Random Facts

Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Polar bears are left handed.

Starfish don't have a brain.

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

More people are killed by falling coconuts than sharks.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

In California, it's against the law to use your dirty underwear as a dust rag.

One acre of hemp will produce as much paper as four acres of trees (and can be replaced next season).

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

The chances of your dying on the trip to buy your MegaBucks ticket is greater than your chance of winning.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

Go to www.nobletitles.com to buy yourself a royal title.

The portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the penny shows him facing to the right while all other portraits of presidents on U.S. circulating coins face left.

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.

Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

In New Hampshire, on Sundays citizens may not relieve themselves while looking up.

No president of the United States was an only child.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

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.

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the PII fighter pilots in the 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."

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

While in some countries the penalty for driving while intoxicated can be death, in Uruguay intoxication is a legal excuse for having an accident while driving.

Alma mater means bountiful mother.

It's debatable, but most scientists agree that glass is a liquid.

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