The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.No word in the English language rhymes with month.A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened.Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village"."Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".The word "byte" is a contraction of "by eight."The word "pixel" is a contraction of either "picture cell" or "picture element."Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star. On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.Almonds are members of the peach family.If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc.) the total is 5050.The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 megabytes.In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.Charlie Brown's father was a barber.Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.Ingrown toenails are hereditary.Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.The most common name in the world is Mohammed.On the cartoon show "The Jetsons," Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.In Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie," mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.Only humans and horses have hymens.The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation , was played by six different cats.Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.The "y" in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a "th" sound, not "y". The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827."Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called "mantles") are so radioactive that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as "Fred."Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.The longest place-name still in use isTaumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiw henuakitanatahu- a New Zealand hill.Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."A cat has 32 muscles in each earAn ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for damages that were caused by them building ships for the Confederacy. We originally asked for $1 billion but settled on $25 Million.There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is "angstschreeuw".Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distribution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being.Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement.The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch."Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons."Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.Canola oil is actually grapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons.When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life" A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open."Evian" spelled backwards is naive.The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts." There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same number with the digits in reverse order? 21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912.It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969.)Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser himself. And Greg Evigan sang the "My Two Dads" theme. Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser. Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show Growing Pains wrote the theme songs for The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes .In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.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 male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.Alexander the Great was an epileptic.The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack.Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.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.The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.Horses cannot vomit.Rabbits cannot vomit.S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash.Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant.Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.Octopi have gardens."Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? The word for mis-heard lyrics is "mondegreen," and it comes from a folk song in the 50's. The singer was actually singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like "They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen."Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible in many places - refers to "40 days," they meant many days.Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox."Strengths" is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel."Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is "typewriter."When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.During conscription for WWII, there were nine documented cases of men with three testicles.Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicleStalin was only five feet, four inches tall.Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticeably shorter than his right.Swans are the only birds with penises.A whale's penis is called a dork.Some carnivores, rodents, bats and insectivores have a penis bone, called a baculum.A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would and therefore forestall curses.The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans. (Watch out Inigo Montoya...)The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.Medieval knights put sharkskin on their sword handles to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.The only planet without a ring is earth.Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."A group of unicorns is called a blessing.Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."A group of frogs is called an army.A group of rhinos is called a crash.A group of kangaroos is called a mob.A group of whales is called a pod.A group of geese is called a gaggle.A group of ravens is called a murder.A group of officers is called a mess.A group of larks is called an exaltation.A group of owls is called a parliament.The song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress.Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.Starfish don't have brains. Shrimps' hearts are in their heads. The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streets in Rome (or some other Italian place), they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of "trivia". The holes on the edge of a cassette tell the cassette machine what type of tape is being used (i.e. chrome, normal, or metal). A four minute song on a cassette requires approximately 35ft of magnetic recording tape. A 4 minute song on a Liquid Plumber 24-track master requires 600ft of tape. Every second of audio that passes by on a typical 24-track master costs about 1 half american penny. To record 15 minutes worth of music on a 24-track master tape costs around $140 and weighs around 8 pounds, where the same length of recording can be done on an Adat for around $7.5 weighing around 1.25 pounds. So if you want to get buff record Analog or eat cheesy poofs and snacky cakes. 50% of First class mail is greeting cards. 50% of stolen vehicles are returned to their owners. 50% of Fiddler crabs are left clawed. 50% of the Mayflower passengers died within 3 months of landing. 50% of all cars in the world in 1924 were model T's. 50% of americans die without a will.

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Things you might not know...
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That's why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. "Hang On Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio. There are coffee flavored PEZ The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases. When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing", they actually pass out from sheer terror. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. 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 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs. 35% of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1. Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars. The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. The Bible has been translated into Klingon. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands. 10% of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka. 90% of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California. Average age of top GM executives: 49.8 years. Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6. Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate. 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament in their yard. Internationally, Baywatch is the most popular TV show in history.

