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12-31-2009, 06:21 AM
Only One Satellite Has Been Ever Been Destroyed By A Meteor
Only One-Third Of The People That Can Twitch Their Ears Can Twitch Only One At A Time.
Only Person To Win $64,000 Challenge And $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (Subject Is Boxing).
Only Thirty Percent Of The Famous Maryland Blue Crab Are Actually From Maryland The Rest Are From North Carolina And Virginia.
Oral-B Is A Combination Of Oral Hygiene And The Letter B, Which Stands For The Word Better.
Orcas (Killer Whales) Kill Sharks By Torpedoing Up Into The Shark's Stomach From Underneath, Causing The Shark To Explode.
Orchids Are Grown From Seed So Small That It Would Take Thirty Thousand To Weigh As Much As One Grain Of Wheat.
Organized Crime Is Estimated To Account For 10% Of The United States' National Income.
Original 'Indian Yellow' Was Obtained At Monghyr, A Town In Benghal, From The Urine Of Cows Which Had Been Fed On Mango Leaves. It Was Found In The Bazaars Of Panjab In The Form Of Large Balls, Having An Offensive Urinous Odor. True Indian Yellow Has Been Absent From The Market For Some Time; Its Production Is Said To Have Been Prohibited In 1908. Present Day Indian Yellow Colors Are Made Of Synthetic Pigments, Alternatives That Are Less Fugitive And Less Offensive To The Nose!
Orson Welles Is Buried In An Olive Orchard On A Ranch Owned By His Friend, Matador Antonio Ordonez In Sevilla, Spain.
Orville Wright Was Involved In The First Aircraft Accident. His Passenger, A Frenchman, Was Killed.
Ostriches Can Run 50 Miles Per Hour.
Ostriches Do Not Bury Their Heads In The Sand.
Ostriches Stick Their Heads In The Sand To Look For Water.
Our Eyes Never Grow Our Nose And Ears Never Stop Growing.
Over 2500 Left Handed People A Year Are Killed From Using Products Made For Right Handed People!
Over A Third Of All Pinapples Come From Hawaii.
Pain Occurs When Sounds Are Above 130Db.
Papaphobia Is The Fear Of Popes.
Paper Was Invented Early In The Second Century By Chinese Eunuch.
Paranormal Experts Say People Reach The Peak Of Their Ability To See Ghosts When They're 7 Years Old.
Parker Brothers Prints About 50 Billion Dollars Worth Of Monopoly Money In One Year.
Parthenogenesis Is The Term Used To Describe The Process By Which Certain Animals Are Able To Reproduce Themselves In Successive Female Generations Without Intervention Of A Male Of The Species. At Least One Species Of Lizard Is Known To Do So.
Paul Mccartney And Ringo Starr Were The Only Two Left-Handed Beatles.
Paul Mccartney's Mother Was A Mid-Wife.
Paul Revere Is Documented As The First Forensic Dentist: He Was Called Upon To Identify A Former Patient's Remains By His Teeth.
Peanuts Are One Of The Ingredients Of Dynamite.
Penguins Are Found In The Antarctic, Not Arctic.
Penguins Can Jump As High As 6 Feet In The Air.
People Didn't Always Say Hello When They Answered The Phone. When The First Regular Phone Service Was Established In 1878, People Said Ahoy.
People Do Not Get Sick From The Cold Weather; Its From Being Indoors A Lot More.
People Have Legs Of Slightly Different Lengths.
People Who Are Left-Handed Are Also Left-Footed Havinghte Tendency To Put Their Left Foot Forward Instead Of Their Right.
People Who Live Or Work Work In Cities, Inhale Enough Toxins That It Equals Smoking A Pack Of Cigarettes A Day.
People Who Work At Night Tend To Weigh More Than People Who Don't.
Pepsi Is Commonly Used By Wooden Boat Owners To Clean Mold From Decks. You Can Spill It On For About 30 Seconds, But It Needs Rinsing To Make Sure It Does Not Erode Your Decks Completely (It's Powerful Stuff..).
Pepsi Originally Contained Pepsin, Therefore The Name!
Percentage Of Americans That Eat At Mcdonalds Each Day: 7%
Percentage Of Men Who Say They Are Happier After Their Divorce Or Separation: 58%
Percentage Of North America That Is Wilderness: 38%.
