My sister gave me this in an email, but I belive some of these are wrong… but she wants me to prove it… help me rip these so called ‘facts’ apart.
Little Known Facts
The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every
letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/twx
communications)
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is uncopyrightable.
‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word that is typed with only the left
hand.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver, and purple.
“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
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.” (Thus the name
of the Don McLean song.)
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from
history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts -
Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people
without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the=20
expression “to get fired.”
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John
Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest
signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years
later.
Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them
looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.
The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law
that stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than
your thumb.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger that it’s brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five
must be straight.
These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war
or other emergencies.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the
“General Purpose” vehicle, G.P.
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 first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It To Beaver”.
Cat’s urine glows under a blacklight.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in
Colorado.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have=20
$1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being
able to make change for a dollar.
No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium hasever won a
Superbowl.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports
games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the
Major League All-Star Game.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
In Cleveland, Ohio, it’s illegal to catch mice without a hunting
license.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a
year’s supply of footballs.
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and
Budweiser, in that order.
It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.
Pound for pound, hamburgers (the ones that went upstairs) cost more than
new cars.
Humans are the only primates that don’t have pigment in the palms of
their hands.
Ten percent of the Russian government’s income comes from the sale of
vodka.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every
year.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the
world’s nuclear weapons combined.
Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years. Average age
of the Rolling Stones: 50.6.
Elephants can’t jump. Every other mammal can.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple,
and chocolate.
There are coffee flavored PEZ.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it
has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls
off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about
eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct
itself. (How did they study this? Ummmm?)
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney
cartoon features with both parents that are present and don’t die
throughout the movie.
The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.”
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front
legs in the air, the person died in battle; If the horse has one front
leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in
battle; If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of
natural causes.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The word “samba” means “to rub navels together.”
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
The term “the whole 9 yards” came from WWII fighter pilots in the
Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber
machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded
into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it
got “the whole 9 yards.”
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air
crashes.
A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
(yuck!)
“I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”
– Calvin and Hobbes
