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I Didn't Know That!
9/02/10 - In
Washington state, all lollipops are banned.
8/26/10 - It
is illegal to carry an ice-cream cone in your pocket in Kentucky.
8/25/10 - In
Iowa, it is illegal for a kiss to last more than five minutes.
8/24/10 - In
Michigan, a man legally owns his wife's hair.
8/21/10 - By
law, everybody in Vermont must take at least one bath a week.
8/20/10 - In
North Dakota, it is illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your
shoes on.
8/12/10 - In
Ohio, women are prohibited from wearing patent leather shoes in
public.
8/09/10 - In
Huntington West Virginia, it's legal to beat your wife so long
as it's done in public on a Sunday-and on the courthouse steps.
8/01/10 - In
Texas it is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a
time while standing.
7/26/10 - In
Idaho, a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a
box of candy that weights more than 50 lbs.
7/23/10 - In
Nebraska, a parent can be arrested if his or her child can't hold
a back a burp during a church service. While in Alabama it is
illegal to wear a false moustache which causes laughter in church.
7/22/10 - In
Alaska, it is illegal to look at a moose from the window of an
aircraft or another flying vehicle. It is also illegal to push
a live moose out of a moving aircraft.
7/21/10 - In
Pennsylvania, it is illegal for a man to purchase alcohol without
written consent from his wife.
7/15/10 - In
Los Angeles, it is unlawful to hunt for moths under a street light.
7/14/10 - It
is illegal to walk down a street in Maine with your shoelaces
untied.
7/13/10 - In
Minnesota, it is illegal to cross state lines with duck on your
head.
7/12/10 - In
Oklahoma, dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order
to congregate on private property in groups of three or more.
7/8/10 - The
name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
7/4/10 - Only
one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
6/21/10 - The
only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports
games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after
the Major League all-stars Game.
6/18/10 - The
first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To
Beaver".
6/17/10 - No
NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever
won a Superbowl.
6/15/10 - If
you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have
1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without
being able to make change for a dollar.
6/14/10 - Nutmeg
is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
6/13/10 - The
highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in
Colorado.
6/11/10 - Cat's
urine glows under a blacklight.
6/10/10 - The
cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.
6/9/10 - The
Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms
as
is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia
still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities
for blacks and whites.
6/7/10 - The
name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
6/4/10 - In
every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
6/2/10 - David
Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He
spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going
to be
dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of
the movie.
5/31/10 - The
Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every
five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as
airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
5/29/10 - The
longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
5/28/10 - An
ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
5/25/10 - The
phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English
law
which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider
than your thumb.
5/24/10 - Hershey's
Kisses are called that because the machine that makes
them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
5/21/10 - "The
term"the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots
in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground,
the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet,
before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all
their ammo at a target,it got "the whole 9 yards."
5/20/10 - "I
am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
5/19/10 - Only
two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th,
John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August
2nd, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
5/18/10 - Clans
of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people
without killing them would burn their houses down - hence the
expression "to get fired."
5/15/10 - If
a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs
in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front
leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received
in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person
died of natural causes.
5/14/10 - 111,111,111
x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
5/13/10 - 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.
5/12/10 - The
Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year
because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account
the
weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
5/11/10 - When
opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually
pass out from sheer terror.
5/10/10 - The
airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the
name of the Don McLean song.)
4/30/10 - The
reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of
old when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled
on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
4/20/10 - Did
you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
4/17/10
- The only
15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter
is uncopyrightable.
4/8/10 - The
San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
4/2/10 - In
the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile
services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not
re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set
has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
4/1/10 - A
duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
3/31/10 - First
novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
3/30/10 - Iceland
consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
3/29/10 - The
youngest pope was 11 years old.
3/26/10 - The
world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
3/25/10 - Intelligent
people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
3/24/10 - Average
life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches
3/23/10 - Percentage
of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70%
3/22/10 - Average
number of people airborne over the US at any given hour: 61,000
3/13/10 - Cost
of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
3/10/10 - Percentage
of American women who say they'd marry the same man if
they had it to do all over again: 50%
3/9/10 - Percentage
of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they
had it to do all over again: 80%
3/5/10 - Average
number of days a West German goes without washing his
underwear: 7 (I wonder how they discovered THIS?
I guarantee it wasn't original research on my part.)
3/3/10 - Percentage
of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America
that is wilderness: 38%
2/26/10 - State
with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
2/25/10 - City
with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.
2/23/10 - Amount
American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served first class: $40,000.
2/19/10 - Hawaiian
alphabet has 12 letters.
2/17/10 - It
is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
2/16/10 - Coca-Cola
was originally green.
2/11/10 - In
Minnesota, it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your
head.
2/10/10
- In Oklahoma, dogs must
have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate on
private property in groups of three or more.
2/9/10 - Think
your Mac is hackproof? At this year’s CanSecWest conference, security
researcher Charlie Miller used a flaw in Safari to break into
a MacBook in under 10 seconds.
2/4/10 - An
edition of the Bible printed at Cambridge , England in 1653 contained
the following printer's error: "know ye not that the unrighteous
shall inherit the kingdom of God?" (1 Corinthians 6:9).
