Only One Person In Two Billion Will Live To Be 116 Or Older.
Only One Satellite Has Been Ever Been Destroyed By A Meteor
Only One-Third Of The People That Can Twitch Their Ears Can Twitch Only One At A Time.
Only Person To Win $64,000 Challenge And $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (Subject Is Boxing).
Only Thirty Percent Of The Famous Maryland Blue Crab Are Actually From Maryland The Rest Are From North Carolina And Virginia.
Oral-B Is A Combination Of Oral Hygiene And The Letter B, Which Stands For The Word Better.
Orcas (Killer Whales) Kill Sharks By Torpedoing Up Into The Shark’s Stomach From Underneath, Causing The Shark To Explode.
Orchids Are Grown From Seed So Small That It Would Take Thirty Thousand To Weigh As Much As One Grain Of Wheat.
Organized Crime Is Estimated To Account For 10% Of The United States’ National Income.
Original ‘Indian Yellow’ Was Obtained At Monghyr, A Town In Benghal, From The Urine Of Cows Which Had Been Fed On Mango Leaves. It Was Found In The Bazaars Of Panjab In The Form Of Large Balls, Having An Offensive Urinous Odor. True Indian Yellow Has Been Absent From The Market For Some Time; Its Production Is Said To Have Been Prohibited In 1908. Present Day Indian Yellow Colors Are Made Of Synthetic Pigments, Alternatives That Are Less Fugitive And Less Offensive To The Nose!
Orson Welles Is Buried In An Olive Orchard On A Ranch Owned By His Friend, Matador Antonio Ordonez In Sevilla, Spain.
Orville Wright Was Involved In The First Aircraft Accident. His Passenger, A Frenchman, Was Killed.
Ostriches Can Run 50 Miles Per Hour.
Ostriches Do Not Bury Their Heads In The Sand.
Ostriches Stick Their Heads In The Sand To Look For Water.
Our Eyes Never Grow Our Nose And Ears Never Stop Growing.
Over 2500 Left Handed People A Year Are Killed From Using Products Made For Right Handed People!
Over A Third Of All Pinapples Come From Hawaii.
Pain Occurs When Sounds Are Above 130Db.
Papaphobia Is The Fear Of Popes.
Paper Was Invented Early In The Second Century By Chinese Eunuch.
Paranormal Experts Say People Reach The Peak Of Their Ability To See Ghosts When They’re 7 Years Old.
Parker Brothers Prints About 50 Billion Dollars Worth Of Monopoly Money In One Year.
Parthenogenesis Is The Term Used To Describe The Process By Which Certain Animals Are Able To Reproduce Themselves In Successive Female Generations Without Intervention Of A Male Of The Species. At Least One Species Of Lizard Is Known To Do So.
Paul Mccartney And Ringo Starr Were The Only Two Left-Handed Beatles.
Paul Mccartney’s Mother Was A Mid-Wife.
Paul Revere Is Documented As The First Forensic Dentist: He Was Called Upon To Identify A Former Patient’s Remains By His Teeth.
Peanuts Are Cholesterol Free.
Peanuts Are One Of The Ingredients Of Dynamite.
Penguins Are Found In The Antarctic, Not Arctic.
Penguins Can Jump As High As 6 Feet In The Air.
People Didn’t Always Say Hello When They Answered The Phone. When The First Regular Phone Service Was Established In 1878, People Said Ahoy.
People Do Not Get Sick From The Cold Weather; Its From Being Indoors A Lot More.
People Have Legs Of Slightly Different Lengths.
People Who Are Left-Handed Are Also Left-Footed Havinghte Tendency To Put Their Left Foot Forward Instead Of Their Right.
People Who Live Or Work Work In Cities, Inhale Enough Toxins That It Equals Smoking A Pack Of Cigarettes A Day.
People Who Work At Night Tend To Weigh More Than People Who Don’t.
Pepsi Is Commonly Used By Wooden Boat Owners To Clean Mold From Decks. You Can Spill It On For About 30 Seconds, But It Needs Rinsing To Make Sure It Does Not Erode Your Decks Completely (It’s Powerful Stuff..).
Pepsi Originally Contained Pepsin, Therefore The Name!
Percentage Of Americans That Eat At Mcdonalds Each Day: 7%
Percentage Of Men Who Say They Are Happier After Their Divorce Or Separation: 58%
Percentage Of North America That Is Wilderness: 38%.
Percentage Of Women Who Say They Are Happier After Their Divorce Or Separation: 85%
Personal Letters Make Up Only 5% Of The Mail Delivered By The U.S Postal Service.
Peter Falk, Who Played Columbo Has A Glass Eye.
Peter Mayhew, Who Played Chewbacca In The First Three Star Wars Movies Was A Hospital Porter In London Before Starring As The Wookie.
