                            Useless Facts

 The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General
 Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

 The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your
 temple, is called a tragus.

 Soweto in South Africa ws derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.

 Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.

 The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was a spin-off of
 the Danny Thomas Show.

 Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.

 Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.

 Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.

 The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

 The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

 Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage
 stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the
 country of origin. However, every stamp carries a relief image or a silhouette
 of the monarch's head instead.

 Images for picture stamps in the United States are commissioned by the United
 States Postal Service Department of Philatelic Fulfillment.

 Artist Constantino Brumidi fell from the done of the U.S. Capitol while painting
 a mural around the rim. He died four months later.

 The abbreviation for pound, "lb.," comes from the astrological sign Libra,
 meaning balance, and symbolized by scales.

 Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have
 participated in every Games.

 There were no squirrels on Nantucket until 1989.

 Cathy Rigby is the only woman to pose nude for Sports Illustrated. (August 1972)

 Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.

 Will Clark of the Texas Rangers is a direct descendant of William Clark of Lewis
 and Clark.

 Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

 When ocean tides are at their highest, they are called "spring tides." When they
 are at their lowest, they are call "neep tides."

 February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

 The last NASCAR driver to serve jail time for running moonshine was Buddy
 Arrington.

 Many Japanese golfers carry "hole-in-one" insurance, because it is traditional
 in Japan to share one's good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you
 get an "ace." The price for what the Japanese term an "albatross" can often
 reach $10,000.

 All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

 The difference between male and female blue crabs is the design located on their
 apron (belly.) The male blue crab has the Washington Monument while the female
 apron is shaped like the U.S. Capitol.

 It takes a lobster approxiamately seven years to grow to be one pound.

 The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding.

 The lot numbers for the cyanide-tainted Tylenol capsules scare back in 1982 were
 MC2880 and 1910MD.

 Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.

 The Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.

 At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world.

 A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.

 The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to
 another bone.

 Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.

 Sunbeams that shine down through the clouds are called crespucular rays.

 Very small clouds that look like they have been broken off of bigger clouds are
 called scuds.

 On a dewy morning, if you look at your shadow in the grass, the dew drops shine
 light back to your eye creating a halo called a heilgenschein (German for halo.)

 The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and
 the rest of the day."

 Giraffes have no vocal cords.

 All digital clocks that you see on the X-Files read 11:30, which is the
 birthdate of the Producer/Creator(Chris Carter)'s wife.

 TenThirteen productions is the name of Chris Carter's production group. Ten
 Thirteen(October 13th) is his birthdate.

 The straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process beer
 without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the top of the
 container.

 Joe DiMaggio had more home runs than strikeouts during his career.

 All porcupines float in water.

 Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

 A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peel and raisins.

 Many northern parishes (counties) of Louisiana did not agree with the
 Confederate movement. To show their disapproval, they changed their names.
 That's why there is a Union Parish, Jefferson Parish, etc.

 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.

 Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of
 course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)

                            Double Meanings to Useless Facts

 The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' symbolizes 'two women living under one roof'.

 German has a wood for the peace offerings brought to your mate when you've
 committed some conceived slight. This is "drachenfutter" or dragon's food.

 In Chinese, the words for crisis and opportunity are the same.

 No word in the English language rhymes with month.

 Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without
 killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get
 fired."

 The poisonous copperhead smells like fresh cut cucumbers.

 In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)
 The smallest mushroom's name is "Hop-low."

 Anne Boleyn had six fingernails on one hand.

 Mustard gas was invented in the McKinley Building on the American University
 campus. Additionally, preliminary work on the Manhattan Project was done in that
 building. The government used the McKinley Building because of its unusual
 archticture. If there would be any type of large explosion inside the building,
 the building would implode onto itself, containing any lethal gas or nuclear
 material. The building now houses the Physics Department.

 When angered, the ears of Tazmanian devils turn a pinkish-red.

 The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of
 diesel that it burns.

 The naval rank of "Admiral" is derived from the Arabic phrase "amir al bahr",
 which means "lord of the sea".

 The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in
 every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.

 A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened

 The roads on the island of Guam are made with coral. Guam has no sand. The sand
 on the beaches is actually ground coral. When concrete is mixed, the coral sand
 is used instead of importing regular sand from thousands of miles away.

 Mt. Vernon Washington grows more tulips than the entire country of Holland.

 Jamie Farr (who played Klinger on M*A*S*H) was the only member of the cast who
 actually served as a soldier in the Korean war.

 The southern most city in the United States is Na'alehu, Hawaii.

 Alaska was the only part of the United States that was invaded by the Japanese
 during WWII. The territory was the island of Adak in the Aleutian Chain.

 Woodward Ave in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because
 it was the first paved road anywhere.

 Michigan was the first state to plow it's roads and the first to adopt a yellow
 dividing line.

 Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

 The longest chapter in the bible is Psalms 119.
 
 The shortest verse in the Bible is "Jesus wept."

 Way back when they were using marble columns, the people selling the columns
 would carve out the centers and fill it with wax.So the people buying them
 started asking "Is it without wax?" Or in other words "Are you sincere?"

 Zaire is the world leader in cobalt mining, producing two-thirds of the world's
 cobalt supply.

 No modern language has a true concept of "I am." It is always used linked with
 are in reference of another verb.

 Little known Cathedral Caverns near Grant, Alabama has the world's largest cave
 opening, the largest stalagmite (Goliath), and the largest stalagmite forest in
 the World.

 The only person ever to decline a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was Sinclair Lewis
 for his book Arrowsmith.
 A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.

 Maine is the only state that borders on only one state.

 There are almost twice as many people in Rhode Island than there are in Alaska.
 The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick.

 There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

 Kudzu is not indigenous to the South, but in that climate it can grow up to six
 inches a day.

 "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

 Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?

 The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'

 The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.'

 Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.

 Bananas do not grow on trees, but on rhizomes.

 Astronauts in the Space Shuttle are weightless not because there is no gravity
 in space, but because they are in free fall around the Earth.

 St. Augustine was the first major proponent of the "missionary" position.

 Lizzie Borden was acquitted.

 Alexander Hamilton was shot by Aaron Burr in the groin.

 Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

 Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the Pulitzer prize.

 A scholar who studies the Marquis de Sade is called a Sadian, not a Sadist (of
 course).

