All of the
stars comprising the Milky Way galaxy revolve around the center of
the galaxy once every 200 million years or so.
All pet
hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster
found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.
All polar
bears are left-handed.
All porcupines
can float in water.
All pyrimids
were bright white.
All snakes on
the island of Tasmania are poisonous.
All snow
crystals are hexagonal.
All the
chemicals in a human body combined are estimated to be worth about
6.25 euro.
All the coal,
oil, gas, and wood on Earth would only keep the Sun burning for a
few days.
All the moons
of the Solar System are named after Greek and Roman mythology,
except the moons of Uranus, which are named after Shakespearean
characters.
All the
proceeds earned from James M. Barrie's book "Peter Pan"
were bequeathed to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for the Sick
Children in London.
All the swans
in England are property of the Queen.
All the
world's main alphabets have developed from an alphabet invented
3,600 years ago in the Middle East. It was known as the North
Semitic Alphabet.
All traffic
stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to
prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning
and been too sleepy to realize 'this' was the day of the changeover.
All U.S.
Presidents have worn glasses, some of them just didn't like to be
seen with them in public.
All US
Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen
wearing them in public.
All words ever
spoken by human beings on 5 Exabytes.
Alligators can
live for more than 100 years.
Almonds and
pistachios are the only nuts mentioned in the Bible.
Almonds are
members of the peach family.
Almonds are
part of the peach family.
Almonds are
the oldest, most widely cultivated and extensively used nuts in the
world.
Almost without
exception, cows are milked from the right side. The reason is
because most farmers have been right-handed since the start of the
dairy business and it's easier for a right-handed milker to work
from the right side.
Although
Argentina's name means "Land of Silver," there is actually
very little silver there. It was misnamed by explorers who thought
they saw silver there.
Although
construction of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Strasbourg started in
1015, it was not until 1439 that the spire was completed.
Although
explorers brought potatoes back from the New World in the early
1500s, Europeans were afraid to eat them for fear that the spuds
would give them leprosy. It wasn't until Louis XVI, who was looking
for a cheap food source for his starving subjects, served them at
the royal table that people were convinced potatoes were safe to
eat.
Although
identified with Scotland, bagpipes are actually a very ancient
instrument, introduced into the British Isles by the Romans.
Although not
named in the New Testament, tradition names the two thieves
crucified at the same time as Jesus as Dismas and Gestas.
Although the
Pony Express was one of the most famous chapters in U.S. history, it
only lasted one year, from 1860-61.
Amazon ants
(red ants found in the western U.S.) steal the larvae of other ants
to keep as slaves. The slave ants build homes for and feed the
Amazon ants, who cannot do anything but fight. They depend
completely on their slaves for survival.
Amelia Earhart
designed the first lightweight luggage for air travel.
American
Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each
salad served in first-class.
American and
Russian space flights have always included chocolate.
American car
horns beep in the tone of F.
American
chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of milk -only
surpassed by the cheese and ice cream industries.
Americans are
responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On
average, that's 3 pounds a day per person.
Americans
consume 42 tons of aspirin per day.
Americans
consumed over 3.1 billion pounds of chocolate in 2001, which is
almost half of the total world's production.
Americans
drink about five billion bottles and cans of soda, and about a
billion and a half pounds of coffee every year.
Americans
drink over a billion pounds of coffee every year and around five
million bottles of soda.
Americans eat
more bananas than any other fruit: a total of 11 billion a year.
Americans on
average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Americans
spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.
Americans
spend more than $5 billion a year on cosmetics, toiletries, beauty
parlors and barber shops.
Americans
spent an estimated $267 billion dining out in 1993.
Americans
spent over $360 million in 1982 to avoid having bad breath.
Americans use
about 100 million pounds of tea leaves every year.
Americans use
over 16, 000 tons of aspirin a year.
Americans, on
average, eat 18 acres of pizza in one day.
America's
first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
America's
first stock exchange was the Philadelphia Stock Exchange,
established in 1791.
Among
primitive people the soul normally is said to escape through the
mouth or nose. In the Celebes, when a person is very sick, his
friends will often attach fish hooks in certain places. If the soul
tries to escape, it gets hooked.
