LuNaReVe
I'm not Hannah's number one fannah anymore :( Bye
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- Feb 19, 2006
I found these quite interesting
#1: A Goldfish's attention span is three seconds.
#2: Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.
#4: Slugs have 4 noses.
#5: A camel has 3 eyelids.
#8: A bee has 5 eyes.
#10: Mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
#11: Flamingos turn pink from eating shrimp.
#14: Camel's milk does not curdle.
#17: A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
#18: A jellyfish is 95% water.
#19: Children grow faster in the spring.
#21: Almonds are members of the peach family.
#22: Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work.
#24: The state of Maine has 62 lighthouses.
#26: The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
#27: A ball of glass will bounce higher that a ball of rubber.
#28: Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
#29: On average, a human being will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.
#30: Fish have eyelids.
#34: If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
#35: Elephants sleep only 2 hours a day.
#36: A duck's quack doesn't echo.
#42: Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.
#44: The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps
#45: Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles a day.
#46: Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
#47: Giraffes have no vocal cords.
#49: Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.
#50: Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
#52: 11% of the people in the world are left-handed.
#53: The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.
#54: The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.
#56: 1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.
#57: You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
#58: A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over100 miles per hour.
#59: Brain waves can be used to run an electric train.
#60: The tongue is the fastest healing part of a human body.
#61: Pigs get sunburn.
#62: The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
#65: A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion mathematical calculations.
#66: Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
#67: There are 18 different animal shapes in the animal ers cookie zoo.
#68: The longest one-syllable word is "screeched."
#69: No word in the English language rhymes with month.
#70: A "jiffy" is 1/100 of a second.
#73: The average person spends 2 weeks over his/her life waiting for a traffic light to change.
#74: You share your birthday with at least a million other people.
#75: The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
#79: There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.
#82: August has the highest percentage of births.
#86: Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
#88: A ten gallon hat holds less than one gallon of liquid.
#90: The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
#92: Fish can drown.
#94: Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
#95: Squids can have eyes the size of volleyballs.
#98: When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh less.
#103: Frowning burns more calories than smiling.
#105: You will burn about 7% more calories walking on hard dirt than pavement.
#106: You would weigh less on the top of a mountain than at sea level.
#109: Smelling bananas and/or apples can help you lose weight.
#110: Frogs never drink.
#111: Only male turkeys gooble.
#112: At birth, a Dalmation is always pure white.
#113: The fastest recorded speed of a racehorse was over 43mph.
#114: The oldest known animal was a tortoise, which lived to be 152 years old.
#116: The largest fish is the whale shark - it can be over 50ft long and weigh 2 tons.
#117: The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.
#118: Honeybees are the only insects that create a form of food for humans.
#119: The humming bird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
#121: The only bird that can swim but not fly is the penguin.
#122: A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
#123: Beavers were once the size of bears.
#124: Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time.
#125: Pigeons have been trained by the U.S. Coast Guard to spot people lost at sea.
#127: A hummingbird's heart beats 1,400 times a minute.
#129: Dolphins can jump up to 20 feet in the air.
#132: A crocodile cannot move its tongue.
#133: Honeybees navigate by using the sun as a compass.
#135: A single coffee tree produces only about a pound of coffee beans per year.
#137: The city of Los Angeles has 3x more automobiles than people.
#138: Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows coffee.
#139: Hawaii is the only state with one school district.
#140: Holland is the only country with a national dog.
#141: The square dance is the official dance of the state of Washington.
#142: Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero degrees F or below.
#143: "Q" is the only letter in the alphabet not appearing in the name of any U.S. state.
#144: Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.
#145: Lake Superior is the world's largest lake.
#146: The smallest county in America is New Yourk county, better known as Manhatten
#147: Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic.
#148: The tallest man was 8ft. 11in.
#149: Theodore Roosevelt was the only president who was blind in one eye.
#150: The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.
#153: The speed limit in NYC was 8mph in 1895.
#155: In 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC.
#156: Swimming Pools in the U.S. contain enough water to cover San Francisco.
#157: The first TV soap opera debuted in 1946.
#160: One alternate title that had been considered for NBC's hit "Friends" was "Insomnia Cafe."
#161: The first TV network kids show in the U.S. was "Captain Kangaroo."
#163: The first penny had the motto "Mind your own business."
#164: The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house by horses.