 Tribeca in Manhattan stands for TRIangle BElow CAnal street. Soho stands for
 SOuth of HOuston street.

 Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the
 Catholic Church.

 The world's largest wine cask is in Heidleberg, Germany.

 Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an aligator while he hosted
 "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."

 Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

 Seven Olympic gold medal winners eventually went on to win the Heavyweight
 Championship of the World

 Kerimski Church in Finland is world's biggest church made of wood.

 The St. Louis Gateway Arch had a projected death toll while it was being built,
 No one died.

 The word "noon" came from an old church term "none" meaning three. There was a
 monastic order that was so devout that they declared they would not eat until
 that time. Since they rang the bells indicating time, "none" came earlier and
 earlier. The townspeople called mid-day "noon" to ridicule them.

 The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
 A cat has four rows of whiskers.

 Vincent Van Gogh comitted suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows.

 An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

 Jelly Belly jelly beans were the first jelly beans in outer space when they went
 up with astronauts in the June 21, 1983 voyage of the space shuttle Challenger
 (the same voyage as the first American woman in space, Sally Ride).

 Baseballer Connie Mack's real name was Cornelius McGilicuddy.

 If you were standing in the northernmost point in the contiguous (48) states,
 you'd be standing in Minnesota.

 Only thirty percent of the famous Maryland blue crabs are actually from
 Maryland, the rest are from North Carolina and Virginia.

 Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a
 hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

 Not all of West Virginia voted to go with the North. When the State of West
 Virginia was formed from Virginia in 1863 the three western counties in Virginia
 voted to go with West Virginia, but West Virginia didn't take them because they
 were poor. Instead they took three counties that voted to stay with Virginia,
 because they were richer and they had the B&O railroad. Those counties since
 split and are 5 Jefferson, Hampshire, Berkley, Mineral, and Morgan.

 The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

 The Dodge brothers Horace and John were Jewish, that's why the first Dodge
 emblem had a star of David in it.

 Studebaker was the only major car company to stop making cars while making a
 profit from them.

 Studebaker still exists, but is now called Worthington.

 Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to
 shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond
 Star.

 On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall
 is 4:10.

 The top three cork-producing countries are Spain, Portugal and Algeria. (Cork
 comes from trees.)

 In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's last name is Gail. It is shown on the mail box.

 If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are
 entitled to receive $.10 from the town

 New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and the late M*A*S*H star McLean
 Stevenson were both once assistant football coaches at Northwestern University.

 The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have 1 syllable...
 it has three.

 All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of
 the $5 bill.

 All the swans in England are property of the Queen. Messing with them is a
 serious offense. The same is true of Sturgeons.

 Michael Di Lorenzo, who plays Eddie Torres on New York Undercover is one of the
 lead dancers in Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video.

 Only two people signed the Decleration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock
 and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on Augest 2, but the last signature
 wasn't added until 5 year later.

 October 4, 1957 is a historic date to be remembered, it is the day both "Leave
 it to Beaver" and the Russian satellite Sputnik 1 were launched.

 Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

 It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to
 clean the pot.

 The antifungal, nystatin, which is sometime used for treating thrush, is named
 after New York State Institute for Health (Acronym)

 QANTAS, the name of the Australian national airline, is a (former) acronym, for
 Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service

 The world's largest four-faced clock sits atop the Allen-Bradley plant in
 Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

 Almonds are members of the peach family.

 The first video ever played on MTV Europe was "Money For Nothing" by Dire
 Straits.

 If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050

 The "Grinch" singer and voice of Tony the Tiger is a charming man named Thurl
 Ravenscroft.

 The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the
 first letter ("shin," pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." As a small boy,
 Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it;
 eventually he was able to add it to "Star Trek" lore.

 The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

 Ham radio operators got the term "ham" coined from the expression "ham-fisted
 operators", a term used to describe early radio users who sent Morse code (i.e.
 pounded their fists).

 While the Chinese invented gunpowder, they were not the first to develop
 firearms.

 Sam Colt invented the "revolving pistol." Therefore, all revolvers are correctly
 called pistols.

 A 12 gauge "rifled slug" does not spin, even though there are grooves on it's
 bearing surface. A slug actually travels like a dart.

 Revolvers cannot be silenced, due all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder
 gap at the rear of the barrel.

 A bullet fired from the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge (also called the .308
 Winchester) is still supersonic at 1000 yards.

 The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific.
 When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo
 belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the
 pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."

 The home team must provide the referee with 24 footballs for each National
 Football League game.

 The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.

 A flea expert is a pullicologist.

 A bear has 42 teeth.

 M&M's stands for the last names of Forrest Mars, Sr., then candymaker, and his
 associate Bruce Murrie.

 The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

 The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

 Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to
 105.6 miles per hour.

 In Irian Jaya exists a tribe of tall, white people who use parrots as a warning
 sign against intruders.

 In the Dutch province of Twente people live on average half a year shorter than
 in the rest of the Netherlands.

 Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all
 knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs
 they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword
 because of the difficulties in climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would
 have had no troubles except left-handed people could never become knights
 because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.

 Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."

 If the Spaceship Earth ride at EPCOT was a golf ball, to be the proportional
 size to hit it, you'd be two miles tall.

 On Sesame Street, Bert's goldfish were named Lyle and Talbot, presumably after
 the actor Lyle Talbot.

 The word "hangnail" comes from Middle English: ang- (painful) + nail. Nothing to
 do with hanging.

 Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.

 Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain smoked forty cigars a day for the last years of
 his life.

 Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came
 into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.

 Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.

 Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6
 years of age.

 The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

 If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where
 they made the atomic bomb), your birthplace was listed as a post office box in
 Albequerque.

 Robert Kennedy was killed in the Ambassador Hotel, the same hotel that housed
 Marilyn Monroe's first modelling agency.

 Ronald Regan sent out the army photographer who first discovered Marilyn Monroe.

 Carbonated water, with nothing else in it, can dissolve limestone, talc, and
 many other low-Moh's hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the
 main ingredient in soda pop.

 Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of
 AT&T.

 The newest dog breed is the Bull Boxer, first bred in the United states in
 1990-91.

 The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5 megabytes.

 South of Tucson, Arizona, all road signs are in the Metric System.

 In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in
 minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.

 The real name of Astro (the dog from The Jetsons) is "Tralfaz" -- his real owner
 appeared one day to claim him but wound up giving him back to the Jetsons.

 Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

 The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a
 little Chinese boy."

 The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license
 plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

 Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously

 When a film is in production, the last shot of the day is the "martini shot",
 the next to last one is the "Abby Singer".

 Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers
 (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)

 Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47.

 Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to
 the Union.

 It is a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly -- so says City Ordinance
 No. 352 in Pacific Grove, California.

 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.

 Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying
 any kind of life! What about milk, you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce
 milk and grass is living!

 When Saigon fell the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's
 "White Christmas" being played on the radio.

 The Fort George Point in Belize City was formed by the silt runoff of Hurricane
 Hattie.

 If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger
 around your big toe.

 Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.

 The expression "What in tarnation" comes from the original meaning: "What in
 eternal damnation"

 The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years
 before the house cat.

 The Pug dog is thought to have gotten it's name from looking like the pug
 monkey.

 Gary Burgough who played Walter Radar O'Reily on M*A*S*H has a deformed left
 thumb. If you watch closely you will see that he never shows his left hand.

 Only two states' names begin with double consonants: Florida and Rhode Island.

 The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean

 Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

 The Cincinnati Reds baseball team name was officially changed to the Redlegs
 during the anti-communist movement.

 Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

 "Xmas" does not begin with the Roman letter X. It begins with the Greek letter
 "chi," which was used in medieval manuscripts as an abbreviation for the word
 "Christ" (xus = christus, etc.)

 The ampersand (&) is actually a stylised version of the Latin word "et," meaning
 and."

 The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint,
 Michigan.

 The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

 Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory
 workers in Malaysia combined.

 On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is
 15.

 In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a
 speaking role.

 In the T.V. show T.H.E. Cat, starring Robert Wagner, T.H.E. stood for his name
 -- Thomas Howard Edward Cat.

 Only humans and horses have hymens.

 No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a
 Superbowl. (Texas Stadium, home of the Cowboys, is not a dome, there is a large
 hole in the roof.)

 The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

 The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". Wally and
 Beaver had a baby alligator which they kept in the toilet.

 In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6
 people were injured

 The most eastern part of the western world is located in Ilomantsi, Finland.

 "Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which
 means, literally, "belly splitting."

 The term the "Boogey Man will get you" comes from the Boogey people,who still
 inhabit an area of Indonesia. These people still act as pirates today and attack
 ships that pass. Thus the term spread "if you don't watch out the Boogey man
 will get you."

 The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second.

 The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.

 Race car is a palindrome.

 Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremeties develop faster than
 the rest of us.

 We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January
 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in
 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)

 The Basset Horn, a kind of alto clarinet, was named after its inventor -- a man
 named Horn. "Basset" is from "Basetto," or "little bass" in Italian.

 There are more bald eagles in the province of British Columbia, Canada, then
 there are in the whole United States.

 Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.

 The United States is the fourth largest country based on population and
 geographic area.

 TVs 'Bananas in Pajamas' are played by women.

 Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.

 The "second unit" films movie shots that do not require the presence of actors.

 Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.

 The world's second largest pipe organ is located at the Organ Grinder on 82nd
 avenue in Portland, Oregon.

 Games Slayter, a Purdue graduate, invented fiberglass.

 One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s
 lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically
 addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

 Olympic Badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers

 The music group Simply Red is named because of its love for the football team,
 Manchester United, who have a red home strip.

 In case you ever find yourself piloting a dogsled, shout "Jee!" to make the dogs
 turn left and "Ha!" to go right.

 Richard Nixon left instructions for "California, Here I Come" to be the last
 piece of music played at his funeral ("softly and slowly") were he to die in
 office.

 The earliest document in Latin in a woman's handwriting (it is from the first
 century A.D.) is an invitation to a birthday party.

 Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different
 cats.

 Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.

 Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988 g/cc

 Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6 g/cc

 The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going
 through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...

 The movie "Paris, Texas" was banned in the city of Paris, Texas, shorty after
 its box office release.

 The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound,
 not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied
 (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the
 advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest
 resembled thorn was the lower case "y".

 Pickled herrings were invented in 1375.

 The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is
 3263827.

 Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman, and child in
 the world.

 At McDonalds in New Zealand, they serve apricot pies instead of cherry ones.

 The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

 "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with
 the letters "und."

 "The Siege Of Belgrade" was a poem written by Alaric Watts in 1817. It was a
 poem where each line (of 27) had only words beginning with each letter of the
 alphabet: Line 1: A-words. Line 2:B-Words. Line 26: Z-words

 The "Nullarbor" in Nullarbor Desert in Western Australia is a Latin name;
 Null=No, Arbor=Trees.

 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
 Baseball All-Star Game.

 The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

 A byte, in computer terms, means 8 bits. A nibble is half that: 4 bits. (Two
 nibbles make a byte!)

 A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of
 Guinness beer.

 Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.

 If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like
 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

 The airport in La Paz, Bolivia is the world's highest airport.

 The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

 The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.

 Chicago is closer to Moscow than to Rio de Janeiro.

 Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.

 Original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington
 D.C. is what is referred to as a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy
 of a document and is not the same as a laser produced hologram.

 Singpore is the only country with one train station.

 The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are
 radioactive--so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
 When measuring fonts 'point size' refers to the height of capital letters (one
 point being one 72nd of an inch). 'Pitch' is a horizontal measurement of the
 number of letters which can be printed in an inch.

 There is only one Transylvania in the United States: Transylvania County, North
 Carolina and the county seat is Brevard.

 The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one endpoint is P.

 In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for
 the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry
 Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut
 candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went
 to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender
 who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed
 low in the movie credits as 'Fred.'

 "Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was
 believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention.
 That's why when your talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of
 the Devil"

 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.

 Nauru is the only country in the world with no official capital. (Its government
 offices are all in Yaren District, but there's no official capital.)

 South Africa is the only country with three official capitals: Pretoria, Cape
 Town, and Bloemfontein.

 Lucy Ricardo's maiden name was McGillicudy.

 Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.

 The red giant star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's
 orbit around the sun.

 If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon wil be
 about three statute miles away.

 The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English
 Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other
 word with the same amount of letters is
 pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

 The one-hundred eleventh element is known as "unnilenilenium"

 The longest muscle name is the "levator labii superioris alaeque nasi" and Elvis
 popularized it with his lip motions.

