanya 5% saja yang digunakan. Luas kulit manusia ialah 6.5 kaki persegi. 15 bilion sel darah manusia musnah setiap saat. Buah pinggang menghasilkan insulin 80 peratus tubuh manusia adalah air Jantung manusia membuat tekanan yang cukup untuk mengepam darah sehingga 30 kaki. Anda dilahirkan dengan 300 tulang. Apabila anda dewasa, anda cuma ada 206 tulang. Tulang peha manusia lebih kuat dari batu konkrit. Jika dicampur, panjang urat dalam seseorang manusia ialah 72 km.

Secara purata, setiap jantung manusia mengepam sebanyak 3000 kali sepanjang hayatnya dan mengepam 48 juta galen darah. Dalam sehari, manusia akan bernafas sebanyak 23,040 kali. Darah manusia mengalir sejauh 96,540 km setiap hari. Kapal Titanic bergerak selaju 22 knots ketika ia berlanggar dgn bungkah ais. Air minuman 7-up dicipta pada tahun 1929. '7' dipilih kerana pada asalnya ia mengandungi 7 auns air manakala 'up' pula kerana buihnya yang naik ke atas. Pada zaman Rom purba, orang yang hidungnya bengkok dianggap bakal seorang pemimpin. Diet Coke mula dicipta pada tahun 1982. Cecair di dalam kelapa boleh digunakan untuk menggantikan plasma darah. Buah strawberi ada lebih vitamin C dari buah oren. Sebarang cecair di angkasa berbentuk bulat akibat tekanan graviti Kicap adalah bahan terbaik untuk mencuci loyang. 1 hari di planet Pluto bersamaan dengan 1 minggu di bumi. Pasukan polis yg pertama di dunia ditubuhkan di Perancis pd tahun 1667 Perang terpendek ialah diantara Zanzibar dan England pada 1896. Zanzibar menyerah kalah selepas 38 minit. Setiap dari kita menghasilkan 3.5 pound sampah setiap hari dan kebanyakannya ialah kertas. Tiada kertas yg boleh dilipat lebih dari 7 kali. Seorang dari 4 rakyat Amerika Syarikat pernah muncul di kaca tv.

Rakaman suara yang pertama di dunia dibuat oleh Thomas Edison pada 1877 dan rakamanya ialah' Mary had a little lamb' Hobi yg paling banyak mengeluarkan duit ialah berkebun. Pokok Oak tidak berbuah melainkan ia telah berusia lebih 50 tahun. Kebanyakan vitamin C pada buah ialah di kulitnya. Pin bowling hanya perlu mengiring 7.5 darjah untuk jatuh. Produk pertama yang menggunakan bar kod ialah Wringleys gum. Raja (King) Heart dalam daun terop satu-satunya raja yang tak ada misai. Kerusi elektrik dicipta oleh seorang doktor gigi. Setiap galen air laut ada 1/4 paun garam American Airlines menjimatkan sebanyak US40,000 pada tahun 1987 tidak lagi meletakkan buah zaitun pada setiap hidangan salad di tempat penumpang kelas 1 Kapalterbang Jumbo menggunakan 4,000 galen minyak untuk terbang. Planet Venus adalah satu satunya planet yang berputar mengikut arah jam. CD pertama yang dikeluarkan ialah di US olah Bruce Springsteen (Born in USA) Kanak-kanak belajar tentang hidup lebih banyak dari TV dari yang lain Purata setiap kanak2 menghabiskan waktu selama 28 jam menonton tv,2 kali lebih banyak dari masa yang dihabiskkan di sekolah. Jika anda kuncikan lutut anda sambil berdiri untuk beberapa jam, anda akhirnya akan pengsan.

Novel Tom Sayer adalah novel pertama yang dihasilkan menggunakan mesintaip. Kebanyakan habuk di rumah adalah dari sel kulit yang dah mati Pemilik pertama Syarikat rokok Malboro mati akibat kanser paru-paru. 37,037 didarabkan dengan sebarang nombor dari 1 - 9, kemudian darabkan dengan 3, jawapannya pasti sama dengan nombor yang anda pilih. Misalnya, 37,037 X 4 X 3 = 44444 Jika anda darabkan 111,111,111 dengan 111,111,111 anda akan dapat jawapan 12345678987654321 Perkataan utk polis 'Cop' berasal dari perkataan 'Constable of Patrol' di England. Perkataan Jepun 'Karaoke' bermaksud 'Orkestra Kosong' Perkataan 'Good-bye' asalnya dari perkataan 'God be with you' 'So Long' berasal dari perkataan Arab ' Salam ' Perkataan 'racecar' dan 'kayak' jika diterbalikkan adalah sama. Nama semua benua bermula dan berakhir dengan huruf A Perkataan 'checkmate' berasal dari bahasa parsi 'shah mat' yang bermaksud 'raja dah mati' Nama yang paling banyak digunakan di dunia ialah Mohammad Angkasawan Neil Armstrong mula menjejakkan kaki di bulan dengan kaki kiri. Pemain bolakeranjang Micheal Jordan menerima bayaran tahunan dari syarikat kasut Nike lebih banyak dari keseluruhan gaji pekerja kilang Nike di Malaysia.

Nama paling panjang di dunia ialah 'Adolp Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Shermasn Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Senior' Gunting dicipta oleh Leonardo Da Vinci Nama sebenar Tina Turner ialah Annie Mae Bullock Walt Disney amat takut dengan tikus Bunyi E.T berjalan dibuat dengan meramas agar-agar dalam tangan Gula mula dibubuh dalam Chewing gum oleh seoran doktor gigi, William Semple Kertas dicipta pada abad kedua di China Mengikut buku Guiness Book of Records, restoran yg menyediakan hidangan terpantas di dunia ialah restoran Karne Garibaldi di Guadalajara, Mexico. Pesanan makanan anda akan sampai dalam masa 13 saat. Roller Coaster yang terpantas di dunia ialah di West Millen, Pennsylvania, Amerika dengan kelajuan 129 km sejam. Penaip terpantas di dunia menaip 211 perkataan seminit. Kapal terpantas di dunia seberat 112 tan dan bergerak dlm kelajuan 164 km sejam. Bandaraya moden yang pertama di dunia yg mencapai penduduk 1 juta orang ialah London pada tahun 1811 New Zealand adalah negara pertama di dunia yang membenarkan perempuan mengundi. Kebanyakan orang mempunyai tahap IQ 90 - 109, William James Sidis disahkan sebagai manusia yang punyai IQ tertinggi di dunia iaitu diantara 250 - 300. Pada

usia 18 bulan beliau boleh membaca akhbar New York times, Pada usia 2 tahun dia belajar bahasa latin, pada usia 3 tahun dia belajar bahasa Greek. Setelah dewasa dia boleh menguasai lebih 40 bahasa di dunia. Dia menghabiskan sebahagian besar hidupnya dengan bertukar kerja dari satu tempat ke satu tempat sebagai kuli biasa. Angel falls di Venezuela adalah air terjun tertinggi di dunia pada ketinggian 3,212 kaki. Syarikat keretapi India mempunyai perkerja teramai di dunia, iaitu lebih sejuta pekerja. Bunga terbesar di dunia ialah Rufflesia, membesar sehingga 10 kaki. Pokok terbesar di dunia ialah sejenis pokok yang bernama 'The General Sherman Tree'. di Sequola National Park. Setinggi 275 kaki dan 37 kaki lebar. Olympus Mons, sebuah gunung berapi yang terdapat di planet marikh adalah gunung berapi yang terbesar yang pernah dijumpai di cakrawala. Seluas 595 km dan setinggi 24 km. Jupiter, planet ke lima dari matahari, adalah planet terbesar sekali. Ianya dua kali ganda lebih besar dari gabungan kesemua planet yg lain. Kura-kura terbesar yang pernah ditemui ialah seberat 2,016 paun. Objek terbesar yang pernah ditemui dalam loji pembentungan Los Angeles, Amerika ialah sebuah motosikal. Misai terpanjang di dunia ialah 133 1/2 inci yg dimiliki oleh Kalyan Ramji Sain. Permainan Monopoly yang paling lama ialah selama 660 jam. Pada suhu 40%C, seseorang akan kehilangan 14.4 kalori dengan bernafas. 3000 dari 1 juta rakyat Amerika menjadi penghisap rokok setiap tahun. Kebanyakan darinya adalah kanak-kanak.

