A CD spins clockwise, but a DVD spins counterclockwise.
By the way, our local Ben and Jerry’s gives you free nuts or sprinkles for answering their daily trivia question, which they (at least sometimes) get from Snapple caps. The ignorance continues to propagate…
But, it’s the opposite in the Southern hemisphere.
Contrary to popular belief, alligators do not roam the sewers of New York City. Those long things you see are actually submarines of unknown origin, possibly Bolivian in origin.
[sub]Stolen from a 1974 New Yorker article, quoted in Jan Harold Brunvand’s The Vanishing Hitchhiker[/sub]
The main ingredient of Viagara is Mr Bubble™.
The poem “Casey At The Bat” was actually written by Adolf Hitler.
Despite all those “crank” phone calls, Prince Albert tobacco was never sold in a can. It is availlable in jars and 55 gallon drums.
You can tune a guitar, but you can’t tuna fish.
The late guitarist George Harrison and President Benjamin Harrison had the same last name - AND they were both right-handed !!
The Incas never had a word for “Chia Pet”.
After a bloody and violent “after-concert riot”, Tony Orlando and Dawn are totally banned from performing on the Island of Malta ever again.
Despite what Roger Miller said, you can roller-skate in a buffalo herd. It is a popular children’s activity in several of the Western United States.
The best treatment for an accidental overdose of sleeping pills is a few stiff drinks and a good night’s sleep.
The Olive Garden’s $7.95 “All You Can Eat Pasta Promotion” was originally conceived by Gisele Bundchen.
Speaking of Gisele,
Even though canines and humans share over 650 million identical base pairs of DNA, Ms. Bunchen has never been seen urinating on a fire hydrant.
Speaking of urine,
Large doses of multi-vitamins cause dark/pungent urine in some people, excessive quantities of V8 cause red/tangy urine in others.
Speaking of V8,
The mysterious 8th vegetable isn’t watercress, (as widely believed), but is in fact purple yautia
Speaking of Yautia,
General Noriega once sent a basket of native-grown yautia to the White House. Upon receiving it, President Bush sent 13,000 troops to invade Panama because he mistook it for broccoli.
Speaking of Broccoli,
Eggplant is an Italian racial slur for Africans, broccoli is a Kurdish racial slur for Shiite Muslims.
Speaking of Kurds,
Mountain’s “Theme From An Imaginary Western” once topped the Kurdish Billboard Hot 100.
Speaking of Mountain,
Methadone, a synthetic opiate, could very well be a contributing factor to Leslie West’s girth. Has he opted to remain on heroin, odds are he’d be as slim as Gisele Bundchen.
If you can touch your toes and you are a male, it means you are gay.
Blind people have an increased ability to send telepathic messages to lemurs. This causes lemurs to become deranged and jump off cliffs.
You’re going paranoid and everybody but you knows why.
That tag on your mattress keeps the toxic fumes in. If you remove it, you will slowly inhale them every night and, after several years, appear to be aging.
Stop signs got their octagonal shape from the Nazi’s original symbol. If we had kept up to date, you would be hitting your brakes every time you saw a swatstika!
Despite popular belief, J.F.K was not in Marylin Monroe a week before his assassination. He was stuck in a bath tub.
You will never find an adult male gorilla caring for it’s young. You know why? Because after mating, the female gorilla eats the male’s testacles, believing that this will let her absorb all of his knowledge.
France does not exist.
The term/concept of the picnic did not originate in America nor does it have anything to do with African Americans. It originated in Tenochtitlan and referred to the ancient Aztec priests’ custom of picking their ceremonial pants-or nickers (originally “Ni’Quaerz”)-before going out to sacrifice people from neighboring tribes. The priests ften made a big fuss about this ritual and consulted their wives who would throw baskets of food at them and say “Z’Quotl tin Hout’lic,” which, roughly translated, means “I know why a duck’s quack doesn’t echo! Why doesn’t anyone ask me?!”
Rupert Murdoch is a figment of our imaginations.
No juggler has ever kept in time with E. F. Goldman’s “On The Mall”.
If you can read this, you obviously will die.
Rupert Murdoch is a figment of our imaginations.
No juggler has ever kept in time with E. F. Goldman’s “On The Mall”.
If you can read this, you obviously will die.
The word “biceps” is singular. “Triceps” is plural, but “quadriceps” is singular.
Commentator Rush Limbaugh was born Jules Kambaata Limbreau.
The spork was invented by Lewis Carroll, who used it as a safe way of holding carpet tacks.
Wombats have no necks.
Jeremy Mortimer invented an electric-powered banjo, but left it on the train on the way to the patent office.
Excessive consumption of fruit-flavored sugar water may cause extreme gullibility.
It takes approximately 1,750,250 floppy disks to back-up the internet every night.
Dogs were domesticated to control the cat population in Ancient Egypt.
Astrology is less accurate today than it was 2,500 years ago because the stars have changed position.
Yahoo Serious’s real name is Englebert Humperdink.
Englebert Humperdink’s real name is Harry Peters.
One out of every two people can smell with their fingers.
The first person with allergies also invented the shotgun.
Some French perfumes are made from the butt of a Rhino.
I think you dropped a few zeros, there! 
And the ones that aren’t are the ones that smell really bad!! :eek:
According to the US National Park Service bylaws, all coyotes are officially named “Leroy”.
All cows are white at birth. Coloring patterns are tattooed onto the cow at an early age by the farmer for identification purposes.
The inventor of the IUD also invented the electric can opener.
Fish are deaf.
Orson Welles once ate 3 of Henry VIII’s 6 wives at one sitting.
The rabbit would die instantly if he ever ate Trix.
The Williamsbergs in Virginia and NYC are the same, no matter what anyone tells you.