Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on watch is 10:10.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
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 lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
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 microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
The only planet without a ring is earth.
Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on watch is 10:10.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
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 lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
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 microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
The only planet without a ring is earth.
Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
“Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel. Irony, eh?
In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child. And so, pepperoni was born.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. Let’s try kicking it. Or let’s use the bones to build homes!
You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. Oh, really?
There is a city called Rome on every continent. There’s a Chinatown in every CITY. Beat that, Rome.
It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day! Wow, I’d be dead if my heart had the same stamina as I do!
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. Hah! In your faces, lefties!
The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump… Unless you poke it from behind!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different! So is everyone’s butt print!
The word “queue” is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed. Doesn’t that make it a single letter, finally?
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon. Let me guess, flies taste like fried wantons once you dip them in schezwan sauce?
Of all the words in the English language, the word “set” has the most definitions! “Set” the “set” of settings on the television “set” to default?
What is called a “French kiss” in the English speaking world is known as an “English kiss” in France. So if a French guy kisses an English girl in the middle of the Atlantic ocean on a boat, what do we call it?
“Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
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