Jika anda cuba untuk mengira jumlah keseluruhan bintang yang ada dilangit dengan kadar 1 bintang satu saat, anda memerlukan masa 3000 tahun untuk mengira kesemuanya. Purata setiap orang akan menghabiskan masa selama 2 minggu dari keseluruhan hidupnya untuk menunggu lampu trafic bertukar. Lebih 2500 orang yang tangan kidal mati di seluruh dunia akibat menggunakan peralatan utk tangan kanan. Hanya 1 dari 2 billion manusia yang akan hidup lebih dari 116 tahun. Anda berkongsi hari jadi bersama-sama 9 juta orang lain di seluruh dunia. Lebih kurang 0.7 % penduduk dunia mabuk setiap detik. Purata kita tidur 24 tahun dari keseluruhan hidup kita Janggut manusia mengandungi 7000 hingga 15,000 bulu. Rambut, 70% lebih mudah digunting jika ianya direndam dulu dengan air suam selama 2 minit. Peningkatan jumlah kereta di dunia 3 kali lebih banyak dari jumlah kadar kelahiran manusia. Filem animasi Tarzan, dibuat oleh seramai 1,175 pelukis animasi dan mengambil masa 3 tahun untuk siap. Secara purata, seseorang manusia menelan 8 labah-labah sepanjang hidupnya. Kira-kira 17% manusia adalah tangan kidal. Sama seperti gorila dan chmpanzees. Menghantuk kepala anda ke dinding akan membakar kalori sebanyak 150 sejam. Purata setiap wanita menggunakan 6 paun gincu sepanjang hidupnya.

Bagi setiap seorang manusia, ada satu juta semut. Berat bau ialah lebih kuang 760 nanograms. Bumi mengalami 50,000 kali gempa bumi setiap tahun Memandu dengan kelajuan 121 km sejam, anda memerlukan masa selama 258 hari untuk mengelilingi lingkaran planet saturn. Beg udara di kereta akan meletup pada kelajuan 322 km sejam. 1/3 penyakit kanser ada kaitan dengan matahari. Ada 1000 kimia dalam secawan kopi. 7 bilion kabus diperlukan untuk memenuhi satu sudu teh Berat Bungkah ais batu di kutub di dunia ialah 20 juta tan. Purata setiap manusia meludah sebanyak 25,000 kali sepanjang hidupnya, boleh memenuhi dua buah kolam renang. Otak anda seberat 3 paun, semuanya air kecuali 10 aun. Jika anda bahagikan tanah di bumi kepada semua manusia, secara purata setiap manusia akan dapat 100 kaki persegi. Purata setiap orang membuat 1,140 panggilan talipon setahun. Di abad pertama, 1/3 penduduk dunia memeluk Islam 75% surirumah di Amerika Syarikat menguruskan kewangan di rumah 1/4 dari tulang anda adalah di kaki Kuku jari tangan tumbuh 4 kali lebih cepat dari kuku kaki.

Bersin anda dikeluarkan dengan kelajuan 161 km sejam. Berat bumi ialah 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tan Purata setiap orang bermimpi 1,460 kali setahun Mimpi adalah dalam hitam putih dan bukan berwarna Purata setiap orang ketawa 15 kali sehari Sejak 3500 tahun, darinya hanya 230 tahun saja dunia aman tanpa perang. Manusia bergayut di talipon purata 2 tahun dari sepanjang hidupnya Apabila gelas pecah, kelajuan serpihannya yang berterbangan ialah 427 km sejam. Pada 1980, Hospital Las Vegas menggantung pekerjanya yang bertaruh bila seseorang pesakit itu akan mati. Di Utah, adalah menyalahi undang - undang jika bersumpah di hadapan mayat. 1 dari 7 orang di Manhattan berjalan kaki ke pejabat. Kacang adalah salah satu dari bahan di dalam dynamite. Sekarang ada 6 bilion penduduk dunia, pada tahun 1900 cuma ada 1.6 bilion sahaja. Planet Neptune belum lagi melengkapkan putarannya mengelilingi matahari sejak ia mula ditemui pada 1846. Oleh kerana ia mengambil masa 155 tahun untuk melengkapkan pusingan, ianya hanya akan berlaku pada tahun 2011 Lagu kebangsaan yang paling pendek ialah Jepun dengan hanya 4 baris perkataan. Kepulauan Falkland mempunyai jumlah penduduk seramai 2000 orang, tetapi jumlah kambing biri-biri di negara itu ialah 700,000 ekor. Nisbahnya 1 orang - 350 kambing

Teleskop dicipta pada tahun 1608 oleh seorang pembuat cermin mata. Sehingga tahun 1820, semua saintis menyangka alam semesta berusia 6000 tahun. Kini telah diketahui bahawa alam semesta sebenarnya telah berusia 15 bilion tahun. Hanya 4 % dalam alam semesta yang boleh kita lihat Ketika zaman dinasor tak ada rumput. Rumput mula muncul menjalar dari pokok buluh 24 juta tahun lalu. Fakta-Fakta Menarik Dianggarkan kira-kira 41 peratus daripada penduduk China makan sekali seminggu di restoran makanan segera, berbanding penduduk Amerika, 35 peratus. Dianggarkan apabila sekeping tilam berusia 10 tahun, beratnya akan meningkat dua kali ganda berbanding semasa dibeli. Berat tilam itu naik sekali ganda kerana ditambah oleh habuk, sel kulit yang sudah mati, kelemumur, rambut, bulu, hama, pasir, tanah, peluh dan pelbagai lagi unsur yang tidak larat kami tuliskan semuanya di sini. Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey adalah buku terbesar di dunia. Ia kini disimpan di perpustakaan awam Chicago, Amerika Syarikat. Buku itu setinggi 1.5 meter, lebar 2.13 meter dan berat 60 kilogram. Kalau semua batu Piramid di Mesir dikeluarkan, ia cukup untuk melilit bumi dengan dinding setinggi 0.6 meter Di hujung-hujung usianya, pengasas kejururawatan moden, Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) suka membawa seekor burung hantu dalam poketnya. Topi seorang chef dibuat sedemikian rupa supaya ada angin yang berlegar di dalam topi itu agar kepala si tukang masak sentiasa dingin walaupun bekerja di dapur yang panas.

Kos kesihatan pekerja di General Motors kini hampir menyamai kos yang dikeluarkan untuk membeli besi. Restoran McDonald yang terbesar di dunia terletak di Beijing, China. la seluas 8,500 meter persegi dan mempunyai 29 kaunter pembayaran. Tangan palsu lengkap dengan jari-jemari yang digerakkan oleh cogwheels dan tuil, dicipta oleh Ambrose Par berbangsa Perancis pada tahun 1551. Ia begitu berkesan sehinggakan seorang askar pasukan berkuda yang tiada tangan mampu menggenggam tali kekang kudanya dengan baik. Pada kurun ke-6 Masihi, seorang penggubal perundangan Athens bernama Solon telah meluluskan suatu undang undang yang membenarkan pihak bapa menjual anak-anak perempuan mereka yang berzina sebagai hamba abdi. Seekor burung helang boleh membunuh anak rusa dan membawanya terbang. Suatu kejadian gempa bumi pada 16 Disember 1811 telah menyebabkan arus Sungai Mississippi mengalir ke belakang. Fakta- fakta menarik tentang gajah: Seekor gajah mampu menghidu bau air yang terletak sejauh lima kilometer darinya. Gajah boleh membawa sehingga 7.5 liter air dalam belalainya. Seekor gajah boleh makan sehingga 225 kilogram rumput kering dan 225 liter air dalam sehari. Belalai gajah mengandungi lebih daripada 5O,000 otot-otot. Sesetengah masyarakat kampung di selatan tanah air menggelar gajah dengan nama 'orang kuat'. Mereka takut untuk menyebut perkataan gajah kerana bimbang haiwan itu dapat mendengarnya dan akan datang ke tempat itu, kemudian menyerang orang yang menyebut perkataan gajah tadi.

Sehelai bulu mata boleh tahan lebih kurang lima bulan sebelum ia gugur dengan sendirinya. Kesemua bulan dalam sistem solar kita dinamakan sempena mitos Greek dan Roman, kecuali bulan-bulan di sekeliling planet Uranus yang dinamakan mengikut watak-watak dalam drama Shakespeare. Semua abjad-abjad utama di dunia ini telah dikembangkan daripada satu abjad yang dicipta 3,600 tahun dahulu di Timur Tengah. Ia dikenali sebagai Abjad Semitik Utara. Aligator boleh hidup lebih daripada 100 tahun. Hampir tiada pengecualian, lembu-lembu diperah susunya di sebelah kanan. Sebabnya ialah sejak perusahaan tenusu bermula, kebanyakan penternak menggunakan tangan kanan untuk memerah susu. Satu lagi alasan, adalah lebih mudah untuk orang yang menggunakan tangan kanan itu menjalankan kerja memerah dari sebelah kanan juga. Sungguhpun nama Argentina bermakna `Bumi Perak' (argent bererti perak), sebenarnya terdapat sedikit sahaja perak di negara tersebut. Ia berlaku akibat kesilapan para penjelajah yang menyangkakan mereka melihat banyak perak di Argentina. Sungguhpun para penjelajah membawa pulang ubi kentang dari Dunia Baru pada awal tahun 1500, orang Eropah takut untuk memakannya kerana bimbang akan dijangkiti penyakit kusta. Kepercayaan karut ini berakhir apabila Louis XW (Raja Perancis 1774-92), yang sedang mencari sumber makanan murah untuk diberikan kepada pembantu-pembantunya yang kelaparan, telah menghidangkan kentang untuk mereka. Sejak itu orang ramai yakin makan ubi kentang itu selamat. Bahagian tengah matahari mempunyai ketumpatan lebih beratus-ratus kali air dan suhu yang mencecah 10-20 juta darjah Celsius. Kanji yang terdapat dalam pisang berubah menjadi gula apabila buah tersebut masak. Maka, lagi masak ranum buah pisang, akan semakin manislah rasanya. Eemmm... enaknya.