2/3/10 - In
1631 an English Bible printer forgot the NOT in one of the Ten
Commandments. Here's how his mistake in Exodus 20:14 read: "Thou
shalt commit adultry." Because of this colossal goof, the
edition became known as The Wicked Bible, and the printer had
to pay a large fine.
1/29/10 - At
an everage pace one can read the Bible out loud in seventy hours
and forty minutes.
1/28/10 - In
Mark 9:29 when the disciples couldn't cast the evil spirit out
of the boy, the disiples asked Jesus, " Why couldn't we drive
it out?" Jesus replied "This kind can come out only by prayer
and fasting. KJV However in the NIV, it says "This kind can come
out only by prayer." What happened to "fasting?"
1/26/10 - Ben-Hur
is found in the Bible (1 Kings 4:8).
1/22/10 - Jehu
was the original reckless driver (2 Kings 9:20).
1/19/10 - A
guy named Dodo is listed in the Bible (Judges 10:1).
1/18/10 - Newlyweds
were commanded by God to honeymoon for a solid year (Deuteronomy
24:5).
1/15/10 - No
escape: As you file your taxes this month, you can take solace
in knowing that the ritual dates back almost 5,000 years, to a
time when Egyptians started paying taxes in goods and labor.
1/11/10 - Speaking
of preventing hauntings, yet another old wives tale led to the
institution of burial wreaths. It was believed that the wreath
would encircle the spirit of the dead person, thereby preventing
them from returning from the grave.
1/4/10 - A
pet-parrot caused a ruckus at President Andrew Jackson’s funeral.
His crime? Swearing during the ceremony. Guess he should have
given Polly just one more cracker.
12/31/09 - Newborn
babies were rubbed with salt (Ezekiel 16:4).
12/30/09 -
In
early Old Testament times, whenever two Israelites finalized
a real estate transaction, one would take off his sandal and
give it to the other to seal the deal
(Ruth
4:7).
12/29/09 -Old
Testament books were scrolls, a strip of animal skin that was
rolled up on two sticks. One ancient copy of the book of Isaiah
is twenty-four feet long.
12/28/09 -Matthew
18:10 indicates that children have personal angels.
12/25/09 -If
you have a Christmas wreath hanging on your front door as a decoration,
it symbolizes a sign of welcome and long life for all who enter.
12/24/09 -The
shortest prayer in the Bible is Peter's : "Lord save me!" (Matthew
14:30).
12/23/09 -
The
longest name in the Bible is Maher - Shalal - Hash - Baz. (Aren't
you glad Isaiah wasn't your dad?) It means "quick to plunder,
swift to spoil" (see Isaiah 8:1).
12/21/09 -
Gold was probably the first
metal worked by prehistoric man. Decorative gold objects found
in Bulgaria date back to 4,000 B.C., so the gold age actually
overlaps with the Stone Age.
12/18/09 -
But it doesn’t snow very much
at the poles. Most blizzards there are made up of old snow that
is blowing around.
12/17/09 -
That ballpoint pen? The one
you’re chewing on? Might want to put it down. 100 people
are killed every year by choking on a ballpoint pen. Which proves
the old quote about the pen being mightier than the sword. At
least some of the time.
12/16/09 -
The next lunar eclipse visible
from the United States will take place on December 21, 2010.
12/15/09 -
The Mayans built their major
cities inland away from flooding, showing a better understanding
of Hurricane’s rages than the engineers who designed the New Orleans
waterfront.
12/14/09 -
Soft drinks with artificial
sweeteners may actually help make you fat. In a Purdue University
study, rats drinking liquids with artificial sweeteners consumed
more calories overall than rats whose drinks were sweetened with
sugar.
12/11/09 -
Mosquitoes do not bite, they
suck.
12/10/09 -
These boots were made for flooring:
Nike gathers old athletic shoes and turns them into raw material
for “sports surfaces” like tennis courts and running
tracks
12/4/09 -
When you buy gasoline, you might want to make
your purchase at night—it will be cheaper. Gasoline becomes more
dense in cooler temperatures, and gas pumps measure gas by volume.
12/3/09 -
Blame Mom and Dad. Obesity is more heritable
than schizophrenia, high blood pressure, and alcoholism.
12/2/09 -
Can you
imagine eating 16 sugar cubes at one sitting? You probably have.
That’s a little less than what is contained in a 20-ounce bottle
of cola.
12/1/09 -
Fade to
black: On February 17, television stations will broadcast only
digital signals, ending the run of the TV system used in the United
States for the past 55 years.
11/30/09 -
A pet-parrot caused a ruckus
at President Andrew Jackson’s funeral. His crime? Swearing
during the ceremony. Guess he should have given Polly just one
more cracker.
11/27/09 -
Snow is a mineral, just like
diamonds and salt.
11/24/09 -
Drink up: It takes three months for a recycled
aluminum can to make its way back onto the shelf in reincarnated
form.
11/23/09 -
Might want to read the labels a little more
carefully. Nearly 2,500 lefties are killed every year using products
meant for righties. Who knew? Now, just back away from those right-handed
scissors.
