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sometimes i wonder Hello people of the web! Welcome to one of the more popular features here at the Anti-Boredom site! At this page you will find many, many useless facts that I have gathered together for your sheer enjoyment. Some of them, alright most of them, are a little strange and/or disgusting so be forewarned! Coca-cola was originally green. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury. Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better. Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where he or she grew up: 1 in 2 Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000 City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4 Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12 Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38% Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44% Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33 Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7 Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36% Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43% City with the highest per capita viewership of television evangelists: Washington DC 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'd marry the same man: 50% Percentage of American men who say they're happier after their divorce or separation: 58% Percentage of American women who say they are happier: 85% Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400 Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000. Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70% Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3 Portion of potatoes sold that are French fried: 1/3 Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7% Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50% Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5 Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7. Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3 Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanan Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for Profiles in Courage Only food that does not spoil: honey (Ed. note -- also only food that does not need to be digested; it's already been digested in the body of the bee) Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (subject is boxing) Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees. Polar bears are left-handed. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. Eskimos never gamble. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. 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. Your nose and ears never stop growing. Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined. Hot water is heavier than cold. The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515. They have square watermelons in Japan...they stack better. Cream does not weigh as much as milk. Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg. Iceland consumes more Coca-cola per capita than any other nation. First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer. Heinz Ketchup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year. Men get hiccups more often than woman. Armadillos can be housebroken. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein. The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards. The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. The shape of plant collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. Camel's milk does not curdle. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic. Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan. All porcupines float in water. Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ? The world's largest wine cask is in Heidelberg, Germany. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom." If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $0.10 from the town. St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers. The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was "Rock the Casba" by the Clash. Non-dairy creamer is flammable. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.) The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases. Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an"A" is Afghanastan. The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru:Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil. When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king fromhistory. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar. 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. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." The most common name in the world is Mohammed. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together." The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden.The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that *this* was the day of the change over. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" so that it rhymed with "rejoice." In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam." Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out. It actually is all fun and games until someone loses an eye....than its just fun. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston,Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane. The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S.Military Academy at West Point, NY. There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States. "Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time. Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games. It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a fullmoon. Giraffes have no vocal cords. Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the Pulitzer Prize. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured. Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." There are 22 stars in the Paramount movie studio logo. You can't trademark surnames. The Brady Bunch went to elementary school at Dixie Canyon Elementary. A humpback whale's milk is 54 percent fat. Catherine the great from russia suffered from Nymphomania. The country code for Russia is "007". The queen of england has two birthdays. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor . Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana . Elizabeth 1st suffered fron anthophobia (a fear of roses). Moon was Buzz Aldrins mothers maiden name.(Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon) Hitler and Napolean both had only one testical. One Day on the planet Pluto is about the length of a week on Earth. American car horns beep in the tone of F. The smoke detector was invented in 1969. You were born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult you only have 206. The average life of a tastebud is 10 days. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Relative to size) The (you are here arrow) on a map is called the IDEO locator. The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. Human thighbones are as strong as concrete. There is about 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA' If you lock your knee while standing long enough, you will pass out. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. A human has a bone just after the spine ends, which proves that humans once had tails. The active ingredient in smelling salts is ammonia. MORE TO COME |
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