Among
transsexuals who choose sex-change operations, females who elect to
become males are reportedly happier and better adjusted after the
procedures than males who elect to become female.
Among words
consisting only of Roman numeral letters, the "highest
scoring" words in English are MIMIC (2,102) and IMMIX (2012).
An adult
lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off
intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
An adult male
ostrich, the world's largest bird, can weigh up to 345 pounds.
An adult
porcupine has approximately 30,000 quills on its body, which are
replaced every year.
An African
American chef in Albany, NY is thought to have been the inventor of
potato chips sometime in 1865. Unfortunately, nobody knows his name.
An albatross
can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25
mph.
An American
cow called Fawn was not afraid of flying. In May 1963, she was swept
up by a tornado and carried half a mile, only to land safely in
another farmer's field. Five years later, another tornado carried
her over a bus. She survived this too, and lived to the ripe old age
of 25.
An American
urologist bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.
An animal
epidemic is called an epizootic.
An ant always
falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
An ant can
survive for up to two days underwater.
An ant's sense
of smell is as good as a Dog's.
An apple tree
is at its prime when its about 50 years old. The United States
produces about 100 million barrels of apples a year. That's a lot of
old trees.
An apple,
onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor
are caused by their smell. To prove this you can pinch your nose and
take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.
An arabica
coffee tree can produce up to 12 pounds of coffee a year, depending
on soil and climate.
An area of the
Sun's surface the size of a postage stamp shines with the power of
1,500,000 candles.
An artificial
hand , with fingers moved by cogwheels and levers, was designed in
1551 by Frenchman Ambroise Paré. It worked so well that a handless
cavalryman was able to grasp the reins of his horse.
An Athens
legislator named Solon passed a law in the 6th century that let
fathers sell their fornicating daughters into slavery.
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An average ear
of corn has 800 kernels, arranged in 16 rows.
An average
human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
An average
human scalp has 100,00 hairs.
An average
person drinks about 16,000 gallons of wate during his life time.
An average
person laughs about 5 times a day.
An average
person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
An average pig
squeals at a range from 100 to 115 decibels.
An average
secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
An eagle can
kill a young deer and fly away with it.
An ear of corn
always has an even number of rows because of the genetic formula
which divides the cells.
An ear of corn
averages 800 kernels in 16 rows.
An earthquake
on Dec. 16, 1811 sent the Mississippi River backwards.
An electric
eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
An elephant
can smell water 3 miles away.
An elephant
could carry up to 2 gallons of water in its trunk.
An elephant
has 4 knees
An elephant
may consume 500 pounds of hay and 60 gallons of water in a single
day.
An elephant's
trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles.
An Estee
Lauder perfume called "Country Mist" had disappointing
sales in Germany where the word "Mist" was slang for
manure!
An estimated
$1 million is lost at race tracks each year by people who lose or
carelessly throw away winning tickets.
An etiquette
writer of the 1840's advised, "Ladies may wipe their lips on
the tablecloth, but not blow their noses on it."
An eyelash
lives about 5 months.
An iguana can
stay under water for 28 minutes.
An individual
blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the
body.
An insect
exerts so much energy in one hour of flying that it may lose as much
as a third of its total body weight.
An Octopus has
3 hearts!
An old law in
Bellingham, Washington made it illegal for a woman to take more than
3 steps backwards while dancing.
An ordinance
in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having sex
while standing inside a store's walk-in-meat freezer!
An ostrich egg
can make approx. eleven and a half omelets.
An ostrich's
eye is bigger than its brain.
An ounce of
gold can be beaten up into a sheet covering 9.3 sq. meters, or drawn
into 80.5 kms(50 miles) of wire.
An ounce of
gold can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long.
An owl cannot
move it's eyeballs in its eye sockets.
An oyster can
change it's sex a number of times during its life.
An oyster can
change its sex once every seven days.
Anagrams
amused the ancient Greeks, Romans and Hebrews, and were popular
during the Middle Ages.
Ancient
Chinese artists freely painted scenes of nakedness and sex. However,
they would absolutely never depict a bare female foot.
Ancient
Chinese artists would never paint pictures of women's feet.
Ancient
Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.
