Jayhawk
November 21st, 2005, 5:44:13 PM
-Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
-Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
-A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
-People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
-When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
-Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.
-Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
-Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are
2-6 years old.
-The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
-The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
-The average housefly lives for one month.
-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
-A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
-Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
-Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
-The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
-The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
-John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
-Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
-Most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
-Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.
-The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
-Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
-Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
-If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
-In England the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
-All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
-The first Halloween card was created in the 1920s.
-No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
-Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
-Vincent Van Gogh only sold 1 painting his whole life and that was to his brother!
-Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
-166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
-Red is the most commonly colored vehical involved in accidents each year.
-If you get the recomended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year.
-The average family will spend $250,000 (thats a quarter million dollars) on each child from the time he/she is born until he/she turns 18.
-Christopher Columbus was the greatest explorer NEVER to discover America
-There are, on average, 259 raisins in a box of Raisin Bran and 388 in a box of Premium Raisin Bran.
-There is no ice covering Iceland.
-The swastika was origionaly a symbol of peace and honor and is still used by Buddhists today.
-Bart Simpson's voice on the Simpsons is actually done by a woman, Nancy Cartwright.
-Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
-The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
-In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
-In 1797 James Hetherington inventented the top hat and wore it in public. He was arrested for disturbing the peace.
-During the 1980's the average speed of traffic in New York was less than 10 mph. -There about 171 billion U.S. pennies in circulation.
-Marriage makes a woman more likely to become depressed and a man less likely.
-IBM holds the most U.S. patients.
-Thomas Henry Huxley invented the word agnostic in 1869 because he was tired of being called an athiest.
-John Wayne had the most leading roles in Hollywood with 141.
-The largest snowflakes were 15 inches in diameter and 8 inches thick.
-The word hitchhike was coined in 1926.
-The first e-mail was sent over the internet in 1972.
-Sunsets can be green in Antarctica.
-The two most dangerous jobs in the U.S. are commercial fishing and logging.
-Virus means poison in Latin.
-Playing cards are round in India. -The Statue of Liberty is patented.
-The most mentioned woman in the bible is Sarah at 56 times.
-The Mayan Empire lasted six times as long as the Roman Empire.
-Jerry Maguire was the highest grossing sports movie in history.
-At least 8,000 human made objects are orbiting the Earth.
-127 people ran the first New York City Marathon in 1970, 32,000 ran in 1998.
-The Cincinnati Redstockings was the first baseball team to pay its players.
-Rowing is the oldest American college sport still in existence.
-The most expensive movie poster in history was the poster from 1932's The Mummy which auctioned for $453,000 in 1977.
-The Tour de France bicycle race is 2,300 miles long.
-When badminton was invented in India, it was known as poona.
-Shakespeare's Hamlet has been adopted into film 49 times, Romeo and Juliet has been adopted into film 27 times.
-The referee tossed a jump ball after every basket in basketball until 1937.
-Mugging someone on the subay in Britain can get you life in prison.
-An Italian deck of cards has no queens.
-The common name for the animal anobium pertinax is Bookworm.
-There are 1000 different chemicals in a cup of coffee.
-Aztecs offered Tamales to the gods.... as well as humans.
-A redwood's roots are only about 5 or 6 feet deep and spread out over about an acre.
-Henry VIII was the eight English king to be called Henry and the first to be called "Your Majesty."
-20,900 gallons of water flow from the Amazon river into the sea each minute.
-The U.S. treasury mints about 37 million pennies a day.
-Sound travels a mile in five seconds in the air and a mile in one second under water.
-The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows, shaved eyebrows were a fad when she was painted.
-Every thousand years spring gets two thirds of a day shorter.
-Angel Falls in Venezuela is 15 times higher than Niagra Falls.
-Horse jockeys are the only U.S. athelets leagally allowed to bet on themselves.
-The first baseball player to be named rookie of the year was Jackie Robinson in 1947.
-If you get the recomended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year.
-London police photographed the eyes of Jack the Ripper's victims because they thought his image might be recorded in them.
-The 1909 Lincoln penny was the first U.S. coin to have a president on it.
-Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
-The combined population of North American colonies in 1610 was 350.
-When you use the breaks on your car, they generate enought heat to warm your house.
-In 1952 Einstein called income taxes the "most difficult thing to understand."
-Mickey Mantle is credited with the longest home run ever, 643 feet.
-The face value of a Titanic boarding pass auctioned in 1999 was $8, it sold for $100,000.
-Iron Age magazine once called Theodore Roosevelt a "drunk," he sued them and won 6 cents.
-None of the passengers on the Mayflower had middle names.
-The oldest tree on earth is a 4,500 year old bristlecone pine named Methuselah.
-The largest cast ever assembled for a film scene was 300,000 for the funeral scene in Gandhi.
-The battle of Waterloo was fought in Pancenoit, 4 miles away.
-Bagpipes were invented in Iran and brought to Scotland by the Romans.
-The cost of mailing a letter by the pony express was $5 for half an ounce.
-By the time he died in 1910, the king of Siam had fathered 370 children.
-There are more than 1,000 people named Jim Smith in the Society of Jim Smiths.
-Every lake in Ohio is manmade.
-Poison Oak and Poison Ivy are members of the cashew family.
-The fine for leaving a public toilet unflushed in Singapore is $150.
