Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
Percentage of American men who say
they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%
Percentage of American women who say they'd marry
the same man: 50%
Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World:70%
Only President to win
a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage"
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
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 (of course, this
was pre-cable TV).
Hang On Snoopy is the official rock song of Ohio. (Note: Real title is "Sloopy")
Did you
know that there are coffee-flavored PEZ?
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when
the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The
airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (hence the name of the Don McLean song.)
When possums are playing
'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
The King of Hearts is the only king without
a mustache.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their
houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
In
every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms
as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet
facilities for blacks and whites.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
The
first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
The word
"set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
Alfred Hitchcock
didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
The
muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
Steely Dan got their name
from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch."
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh
Ramses II who fathered over 160 children (too little too late, huh?).
There is a seven letter word in the English language
that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein,
herein.
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
John Larroquette
of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
-A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.(wonder how they figured this out?)
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness
by bouncing them; a fully-ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
To "testify" was based on men in the
Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles. (Marteko will like this one)
The combination
"ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough- faced,
thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
Facetious
and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
Emu's
and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
The first episode of "Joanie
Loves Chachi" was the highest rated American program in the history of Korean television. "Chachi" is Korean for "penis."
Debra
Winger was the voice of E.T.
Pearls melt in vinegar
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: MARLBORO, COCA-COLA,
BUDWEISER, in that order.
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
The
mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" movie was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
The fingerprints
of Koala Bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Months
that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott
(Scotty) on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger on his right hand (he lost it on D-Day).
A sick pig rarely
curls its tail.
A woodpeckers tongue is long enough to wrap it around his head 2 times (eat your heart out, Gene Simmons!).
Ants
prefer not to walk through baby powder.
A rat can tread water for 3 days.
A snail takes 33 hours to crawl 1
mile.
The bigger the navel, the sweeter the orange.(No comment)
In an average lifetime the human heart circulates
55 million gallons of blood.
It is illegal in the state of Kentucky to marry your wife's grandmother.
If a frog's
mouth is held open too long the frog will suffocate.
Kokomo, Indiana is the home of canned tomato juice.
In
an average lifetime the average American receives 31 prank phone calls (hopefully not per day!).
Most American car
horns honk in the key of F.
At the first Thanksgiving dinner, Lobster was one of the main entrees.
The ashes
of an average cremated person weighs 9 lbs.
Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
Oak trees do not have acorns until they are 50 years or older.
Shirley Temple always had 56 curls in her hair.
Corduroy comes from the French, meaning "cloth of the king".
The dial tone of a normal phone is in the key of F.
Easter Sunday is always the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 21. (the first day of Spring)
An office chair with wheels travels 8 miles a year.
Howdy Doody has exactly 48 freckles on his face.
Bubble Gum contains rubber. (Not so sure about this one!)
33 million Hershey Kisses are made each day.
Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die. (Guess some of us are in sad shape!)
An animal epidemic is called a epizootic.
If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
Camel's milk does not curdle. (Who wants to drink it anyhow?)
A cat has 4 rows of whiskers.
In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer name is Yensid which is Disney backwards.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.