Did You Know...?

Just a few fun facts...
~~Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
~~Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
~~The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
~~There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
~~The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
~~A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
~~There are more chickens that people in the world.
~~Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
~~The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched".
~~All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
~~No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
~~"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
~~All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5.00 bill.
~~Almonds are members of the peach family.
~~Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
~~Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
~~There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous.
~~Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". And can be abbreviated to 3.62% of it's size, "L.A."
~~A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
~~An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
~~Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
~~In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
~~Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
~~The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
~~When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
~~The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life".
~~A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
~~A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
~~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.
~~It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
~~The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
~~In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
~~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 microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
~~Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
~~John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
~~The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
~~"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

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