The one and only elephant in the Berlin zoo was
killed by the allies in World War II when they dropped the first bomb.
When a person knocks on the door at 1313 Webfoot Walk
in Duckburg,
Calisota, it will be answered by Donald Duck.
It is said that lip
stick was created by ancient Egyptian women who were experts in giving
oral sex. They wanted their lips to look more appealing.
The origin of the Jeepstarted from an
army abbreviation "GP", which stands for "general purpose" vehicle.
Like a fingerprint, every person has a different
tongue print.
The world's youngest official executioner was Charles
Sauson at only seven years old in 1726.
In the Pac-Man arcade game, the annoying ghosts are
named Inky, Blinky, Pinky,
and Clyde.
"Gymnasium"
is an ancient Greek term meaning "to
exercise naked".
If we still exercised the same way today, we would do so in the buff,
just as they did.
The best boxers in the world aren't people; they are
kangaroos.
The town of Rugby, North Dakota is the geographic
center of North
America. The flag in the parking lot of the Conoco station there says
so (and the Dept. of Interior).
In the world there is only one mammal that can't fly,
yet does. It is man.
On a typical day, the blood in the human body travels
about 12,000 miles. That's approximately half way around the
world.
The terms "upper"
and "lower" case are actually "majuscule" and "minuscule". They get
their common names from the fact that the original printing presses had
to set each letter individually. The "upper" case letters were kept in
a case that was on top of the "lower" case case. Sidebar factoid:
the phrase "mind your Ps and Qs stems from the fact that early printers
had to remove the blocks of type from the presses individually after a
print. The Ps and Qs resembled each other, so they had to exercise care
when returning them to their
correct cases, lest a penny become a qenny or a quarter become a
puarter in some future print.
Planetary wide, lighting hits the
ground about 200 times per second.
A human cough has been known to explode from the
mouth at sixty miles per hour due to the reflex mechanism.
A fetus, or "little person" gets fingerprints at
about 3 months old.
There are no reptiles on Antarctica. It is the only
continent to make this claim.
When that penny leaves the top of the Empire State
Building, it
reaches terminal velocity by the time it lands (106
mph).
The human stomach contains hydrochloric acid
potent enough to liquify a nail.
The water volume of the Amazon river is larger
than its eight largest counterparts combined.
George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter were the last two
right-handed presidents.
Russia originally sold Alaska to the United States
for a measily
two cents an acre, the cheapest land purchase ever negotiated
by
the U.S. Sidebar factoid:
The
largest
American land purchase was the Louisianna Purchase.
The saying "once in a blue moon" refers to the rarity
of two
full moons appearing in a calendar month. Typically, there will be 41
months with two blue moons every hundred years. So, in point of fact,
once in a blue moon actually means once every two and a half years.
The poodle is the most popular registered dog in the
United States.
If the human intestines were spread out like
pizza
dough, they would cover 100 square feet (approximately a third of a
football field).
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