FOOD
if Jell-O is hooked up to an EEG, it registers movement idenyical to the brain waves of a healthy adult.
the original twinkies filling was banana; it was replaced by vanilla-flavored cream during World War II, when the United States experienced a banana
shortage
on average, a Twinkie will explode in a microwave in forty0five seconds.
there are seven loops in the squiggle atop every hostess cupcake.
there are approximately 1,750 o's in every can of spaghetti Os.
there are 1,218 peanuts in single twenty-eight ounce jar of Jif peanut butter.
peanut butter was invented by St. Louis physician Ambrose Straub, who, concerned about the nutrition of his elderly, toothless patients, concocted a health-food product that was high in protein and easily digestible.
peanut butter's high protein content draws moisture from your mouth- which is why, in the end, it always sticks to the roof of your mouth.
McDONALD'S
one hundred shares of McDonald's stock purchased fir $2,250 when first offered in 1965 was worth more than $1.4 million in 1995.
the largest McDonald's is in Beijing, China. it measures more than twenty-eight thousand square feet, seats seven hundred, and has two kitchens and twenty-nine registers.
McDonald's milkshakes contain seaweed-- in the firm of an extract called carrageenan, a thickeber and emulsifier that keeps the butterfat in the shake fron separating out.
the biggest menu flops at McDonald's include Kolacky, a Bohemian pastry that had been founder Ray Kroc's mother's specialty, and aimed at vegetarians (as well as Catholics who didn't eat fish on Fridays) and consisted of two slices of cheese and a grilled pineapple ring on a toasted bun.
McDonald's teaches its employees that the fastest way to put out a shortening fire is to dump frozen french fries on it.
MORE FOOD
some fast-food chains spray sugar on their potatoes, which caramelizes during cooking and gives the fries a golden color.
in 1853, George Crum, the head chef at Moon's Lake House in Saratoga Springs, New York, was insulted when hotel guest Cornelius Vanderbilt, the well-known railroad tycoon, sent back his dish of french fries, demanding that they be cut thinner and fried longer. in anger, Crum decided to teach the commodore a lesson and shaved off paper-thin slices of potatoes, threw them into a tub of ice water, let them soak, and dropped them into a vat of boiling grease. When they came out curled and fried crisp, he sprinkled salt on them and sent the potatoes back to the Vanderbilt table. Crum was bowled over when the guest sent back their compliments and requested another order. Soon, "Saratoga chips" (later to become simply "potato chips") were a featured item on the hotel's menu.
CANDY
M&M's owe their success to the United States military, which was hungrey for a candy that could hold up in G.I.'s pockets and backpacks and could be eaten without their trigger finger getting sticky.
the original package of M&M's contained brown, yellow, orange, red, green, and violet-colored candies; violet was dropped in favor of tan in 1949. the red ones were also taken out of the mix, in 1976, but not because they contained red dye no. 2; rather, it was because company officials were afraid that customers would think they did.
life savers got their signature shape by accident, when the machine employed to press out a standard circular mint malfunctioned, inadvertently punching a hole in each.
the Hershry's Kiss got its name from the pucking sound made by the manufacturing equipment as chocolate was dropped onto the conveyor brlt during the prodution process.
DRINKS
Coca-Cola was first marketed as "the best cure for a hangover," and early production contained trace amounts of coca leaves, which, when processed, render cocaine.
Dom Perignon, the man commonly recognized for perfecting the process of both making and bottling champagne, was a Benedictine monk.
In 1891, Philadelphia inventor James Henry Mitchell revolutionized the packaged-cookie business by building an apparatus that could combine a hollow cookie crust with a fruit filling. the machinery was quickly bought by the Kennedy Biscuit Works in Boston, which had established the tradition of naming their cookies and crackers after towns in the immediate are. since the company already had the Beacon Hill and the Brighton, this fruit-filled number was christened the Newton. and although with a range of jam centers, fig quickly proved to be the most popular; hence the cookies officially became known as the Fig Newton.
COOKIES
while making cookies for her hotel guest one evening, Ruth Wakefield lacked the powdered coca called for in the recipe, so she substituted tiny bits of chopped chocolate in it's place. unexpectedly, the chocolate pieces did not melt in backing but, rather, held their shape, softening only slightly to a creamy texture. she served the cookies anyways, naming them Toll House after the inn she owned.
the Maxwell House was a luxury hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, known for its coffee.
