The term corduroy
is French. It means "cloth of the king".
The typical American marriage ends after about 9.4
years.
The
gatorade
sports drink was developed by five people at the University of Florida
in 1965. Its namesake is derived from the school's nickname, the
gators.
If a female ferret can't find a mate when its in
heat, it will die.
Playing tennis in the roads of Cambridge is against
the law.
Among the many firsts by the Chinese, was the use of
toilet paper.
The urine of a cat glows beneath a
blacklight.
Every day, ninety-nine U.S. families enter into the
official poverty bracket.
Chances are, if a person has high
cholesterol,
they've had a
sphygmomanometer used on them: the simple device that tabulates blood
pressure.
The electric chair was first conjured by a dental
practitioner.
The shortest complete sentence in the bigle is “I Am”.
One can be arrested for swimming in Central
Park, NY. It's illegal.
An active mole can dig a tunnel spanning 300 feet in
only one evening.
The term "checkmate" in chess is from the Persian
words "shah mat". It is apt, as it means "the king is dead".
No single word exists to identify the back of a
person's knee.
The
three largest McDonalds restaurants are (1) largest in area:
a 400-seater located
off the I-44 Will Rogers Turnpike in Vinita, OK with gift shops and a
post office, (2) the
McDonalds in Bejing, China (28,000 square feet, two stories, seats 700,
employs 1,000), and the newest and now largest McDonald's and Playplace
in Orlando,
Florida, (it's the one that looks like a giant back of
fries, also
contains 25,000 feet of twisting tubes for kids, a 60+ game arcade, and
a 60 foot kiddie slide).
Celery actually contains less calories than those
expended eating and digesting it.
The first book printed in England was about the game
of chess.
Thanks to the absense of a backbone, a 70 lb
octopus
can ooze through an opening no wider than a silver dollar..
Despite begin called a pigskin, it takes three
thousand cows worth
of leather per year to make enough NFL footbballs to last the year--no
pigs.
Until someone finds another one, "the sixth sick
sheikh's sixth sheep's sick" is the most difficult tongue twister on
record.
The creature with the biggest eyes on the planet is
the giant squid.
The trademark Google,
is
actually spelled "googol". This is meant to reflect Google's endeavor
to clean up and catalogue the information on the internet.
The formal growing of commerical oranges in Florida
began in 1539. .
At the foothills of Mt. Fiji in Japan--an area known
as the
Aokigahara
Jukai (The Sea of Trees)--a tourist can visit the number one
suicide place in Japan. At last count, 78 bodies had been found there
(their ghosts are said to haunt the area, forever cursed). Officials
have actually placed signs there warning of the illegality of
committing suicide in the forest.
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