11/20/09 -
John Bowman, a tanner from Vermont believed
that after his death he would be reincarnated with his pre-deceased
wife and children. So, he ordered his house staff to have dinner
on the table every night, just in case. They finally stopped in
1950 when the money finally dried up.
11/19/09 -
If someone plans to jump off Mount Everest to
commit suicide, you’ll need a lot of patience. It takes the average
person 2.5 minutes to hit bottom. And we don’t want to know who
timed it.
11/18/09 -
People who regularly eat dinner or breakfast
in restaurants double their risk of becoming obese.
11/17/09 -
So much for the curse of good ole King Tut.
Despite reports that all twenty-two people who were present at
the exhumation kicked the bucket, twenty-one were still kicking
ten years later.
11/16/09 -
The last words spoken by Union General John
Sedgewick were, “They (the Confederate soldiers) couldn’t hit
an elephant from this dis…”
11/13/09 -
One of the main reasons cowboys carried pistols
in the 1800’s was to avoid being dragged to death by their horse.
You think they could have just gotten bigger stirrups.
11/12/09 -
The longest name in the Bible is Maher - Shalal
- Hash - Baz. (Aren't you glad Isaiah wasn't your dad?) It means
"quick to plunder, swift to spoil" (see Isaiah 8:1).
11/11/09 -
Wonder why you have to set your clock ahead
in March? Daylight Saving Time began as a joke by Benjamin Franklin,
who proposed waking people earlier on bright summer mornings so
they might work more during the day and thus save candles. It
was introduced in the U.K. in 1917 and then spread
11/10/09 -
In 1609 a group of English settlers en route
to Virginia were struck by a hurricane and washed ashore at Bermuda—an
event that reportedly helped inspire Shakespeare’s Tempest.
11/9/09 -
Unfortunately, the invention of money also made
theft a lot easier. Consequently, temples became the first banks
because they were sturdy, frequently visited, and intimidating
to would-be thieves.
11/6/09 -
No escape: As you file your taxes this month,
you can take solace in knowing that the ritual dates back almost
5,000 years, to a time when Egyptians started paying taxes in
goods and labor.
11/5/09 -
After being decapitated, the average person
remains conscious for an additional 15-20 seconds. Talk about
a way to go.
11/4/09 -
In warm weather, 6th president of the United
States John Quincy Adams customarily went skinny-dipping in the
Potomac River before dawn.
11/3/09 -
Many years ago in England, pub
frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their
ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle
to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase
inspired by this practice.
11/2/09 -
In English pubs, ale is ordered
by pints and quarts... So in old England, when customers got unruly,
the bartender would yell at them, "Mind your pints and quarts,
and settle down."
10/29/09 -
It was the accepted practice
in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding,
the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead
he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar
was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which
we know today as the "honeymoon".
10/27/09 -
Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey
10/26/09 -
Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes,
windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
10/22/09 -
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far
would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
Answer= One thousand
10/22/09 -Q.
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace.
10/20/09 -If
a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs
in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front
leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received
in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person
died of natural causes.
10/19/09 -Each
king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
10/16/09 -111,111,111
x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
10/14/09 -The
San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
10/13/09 -The
first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
10/12/09 -Intelligent
people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
10/09/09 -The
average number of people airborne over the US any given hour:
61,000
10/08/09 -The
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work:
Alaska
10/07/09 -It
is impossible to lick your elbow.
10/06/09 -Men
can read smaller print then women can; women can hear better.
10/05/09 -The
first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were
Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
10/02/09 -In
the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat
his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have
"the rule of thumb"
10/01/09 -Bats
always turn left when exiting a cave!
9/30/09 -The
glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
9/29/09 -The
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from public libraries.
9/28/09 -An old
law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman
to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
9/25/09 -Charlie
Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin
look-alike contest.
9/24/09 -Celery
has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a
piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
9/23/09 -By
raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink
into quicksand.
9/22/09 -Roses
may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
9/21/09 -The
first product Motorola started to develop was a record player
for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market
was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
9/16/09 -The
phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than
your thumb.
9/15/09 -The
original name for butterfly was flutterby."
9/10/09 -The
first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born
in
the USA."
9/7/09 -Bruce
Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down
so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
9/4/09 -If
one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly
go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered
this??)
9/3/09 -Weatherman
Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
9/2/09 -The
very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
9/1/09 -Astronauts
are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
8/31/09 -There
are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple
and silver.
8/28/09 -The
number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side
in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
8/25/09 -Because
metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were
made of wood.
8/24/09 -Sherlock
Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
8/21/09 -On
average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
(That explains a few mysteries....)
8/20/09 - During
the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can
be seen in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).
8/19/09 - A 2 X 4 is really
1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
8/18/09 - Chewing gum while
peeling onions will keep you from crying.
8/17/09
- A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
8/16/09 - Your stomach has to produce a new
layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
8/14/09 - A raisin dropped in a glass of
fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the
bottom of the glass to the top.
8/13/09 - A female ferret will die if it goes
into heat and cannot find a mate.
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