Phobatrivaphobia : Fear Of Trivia About Phobias
Pickled Herrings Were Invented In 137
Pigeons Live In A Cote.
Pigs Can Become Alcoholics.
Pilgrims Ate Popcorn At The First Thanksgiving Dinner.
Pinocchio Is Italian For Pine Eyes.
Pinocchio Is Italian For Pine Head.
Pinocchio Was Made Of Pine.
Pittsburgh Is The Only City Where All Major Sports Teams Have The Same Colors: Black And Gold.
Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania Is The Only City In The Usa With 3 Sports Teams That All Wear The Same Colours.
Plaster Of Paris Is Naturally Fire Retardant. At About 600 Degrees Farenheit The Chemical Water That Is Stored In It Is Released. That Is Why Walls Are Often Sweaty After A Fire.
Pluto, The Astrological Sign For Death, Was Directly Above Dallas Texas When J.F.K Was Born.
Pocahontas Appeared On The Back Of The $20 Bill In 1877
Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Was The First American To Have Plumbing Installed In His House, In 1840.
Pokemon Stands For Pocket Monster.
Pole Vault Poles Used To Be Stiff. Now They Bend Which Allows The Vaulter To Go Much Higher.
Police Dogs Are Trained To React To Commands In A Foreign Language; Commonly German But More Recently Hungarian.
Pope Paul Iv, Who Was Elected On 23 May 1555, Was So Outraged When He Saw The Naked Bodies On The Ceiling Of The Sistene Chapel That He Ordered Michelangelo To Paint On To Them.
Porcupines Are Excellent Swimmers, Because Their Quills Are Hollow!
Portion Of Harvard Students Who Graduate With Honors: 4/5
Portion Of Land In The US Owned By The Government: 1/3
Potato Chips Were Invented In Lousiana In 1863
Pound For Pound, Hamburgers Cost More Than New Cars.
Preserves Preserve The Largest Percentage Of The Original Fruit, Containing Whole Chunks Of It In Addition To Jelly.
President Grover Cleveland Was A Draft Dodger. He Hired Someone To Enter The Service In His Place, For Which He Was Ridiculed By His Political Opponent, James G. Blaine. It Was Soon Discovered, However, That Blaine Had Done The Same Thing Himself.
President John F Kennedy Could Read 4 Newspapers In 20 Minutes.
President John Quincy Adams Owned A Pet Alligator Which He Kept In The East Room Of The White House.
President John Tyler Had Fifteen Children.
President Taft Had A Special Re-Enforced Steel Dining Chair.
President Teddy Roosevelt Died From An Infected Tooth.
President Theodore Roosevelt Was The First To Announce To The World That Maxwell House Coffee Is Good To The Last Drop.
President Woodrow Wilson Wrote All Of His Speeches In Longhand.
Prince Harry And Prince William Are Uncircumcised.
Pro Golfer Wayne Levi Was The First Pga Pro To Win A Tournament Using A Colored (Orange) Ball. He Did It In The Hawaiian Open In 1985
Professional Ballerinas Use About Twelve Pairs Of Toe Shoes Per Week.
Pulp Fiction Cost $8 Million To Make–$5 Million Went To Actor’s Salaries.
Put A Sock In It: Be Quiet, Shut-Up, Make Less Noise; A Slang Expression. In The Late 19Th Century And Earlier Years Of The 20Th Century, When Gramophones Or Phonographs Amplified The Sound Through Large Horns Woolen Socks Were Often Stuffed In Them To Cut Down The Noise.
Pyrophobia Is The Fear Of Fire.
Q Is The Only Letter In The Alphabet That Does Not Appear In The Name Of Any Of The United States.
Q-Tips Cotton Swabs Were Originally Called Baby Gays.
Quebec And Newfoundland Are The Only Two Provinces Which Do Not Allow Personalized License Plates.
Queen Elizabeth Was Good Friends With William Shakespeare.
Queen Victoria Eased The Discomfort Of Her Menstrual Cramps By Having Her Doctor Supply Her With Marijuana.
Ralph Kramden, Of The Honeymooners, Made 62 Dollars A Week.
Ralph Lauren’s Original Name Was Ralph Lifshitz.
Ramses Ii, A Pharaoh Of Egypt Died In 1225 B.C. At The Time Of His Death, He Had Fathered 111 Sons And 67 Daughters
Rat’s Can’t Vomit.
Recycling One Glass Jar, Saves Enough Energy To Watch T.V For 3 Hours.
Reindeer Like To Eat Bananas.
Rene Descartes Came Up With The Theory Of Coordinate Geometry By Looking At A Fly Walk Across A Tiled Ceiling.
