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player who used sign language to communicate and his team
didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in
turn huddled around him.

·   There is no such thing as naturally blue food, even
blueberries are purple.

·   In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of
the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the
time.

·   Walt Disney had wooden teeth.

·   The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was
Perriwinkle Blue.

·   Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their
hooves fall off.

·   The coast line around Lake Sakawea in North Dakota is
longer than the California coastline along the

·   Pacific Ocean

·   Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated
for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted
only six minutes.

·   The legbones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.

·   Kitsap County, Washington, was originally called
Slaughter County, and the first hotel there was called the
Slaughter House.

·   Seattle, Washington, like Rome, was built on seven
hills.

·   Dinosaur droppings are called coprolites, and are
actually fairly common.

·   School busses in the United States are Chrome Yellow and
used to be Omaha Orange.

·   The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia
Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and
play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in
India.

·   The tailless dinner jacket was invented in Tuxedo Park,
New York. Thus it is called the "tuxedo dinner jacket" and is
named after the town...not the other way around.

·   The state of Maryland has no natural lakes.

·   Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a
fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

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

·   Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest
name. The official name, used on all state documents, is
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

·   The chemical formula for Rubidium Bromide is RbBr. It is
the only chemical formula known to be a palindrome!

·   St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after
a man who ran a saloon there.

·   The first letters of the months July through November,
in order, spell the name JASON.

·   The first letters of the names of the Great Lakes spell
HOMES.

·   The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S.
$5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln
Memorial.

·   Soldiers from every country salute with their right
hand.

·   Moisture, not air, causes superglue to dry.

·   Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on
his famous transatlantic flight.

·   Sarsaparilla is the root that flavors root beer.

·   The U.S. Mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that
marks its pennies.

·   A full moon always rises at sunset.

·   If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will
die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of
oxygen deprivation.

·   Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz
Aldrin was the second man o n the moon in 1969.)

·   The only two Southern state capitals not occuppied by
Northern troops during the American Civil War were Austin,
Texas and Tallahasse, Florida.

·   Rabbits love licorice.

·   Ogdensburg, New York is the only city in the United
States situated on the St. Lawrence River.

·   Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate
geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.

·   Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme
song of Fraiser.

·   Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show GrowingPains
wrote the theme songs for The Facts of Life and Diff'rent
Strokes.

·   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 recieved in battle; if the horse has all
four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

·   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.

·   The language Malayalam, spoken in parts of India, is the
only language whose name is a palindrome.

·   Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.

·   Urea is found in humnan urine and dalmatian dogs and
nowhere else.

·   Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

·   The Earl of Condom was a knighted personal physician to
England's King Charles II in the mid-1600's. The Earl was
requested to produce a method to protect the King from
syphillis.(Charles the II's pleasure-loving nature was
notorious.) The result should be obvious.

·   Cheryl Ladd (of Charlie's Angels fame) played the voice,
both talking and singing, of Joise in the 70s Saturday
morning cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats."

·   Lynyrd Skynard was the name of the gym teacher of the
boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, "You
boys ain't never gonna to nothin'."

·   M & M's were developed so that soldiers could eat candy
without getting their fingers sticky.

·   Richard Nixon's favorite drink was a dry martini.

·   The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.

·   The license plate number of the Volkswagon that appeared
on the cover of the Beatles Abbey Road album was 281F.

·   Pinocchio was made of pine.

·   An ant lion is neither an ant nor a lion.

·   Jethro Tull is not the name of the rock singer/flautist
responsible for such songs as "Aqualung" and "Thick as a
Brick." Jethro Tull is the name of the band. The singer is
Ian Anderson. The original Jethro Tull was an English
horticulturalist who invented the seed drill.

·   Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was
only used once, on the never- aired pilot show. His first
name was Willy.

·   The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas
Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their
radio's newscast about the wreck.

·   The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's
last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was
Wentworth.

·   Neck ties were first worn in Croatia. That's why they
were called cravats (CRO-vats).

·   Alma mater means bountiful mother.

·   A Holstein's spots are like fingerprints -- no two cows
have the same pattern of spots.

·   Glass flutes do not expand with humidity so their owners
are spared the nuisance of tuning them.

·   Jersey (in the Channel Islands, UK) was the only place
that the Nazi's occupied in Great Britain during World War II.

·   Top English soccer club Liverpool were formed because
their local enemies, Everton, couldn't pay the rent for their
stadium. Therefore Liverpool took over at the stadium
(Anfield) and became England's top soccer team ever.

·   The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy
moth from 1.8 miles away.

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

·   Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If
captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to
reveal a map for escape.

·   The "Hallelujah Chorus" fits into the Easter portion of
Handel's Messiah, not Christmas.

·   Over 30 million people in the US "suffer" from Diastima.
Diastima is having a gap between your front teeth.

·   In 1976 Sarah Caldwell became the first woman to conduct
the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

·   Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has
been hit by a lightning strike.

·   Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.

·   The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.

·   Libya is the only country in the world with a solid,
single-colored flag -- it's green.

·   Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the
capital" in the Korean language.

·   Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been
overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that
made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved
that it floated, and it has floated ever since.

·   The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal
currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was
replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.

·   "Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor
of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of
surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It
supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise
what is occuring, relax and correct itself. At about that
height it hits maximum speed and when it hits the ground it's
rib cage absorbs most of the impact. So throw your cat off a
building today!"

·   There are eight different sizes of champagne bottle and
the largest is called a Nebuchadnezzar (after the Biblical
king who put Daniel's three friends into the oven).

·   The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy
Bezopasnosti.

·   The female ferret is referred to as a `jill'.

·   The word rodent comes from the Latin word `rodere'
meaning to gnaw.

·   Australian Rules Football was originally designed to
give cricketers something to play during the off season.

·   Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

·   The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona,"
and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug
& Jeffrey Feiger.

·   Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of "The Boy General" is one
of the few women buried at the U.S. Military academy at West
Point, New York.

·   "Freelance" comes from a knight whose lance was free for
hire, i.e. not pledged to one master.)

·   The only bone not broken so far during any ski accident
is one located in the inner ear.

·   The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up
when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet
and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

·   There are ten human body parts that are only three
letters long: Eye, Ear, Leg, Arm, Jaw, Gum, Toe, Lip, Hip and
Rib.

·   Michigan was the first state to have roadside picnic
tables.

·   Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at
birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in

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