Sehingga akhir 1820, ahli-ahli astronomi ketika itu percaya cakerawala ini berusia 6,000 tahun. Kini ia dianggarkan berusia antara I5 hingga 20 bilion tahun. Sehingga 31 Disember 2000, bilangan pendaki Gunung Everest mencecah 1,314 orang dan jumlah kematian di pergunungan ini pula meningkat kepada 167 nyawa. Aspirin mula dijual sebagai dadah farmasi pertama pada tahun 1899 selepas Felix Hoffman, pakar kimia jerman di Syarikat Dadah Bayer, berjaya mengubah suai Asid Salicylic. Asid ini ialah sejenis bahan yang ditemui dalam kulit pokok wilow. Aspirin adalah dadah pertama yang ditawarkan sebagai pil larut air pada 1900. Andainya kesemua anak-anak lalat hidup maka, sejumlah 190,000,000,000,000,000,000 ekor boleh dihasilkan dalam tempoh empat bulan daripada anak-anak sepasang lalat induk. Pada kadar 188 desibel, suara seperti bunyi wisel yang dihasilkan oleh ikan paus biru dianggap bunyi paling kuat dihasilkan oleh haiwan. Sementara itu, pada usia 70 tahun, dianggarkan 73 peratus daripada lelaki masih poten (subur). Landak dewasa mempunyai anggaran 30,000 batang duri pada badannya yang tumbuh silih berganti setiap tahun. Seorang tukang masak Afrika-Amerika di Albany, New York, dipercayai telah mencipta kerepek ubi kentang sekitar tahun 1865. Malangnya tiada siapa tahu namanya. Rasa sebiji epal, bawang dan ubi kentang sebenarnya hampir serupa. Perbezaan rasa adalah disebabkan oleh bau buah. Buktinya, cuba picit hidung anda dan gigit sedikit daripada setiap buah tersebut. Rasanya pasti manis. Sekalipun pembinaan gereja besar Notre Dame di Strasbourg, Perancis, bermula pada 1015 namun puncak menaranya hanya siap pada 1439. Sekalipun sering dikaitkan dengan Scotland, sebenarnya bagpipes adalah alat muzik purba yang diperkenalkan oleh bangsa Roman.

Semut Amazon (semut merah yang ditemui di barat Amerika Syarikat) mencuri larva semut lain untuk disimpan sebagai hamba. Semut hamba abdi ini bertugas membina rumah dan mencari makanan untuk semut Amazon, yang tidak boleh melakukan apa-apa kecuali bergaduh. Mereka bergantung sepenuhnya kepada semut hamba untuk terus hidup. Hampir 1/5 sampah dunia setahun disumbangkan oleh Amerika Syarikat dengan anggaran 1.36 kilogram sampah seorang sehari. Satu lagi 'kehebatan' orang Amerika - lebih AS$360 juta dibelanjakan oleh penduduk negara itu untuk mengelak nafas berbau pada tahun 1982. Minyak wangi Estee Lauder bernama 'Country Mist' gagal mencatatkan jualan yang memberangsangkan di German kerana di negara itu perkataan 'mist' bermakna 'baja'. Baja pula boleh membawa konotasi yang buruk kerana melibatkan najis manusia dan haiwan. Seekor iguana boleh bernafas di dalam air selama 28 minit. Seekor serangga menggunakan banyak tenaga untuk terbang selama satu jam, sehingga boleh menyebabkan ia hilang sebanyak satu pertiga daripada jumlah berat badannya. Sotong mempunyai tiga jantung. Sel darah seseorang individu mengambil masa selama 60 saat untuk melengkapkan peredarannya didalam badan. Sebiji telur burung kasuari bersamaan dengan 11 biji telur dadar yang dibuat daripada telur ayam. Anagram (kata yang dibentuk dengan menukar susunan huruf-huruf dalam perkataan lain, misalnya buku - kubu) begitu popular dikalangan masyarakat Greek, Roman dan Hebrew suatu ketika dahulu. Ia juga menjadi kegilaan di Eropah semasa zaman pertengahan. Pendeta Mesir purba mencabut setiap helai bulu roma yang tumbuh di badan mereka. Bangsa Mesir purba percaya bahawa 'Bast' adalah ibu segala kucing yang

terdapat diatas muka bumi ini. Mereka juga percaya kucing adalah haiwan suci. Masyarakat Mesir purba mencukur bulu kening sebagai tanda berkabung atas kematian kucing mereka. Haiwan yang bertelur tidak mempunyai pusat Fakta dan mitos di seluruh dunia 1.Pada zaman dahulu, orang2 nicaragua percaya, jika mereka melemparkan wanita muda yang cantik kedalam gunung berapi, maka gunung tsb akan berhenti meletus. 2. Dalam cerita2 rakyat zaman dulu ada beberapa cara untuk melindungi diri dari serangan vampir, yg paling populer adalah bawang putih dan simbol2 agama, tapi ada cara unik yg banyak dipercaya untuk memperlambat jalannya sang vampir, yaitu membuat sang vampir sibuk, dengan cara menaburkan biji2an, atau membuat kusut benang atau jaring.. 3. Adalah tabu di cina kuno jika memberikan sandal jerami sebagai hadiah, karena itu dihubung2kan dengan kuburan dan membawa sial. 4. Menurut mitos ada kota di scotlandia yg muncul secara aneh sehari dalam 100 tahun, nama kota itu adalah Brigaddon. 5. Banyak pelaut percaya jika ada kucing yang naik ke kapal mereka, itu berarti mereka akan bernasib baik dalam perjalanan. 6. Untuk mencegah anak2 laki2 mereka dirasuki roh jahat, zaman dulu kala orang 2 eropah memakaikan baju berwarna biru pada anak2 nya, biru dipilih karena itu adalah warna langit, dan dihubung2kan dengan roh2 yg berada di surga, sedangkan anak2 perempuan nya dipakaikan baju2 berwarna pink. 7. Tahun 1700 an di inggris anda bisa membeli asuransi jika, kalau2 anda masuk neraka.

8. Suku Aztec percaya batu Turquoise (batu pirus, warnanya hijau ke biruan) dapat melindungi mereka dari serangan fisik, maka dari itu para prajurit2 aztec menggunakan batu2 ini untuk mendekorasi tameng2 mereka. 9. Dalam kebudayaan yunani kuno, pengantin wanita biasanya membawa sebongkah kecil gula didalam sarung tangannya, mereka percaya hal itu bisa membawa kehidupan pernikahan yang manis. Fakta: 1. Einstein pernah menolak tawaran untuk jadi presiden israel pada tahun 1952 2. Elemen einstenium, ditemukan tahun 1952, dinamai untuk menghormati einstein 3. Foto Einstein yg sedang menjulurkan lidah yg sangat populer itu diambil pada ulang tahunnya yg ke 72 oleh seorang fotografer yg terus mengganggunya yg bernama Arthur Sasse, Einstein sangat menyukai foto itu hingga ia meng crop foto itu dan memberikan pada teman2 nya. 4. Setiap tahun hampir 98% atom dalam tubuh kita berganti yg baru. 5. Pada pesawat jet yg melaju pada kecepatan 1000km/j panjang pesawatnya lebih pendek 1 atom dari panjang aslinya. 6. Di gurun Durango di Mexico, ada tempat yg aneh yg disebut zon kesunyian, anda tidak dapat menerima siaran radio maupun telivisyen, dan penduduk tempatan disekitarnya berkata kadang-kadang mereka melihat bola api melayang di udara. 7. Bisnes pertama Bill Gates adalah Traff-O-Data, perusahaan yg membuat mesin yg merakam jumlah kenderaan yang lalu pada jalan tertentu. 8. Ethernet adalah tanda dagang yg terdaftar sebagai kepunyaan Xerox company, dan UNIX adalah tanda dagang a AT&T.