Researchers In Denmark Found That Beer Tastes Best When Drunk To The Accompaniment Of A Certain Musical Tone. The Optimal Frequency Is Different For Each Beer, They Reported. The Correct Harmonious Tone For Carlsberg Lager, For Example, Is 510-520 Cycles Per Second.
Revolvers Cannot Be Silenced Because Of 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.
Rice Is Grown On More Than 10 Percent Of The Earth’s Farmable Surface.
Rice Is The Main Food For Half Of The People Of The World.
Rice Is Thrown At Weddings As A Symbol Of Fertility.
Richard Nixon Left Instructions For California, Here I Come To Be The Lat Piece Of Music Played (Slowly And Softly) Were He To Die In Office.
Richard Nixon’s Favorite Drink Was A Dry Martini.
Rick And Paul Reuschel Of The 1975 Chicago Cubs Combine To Pitch A Shutout, The First Time Brothers Do This.
Right-Handed People Live, On Average, Nine Years Longer Than Left-Handed People Do.
Rio De Janeiro Translates To River Of January.
Rita Hayworth’s Real Name Was Margarita Cansino.
Rita Moreno Is The First And Only Entertainer To Have Received All 4 Of America’s Top Entertainment Industry Awards: The Oscar, The Emmy, The Tony And The Grammy.
Robert E. Lee Wore Size 4 1/2 Shoe.
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.
Robert Kennedy Was Killed In The Ambassador Hotel, The Same Hotel That Housed Marilyn Monroe’s First Modelling Agency.
Robots In Japan Pay Union Dues.
Roger Ebert Is The Only Film Critic To Have Ever Won The Pulitzer Prize.
Ronald Reagan Sent Out The Army Photographer Who First Discovered Marilyn Monroe
Ronald Reagan Was The Only Divorced President.
Roosevelt Was The Most Superstitious President–He Travelled Continually But Never Left On A Friday. He Also Would Not Sit At The Same Table That Held Thirteen Other People.
Roosters Cannot Crow If They Can’t Fully Extend Their Necks.
Ross Perot Resigned From The General Motors Board Of Directors Because Of The Decision To Purchase Hughes Aircraft Company.
Rubber Bands Last Longer When Refrigerated.
Sailors On Board A Ship, Even When Out At Sea, Can Feel Earthquakes.
Salt Is The Only Rock Humans Can Eat.
Salvador Dali Once Arrived To An Art Exhibition In A Limousine Filled With Turnips.
Samuel Clemens Aka Mark Twain Smoked Forty Cigars A Day For The Last Years Of His Life.
Sawney Beane, His Wife, 8 Sons, 6 Daughters, And 32 Grandchildren Were A Family Of Cannibals That Lived In The Caves Near Galloway, Scotland In The Early 17Th Century. Although The Total Number Is Not Known, It Is Believed They Claimed Over 50 Victims Per Year. The Entire Family Was Taken By An Army Detachment To Edinburgh And Executed, Apparently Without Trial. [Source: Guinness Book Of World Records]
Scientists In Australia’s Parkes Observatory Thought They Had Positive Proof Of Alien Life, When They Began Picking Up Radio-Waves From Space. However, After Investigation, The Radio Emissions Were Traced To A Microwave In The Building.
Scientists In Brazil Have Reported The Emergence Of The Superflea–They Are Bigger Than Cockroaches.
Scooby Doo’s First Real Name Is Scoobert.
Scorpions Can Withstand 200 Times More Nuclear Radiation Than Humans Can.
Scotch Tape Has Been Used As An Anti-Corrosive Shield On The Goodyear Blimp.
Scotchgard Is A Combination Of The Words Scotch, Meaning Scotsman, And A Misspelling Of Guard, Meaning To Protect.
Screech , From Saved By The Bell, Was The Only One Of The Characters Who Played In All The Episodes From Junior High To Saved By The Bell: The New Class.
Sea Otters Have 2 Coats Of Fur.
Seals Must Teach Their Young How To Swim.
See For Yourself: Tv Sitcom Characters Rarely Say Goodbye When They Hang Up The Phone.
Seoul, The South Korean Capital, Just Means The Capital In The Korean Language.
September 16-21 Is Farm Animal Awareness Week.
Shakespeare Spelled His Own Name Several Different Ways.
Shannon Hoon, The Now-Dead Lead Singer Of The Group Blind Melon Was A Back-Up Singer For Gun’s N’roses On Their Use Your Illusion 1 Cd.
Sharon Stone Was The First Star Search Spokesmodel.
Sheriff Came From Shire Reeve. During Early Years Of Feudal Rule In England, Each Shire Had A Reeve Who Was The Law For That Shire. When The Term Was Brought To The United States It Was Shortened To Sheriff.
