(1) The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
(2) Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
(3) Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles from the flush.
(4) The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
(5) American car horns beep in the tone of F.
(6) No piece of paper can be folded into half more than 7 times.
(7) Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
(8) 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
(9) You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
(10) Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
(11) The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
(12) The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
(13) A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.
(14) American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
(15) Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
(16) The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
(17) Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
(18) The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
(19) The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
(20) Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
(21) The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
(22) Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
(23) Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
(24) Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
(25) Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
(26) All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
(27) The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
(28) Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
(29) Pearls melt in vinegar.
(30) Thomas Jefferson is credited with inventing the coat hanger.
(31) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
(32) The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
(33) It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
(34) Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
(35) Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
(36) The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)
(37) Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
(38) A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
(39) The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie."(Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
(40) 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.
(41) 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."
(42) Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
(43) Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
(44) Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
(45) Actor Tommy Lee Jones and US vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
(46) The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
(47) Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
(48) 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.
(49) There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
(50) All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20
(51) A pregnant gold fish is called a twit.
(52) Rocks explode in microwaves.
(53) Steam rollers don't actually roll steam.
(54) 1,111,111 x 1,111,111 = 1234567654321
(55) Coca-Cola is better at cleaning your drain pipes than products like Draino.
(56) The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
(57) 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 coughed."
(58) The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
(59) The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
(60) Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
(61) Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
(62) Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
(63) The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means, "the king is dead."
(64) Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
(65) Camel's milk does not curdle.
(66) Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
(67) 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.
(68) Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
(69) When opossums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
(70) 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.
(71) 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..
(72) The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified.
(73) 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.
(74) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(75) When a gorilla is angry, he'll stick his tongue out at you
(76) In Tibet it is a sign of respect to stick your tongue out at guests.
(77) 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."
(78) 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.
(79) "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
(80) The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
(81) Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
(82) Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
(83) The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.
(84) "Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.
(85) 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.
(86) In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
(87) Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since. [It floats in gasoline, too.]
(88) Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
(89) Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
(90) No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
(91) There are three credit cards for every person in the United States.
(92) Coca-cola was originally green.
(93) Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
(94) Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2)poodle; 3)golden retriever; Dumbest dog: Afghan
(95) Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
(96) Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
(97) Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up: 1 in 2.
(98) City with the most Rolls Royce's per capital: Hong Kong.
(99) State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
(100) Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4.
(101)Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12 .
(102) Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%.
(103) Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.
(104) Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44%.
(105) Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
(106) Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7.
(107) Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36%.
(108) Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43%.
(109) City with the highest per capita viewership of television evangelists: Washington DC.
(110) Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%.
(111) Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50%.
(112) Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58%.
(113) Percentage of women who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 85%.
(114) Number of different family relationships for which Hallmark makes cards: 105.
(115) Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400.
(116) Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
(117) Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70%.
(118) Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3.
(119) Portion of potatoes sold that are French fried: 1/3.
(120) Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7
(121) Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90%
(122) Percentage of mammal species that are: 3%
(123) Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50%
(124) Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
(125) Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7.
(126) Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
(127) Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanon
(128) Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt
(129) Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for 'Profiles in Courage'.
(130) Only President awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for a system of buoying vessels over shoals.
(131) Only food that does not spoil: honey
(132) Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (subject is boxing)
(133) Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
(134) Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antartica
(135) Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig
(136) Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
(137) An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
(138) In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
(139) Polar bears are left-handed.
(140) Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
(141) Eskimos never gamble.
(142) The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
(143) The youngest pope was 11 years old.
(144) Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
(145) Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
(146) Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
(147) Your nose and ears never stop growing.
(148) Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined.
(149) Hot water is heavier than cold.
(150) The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515.
(151) They have square watermelons in Japan. They stack better.
(152) Cream does not weigh as much as milk.
(153) Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.
(154) Iceland consumes more Coca-cola per capita than any other nation.
(155) The heart of an unborn baby girl beats faster than the heart of an unborn baby boy.
(156) First novel ever written on a typewriter was 'Tom Sawyer.'
(157) There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
(158) Heinz Ketchup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
(159) Men get hiccups more often than woman.
(160) Armadillos can be housebroken.
(161) Bugs have hair on their eyes.
(162) In 1727, pennies featured this motto: "Mind your own business!"
(163) A giraffe's tongue is two feet long.
(164) Elephants can stand on their heads.
(165) President Taft used to get stuck in his bathtub.
(166) Cockroaches flatulate every 15 minutes.
(167) Charles Osbourne had the hiccups for 69 years. He later said that the hardest part was keeping his false teeth in his mouth.
(168) To escape enemies, the African wood snake fills its eyes with blood and drools red spit from its mouth.
(169) The average elevator travels 10,000 miles a year.
(170) Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
(171) Goldfish remember better in cold water than in warm water.
(172) Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
(173) The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
(174) That San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
(175) 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.
(176) 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.
(177) "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
(178) No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.
(179) 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-stars Game.
(180) The children's nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosey" is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosey..."), these sores would smell very bad, so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously) so that they would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!").