9. Setiap manusia setidaknya pernah merasakan selama setengah jam menjadi sebuah sel tunggal. 10. Jika kita memandu kereta berkecepatan 60 km/j menuju bintang terdekat kita iaitu Proxima centauri, maka akan memakan waktu 48 juta tahun sama dengan 685000 kali rata2 umur manusia 11. Hanya ada satu satelit yg pernah musnah akibat meteor iaitu satelit angkasa eropah Olympus pada tahun 1993. 12. Sebuah chip komputer sebesar seperempat inchi pada zaman sekarang, memiliki kecepatan olah yg sama dengan komputer ENIAC tahun 1949, yg besarnya sebesar rumah dan menyedot listrik yg sama dengan kebutuhan listrik sebuah kota kecil. 13. Seekor anjing terbunuh akibat tertimpa meteor jatuh di Nakhla, mesir tahun 1911, dan untungnya cuma anjing itu satu2 nya makhluk yg diketahui terbunuh akibat meteor jatuh hingga sekarang. (ketiban batu kriptonite dr kaum Kal-El ) 14. Pada tahun 1600 an thermometer diisi dengan brandy, bukan mercury. 15. Air hujan mengandung vitamin B12. 17. Kebalikan dari kata vacuum adalah plenum. 18. Salji yg kotor meleleh lebih cepat daripada salji bersih. 19. Kerana kadar garamnya yg sangat tinggi, adalah sukar untuk menyelam dasar laut mati. True And Fun Facts ♦Mark Twain didn’t graduate from elementary school. ♦Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses. ♦Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner. ♦They have square watermelons in Japan – they stack better. ♦Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

♦Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year. ♦It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. ♦The first Fords had engines made by Dodge. ♦Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite. ♦Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone ♦Before adopting the euro, Italy’s currency was known as the lira. ♦The average Italian consumes 26 gallons of wine a year. ♦Italy’s major industries include tourism, machinery, iron and steel, chemicals, food processing, textiles, motor vehicles, clothing, footwear, and ceramics. ♦Italy has more hotel rooms than any other nation in Europe. ♦The espresso machine hails from Italy. Italy is the world’s seventh largest industrial economy. Strange Facts There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo! ♦Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution! ♦Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second! ♦There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos! ♦There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants! ♦The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off! ♦Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500! ♦Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating! ♦The names of Popeye’s four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye! ♦Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels ♦A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night. ♦Armadillos can be housebroken. ♦Baby rattlesnakes are born with no rattles. ♦Bluebirds cannot see the color “blue”. ♦A kangaroo only jumps if the tail touches the ground. ♦The Heart of the Shrimp is in its head. ♦The catfish has 27000 taste buds compared to other animals ♦The Urine of a cat glows under a black light.

amimal facts, animal fun facts Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off. The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length. The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914. A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star. In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license Basketball is a famous American sport invented by a Canadian who was working at a YMCA in the U.S. The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete. The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk. The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites. Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E". No president of the United States was an only child. Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales.

Ants never sleep. No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH". The human brain is 80% water. Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum. The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does. There are 86,400 seconds in day. A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds. Singapore has only one train station. The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons. Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating. Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second. A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h. There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.' The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.) Maine is the toothpick capital of the world. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head." In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin. Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. Reindeer like to eat bananas.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world. Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum. American's eat about 18 billion hot dogs a year. The oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old. The man who played the voice of bugs bunny was allergic to carrots. Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine. Every time you lick a stamp you gain 1/10 of a calorie. Yams have 10 times more vitamin C than sweet potatoes The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat. The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914. On Sesame Street, Bert's goldfish were named Lyle and Talbot, presumably after the actor Lyle Talbot. Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs. Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T. The newest dog breed is the Bull Boxer, first bred in the United states in 1990-91.

The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5 megabytes. The real name of Astro (the dog fromThe Jetsons) is "Tralfaz" -- his real owner appeared one day to claim him but wound up giving him back to the Jetsons. A new baby usually deprives it's parents of 400-750 hours of sleep in the first year. 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. Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. Only two states' names begin with double consonants: Florida and Rhode Island. The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray. A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will. Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool. A pig in Japan says "moo-moo".

India has about 50 million monkeys. On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful. Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day. The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. Did You Know, Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. Did You Know, The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. Did You Know, 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. Did You Know, TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. Did You Know, Butterflies taste with their feet. Did You Know, Coca-Cola was originally green. Did You know, If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. Did You Know, Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury. Did You Know, It is impossible to lick your elbow. Did You Know, Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying "R2D2". George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project he was working on. The youngest pope was 11 years old. Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school. Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses. Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner. They have square watermelons in Japan - they stack better. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation. Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. Armadillos can be housebroken. The first Fords had engines made by Dodge. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite. Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee. The flashing warning light on the cylindrical Capitol Records tower spells out HOLLYWOOD in Morse code. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year. One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television. The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year. Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows. The State of Florida is bigger than England. Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning. It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland. Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food. Dolphins sleep with one eye open. The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30. More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons. Slugs have 4 noses. Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet. Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue. The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year. It's against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland. There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses. Honeybees have hair on their eyes. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States. America once issued a 5-cent bill. You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in your lifetime. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. 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. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head. In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs. There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.

Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day. The Pentagon has twice as many restrooms as necessary. When it was built, segregation was still in place in Virginia, so separate restrooms for blacks and whites were required by law. In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. In 2003, there were 86 days of below-freezing weather in Hell, Michigan. As you age, your eye color gets lighter. There are 206 bones in the adult human body, but 300 in children (some of the bones fuse together as a child grows). The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year. It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest. The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime. There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Animal Kingdom". Life expectancy for Russian men has actually gone down over the past 40 years. A Russian male born today can expect to live an average 58 years. In 1985, the most popular waist size for men's pants was 32. In 2003, it's 36.

Seven percent of Americans claim they never bathe at all. In 2004, one in six girls in the United States enter puberty at age 8. A hundred years ago, only one in a hundred entered puberty that early. Newest trend in the Netherlands: Tiny jewels implanted directly into the eye. A British gymnast survived a fall from a fourth story window because he went into a somersault and came down on two feet. Jeffrey and Sheryl McGowen in Houston turned to vitro fertilization. Two eggs were implanted in Sheryl's womb, and both of them split. Sheryl gave birth to two sets of identical twins at once. In 1991, the average bra size in the United States was 34B. Today it's 36C. The average North Korean 7-year-old is almost three inches shorter than the average South Korean 7-year-old. Every year, 2700 surgical patients go home from the hospital with metal tools, sponges, and other objects left inside them. In 2000, 57 people died as a result of these mistakes. We forget 80 percent of what we learn everyday. Pain is measured in units of "dols". The instrument used to measure pain is a "dolorimeter". The Amish a diet high in meat, dairy, refined sugars and calories. Yet obesity is virtually unknown among them. The difference is since they have no TVs, cars or powered machines, they spend their time in manual labor. As of January 1, 2004, the population of the United States increases by one person every 12 seconds. There is a birth every eight seconds, an immigrant is added every 25 seconds, but a death every 13 seconds.

Astronauts cannot burp in space. There is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma. Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day. Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times. A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. In a recent survey, Americans revealed that banana was their favorite smell. The arteries and veins surrounding the brain stem called the "circle of Willis" looks like a stick person with a large head. Brushing your teeth regularly has been shown to prevent heart disease. A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals causing relaxation. Women seem to like it light and frequent, men like it more strenuous. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better. Your nose and ears never stop growing. Men get hiccups more often than women. Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe. One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. The average person laughs 15 times a day. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is "shake" and the 46th word from the last word is "spear". If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long. The strength of early lasers was measured in Gillettes, the number of blue razor blades a given beam could puncture. The drive-through line on opening day at the McDonald's restaurant in Kuwait City, Kuwait was at times seven miles long. Point Roberts in Washington State is cut off from the rest of the state by British Columbia, Canada. If you wish to travel from Point Roberts to the rest of the state or vice versa, you must pass through Canada, including both Canadian and U.S. customs. The Pentagon in Washington, D. C. has five sides, five stories, and five acres in the middle. Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes. There is an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Newborn babies are given to the wrong mother in the hospital 12 times a day worldwide. The Starbucks at the highest elevation is on Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. Each year, over 1,000,000 people fail to itemize out the mortgage interest deduction on their income taxes. Last year, this amounted to $473,000,000 in taxes. In 1998, more fast-food employees were murdered on the job than police officers. The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug and Jeffrey Feiger. Two very popular and common objects have the same function, but one has thousands of moving parts, while the other has absolutely no moving parts - an hourglass and a sundial. One out of three employees who received a promotion use a coffee mug with the company logo on it. If you know a (male) millionaire who happens to be married, The most likely profession of his wife is a teacher. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 1 pound of lemons contain more sugar than 1 pound of strawberries. The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator. 60% of all US potato products originate in Idaho. 61,000 people are airborne over the US at any given time.