Percentage Of Women Who Say They Are Happier After Their Divorce Or Separation: 85%
Personal Letters Make Up Only 5% Of The Mail Delivered By The U.S Postal Service.
Peter Falk, Who Played Columbo Has A Glass Eye.
Peter Mayhew, Who Played Chewbacca In The First Three Star Wars Movies Was A Hospital Porter In London Before Starring As The Wookie.
The Bagpipe Was Originally Made From The Whole Skin Of A Dead Sheep.
The Ball On Top Of A Flagpole Is Called The Truck.
The Band Duran Duran Got Their Name From An Astronaut In The 1968 Jane Fonda Movie Barbarella.
The Bark Of The Redwood Tree Is Fireproof. Fires In Redwood Forests Take Place Inside The Trees.
The Bat On The Bacardi Symbol Is There Because The Soil Where The Sugar Cane Grows Is Fertile From The Excessive Guano (Bat Droppings).
The Beatles Featured Two Left Handed Members, Paul, Whom Everyone Saw Holding His Hoffner Bass Left Handed, And Ringo, Whose Left Handedness Is At Least Partially To Blame For His 'Original' Drumming Style.
The Beatles Song 'A Day In The Life' Ends With A Note Sustained For 40 Seconds.
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 Beautiful But Deadly Australian Sea Wasp (Chironex Fleckeri) Is The Most Venomous Jellyfish In The World. Its Cardiotoxic Venom Has Caused The Deaths Of 66 People Off The Coast Of Queensland Since 1880, With Victims Dying Within 1-3 Minutes If Medical Aid Is Not Available.
The Best Working Light-Bulb A Long Time Ago Was A Thread Of Sheep's Wool Coated With Carbon.
The Bible Has Been Translated Into Klingon.
The Bible Is The Number One Shoplifted Book In America.
The Bigger The Naval The Sweeter The Orange.
The Billionth Digit Of Pi Is 9.
The Black Cauldron Is The Only Pg-Rated Disney Animated Feature.
The Black Widow Spider Can Devour As Many As Twenty 'Mates' In A Single Day.
The Blesbok, A South African Antelope, Is Almost The Same Colour As Grapejuice.
The Blood Of A Grasshopper Is Not Red, But White.
The Blue Whale's Tail Can Generate 500 Horsepower.
The Blueprints For The Eiffel Tower Covered More Than 14,000 Square Feet Of Drafting Paper.
The Book Of Esther In The Bible Is The Only Book Which Does Not Mention The Name Of God.
The Boston University Bridge Is The Only Place In The World Where A Boat Can Sail Under A Train Driving Under A Car Driving Under An Airplane.
The Bottle-Nosed Whale Can Dive To A Depth Of 3,000 Feet In Two Minutes.
The Brady Brunch Went To Elementary School At Dixie Canyon Elementary.
The Brain Requires 25 Percent Of All Oxygen Used By The Body.
The Brightest Star In The Sky, Sirius, Gives Out Twenty-Six Times As Much Light As The Sun.
The Brown Myotis Bats Young When Born Are Equivalent To A Woman Giving Birth To A Thirty Pound Baby.
The Bureau Of Standards Says That The Electron Is The Fastest Thing In The World.
The Calories Burned In One Hour Of Running Could Bring About Seven Quarts Of Water To A Boil.
The Candlefish Is So Oily That It Was Once Burned For Fuel.
The Car-Making Dodge Brothers Horace And John Were Jewish, That's Why The First Dodge Emblem Had A Star Of David In It.
The Cells Which Make Up The Antlers Of A Moose Are The Fastest Growing Animal Cells In Nature.
The Channel Between England And France Grows 300Mm Each Year.
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 Chinese Built A Battery That Lasted 400 Years.
The Chinese Ideogram For 'Trouble' Depicts Two Women Living Under One Roof'.
The Chinese Nationalist Golf Association Claims The Game Is Of Chinese Origin (Ch'ui Wan - The Ball Hitting Game) In The Third Or 2Nd Century Bc. There Were Official Ordinances Prohibiting A Ball Game With Clubs In Belgium And Holland From 1360.
The Chinese, In Olden Days, Used Marijuana Only As A Remedy For Dysentery.
