oh yeah this is a long long list
Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =12,345,678,987,654,321
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of a $5 bill.
American indians were named after the first thing their mothers saw when leaving their teepees - but I've never met one with a name such as cooking pot, tourist, or pile of dung.
Back in the day when printed material required each letter on the sheet to be carefully laid out in a print box, the letters "p" and "q" were sometimes mistaken for one another, and that's where the phrase "mind your 'p's and 'q's" comes from.
Cloth came in bolts of nine yards of the fabric. Elaborate clothes were constructed out of the entire bolt, and so making those clothing items goes "the whole nine yards".
Grape jelly does not melt in hot tea.
If you open a curad bandaid in the dark that has the two adhesive strips on the sides of the wrapper, the two adhesive strips will glow blue!
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase 'goodnight, sleep tight' came from.
In the english language, the number four is the only number to have the same number of letters as the number itself.
More money is spent world wide on Chicago Bulls merchandise then the entire economy of New Zealand.
More people are killed by donkeys than plane crashes.
No President of the United States was an only child.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
On the new five dollar bills, they cut down on the number of states on the back. Mississippi did not make the cut.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'.
Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
Termites eat wood twice as fast if you play loud music.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The characters Bert and Ernie were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's 'Its A Wonderful Life'.
The continents names all end with the same letter they start with.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year. When it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tub and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The original color of coca-cola was green.
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 term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.
The word 'trivia' comes from latin Tri Via, a newspaper named after a place where three roads came together.
The word Assassin comes from the word Hashish (the drug). the Assassins were a group of arabs in the 12th century C.E. who smoked hashish and were the first group of paid murderers that the west encountered
There is 336 dimples on a golf ball
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
To proliferate the species, aphids produce by virgin birth for three generations!
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
W.W. 2 fighter pilots loading their planes with ammo would stretch the 50-caliber machine gun belts on the ground, measuring 27 feet.when all the ammo was expended at a target it was said to have gotten 'The Whole Nine Yards'
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
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