Sherlock Holmes Never Said Elementary, My Dear Watson.
Sheryl Crow’s Front Two Teeth Are Fake–She Knocked Them Out When She Tripped On Stage Earlier In Her Career.
Shirley Temple Always Had 56 Curls In Her Hair.
Shortest Intercontinental Commercial Flight In The World Is From Gibraltar (Europe) To Tangier (Africa.) Distance 34 Miles, Flight Time 20 Minutes.
Siberian Huskies And Alaskan Malamutes Are Not The Same Dog. Mals Are Generally Bigger, More Boned And Have Wedges Of Ears Set On The Sides Of Their Heads. They Also Only Have Brown Eyes And Rarely Bark. Instead They Make A Woo-Woo Like Call. They Also Make Terrible Guard Dogs, Despite Their Size.
Sigmund Freud Had A Morbid Fear Of Ferns.
Since 1896, The Beginning Of The Modern Olympics, Only Greece And Australia Have Participated In Every Games.
Since 1978, At Least 37 People Have Died As A Result Of Shaking Vending Machines, In An Attempt To Get Free Merchandise. More Than 100 Have Been Injured.
Since Its Introduction In February 1935, More Than 150 Million Monopoly Board Games Have Been Sold Worldwide.
Since The 1930′s The Town Of Corona, Ca Has Buried – And Lost – All 17 Of Its Time Capsules.
Since The Lego Group Began Manufacturing Blocks In 1949, More Than 189 Billion Pieces In 2000 Different Shapes Have Been Produced. This Is Enough For About 30 Lego Pieces For Every Living Person On Earth.
Sir Issac Newton Was An Ordained Priest In The Church Of England
Sir Issac Newton Was Only 23 Years Old When He Discovered The Law Of Universal Gravitation.
Sixty Percent Of Big-Firm Executives Said The Cover Letter Is As Important Or More Important Than The R?M Tself When You’re Looking For A New Job.
Skepticisms Is The Longest Typed Word That Alternates Hands.
Skin Temperature Does Not Go Above 95F Even On The Hottest Of Days.
Slinkys Were Invented By An Airplane Mechanic; He Was Playing With Engine Parts And Realized The Possible Secondary Use Of One Of The Springs.
Slugs Have Four Noses.
Small Cockroaches Are More Likely To Die On Their Backs Than Large Cockroaches.
Small Flat Icebergs Have Been Fitted With Sails And Piloted More Than 2,400 Miles From The Antarctic To Valparaiso, Chile, And To Cakkaiub, Peru.
Smithee Is A Pseudonym That Filmmakers Use When They Don’t Want Their Names To Appear In The Credits.
Smoking Accounts For At Least 7% Of All Health Care Costs In The Us.
Smoking Makes It Almost Impossible For A Male To Have A Natural Erection And It Shrinks The Penis. It Also Reduces The Mobility Of Sperm.
Snails Can Sleep For 3 Years Without Eating.
Snake Bites Occur More Often In Tropical Areas, Mainly In Rural Parts. This Is Because The Most Extremely Venomous Snakes Live In Tropical Areas Of The World. Many Workers In Third-Class Countries Make Themselves Vulnerable By Not Wearing Any Protection On Their Feet. As A Matter Of Fact, In Ecuador Nearly 80% Of The Population Has Been Bitten At Least Once In Their Life.
Snakes Cannot Blink.
Snakes Don’t Bite In Rivers Or Swamps Because They Would Drown If They Did.
Soccer Legend Pele’s Real Name Is Edson Arantes Do Nascimento.
Soldiers, From Every Country, Salute With Their Right Hand.
Some Eskimos Have Been Known To Use Refrigerators To Keep Their Food From Freezing.
Some Hotels In Las Vegas Have Gambling Tables Floating In Their Swimming Pools.
Some Ribbon Worms Will Eat Themselves If They Cannot Find Food.
Some Toothpastes Contain Antifreeze.
Someone Constructs 12 New Golf Holes Every Day.
Someone On Earth Reports Seeing A Ufo Every Three Minutes. In The U.S., Reported Sightings Are Most Likely To Occur In July, At 9 P.M. Or 3 A.M.
Someone Within 200 Miles Of Your Town Claims To Have Had Direct Contact With A Monster, Ghost Or Other Unexplainable Being.
Son Of A Gun: This Familiar Designation Implying Contempt But Now Used With Joculra Familiarity Derives From The Days When Women Were Allowed To Live In Naval Ships. The Son Of The Gun Was One Born In The Ship Often Near The Midship Gun, Behind Canvas Screen. If The Paternity Was Uncertain, The Child Was Entered In The Log As Son Of A Gun.
Sophia Loren’s Sister Was Once Married To The Son Of The Italian Dictator, Mussolini.
