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Useless Facts

The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.	The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.   Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:  Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts-Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.	In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.	Add your content here	The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.	Playing cards in India are round.	Add your content here
Mosquito repellents don't repel.  They hide you.  The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.	A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.	An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.	The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.	Add your content here	Add your content here	Add your content here
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.   A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.	The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.	The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.	The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.	TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.	Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.	Add your content here
The only planet without a ring is earth.	A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened.	The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 Oz.   There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.	Ingrown toenails are hereditary.		A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.   A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.	The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.	On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.	Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."	Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.	Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.	Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.	Add your content here
In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.	It takes about 2,893 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop.	Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.	Almonds are members of the peach family.	The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.	American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.	Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Add your content here			Add your content here	Add your content here	Walt Disney was afraid of mice.	Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.	The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.	John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.	Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.	Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.	Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticeably shorter than his right.   Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.	The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

Misc Famous People...

Musicians, Actors, and Historians.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.   Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the first three   Star Wars movies, was a hospital porter in London before starring as the Wookie.   Sheryl Crow's front two teeth are fake - she had them knocked out when she tripped on the stage earlier in her career.   The actor who played Wedge in the original Star Wars trilogy has a famous nephew: actor Ewan McGregor, who plays the young Obi-Wan in the new Star Wars film.   Hitler was claustrophobic. The large elevator leading to his eagles nest in the Austrian Alps was mirrored so it would appear larger and more open.   Jim Morrison, of the 60's rock group The Doors, was the first rock star to be arrested on stage.   Hans Christian Andersen, creator of fairy tales, was word-blind. He never learned to spell correctly, and his publishers always had the spelling errors corrected.   Frank Lloyd Wright's son invented Lincoln Logs.   Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear. His "Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear'' shows the right one bandaged because he painted the mirror image.   Peter Falk, who played "Columbo," has a glass eye.   The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavour space shuttle from September 12-20, 1992.   Besides Star Trek, William Shatner, Leonard Nemoy, James Doohan, and Geoge Takei have all appeared at one time or another on "The Twilight Zone."   The original captain of Star Trek's starship "Enterprise" was Jeffrey Hunter - not William Shatner - as Christopher Pike, in the pilot episode "The cage" (1964). The cast was quite different from that of the classic series except for Leonard Nimoy as Spock.   The mother of Michael Nesmith of "The Monkees" invented whiteout.   Screech, from "Saved by the Bell," was the only one of the characters who played in all the episodes from the junior high, with Mrs. Bliss, to "Saved by the Bell: The New Class."   Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.   Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.   Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.   Marilyn Monroe had six toes.   The shortest British monarch was Charles I, who was 4 feet 9 inches.   Tina Turner's real name is Annie Mae Bullock.   Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.   One of the many Tarzans, Karmuala Searlel, was mauled to death by a raging elephant on set.   Elizabeth 1st suffered from anthophobia (a fear of roses).   Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.   All 17 children of Queen Anne died before her.   President John F Kennedy could read 4 newspapers in 20 minutes.   All U.S Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.   "Moon" was Buzz Aldrin's (second man on the moon) mother's maiden name.   Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the two left-handed Beatles.   Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.   Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.   Gary Burgoff (Radar on MASH) always kept his left hand out of the view of the camera, either in his pocket or under a clipboard, because his left had is deformed.   Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aaron - in honor of his brother.   Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words none of them with the letter "E."   Orville Wright was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.   Born on November 2, 1718, British politician, John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, is credited with naming the "sandwich". He developed a habit of eating beef between slice of toast so he could continue to play cards uninterrupted.   Cher's last name was "Sarkissian." She changed it because no one could pronounce it.   Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize winning scientist whom discovered radium, died on 4th July 1934 of radiation poisoning.   Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter.   Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic? A. He was allergic to carrots. Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)   In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.   Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."   Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry, founder of Blues Inc. They were the first electric white blues band ever seen in England--1961   Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The Skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck. The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.   The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress.   Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

Food...

Fruits, Vegetables, Fast Food, and Drinks.

Pearls melt in vinegar.   Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.   Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.   Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.   Strawberries have more vitamin C in them than oranges.   The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.   Ketchup is excellent for cleaning brass, especially tarnished and corroded brass.   Most of the vitamin C in fruits is in the skin.   If you're going to eat fast food, the odds are 2 out of 5 you will buy it at McDonald's, 1 out of 5 you will choose Burger King, and 1 out of 10 for Hardee's and for Wendy's.   Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil? A. Honey The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.   A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.   Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

Body...

Body Parts.

The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.   Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.   The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.   It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.   Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.   It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.   The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.   The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.   Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.   When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.   Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.   Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.   Children grow faster in the springtime.   It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow milk.   Women blink nearly twice as much as men.   Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.   There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).   If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.   The average human head weighs about 8 pounds.   Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.   In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.   An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.   The length of the finger dictates how fast the fingernail grows. Therefore, the nail on your middle finger grows the fastest, and on average, your toenails grow twice as slow as your fingernails.   The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.   The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).   Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.   Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.   Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.   Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.   After you die, your body starts to dry out creating the illusion that your hair and nails are still growing after death.   Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.   The average surface of the human intestine is 656 square feet (200 m).   A healthy adult can draw in about 200 to 300 cubic inches (3.3 to 4.9 liters) of air at a single breath, but at rest only about 5% of this volume is used.   The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet (2m). 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.   The pancreas produces Insulin.   The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.   The human body is comprised of 80% water.   The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.   Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.   The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).   You were born with 300 bones. When you get to be an adult, you have 206.   Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.   Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.   There are 45 miles (72 km) of nerves in the skin of a human being.   The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.   Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels.   During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.   Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.   If you lock your knee while standing long enough, you will pass out.   Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.   The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.   Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.   Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Words...

Longest, Shortest Words; Fears, Phobia's; Word Meanings In A Different Laguage.

Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards. "Zorro" means "fox" in Spanish. The two longest one-syllable words in the English language is "screeched. & strengths." Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt." There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. "Floccinaucinihilipilification" which means "the act of estimating as worthless" is the longest non-medical word in the English language; it's 29 letters long. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." Pogonophobia: The fear of beards.  In Chinese, the words "crisis" and "opportunity" are the same. "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you." "So long" came from the Arabic "salaam" and the Hebrew "shalom." The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo." The word "racecar" and "kayak" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. The word "monosyllable" actually has five syllables in it. "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. There are no words in the English language that rhyme with silver, orange, or month. The letter "I" is used exactly 109 times in Act IV of Shakespeare's "Macbeth." There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet. "Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value. "Q" is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States. The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial. The word "checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "shah mat," which means, "the king is dead." The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the English language. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable." Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village." The most common name in the world is "Mohammed." Papaphobia is the fear of Popes. The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words. The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.' The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element'. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopics- ilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovol- canoconioses, its plural. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility. Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? A. One thousand "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

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Daisies	For best results, give them plenty of sun, frequent watering, and regular fertilization.