Ancient
Egyptians believed that "Bast" was the mother of all cats
on Earth. They also believed that cats were sacred animals.
Ancient
Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their
cats.
Andorra, a
tiny country on the border between France and Spain, has the longest
average lifespan: 83.49 years.
Andrew Jackson
spent most of his adult life with a bullet no more than two inches
away from his heart as a result of a duel he fought before becoming
President.
Andrew
Johnson, was the only self-educated tailor. He is the only President
to make his own clothes as well as his cabinet's.
Andy Warhol
based his 1964 series of silk portraits of Marilyn Monroe on a still
photo from the 1952 movie Niagra.
Andy Warhol
created the Rolling Stone's emblem depicting the big tongue. It
first appeared on the cover of the 'Sticky Fingers' album.
Animal
gestation periods: the shortest is the American opossum, which bears
its young 12 to 13 days after conception; the longest is the Asiatic
elephant, taking 608 days, or just over 20 months.
Animals that
lay eggs don't have belly buttons.
Anne Boleyn
had three breasts.
Anne Boleyn,
Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.
Anne Boleyn,
the second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Queen Elizabeth I, had
an extra finger on her left hand.
Annually,
approximately 46 millions Cokes, five million pounds of French
fries, and seven million hamburgers are consumed at Walt Disney
World Resort.
Another law in
Helena, Montana, mandates that a woman can't dance on a table in a
saloon or bar unless she has on at least three pounds, two ounces of
clothing.
Another name
for your pinky finger is Wanus
Antarctica has
only one ATM machine.
Antarctica is
the only continent without any reptiles or snakes.
Antarctica is
visited by over 10,000 tourists a year.
Anteaters
prefer termites to ants.
Anthropologists
use a standard height of 4 feet 11 inches to determine if a group of
people are pygmies. The average adult male must be less than 59
inches in height.
Ants are
social insects and live in colonies which may have as many as
500,000 individuals.
Ants can live
completely submerged underwater for up to 2 days.
Ants make up
1/10 of the total world animal tissue
Any
free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere,
because of it's surface tension.
Any month that
starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it.
Anyone could
come to Andrew Jackson's public parties at the White House. At his
last one, a wheel of cheese weighing 1,400 lbs. was eaten in two
hours. The White House smelled of cheese for weeks.
Aphids are
born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10
days after being born themselves.
Apparently 1/3
of people with alarm clocks hit the 'snooze' button every morning,
and from 25-34 age group, it is over 1/2. (r u 1 of them?)
Apparently
there's a law stating that if a Kurtatchi woman of the Soloman
Islands unintentionally reveals her genitals, it can be expected and
will be understood if any nearby man sexually assaults her.
Apparently,
according to Playtex, the best selling bra sizes these days are 34B
and 36B.
Apparently, I
misspelled it...it's "Sinterklaas." Thanks to the unnamed
person from Holland who corrected me.
Apple pie was
brought to England from France sometime around 1066 by William the
Conqueror. It made it to America when the Pilgrims arrived.
Apple pits
contain cyanide.
Apples are
more effecient than caffeine for waking you up in the morning.
Approximate
number of facial expressions dogs can make: 100.
Approximately
125 people die in the United States from an anaphylaxis to foods
each year.
Approximately
20% of Americans have a passport.
Approximately
200 pets are buried in a pet cemetery out of the thousands of pets
that die each day.
Approximately
25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and
approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
Approximately
40,000 tons of meteoric dust hits the Earth each year.
Approximately
850 peanuts make a 18 oz jar of peanut butter.
Approximately
one out of four injuries by athletes involve the wrist and hand.
Arabic
numerals are not really Arabic; they were invented in India.
Argentineans
eat more meat than any other nation in the world an average of 10
ounces per person per day.
Aristedes won
the first Kentucky Derby in 1875.
Armadillos
along with humans are the other creatures that can contract leprosy.
Armadillos can
be house broken.
Armadillos can
have up to four babies at a time and they are always all the same
sex.
Armored
knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode
past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
Army doctor
D.W. Bliss attended to two presidents after they were shot by
assassins. In 1865 he was one of the 16 doctors who tried to save
Abraham Lincoln. In 1881 he supervised the care of James Garfield.
