RedStratocas
07-03-2005, 10:27 PM
Pearls melt in vinegar.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL (National football league) with enough leather for a years supply of footballs.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola and Budweiser, in that order.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David Clubs - Alexander the Great Hearts - Charlemagne Diamonds- Julius Caesar
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes and 4 pennies you have $1.19. You have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
St. Louis Rams made history being the first team which plays its home games in a domed stadium to win a Super Bowl in 2000.
Only one in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Havard.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger ,of his right hand.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL (National football league) with enough leather for a years supply of footballs.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola and Budweiser, in that order.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David Clubs - Alexander the Great Hearts - Charlemagne Diamonds- Julius Caesar
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes and 4 pennies you have $1.19. You have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
St. Louis Rams made history being the first team which plays its home games in a domed stadium to win a Super Bowl in 2000.
Only one in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Havard.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger ,of his right hand.