Friday, January 2, 2009

MORE INTERESTING FACTS

1. Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at
Harvard.
2. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
3. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
4. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
5. All porcupines float in water.
6. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
7. Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
8. America once issued a 5-cent bill.
9. America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
10. Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
11. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
12. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
13. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
14. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
15. Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
16. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
17. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. 18. This custom has become the modern military salute.
19. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of
excrement."
20. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.
21. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of
age.
22. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
23. Back in the mid to late 1980's, an IBM-compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred
percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
24. Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
25. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

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