- 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
- On average, 12 newborn babies are given to the wrong parents every day.
- Ketchup was first sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
- Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
- Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
- The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
- The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
- Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
- The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
- "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
- Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
- When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.
- The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
- The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying.
- Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. Mind you, it took him 10 years to paint her mouth...
- When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
- Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
- "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
- Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.
- If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction
- Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.
- According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
- The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
- If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
- Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
- Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
- Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
- Coca-Cola was originally green.
- The name of all seven continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the QWERTY keyboard.
- Women blink nearly twice as often as men!
- You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
- When you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
- Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
- In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
- Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
- Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
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