A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down. Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Halley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Halley's Comet was in view again. The Weddell seal can travel underwater for seven miles without surfacing for air. 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 longest words in the English language with only one syllable are the nine-letter "screeched" and "strengths". Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye". All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" read 4:20. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. A snail can have about 25,000 teeth. A snail can also sleep for three years. A starfish can turn its stomach inside out. A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it. According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.

Soldiers from every country salute with their right hand. The microwave oven was invented by mistake when an engineer testing a magnetron tube noticed that the radiation from it melted the chocolate bar he had in his pocket. Moisture, not air, causes super glue to dry. Only 14% of Americans say they've skinny dipped with the opposite sex. "60 Minutes" on CBS is the only TV show to not have a theme song or music. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. Most boat owners name their boats. The most popular boat name requested is Obsession. 100% of all lottery winners gain weight. An average American will spend an average of 6 months during his lifetime waiting at red lights. The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet. Cats can hear ultrasound. In a recent survey, Americans revealed that banana was their favorite smell. In all three Godfather films, when you see oranges, there is a death (or a very close call) coming up soon. If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter "A". 23% of employees say they have had sex in the office.

Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women. Married men change their underwear twice as often as single men. There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year. Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. 40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet. 3.9% of all women surveyed say they never wear underwear. Superman is featured on every episode of "Seinfeld", either by name or pictures on Jerry's refrigerator. 85% of the men who cheat on their wives die while having sex. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28 Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38 Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80 Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50 Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58 Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90 Percentage of mammal species that are monogamous: 3 Chances that a burglary in the United States will be solved: 1 in 7 One third of the land in the United States is owned by the government. The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards. Between 1942 and 1944, Academy Awards were made of plaster. John Madden is an accomplished ballroom dancer. In 21 states, Wal-Mart is the single largest employer. Jim Gordon, drummer of Derek and the Dominos ("Layla"), killed his mother with a claw hammer. One of Hewlett Packard's first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher. Eric Clapton did not play the very famous first riff on the song "Layla". That was Duane Allman. Clapton comes in later. There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows. The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats. Illinois has the most personalized license plates of any state. 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. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it. Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air. Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material. There are no venomous snakes in Maine. The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles. Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result, the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years. 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. North Dakota has never had an earthquake. Alexander Graham Bell (who invented the telephone) also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of 72. There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world. Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year. Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.

The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. Almonds are members of the peach family. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. One person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle. All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split). The Spanish word esposa means "wife." The plural, esposas, means "wives," but also "handcuffs." If all Americans used one third less ice in their drinks the United States would become a net exporter instead of an importer of energy. If the Nile River were stretched across the United States, it would run nearly from New York to Los Angeles. San Francisco cable cars are the only National Monuments that move.

The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. Its concrete will not be fully cured for another 500 years. Abraham Lincoln's dog, Fido, was assassinated too. All of David Letterman's suits are custom made - there are no creases in his suit trousers. Cranberry Jell-O is the only flavor that contains real fruit flavoring. Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run. In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first. Richard Versalle, a tenor performing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, suffered a heart attack and fell 10 feet from a ladder to the stage just after singing the line "You can only live so long." If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people, 51% would be female, 49% male; 50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people, one person would be nearly dead, one nearly born. In 1920, Babe Ruth out-homered every American League team. Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores. Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals. The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy. The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side. The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued six driver's licenses to six different people named Jesus Christ.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. People in China and Japan die disproportionately on the 4th of each month because the words death and four sound alike, and they are represented by the same symbol. Chicago is closer to Moscow than it is to Rio de Janeiro. Dogs have two sets of teeth, just like humans. They first have 30 "puppy" teeth, then 42 adult teeth. In 1950, President Harry Truman threw out the first ball twice at the opening day Washington DC baseball game; once right handed and once left handed. A Swiss ski resort announced it would combat global warming by wrapping its mountain glaciers in aluminum foil to keep them from melting. The chameleon has a tongue that is one and a half times the length of his body. Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed. There once was a town named "6" in West Virginia. Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts. In 1920, Babe Ruth broke the single season home run record, with 29. The same year, he became the first major leaguer to hit 30 home runs. The same year, he became the first major leaguer to hit 40 home runs. The same year, he became the first major leaguer to hit 50 home runs. A Nigerian woman was caught entering the UK with 104 kg of snails in her baggage. Profanity is typically cut from in-flight movies to make them suitable for general audiences. Fox Searchlight Pictures has substituted "Ashcroft" for "A**hole" in

the movie Sideways when dubbed for Aerolineas Argentinas flights. Author Hunter S. Thompson, who committed suicide recently, wanted to be cremated and his ashes to be shot out of a cannon on his ranch. Sports Illustrated magazine allows subscribers to opt out of receiving the famous swimsuit issue each year. Fewer than 1% choose this option. There is a company that will (for $14,000) take your ashes, compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one. The RIAA sued an 83 year old woman for downloading music illegally, even though a copy of her death certificate was sent to the RIAA a week before it filed the suit. Two 1903 paintings recently sold at auction for $590,000 - the paintings were in the famous "Dogs Playing Poker" series. Russian scientists have developed a new drug that prolongs drunkenness and enhances intoxication. Romanian firefighters could not get their trucks close enough to a burning building, so they put out the fire by throwing snowballs at it. A perfect SAT score is 1600 combined. Bill Gates scored 1590 on his SAT. Paul Allen, Bill's partner in Microsoft, scored a perfect 1600. Bill Cosby scored less than 500 combined. Motorists traveling outside Salem, Oregon saw one of the "litter cleanup" signs crediting the American Nazi party. Marion County officials had no choice but to let that group into the adopt-a-road program. The $500 per sign was picked up by Oregon taxpayers. The Ku Klux Klan is also involved in the adopt-a-road program in the state of Arkansas. Spam filters that catch the word "cialis" will not allow many work-related e-mails through because that word is embedded inside the word "specialist".

McDonald's restaurants will buy 54,000,000 pounds of fresh apples this year. Two years ago, McDonald's purchased 0 pounds of apples. This is attributed to the shift to more healthy menu options (the Apple Pie, which has been at McDonald's for years uses processed Apple Pie Filling). The biggest dog on record was an Old English Mastiff that weighed 343 pounds. He was 8 feet, 3 inches from nose to tail. Mailmen in Russia now carry revolvers after a recent decision by the government. All of Queen Anne's 17 children died before she did. There are over 87,000 Americans on waiting lists for organ transplants. American made parts account for only 1% of the Chrysler Crossfire. 96% of the Ford F-150 Heritage Truck is American. A Dutch court ruled that a bank robber could deduct the 2,000 Euros he paid for his pistol from the 6,600 Euros he has to return to the bank he robbed. The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade. Last December, the House of Representatives earmarked $50,000,000 to create an indoor rain forest in Iowa. Amusement park attendance goes up after a fatal accident. It seems many people want to ride upon the same ride that killed someone. For every ton of fish that is caught in all the oceans on our planet, there are three tons of garbage dumped into the oceans. June Foray did the voice for Rocky the Flying Squirrel and the Chatty Cathy dolls. Japanese and Chinese people die on the fourth of the month more often than any other dates. The reason may be that they are "scared to death" by the number four. The words four and death sound alike in both Chinese and Japanese.