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Facts About "Women & Sex"

70% of women who smoke have had more than 4 lovers in the last year while 60% of female non-smokers had none.
Women who respond to sex surveys in mags like Cosmo may have 5 times as many lovers as typical women.
Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don't.
Women with a Ph.D are twice as likely to be turned on by the thought of anonymous sex as women who never got a bachelor's degree.
Women who went to college are more likely to enjoy oral sex (giving and receiving) than high school dropouts.
National birthrates rise and fall with the height of heels.
In a bar or nightclub, the hemlines and necklines of unaccompanied women rise and fall (respectively) during ovulation.
Women who have a postive attitude towards sex tend to be less achievement oriented.
White teenage girls who live with single mothers are 60% more likely to have sex before the age of 18 than those who live with both parents. The percentage is much lower for Black girls.
Women who lost their virginity before their 18th birthday are likely to be twice as sexually active as women who don't.
Atheists, non-Christians and Jews tend to be more sexually active than practicing Christians.
Women who have spent a night in jail are almost 50% more likely to have had more than 10 lovers in the past year than women with no criminal record.
Australian women are more likely to have sex on the first date.
Latino women have sex more often than either Blacks or Whites, who get down at roughly the same rate.
Black women are 50% more likely than White women to come every time they have sex.
White women, especially those with a college degree, are the most receptive to anal sex.
20% of women who live with their boyfriends have more than one sex partner.

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Too Much Tax
The Gettysburg address has 269 words, the Declaration of Independence has 1,337 words, and the Holy Bible has only 773,000 words. However, the tax law has grown from 11,400 words in 1913, to 7 million words today.

There are at least 480 different tax forms, each with many pages of instructions. Even the easiest form, the 1040E has 33 pages in instructions, and all in fine print. The IRS sends out 8 billion pages of forms and instructions each year. Laid end to end, they would stretch 28 times around the earth.

Nearly 300,000 trees are cut down yearly to produce the paper for all the IRS forms and instructions. American taxpayers spend $200 billion and 5.4 billion hours working to comply with federal taxes each year, more than it takes to produce every car, truck, and van in the United States. The burden of compliance is the equivalent to a staff of 3 million people working full time for a year, just to comply with the taxes on individuals and businesses. The IRS employs 114,000 people; that's twice as many as the CIA and five times more than the FBI. 60% of taxpayers must hire a professional to get through their own return. Taxes eat up 38.2% of the average family's income; that's more than for food, clothing and shelter combined. AND THAT IS ONLY THE FEDERAL TAX -- NOT COUNTING STATE, LOCAL, PROPERTY, SALES TAX, ETC.

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True Facts
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag

All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village"

The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill

Almonds are members of the peach family

The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe

The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz

Charlie Brown's father was a barber

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously

Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)

Ingrown toenails are hereditary

In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role

Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actors' salaries.

A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur

Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery

Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers

Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth

Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth.Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box

Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."

The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world

Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser himself

Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser

The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak

The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

Alexander the Great was an epileptic

The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Horses cannot vomit. Rabbits cannot vomit

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister

Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head

Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living

Dartboards are made out of horsehairs

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball

Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox

Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles

The only planet without a ring is earth

Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks

A group of unicorns is called a blessing Emus have double-plumed feathers, and they lay emerald/forest green eggs.

Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.

Kiwi birds are blind. They hunt by smell.

Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.

It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.

Armadillos have four babies at a time, always the same sex. They are perfect quadruplets, the fertilized cell split into quarters, resulting in four identical armadillos.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

The poisonous copperhead smells like fresh cut cucumbers.

A cat has four rows of whiskers.

Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.

The eye of a giant squid is fifteen inches in diameter - the size of a basketball.

Rabbits love licorice.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

Carniverous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.

Crows have the largest cerebral hemispheres, relative to body size, of any avian family.

Emus have double-plumed feathers, and they lay emerald/forest green eggs.

dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.

Kiwi birds are blind. They hunt by smell.

Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.

It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.