COFFEE
in 1903, a shipload of coffee consigned to European businessmarm Ludwig Roselius accidentallly got drenched during a storm at sea. since the beans were no longer fit for commercial sale, Roselius used the cargo for research that soaling coffee beans in water was the key to decaffeination. when further experimenting proved that he could remove practically all the caffeine, but not the flavor or aroma, he called the product Sanka, a derivation of the French phrase sans caffeine.
EVEN MORE FOOD
Besieged by customers' request, Cleveland restaurant owner (and former chef at New York's plaza Hotel) Hector Boiardi decided to bottle his famouse spaghetti and meat sauce. with local success came an offer for national distribution, but, fearing that Americans would have trouble pronouncing (not to mention remembering) his Italian surname, he marketed and sold his tasty treat under the phonetic spelling, "Boy-ar-dee."
in 1880, the flour produced by Washburn, Crosby & Co., a Minnesota miler, took first place at an international exhibition held in Cincinnati. sensing the public relations potential in their victory, company officials decided to start marketing their ward-winnig product under the name Gold Medal. but when an avalanche of mail poured in from housewifes requesting recipes (or asking about baking problems), the men who ran Washburn, Crosby felt the responses they sent back should come from a women. so Betty Crocker was born. the name familiar and friendly; "Crocker" was chosen to honor William Crocker, a former director of the company.
at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, Ernest Hamwi opened up a concession to sell zalabia, a crisp, waferlike persian pastry backed on a flat waffle iron and topped with sugar, fruit, or other sweets. the stand next to hamwi's offered ice cream in five- and ten- cent dishes. when one day business was extremely brisk and the ice cream vendor ran out of glass cups, the quick-thinking Hamwi rolled one of his wafers into a cornucopia, let it cool, and then scooped the ice cream into its mouth. TA-dah....the first ice cream cone.
the flavor we think of as bubble gum is a combination of wintergreen, vanilla, and cassia (a form of cinnamon)
RANDOM
the canning process for herring was developed in Sardinia, which is why canned herrings are better known as sardines.
wedding cake was originally thrown at the bride and groom, instead of eaten by them
a chef's hat is tall and ballons at the top so as to counteract the intense heat in the kitchen; the unique shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool.
before attendind the cordon bleu, before mastering the art of French cooking, Julia Child did intelligence work for the Office of strategic Services in India and China during Worls War II
the five interlocking Olympic rings are black, blue, red, white, and yellow because at least one of these colors appears on every national flag.
BANKS
one of the highest priced single purchases ever charged to an American Express card was $2.5 million- for a painting by Roy Lichtenstein.
the original American Express card was purple (and was for eleven years, until the green card replaced it in 1969)
banks are commonly shaped like pigs because in the righteenth century frugal people saved their money in earthenware jars made of dense orange clay known as pygg
MONEY
the dollar sign is a cambination of letters P and S, PS being the abbreviation for pesos, the principal coin in circulation in the US until 1794, when we began marketing our own dollars.
the paper used to Make money is composed of linen and several types of cotton, including denim--which gives it its unique fabriclike feel and durability
most American currency contains microprinted messages to prevent counterfeiting:
one the one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" and a spider hidden at the upper right.
the phrase "United States of America" is camouflaged within the lapel of Benjamin Franklin's jacket on the newer one-hundred-dollar bill.
the same twenty-six states engraved across the top of the actual Lincoln Memorial are listed atop the image of the Memorial seen on the back of the five dollar bill.
a dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
a portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt appears on the dime because of his work on behalf of the March of Dimes and its battle against polio, the disease that crippled him.
PRESIDENTS/BUILDINGS
three of the first five U.S. Presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe- died on July 4th
James Madison, the forth President of the U.S., stood only five feet four inches tall and weighed less than one hundred pounds.
when the gray exterior of the Presidential Mansion was painted white to cover fire damage caused by British Forces in the War of 1812, the change in color brought along a change in name: the White House.
there is a subtle change in color in the Washington Mouument about one-third of the way up, because during the construction process builders changed materials- from Maryland marble to Massachusetts marble.
the pentagon, one of the largest office building in the world, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary, because when it was built Virginia laws still required separate toilets facilities for blacks and whites.
while his wife spent long hours posing for the figure, the model for the face of the Statue of Liberty was Charlotte Bartholdi, mother of the French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholodi, who designed it.
ART
Portrait artist James Whistler decided to paint his mother when the person who had scheduled an appointment with him failed to show.
the man who commissioned the Mona Lisa refused it.
