Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 26, 2007 9:05:48 GMT -5
Squirrels can climb faster than they run on ground
All U.S. Presidents have worn glasses, only not all of them like being seen with them on in public.
No President has been an only child.
John Tyler had fifteen children.
Ulysses S. Grant had the boyood nickname "Useless."
Abraham Lincoln had a wart on his face.
James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other simultaneously.
Theodore Roosivelt was the first person to announce to the world that Maxwell House Coffee was "Good to the last drop."
John F. Kennedy could read four newspapers in 20 minutes.
Gerald Ford was once a male model.
Ronald Reagan once wore a Nazi uniform while acting in a film during his Hollywood days.
Benito Mussolini used to ward off the evil eye by touching his testicles.
Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year in 1938.
Hitler refused to shake Jesse Owen's hand at the 1936 Olympics because he was black.
Hitler was Claustrophobic. The elevator leading to his Eagles Nest in the Austrian Alps was mirrored so it would appear larger and more open.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952.
Einstein's last words were in German and since his attending nurse didn't know German, his final words will never be known.
Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.
Napoleon conducted his battle plans in a sandbox.
Christopher Colombus had blonde hair.
Bruce Willis' real name is Walter.
Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson.
John Wayne's real name is Marion Morrison.
Vanilla Ice's real name is Robert Van Winkle.
Keanu Reeve's first name means 'cool breeze over the mountains' in Hawwaiian.
Alfred Hitchhock did not have a belly button.
Charlie Chaplin once won third place in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
In High School, Robin Williams was voted 'least likely to succeed.'
The bagpipe was origionally made from the entire skin of a dead sheep. Carnegie Mellon University offers bagpiping as a major.
Mozart wrote the nursury rhyme 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' when he was five.
There is a band named 'A Life Threatening Buttocks Condition.'
Elvis never gave an encore.
Michael Jackson is black.
Every episode of Seinfeld contains a reference to Superman somewhere.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Mel Blanc, who voiced Bugs Bunny was allergic to carrots.
Peter Pan and 101 Dalmations are the only two origional Disney cartoon features in which both parents are present and do not die during the movie.
In Fantasia, the wizard's name is Yensid. Disney spelled backwards.
C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.
The first word spoken by an ape in Planet of the Apes is "Smile."
King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.
More bullets were fired in Starship Troupers than in any other movie ever made.
Dr. Jekyl's first name is Henry.
A phonophobe fears noise.
Carcinomaphobia is the fear of cancer.
Paedophobia is the fear of children.
Papaphobia is the fear of popes.
A gynaephobic man fears women.
Phobatrivaphobia is the fear of facts about phbias.
The most difficult tongue twister is: "The sixth sick Sheik's sixth sheep's sick."
MAFIA is an acronym for Morte Alla Francia Italia Anela, or "Death to the French is Italy's Cry."
A castrated rooster is called a capon.
A klaxiomaniac is someone who feels like shouting.
Sekkusu means "sex" in Japanese.
Spain litterally means "land of the rabbits."
Cleveland spelled backward is DNA level C.
The Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan "Finger Lickin' Good" came out as "Eat Your Fingers Off" in Chinese.
The Eskimo language has over 20 words to describe different kinds of snow.
November 19 is Have a Bad Day Day.
November 29 is National Sinky Day, a day when one eats above thier sink and worships it.
Coca-Cola was origionally green.
Beer foam will go down if you lick your finger and stick it in the beer.
A can of Diet Coke will float, however a regular can of Coke will not.
Crack got it's nickname bacause it crackles when you smoke it.
There is no such thing as blue food- even blueberries are purple.
A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep thier food from freezing.
Rubber bands will last longer if you refrigerate them.
Celebrating Christmas was once illegal in England.
Impotence is grounds for divorce in twenty-seven American states.
In Arizona it is illegal to hunt camels.
In Morrisville, Pennsylvania a woman needs a permit to wear lipstick in public.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off thier eyebrows to mourn the loss of thier cats.
Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
W.C. Feilds kept $50,000 in Germany "In case the little bastard actually wins."
Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving.
St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.
A third of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.
NERF, the popular foam children's toy doesn't actually stand for anything.
Ted Turner owns 5 percent of Mexico.
Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee his pants on the moon.
The billionth digit of pi is 9.
The Boeing 737 jet is nicknamed "Fat Albert."
Robots in Japan pay union dues.
The male fox mates for life, if the female dies then he will remain single for the rest of his life. If the male dies the female will wander off and find a new mate.
The leech has thirty-two brains.
A female ferret will die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Toads eat only moving prey.
Frogs must close thier eyes to swallow.
A blind chameleon still changes it's color to match it's environment.
It is more likely to be attacked by a cow than by a shark.
A group of finches is called a charm.
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
Human birth controll pills work on gorillas. (Wait... how did they find that out!? 0.0)
The scientific name for gorillas is Gorilla gorilla gorilla.
It is physically impossible for a pig to look up at the sky.
Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
Moose have very poor vision. They have been known to attempt mating with cars.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
Jaguars are afraid of dogs.