#165: Your eyes expands up to 45% when looking at something pleasing.
#167: You have to play ping-pong for 12 hours to lose one pound.
#169: The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.
#170: In 1878, the first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names.
#171: The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and the fingertips.
#173: Chinese is the most spoken language in the world.
#175: In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.
#176: The first nike was called a hobbyhorse.
#180: The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.
#182: A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.
#184: The most used letters in the English language are E, T, A, O, I and N.
#188: Antarctica is the driest, coldest, windiest and highest continent on earth.
#190: Thailand means "Land of the Free."
#191: Popcorn was invented by the American Indians.
#194: You don't have to be a lawyer to be a Supreme Court Justice.
#196: If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.12.
#197: The first person crossed Niagara Falls by tightrope in 1859.
#200: The first country to use postcards was Austria.
#204: A stamp shaped like a banana was once issued in the country of Tonga.
#205: For every human being in the world there is approximately one chicken.
#207: Before 1687 clocks were made with only an hour hand.
#208: Add up opposing sides of a dice cube and you'll always get seven.
#209: The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,061 lbs.
#213: The largest ball of twine in the U.S. weighs over 17,000 pounds.
#218: A jackrabbit can travel more than 12 feet in one hop.
#222: "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" was composed by Mozart when he was five years old.
#223: The Basenji is the only type of dog that does not bark.
#225: There are towns called Sandwich in Illinois and Massachusetts.
#226: 13 percent of the world's tea comes from Kenya.
#227: "Tsiology" is anything written about tea.
#228: There is a town in South Dakota named "Tea."
#229: The Caspian Sea is actually a lake.
Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal ers cookie zoo!
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
Your body is creating and 15 million red cells per second!
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
When glass breaks, the move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
Slugs have 4 noses!
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!.. More fears...
There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!
Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
Most dust particles in your house are made from skin!
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are ally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
Goofy Laws
In Alabama, it is illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.
In Texas, it is illegal to curse in front of, or ly expose oneself to, a corpse.
In Michigan, a man legally owns his wife's hair.
Kansas law prohibits rabbits from a motorboat.
In Idaho, the law states all boxes of candy given as romantic gifts must weigh more than 50 pounds.
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
In California, animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school or place of worship.
In Washington state, it's against the law to sleep in an outhouse without the owner's permission.
Putting salt on a railroad track can be punishable by in the state of Alabama.
In Texas, it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.
In Alabama, dominoes may not be played on Sunday.
In New York City, it's illegal to shake a dust mop out a window.
In Connorsville, Wisconsin a man is legally prohibited from a gun while his female partner is having an .
In New York, it's against the law to throw a ball at someone's head for fun.
In Pueblo, Colorado, it is illegal to let a dandelion grow within city limits.
In the state of Washington, it's illegal to catch a fish by throwing a rock at it.
It is illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on in North Dakota.
In Berkeley, California, you can't whistle for an escaped bird before 7:00 a.m.
An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take anything other than backwards steps while dancing.
In California, it is a misdemeanor to shoot at any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless the target is a whale.
In Florida, ual relations with a porcupine is illegal.
San Francisco bans any "mechanical device that reproduces language."
In Nogales, Arizona, it is illegal to wear suspenders.
In Atlanta, Georgia, it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.
In Logan County, Colorado, it's illegal for a man to kiss a woman while she's asleep.
There's a San Francisco law that states it's illegal to play poker in public or gamble in a barricaded room.
In the state of Texas, it is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while standing.
A person is not eligible to become governor in Pennsylvania if they have participated in a duel.
It's against the law for a woman to drive in a house coat in California.
In Texas, it's illegal to milk another person's cow.
In Maine, it's illegal to catch lobsters with your bare hands.
In Louisiana, it's against the law to gargle in public.
In Quitman, Georgia, it is illegal for a chicken to cross the road.
It is illegal to a wake a bear for the purpose of photography in Alaska.
In Hawaii, one is legally prohibited from putting coins in one's ears.
In New Orleans, Louisiana, fire trucks are legally required to stop at all red lights.
A local ordinance in Atwoodville, Connecticut prohibits people from playing Scrabble while waiting for a politician to speak.
In Alabama, it is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in a church.
In North Carolina, it is illegal to sing off key.
In California, it's illegal to eat oranges in a bathtub.