The Chuck E. Cheese Franchise Was Created By Atari, A Resteraunt Combining Robotic Animals And Arcade Games With Family Meals. They Name The Franchise A Pizza Time Theater. Chuck E. Cheese Was First Opened In 1977.
The Cigarette Lighter Was Invented Before The Match.
The City Of Istanbul Straddles Two Separate Continents, Europe And Asia.
The City Of Mt. Vernon, Washington, Grows More Tulips Than The Entire Country Of Holland.
The Common Goldfish Is The Only Animal That Can See Both Infra-Red And Ultraviolet Light.
The Concave Dish Shape That A Liquid Takes On Inside A Glass Or Tube Is Called A Meniscus.
The Condom Is Named After Dr. Charles Condom.
The Condom-Made Originally Of Linen-Was Invented In The Early 1500'S.
The Correct Response To The Irish Greeting, Top Of The Morning To You, Is And The Rest Of The Day To Yourself.
The Country With The Biggest Percentage Of Female Heads Of Household Is Botswana.
The D In D-Day Means Day. The French Term For D-Day Is J-Jour.
The Deadliest Volcano Eruption Was That Of Krakatau (Indonesia) In 1883.
The Deepest Canyon In Low Relief Territory Is Hell's Canyon, Dividing Oregon And Idaho. It Plunges 7,900 Ft From The Devil Mountain Down To The Snake River. United States The Deepest Canyon In The Usa Is Kings Canyon, East Fresno, Ca, Which Runs Through Sierra And Sequoia National Forests. The Deepest Point, That Measures 8,200 Ft, Is In The Sierra National Park Forest Section Of The Canyon.
The Deepest Penguin Dive Recorded Was 1261 Ft Under The Water.
The Dial Tone Of A Normal Telephone Is In The Key F.
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 Dolphins That Live In The Amazon River Are Pink.
The Dome On Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Home, Conceals A Billiards Room.
The Driest Places On Earth Are A Series Of Valleys Near Ross Island In Antarctica Where For The Past 2 Million Years At Least, No Rain Has Fallen.
The Dumbest Dog In The World Is The Afghan.
The Duration Record For A Face-Slapping Contest Was Set In Kiev, U.S.S.R., In 1931 When A Draw Was Declared Between Bezbordny And Goniusch After 30 Hours.
The E-Coli Bacterium Propels Itself With A 'Motor' Only One-Millionth Of An Inch In Diameter, A Thousand Times Smaller Than The Tiniest Motors Built To Date By Man. The Rotation Of The Bacterial Motor Comes From A Current Of Protons. The Efficiency Of The Motor Approaches 100 Per Cent.
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.
The Earliest Recorded Case Of A Man Giving Up Smoking Was On April 5, 1679, When Johan Katsu, Sheriff Of Turku, Finland, Wrote In His Diary "I Quit Smoking Tobacco." He Died One Month Later.
The Earth Experiences 50,000 Earthquakes A Year.
The Earth Flattens At The Poles And Bulges The Equator.
The Earth Gets Heavier Each Day By Tons, As Meteoric Dust Settles On It.
The Earth Weighs Around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Tons.
The Earth, In Its History, Has Been Hit By At Least One Million Meteors.
The East Alligator River In Australia's Northern Territory, Was Misnamed. It Contains Crocodiles Not Alligators.
The Eiffel Tower Has 2.5 Million Rivets.
The Eiffel Tower Was Built For The 1889 World's Fair.
The Eight-Dollar Bill Was Designed And Printed By Benjamin Franklin For The American Colonies.
The Eisenhower Interstate System Requires That One Mile In Every Five Must Be Straight. These Straight Sections Are Useable As Airstrips In Times Of War Or Other Emergencies.
The End Of A Hammer, Opposite The Striking End, Is Called A Peen.
The Entire Length Of All Eyelashes Shed By A Human In Their Lifetime Is Over 30 Metres.
The Eskimo Language Has Over Twenty Words To Describe Different Kinds Of Snow.
The Estimated Number Of M & M'sa Sold Each Day In The United States Is 200,000,000.
The Exact Geographic Center Of The United States Is Near Lebanon, Kansas.
The Expression What Is Tarnation Comes From The Original Meaning What In Eternal Damnation.
The External Tank On The Space Shuttle Is Not Painted.
