Fun facts for a Friday. It is Friday, isn't it??

1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

3. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

4. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

5. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

6. There are more chickens than people in the world.

7. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

8. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

10. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

11. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

12. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

13. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

14. Almonds are a member of the peach family.

15. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

16. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

17. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

18. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"

19. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

20. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

21. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

22. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

23. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

24. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

25. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

27. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

28. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

29. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

30. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

31. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

32. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

33. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

34. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

35. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

..now you know everything.

You could be a TEENAGER......;-)

Could I be anymore BORED?!? Deano

-- Deano (deano@luvthebeach.com), March 09, 2001

Answers

32.) He is a Lutheran.

-- I knew it (I'm@so.smart), March 09, 2001.

I have said it along-New Jersey must be good for SOMETHING

-- FutureShock (gray@matter.think), March 09, 2001.

FS

Yeah, but EGGPLANT??? (Yuck!)

Deano

-- Deano (deano@luvthebeach.com), March 09, 2001.

One more....

36. Humans and dolphins are the only creatures on Earth that have sex for pleasure.

Deano

-- Deano (deano@luvthebeach.com), March 09, 2001.

Hey Deano, you never had *my* eggplant parmesan!

Let me add one. The largest amount in coins you can have without being able to make change for a dollar - $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes and 4 pennies)

TGIF

-- Maria (anon@ymous.com), March 09, 2001.

OK, maybe you guys will like this one (it's along the same subject line and includes two of the same). Note that the comments following each are NOT mine, though a couple of them echo the same sentiments ;- )

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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it.)

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that’s more like it.)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

A pig’s orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (Guess what I want to be in my next life.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (I’m still not over the pig.)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male’s head off. (“Honey, I’m home. What the.....”)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still want to be a pig in my next life. Quality over quantity.)

Butterflies taste their own feet.

Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump. (OK, so that would be a good thing....)

A cat’s urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out.)

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (What about the pig?)

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), March 09, 2001.

Maria

The parmesean part sounds good......not sure about the eggplant though....might just be the word 'eggplant'.....yuck....

Trish

How can a pig have an orgasm for 30 MINUTES and not find 'pleasure' in it??!! Honestly, I think a 30 minute orgasm might kill me....

But what a way to go......wow!

Deano

-- Deano (deano@luvthebeach.com), March 09, 2001.

Please pass Maria's eggplant parmigiana. mmm aaaah

Maria, please say that you put ricotta cheese in it. =)

-- (cin@cin.cin), March 09, 2001.

The Pentagon was built with separate bathrooms, "white" and "colored," as required by Virginia law in the 1940s.

-- Unreel (cometo@tention.net), March 09, 2001.

Who said humans cannot have 30 minute orgasms? As a male, ejaculation does not necessarily equate with orgasm-though that is what most think.Remember the male multiple orgasm thread?

-- FutureShock (gray@matter.think), March 09, 2001.

"On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag."

Canada hasn't had a two dollar bill for some time (replaced by a coin a few years ago) I've still got one on a top shelf. Just took it down and looked at it with a magnifying glass. Doesn't look like a US flag to me!

-- Captain Canada (aadsfdsaf@sdfsdf.com), March 09, 2001.

#9.......That is *not* an American Flag on the $2 bill (which is hard to find here anymore,unless you collect old bills....)it is the old Canadian flag, with the Union Jack in the corner. It's on almost all our bills, but you need a magnifiying glass to read it. The statement is an urban legend.

-- cleo (gwdmf@hotmail.com), August 01, 2001.

I can't think of a word in English that rhymes with "coolant". Anyone?

-- Bob Richardson (babiyar@msn.com), October 04, 2001.

Ebullient

Fluent

Esculent

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), October 04, 2001.

Antifreeze.

-- Break out the cookies and mi (aimless@national_raffle_association.org), October 04, 2001.

Coagulant. It's not a perfect rhyme, but it is a feminine rhyme.

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), October 04, 2001.

The word "strengths" is as long as "screeched" and also has only one syllable.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), October 04, 2001.

"You could be a TEENAGER......;-)

Could I be anymore BORED?!? Deano"

"I can't think of a word in English that rhymes with "coolant". Anyone?

-- Bob Richardson"

~

Truant

{Can you tell I HAVE a teenager?!}

-- flora (***@__._), October 04, 2001.