Monday, February 2, 2009

INTERESTING FACTS

1. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
2. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
3. Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs
love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
4. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
5. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
6. Bubble gum contains rubber.
7. Camel's milk does not curdle.
8. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
9. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
10. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
11. Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
12. Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
13. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
14. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to
burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
15. Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
16. Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic
Church.
17. 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.
18. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
19. Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
20. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
21. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
22. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes
23. Booth... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
24. Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
25. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
26. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
27. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6
elephants.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

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