Only One Satellite Has Been Ever Been Destroyed By A Meteor
Only One-Third Of The People That Can Twitch Their Ears Can Twitch Only One At A Time.
Only Person To Win $64,000 Challenge And $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (Subject Is Boxing).
Only Thirty Percent Of The Famous Maryland Blue Crab Are Actually From Maryland The Rest Are From North Carolina And Virginia.
Oral-B Is A Combination Of Oral Hygiene And The Letter B, Which Stands For The Word Better.
Orcas (Killer Whales) Kill Sharks By Torpedoing Up Into The Shark’s Stomach From Underneath, Causing The Shark To Explode.
Orchids Are Grown From Seed So Small That It Would Take Thirty Thousand To Weigh As Much As One Grain Of Wheat.
Organized Crime Is Estimated To Account For 10% Of The United States’ National Income.
Original ‘Indian Yellow’ Was Obtained At Monghyr, A Town In Benghal, From The Urine Of Cows Which Had Been Fed On Mango Leaves. It Was Found In The Bazaars Of Panjab In The Form Of Large Balls, Having An Offensive Urinous Odor. True Indian Yellow Has Been Absent From The Market For Some Time; Its Production Is Said To Have Been Prohibited In 1908. Present Day Indian Yellow Colors Are Made Of Synthetic Pigments, Alternatives That Are Less Fugitive And Less Offensive To The Nose!
Orson Welles Is Buried In An Olive Orchard On A Ranch Owned By His Friend, Matador Antonio Ordonez In Sevilla, Spain.
Orville Wright Was Involved In The First Aircraft Accident. His Passenger, A Frenchman, Was Killed.
Ostriches Can Run 50 Miles Per Hour.
Ostriches Do Not Bury Their Heads In The Sand.
Ostriches Stick Their Heads In The Sand To Look For Water.
Our Eyes Never Grow Our Nose And Ears Never Stop Growing.
Over 2500 Left Handed People A Year Are Killed From Using Products Made For Right Handed People!
Over A Third Of All Pinapples Come From Hawaii.
Pain Occurs When Sounds Are Above 130Db.
Papaphobia Is The Fear Of Popes.
Paper Was Invented Early In The Second Century By Chinese Eunuch.
Paranormal Experts Say People Reach The Peak Of Their Ability To See Ghosts When They’re 7 Years Old.
Parker Brothers Prints About 50 Billion Dollars Worth Of Monopoly Money In One Year.
Parthenogenesis Is The Term Used To Describe The Process By Which Certain Animals Are Able To Reproduce Themselves In Successive Female Generations Without Intervention Of A Male Of The Species. At Least One Species Of Lizard Is Known To Do So.
Paul Mccartney And Ringo Starr Were The Only Two Left-Handed Beatles.
Paul Mccartney’s Mother Was A Mid-Wife.
Paul Revere Is Documented As The First Forensic Dentist: He Was Called Upon To Identify A Former Patient’s Remains By His Teeth.
Peanuts Are Cholesterol Free.
Peanuts Are One Of The Ingredients Of Dynamite.
Penguins Are Found In The Antarctic, Not Arctic.
Penguins Can Jump As High As 6 Feet In The Air.
People Didn’t Always Say Hello When They Answered The Phone. When The First Regular Phone Service Was Established In 1878, People Said Ahoy.
People Do Not Get Sick From The Cold Weather; Its From Being Indoors A Lot More.
People Have Legs Of Slightly Different Lengths.
People Who Are Left-Handed Are Also Left-Footed Havinghte Tendency To Put Their Left Foot Forward Instead Of Their Right.
People Who Live Or Work Work In Cities, Inhale Enough Toxins That It Equals Smoking A Pack Of Cigarettes A Day.
People Who Work At Night Tend To Weigh More Than People Who Don’t.
Pepsi Is Commonly Used By Wooden Boat Owners To Clean Mold From Decks. You Can Spill It On For About 30 Seconds, But It Needs Rinsing To Make Sure It Does Not Erode Your Decks Completely (It’s Powerful Stuff..).
Pepsi Originally Contained Pepsin, Therefore The Name!
Percentage Of Americans That Eat At Mcdonalds Each Day: 7%
Percentage Of Men Who Say They Are Happier After Their Divorce Or Separation: 58%
Percentage Of North America That Is Wilderness: 38%.
Percentage Of Women Who Say They Are Happier After Their Divorce Or Separation: 85%
Personal Letters Make Up Only 5% Of The Mail Delivered By The U.S Postal Service.
Peter Falk, Who Played Columbo Has A Glass Eye.
Peter Mayhew, Who Played Chewbacca In The First Three Star Wars Movies Was A Hospital Porter In London Before Starring As The Wookie.
