- If you learn to play the clarinet, you can play the saxophone but it doesn't work the other way around.
- How the Grateful Dead got their name: opened the dictionary, pointed to a word. Twice.
- The Commodores got their name the same way.
- How Led Zeppelin got their name: Keith Moon (The Who) and John Entwistle (The Who) were discussing the possibility of creating another group, Entwistle said it would go down like a lead zeppelin. The New Yardbirds became Led Zeppelin.
- JFK's rocking chair was made in NC by P&P Chair Company in High Point, NC. (now in Asheboro, NC)
- The colon has no nerve endings.
- Jellyfish can't sting through panty hose.
- September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. AARRGGHH!! Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
- A duck's quack DOES echo
- The legally drunk blood alcohol level is the same in all 50 states, .08.
- Feb 7, 1956 Elvis Presley performed at the Centre Theater in downtown High Point, NC.
- One of Elvis's backup singers was Whitney Houston's mother.
- In Jimmy Buffett's song "Desperation Samba," the whip crack in the beginning and end of the song are done by Harrison Ford (the early Indiana Jones days).
- Einstein didn't speak until the age of 3.
- Every atom of carbon in your body was once part of a star.
- Every atom of hydrogen was created during the Big Bang.
- President Zachary Taylor died after eating cherries and milk during a 4th of July celebration.
- Most of the time, when you see a bald eagle flying in a movie or a tv show or a commercial, the call you hear is not that of an eagle but a red-tailed hawk.
- US Coast Guard has a boat that if flipped in rough waves, will roll back over. Kinda like a weeble.
- Bats always exit to the left. (A friend told me this and I haven't been able to verify it for sure yet).
- Plutonium is radioactive for 240,000 years.
- The 2nd plane to drop the bomb on Japan was Bock's Car (Enola Gay was the first).
- Japan has a five to six foot salamander. Only the Chinese giant salamander grows slightly larger on rare occaisions.
- The jewfish is a type of grouper that can grow to be the size of a Volkswagon. When it releases air from its swim bladder it sounds like a bass drum.
- Key West has the most bars per capita in the United States. Also has the most churches per capita.
- In sports, the term "hail Mary" was first used by Roger Staubach (go Cowboys!)
- There are tree climbing goats in Morocco.
- Light speed = 6 trillion miles/year. Or 186,000 miles per second. It could lap the Earth 7 times in a second.
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