In Oregon, it is against the law to use canned corn as bait for fishing.
In Logan County, Colorado, it is illegal for a man to kiss a woman while she sleeps.
Monkeys are from smoke cigarettes in South Bend, Indiana.
In the state of Indiana, liquor stores may not sell milk.
In North Carolina, elephants may not be used to plow cotton fields.
A Virginia law requires all bathtubs to be kept out in the yards, not inside the houses.
It is illegal to ride a streetcar on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
In the country of Turkey, in the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to .
Before the enactment of the 1978 law that made it mandatory for dog owners in New York City to clean up after their pets, approximately 40 million pounds of dog excrement were deposited on the streets every year.
In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania it is illegal to with a truck driver inside a tollbooth.
Louisiana law prohibits couples who are shopping for a new bed from putting it to the "ultimate test"-- in other words, from trying it out by on it, or even simulating this activity.
In Kentucky, by law, anyone who has been drinking is "sober" until he or she "cannot hold onto the ground."
In Kentucky, it is illegal to transport an ice cream cone in your pocket.
In Louisiana, it is illegal to rob a bank and then shoot at the bank teller with a water pistol.
In Louisiana, biting someone with your natural teeth is "simple assault," while biting someone with your false teeth is "aggravated assault."
In Massachusetts, mourners at a wake may not eat more than three sandwiches.
In Massachusetts, snoring is prohibited unless all bedroom windows are closed and securely locked.
In Massachusetts, an old ordinance declares goatees illegal unless you first pay a special license fee for the privilege of wearing one in public.
In Texas, sixteen-year old divorced s are prohibited from talking about during high school extracurricular activities.
In Florida, a special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday or she shall risk arrest, fine, and/or jailing.
In Florida, if an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle.
In Florida, it is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.
In Florida, men may not be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown.
In Illinois, it is illegal for anyone to give lighted cigars to dogs, cats, and other domesticated animal kept as pets.
In Indiana, bathing is prohibited during the winter.
In Indiana citizens are not allowed to attend a movie house or theater nor ride in a public streetcar within at least four hours after eating garlic.
In Massachusetts, taxi drivers are prohibited from in the front seat of their taxi during their shifts.
There once was a town named "6" in West Virginia
#1: A Goldfish's attention span is three seconds.
#2: Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.
#4: Slugs have 4 noses.
#5: A camel has 3 eyelids.
#8: A bee has 5 eyes.
#10: Mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
#11: Flamingos turn pink from eating shrimp.
#14: Camel's milk does not curdle.
#17: A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
#18: A jellyfish is 95% water.
#19: Children grow faster in the spring.
#21: Almonds are members of the peach family.
#22: Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work.
#24: The state of Maine has 62 lighthouses.
#26: The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
#27: A ball of glass will bounce higher that a ball of rubber.
#28: Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
#29: On average, a human being will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.
#30: Fish have eyelids.
#34: If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
#35: Elephants sleep only 2 hours a day.
#36: A duck's quack doesn't echo.
#42: Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.
#44: The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps
#45: Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles a day.
#46: Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
#47: Giraffes have no vocal cords.
#49: Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.
#50: Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
#52: 11% of the people in the world are left-handed.
#53: The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.
#54: The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.
#56: 1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.
#57: You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
#58: A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over100 miles per hour.
#59: Brain waves can be used to run an electric train.
#60: The tongue is the fastest healing part of a human body.
#61: Pigs get sunburn.
#62: The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
#65: A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion mathematical calculations.
#66: Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
#67: There are 18 different animal shapes in the animal ers cookie zoo.
#68: The longest one-syllable word is "screeched."
#69: No word in the English language rhymes with month.
#70: A "jiffy" is 1/100 of a second.
#73: The average person spends 2 weeks over his/her life waiting for a traffic light to change.
#74: You share your birthday with at least a million other people.
#75: The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
#79: There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.
#82: August has the highest percentage of births.
#86: Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
#88: A ten gallon hat holds less than one gallon of liquid.
#90: The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
#92: Fish can drown.
#94: Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
#95: Squids can have eyes the size of volleyballs.
#98: When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh less.
#103: Frowning burns more calories than smiling.
#105: You will burn about 7% more calories walking on hard dirt than pavement.
#106: You would weigh less on the top of a mountain than at sea level.
#109: Smelling bananas and/or apples can help you lose weight.