Phobatrivaphobia : Fear Of Trivia About Phobias
Pickled Herrings Were Invented In 137
Pigeons Live In A Cote.
Pigs Can Become Alcoholics.
Pilgrims Ate Popcorn At The First Thanksgiving Dinner.
Pinocchio Is Italian For Pine Eyes.
Pinocchio Is Italian For Pine Head.
Pinocchio Was Made Of Pine.
Pittsburgh Is The Only City Where All Major Sports Teams Have The Same Colors: Black And Gold.
Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania Is The Only City In The Usa With 3 Sports Teams That All Wear The Same Colours.
Plaster Of Paris Is Naturally Fire Retardant. At About 600 Degrees Farenheit The Chemical Water That Is Stored In It Is Released. That Is Why Walls Are Often Sweaty After A Fire.
Pluto, The Astrological Sign For Death, Was Directly Above Dallas Texas When J.F.K Was Born.
Pocahontas Appeared On The Back Of The $20 Bill In 1877
Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Was The First American To Have Plumbing Installed In His House, In 1840.
Pokemon Stands For Pocket Monster.
Pole Vault Poles Used To Be Stiff. Now They Bend Which Allows The Vaulter To Go Much Higher.
Police Dogs Are Trained To React To Commands In A Foreign Language; Commonly German But More Recently Hungarian.
Pope Paul Iv, Who Was Elected On 23 May 1555, Was So Outraged When He Saw The Naked Bodies On The Ceiling Of The Sistene Chapel That He Ordered Michelangelo To Paint On To Them.
Porcupines Are Excellent Swimmers, Because Their Quills Are Hollow!
Portion Of Harvard Students Who Graduate With Honors: 4/5
Portion Of Land In The US Owned By The Government: 1/3
Potato Chips Were Invented In Lousiana In 1863
Pound For Pound, Hamburgers Cost More Than New Cars.
Preserves Preserve The Largest Percentage Of The Original Fruit, Containing Whole Chunks Of It In Addition To Jelly.
President Grover Cleveland Was A Draft Dodger. He Hired Someone To Enter The Service In His Place, For Which He Was Ridiculed By His Political Opponent, James G. Blaine. It Was Soon Discovered, However, That Blaine Had Done The Same Thing Himself.
President John F Kennedy Could Read 4 Newspapers In 20 Minutes.
President John Quincy Adams Owned A Pet Alligator Which He Kept In The East Room Of The White House.
President John Tyler Had Fifteen Children.
President Taft Had A Special Re-Enforced Steel Dining Chair.
President Teddy Roosevelt Died From An Infected Tooth.
President Theodore Roosevelt Was The First To Announce To The World That Maxwell House Coffee Is Good To The Last Drop.
President Woodrow Wilson Wrote All Of His Speeches In Longhand.
Prince Harry And Prince William Are Uncircumcised.
Pro Golfer Wayne Levi Was The First Pga Pro To Win A Tournament Using A Colored (Orange) Ball. He Did It In The Hawaiian Open In 1985
Professional Ballerinas Use About Twelve Pairs Of Toe Shoes Per Week.
Pulp Fiction Cost $8 Million To Make–$5 Million Went To Actor’s Salaries.
Put A Sock In It: Be Quiet, Shut-Up, Make Less Noise; A Slang Expression. In The Late 19Th Century And Earlier Years Of The 20Th Century, When Gramophones Or Phonographs Amplified The Sound Through Large Horns Woolen Socks Were Often Stuffed In Them To Cut Down The Noise.
Pyrophobia Is The Fear Of Fire.
Q Is The Only Letter In The Alphabet That Does Not Appear In The Name Of Any Of The United States.
Q-Tips Cotton Swabs Were Originally Called Baby Gays.
Quebec And Newfoundland Are The Only Two Provinces Which Do Not Allow Personalized License Plates.
Queen Elizabeth Was Good Friends With William Shakespeare.
Queen Victoria Eased The Discomfort Of Her Menstrual Cramps By Having Her Doctor Supply Her With Marijuana.
Ralph Kramden, Of The Honeymooners, Made 62 Dollars A Week.
Ralph Lauren’s Original Name Was Ralph Lifshitz.
Ramses Ii, A Pharaoh Of Egypt Died In 1225 B.C. At The Time Of His Death, He Had Fathered 111 Sons And 67 Daughters
Rat’s Can’t Vomit.
Recycling One Glass Jar, Saves Enough Energy To Watch T.V For 3 Hours.
Reindeer Like To Eat Bananas.
Rene Descartes Came Up With The Theory Of Coordinate Geometry By Looking At A Fly Walk Across A Tiled Ceiling.
