"Uncopyrightable" is the only fifteen-letter
word that can be spelled without repeating a letter .
Most U.S. automobile horns honk in the "F" key.
Harry
Houdini once proclaimed that he could figure out any trick if it was
shown to him three times in a row. The only magician to challenge him
and win was Vernon in Chicago who performed the old 'Ambitious Card'
trick 8
times in a row. Houdini was baffled.
Francis
Bacon gave his life trying to discover a
superior
way to serve food. He came down with pneumonia after trying to pack a
live chicken with snow.
The classic 'Gone with the
wind' was orginally called 'Ba! Ba! Black sheep'.
Gainesville, Georgia is the chicken capital of the
world. It is against the law to eat the bird with a fork.
It is impossible to fold any piece of paper in
half more than seven times consecutively.
If a canary is seen singing, it has to be a male;
only the males can sing.
A hamburger at McDonalds cost 15 cents in 1963,
On Tuesday, November 9th, 1965, at exactly 5:15 p.m.
and 11 seconds, the lights went out (infamous Northeast Blackouts of
1965).
Since the 1950s, the average language of an eighth
grader has
steadily declined from 25,000 words to only 10,000 (and falling still).
In 1714 after George I was crowned King of England,
he placed his
wife under house arrest for thirty-two
years.
The speediest fish in the world is the cosmopolitan
sailfish, clocking in at about 67.7 mph (109km ph).
The Earth is pear shaped, the North Pole radius being
44mm longer than the South Pole radius.
For its size and proportions, the earth is as smooth
as a bowling ball.
1 in every 4 Americans has been on tv.
By the numbers, a human breathes approximately 23,000
times per day.
Between plane crashes and donkeys, the latter claim
more lives annually.
The heart is so powerful that it circulates
our
entire blood supply 7 to 8 times per minute.
After
the sun, Proxima Centauri is the closest star to
Earth that we know of. By close, this means 4.2 light years.
A normal housecat has 32 muscles per ear.
If a person will be there in a "jiffy", they will be
there in one hundred of a second.
If a crocodile loses teeth, they grow back.
Shakespeare was thought to be 46 years old when the
King James
Version of the bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the
beginning word is "shake" and the 46th word from the final word is
"spear."
The words "testify" and "testimony" are widely
regarded by
historians to come from ancient Rome when Roman men would place their
right hand on their testicles prior to speaking before the
courts. Roman law held that no man could bear witness who
didn't
have both testes.