The "Mexican Hat Dance" is the official dance of Mexico.
In 2001, St. Patrick's Day was banned in Ireland because of the scare caused by foot and mouth disease.
As an iceberg melts, it makes a fizzing sound because of the compressed air bubbles popping in the ice.
Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.
In 1958, the Crayola crayon color "Prussian Blue" was changed to "Midnight Blue" by the request of teachers as kids could not relate to Prussian history.
In 1982, a cactus in Phoenix, Arizona killed a man. David Grundman fired two shotgun blasts at a giant saguaro cactus that ended up falling on top of him.
In Japan, by the time man reaches the age of 60, he is commemorated with a special ceremony. This ceremony features the man wearing a red kimono, which denotes that he no longer has the responsibilities of being a mature adult.
In 1989, the space shuttle Discovery carried 32 fertilized chicken eggs into orbit.
The Victoria Cross is Britain's highest military decoration.
The average America online user spends 70 minutes day online.
The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
The first Valentine's Day card was sent from a knight to his wife in 1415. The night was held captive in the Tower of London.
The titan arum flower is the largest flower in the world and gives off a horrible odor that smells like rotting flesh when it blooms.
There is a large brass statue of Winnie-the-Pooh in Lima, Peru.
There are over 1,000,000 swimming pools in Florida, eventhough the ocean is no farther than 80 miles away.
There are five years in a quinquennium.
There was a 19th century Native American tribal chief who went under the name, "Not Able to Fornicate."
Napoleon Bonaparte was afraid of cats.
At age sixteen, Confucius was a corn inspector.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish's name was Livingston.
Dennis the Menace's dog was named Gnasher.
Scooby Doo's real first name is Scoobert and Shaggy's real first name was Norville.
Pokemon stands for Pocket Monster.
The 'f-word' was said 206 times throughout the movie Scarface, that's about once every 29 seconds on average.
Darth Vader is the only person on the imperial forces who doesn't have a rank.
Gone With The Wind is the only Civil War epic without a single battle scene.
Approximately sixty circus performers have ever been shot from cannons, At last report, 32 of them have been killed.
The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars is 3263827.
The phrase 'the boogeymen will get you' is in reference to the Boogey people who still inhabit an area of Indonesia. These people still act as pirates today and attack passing ships.
The 'You Are Here' arrow on a map is called an IDEO locator.
Naked means to be unprotected, nude means to be unclothed.
A hamlet is a village without a church, and a town is not a city untill it has a cathedral.
The letter J does not appear anywhere in the Periodic Table of Elements
The only fifteen letter word that can be written without repeating a word is 'uncopyrightable'
All U.S. Presidents have worn glasses, only not all of them like being seen with them on in public.
No President has been an only child.
John Tyler had fifteen children.
Ulysses S. Grant had the boyood nickname "Useless."
Abraham Lincoln had a wart on his face.
James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other simultaneously.
Theodore Roosivelt was the first person to announce to the world that Maxwell House Coffee was "Good to the last drop."
John F. Kennedy could read four newspapers in 20 minutes.
Gerald Ford was once a male model.
Ronald Reagan once wore a Nazi uniform while acting in a film during his Hollywood days.
Benito Mussolini used to ward off the evil eye by touching his testicles.
Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year in 1938.
Hitler refused to shake Jesse Owen's hand at the 1936 Olympics because he was black.
Hitler was Claustrophobic. The elevator leading to his Eagles Nest in the Austrian Alps was mirrored so it would appear larger and more open.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952.
Einstein's last words were in German and since his attending nurse didn't know German, his final words will never be known.
Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.
Napoleon conducted his battle plans in a sandbox.
Christopher Colombus had blonde hair.
Bruce Willis' real name is Walter.
Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson.
John Wayne's real name is Marion Morrison.
Vanilla Ice's real name is Robert Van Winkle.
Keanu Reeve's first name means 'cool breeze over the mountains' in Hawwaiian.
Alfred Hitchhock did not have a belly button.
Charlie Chaplin once won third place in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
In High School, Robin Williams was voted 'least likely to succeed.'
The bagpipe was origionally made from the entire skin of a dead sheep. Carnegie Mellon University offers bagpiping as a major.
Mozart wrote the nursury rhyme 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' when he was five.
There is a band named 'A Life Threatening Buttocks Condition.'
Elvis never gave an encore.
Michael Jackson is black.
Every episode of Seinfeld contains a reference to Superman somewhere.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Mel Blanc, who voiced Bugs Bunny was allergic to carrots.
Peter Pan and 101 Dalmations are the only two origional Disney cartoon features in which both parents are present and do not die during the movie.
In Fantasia, the wizard's name is Yensid. Disney spelled backwards.
C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.
The first word spoken by an ape in Planet of the Apes is "Smile."
King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.
More bullets were fired in Starship Troupers than in any other movie ever made.
Dr. Jekyl's first name is Henry.
A phonophobe fears noise.
Carcinomaphobia is the fear of cancer.
Paedophobia is the fear of children.
Papaphobia is the fear of popes.
A gynaephobic man fears women.
