Funny Weird Amazing Facts!!

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

Lynyrd Skynard was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, “You boys ain’t never gonna amount to nothin’.”

Melanie Griffith’s mother is actress Tippi Hendren, best known for her lead role in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds.

Men leave their hotel rooms cleaner than women do.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”

Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.

More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the U.S. Treasury.

More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.

Most Americans’ car horns beep in the key of F.

Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper’s grave.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.

Ninety eight per cent of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.

No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins, which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as ’supercooling.’ If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.

No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.

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

On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night.

The name of Robertsonfs fictional ship was the Titan.

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the g1 encased in the gshieldh and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

On the new one hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers — they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

Only female mosquitoes bite.

Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

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

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada’s Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada’s independence.

Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.

Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Pinocchio is Italian for “pine eyes.”

Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.

Polar bear fur is not white, it’s clear.

Race car is a palindrome.

Ralph Lauren’s original name was Ralph Lifsh*tz.

Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)

Revolvers cannot be silenced, due to all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.

Rhythm and “syzygy” are the longest English words without vowels.

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.

Roosters can’t crow if they can’t fully extend their necks.

Russians generally answer the phone by saying, ‘I’m listening.’

S.O.S. doesn’t stand for “Save Our Ship” or “Save Our Souls” — It was 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.

Samuel Clemens’s pseudonym “Mark Twain” was the nickname of a riverboat pilot about whom Clemens wrote a needless nasty satirical piece. Apparently, Clemens felt guilty later and adopted the nom de plume as some sort of expiation. The phrase “mark twain” from which the river pilot got his name does not mean two fathoms (twelve feet.)

Sharon Stone was the first “Star Search” spokes model.

Smithee is a pseudonym that filmmakers use when they don’t want their names to appear in the credits.

Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.

Soda water does not contain soda.

Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.

Soweto in South Africa was derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.

Spain literally means ‘the land of rabbits.’

Speak of the Devil is short for “Speak of the Devil and he shall come”. It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention and he would appear.

St. Bernards, famous for their role as alpine rescue dogs, do NOT wear casks of brandy around their necks.
Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.

Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job.

Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.

The “Grinch” singer and voice of Tony the Tiger is a man named Thurl Ravenscroft.

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

The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.

The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was spun-off from the Danny Thomas Show.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

The average scalp has 100,000 hairs. Redheads have the least at 80,000; brown and black haired persons have about 100,000; and blondes have the most at 120,000. (That is more than a thousand hairs in each square inch!)

The band “Duran Duran” got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie “Barbarella.”

The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat droppings.)

The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.

The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Huptmobile.

The car manufacturer Henry Ford was awarded Hitler’s Supreme Order of the German Eagle.

The childrens’ nursery rhyme ‘Ring-a-Round-The-Rosies’ actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century.

The Chinese ideogram for ‘trouble’ depicts two women living under one roof’.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

The correct response to the Irish greeting, “Top of the morning to you,” is “and the rest of the day to yourself.”

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home, conceals a billiards room.

In Jefferson’s day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.

The dunce cap of schoolhouse fame originates from a paper cone that was placed on the heads of accused witches during the Middle Ages. When Joan of Arc was martyred, she was wearing one of them.

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.

The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter (”shin,” pronounced “sheen”) of the word “shalom.” As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to “Star Trek” lore.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

The first inter-racial kiss on TV was in an original “STAR TREK” episode entitled “Plato’s Stepchildren”. The kiss was between Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner.

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

The first safety razor was not actually invented by King Gillette himself but by a man named William Nickerson who was Kings partner. They believed that the label bearing Nickersons name would be bad for business, plus it was Kings idea anyway.

The first time the word “hell” was spoken on TV was in an original “STAR TREK” episode entitled “City on the Edge of Forever”. The exact quote was “…let’s get the hell out of here…”, spoken by William Shatner.

The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It To Beaver”.

The ‘Hundred Years War’ lasted 116 years.

The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.

The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.

The lead singer of The Knack, famous for “My Sharona,” and Jack Kevorkian’s lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.

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.

The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.

The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called ‘mantles’) are radioactive–so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.

The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.

The magic word “Abracadabra” was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original “Halloween” was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

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

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 name of the Vulcan’s heaven is Sha Ka Ree, this is a play on the name Sean Connery who was considered for the part of Sarek, Spock’s father.

The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.”

The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.

The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.

The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.

The numbers e172Œ can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.

The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.

The original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington D.C. is what is referred to as a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy of a document and is not the same as a laser produced hologram.

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 pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.

The Phillips-head screwdriver was invented in Oregon.

The phrase e The 3 Rfs e ( standing for ereading, writing and arithmeticf ) was created by Sir William Curtis, who was illiterate.

The phrase grule of thumbh is derived from an old
English law which stated that you couldnft beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The placement of a donkeyfs eyes in itsf heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.

The province of Alberta in Canada has been completely free of rats since 1905.

The screwdriver was invented before the screw.

The ‘Screwdriver’ was invented by oilmen, who used the tool to stir the drink.

The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is ‘Live Free or Die’. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

The spaceship ‘Valley Forge’ from “Silent Running” (1971) actually got it’s name from the location used to film some of its interiors; a decommissioned aircraft carrier named the U.S.S. Valley Forge.

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.

