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n champagne bottles, the dent in the bottom is called the"kick" or "punt."
The average age of a new grandparent in the U.S. is 47.
Olive trees can live to be 1,500 years old.
The average water temperature of showers in the U.S. is 105 degrees Fahrenheit.
Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.
Blackbeard's pirate ship was named Queen Anne's Revenge.
"Amateur" comes from the Latin "amator," meaning "lover."
Dr. Jeckyll's first name was Henry. Mr. Hyde's was Edward.
Mail carriers in Great Britain report fewer dog bites than mail carriers in any other country.
Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.
Kevlar is the brand name for poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, a molecule created by DuPont.
Hair grows more slowly at night.
Blondie, Dagwood's wife in the "Blondie" comic strip, had a maiden name. It was Boopadoop.
"Nostophobia" is the fear of returning home.
The rhesus monkey is the only animal that can be taught to hum a tune.
The full name of Chucky, star of Child's Play and the sequels that followed, is Charles Lee Ray. It's a mix of Charles Manson, James Earl Ray and Harvey Oswald.
"Jolly green," "ashes," "Indian boy," and "laughing grass" are all street terms for marijuana.
Frogs use their eyeballs to push food down their throat.
The Philippines is made up of 7,107 islands.
Catherine the Great relaxed by being tickled.
The average American eats 46 slices of pizza a year.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.
The average man spends about 3,500 hours of his life shaving, removing about 30 feet of whiskers.
Buckingham Palace has more than 600 rooms.
The production number assigned to The Wizard of Oz by MGM was 1060.
Twinkies are 68 percent air.
The largest school in the world is City Montessori School in India. The school has more than 25,000 students, with grades ranging from kindergarten to college.
The Grateful Dead were a one-hit wonder. Their only top 10 hit was "Touch of Gray."
Olympic badminton rules say that the shuttlecock has to have exactly 16 feathers.
The Earth orbits the Sun at a speed of 67,000 miles per hour.
There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.
Alaska could hold the 21 smallest states.
At age 12, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued, every single day, for 91 years.
A rhinoceros produces up to 60 pounds of droppings in the course of a day.
There are 24 flowers on each Oreo cookie.
When Egyptian conquered Libya in the 13th century B.C., they took possession of 13,320 penises of their defeated enemy.
Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
One out of four children in the U.S. is overweight.
The average canary has about 2,200 feathers.
Americans eat 12 billion bananas each year.
The Pentagon has 284 restrooms.
One billion seconds is about 32 years.
The black lines on a basketball are called the "channels."
The average bank robbery yields just $4,400 for the criminal.
Napoleon had an enema every day.
Americans have sex 132 times per year, on average.
In Maryland, it's illegal to play the novelty hit, Short People, by Randy Newman, on the radio.
Each employee at Ben & Jerry's headquarters gets three pints of free ice cream a day.
Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars.
It costs .81 cents to mint a penny.
When McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Kuwait in 1994, the drive-through line was seven miles long.
Popeye's hometown was Sweethaven.
The average person speaks 125 to 150 words per minute.
The first vertebra is called the "atlas," because it holds up the head.
"Stygiophobia" is the fear of hell.
Shaggy from Scooby-Doo's real name is Norville Rogers. His home address is 224 Maple Street, Coolsville.
Hares and rabbits never mate with each other.
The U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces about 37 million notes a day.
Jimmy Hendrix was a "one-hit wonder." He only cracked the top 20 one time, with "All Along the Watchtower."
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. That's the equivalent of a human jumping the length of a football field.
There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
Mata Hari's real name was Margaretha Zelle. She took the stage name Mata Hari when she became an exotic dancer, prior to becoming a spy during World War I. |