It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg. Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn. The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers. Cat's urine glows under a black light. Bees must collect the nectar from two thousand flowers to make one tablespoon of honey.

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An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life! What about milk, you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is a living thing.

A flea expert is called a pullicologist.

All swans and sturgeons in England are property of the Queen. Messing with them is a serious offense!

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When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.

Big Ben was slowed five minutes one day when a passing group of starlings decided to take a rest on the minute hand.

Dalmation dogs are born pure white. They don't start getting their spots until they are three or four days old.

The embryos of tiger sharks fight with each other while in their mother's womb, the suvivor being the baby shark that is born.

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The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rymed with "rejoice".

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle;
if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle;
if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together".

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired".

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

The glue on an Israeli postage stamp is kosher.

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It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know today as the "honeymoon".

Before thermometers were invented, brewers would dip a thumb or finger into the mix to find the right temperature for adding yeast. Too cold, and the yeast wouldn't grow. Too hot, and the yeast would die. This thumb in the beer is where we get the phrase "rule of thumb".

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".

Beer was the reason the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. It's clear from the Mayflower's log that the crew didn't want to waste beer looking for a better site. The log goes on to state that the passengers "were hasted ashore and made to drink water that the seamen might have the more beer". After consuming a bucket or two of vibrant brew they called aul, or ale, the Vikings would head fearlessly into battle often without armor or even shirts. In fact, the term "berserk" means "bare shirt" in Norse, and eventually took on the meaning of their wild battles.

In 1740 Admiral Vernon of the British fleet decided to water down the navy's rum. Needless to say, the sailors weren't too pleased and called Admiral Vernon, Old Grog, after the stiff wool grogram coats he wore. The term "grog" soon began to mean the watered down drink itself. When you were drunk on this grog, you were "groggy", a word still in use today.

Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. when they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle", is the phrase inspired by this practice.

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A pig is a hog--hog is a generic name for all swine--but a hog is not a pig. In the terminology of hog raising, a pig is a baby hog less than ten weeks old.

99% of all lobsters die a few weeks after hatching. In fact, the odds are 10,000 to 1 against any larval lobster living long enough to end up as lobster dinner.

A dolphin's hearing is so acute that it can pick up an underwater sound from fifteen miles away.

The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.

It was discovered on a space mission that frogs can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

It is physicall impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

A rhinoceros's horn is made of hair.

In the last 4,000 years no new animals have been domesticated.

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Worlds Largest Insects

The heaviest insects or the Goliath Beetles from the family Scarabaeidae. The length of one species is 4.33 inches from the frontal horns to the end of the abdomen. They weigh 3.5 ounces. Almost a quarter of a pound!

The largest cockroach is Megaloblatta longipennis of Columbia The largest specimen ever recorded was a female, that measured 3.81 inches long by 1.77 inches across.

Worlds Longest Insect

The longest insect is a "stick bug" from the rain forests of Borneo. The largest specimen ever recordedis in the Natural History Museum in London. Its body length is 12.9 inches. Its total length including its legs is 20 inches!

Worlds Smallest Insect

The "feather-winged" beetles and the "battledore-wing fairy flies" are smaller than some species of protozoa (single cell creatures).

Fastest Insect

A species of Australian dragon fly has been clocked at 36 MPH.

The fastest land moving insects are the tropical cockroaches. They can move 50 body lengths per second. This would be equivalent to a human sprinter running the 100 yard dash in 1 second or approximately 200 MPH!

Most Legs

A centipede in southern Europe has 177 PAIRS of legs.

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Worlds Largest Spider
The largest spider in the world is the giant bird eating spider (Theraphosa leblondi) of Guyana, Surinam, and French Guiana. In 1965, a male speicmen was collected that had a leg span of 11.02 inches!

