Fifty-Six Facts You Were Perfectly Happy Not
Knowing
1.. Rubberbands last longer when refrigerated.
2.. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of
dynamite.
3.. There are 293 ways to make change for a
dollar.
4.. The average person's left hand does 56% of
the typing.
5.. The shark is the only fish that can blink
with both eyes.
6.. There are more chickens than people in the
world.
7.. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown
in New Jersey.
8.. The longest one-syllable word in the English
language is "screeched."
9.. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
10.. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction"
are stuck on 4:20.
11.. No word in the English language rhymes with
month, orange, silver or purple
12.. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends
in the letters "mt".
13.. All 50 states are listed across the top of
the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5
bill.
14.. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
15.. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies'
room during a dance.
16.. Maine is the only US state whose name is
just one syllable.
17.. There are only four words in the English
language which end in "dous" - tremendous,
horrendous, stupendous and hazardous.
18.. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de
Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de
Porciuncula"
19.. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
20.. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
21.. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped
fur.
22.. In most advertisements, the time displayed on
a watch is 10:10
23.. Al Capone's business card said he was a used
furniture dealer.
24.. The Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie
were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the
taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's A
Wonderful Life."
25.. Some dragonflies have a life span of 24 hours.
26.. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
27.. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
28.. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29.. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the
world.
30.. In England, the Speaker of the House is not
allowed to speak.
31.. The microwave was invented after a researcher
walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar
melted in his pocket.
32.. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
33.. The average person falls asleep in seven
minutes.
34.. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf
ball.
35.. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is
typed with only the left hand.
36.. The average human eats 8 spiders in their
lifetime at night.
37.. A cockroach can live nine days without its
head
before it starves to death.
38.. A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not
white, but actually clear.
39.. Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who
died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle
name was spelled Aron: in honor of his
brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb
stone.
40.. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland
because he doesn't wear pants.
41.. More people are killed by donkeys annually
than are killed in plane crashes.
42.. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination"
and "bump."
43.. Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
44.. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it
will eventually turn white.
45.. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
46.. Right-handed people live, on average, nine
years longer than left-handed people do.
47.. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over
the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English
language.
48.. The names of the continents all end with the
same letter with which they start, with the
exception of North America.
49.. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be
made using the letters on only one row of the
keyboard.
50.. The word racecar and kayak are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left.
51.. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by
eliminating one olive from each salad served
in firstclass.
52.. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
53.. Vatican City is the smallest country in the
world with a population of 1,000 and a size
of 108.7 acres.
54.. "Go!" is the shortest complete sentence in
the English language.
55.. No president of the United states was an
only child.
56.. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs
in it!
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