- Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
- Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
- Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
- Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
- Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
- Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
- 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.
- Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
- Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
- Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
- Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
- Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
- Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
- During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
- Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
- Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
- Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
- Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
- Every person has a unique tongue print.
- Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
- Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
- Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
- Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
- Giraffes have no vocal cords.
- Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
- Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
- Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
- Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
- Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
- Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
- Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- 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.
- If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
- If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
- 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.
- If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
- If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.
- In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
- In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
- In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
- In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
- In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
- In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
- In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" were considered a dirty word.
- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
- In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.
- In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
- In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
- In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
- In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
- In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
- In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
- In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- In the movie "Casablanca," Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
- In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
- In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
- Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
- It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
- It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
- It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
- It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
- It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
- It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
- It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don't try this at home!)
- Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
- John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
- "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
- Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
- Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992
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