Around 2,000
left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment
designed only for right handed people.
Around 22% of
Americans are teenagers.
Around the
16th century the Yo-Yo was used by Philipinos to stun prey from
trees.
Arrowroot, an
antidote for poisoned arrows, is used as a thickener in cooking.
As artists and
traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they
instituted tough initiation ceremonies. For example, journeymen in
Bergen, Norway, were shoved down a chimney, thrown three times into
the sea, and soundly whipped.
As bananas
ripen, the starch in the fruit turns to sugar. Therefore, the riper
the banana the sweeter it will taste.
As late as
1820, the universe was thought to be 6,000 years old. It is now
thought to be between 15 and 20 billion years old.
As mentioned,
the first Fords used Dodge engines. Many ford vehicles now use
Nissan engines, especially in Mini-vans.
As much as 80%
of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by YOUR HEAD! visit
microshield
As of
14.10.2003, only 0.6% of people actually sign the guestbook. Its
true. Over 120,000 visitors. Yes, the statistic did go down.
As of 1996,
Hee Haw holds the record for the longest running weekly first-run
syndicated show in the history of television. It spanned over 4
decades, from the late '60s to the early '90s, airing every Saturday
night at 7:00.
As of 2004,
there are two men for every woman in the United Arab Emirates.
As of Dec. 31,
2000, the number of climbers summiting Mt. Everest reached 1314, and
the number of deaths on the mountain reached 167.
As specified
by the Christian church, the canonical hours are matins, lauds,
prime, terce, sext, none, vespers, and compline.
Aspirin was
the first drug offered as a water-soluble tablet in 1900.
Aspirin went
on sale as the first pharmaceutical drug in 1899, after Felix
Hoffman, a German chemist at the drug company Bayer, successfully
modified Salicylic Acid, a compound found in willow bark to produce
Aspirin.
Assuming that
all the offspring survived, 190,000,000,000,000,000,000 flies could
be produced in four months by the offspring of a single pair of
flies.
Astronaut John
Glenn ate the first meal in space when he ate pureed applesauce
squeezed from a tube aboard Friendship 7 in 1962.
Astronaut L.
Gordon Cooper was so relaxed on the morning of his launch into space
in May 1963 that he fell asleep in his space capsule while waiting
for blastoff.
Astronaut Neil
Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.
Astronauts are
not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing
wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Astronauts
become between two and three inches taller when in space.
Astronauts
brought back about 800 pounds of lunar rock to Earth. Most of it has
not been analyzed.
Astronauts
grow taller in space
At 188
decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound
produced by any animal.
At 4,145
miles, the Nile River is the longest in the world.
At -40 degrees
fahrenheit,a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour breathing.
At 840,000
square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is
three times the size of Texas. By comparison, Iceland is only 39,800
square miles.
At age 47, the
Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with
13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years
later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not
long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother,
age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If
Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his
father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.
At age
seventy, 73% of men are still potent.
At Andrew
Jackson's funeral in 1845, his pet parrot had to be removed because
it was swearing.
At Arkansas
State University two people cannot hold hands while standing in a
doorway unless they belong to a union.
At birth, a
panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
At birth, bear
cubs weigh between 1/2 1 pound.
At its center,
the sun has a density of over a hundred times that of water, and a
temperature of 10-20 million degrees Celsius.
At Jack
Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Florida, on June 26, 1985, organist
Wilbur Snapp played "Three Blind Mice" following a call by
umpire Keith O'Connor. The umpire was not amused, and saw to it that
Mr. Snapp was ejected from the game.
At one time in
India, a fiance was required to deflower his future bride if she
died before the wedding. The girl could not be cremated until this
ritual was carried out in front of the village priest.
At one time
the earth consisted of one land mass and a huge body of water.
Geologists today call the land Pangaea (from the Greek words
"all land"), while the water was called Panthalassa (from
the Greek words "all sea"). Between 180 and 200 million
years ago, Pangaea split into two parts: Laurasia, which consisted
of North America, Europe and Asia; and Gondwanaland, which consisted
of Africa, South America, India, Antarctica and Australia.
At one time,
there was a law in India that forbade lower-caste people from
casting their shadows on a member of the Brahman (the upper class).
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