People with initials that spell out GOD or ACE are likely to live longer than people whose initials spell out words like APE, PIG, or RAT. More people in the United States die during the first week of the month than during the last, an increase that may be a result of the abuse of substances purchased with benefit checks that come at the beginning of each month. In the film Forrest Gump, all the still photos show Forrest with his eyes closed. There are an average of 18,000,000 items for sale at any time on EBay. The New York Times reports that in February 2004, 62% of all e-mail was spam. U.K. telecom provider Telewest Broadband is testing a device that hooks to your PC and wafts a scent when certain e-mails arrive. In 1993, David McLean developed lung cancer. He died on October 12, 1995. McLean's death made him the second Marlboro Man to die of lung cancer. Another actor, Wayne McLaren, died in 1992 at the age of 51 from lung cancer. There is a bar in London that sells vaporized vodka, which is inhaled instead of sipped. According to market research firm NPD Fashionworld, fifty percent of all lingerie purchases are returned to the store. On EBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second. The Eiffel Tower shrinks 6 inches in winter. The first FAX machine was patented in 1843, 33 years before Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone. 72% of Americans sign their pets' names on greeting cards they send out. In an effort to encourage the use of nuclear energy, the United States lent highly enriched uranium to countries all over the world between 1950 and 1988. Enough

weapons-grade material to make 1,000 nuclear bombs has still not been returned by such countries as Pakistan, Iran, Israel and South Africa. Homing pigeons use roads where possible to help find their way home. In fact, some pigeons followed roads so closely that they actually flew around traffic circles before choosing the exit that led them home. A snowflake can take up to a hour to fall from the cloud to the surface of the Earth. Only 5 percent of the ocean floor has been mapped in as much detail as the surface of Mars. The only people whose likenesses adorn Pez dispensers are Betsy Ross and Paul Revere. Pain is measured in units of "dols". The instrument used to measure pain is a "dolorimeter". In a nod to astronauts, Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space. Eleven top executives of the Direct Marketing Association (the telemarketers' group that is trying to kill the federal "Do Not Call" list) have registered for the list themselves. An iceberg the size of Long Island, New York, has broken off Antarctica and has blocked sea lanes used by both ships and penguins. In 2003, the Transportation Security Administration dropped a requirement that air marshals pass a marksmanship test. Some applicants were even hired after they repeatedly shot flight attendants in mock hijacking episodes. As of January 2004, the United States economy now borrows $1,500,000,000 each day from foreign investors. A Costa Rican worker who makes baseballs earns about $2,750 annually. The

average American pro baseball player earns $2,377,000 per year. Former keyboard player for Jethro Tull David Palmer is now a woman named Dee Palmer. He waited until his wife died before going through with his longtime desire for a sex change. During Bill Clinton's entire eight year presidency, he only sent two e-mails. One was to John Glenn when he was aboard the space shuttle, and the other was a test of the e-mail system. Albert Einstein never knew how to drive a car. The UK's best selling hiking magazine published faulty coordinates for descending Scotland's tallest peak (Ben Nevis), and recommended a route that leads climbers off the edge of a cliff. The Mars Rover "Spirit" is powered by six small motors the size of "C" batteries. It has a top speed of 0.1 mph. Zeppo Marx (the unfunny one of the Marx Brothers) had a patent for a wristwatch with a heart monitor. The entire town of Capena, Italy (including children as young as 2 years old) lights up cigarettes each year in honor of St. Anthony's Day. This tradition is centuries old. Microsoft threatened 17 year old Mike Rowe with a lawsuit after the young man launched a website named MikeRoweSoft.com. As of January 1, 2004, the population of the United States increases by one person every 12 seconds. There is a birth every eight seconds, an immigrant is added every 25 seconds, but a death every 13 seconds. There is a Starbucks in Myungdong, South Korea that is five stories tall. There has been no mail delivery in Canada on Saturday for the last thirty five years.

The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of an aspirin tablet. The world's smallest winged insect is the Tanzanian parasitic wasp. It's smaller than the eye of a housefly. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. If you have three quarters, four dimes and four cents, you have $1.19. But you cannot make exact change for a dollar. There are more plastic flamingoes in the United States than real ones. The chance that you will die on the way to buy your lottery ticket is greater than the chance of you winning the big prize in most lotteries. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton Look-Alike contest. An average of 100 people choke to death on ball point pens each year. The National Anthem of Greece has 158 verses. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. The Bible has been translated into Klingon. Toto was paid $125 per week while filming the "Wizard of Oz".

All polar bears are left handed. To help reduce budget deficits, several states have begun reducing the amount of food served to prison inmates. In Texas, the number of daily calories served to prisoners was cut by 300, saving the state $6,000,000 per year. The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard. Pope John Paul II is the world's Scrabble champion in the over-70 category. Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capitol without a McDonald's. In 1993, the board of governors at Carl Karcher Enterprises voted (5 to 2) to fire Carl Karcher. Carl Karcher is the founder of Carls Jr. restaurants. The little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side, is called a "porcelator." The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight. Ted Turner owns 5% of New Mexico. Over 8 years, this happened 284 times: "Cosmo" Kramer went through Jerry Seinfeld's apartment door. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns. There are more 100 dollar bills in Russia currently than there are in the United States. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. 65% of Elvis impersonators are of Asian descent. Burt Reynolds was originally cast to be Han Solo in the first Star Wars film. He dropped out before filming.

Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter" in 2000. There are only three types of snakes on the island of Tasmania and all three are deadly poisonous. Television stations hung banners at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, including Al-Jazeera, until it was noticed and taken down. A woman was chewing what was left of her chocolate bar when she entered a Metro station in Washington DC. She was arrested and handcuffed; eating is prohibited in Metro stations. The New York City subway system, in an effort to raise revenue, is considering selling sponsorships of individual stations to corporations. Riders could soon be getting off at Nike Grand Central Station or Sony Times Square. The Nike swoosh was designed by a Portland State University student, and purchased by Nike for $35. Gerald Ford once worked as a cover model for Cosmopolitan magazine. Gillette spent $1,000,000 to place razor samples in the welcome bags handed out at the Democratic National Convention, only to have them confiscated as they were considered a threat. This caused huge delays at all security checkpoints. Quebec City, Canada, has about as much street crime as Disney World. Jim Carrey voted in 2004 at the Beverly Hills City Hall. He had an assistant wait in line for him, however. As part of a charity event, 500 cats were spayed and neutered in the cafeteria of an elementary school. School was cancelled for days and $10,000 was spent on cleaning and sterilizing the room. The United States has five percent of the world's population, but twenty-five percent of the world's prison population.

The largest McDonald's is in Beijing, China - measuring 28,000 square feet. It has twenty nine cash registers. A house in Baghdad worth $15,000 before the Iraq war now sells for $120,000 to $150,000. There are between 5,000 and 7,000 tigers kept as pets in the United States. The fertility rate in states that voted for George Bush is 12% higher than states that favored John Kerry. The chicken is one of the few things that man eats before it's born and after it's dead. The number of US college students studying Latin is three times the number studying Arabic. If you hook Jell-O up to an EEG, it registers movements almost identical to a human adult's brain waves. Some dogs can predict when a child will have an epileptic seizure, and even protect the child from injury. They're not trained to do this, they simply learn to respond after observing at least one attack. 32 out of 33 samples of well-known brands of milk purchased in Los Angeles and Orange counties in California had trace amounts of perchlorate. Perchlorate is the explosive component in rocket fuel. The remains of 125 people will be launched into space where they will orbit the Earth for centuries. The leading cause of on-the-job deaths in workplaces in America is homicide. So far, Congress has authorized $152,600,000,000 for the Iraq war. This is enough to build over 17,500 elementary schools. Americans take an average of just ten days per year vacation. In France, the law

guarantees everyone five weeks of vacation, and most full-time workers get two full months vacation. The IRS admits that one in five people who call their help line get the wrong answer to their question. 20% of Americans think that the sun orbits around the Earth. Harry S Truman's middle name was S. Just S, without the period. (thanks to Eric Snyder) Van Halen singer David Lee Roth trained to be an EMT in New York City, and planned to be certified by November 2004. The thong accounts for 25% of the United States women's underwear market. On average, 40% of all hotel rooms in the United States remain empty every night. When you hear a bullwhip snap, it's because the tip is traveling faster than the speed of sound. There is a new television show on a British cable called "Watching Paint Dry". Viewers watch in real-time. Gloss, semi-gloss, matte, satin, you name it. Then viewers vote out their least favorite. The largest ocean liners pay a $250,000 toll for each trip through the Panama Canal. The canal generates fully one-third of Panama's entire economy. French author Michel Thaler published a 233 page novel which has no verbs. The spring thaw finally allows cemeteries in Alaska to start digging graves for those who died during the winter. When Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen turned 18 in mid-2004, they took official control of a company worth more than the gross national product of Mongolia. Their earnings in 2003 topped $1 billion.

Orthodox rabbis warned that New York City drinking water might not be kosher; it contains harmless micro-organisms that are technically shellfish. David Bowie thinks he is being stalked by someone who is dressed like a giant pink rabbit. Bowie has noticed the fan at several recent concerts, but he became alarmed when he got on a plane and the bunny was on board. A party boat filled with 60 men and women capsized in Texas after all the passengers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach. In 1997, a woman in Bradenton, Florida lost her cat. In 2004, she got a call from the local animal shelter. The cat turned up wandering the streets in San Francisco, California. The cat's identity was proven with a microchip that had been implanted prior to 1997. Almost 20% of the billions of dollars American taxpayers are spending to rebuild Iraq are lost to theft, kickbacks and corruption. The treasury department has more than twenty people assigned to catching people who violate the trade and tourism embargo with Cuba. In contrast, it has only four employees assigned to track the assets of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. There are 40,000 New York City cab drivers, who collectively drive more than a million miles each day. An estimated 800,000 senior citizens voluntarily give up their driving privileges each year. The average age at which they surrender the wheel is 85. More than 8,100 US troops are still listed as missing in action from the Korean war. 3,400,000 Americans are considered "Extreme Commuters". These people commute over 90 minutes round trip every day to work. 82% of Americans made a purchase at Wal-Mart in 2002.

