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- 2. Giraffes have no vocal chords.
- 3. All porcupines float in water.
- 4. There is a Superman in every episode of Seinfeld.
- 5. Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, while dogs only have about 10.
- 6. There are almost twice as many people in Rhode Island as there are in Alaska.
- 7. The poisonous copperhead smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
- 8. Tennessee is bordered by more states than any other. The eight states are Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia.
- 9. If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat, it measures 87 feet long.
- 10. M&M’s stand for the last names of Forrest Mars, Sr., (a candymaker), and his associate Bruce Murrie.
- 11. The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
- 12. Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon who died at birth. This is why Elvis’ middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
- 13. Crickets hear through their knees.
- 14. Lynyrd Skynyrd 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 to do nothin’.”
- 15. Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.
- 16. Donald Duck’s middle name was Fauntleroy.
- 17. The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland’s baby daughter, Ruth.
- 18. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
- 19. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
- 20. More people in the world are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
- 21. Elizabeth I of England suffered from anthophobia, a fear of roses.
- 22. Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
- 23. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth…and whose shame created the expression, “His name is Mudd.”
- 24. Ben and Jerry’s send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor – Mint Oreo.
- 25. The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
- 26. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
- 27. Edgar Allen Poe was kicked out of West Point Military Academy.
- 28. The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.
- 29. Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
- 30. In the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s last name is Gail. It is shown on the mailbox. GAIL
- 31. All swans in England are the property of the Queen. Messing with them is a serious offense.
- 32. The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE 2 because QE II is the actual queen. QE 2 QE II
- 33. Our ears never stop growing!
- 34. There are only 13 blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the U.S. The largest is the Fuji Film blimp. FUJI
- 35. Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus.
- 36. An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.
- 37. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades – King David, Clubs – Alexander the Great, Hearts – Charlemagne, and Diamonds – Julius Caesar.
- 38. Babies are born without knee caps.
- 39. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
- 40. The names of all the continents end with the same letter they start with. Europe Antarctica Asia Africa N. America S. America Australia
- 41. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down—hence the expression “to get fired.”