 The longest time someone has typed on a typewriter continuously is 264 hrs., set
 by Violet Gibson Burns.

 The longest place-name still in use is
 Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakita
 natahu, a New Zealand hill.

 The Dutch town of Leeuwarden can be spelled 225 different ways.

 There was once a town named "6" in West Virginia.

 Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest
 anagrams.

 Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles
 de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."

 Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older

 A cat has 32 muscles in each ear

 An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

 The oldest word in the English language is "town"

 The sea wasp is half an inch long at best and more poisonous than any other
 jellyfish known to man.

 Tigars have striped skin, not just striped fur.

 Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason.

 After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for damages that were caused by
 them building ships for the Confederacy. We originally asked for $1 billion but
 settled on $25 Million.

 The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda
 movie "Barbarella.

 There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.

 With regard to firearms: Clips are gravity fed by definition, magzines are
 spring fed.

 After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the
 feet, and leaves the same way it came -- head to toe.

 Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly
 German but more recently Hungarian or some other Slavic tongue.

 A Laforte fracture is a fracture of all facial bones. It would allow one to pull
 on another face and remove it like a mask if not held on by skin.

 Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.

 Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Eleanor
 Roosevelt were all cousins through one connection or another. (FDR and Eleanor
 were about five times removed.)

 The Earth-Moon size ratio is the largest in the our solar system, excepting
 Pluto- Charon.

 Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a
 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be
 the point of total tetonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can be felt
 unaided.)

 Most snakes have either only one lung, or in some cases, two, with one much
 reduced in size. This apparently serves to make room for other organs in the
 highly-elongated bodies of snakes.

 A twelve-foot anaconda can catch, kill, and eat a six-foot caiman, a close
 relative of crocodles and alligators. While these snakes are not usually
 considered to be the *longest* snake in the world, they are the heaviest,
 exceeding the reticulated python in girth.

 If you come from Birmingham, you are a Brummie.

 The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with,
 e.g. Asia, Europe.
 There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six
 times: Indivisibility.

 The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In
 Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.

 According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go
 slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go at the speed
 of light. Also, there is a particle called a tackyon which is supposed to go
 faster than light. This means if you fire a tackyon beam, it travels before you
 fire it.

 In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is
 10:10.

 Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.

 Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use
 as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.

 The "heat" of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale.

 Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The
 conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. 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. In left hand drive countries, such as the
 UK, Ireland, Japan, and Australia, drivers sit on the right hand side of the
 car. Except for Sweden, where drivers sat on the left, as in North-America.
 Japan is the third most densely populated country in the world. First is the
 Netherlands, followed by Belgium.

 The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is 'angstschreeuw'.

 Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn
 up after surgery.

 Pierre, South Dakota is the only example of a state and capital in the U.S. that
 don't share any letters.

 Westmount, Quebec, was the first city in Canada to be granted a coat of arms.

 The heraldic term "gules", meaning red, comes from the French word "gueules",
 meaning a throat.

 The "D" in D-day means "Day". The French term for "D-Day" is "J-jour".

 Female orcas live twice as long as male orcas. The larger numbers of female
 orcas in a pod are because of the female's longer lifespan, not because the
 males have collected a harem.

 Most spiders belong to the orb weaver spider family, Family Aranidae. This is
 pronounced "A Rainy Day."

 The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.

 Genghis Khan started out life as a goatherd.

 The type specimen for the human species is the skull of Edward Drinker Cope, an
 American paleontologist of the late 1800's. A type specimen is used in
 paleontology as the best example of that species.

 The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".

 The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as
 the philtrum.

 Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.

 The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan"

 Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards

 All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was
 dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City
 Park.

 The Holland and Lincoln Tunnels under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and
 New York are an engineering feat. The air circulators in the tunnels circulate
 fresh air completely every ninety seconds!

 The dirt road that General Washington and his soldiers took to fight off General
 Clinton during the Battle of Monmouth was called the Burlington Path.

 The only social fraternity founded during the Civil War was Theta Xi fraternity,
 at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1864.

 The Hudson River along the island of Manhattan flows in either direction
 depending upon the tide.

 Several buildings in Manhattan have their own zip code! The World Trade Center
 has several.

 Lucifer is latin for "Light Bringer". It is a translation of the Hebrew name for
 Satan, Halael. Satan means "adversary", devil means "liar".

 A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

 Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distrubution of
 galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a
 way that they resemble a human being.

 Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from
 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle.

 The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National
 Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the
 RMS Titanic.

 Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

 Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

 Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

 The smallest port in Canada is Port Williams, Nova Scotia.

 The Canadian province of Newfoundland has its own time zone, which is half an
 hour behind Atlantic standard time.

 Cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have a very high probability of having six toes.

 The second longest word in the English language is
 "antidisestablishmenterianism".

 Rats like boiled sweets better than they like cheese.

 Big Ben was slowed five minutes one day when a passing group of starlings
 decided to take a rest on the minute hand of the clock.

 The Velvet Underground was named after a book on the S&M culture.

 The Velvet Underground's first manager was Andy Warhol, who also produced their
 first album and designed the cover artwork. The cover artwork for the album
 (called "The Velvet Underground and Nico") featured a bright yellow banana that
 could be peeled off to reveal a bright pink banana underneath, with the label
 "Peel Slowly and See." "Peel Slowly and See" is the title of the Velvet
 Underground comprehensive boxed set, which is the only currently-available
 Velvet Underground recording to feature a peelable banana. The peelable banana
 caused substantial delays in the production of the VU's first album and
 contributed to Lou Reed's firing Andy Warhol as the group's manager.

 The "wild" horses of western North America are actually feral, not wild.

 Native speakers of Japanese learn Spanish much more easily than they learn
 English. Native speakers of English learn Spanish much more easily than they
 learn Japanese.

 New Zealand kiwis lay the largest eggs with respect to their body size of any
 bird.

 Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.

 When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel,
 breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."

 Sting got his name because of a yellow-and-black striped shirt he wore until it
 literally fell apart.

 Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold
 Edgerton.

 The topknot that quails have is called a hmuh.

 Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John
 Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name
 is Mudd."

 The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

 The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint -- no two lions have the same pattern
 of whiskers.

 There is a type of parrot in New Zealand that likes to eat the rubber strips
 that line car windows.

 New Zealand is also the only country that contains every type of climate in the
 world.