BUILDINGS
Big Ben is not a clock, but the thirteen-ton bell inside the clock tower of England's House of Parliament.
the flashing warning light atop the Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood also spells out H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D in Morse code.
CREAM
in 1899, pharmacist George Bunting blended his own cold cream, which, in addition to removing makeup and relieving sunburn, gained popularity for its ability to cure eczema. the "no eczema" claim not only became the product's major selling point, it also gave it its name Noxzema
CHINA
sunglasses date back to fifteenth-century China, where they were worn by judges to conceal their expressions while presiding over court.
the idea of painting fingernails originated in China, where the color of someone's nails indicated their social rank.
AVON
"Avon" comes from Stratford-on-Avon, since it was volumes of Shakespeare that company founder David McConnell first sold door-to-door. however, when the complimentary vial of perfume he gave to each housewife proved more popular than the book, a cosmetics company was born.
KITCHEN
the first piece of Tupperware was a bathroom tumbler- and was sold only in department stores.
the kitchen dishwasher was invented by the socialite wife of an Illinois politician, not because she was fed up with the ho-hum chore of dirty dishes but because she had had it with carless servents eho too frequently broke her expensive china while washing it.
the microwave was born when an engineer testing a magnetron tube noticed that the radiation leaking from it had caused the chocolate bar in his pocket to melt.
PEN
following the sale success of his disosable ballpoint pen in Europe, French businessman Marcel Bich was ready to take on the international market. he had named the product after himself, but realizing that Americans would incorrectly pronounce the name (spelled Bich) as b***h, he smartly dropped the H and called his pen Bic.
a book of maps is called an atlas because early editions commonly featured a picture of Atlas, carrying the world on his shoulder, on the cover.
MOVIES/BOOKS
according to author L. Frank Baum, the name Oz was thought up when he looked at his filing cabinet and noticed one drawer marked A-G, a second tagged H-N, and a third labeled O-Z.
Erich Segal, the Author of Love Story, was one of Love Story, was one of the screenwriters of Yello Submarine.
"Cinderella" has been made into a movie more times than any other story.
from Russia with Love was chosen as the second James Bond novel to be adapted as a film after President John Kennedy listed it as one of his ten favorite books of all time.
the computer in 2001: a Space Odyssey was called HAL as a tongue-in-check reference to IBM. the name was derived from the fact that the letters H-A-L precede the letters I-B-M in the alphabet.
to make things easier while mixing the American Graffiti sound track, George Lucas and sound designer Walter Murch labeled all of the dialogue tracks D, and then numbered each of them sequentially, starting with 1. when murch later asked lucas for reel 2, dialogue 2-or more precisely R2,D2- lucas liked the way it sounded so much that he made a note of the name for another project he was writing.
it was the sight of Clark Gable peeling a raw carrot with a penknife, then munching on it (as he attempted to teach Claudette Colbert how to hitchhike) in It Happened One Night that inspired Warner Brothers animator Bob Clampett to give Bugs Bunny his signature carrot chomp.
the sight of oranges in all three Godfather films signals that death (or a close call) is about to happen.
director Wes Craven named Freddy Krueger after a kid who bullied him in school.
Petter Sellers modeled his portrayal of Inspector Clouseau- particularly the mustache and the proud stance- after Captain Matthew Webb, the first person to swim the English Channel.
Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl began life as Bogart Slwpt Here (changed from the first title, Gable Slept Here) and was based on Dustin Hoffman's life as a struggling actor prior to The Graduate.
in The Graduate, the parts of Benjamin Braddock and Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft) were originally offered to Robert Redford and Doris Day.
Burt Reynolds was cast as Han Solo in Star Wars, but dropped out before filming began.
the title role in Beetlejuice was written for Sammy Davis Jr.
all of the still photos of Forrest Gump picture him with his eyes closed.
according to the film's animators, you'll see 6,469,952 black spots every time you watch 101 Dalmatians.
in Pulp Fiction, the word f**k is used 257 times.
22 cigarettes are smoked in Casablanca.
because the studio expected it to bomb, the budget of Casablanca was so low that the plane used in the background of the final acene was a small cardboard cutout. to give it the illusion of being fullsized, the producers hired midgets to portray the crew preparing it for takeoff.
despite its 216- minute running time, Lawrence of Arabia has no women in speaking role.
Marilyn Monroe developed her signature walk by hacking off the heel of one shoe.
Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones was the college roommate (Harvard, class of 1969) of Vice President Al Gore.
when the name Alan Smithee is credited as a film's director it means that the real director has disavowed the project and does not want his or her real name to be used.
Annie Hall was originally written and shot as a murder mystery, but during postproduction Woody Allen realized that the strongest footage was of the relationship between the two main character, so the film was pared down and reedited as a romantic comedy.
the signature line drawing of Alfred Hitchcock's profile was drawn by Alfred Hitchcock.
Hitchcock purchased the film rights to Robert Bloch's novel Psycho anonymously- and then proceeded to buy up as many copies of the book as he could in order to keep the ending a secret.
the stabbing sound the knife makes in the shower scene in Psucho is in fact the sound of a knife stabbing a melon.
a recording of a camel's moan was slowed down and used as the sound of the tornado in Twister.
houseflies hum in the key of F
cats have two sets of vocal chords.
tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
the venus flytrap feeds primarily on ants, not flies.
the female praying mantis chews her partner's head off during mating.
each instance of dog poop that goes unscooped attracts approximately 144 flies.
the number of cricket chirps you count in a fifteen-second interval, plus thirty-seven, will tell you the current air temperature.
bulls are color-blind and cannot see red. it is the bright color and motion of the cape that causes them to charge.
bullwhips, when properly snapped, exceed speeds of 742 miles per hour, thus breaking the sound barrier.
the ostrich cannot fly, but it can outrun a racehorse.
an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
the original Volkswagen Beetle was commissioned by Adolf Hitler and designed by Ferdinand Porsche.
in the early 1920s, taxicab company owner John Hertz (who would later go on to start a rental car business) funded a University of Chicago study to determine which color in the spectrum was most visible from a far distance. when the answer came back "yellow," he had all of the cars in his fleet painted exactly that, beginning a tradition that would catch on nationwide, and carry over to school buses and traffic signs.
the name Jeep derivative of the expression "G.P.," military slang for General Purpose Vehicle.
the name Nike emanates from Greek mythology; appropriately, she was the winged goddess of victory.
the company's famed swoosh logo was purchased from the portfolio of a student at Portland State- for thirty-five dollars. the design was positioned to not only serve as a product ID but also to give the shoe additional lateral support.
Nike's signature design came when a former runner at the University of Oregon and his college coach, in an attempt to build a better, lighter sneaker, took a piece of rubber, stuck it into a waffle iron, and crafted a crisscross patterned sole that markedly increased traction.
when G.H. Bass introduced a casual slip-on loafer based on one being manufactured and worn in Oslo, he paid tribute to the shoe's Norwegian roots and called his version Weejuns.
Panama hats are actually made in Ecuador.
the Beach Boys toyed with calling themselves the Pendletons, figuring that if they did they would get free shirts.
when former chicken-plucker-turned-singer Ernest Evans decided to change his name, he chose Chubby Checker to honor his idol, Fat Domino.
among the 437 "folk and roll singers" who answered the 1965 audition call to be a Monkee were Stephen Stills (who was rejected because he had bad teeth and a receding hairline) Harry Nilsson, and Paul Williams.
two years later, when the group went out on their first concert tour, their nonbilled opening act was Jimi Hendrix.
because of Davy Jone's huge popularity as a member of The Monkees, another young singer in London, also named David Jones, was forced to change his name.....to David Bowie.
the jukebox got its name from jook, African-American slang for "dance"
Kemo sabe means "white shirt" in Apache.
Tip is an acronym for "to insure promptness" and once upon a time was given in advance.
the word news was coined from the fact that early daily papers carried images of globes on their mastheads and boasted that their reports came from all directions- North, East, West, and South.
X's symbolize kisses because in ancient days, when few people knew how to write, they would simply sign an X to show their agreement, then kiss the mark to emphasize their sincerity.
the phrase hanky panky stems from the magician's practice of using a handkerchief in one hand to distract the audience from noticing what he is doing with the other.
no word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple
the only word in the English language with five vowels in a row is queuing, unless you spell meow "m-i-a-o-u" (as some dictionaries do), in which case miaouing also has five.
stewardesses is the longest word that is typed using only the left hand.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
there are portions of Wisconsin that are farther east then parts of Florida.
Podunk is in Massachusetts.
in terms of area, Juneau, Alaska is the largest city in the U.S., yet it can only be reached by boat or plane.
there is a regulation-size half-court on which employees can play basketball inside the Matterhorn at Disneyland.
the gold decorating the exterior of It's a Small World st Disneyland isn't paint but, in fact, twenty-four-karat gold leaf.
when Disneyland opened in 1955, Tomorrowland represented a city from 1986.
an unbelievably rude waiter at Oscar's Tavern in New York so unintentionally amused Muppet creator Jim Henson and Sesame Street director Jon Stone that he inspired the creation of Oscar the Grouch.