The term “Mayday” is used for signaling for help. It comes from the French term “M’aidez” which is pronounced “MayDay” and means, “Help Me.”

The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be it’s country of origin.

The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY.

There are four cars and eleven light posts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.

There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.

There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.

There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!

There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.

There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.

There are only three cities that are named exactly after the state they are located in: Maine, ME; New York, NY; and Wyoming, WY.

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

There is a town in Texas called ‘Ding Dong.’

There is about 200 times more gold in the world's oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.

There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible.

There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts until 1989.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

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

Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi’s noses off would forestall curses.

Turkey’s often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.

U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.
Until 1967, LSD was legal in California.

Video Killed the Radio Star was the very first video ever played on MTV.

Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.

Walt Disney’s autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.

Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

When opossums are playing opossum, they are not “playing.” They actually pass out from sheer terror.

When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.

While at Havard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam.

While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere.

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

No matter how big or small the piece of paper, you can't fold it in half eight times
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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.

The state of Maryland has no natural lakes.

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

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.

Moisture, not air, causes superglue to dry.

Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.

Sarsaparilla is the root that flavors root beer.

The U.S. Mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that marks its pennies.

A full moon always rises at sunset.

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

Rabbits love licorice.

Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser
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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 recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause
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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.

Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.

Urea is found in humna urine and dalmatian dogs and nowhere else
.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

The Earl of Condom was a knighted personal physician to England's King Charles
II in the mid-1600's.

The Earl was requested to produce a method to protect the
King from syphillis.(Charles the II's pleasure-loving nature was notorious.) The
result should be obvious.

There is no word in the English language that rhymes with orange.

Lynyrd Skynard was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, "You boys ain't never gonna amount to nothin."
M & M's were developed so that soldiers could eat candy without getting their fingers sticky.

The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.

Pinocchio was made of pine.

A banana tree is not a tree; it is an herb.

Alma mater means bountiful mother.

Glass flutes do not expand with humidity so their owners are spared the nuisance of tuning them.

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

Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.

The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.

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.

"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 realise
what is occuring, relax and correct itself. At about that height it hits maximum
speed and when it hits the ground it's rib cage absorbs most of the impact.

The female ferret is referred to as a `jill'

Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.

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-

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

The original plan for Disneyland included a Lilliputland.

The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."

The "ZIP" in Zip Code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."

Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875

Crickets hear through their knees.

Turnips turn green when sunburnt.

Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.

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

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

St. Bernard is the patron saint of skiers.

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

Of all U.S. Presidents, none lived to be older than John Adams, who died at the age of 91.

Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk.

George Washington's false teeth were made of whale bone.

Gerald Ford was the only man who held both the Presidency and the Vice-
Presidency but who was not elected to either post.

Gerald Ford was once a male model.

According to the ceremonial customs of Orthodox Judaism, it is officially sundown when you cannot tell the difference between a black thread and a red one.

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

In Kenya they don't drive on the right or left side of the street in particular, just on whichever side is smoother.

The Utah State Bird is the California Seagull and the Utah State Tree is the Colorado Spruce.

Cyano-acrylate glues (Super glues) were invented by accident. The researcher was trying to make optical coating materials, and would test their properties by putting them between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acrylate, he couldn't get the prisms apart.

Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.

A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

An elephant can be pregnant for up to two years.

Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

Marijuana is Spanish for 'Mary Jane.'

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Raw cashews are poisonous and must be roasted before they can be eaten (this is
probably one reason that you can't buy cashews in the shell)

Vietnamese currency consists only of paper money; no coins.

During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Skin is thickest on the back -- 1/6 of an inch

The most sensitive finger is the forefinger.

Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern state; it also has the highest
latitude,the most eastern longitude and the most western longitude.

Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.

It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her

A large flawless emerald is worth more than a similarly large flawless diamond.

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 penguin only has s** twice a year.

Mr. Spock's (of Star Trek) blood type was T-Negative.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

The statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro is exactly facing the statue of Christ in Lisbon, Portugal.

There are 118 ridges on the outside of a dime.

The dot above an 'i' is called a tittle.

A peanut is not a nut; it is a legume.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The phrase "sleep tight" originated when mattresses were set upon ropes woven through the bed frame. To remedy sagging ropes, one would use a bed key to tighten the rope.

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.

On a trip to the South Sea islands, French painter Paul Gauguin stopped off briefly in Central America, where he worked as a laborer on the Panama Canal.

There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.

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

Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed.

Brooklyn is the Dutch name for "broken valley"

There are four states where the first letter of the capital city is the same letter as the first letter of the state: Dover, Delaware; Honolulu, Hawaii; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.

Venetian blinds were invented in Japan.

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

ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names
(Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)

The first electric Christmas lights were created by a telephone company PBX installer. Back in the old days, candles were used to decorate Christmas trees. This was obviously very dangerous. Telephone employees are trained to be safety concious. This installer took the lights from an old switchboard, connected them together, strung them on the tree, and hooked them to a battery.

White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees)

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.

There is no such thing as naturally blue food, even blueberries are purple.

It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.

Walt Disney had wooden teeth.

The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue.

Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off

The coast line around Lake Sakawea in North Dakota is longer than the California coastline along the Pacific Ocean

Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with
"Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.

Kitsap County, Washington, was originally called Slaughter County, and the first hotel there was called the Slaughter House.

Dinosaur droppings are called coprolites, and are actually fairly common.