 Cockroaches' favorite food is the glue on envelopes and on the back of postage
 stamps

 In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.

 Ralph Kramden made 62 dollars a week.

 The only way to stop the pain of the sting of the flathead fish is by rubbing
 the slime of the belly of the same fish that you were stung by on the wound that
 it inflicted upon you.

 Elephants and camels both have four knees.

 The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed
 the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

 The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.

 Ancient Romans ate flamingo tounges and considered them a delicacy.

 Devo's original name was going to be De-evolution. They shortened it to Devo.

 Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked
 Lunch'.

 Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.

 Andy Warhol created the Rolling Stone's emblem depicting the big tongue. It
 first appeared on the cover of the 'Sticky Fingers' album.

 Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the two left-handed Beatles.

 Chris Ford scored the first ever NBA three-point shot.

 Of all the East Coast States, New Hampshire has the shortest coastline, about
 fourteen miles.

 New Hampshire is also the only State name the has four consecutive consonants in
 it (in the same word).

 Ontario is the only Canadian Province that borders the Great Lakes.

 Alaska has the longest border with Canada of all the fifty states. Montana has
 the
 longest border with Canada of the lower forty-eight States.

 Montana also borders the most Canadian Provinces of all the fifty states. It
 borders three of them.
 Arkansas is the only US State that begins with "a" but does not end with "a".
 All the other States that begin with "a", Arizona, Alabama and Alaska, also end
 with "a".

 Only three angels are mentioned by name in the Bible: Gabriel, Michael, and
 Lucifer.

 Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."

 Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden
 name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.

 Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons."

 The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding
 if someone should become a saint, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give
 an alternative view.

 Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a
 record works.

 The term "Mayday" used for signaling for help after (SOS), it comes from the
 French term "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MayDay" and means, "Help Me"

 Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

 The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 did start in a barn belonging to Patrick and
 Katherine O'Leary. The O'Leary's house was one of the few that survived the
 fire. The O'Leary's house had to be guarded by soldiers for weeks afterwards,
 however, because many enraged residents wanted to burn it down.

 The biggest bell is the "Tsar Kolokol" cast in the Kremlin in 1733. It weighs
 216 tons, but alas, is cracked and has never been rung.
 The bell was being stored in a Moscow shed which caught fire. To "save" it the
 caretakers decided to throw water on the bell. This did not succeed in -- the
 water hit the superheated metal and a giant piece immediately cracked off,
 destroying the bell forever.

 A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

 The smallest mountain range in the world is outside of Marysville, California
 and is named the Sutter Buttes.

 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

 The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered
 over 160 children.

 Many species of bird copulate in the air. In general, a couple will fly to a
 very high altitude, and then drop. During their descent, the birds mate.
 Sometimes the couple gets too involved and SPLAT!

 If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.

 There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words
 without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein,
 her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.

 You would have to count to one thousand to use the letter "A" in the English
 language to spell a whole number.

 The guards of some of the emperors of Byzantium were Vikings.

 Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for
 marketing reasons.

 The only member of the band ZZ Top to not have a beard has the last name Beard.

 Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sidewards, like a scissor, to
 extract the juices from the food.

 The letters H I O X in the latin alphabet is the only ones that look the same if
 you turn them upside down or see them from behind.

 When your sink is full, the little hole that lets the water drain, instead of
 flowing over the side, is called a "porcelator".

 When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium
 becomes the state's third largest city.

 In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."

 Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

 Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr.
 Scott".

 Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood
 donors.

 More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

 The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is
 called a harp.

 The metal part at the end of a pencil is twenty percent sulfur.

 John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the
 narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

 Meursault, the title character in Albert Camus' famous novel The Stranger, had a
 first name, Patrice, which was mentioned only in Camus' personal journals.

 Vietnamese currency consists only of paper money; no coins.

 During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, Red Vineyard
 at Arles.

 The floral emblem of Western Australia is Mangles' Kangaroo Paw; the state
 animal is the numbat; and the state bird is the black swan.

 A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

 A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.

 It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

 Skin is thickest is at the back -- 1/6 of an inch.

 The most sensitive finger is the forefinger.

 Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern state; it also has the highest
 latitude,the most eastern longitude and the most western longitude.

 Some of Beethoven's symphonies were performed in Kentucky before they were
 performed in Paris, France.

 A large flawless emerald is worth more than a similarly large flawless diamond.

 The word denim comes from 'de Nimes', or from Nimes, a place in France.

 Dublin comes from the Irish Dubh Linn which means Blackpool

 Scottish is the language called Gaelic, whereas Irish is actually called
 Gaeilge.

 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"

 A penguin only has sex twice a year.

 Mr. Spock's (of Star Trek) blood type was T-Negative

 The Dutch town of Abcoude is the only reasonably sized town/city in the world
 whose name begins with ABC.

 A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

 A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

 New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400 spoons from every state and
 almost every country.

 Eleven square miles of southwest Kentucky (Fulton County) is cut off from the
 rest of the state by the Mississippi River. If you wish to travel from this cut
 off section to the rest of the state or vice-versa, you must first cross a
 bordering state.

 Point Roberts in Washington State is cut off from the rest of the state by
 British Columbia, Canada. If you wish to travel from Point Roberts to the rest
 of the state or vice versa, you must pass through Canada, including Canadian and
 U.S. customs

 A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

 A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

 The only city in the United States to celebrate Halloween on the October 30
 instead of October 31 is Carson City, Nevada. October 31 is Nevada Day and is
 celebrated with a large street party.

 There is actually a word for a 64th note -- a hemidemisemiquaver.

 Carnegie Mellon University offers bagpiping as a major. The instuctor is James
 McIntosh, who is a member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and
 who began bagpiping at age 11.

 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.

 No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.

 A peanut is not a nut; it is a legume.

 It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

 "Evian" spelled backwards is naive.

 The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

 Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

 "Bookkeeper" and "bookkeeping" are the only words in the English language with
 three consecutive double letters.

 Paul McCartney's mother was a midwife.

 Marcel Proust have had a swordfish at home.

 The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown differently
 during times of peace or war. A portion of the flag is blue, while the other is
 red. The blue portion is flown on top in time of peace and the red portion is
 flown in war time.

 The phrase "sleep tight" originated when mattresses were set upon ropes woven
 through the bed frame. To remedy sagging ropes, one would use a bed key to
 tighten the rope.