Bert and Ernie are believed to be named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in It's a Wonderful Life.
Big Bird's costume is made of turkey feathers, dyed yellow.
the original Clarabelle in Howdy Doody was played by Bob Keeshan, who went on to become Captain Kangaroo. the first Ronald McDonald was today show personality Willard Scott.
the three-tone musical chime that identifies NBC is composed of three notes G,E, and C which is short for the company's original (and now current) owner, General Electric Corporation.
Seinfeld wasn't Jerry Seinfeld's first sitcom. he played the governor's speechwriter on Benson, but was fired after 3 episodes.
the coffee shop frequented by Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer was called Monk's because there was a Thelonious Monk poster in the office where Seinfeld and cocreator Larry David would write.
the mob squad was based on a true story.
in most TV commercials and print advertisements, the hands on a watch are set at 10:10 because that arrangement draws attention to the logo and frames the manufacturer's name.
Aunt Harriet, the matriarch of stately Wayne mansion, never existed in the comic-book version of Batman but was created specifically for the TV series because producers feared that two bachelors (and a butler!) living together had homosexual overtones.
Ralph Kramden's address in the Honeymooners-328 Chauncey Street- was actually the real address of Jackie Gleason's childhood home.
the X-Files's Detective Scully was named in honor of Vin Scully, the well-loved announcer for the Los Angeles Dodgers. "Mulder" for the record, in show creator Chris Carter's mother's maiden name.
on Happy Day, creator Garry Marshall originally planned to call the motorcycle-riding tough guy Arthur Masciarelli, which is his real life family surname. But that made the character's nickname Mash; since there was already a successful book, movie, and TV series known as that, Masciarelli became Fonzarelli, and Henry Winkler became the Fonz.
Bullwinkle was the name of a car dealership in Oakland, California.
June Foray, the voice of Rocky, the flying squirrel, was also the voice of the Chatty Cathy doll.
Barbie's last name is Roberts.
a standard-size Slinky comprises eighty feet of wire.
Lincoln Logs were invented by John Lloyd Wright, the son of Frank Lloyd Wright. he got the idea from a building technique his father had used in designing Tokyo's Imperial Hotel.
Silly Putty resulted from a failed World War II effort to develop an inexpensive synthetic substitute for rubber.
Play-Doh was originally formulated as a compound to clean wallpaper.
the ingredient believed to give the clay its unique smell is vanilla.
the smell of crayola crayons is so familiar that it is one of the twenty most recognizable scents to American adults 9ranking up there with coffe and peanut butter) and so soothing that sniffing them has been proven to lower blood pressure.
in the 1970s, in order to stop kids from sniffing airplane glue, the manufacturers added an intense oil of mustard to the formula.
the total amount of money in a standard Monopoly game is $15,140; real money was slipped into packs of play money that were smuggled into POW camps inside Germany during World War II.
the fifty-two playing cards in a typical deck represent the fifty-two weeks in a year; the four suits, the four seasons.
six eight-stud lego pieces can be combined 102,981,500 ways.
the Rubik's Cube can be twisted and turned into over forty-three quintillion (43,252,003,274,489,856,000. to be exact) configurations in the attempt to line up one solid color on all six sides.
Mexican jumping beans jump because there is a actual one-quarter-inch caterpillar trapped inside.
the liquid inside a Magic 8-ball consists of water, blue coloring, and propylene glycol, an antifreeze to keep the solution from turning solid during shipping.
the Ouija board got its name from the combination of the French and German words for "yes"- oui and ja
the name Atari was chosen so that consumers would think that the Northern California-based company was Japanese.
despite repeated requests for Elvis, the only real people ever depicted as Pez dispensers have been Bestsy Ross and Daniel Boone.
Donald Duncan-of Duncan Yo-Yo fame- was also responsible for marketing the first parking meters.
the nail on both thumbs of every G.I. Joe is deliberately cast on the inside (as opposed to the outside) of the hand so as to give the action figure an easily identifiable characteristic that doubled as a trademark.
on the average, we forget 80% of what we learn on any given day.
!!!!!!NEW!!!!!!
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
he Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
Slugs have 4 noses!
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!.
There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!
Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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