Worlds Smallest Spider
The worlds smallest spider is the Patu marplesi of Samoa. They are only 0.0017 inches overall. They are about 1/4 the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

Worlds Most Venemous Spider
The Brazilian wandering spiders are the most venemous spiders in the world and they are particularly aggressive. They frequently take up residence in peoples clothes or shoes and bite ferociously several times when they are disturbed. Luckily there is an antivenom to their potent neurotoxin.

Worlds Largest Butterfly
Females of the Queen Alexandra's birdwing butterfly of New Guinea may have a wing span greater than 11 inches!

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You don't have to spend good money buying those $expensive$ weed killer (Weed-Out, Weed-B-Gon, Spectracide etc.)to get rid of those pesky weeds in the cracks of your drive way, sidewalk, ornamental brick, flagstone walkways. Go to your local grocer and buy a bottle of cheap white vinegar and a box of common salt.

Pour or spray the vinegar on the weeds and watch them melt and die. Now take the salt and fill the cracks with salt. The night damp air and dew will leach the salt into the ground in the cracks. You wont have any weeds in the cracks until you use too much water or the next rainy season. This is just a couple of the things that the big "Manufactures" don't want you to know.

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Next time you see geese heading south for the winter, flying along in the "V" formation, you might be interested in knowing what science has discovered about why they fly that way.

It has been learned that as each bird flaps its wings, it creates an uplift for the bird immediately following. By flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock adds at least 71 percent greater flying range than that if each bird flew on its own.

Whenever a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to go it alone and quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird in front. When the lead goose gets tired, it rotates back in the wing and another goose flies point.

The geese honk from behind to encourage those up front to keep up their speed.

Finally,

when a goose gets sick, or is wounded by gunshot and falls out, two geese fall out of formation and follow it down to help and protect it. They stay with the goose until it is able to fly, or until it is dead; and then launch out on their own or with another formation to catch up with their original group.

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Worlds Longest Snake

The worlds longest snake was a reticulated python that was 32 feet 9 1/2 inches long. Upon seeing this beautiful and majestic creature "hunters" promptly shot it. "Hey Earl! Look at the size of that thing! Lets kill it to feed our ego's!"

Worlds Heaviest Snake

The heaviest snake on record is an Anaconda that was shot in Brazil in 1960. She was never oficially weighed but scientists estimate that her 27 feet 9 inch length and her 44 inch girth must have put her over 500 lbs!

Worlds longest Venomous Snake

The king cobra is the longe st venomous snake in the world. The longest specimen ever was kept at the London Zoo and measured 18 feet and 9 inches. Zookeepers killed it in 1939 due to the outbreak of the war. They feared it would escape the zoo and pose a threat to citizens of London. Let me get this straight...relentless Nazi bombing attacks raining down day and night and they're afraid of one snake?

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Longest Flea Jump

Of the 1,830 varieties of fleas, the champion jumper is the cat flea. It has been known to leap to a height of 34 inches. While this may not sound impressive, consider that in jumping such an icredible height relative to body size the flea is subjecting itself to over 200 g's. Imangine a 100 lb person leaping so fast and so high (over 1000 feet) that the g force he/she was enduring made he/she feel as if they weighed 10,000 lbs. Relatively, fleas take off with greater acceleration that the Space Shuttle.

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Bet ya didn't know that....

Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling. [Kids all over the world regret that the 'No Pest Strip' wasn't invented earlier]

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. [If all four legs were off the ground, the statue would fall]

Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University. [Think of the career opportunities]

Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many places -- refers to "40 days," they meant many days.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. [But, if my wife has 10 cards...]

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 year later. [Is it too late to sign my John Hancock?]

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. [It was recently replaced by "Yo!"]

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."

The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy." [This will come as a shock to Disney fans]

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.

The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune thorn to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together." [This is stage 2 of an Eskimo greeting... stage 3 often produces little Eskimos]

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. [A number you don't want to see on your phone bill]

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive--so much so that they will set off an alarm at a nuclear reactor. [Why would one carry a gas lantern into a nuclear reactor?]

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. [Bugs Bunny was allergic to Mel Blanc]

Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tetonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.)

Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator. [The translator was an amimal rights activist]

It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. [It was originally the right, but the translator screwed up again]

Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize *this* was the day of the changeover. [The translator probably suggested rush hour]

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."

In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott". [And McKoy never said, "He's ALIVE, Jim!!"]

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. [Some people just make an ass of themselves]

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown differently during times of peace or war. A portion of the flag is blue, while the other is red. The blue portion is flown on top in time of peace and the red portion is flown in war time.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. [Your space dollars, working for a better life]

Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him.

Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.

If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation. [A reassuring thought]

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike. [They don't like their meat well-done]

The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified is to poke someone's eye out. [A practice you would not want to experience twice]

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. [Presumably he's a street preacher]

Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. [Hopefully not while driving]

Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living. [And some frogs turn into handsome princes when kissed]

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 Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth. [She was also 4" long and covered with chocolate]

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young. [Although Brigham never made the pros]

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of linen. [And credit cards aren't made of credit, or cards]

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. [But if you lick Madonna's stamp, it licks you back]

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Underground is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und" ~~~~~~~~~

Random Factiods... * 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.

* Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his strange characters.

* The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.

* John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

* Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for "Lord of the Flies", and this is where the book's title comes from.

* 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.

* Before Prohibition, Shlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except The Catholic Church.

* It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is 'shake' and the 46th word from the last word is 'spear'.

* In 1986 Danny Heep became the first player in a World Series to be a designated hitter (DH) with the initials "D.H."

* In the four major US professional sports, (Baseball, Basketball, Football, and Hockey), there are only seven teams whose nicknames do not end with an "S:" Basketball: The Miami Heat, The Utah Jazz, The Orlando Magic. Baseball: The Boston Red Sox, The Chicago White Sox. Hockey: The Colorado Avalanche, The Tampa Bay Lightning. Football: None.

* In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.

* When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the full stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

* Kermit the Frog is left-handed.

* The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.

* Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

* The ashes of the average cremated person weighs nine pounds.

* The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F".

And finally...
* If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom. ~~~~~~~~~

Interesting Facts & Trivia
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
A bowling pin need only tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the fact that the astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the right side) to get an unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side because that was the side you put in on at the port. This was so that they didn't knock off the starboard!
The Japanese word "Arigato" meaning thank you is derived from the Portugese word "Obrigado". Portugal once had a thriving trade with Japan.
The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why. (Yet another reason why only us Irish would drink the stuff!)
Jupiter's core is in fact made of a non-metal, but due to the immense pressure inside Jupiter the core has become a metal. This metal is hydrogen.
A fullgrown bear can run as fast as a horse.
Every male over the 18 is considered part of the Arizona Militia according to state constitution.
The word "karate" means "empty hand."
Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.
A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.
49.6% of US residents live in Eastern time zone, 29.3% live in the Central time zone, 5.3% live in the Mountain time zone, 15.0% live in the Pacific time zone and .8% live in any other time zone.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom. (Which obviously does wonders for a good glass of champagne. On a further note, the 'ol Pirate has it on good faith that this trick doesn't work with a fine glass malt liquor)
Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard. (Rumour has it that Tommy Lee Jones was a Rhodes Scholar, along with Kris Kristofferson and Bill Clinton. Scary!)
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was "Rock the Casbah" by the Clash.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile. (That'll teach that poor schmuck not to park there again!)
If you told someone that they were one in a million, you'd be saying there were about 1,800 of them in China.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The average sixty minute audio cassette tape has 562.5 feet of tape in it, nearly two football fields long
The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40,320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit. (At least he knew which side to sign up on!)
Croatia was the first country to recognize the United States in 1776.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
There are only 14 blimps in the world, and 10 of them are in the U.S.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."
If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F. The telephone dial tone is also in the key of F.
The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof. The Chinese words for crisis and opportunity are the same.
Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
Lizzie Borden was acquitted.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

