"Polka" is a Czech word describing Polish women.

Coca Cola was originally green.

"Superfecundation" is the process by which fraternal twins can
have different fathers.

Atilla the Hun was only 3 feet, 4 inches tall.

The first recorded UFO sighting in America occurred on January
18, 1644--by pilgrims in Boston!

All seven Mercury space program astronauts were first born
children.

Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
registered blood donors.

Impeached president Clinton's first automobile was a "Henry J."

The first episode of "Joanie Loves Chachi" was the highest rated
American program in the history of Korean television. "Chachi"
is Korean for "penis".

Conception occurs more often in December than any other month.

The Alfred Hitchcock thriller "Psycho" originally had a working
title of "Wimpy".

When a frog vomits, it expels its entire stomach, cleans it out,
then swallows it again.

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct
order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic".

"Auld Lang Syne" was reportedly first sung either in Poosie
Nancy's Tavern in Mauchline, Scotland, or the Bachelors Club
in Tarbolton located a few miles away.

In 1997, Michigan became the 16th state to permit the blind to hunt.

    Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden.
The conversion to right handed driving was done on a weekday.
All traffic stopped as people switched sides.

    Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

    "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

   Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear.
His "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear  shows the right one
bandaged because he painted the mirror image.

    Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people
without killing them burned their houses down - hence the saying
"to get fired."

    A shrimp's heart is located in its head.

    Little Richard Nixon didn't like to ride to school on the bus
because "the other children didn't smell good".

    If you have three quarters, four dimes and four pennies you have $1.19.
You also have the largest amount in coins without being able
to make change for a dollar.

    The "WD" in WD-40 stands for "Water Displacement",
and 40 represents the number of attempts the creator made to perfect it-

    Alfred Hitchcock appeared in every movie he directed. Try to find him!

    Three Mile Island is only two and a half miles long.

    The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

    Leonardo DaVinci invented the scissors.
    No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".

    Your eyes are always the same size from birth,
but your nose and ears never stop growing.

    Female canaries can't sing.

    Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin was the first person to wet his pants on the moon.

    The pilgrims probably didn't eat turkeys as we know them.
"Turkey" meant any fowl with no feathers on the head.

    Super Glue is now being used to lift fingerprints from
difficult surfaces such as styrofoam

    Edison's first lightbulb filament was made of cotton (1879).

    You have enough blood vessels to circle the Equator
about two and a half times.

    An ear of corn will ALWAYS have an even number of rows. Try it!
   .
       When your face blushes, so does your stomach lining.

    There are NO Betty Rubbles in a container of Flintstones Vitamins!
 

    When birds fly in a "V" formation, range is increased as much as 70%.

    If a child ate comparatively as much as an average bird,
3 lambs and one calf would be consumed daily

    The Battle of Waterloo was lost partly due to the fact that
Napoleon was bedridden with HEMORRHOIDS!!!

The saying "It's raining cats and dogs" comes from
        Norse legend. They believed that witches, in the disguise of cats, rode
        the storms. This symbolized the rain. Odin, the Norse god of storms,
        had dogs by his side. These dogs provided the howling winds. Thus it
rains "cats and dogs"


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1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
3. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
4. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
5. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
6. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
7. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
8. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
Building is an American flag.
10. All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
11. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or
purple.
12. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "Mt".
13. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on
the back of the $5.00 bill
14. Almonds are members of the peach family.
15. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
16. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
17. There are only four words in the English language which end in
"-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
18. 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."
19. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
20. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
21. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
22. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on
a watch is 10:10.
23. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
24. The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
25. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home,
the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
26. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert
the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful
Life"
27. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
28. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
30. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
31. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the
creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z,
hence "Oz."
32. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube
and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
33. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
34. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
35. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
36. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left
hand.

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