 It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws
 up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the
 frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then
 swallows the stomach back down again.

 The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.

 A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.

 Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.

 The arteries and veins surrounding the brain stem called the "circle of Willis"
 looks like a stick person with a large head.

 Welsh mercenary bowmen in the medieval period only wore one shoe at a time.

 On a trip to the South Sea islands, French painter Paul Gauguin stopped off
 briefly in Central America, where he worked as a laborer on the Panama Canal.

 Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.

 The gene for the Siamese coloration in animals such as cats, rats or rabbits is
 heat sensitive. Warmth produces a lighter color than does cold. Putting tape
 temporarily on Siamese rabbit's ear will make the fur on that ear lighter than
 on the other one.

 There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.

 Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."

 The words 'sacrilegious' and 'religion' do not share the same etymological root.

 "John has a long moustache" was the coded-signal used by the French Resistance
 in WWII to mobilize their forces once the Allies had landed on the Normandy
 beaches.

 Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first
 developed.

 Brooklyn is the Dutch name for "broken valley"

 There are four states where the first letter of the capital city is the same
 letter as the first letter of the state: Dover, Delaware; Honolulu, Hawaii;
 Indianapolis, Indiana; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

 There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.

 Venetian blinds were invented in Japan.

 The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought at neighbouring Breed's Hill.

 Former US Senator Barry Goldwater attended the opening night ceremonies and
 festivities at Bugsy Siegel's famous Las Vegas casino. They left him out of the
 movie Bugsy. He is pissed.

 Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past
 their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

 ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names
 (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)

 The first electric Christmas lights were created by a telephone company PBX
 installer. Back in the old days, candles were used to decorate Christmas trees.
 This was obviously very dangerous. Telephone employees are trained to be safety
 concious. This installer took the lights from an old switchboard, connected them
 together, strung them on the tree, and hooked them to a battery.

 What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same number with
 the digits in reverse order? 21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912.

 A robin's (the bird) egg is blue, but if you put it in vineger for thirty days
 it turns yellow.

 White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees)

 The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign
 language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the
 signals he used and in turn huddled around him.

 There is no such thing as naturally blue food, even blueberries are purple.
 Thanks to Chris Kelly of Skokie, Illinois.

 It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling
 dolls without human faces.

 In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the
 stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.

 Walt Disney had wooden teeth.

 The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue.

 Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.

 Spider Monkies like banana daquiries.

 The coast line around Lake Sakawea in North Dakota is longer than the California
 coastline along the Pacific Ocean

 Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with
 "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.

 The legbones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.

 Kitsap County, Washington, was originally called Slaughter County, and the first
 hotel there was called the Slaughter House.

 Seattle, Washington, like Rome, was built on seven hills.

 Dinosaur droppings are called coprolites, and are actually fairly common.

 The U.S. Naval Observatory declares American time.

 School busses in the United States are Chrome Yellow and used to be Omaha
 Orange.

 The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister,
 Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a
 religious retreat in India.

 The tailless dinner jacket was invented in Tuxedo Park, New York. Thus it is
 called the "tuxedo dinner jacket" and is named after the town...not the other
 way around.

 The state of Maryland has no natural lakes.

 Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry
 can be dribbled like a basketball.

 The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

 Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name,
 used on all state documents, is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

 The chemical formula for Rubidium Bromide is RbBr. It is the only chemical
 formula known to be a palindrome!

 St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon
 there.

 The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name
 JASON.

 The first letters of the names of the Great Lakes spell HOMES.

 The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the
 bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

 Soldiers from every country salute with their right hand.

 Moisture, not air, causes superglue to dry.

 Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic
 flight.

 Sarsaparilla is the root that flavors root beer.

 The U.S. Mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that marks its pennies.

 A full moon always rises at sunset.

 The "R" in Dean R. Koontz's name stands for Ray.

 If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide
 poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.

 Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on
 the moon in 1969.)

 The only two Southern state capitals not occuppied by Northern troops during the
 American Civil War were Austin, Texas and Tallahasse, Florida.

 Rabbits love licorice.

 Ogdensburg, New York is the only city in the United States situated on the St.
 Lawrence River.

 Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a
 fly walk across a tiled ceiling.

 Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser
 himself. And Greg Evigan sang the "My Two Dads" theme.

 Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.

 Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show Growing Pains wrote the theme songs for
 The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes.

 If a statue in the park of a person on a 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 recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on
 the ground, the person died of natural causes.

 A Macintosh LC575 has 182 speaker holes.
 Thanks to Marc Farrell.

 In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon
 before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set
 foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
 Thanks to John Hopkin (jhopkin@icanect.net) of Liverpool, England, United
 Kingdom.

 The language Malayalam, spoken in parts of India, is the only language whose
 name is a palindrome.

 Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.

 Urea is found in humna urine and dalmatian dogs and nowhere else.

 Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
 The Earl of Condom was a knighted personal physician to England's King Charles
 II in the mid-1600's. The Earl was requested to produce a method to protect the
 King from syphillis.(Charles the II's pleasure-loving nature was notorious.) The
 result should be obvious.

 Cheryl Ladd (of Charlie's Angels fame) played the voice, both talking and
 singing, of Josie in the 70s Saturday morning cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats."

 Lynyrd Skynard was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form
 that band. He once told them, "You boys ain't never gonna do nothin'."

 M & M's were developed so that soldiers could eat candy without getting their
 fingers sticky.

 Richard Nixon's favorite drink was a dry martini.

 The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.

 The license plate number of the Volkswagon that appeared on the cover of the
 Beatles Abbey Road album was 281F.

 Pinocchio was made of pine.

 An ant lion is neither an ant nor a lion.

 Jethro Tull is not the name of the rock singer/flautist responsible for such
 songs as "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick." Jethro Tull is the name of the band.
 The singer is Ian Anderson. The original Jethro Tull was an English
 horticulturalist who invented the seed drill.

 Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the
 never- aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.

 The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned
 once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.

 The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and
 Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.

 Neck ties were first worn in Croatia. That's why they were called cravats
 (CRO-vats).

 Alma mater means bountiful mother.

 A Holstein's spots are like fingerprints -- no two cows have the same pattern of
 spots.

 Glass flutes do not expand with humidity so their owners are spared the nuisance
 of tuning them.