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Michael Jordan will make over $300,000 a game: $10,000 a minute, assuming he averages about 30 minutes per game.
Assuming $40 million in endorsements next year, he'll be making $178,100 a day (working or not)!
Assuming he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head.
If he goes to see a movie, it'll cost him $7.00, but he'll make $18,550 while he's there.
If he decides to have a 5 minute egg, he'll make $618 while boiling it.
He makes $7,415/hr more than minimum wage (after the wage hike)
He'll make $3,710 while watching each episode of Friends.
If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90,000) it would take him a whole 12 hours.
If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money, they would have to do it at the rate of $2.00 every second.
He'll probably pay around $200 for a nice round of golf, but will be reimbursed' $33,390 for that round.
Assuming he puts the federal maximum of 15% of his income into his tax deferred account (401k), he will hit the federal cap of $9500 for such accounts at 8:30 a.m. on January 1st, 1997.
If you were given a tenth of a penny for every dollar he made, you'd be living comfortably at $65,000 a year.
He'll make about $19.60 while watching the 100 meter dash in the Olympics. He'll make about $15,600 while the Boston Marathon is being run.
While the common person is spending about $20 for a meal in his trendy Chicago restaurant, he'll pull in about $5600.
Next year, he'll make more than twice as much as all of our past presidents for all of their terms combined.
Amazing isn't it? BUT:
JORDAN WILL HAVE TO SAVE 100% OF HIS INCOME FOR 270 YEARS TO HAVE A NET WORTH EQUIVALENT TO THAT OF BILL GATES. ~~~~~~~~~

Fun Facts

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

"Hang On Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.

All porcupines float in water.

The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.

Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.

Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

Camel's milk does not curdle.

An animal epidemic is called an epizootic

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was called the "American Pie" and thus the name of Don McLean's song.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building

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CONSIDER THE CHANGES WE HAVE WITNESSED

To the 40 + Generation :))) 

If you're over 40..... This is for you!!!! OK if you are not 40+ then send it to someone who is ...I'm sure they'll love ya for it :)))

We were born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, xerox, contact lenses, frisbees and the PILL.

We were born before radar, credit cards, split atoms, lazer beams, and ball-point pens. Before pantyhose, dishwashers, clothes dryers, electric blankets, air conditioners, drip-dry clothes--and before man walked on the moon.

We got married first--and then lived together. How quaint can you be?

In our time, closets were for clothes, not for "coming out of". Bunnies were small rabbits and rabbits were not Volkswagens. Designer jeans were scheming girls named Jean or Jeanne; and having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with our cousins. We thought fast food was what you ate during Lent; and Outer Space was the back of the Riviera Theatre.

We were before house-husbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers, and computer marriages. We were before day-care centers, group therapy and nursing homes. We never heard of FM radio,tape decks, electric typewriters, artificial hearts, wordprocessors, yogurt, and guys wearing earrings.

For us, time sharing meant togetherness-- not computers or condominiums; a "chip" meant a piece of wood; hardware meant hardware, and software wasn't even a word!

In 1940, "Made in Japan" meant JUNK and the term "making out" referred to how you did on your exam. Pizzas, "MacDonald's" and instant coffee were unheard of. We hit the scene when there were 5 cent and 10 cent stores where you bought things for five and ten cents. You could buy ice cream cones for a nickel or a dime. For one nickel you could ride a street car, make a phone call, buy a Pepsi, or enough stamps to mail one letter and two postcards. You could buy a new Chevy Coupe for $600....but who could afford one? A pity, too, because gas was 11 cents a gallon.

In our day, cigarette smoking was fashionable. GRASS was mowed. COKE was a cold drink. POT was something you cooked in. ROCK MUSIC was a grandmother's lullaby and AIDS were helpers in the Principal's office.

We were certainly not before the difference between the sexes was discovered, but we were surely before the sex change; we made do with what we had. And we were the last generation that was so dumb as to think you needed a husband to have a baby.

Mmmmmmm...so what happened, to those "good old days" ??? ....

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