The Eyesight Of The Average Dog Is Much Better Than The Eyesight Of The Average Man.
The Face Of A Penny Can Hold Thirty Drops Of Water.
The Famous Dum-De-Dum-Dum Theme, Obstensively From 'Dragnet' Was Actually Composed By Miklos Rozsa For The 1946 Film Noir Classic, The Killers.
The Famous Painting Of Whistler's Mother Was Once Bought From A Pawn Shop.
The Fastest Moon In Our Solar System Circles Jupiter Once Every Seven Hours - Traveling At 70,400 Miles Per Hour.
The Female Ferret Is Referred To As A Jill.
The First Atomic Bomb Dropped On Japan Fell From The Enola Gay, Named After The Unit Commander's Mother.
The Second Dropped From A Plane Known As Bock's Car.
The First Cd Pressed In The Us Was Bruce Springsteen's Born In The Usa.
The First City In Modern History To Reach 1 Million People Was London In The 1800's
The First Couple To Be Shown Together On Prime Time Television Was Fred And Wilma Flintstone.
The First Crime Mentioned In The First Episode Of 'Hill Street Blues' Was Armed Robbery.
The First Electric Christmas Lights Were Created By A Telephone Company Pbx Installer. In The Past, Candles Were Used As Light Ornaments--Being Dangerous, The Installer Took The Lights From An Old Switchboard, Connected The Together, Strung Them On A Tree, And Hooked Them To A Battery.
The First Eskimo Bible Was Printed In Copenhagen In 1740
The First Ever Indoor Organized Presentation Hockey Game Was A 2-1 Creighton's Team Victory In Montreal On March 3, 1875 In Victoria Skating Rink.
The First Ever Televised Murder Case Appeared On T.V. In 1955, Dec. 5-9. The Accused Was Harry Washburn.
The First Female Guest Host Of Saturday Night Live Was Candace Bergen.
The First Female Monster To Appear On The Big Screen Was Bride Of Frankenstein.
The First Ford Cars Had Dodge Engines.
The First Issue Of People Magazine, In 1974, Cost 35 Cents And Featured Actress Mia Farrow On The Cover.
The First Letter Vanna White Ever Turned On Wheel Of Fortune Was The Letter T.
The First Letters Of The Months July Through November, In Order, Spell The Name Jason.
The First Man To Distill Bourbon Whiskey In The United States Was A Baptist Preacher-In 1789.
The First Owner Of The Marlboro Company Died Of Lung Cancer.
The First Police Force Was Established In Paris 1667.
The First Product Motorola Started To Develop Was A Record Player For Automobiles. At That Time The Most Known Player On The Market Was The Victrola, So They Called Themselves Motorola.
The First Real Motion Picture Theatre Was Called A Nickelodeon (Admission Was A Nickel) And Opened In Mckeesport Pennsylvania Near Pitsberg In 1912
The First Motion Picture Shown There Was The Great Train Robbery.
The First Recorded Occurrence Of A Tornado Was June 10, 1671
The First Telephone Book Ever Issued Contained Only Fifty Names. It Was Published In New Haven, Connecticut, By The New Haven District Telephone Company In February, 1878.
The First Word Spoken By An Ape In The Movie Planet Of The Apes Was Smile.
The First Words That Thomas A. Edison Spoke Into The Phonograph Were, Mary Had A Little Lamb.
The Flag Of The U.K. Is Properly Known As The Union Flag. It Is Only Called The Union Jack When It Is Flown From The Jack Mast Of A Ship.
The Founder Of Jc Penny Had The Last Name Of Cash.
The Future's Museum In Sweden Contains A Scale Model Of The Solar System. The Sun Is 105 Metres In Diameter And Hte Planets Range From 5MM To 6 KM From The 'Sun.' This Particular Model Also Contains The Nearest Star Proxima Centauri, Still To Scale Situated In The Museum Of Victoria... In Australia.
The German Bundestag, Or Parliament, Has 672 Members And Is The World's Largest Elected Legislative Body.
The German Kaiser Wilhelm Ii Had A Withered Arm And Often Hid The Fact By Posing With His Hand Resting On A Sword, Or By Holding Gloves.