 Jersey (in the Channel Islands, UK) was the only place that the Nazi's occupied
 in Great Britain during World War II.

 Top English soccer club Liverpool were formed because their local enemies,
 Everton, couldn't pay the rent for their stadium. Therefore Liverpool took over
 at the stadium (Anfield) and became England's top soccer team ever.

 The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles
 away.

 In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

 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.

 The "Hallelujah Chorus" fits into the Easter portion of Handel's Messiah, not
 Christmas.

 Over 30 million people in the US "suffer" from Diastima. Diastima is having a
 gap between your front teeth.

 In 1976 Sarah Caldwell became the first woman to conduct the Metropolitan Opera
 in New York City.

 Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning
 strike.

 Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.

 The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.

 Libya is the only country in the world with a solid, single-colored flag -- it's
 green.

 Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean
 language.

 Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula
 causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much
 they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.

 The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00
 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided
 coin.

"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 realise
 what is occuring, relax and correct itself. At about that height it hits maximum
 speed and when it hits the ground it's rib cage absorbs most of the impact. So
 throw your cat off a building today!

 There are eight different sizes of champagne bottle and the largest is called a
 Nebuchadnezzar (after the Biblical king who put Daniel's three friends into the
 oven).

 The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

 The female ferret is referred to as a `jill'.

 The word rodent comes from the Latin word `rodere' meaning to gnaw.

 Australian Rules Football was originally designed to give cricketers something
 to play during the off season.

 Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

 The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead
 defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.

 Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of "The Boy General" is one of the few women buried
 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.

 "Freelance" comes from a knight whose lance was free for hire, i.e. not pledged
 to one master.)

 The only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is one located in the
 inner ear.

 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."

 There are ten human body parts that are only three letters long: Eye, Ear, Leg,
 Arm, Jaw, Gum, Toe, Lip, Hip and Rib.

 Michigan was the first state to have roadside picnic tables.

 Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth, which is why
 Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.

 Fitchburg, Massachusetts is the second hillest city in the US.

 During WWII the city of Leningrad underwent a seventeen month German seige.
 Unable to access the city by roads, the Russians built a railroad across the ice
 on Lake Lagoda to get food and supplies to the citizens.

 The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a
 chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

 Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar
 which was supposed to burn forever

 Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton Dean, a
 Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry, founder of Blues Inc.
 They were the first electric white blues band ever seen in England--1961

 Elton John's uncle was a professional soccer player. He broke his leg playing
 for Nottingham Forest in the 1959 English FA Cup Final.

 The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey"
 came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The
 cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it
 got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.

 Horses cannot vomit.

 Rabbits cannot vomit.

 The word "Boondocks" comes from the Tagalog (Filipino) word "Bundok," which
 means mountain.

 Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it
 will digest itself.

 The "chapters" of the New Testament were not there originally. When monks in
 medieval times translated it from the Greek, they numbered the pages in each
 "book."

 Coca-Cola contains neither coca nor cola.

 Yucatan, as in the peninsula, is from Maya "u" + "u" + "uthaan," meaning "listen
 to how they speak," what the Maya said when they first heard the Spaniards.

 The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient
 Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything
 else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified is to poke someone's eye
 out.

 The original plan for Disneyland included a Lilliputland.

 S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just
 chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S
 and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S =
 dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..

 The word "moose" was originally Algonquin.

 The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."

 The "ZIP" in Zip Code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."

 Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.

 When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but
 when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.

 The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.

 A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

 Crickets hear through their knees.

 Turnips turn green when sunburnt.

 Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.

 A type of jellyfish found off the coast of England is the longest animal in the
 world.

 When Voyager 2 visited Neptune it saw a small irregular white cloud that zips
 around Neptune every sixteen hours or so now known as "The Scooter".

 Crows have the largest cerebral hemispheres, relative to body size, of any avian
 family.

 Martha's Vineyard once had its own dialect of Sign Language. One deaf person
 arrived in 1692 and after that there was a relatively large genetically deaf
 population that had their own particular dialect of sign language. From
 1692-1910 nearly all hearing people on the island were bilingual in sign
 language and English.

 Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

 Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.

 Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.

 St. Bernard is the patron saint of skiers.

 The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."

 John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

 According to the ceremonial customs of Orthodox Judaism, it is officially
 sundown when you cannot tell the difference between a black thread and a red
 one.

 A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

 Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.

 Cyano-acrylate glues (Super glues) were invented by accident. The researcher was
 trying to make optical coating materials, and would test their properties by
 putting them between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried
 the cyano-acrylate, he couldn't get the prisms apart.

 Most of the little schoolhouses in the U.S. of yesteryear were painted red
 because red was the least expensive paint color.

 Elizabeth I of England suffered from anthophobia, a fear of roses.

 Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.

 A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.

 Dalmatian dogs are born pure white, they don't start getting spots until they
 are three or four days old.

 The growth rate of some bamboo plants can reach three feet (91.44 cm) per day.

 The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on
 their helmets.

 The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

 The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

 An elephant can be pregnant for up to two years.

 The two quickest goals scored in the NHL were three seconds apart.

 Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.

 Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
 Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

 'Crack' gets it name because it crackles when you smoke it.

 Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.

 Marijuana is Spanish for 'Mary Jane.'

 One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a
 raging elephant.

 Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts
 and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.

 U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from
 the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered
 sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.

 Today's cattle are descended from two species: wild aurochs -- fierce and agile
 herd animals that populated Asia, North Africa and Europe -- and eotragus -- an
 antelope-like, Asian forest creature.

 Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University.

 Professional ballerinas use about twelve pairs of toe shoes per week.

 The anteater, aardvark, spiny anteater (echidna), and scaly anteater (pangolin)
 are completely unrelated - in fact, the closest relatives to anteaters are
 sloths and armadillos, the closest relative to the spiny anteater is the
 platypus, and the aardvark is in an order all by itself.

 There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

 Octopi have gardens.

 The Beatles song "Martha My Dear" was written by Paul McCartney about his
 sheepdog Martha.

 "Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing
 something else? The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes from
 a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually singing "They slew the Earl of
 Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like 'They slew
 the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.'"

 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.

 The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that
 you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

 The youngest letters in the English language are "j," "v" and "w."

 The Australian $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic.

 The oldest exposed surface on earth is New Zealand's south island.