Researchers In Denmark Found That Beer Tastes Best When Drunk To The Accompaniment Of A Certain Musical Tone. The Optimal Frequency Is Different For Each Beer, They Reported. The Correct Harmonious Tone For Carlsberg Lager, For Example, Is 510-520 Cycles Per Second.
Revolvers Cannot Be Silenced Because Of 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.
Rice Is Grown On More Than 10 Percent Of The Earth’s Farmable Surface.
Rice Is The Main Food For Half Of The People Of The World.
Rice Is Thrown At Weddings As A Symbol Of Fertility.
Richard Nixon Left Instructions For California, Here I Come To Be The Lat Piece Of Music Played (Slowly And Softly) Were He To Die In Office.
Richard Nixon’s Favorite Drink Was A Dry Martini.
Rick And Paul Reuschel Of The 1975 Chicago Cubs Combine To Pitch A Shutout, The First Time Brothers Do This.
Right-Handed People Live, On Average, Nine Years Longer Than Left-Handed People Do.
Rio De Janeiro Translates To River Of January.
Rita Hayworth’s Real Name Was Margarita Cansino.
Rita Moreno Is The First And Only Entertainer To Have Received All 4 Of America’s Top Entertainment Industry Awards: The Oscar, The Emmy, The Tony And The Grammy.
Robert E. Lee Wore Size 4 1/2 Shoe.
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.
Robert Kennedy Was Killed In The Ambassador Hotel, The Same Hotel That Housed Marilyn Monroe’s First Modelling Agency.
Robots In Japan Pay Union Dues.
Roger Ebert Is The Only Film Critic To Have Ever Won The Pulitzer Prize.
Ronald Reagan Sent Out The Army Photographer Who First Discovered Marilyn Monroe
Ronald Reagan Was The Only Divorced President.
Roosevelt Was The Most Superstitious President–He Travelled Continually But Never Left On A Friday. He Also Would Not Sit At The Same Table That Held Thirteen Other People.
Roosters Cannot Crow If They Can’t Fully Extend Their Necks.
Ross Perot Resigned From The General Motors Board Of Directors Because Of The Decision To Purchase Hughes Aircraft Company.
Rubber Bands Last Longer When Refrigerated.
Sailors On Board A Ship, Even When Out At Sea, Can Feel Earthquakes.
Salt Is The Only Rock Humans Can Eat.
Salvador Dali Once Arrived To An Art Exhibition In A Limousine Filled With Turnips.
Samuel Clemens Aka Mark Twain Smoked Forty Cigars A Day For The Last Years Of His Life.
Sawney Beane, His Wife, 8 Sons, 6 Daughters, And 32 Grandchildren Were A Family Of Cannibals That Lived In The Caves Near Galloway, Scotland In The Early 17Th Century. Although The Total Number Is Not Known, It Is Believed They Claimed Over 50 Victims Per Year. The Entire Family Was Taken By An Army Detachment To Edinburgh And Executed, Apparently Without Trial. [Source: Guinness Book Of World Records]
Scientists In Australia’s Parkes Observatory Thought They Had Positive Proof Of Alien Life, When They Began Picking Up Radio-Waves From Space. However, After Investigation, The Radio Emissions Were Traced To A Microwave In The Building.
Scientists In Brazil Have Reported The Emergence Of The Superflea–They Are Bigger Than Cockroaches.
Scooby Doo’s First Real Name Is Scoobert.
Scorpions Can Withstand 200 Times More Nuclear Radiation Than Humans Can.
Scotch Tape Has Been Used As An Anti-Corrosive Shield On The Goodyear Blimp.
Scotchgard Is A Combination Of The Words Scotch, Meaning Scotsman, And A Misspelling Of Guard, Meaning To Protect.
Screech , From Saved By The Bell, Was The Only One Of The Characters Who Played In All The Episodes From Junior High To Saved By The Bell: The New Class.
Sea Otters Have 2 Coats Of Fur.
Seals Must Teach Their Young How To Swim.
See For Yourself: Tv Sitcom Characters Rarely Say Goodbye When They Hang Up The Phone.
Seoul, The South Korean Capital, Just Means The Capital In The Korean Language.
September 16-21 Is Farm Animal Awareness Week.
Shakespeare Spelled His Own Name Several Different Ways.
Shannon Hoon, The Now-Dead Lead Singer Of The Group Blind Melon Was A Back-Up Singer For Gun’s N’roses On Their Use Your Illusion 1 Cd.
Sharon Stone Was The First Star Search Spokesmodel.
Sheriff Came From Shire Reeve. During Early Years Of Feudal Rule In England, Each Shire Had A Reeve Who Was The Law For That Shire. When The Term Was Brought To The United States It Was Shortened To Sheriff.
