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Alaska could hold the 21 smallest
States.
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Before Prohibition, Schlitz
Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic
church.
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If you put a raisin in a glass
of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
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Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
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Nondairy creamer is flammable.
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The car in the foreground on
the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.
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Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut
went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where
Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with 20 drawings of his characters.
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If you can see a rainbow you
must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.
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The reason firehouses have circular
stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses.
The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk
up straight staircases.
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It's rumored that sucking on
a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer to read 0. You can try this
one out yourself!
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Dogs and humans are the only
animals with prostates.
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The highest scoring word in
the English language game of Scrabble is 'Quartzy.' This will score
164 points if played across a red triple-word square with the Z on a light
blue double-letter square. It will score 162 points if played across
two pink doubleword squareswith the Q and the Y on those squares. 'Bezique'
and 'Cazique' are next with a possible 161 points. All three words score
an extra 50 points for having seven letters and therefore emptying the
letter rack in one go.
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Assuming Rudolph was in front,
there are 40,320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.
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The dial tone of a normal telephone
is in the key of "F."
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The fingerprints of koala bears
are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they
could be confused at a crime scene.
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In the four major US professional
sports (baseball, basketball, football, and hockey), there are only seven
teams whose nicknames do not end with an "S."
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Basketball: The Miami Heat,
The Utah Jazz, The Orlando Magic.
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Baseball: The Boston Red Sox,
The Chicago White Sox.
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Hockey: The Colorado Avalanche,
The Tampa Bay Lightning.
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Football: None.
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Beelzebub, another name for
the devil, is Hebrew for Lord of the Flies, and this is where the book's
title comes from.
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It is believed that Shakespeare
was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written.
In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word
from the last word is spear.
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The ship, the Queen Elizabeth
2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.
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There were no squirrels on Nantucket
Island, Massachusetts until 1989.
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The correct response to the
Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day
to yourself."
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The Les Nessman character on
the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a Band-Aid in every episode, either
on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.
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Columbia University is the second
largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
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When the University of Nebraska
Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes
the state's third largest city.
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John Larroquette of "NightCourt"
and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre."
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In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord
Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run."
On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon,
Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
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Ohio is listed as the 17th state
in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress
forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
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When Saigon fell, the signal
for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being
played on the radio.
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The pet ferret (Mustela putorias
furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
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The dome on Monticello, Thomas
Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards
were illegal in Virginia.
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