The Geysir ('Gusher') Near Mt Hekla In South-Central Iceland, From Which All Others Have Been Named, Spurts On Occasions To 180 Ft, While The Adjacent Strokkur, Reactivated By Drilling In 1963, Spurts At 10-15 Min Intervals.
The Giant Cricket Of Africa Enjoys Eating Human Hair.
The Giant Squid Has The Largest Eyes In The World.
The Glue On Israeli Postage Stamps Is Certified Kosher.
The Golden Gate Bridge Was First Opened In 1937.
The Grand Canyon Was Not Seen By A White Man Until After The Civil War. It Was First Entered On May 29,1869, By The Geologist John Wesley Powell.
The Grateful Dead Were Once Called The Warlocks.
The Greatest Measured Water Discharge Was An Estimated 740,000-1,000,000 Gallons By The Giant Geyser, Also In Yellowstone National Park. However, This Estimate Made In The 1950S, Was Only A Rough Calculation.
The Guards Of Some Of The Emperors Of Byzantium Were Vikings.
The Harmonica Is The World's Most Popular Instrument.
The Heat Of Peppers Is Rated On The Scoville Scale.
The Height Of The Eiffel Tower Varies As Much As Six Inches Depending On The Temperature.
The Heraldic Term Gules, Meaning Red, Comes From The French Word Gueules, Meaning A Throat.
The Highest Motorway In England Is The M62 Liverpool To Hull. At Its Peak It Reaches 1221 Feet Above Sea Level Over The Saddleworth Moor (Greater Manchester) The Burial Ground Of The Victims Of The Infamous Myra Hindley, Moors Murderer.
February Is Black History Month.
The Highest Wind Velocity Ever Recorded In The United States Was 231 Miles Per Hour, On Mount Washington, New Hampshire, In 1934
The Hippo Has Skin An Inch And A Half Thick, So Solid That Most Bullets Cannot Go Through.
The Holes In Fly Swatters Are Used To Lower Air Resistance.
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 Honey Badger Can Withstand Hundreds Of African Bee Stings That Would Kill Any Other Animal
The Hoover Dam Was Built To Last 2,000 Years. The Concrete In It Will Not Even Be Fully Cured For Another 500 Years.
The Horse's Name In The Song Jingle Bells Is Bobtail.
The Hottest Chile In The World Is The Habanero.
The Housefly Hums In The Middle Octave, Key Of F.
The Hudson River Along The Island Of Manhattan Flows In Either Direction Depending On The Tide.
The Human Brain Is So Complex; That It Would Cost Over 8 Billion For Anyone To Program,And Sell A Computer(S) To Do All The Things It Does!
The Human Brain Stops Growing At The Age Of 18.
The Human Eye Sees Everthing Upside-Down, But The Brain Turns It Right Side Up.
The Human Tooth Has 55 Miles Of Canal In It.
The Hundred Billionth Crayon Made By Crayola Was Perriwinkle Blue.
The Hundred Years War Lasted For 116 Years.
The Hyoid Bone, In Your Throat, Is The Only Bone In The Body Not Attached To Any Other Bone.
The Infinity Sign Is Called A Lemniscate.
The Inhabitants Of Monaco Are Known As 'Monegasques'.
The Japanese Translation Of Switch Is Pronounced Suitchi.
The Jolly Green Giant Is 68 Years Old.
The Katydid Bug Hears Through Holes In Its Hind Legs.
The Kidneys Filter About 500 Gallons Of Blood Each Day.
The Largest Apple Pie Ever Baked Was 40 X 23 Feet.
The Largest Country In Africa Is The Sudan. The Arc Of The Covenent Is Said To Be Located In Axum, Ethiopia.
The Largest Employer In The World Is The Indian Railway System, Employing Over A Million People.
The Largest Object That Was Ever Found In The Los Angeles Sewer System Was A Motorcycle.
The Largest Prime Number Is 13, 395 Digits Long; More Than The Number Of Atoms In The Universe.
The Largest School In The World Is A K-12 School In The Phillipines, With An Enrollment Of 25,000.
The Largest Taxi Fleet In The World Is Found In Mexico City. The City Boasts A Fleet Of Over 60,000 Taxis.
The Largest Volcano Known Is On Mars: Olympus Mons, 370 Miles Wide And 79,000 Feet High, Is Almost Three Times Higher Than Mount Everest.
The Jolly Green Giant Is 68 years old.
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