Sherlock Holmes Never Said Elementary, My Dear Watson.
Sheryl Crow’s Front Two Teeth Are Fake–She Knocked Them Out When She Tripped On Stage Earlier In Her Career.
Shirley Temple Always Had 56 Curls In Her Hair.
Shortest Intercontinental Commercial Flight In The World Is From Gibraltar (Europe) To Tangier (Africa.) Distance 34 Miles, Flight Time 20 Minutes.
Siberian Huskies And Alaskan Malamutes Are Not The Same Dog. Mals Are Generally Bigger, More Boned And Have Wedges Of Ears Set On The Sides Of Their Heads. They Also Only Have Brown Eyes And Rarely Bark. Instead They Make A Woo-Woo Like Call. They Also Make Terrible Guard Dogs, Despite Their Size.
Sigmund Freud Had A Morbid Fear Of Ferns.
Since 1896, The Beginning Of The Modern Olympics, Only Greece And Australia Have Participated In Every Games.
Since 1978, At Least 37 People Have Died As A Result Of Shaking Vending Machines, In An Attempt To Get Free Merchandise. More Than 100 Have Been Injured.
Since Its Introduction In February 1935, More Than 150 Million Monopoly Board Games Have Been Sold Worldwide.
Since The 1930′s The Town Of Corona, Ca Has Buried – And Lost – All 17 Of Its Time Capsules.
Since The Lego Group Began Manufacturing Blocks In 1949, More Than 189 Billion Pieces In 2000 Different Shapes Have Been Produced. This Is Enough For About 30 Lego Pieces For Every Living Person On Earth.
Sir Issac Newton Was An Ordained Priest In The Church Of England
Sir Issac Newton Was Only 23 Years Old When He Discovered The Law Of Universal Gravitation.
Sixty Percent Of Big-Firm Executives Said The Cover Letter Is As Important Or More Important Than The R?M Tself When You’re Looking For A New Job.
Skepticisms Is The Longest Typed Word That Alternates Hands.
Skin Temperature Does Not Go Above 95F Even On The Hottest Of Days.
Slinkys Were Invented By An Airplane Mechanic; He Was Playing With Engine Parts And Realized The Possible Secondary Use Of One Of The Springs.
Slugs Have Four Noses.
Small Cockroaches Are More Likely To Die On Their Backs Than Large Cockroaches.
Small Flat Icebergs Have Been Fitted With Sails And Piloted More Than 2,400 Miles From The Antarctic To Valparaiso, Chile, And To Cakkaiub, Peru.
Smithee Is A Pseudonym That Filmmakers Use When They Don’t Want Their Names To Appear In The Credits.
Smoking Accounts For At Least 7% Of All Health Care Costs In The Us.
Smoking Makes It Almost Impossible For A Male To Have A Natural Erection And It Shrinks The Penis. It Also Reduces The Mobility Of Sperm.
Snails Can Sleep For 3 Years Without Eating.
Snake Bites Occur More Often In Tropical Areas, Mainly In Rural Parts. This Is Because The Most Extremely Venomous Snakes Live In Tropical Areas Of The World. Many Workers In Third-Class Countries Make Themselves Vulnerable By Not Wearing Any Protection On Their Feet. As A Matter Of Fact, In Ecuador Nearly 80% Of The Population Has Been Bitten At Least Once In Their Life.
Snakes Cannot Blink.
Snakes Don’t Bite In Rivers Or Swamps Because They Would Drown If They Did.
Soccer Legend Pele’s Real Name Is Edson Arantes Do Nascimento.
Soldiers, From Every Country, Salute With Their Right Hand.
Some Eskimos Have Been Known To Use Refrigerators To Keep Their Food From Freezing.
Some Hotels In Las Vegas Have Gambling Tables Floating In Their Swimming Pools.
Some Ribbon Worms Will Eat Themselves If They Cannot Find Food.
Some Toothpastes Contain Antifreeze.
Someone Constructs 12 New Golf Holes Every Day.
Someone On Earth Reports Seeing A Ufo Every Three Minutes. In The U.S., Reported Sightings Are Most Likely To Occur In July, At 9 P.M. Or 3 A.M.
Someone Within 200 Miles Of Your Town Claims To Have Had Direct Contact With A Monster, Ghost Or Other Unexplainable Being.
Son Of A Gun: This Familiar Designation Implying Contempt But Now Used With Joculra Familiarity Derives From The Days When Women Were Allowed To Live In Naval Ships. The Son Of The Gun Was One Born In The Ship Often Near The Midship Gun, Behind Canvas Screen. If The Paternity Was Uncertain, The Child Was Entered In The Log As Son Of A Gun.
Sophia Loren’s Sister Was Once Married To The Son Of The Italian Dictator, Mussolini.
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