Oslo, Norway is the world's most expensive city. A gallon on gas costs almost $5, and it costs $1.32 to use the public restrooms. Villanova University's commencement speaker this year is the actor who plays Big Bird. In 1965, auditions were held for the "Monkees" TV show. Some of the people who responded (but were not hired) were Stephen Stills, Harry Nilsson, Paul Williams and Charles Manson. Kevin Spacey's older brother is a professional Rod Stewart impersonator. 71% of office workers stopped on the street for a survey agreed to give up their computer passwords in exchange for a chocolate bar. George W. Bush and John Kerry are 16th cousins, three times removed. If current trends continue, Medicare costs will absorb 51% of all income tax revenues by 2042. The prison system is the largest supplier of mental health services in America, with 250,000 Americans with mental illness living there. Researchers have found that doctors who spend at least three hours a week playing video games make about 37% fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery than surgeons who didn't play video games. Before he had his own show, Jerry Seinfeld appeared on three episodes of the TV show "Benson" as the governor's speechwriter. There are 1,008 McDonald's franchises in France. Hostess Twinkies were originally filled with banana filling. The filling was changed during World War II when the United States experienced a banana shortage. World War II veterans are now dying at the rate of about 1,100 each day.

George W. Bush is probably going to be the eighth president in US history to have completed a term in office without ever having issued a single veto. A deployed air bag adds as much as $2,000 to the cost of repairing a vehicle. That's enough for insurance companies to often declare the car "totaled". For the first time in history, the number of people on the planet aged 60 or over will soon surpass those under 5. One out of five people in the world (1.1 billion people) live on less than $1 per day. The Swedish pop group ABBA recently turned down an offer of $2 billion to reunite. The New Yorker magazine now has more subscribers in California than New York. Five years ago, 60% of all retail purchases were made with cash or check. Now it's 50%. By 2010, 39% of purchases will be made by cash or check. 35 Billion e-mails are sent each day throughout the world. The richest self-made American under 40 is Michael Dell, chairman of Dell Computers. He is worth $18 billion. Legislators in Santa Fe, New Mexico, are considering a law that would require pets to wear seat belts when traveling in a car. Life Savers got their shape by a malfunctioning machine, which mistakenly punched a hole in the center of each candy. SUV sales are up 18% in the first quarter of 2004 vs. the same period of 2003, even though gas prices are skyrocketing. Consumer surveys show that gas prices would have to hit $3.75 per gallon before there will be any real impact on SUV sales.

Airport security agents at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts caught a passenger trying to sneak a severed seal head onto a plane inside a cooler. The man said he was a biology professor and had found the dead animal on the beach. Jimmy Carter once reported a UFO in Georgia. There are 150,000,000 cell phones in use in the United States, more than one per every two human beings in the country. A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts. Only 6% of the autographs in circulation from members of the Beatles are estimated to be real. The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually. 60.7 percent of eligible voters participated in the 2004 presidential election, the highest percentage in 36 years. However, more than 78 million did not vote. This means President Bush won re-election by receiving votes from less than 31% of all eligible voters in the United States. John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States, loved to skinny dip in the Potomac River. La Paz, Bolivia has an average annual temperature below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. However, it has never recorded a zero-degree temperature. Same for Stanley, Falkland Islands and Punta Arenas, Chile. 41% of Chinese people eat at least once a week at a fast food restaurant. 35% of Americans do. A Wisconsin forklift operator for a Miller beer distributor was fired when a picture was published in a newspaper showing him drinking a Bud Light. G-rated family films earn more money than any other rating. Yet only 3% of Hollywood's output is G-rated.

Richard Hatch, winner of the first "Survivor" reality series, has been charged with tax evasion for failing to report his $1,000,000 prize. The entire fleet of Unicoi County Tennessee's salt trucks was rendered out of commission in one accident. All three trucks were badly damaged when one of them began skidding down a road, causing a chain reaction accident. Officials blamed road conditions. More people study English in China than speak it in the United States of America (300 million). Fast food provider Hardee's has recently introduced the Monster Thickburger. It has 1,420 calories and 107 grams of fat. More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products that are made for right-handed people. For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects. There are 2,000,000 millionaires in the United States. 1.5 million Americans are charged with drunk driving each year. A Georgia company will mix your loved one's ashes with cement and drop it into the ocean to form an artificial reef. The Washington Times newspaper is owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. The busiest shopping hour of the holiday season is between 3:00 pm and 4:00 pm on Christmas Eve. In 2002, women earned 742,000 bachelor's degrees. Men earned only 550,000 during the same year. The difference is growing so large that many colleges now practice (quietly) affirmative action for male applicants. Most of the deck chairs on the Queen Mary 2 have had to be replaced because overweight Americans were breaking them.

Actor Bill Murray doesn't have a publicist or an agent. The day after President George W. Bush was reelected, Canada's main immigration website had 115,000 visitors. Before Bush's re-election, this site averaged about 20,000 visitors each day. Only 30% of stolen artwork worth more than $1,000,000 each is recovered. The typical American child receives 70 new toys a year, most of them during the holiday season. 90% of Canada's 31,000,000 citizens live within 100 miles of the U.S. border. Costco is the largest wine retailer in the United States. Annual wine sales are about $700 million. The worst air polluter in the entire state of Washington is Mount St. Helens. There are less than 100 surviving American World War I veterans. Actor Bruce Willis has filed a lawsuit against the movie studio that produced his film "Tears of the Sun", alleging he was struck in the forehead by a fake bullet. Since 2002 (when the movie was in production), the lawsuit claims he has endured "extreme mental, physical, and emotional pain and suffering". A ten year old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new, because of the -ahem- debris which is absorbed through the years. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and their decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand and a lot of perspiration, of which the average person loses a quart per day. Good night! About 20% of gift cards never are redeemed at the full value of the card. John Kerry's hometown newspaper, the Lowell Sun, endorsed George W. Bush for president in 2004. Bush's hometown newspaper, the Lone Star Iconoclast,

endorsed John Kerry for president in 2004. Only 939 of the 1,400,000 high school seniors who took the SAT in 2004 got a perfect score of 1600. Two of them are twin brothers Dillon and Jesse Smith from Long Island, NY. Billboard magazine has recently launched a top 20 chart of cell phone ringtones. The US Army is handing out $2,500 to Fallujah residents whose property was destroyed by US planes and artillery. George W. Bush, who presents himself as a man of faith, rarely goes to church. Yet he received votes from nearly two out of three voters who attend church at least once a week. In 2015, it is estimated that half the federal budget will be spent on programs for the elderly. A private elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia, accidentally served margaritas to its schoolchildren, thinking it was limeade. The Chicago Cubs are suing former Hartford Courant newspaper carrier Mark Guthrie to get back $301,000 in pay that was intended to go to a Cubs pitcher with the same name. The Tribune Company owns both the Hartford Courant and the Chicago Cubs. In February 2004, a Disney World employee was killed when he fell from a parade float and was trapped between two float sections. OSHA termed this a serious workplace violation, but Disney was fined only $6,300. Even today, 90% of the continental United States is still open space or farmland. The second Saturday in September is usually a popular time for weddings. Not in 2004, as most couples did not want their anniversaries on September 11. Mel Gibson has personally earned almost $400,000,000 from his movie "The Passion of the Christ".

Austin High School in Texas has removed candy from its vending machines. Now some enterprising students are earning $200 per week dealing in black market candy. In 2004, Virgin Atlantic Airlines introduced a double bed for first class passengers who fly together. The world's largest book, "Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey" is in a Chicago public library. The book measures 5 feet tall by 7 feet wide when open. It weighs 133 pounds. If the recent U.S. election was held in Canada, John Kerry would have beaten George Bush in a landslide - 64% to 19%. Oprah Winfrey and Elvis Presley are distant cousins. 55% of Americans claim they would continue working even if they received a $10,000,000 lottery prize. The company that manufactures the greatest number of women's dresses each year is Mattel. Barbie's got to wear something. All radios in North Korea have been rigged so listeners can only receive a North Korean government station. The United States recently announced plans to smuggle $2,000,000 worth of small radios into the country so North Koreans can get a taste of (what their government calls) "rotten imperialist reactionary culture". La Paz, Bolivia is the world's most fireproof city. At 12,000 feet about sea level, the amount of oxygen in the air barely supports a flame. The estates of 22 dead celebrities earned over $5 million in 2004. These celebrities include Elvis Presley, Dr. Seuss, Charles Schulz, J.R.R. Tolkien and John Lennon. George Washington spent about 7% of his annual salary on liquor.

Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears. If you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Cheops, you would get enough stones to encircle the earth with a brick wall twenty inches high. Nearly one third of New York City public school teachers send their own children to private schools. The New York City Police Department has a $3.3 billion annual budget, larger than all but 19 of the world's armies. CBS's fine for Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" in the 2004 Super Bowl show was $550,000. This could be paid with only 7.5 seconds of commercial time during the same Super Bowl telecast. In September 2004, a Minnesota state trooper issued a speeding ticket to a motorcyclist who was clocked at 205 mph. Al Gore's roommate in college (Harvard, class of 1969) was Tommy Lee Jones. In her later years, Florence Nightingale kept a pet owl in her pocket. The New York Jets were unable to find hotel rooms for a game in Indianapolis recently because they had all been booked up by people attending Gencon, a gaming convention. China is the world's largest market for BMW's top of the line 760Li. This car sells for $200,000 in China - more than almost all people in China make in a lifetime. A chef's hat is shaped the way it is for a reason: its shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool in a hot kitchen. Life expectancy for Russian men has actually gone down over the past 40 years. A Russian male born today can expect to live an average 58 years.

Each year, sixteen million gallons of oil run off pavement into streams, rivers and eventually oceans in the United States. This is more oil than was spilled by the Exxon Valdez. An employee of the Alabama Department of Transportation installed spyware on his boss's computer and proved that the boss spent 10% of his time working (20% of time checking stocks and 70% of the time playing solitaire). The employee was fired, the boss kept his job. Solid structures (parking lots, roads, buildings) in the United States cover an area the size of Ohio. A Brussels Airlines flight to Vienna was aborted because the pilot was attacked in the cockpit. The attacker was a passenger's cat, who got out of its travel bag. Physicists have already performed a simple type of teleportation, transferring the quantum characteristics of one atom onto another atom at a different location. At General Motors, the cost of health care for employees now exceeds the cost of steel. There is a regulation size half-court where employees can play basketball inside the Matterhorn at Disneyland. One of pitcher Nolan Ryan's jockstraps recently sold at auction for $25,000. Shania Twain is Mark Twain's great-granddaughter. (thanks to Eric Snyder) Scientists estimate that sleep lost due to daylight saving time reduces the average lifespan by nearly two full months. No NCAA basketball team from a school located in its state's capitol has ever won the national championship. The top three names for female babies born in China last year were Huan, Jia, and Ethel. Shortly before his execution, Timothy McVeigh constructed a scale model of the

Lincoln Memorial with popsicle sticks. Because the Japanese language has several thousand characters, each episode of Japan's "Wheel of Fortune" can last several days. Strains of bacteria similar to E. coli have been found in used printer cartridges - but only in the color cyan. Scientists have no explanation. Female monkeys recognize their children by height and weight, not necessarily by their facial characteristics. The Australian aborigine language has over 30 words for "dust." Anyone convicted of animal cruelty in Sedalia, Missouri, is sentenced to a month's confinement in the county animal shelter. Fewer divorces occur in families in which the children wake their parents before 6 a.m. on Saturdays. John F. Kennedy was an accomplished ventriloquist. Two-thirds of all the world's coriander comes from a single valley in Italy. Contrary to popular belief, the white is not the healthiest part of an egg. It's actually the shell. Adding baking soda and vinegar will make your scrambled eggs fluffier. The first prototype defibrillators delivered 1,200 joules of electrical energy instead of the now standard 360, occasionally causing dead bodies to sit upright momentarily as though they were still alive. Every member of the Australian band Men at Work is currently unemployed. Customs officials have dogs that are trained to distinguish between Cuban cigars and all other cigars.

Archimedes' screw was the basis for Max Factor's invention of the twisting lipstick holder. A Tokyo inventor has developed a laptop computer whose battery is recharged by energy generated from the movement of the user's mouse, yet Sony lawyers have successfully blocked every attempt to produce a product using the technology. Ballpoint pens were invented by a Michigan scientist attempting to reduce the number of birds killed for their quills. Socrates is thought to be the first to use the phrase "a bad case of the Mondays". Penguins can smell toothpaste from several miles away. Glamorous movie star Brad Pitt once had a summer job posting warning signs at coal mine entrances. During a banana shortage in the summer of 1958, banana splits were made with zucchini or carrots. The National Weather Service will pay $30 for the rights to any original photograph of lightning. In the early 1800s, a flush beat a full house in poker. The rhesus monkey is the only animal that can be taught to hum a tune. Biblical scholars recently unearthed a previously unknown gospel written by a disciple named "Rusty". With the exception of a small 200-square-mile section of Antarctica, every single square kilometer of dry land on the planet has been walked on by at least one human being. The Mongolian pony is the only animal other than an elephant capable of fending off an attack by a healthy adult tiger.

In 1984, an Ohio family visiting New York City stood at a broken DON'T WALK sign for three days. Because of their unusual shape, Hershey's Kisses contain more calories per ounce than the same amount of chocolate in other forms. If you tar and feather a 2x4 and place it in your yard, it will ward off bats. The largest home in the United States, North Carolina's Biltmore House, was originally intended to be the official residence of a new monarchy to be established when the South rose again. The Toltec calendar was based on a 360-day year, with each day being about 24 hours and 20 minutes long. The universal size of the credit card is based entirely on the size of the 1960s US Communist Party membership card. Credit cards were designed so that they wouldn't cause the Communist Party card to stand out. The K in K-Mart stands for K-Mart. Nobody born in Kentucky has ever been elected to Congress. In an effort to improve the nutritional value of its "Shamrock shakes," McDonald's colors them with broccoli extract. M & Ms were candy-coated peas during a chocolate shortage in the 1950s. After he resigned from the Presidency, Richard Nixon could often be found on the beaches of San Clemente, with his ever-present metal detector. Winston Churchill was born with a third nipple, which he removed himself with nail-clippers at the age of 14. Only a single dissenting vote prevented the death penalty in Texas from being carried out by immersing the convicted person in a nest of fire ants.

If you place a fresh Viagra tablet in a houseplant's soil every six months, the plant will not wilt. Because he forgot his boots, Buzz Aldrin walked barefoot on the moon. The practice of putting a letter "e" in front of words to mean "web-based" (e.g., eBusiness, eLearning, etc.) was patented by Microsoft in 1992. They are waiting until their anti-trust trial has been officially completed to begin enforcing it. If a cricket were the size of Mount Rushmore, it could jump to the moon. During a nine month strike in 2002, the Weather Channel broadcast reruns. A 9-volt battery contains roughly the same amount of kinetic energy as a bowl of Lucky Charms. The Yanomami tribesmen of the Amazon basin can track game birds by the slight difference in warmth their shadows create on the forest floor as they fly by, for up to an hour after the birds have departed. Rapid deforestation has decreased the friction of the surface of the Earth, causing it to spin infinitesimally faster and thereby cool the air, combating global warming. President Harry S. Truman would often go on vacation and secretly have his identical twin Larry run the country. The flush toilet was invented in Flushing, NY. New data suggests that so-called global warming may be due to a batch of faulty thermometers. The inner core of most standard golf balls is made of nougat, which helps the balls remain aloft longer. Over the last two decades, more Americans died of heart attacks while watching horror movies in movie theaters than died while sky-diving.

Every common food product, with the exception of fish, contains some traces of peanuts. A bad case of laryngitis forced Abraham Lincoln to lip-sync the Gettysburg Address. The speech was actually delivered by an aide hidden beneath the stage. The number of words in the Bible divided by the number of verses equals exactly 666. L L Cool J once marketed a line of mail-order clothing, under the name "L L Cool Bean". Anthropologists have discovered a tribe of South American monkeys with a rudimentary system of government analogous to our own three-branch form of government. The shoe Nikita Khrushchev used to bang on the United Nations table was purchased by Thom McAn. Constipation kills nearly twice as many people as diarrhea, mainly because the former mostly afflicts the old and weak while the latter mostly affects young, strong children. Frank Sinatra didn't want to record the song "My Way" but was forced to by his record label. It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time. In China, John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" is translated as "Angry Berries." If you fill a standard 750ml wine bottle with live hornets, their angry buzzing will resonate at precisely the right frequency to shatter the glass. During his famous "Blue Period", Pablo Picasso invented the substance that eventually became known as Play-Doh. Every year in the fall, Niagara Falls is shut down for maintenance for 24 hours. The

flow is diverted using a massive series of pipes and spigots built for this purpose in 1837. At thirteen hospitals around the country, there is a Dr. Pepper on staff. Every 23 seconds, someone is having sex in a carpet store. In the early 1940s, Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted only of little pasta swastikas. Singer Cat Stevens is allergic to cats. The Chilean hummingbird has been known to suck blood from animals like a giant mosquito