The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with "month", "orange", "silver" or "purple".
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
A dragonfly has a life span of 1-6 months
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
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.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
The word "racecar" and "kayak" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
No president of the United states was an only child.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
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FieroLisa Member
Posts: 1992 From: Sebastopol, CA Registered: Nov 2000
Did you know that if you are drinking a beverage and reach total enlightenment at the same time, it would probably make the beverage shoot out your nose.
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FieroLisa Member
Posts: 1992 From: Sebastopol, CA Registered: Nov 2000
Originally posted by rogergarrison: mmmmmmm, i thought Edison invented the electric chair, that him and Westinghouse were in a competition to build the best one.
Actually, it was Dr. Albert Southwick in 1881 who first came up with the idea of death by electrocution.
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Posts: 3357 From: Germantown, TN Registered: Jun 2000
A mosquito will not fly more than 8 feet above the ground The word "SUBLIME" was first used to describe the NIAGRA FALLS when the discoverer could not come up with a more descriptive word.
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Monkeyman Member
Posts: 15810 From: N. Wilkesboro, NC, USA Registered: Nov 1999
On the two dollar canadian bill (which ceased circulating in 1996) IT is the current canadian maple leaf flag. On the $5 and $10 bill , the Canadian red ensign is flying which to the untrained eye looks similar to the stars and stripes. ON the $100 bill the Union Jack is flying from parliment. The $20 and $1000 bill depict no flags.
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beer_stud_21 Member
Posts: 371 From: Keaau, Hawaii, USA Registered: Jan 2001
...well, maybe I should gang together all those batteries I store in the refrigerator door, using rubber bands. Not only will the bands last longer, but it'll keep the batteries from rolling out of the door
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DecadenceR Member
Posts: 1517 From: Howell, NJ USA Registered: May 2001
The word "racecar" and "kayak" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
Level and noon are 2 more I rememeber...
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
I wanna be a snail.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
I'd hate to have been the first person that they executed in it, ebfore they realized that it was current, not voltage that killed people. I read a book that talked about that. Very nasty stuff.
north america and south america don't end with the same letter they start with.
I think that it was just referring to America, and not the north and south designation.
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Posts: 1560 From: Maple Valley, WA Registered: Oct 2000
Originally posted by DecadenceR: The word "racecar" and "kayak" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
Level and noon are 2 more I rememeber...
They're called palindromes (Webster defines them as: a word, verse, sentence or number that reads the same backward or forward) and the world's longest is:
a man a plan a canal panama
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Originally posted by My7Fieros: A pig's orgasim can last up to 30 minutes.
I really don't want to know how they figured that one out!
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Raydar Member
Posts: 40724 From: Carrollton GA. Out in the... country. Registered: Oct 1999
Cliff, How long did it take you travel the world and do all that research??? So why is it that some people don't eat breakfast again? m-m-m-m-m spiders!
Oh one other question, is the protein label correct on chocolate bars? Or do we force the manufacturers to update their label accordingly?
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How come on v8 juice it's labled as a vegetable juice and not vegetable juice and fruit juice? Taste like the main ingredient in it is tomato juice and that is a fruit.
Originally posted by DecadenceR: I'd hate to have been the first person that they executed in it, before they realized that it was current, not voltage that killed people...
...I suppose to produce the necessary current, it took more voltage than they originally estimated - that first person probably put up some resistance to being executed. Ugh. This gets sicker by the minute. Revolting, actually.
Let's go back to the more pleasant subject of eating spiders in our sleep...
the longest phrase I could come up with that reads the same upside down is:
Pompous snodwod
I was thinking of naming my hobiecat that, cause when you capsize the boat, the name would still be readable upsidedown - ended up naming it HydroManiac instead
it takes very little voltage to kill yourself - a kid electocuted himself once with an ohm meter, which was powered by an ordinary 9 volt battery, when he put it on ohms and stuck the leads in his ears. The current flow through his brain stopped his heart and he died.
I think all the words in the phonetic alphabet dont ryme with anything: Alpha, Beta, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot... thats why they use it, cause B sounds like D,E,G,P,T,V, and Z so on a bad radio channel you can not mistake BETA for anything...
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JSocha Member
Posts: 3522 From: Felton, MN, USA Registered: Apr 2001
ive seen palendrones alot longer than that one - search the palendrone web sites
there are web sites that generate anagrams too: my son ran one on 'Machintosh Computer' and got TONS of really funny anagrams - he uses them as the names of computers on his mac network - at the moment I cant remember any of them.
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JSocha Member
Posts: 3522 From: Felton, MN, USA Registered: Apr 2001
Isn't it the AMPS that kill you (I understand it takes less then a 1/16 of an AMP to kill you) not the volts (unless of course you are being hit by GIGAVOLTS).
9 Volt battery in an Ohm meter? I just tried mine and I can't even get a buzz off of it. Think of me to try.
"Here Jeff. Hold on to the two copper ends of these wires while I go flip the switch."
CLICK! Phhhyyyyzzzzzaaattttt!
Anyways, as I was saying, the kid must have had a pacemaker.
stick your tongue on a 9V battery - and hold it there.
<slurring> Ohcayyy Ken, now vhat?
It just tingles and I'm using a new 9 volt battey fresh out of the package.
AH! Just a second! I think my heart just skipped a beat! I bess quit while I'm still alive!
Actually, as a child, I use to grab the 9-volt batteries out of anything that I could to get that copper taste from the buzz.
Also, my dad, as well as I, can grab the electrical wires (from an outlet/light switch) and hold onto them. Tingles alot more and numbs you faster...but I'm still hear.
Its the peeing on electric fences that does me in... yowsa ! Thats a tingling feeling you never forget, let alone ever wish to experience again!
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What's pleasant about eating spiders in ones sleep?
Even baby spiders (smaller then a pin head) to me are "MONSER TRANTULAS!" trying to get me. 
