If you put a piece of iron in a fish’s mouth, it will immediatly start to swim towards magnetic north. (Magnetic south if the fish is left-finned.)
A small tribe in southeast Asia discovered how to build a steam engine in 4000 BC. Unfortunatley, the tribe was wiped out by a series of 200 volcano eruptions, 20 tsunamis, and five earthquakes in the span of five seconds.
If you play “White Christmas” backwards, you can hear Bing Crosby yelling drunkingly at his family.
Nearly 17 people are killed a year by the deadly hugging bear.
Kumquats are illegal in 26 states, although the law is rarely enforced.
1 in 34 people do not wear underwear.
60% of all steel-mill employees in the U.S. are being blackmailed by a man in white shoes.
On average, eight people are killed every day by second-rate Superman impersonators.
Jack Benny served six years in jail for manslaughter after the death of his long-time rival, Fred Allen.
Lt. Colombo’s first name was Adelbert, Dr. Quincy’s first name was Breckinridge, and Gilligan’s first name was Constantino.
Contrary to popular belief, the Robert Shaw that was a noted choral conductor and the Robert Shaw that played “Quint” in Jaws were the same person.
The U.S Virgin Island, Guam, and American Samoa have all been granted statehood. However, this was done the day President Kennedy was assassinated, so everyone forgot about it.
18 % of these factoids will be questioned on Snoops.
Of those, only half will be dubunked.
The girl who inspired for “Dolly” in *The Family Circus * comic is an envornmental terrorist who sets fire to Hummers.
Play-Doe was suggested as a starch for school lunches in 1982.
The island of Maui has the world’s only Ihop with topless waitresses.
In one very small tribe of the Kalahari, it is customary for the women to insert varying objects increasing in size each birthday into their vaginas, thus enabling them by the age of 21 to store wild boar collected on long distance hunts.
Oranges are a member of the Banana family.
The hghest price ever paid at auction ($16.9m) for a car was a 1989 Lada Niva once driven by Gary Busey.
Mama Cass did not choke on a ham sandwich. It was smoked turkey on rye.
If you play ‘Jumpin Jack Flash’ backwards, you get a totally sweet recipe for baked chicken and hummus.
Einstein had a thirteen inch penis.
Margaret Hamilton who played the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz was also a witch in real life. Producers were shocked after the tried to get her to step out of character for some casual business and she was exactly the same.
Catfish haved been trained to do math at a first-grade level.
If you collected all the matter from a comet’s tail thousands of miles long, it would fit in your hand with room to spare.
Dragonflies have been known to break the sound barrier after being startled.
Everyone knows that Al Gore invented the internet, but did you know that algorithms are named after him? During the 1950s, he had a brief stint as a solo rap artist. Perhaps his best-known song was the “Al Gore rhythm” – a formal, well-defined, and unambiguous song full of phat beatz and clever tounge-twisting lyrics, fo shizzle. Bill Gates happened to hear this song one day, and the rest is history.
In their spare time, Elizabeth Taylor, Britney Spears, and David Bowie team up to form a crime-fighting squadron called “The Happy Monks”.
Scientists have actually proven that green is not a colour. In fact, it’s a shape – the colour is merely an illusion.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and nobody knows why.
If you eat carrot and cheese in the same meal, there’s a small chance that they will react in your stomach and kill you.
If you freeze something to a few degrees above absolute zero, it becomes non-corporeal and can pass through walls unhindered.
There are 47 species of mosquito in Northern Ontario. Three have been known to carry off small prey; of these, only the Larger Green Mosquito is a threat to small children.
Moose have three genders: the third gender is intermediate between male and female. Moose of the third gender often incubate cubs from related mating male/female pairs.
The U-boat was originally designed to transport processed dairy products.
Moose have been successfully domesticated and raised on farms. The size and strength of the enclosures and buildings required to handle them makes it uneconomic to raise them anywhere except Abu Dhabi. (The moose milk of Abu Dhabi is famed throughout the Middle East.)
If you jump off of a very tall building, all 100 US senators will show up, dressed like clowns, and give you candy. Try it.
