---Your daily fact(s)---

• The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
• The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
• The state of Florida is bigger than England.
• 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 three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
• The United States Government keeps its supply of silver at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
• The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
• The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
• The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
• The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
• The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate." (MOdulate DEModulate)
• The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
• The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
• The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
• There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the United States.
• There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
• There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
• There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
• Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
• To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
• Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
• Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
• 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 changeover.
• When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
• When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
• When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
• White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (formerly of the Monkees).
• Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
• Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
• Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
• Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
• You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
• You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
• You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.