#110: Frogs never drink.
#111: Only male turkeys gooble.
#112: At birth, a Dalmation is always pure white.
#113: The fastest recorded speed of a racehorse was over 43mph.
#114: The oldest known animal was a tortoise, which lived to be 152 years old.
#116: The largest fish is the whale shark - it can be over 50ft long and weigh 2 tons.
#117: The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.
#118: Honeybees are the only insects that create a form of food for humans.
#119: The humming bird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
#121: The only bird that can swim but not fly is the penguin.
#122: A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
#123: Beavers were once the size of bears.
#124: Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time.
#125: Pigeons have been trained by the U.S. Coast Guard to spot people lost at sea.
#127: A hummingbird's heart beats 1,400 times a minute.
#129: Dolphins can jump up to 20 feet in the air.
#132: A crocodile cannot move its tongue.
#133: Honeybees navigate by using the sun as a compass.
#135: A single coffee tree produces only about a pound of coffee beans per year.
#137: The city of Los Angeles has 3x more automobiles than people.
#138: Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows coffee.
#139: Hawaii is the only state with one school district.
#140: Holland is the only country with a national dog.
#141: The square dance is the official dance of the state of Washington.
#142: Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero degrees F or below.
#143: "Q" is the only letter in the alphabet not appearing in the name of any U.S. state.
#144: Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.
#145: Lake Superior is the world's largest lake.
#146: The smallest county in America is New Yourk county, better known as Manhatten
#147: Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic.
#148: The tallest man was 8ft. 11in.
#149: Theodore Roosevelt was the only president who was blind in one eye.
#150: The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.
#153: The speed limit in NYC was 8mph in 1895.
#155: In 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC.
#156: Swimming Pools in the U.S. contain enough water to cover San Francisco.
#157: The first TV soap opera debuted in 1946.
#160: One alternate title that had been considered for NBC's hit "Friends" was "Insomnia Cafe."
#161: The first TV network kids show in the U.S. was "Captain Kangaroo."
#163: The first penny had the motto "Mind your own business."
#164: The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house by horses.
#165: Your eyes expands up to 45% when looking at something pleasing.
#167: You have to play ping-pong for 12 hours to lose one pound.
#169: The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.
#170: In 1878, the first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names.
#171: The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and the fingertips.
#173: Chinese is the most spoken language in the world.
#175: In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.
#176: The first nike was called a hobbyhorse.
#180: The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.
#182: A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.
#184: The most used letters in the English language are E, T, A, O, I and N.
#188: Antarctica is the driest, coldest, windiest and highest continent on earth.
#190: Thailand means "Land of the Free."
#191: Popcorn was invented by the American Indians.
#194: You don't have to be a lawyer to be a Supreme Court Justice.
#196: If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.12.
#197: The first person crossed Niagara Falls by tightrope in 1859.
#200: The first country to use postcards was Austria.
#204: A stamp shaped like a banana was once issued in the country of Tonga.
#205: For every human being in the world there is approximately one chicken.
#207: Before 1687 clocks were made with only an hour hand.
#208: Add up opposing sides of a dice cube and you'll always get seven.
#209: The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,061 lbs.
#213: The largest ball of twine in the U.S. weighs over 17,000 pounds.
#218: A jackrabbit can travel more than 12 feet in one hop.
#222: "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" was composed by Mozart when he was five years old.
#223: The Basenji is the only type of dog that does not bark.
#225: There are towns called Sandwich in Illinois and Massachusetts.
#226: 13 percent of the world's tea comes from Kenya.
#227: "Tsiology" is anything written about tea.
#228: There is a town in South Dakota named "Tea."
#229: The Caspian Sea is actually a lake.
Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal ers cookie zoo!
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
Your body is creating and 15 million red cells per second!
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
When glass breaks, the move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
Slugs have 4 noses!
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!.. More fears...
There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!
Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
Most dust particles in your house are made from skin!
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are ally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
Goofy Laws
In Alabama, it is illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.
In Texas, it is illegal to curse in front of, or ly expose oneself to, a corpse.
In Michigan, a man legally owns his wife's hair.
Kansas law prohibits rabbits from a motorboat.
In Idaho, the law states all boxes of candy given as romantic gifts must weigh more than 50 pounds.
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
In California, animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school or place of worship.