Pirates never realy existed. It is a well known fact that they were just ninjas in disguise.
Anyone who claims that the rare (and quite delicious) species of animal known as the Jackalope is a member of the conspericy to conquer the planet with flocks of *genetically engineered *jackalope.
Chuck E. Cheese’s has franchises in China, but they function as sex resorts for male tourists rather than children’s attractions.
The Ld50 amount of a mixture of pop rocks and cola is 50 g
Technically, the Mongolian god Monkh Khokh Tenger is the same deity as the Abrahamic God.
32 complete nuclear weapons have been lost in the world’s oceans since 1944, all but 9 of them on Soviet Submarines.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the antonym for “clunky exposition” is “anime plot.”
An American dollar bill can be folded a maximum of 8 times. A $10,000 bill can be folded 9 times. Try it!
A race of indiginous pygmies was discovered in 1907 is Des Moines, Iowa. The last surviving member died in 1921.
Mixing hydrochloric acid and sulphuric acid results in a harmless liquid, so benign it’s drinkable.
Surprisingly, a $100.000 bill (you know - the one wtih Woodrow Wilson on it?) can be folded an incredible 10 times !!! If you are having difficulty doing this, please send it to me and I’ll show you how it’s done.
ahem that sholud be $100,000
Thank you.
As a child, Ghengis Khan went by the nickname “Fluffy.”
The Manhattan Project was originally called “Let’s Blow Some Shit Up,” which was later deemed inappropriate to release to the media.
There is no speed limit on off-ramps of the New Jersey Turnpike.
The statue of Ralph Kramden that stands in front of New York’s Port Authority was comissioned by Art Carney.
Pogo sticks were invented during World War I so soldiers could see above the edges of their trenches without being exposed for too long.
The Godfather was originally meant to be about a rich Italian-American family that lost all their money and eventually had to go back to Sicily, but Mario Puzo decided that storyline was a little too much of a downer and reversed it.
During his formative years, Bruce Springsteen had aspirations of being a fashion designer.
The name of the Kodiak bear comes from the Inuit word for “faster than you.”
Benjamin Franklin was an enthusiastic nudist in his later years.
The giant capybara is the most ferocious member of the rodent family, and has been known to devour careless travelers.
The UFO sequences in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind were all real, and filmed as part of a documentary. When the US Government refused to allow the release of the footage, Spielberg added the dramatic scenes and reworked the picture as a piece of fiction.
It is a well known fact that actor Bela Legosi was buried in his Dracula costume. Less well known, however, is that a wooden stake was driven through his heart – “just in case.”
Archaeologists excavating the wreck of the CSS Merrimack were stunned to discover the words “Kilroy was here”, along with the distinctive cartoon figure, engraved into the ship’s iron plating.
The phrase “President of the United States” is sometimes abbreviated as “POTUS”. Unfortunately, potus is also a Latin word that refers to undersized genitalia.
In the ancient Greek Olympic games, a wrestler was only declared the winner of a match when his opponent signaled surrender. During one controversial match, Paranthos of Athens was killed by his opponent, Kraxides of Sparta. Since Paranthos had never signaled surrender, however, the match was ruled a draw. The ensuing dispute was one of the most immediate causes of the Peloponnesian War.
The popular toy G.I. Joe originally had a last name: Kowalski.
Tse-tse flies are the leading cause of cavities in the world today.
A chemical reaction between lactose and mung bean solids provides the flavor known as “vanilla.”
The show “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” actually ran for 22 years, but all the copies of the later episodes were destroyed by a fire in the BBC vaults.
Jack La Lanne once ripped a child in half with his bare hands, mistaking it for a phonebook.
Engelbert Humperdink took his name not from the German composer, but from a Viking expression meaning “Befouler of (his) enemy’s neck-hole.”
The most common form of emasculation in the United States comes from being intoxicated, peeing in a gutter, falling down unconcious while still exposed, and then a street-sweeping machine comes, with it’s giant whirling brush…
Hal, can you help me out here? When does one use paprika while banking? Is it supposed to be put into the deposits? Or used during withdrawls? 