* Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

* Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

* No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses of the national anthem of Greece.

* There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

* The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

* A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

* There are more chickens than people in the world.

* Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

* The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

* All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

* No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

* "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

* All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 
bill.

* Almonds are a member of the peach family.

* Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

* Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

* There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": 
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

* Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de
orciuncula" -and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."

* A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

* An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

* Tigers have stripped skin, not just stripped fur.

* In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

* Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

* The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

* When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium 
becomes the state's third largest city.

* 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 dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

* A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

* An American dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

* On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the 
"1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

* It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)

* The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

* In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

* Frank Baum, the creator of The "Wizard of Oz" thought up the name for Oz when 
he looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

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

* Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

* Thelma Pickles was John Lennon's first girlfriend.

* The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

* There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

* "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

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