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Time to learn
July 03, 2002, 9:55 PM
wanda the gnome fish told me "if you learned 1 useless fact everyday, by the end of the year you will know 365 useless things". So I thought I'd 'help' the education process along. enjoy.
Later Days,
Blaze
The first television show to show a flushing toilet was Leave It to Beaver.
The McDonald�s� at Toronto�s �SkyDome� is the only McDonald�s� location that sells hot dogs.
A can of SPAM� is opened every 4 seconds.
Plastic lawn flamingos are more numerous in the United States than real flamingos.
Whitby, Ontario has more donut stored per capita than any other place on earth.
Pinocchio was made of pine.
The largest recorded kidney stone weighed 1.36 kg.
Kidney stones range in color.
The hundred billionth Crayola crayon ever produced was Perriwinkle Blue.
An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Chickens can�t swallow while they are upside-down.
There are more chickens in the world than people.
The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one.
The U.S. Patent Office received over one hundred patent entries for �Perpetual Motion Machines� each year.
The British Patent Office will not except patents for �Perpetual Motion Machines�.
A novel with 50,000 words, non of which contained the letter �E� was written by Ernest Wright.
Mark Twain�s book �Tom Sawyer� (1876) was the first novel to ever be written on a typewriter.
Isaac Asimovis is the only author to have a book in every major category of the Dewey-decimal system.
Cranberry Jell-O is the only kind that contains real fruit.
The Paramount� logo contains 22 stars.
After the Mayflower was no longer needed, it was dismantled, and rebuilt as a barn.
The letters of the alphabet in order of frequency of use are:
ETAISONHRDLUCMFWYPGVBKJQXZ
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
You consume one tenth (.1) calories when you lick a stamp.
Laughter is a proven way to loose weight.
The pound sign ( # ) is called an anoctothorpe.
There was once a town named �6� in West Virginia.
A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not.
Every year more people are killed by donkeys, than in aircraft crashes.
Eating lots of carrots will turn the pigment in your skin orange. (Carotene is the same substance that makes leaves turn orange in the fall)
The earth weighs about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Every day the sun loses about 360 million tons.
The first word spoken on the moon was �Okay�.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot.
Popeye was five feet, six inches.
The average speed of Heinz� ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.
The most common name for a gold fish is �Jaws�.
The most common (human) name in the world is, �Mohammed�.
The longest name is the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) is Malhershalahashbaz.
The shortest verse in the bible is �Jesus Wept�. (John 11:35)
The word �and� appears 46,277 times in the bible.
There are 17 steps to the apartment of Sherlock Holmes.
In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.
The Eifel Tower has 2.5 million rivets.
The Eifel Tower has 1792 steps.
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