 John Lennon's assassin was carrying a copy of "The Catcher in the Rye" when he
 shot the famous Beatle in 1980.

 Don MacLean's song "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper,
 and Ritchie Valens. All three were on the same plane that crashed.

 A game of pool is referred to as a "frame."

 Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.

 The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

 Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible)
 did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and used a term which has come
 down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many places -- refers to
 "40 days," they meant many days.

 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.

 The Soviet Sukhoi-34 is the first strike fighter with a toilet in it.

 They Might Be Giants is the first modern band with an Accordion and a
 Glockenspiel

 Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.

 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.

 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

 One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a
 typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'

 When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally
 without being hurt.

 Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.

 The tango originated as a dance between two men (for partnering practice).

 Leon Trotsky, the seminal Russian Communist, was assassinated in Mexico with an
 ice-pick.

 The Bronx, New York got its name from explorer Henry Bronk.

 The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continually held sports event in the United
 States (1875); the second oldest is the Westminister Kennel Club Dog Show
 (1876.)

 "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the very first video ever played on MTV.

 The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio
 hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.

 The native tribe of Tierra del Fuego has a language so guttural it cannot have
 an alphabet.

 A family of six died in Oregon during WWII as a result of a Japanese balloon
 bomb.

 AM and PM stand for "Ante-Meridian" and "Post-Meridian," respectively, and A.D.
 actually stands for "Anno Domini" rather than "After Death."

 The penguins that inhabit the tip of South America are called jackass penguins.

 To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by
 swearing on their testicles.

 During conscription for WWII, there were nine documented cases of men with three
 testicles.

 Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from
 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle.

 Benito Mussolini would ward off the evil eye by touching his testicles.

 Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.

 Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticably shorter than
 his right.

 Scientists found a whole new phylum of animal on a lobster's lip.

 The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby
 daughter, Ruth.

 Grover Cleveland's real first name is Stephen, Grover is his middle name.

 Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.

 During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to drop bomb.

 Swans are the only birds with penises.

 A whale's penis is called a dork.

 Some carnivores, rodents, bats and insectivores have a penis bone, called a
 baculum.

 A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to
 its size.

 Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penises.
 "I'd like clarify the comment about iguanas and komodo dragons having two
 penises. In fact, they have a single penis, but it is split in two (pretty much
 'Y'-shaped.) This organ is known as a hemipenes. Snakes also share this
 interesting feature. Apparently, the dual penis is for ease of left-handed or
 right-handed mating. Also, at least in snakes, the semen does not flow through a
 vessel (like in mammals), but rather, a groove."

 Opossums have forked penises.

 Some female hyenas have a pseudo-penis.

 A winged penis was the city symbol of Pompeii, the ancient Roman resort town
 destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius' eruption.

 One way to tell seals and sea lions apart is that, sea lions have external ears
 and testicles.

 Swahili is a combination of African tribal languages, Arabic and Portuguese.

 A person from Glasgow, is called a Glaswegian.

 An enneahedron is solid with nine faces.

 Most armadillos seen dead on the road did not get hit by the wheels. When an
 armidillo is frightened it jumps straight into the air.

 Armadillos can be housebroken.

 Armadillos have four babies at a time, always all the same sex. They are perfect
 quadruplets, the fertilized cell split into quarters, resulting in four
 identical armadillos.

 Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day.

 Armadillos can walk underwater.

 Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

 Jet lag was once called boat lag, back before jets existed.

 Sirimauo Bandranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first popularly elected
 female head of state in 1960.

 There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.

 Velcro was invented by a Swiss guy who was inspired by the way burrs attached to
 clothing.

 The hieroglyph for 100,000 is a tadpole.

 The Phillips-head screwdriver was invented in Oregon.

 Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would and
 therefore forstall curses.

 The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans. (Watch out Inigo
 Montoya...)

 Polar bears' fur is not white, it's clear.

 Polar bear skin is actually black. Their hair is hollow and acts like fiber
 optics, directing sunlight to warm their skin.

 Polar bears camouflage themselves more completely during a hunt by covering
 their black noses with their paws.

 The amount of tropical rainforest cut down each year is an area the size of
 Tennessee.

 The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.

 Medieval knights put sharkskin on their swordhandles to give them a more secure
 grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.

 Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from
 underneath, causing the shark to explode.

 The only planet without a ring is earth.

 Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.

 Cleopatra used pomegranate seeds for lipstick.

 Cleopatra's last name was Ptolemy, and she was Greek rather than Egyptian.

 The Red sea was originally the Reed sea.

 If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.

 The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.

 The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply.

 The concerti on the two Voyager probes' information discs are performed by famed
 Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.

 Reindeer like to eat bananas.

 Chia Pets are only sold in December.

 Between 1947 and 1959, 42 nuclear devices were detonated in the Marshall
 Islands.

 Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch
 Stole Christmas."

 A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

 Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."

 A group of frogs is called an army.

 A group of rhinos is called a crash.

 A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

 A group of whales is called a pod.

 A group of geese is called a gaggle.

 A group of ravens is called a murder.

 A group of officers is called a mess.

 A group of larks is called an exaltation.

 A group of owls is called a parliament.

 Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like
 it's kissing the conveyor belt.

 The physically smallest post office in the United States is in Ochopee, Florida
 in the heart of the everglades.

 Physicist Murray Gell-Mann named the sub-atomic particles known as quarks for a
 random line in James Joyce, "Three quarks for Muster Mark!"

 Samuel Clemens's pseudonym "Mark Twain" was the nickname of a riverboat pilot
 about whom Clemens wrote a needless nasty satirical piece. Apparently, Clemens
 felt guilt later and adopted the name as a nom de plume as some sort of
 expiation. The phrase does not mean measuring the depth of the river; it means a
 specific depth, to wit, two fathoms (twelve feet.)

 Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of
 Mormon leader Brigham Young.

 Money is made of woven linen, not paper

 A rhinoceros's horn is made of hair.

 Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10th of a calorie.

 The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the
 actress.

 Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

 Jean Harlow was the first actress to appear on the cover of Life magazine.

 Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age 31 by sticking her head
 in an oven.

 Sylvia Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, was married three times, and two of the
 women he married committed suicide.

 Jesus Christ died at age 33.

 And the original useless facts, that started it all...
 Starfish don't have brains.

 Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
