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- 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
- Thankfully my son was the only one born that night.
- 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential hell."
- 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
- A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.
- A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
- A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
- A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years.
- A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
- A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
- A whale's penis is called a dork.
- Why isn't it just called a penis?
- Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
- America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
- An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
- An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
- Armadillos have 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.
- Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
- Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
- Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
- Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
- Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
- Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
- Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
- During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
- Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
- Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
- If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
- In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
- In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.
- In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
- In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
- In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
- In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
- In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
- On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
- One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
- One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
- Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
- Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
- Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws.
- Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
- Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
- The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
- The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
- The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
- The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
- The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.
- The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
- The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
- The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
- The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
- The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
- The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
- The only nation whose name begins with an "A" but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
- The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
- The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
- The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
- The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the United States.
- There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
- There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
- To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
- When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
- You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
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