-Murders have claimed more American lives during the 20th century than wars have.
-Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
-A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
-People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
-When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
-Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.
-Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
-Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are
2-6 years old.
-The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
-The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
-The average housefly lives for one month.
-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
-A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
-Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
-Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
-The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
-The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
-John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
-Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
-Most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
-Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.
-The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
-Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
-Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
-If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
-In England the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
-All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
-The first Halloween card was created in the 1920s.
-No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
-Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
-Vincent Van Gogh only sold 1 painting his whole life and that was to his brother!
-Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
-166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
-Red is the most commonly colored vehical involved in accidents each year.
-If you get the recomended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year.
-The average family will spend $250,000 (thats a quarter million dollars) on each child from the time he/she is born until he/she turns 18.
-Christopher Columbus was the greatest explorer NEVER to discover America
-There are, on average, 259 raisins in a box of Raisin Bran and 388 in a box of Premium Raisin Bran.
-There is no ice covering Iceland.
-The swastika was origionaly a symbol of peace and honor and is still used by Buddhists today.
-Bart Simpson's voice on the Simpsons is actually done by a woman, Nancy Cartwright.
-Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
-The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
-In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
-In 1797 James Hetherington inventented the top hat and wore it in public. He was arrested for disturbing the peace.
-During the 1980's the average speed of traffic in New York was less than 10 mph. -There about 171 billion U.S. pennies in circulation.
-Marriage makes a woman more likely to become depressed and a man less likely.
-IBM holds the most U.S. patients.
-Thomas Henry Huxley invented the word agnostic in 1869 because he was tired of being called an athiest.
-John Wayne had the most leading roles in Hollywood with 141.
-The largest snowflakes were 15 inches in diameter and 8 inches thick.
-The word hitchhike was coined in 1926.
-The first e-mail was sent over the internet in 1972.
-Sunsets can be green in Antarctica.
-The two most dangerous jobs in the U.S. are commercial fishing and logging.
-Virus means poison in Latin.
-Playing cards are round in India. -The Statue of Liberty is patented.
-The most mentioned woman in the bible is Sarah at 56 times.
-The Mayan Empire lasted six times as long as the Roman Empire.
-Jerry Maguire was the highest grossing sports movie in history.
-At least 8,000 human made objects are orbiting the Earth.
-127 people ran the first New York City Marathon in 1970, 32,000 ran in 1998.
-The Cincinnati Redstockings was the first baseball team to pay its players.
-Rowing is the oldest American college sport still in existence.
-The most expensive movie poster in history was the poster from 1932's The Mummy which auctioned for $453,000 in 1977.
-The Tour de France bicycle race is 2,300 miles long.
-When badminton was invented in India, it was known as poona.
-Shakespeare's Hamlet has been adopted into film 49 times, Romeo and Juliet has been adopted into film 27 times.
-The referee tossed a jump ball after every basket in basketball until 1937.
-Mugging someone on the subay in Britain can get you life in prison.
-An Italian deck of cards has no queens.
-The common name for the animal anobium pertinax is Bookworm.
-There are 1000 different chemicals in a cup of coffee.
-Aztecs offered Tamales to the gods.... as well as humans.
-A redwood's roots are only about 5 or 6 feet deep and spread out over about an acre.
-Henry VIII was the eight English king to be called Henry and the first to be called "Your Majesty."
-20,900 gallons of water flow from the Amazon river into the sea each minute.
-The U.S. treasury mints about 37 million pennies a day.
-Sound travels a mile in five seconds in the air and a mile in one second under water.
-The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows, shaved eyebrows were a fad when she was painted.
-Every thousand years spring gets two thirds of a day shorter.
-Angel Falls in Venezuela is 15 times higher than Niagra Falls.
-Horse jockeys are the only U.S. athelets leagally allowed to bet on themselves.
-The first baseball player to be named rookie of the year was Jackie Robinson in 1947.
-If you get the recomended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year.
-London police photographed the eyes of Jack the Ripper's victims because they thought his image might be recorded in them.
-The 1909 Lincoln penny was the first U.S. coin to have a president on it.
-Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
-The combined population of North American colonies in 1610 was 350.
-When you use the breaks on your car, they generate enought heat to warm your house.
-In 1952 Einstein called income taxes the "most difficult thing to understand."
-Mickey Mantle is credited with the longest home run ever, 643 feet.
-The face value of a Titanic boarding pass auctioned in 1999 was $8, it sold for $100,000.
-Iron Age magazine once called Theodore Roosevelt a "drunk," he sued them and won 6 cents.
-None of the passengers on the Mayflower had middle names.
-The oldest tree on earth is a 4,500 year old bristlecone pine named Methuselah.
-The largest cast ever assembled for a film scene was 300,000 for the funeral scene in Gandhi.
-The battle of Waterloo was fought in Pancenoit, 4 miles away.
-Bagpipes were invented in Iran and brought to Scotland by the Romans.
-The cost of mailing a letter by the pony express was $5 for half an ounce.
-By the time he died in 1910, the king of Siam had fathered 370 children.
-There are more than 1,000 people named Jim Smith in the Society of Jim Smiths.
-Every lake in Ohio is manmade.
-Poison Oak and Poison Ivy are members of the cashew family.
-The fine for leaving a public toilet unflushed in Singapore is $150.
-Murders have claimed more American lives during the 20th century than wars have.