Phobatrivaphobia is the fear of facts about phbias.
The most difficult tongue twister is: "The sixth sick Sheik's sixth sheep's sick."
MAFIA is an acronym for Morte Alla Francia Italia Anela, or "Death to the French is Italy's Cry."
A castrated rooster is called a capon.
A klaxiomaniac is someone who feels like shouting.
Sekkusu means "sex" in Japanese.
Spain litterally means "land of the rabbits."
Cleveland spelled backward is DNA level C.
The Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan "Finger Lickin' Good" came out as "Eat Your Fingers Off" in Chinese.
The Eskimo language has over 20 words to describe different kinds of snow.
November 19 is Have a Bad Day Day.
November 29 is National Sinky Day, a day when one eats above thier sink and worships it.
Coca-Cola was origionally green.
Beer foam will go down if you lick your finger and stick it in the beer.
A can of Diet Coke will float, however a regular can of Coke will not.
Crack got it's nickname bacause it crackles when you smoke it.
There is no such thing as blue food- even blueberries are purple.
A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep thier food from freezing.
Rubber bands will last longer if you refrigerate them.
Celebrating Christmas was once illegal in England.
Impotence is grounds for divorce in twenty-seven American states.
In Arizona it is illegal to hunt camels.
In Morrisville, Pennsylvania a woman needs a permit to wear lipstick in public.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off thier eyebrows to mourn the loss of thier cats.
Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
W.C. Feilds kept $50,000 in Germany "In case the little bastard actually wins."
Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving.
St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.
A third of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.
NERF, the popular foam children's toy doesn't actually stand for anything.
Ted Turner owns 5 percent of Mexico.
Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee his pants on the moon.
The billionth digit of pi is 9.
The Boeing 737 jet is nicknamed "Fat Albert."
Robots in Japan pay union dues.
The male fox mates for life, if the female dies then he will remain single for the rest of his life. If the male dies the female will wander off and find a new mate.
The leech has thirty-two brains.
A female ferret will die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Toads eat only moving prey.
Frogs must close thier eyes to swallow.
A blind chameleon still changes it's color to match it's environment.
It is more likely to be attacked by a cow than by a shark.
A group of finches is called a charm.
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
Human birth controll pills work on gorillas. (Wait... how did they find that out!? 0.0)
The scientific name for gorillas is Gorilla gorilla gorilla.
It is physically impossible for a pig to look up at the sky.
Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
Moose have very poor vision. They have been known to attempt mating with cars.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
Jaguars are afraid of dogs.
The "Mexican Hat Dance" is the official dance of Mexico.
In 2001, St. Patrick's Day was banned in Ireland because of the scare caused by foot and mouth disease.
As an iceberg melts, it makes a fizzing sound because of the compressed air bubbles popping in the ice.
Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.
In 1958, the Crayola crayon color "Prussian Blue" was changed to "Midnight Blue" by the request of teachers as kids could not relate to Prussian history.
In 1982, a cactus in Phoenix, Arizona killed a man. David Grundman fired two shotgun blasts at a giant saguaro cactus that ended up falling on top of him.
In Japan, by the time man reaches the age of 60, he is commemorated with a special ceremony. This ceremony features the man wearing a red kimono, which denotes that he no longer has the responsibilities of being a mature adult.
In 1989, the space shuttle Discovery carried 32 fertilized chicken eggs into orbit.
The Victoria Cross is Britain's highest military decoration.
The average America online user spends 70 minutes day online.
The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
The first Valentine's Day card was sent from a knight to his wife in 1415. The night was held captive in the Tower of London.
The titan arum flower is the largest flower in the world and gives off a horrible odor that smells like rotting flesh when it blooms.
There is a large brass statue of Winnie-the-Pooh in Lima, Peru.
There are over 1,000,000 swimming pools in Florida, eventhough the ocean is no farther than 80 miles away.
There are five years in a quinquennium.
There was a 19th century Native American tribal chief who went under the name, "Not Able to Fornicate."
Napoleon Bonaparte was afraid of cats.
At age sixteen, Confucius was a corn inspector.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish's name was Livingston.
Dennis the Menace's dog was named Gnasher.
Scooby Doo's real first name is Scoobert and Shaggy's real first name was Norville.
Pokemon stands for Pocket Monster.
The 'f-word' was said 206 times throughout the movie Scarface, that's about once every 29 seconds on average.
Darth Vader is the only person on the imperial forces who doesn't have a rank.
Gone With The Wind is the only Civil War epic without a single battle scene.
Approximately sixty circus performers have ever been shot from cannons, At last report, 32 of them have been killed.
The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars is 3263827.
The phrase 'the boogeymen will get you' is in reference to the Boogey people who still inhabit an area of Indonesia. These people still act as pirates today and attack passing ships.
The 'You Are Here' arrow on a map is called an IDEO locator.
Naked means to be unprotected, nude means to be unclothed.
A hamlet is a village without a church, and a town is not a city untill it has a cathedral.
The letter J does not appear anywhere in the Periodic Table of Elements
The only fifteen letter word that can be written without repeating a word is 'uncopyrightable'