In Washington state, it's against the law to sleep in an outhouse without the owner's permission.
Putting salt on a railroad track can be punishable by in the state of Alabama.
In Texas, it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.
In Alabama, dominoes may not be played on Sunday.
In New York City, it's illegal to shake a dust mop out a window.
In Connorsville, Wisconsin a man is legally prohibited from a gun while his female partner is having an .
In New York, it's against the law to throw a ball at someone's head for fun.
In Pueblo, Colorado, it is illegal to let a dandelion grow within city limits.
In the state of Washington, it's illegal to catch a fish by throwing a rock at it.
It is illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on in North Dakota.
In Berkeley, California, you can't whistle for an escaped bird before 7:00 a.m.
An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take anything other than backwards steps while dancing.
In California, it is a misdemeanor to shoot at any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless the target is a whale.
In Florida, ual relations with a porcupine is illegal.
San Francisco bans any "mechanical device that reproduces language."
In Nogales, Arizona, it is illegal to wear suspenders.
In Atlanta, Georgia, it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.
In Logan County, Colorado, it's illegal for a man to kiss a woman while she's asleep.
There's a San Francisco law that states it's illegal to play poker in public or gamble in a barricaded room.
In the state of Texas, it is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while standing.
A person is not eligible to become governor in Pennsylvania if they have participated in a duel.
It's against the law for a woman to drive in a house coat in California.
In Texas, it's illegal to milk another person's cow.
In Maine, it's illegal to catch lobsters with your bare hands.
In Louisiana, it's against the law to gargle in public.
In Quitman, Georgia, it is illegal for a chicken to cross the road.
It is illegal to a wake a bear for the purpose of photography in Alaska.
In Hawaii, one is legally prohibited from putting coins in one's ears.
In New Orleans, Louisiana, fire trucks are legally required to stop at all red lights.
A local ordinance in Atwoodville, Connecticut prohibits people from playing Scrabble while waiting for a politician to speak.
In Alabama, it is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in a church.
In North Carolina, it is illegal to sing off key.
In California, it's illegal to eat oranges in a bathtub.
In Oregon, it is against the law to use canned corn as bait for fishing.
In Logan County, Colorado, it is illegal for a man to kiss a woman while she sleeps.
Monkeys are from smoke cigarettes in South Bend, Indiana.
In the state of Indiana, liquor stores may not sell milk.
In North Carolina, elephants may not be used to plow cotton fields.
A Virginia law requires all bathtubs to be kept out in the yards, not inside the houses.
It is illegal to ride a streetcar on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
In the country of Turkey, in the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to .
Before the enactment of the 1978 law that made it mandatory for dog owners in New York City to clean up after their pets, approximately 40 million pounds of dog excrement were deposited on the streets every year.
In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania it is illegal to with a truck driver inside a tollbooth.
Louisiana law prohibits couples who are shopping for a new bed from putting it to the "ultimate test"-- in other words, from trying it out by on it, or even simulating this activity.
In Kentucky, by law, anyone who has been drinking is "sober" until he or she "cannot hold onto the ground."
In Kentucky, it is illegal to transport an ice cream cone in your pocket.
In Louisiana, it is illegal to rob a bank and then shoot at the bank teller with a water pistol.
In Louisiana, biting someone with your natural teeth is "simple assault," while biting someone with your false teeth is "aggravated assault."
In Massachusetts, mourners at a wake may not eat more than three sandwiches.
In Massachusetts, snoring is prohibited unless all bedroom windows are closed and securely locked.
In Massachusetts, an old ordinance declares goatees illegal unless you first pay a special license fee for the privilege of wearing one in public.
In Texas, sixteen-year old divorced s are prohibited from talking about during high school extracurricular activities.
In Florida, a special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday or she shall risk arrest, fine, and/or jailing.
In Florida, if an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle.
In Florida, it is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.
In Florida, men may not be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown.
In Illinois, it is illegal for anyone to give lighted cigars to dogs, cats, and other domesticated animal kept as pets.
In Indiana, bathing is prohibited during the winter.
In Indiana citizens are not allowed to attend a movie house or theater nor ride in a public streetcar within at least four hours after eating garlic.
In Massachusetts, taxi drivers are prohibited from in the front seat of their taxi during their shifts.
There once was a town named "6" in West Virginia
