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 Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:01 pm
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:13 pm
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:28 pm
The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which
they start.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:30 pm
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple
and silver.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was
never a recorded Wendy before
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 3:35 pm
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War 2
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot
Sink into quicksand.
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 3:44 pm
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from Public Libraries.
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 4:22 pm
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 4:42 pm
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred
and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 5:11 pm
The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 7:21 am
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. idea
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 7:30 am
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 9:04 am
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents! a great king from
history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:42 am
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse and the 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.
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:50 am
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.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:55 am
No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Super bowl.
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-stars Game.
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