Enjoy these facts.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's
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.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver,
and purple.
"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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 were 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; and Diamonds Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =3D 12,345,678,987,654,321
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."
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 that it's brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen 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 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.
No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever
won a Superbowl.
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 mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually
= a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating
to = the top and sinking to the bottom.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman = roommates
at Harvard.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from
those of humans, so much so 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.
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 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.