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Apr 07, 2001, 11:52 PM
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original
containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet
to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. (eeewwwwwwwww!!)
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers first flight.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served
in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteens "Born in the USA."
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of
pickles the company once had.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. (all together
now...eeeewwwwwwwww!!!!!)
The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it
by her doctor.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in
public.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of
footballs.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Average life span of a major league baseball: seven pitches.
A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured
out how to walk up straight staircases.
Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal."
The second?
William Jefferson Clinton
Eyelashes live for about 4 months.
Animators drew nearly 6.5 million black spots for the film "101 Dalmatians".
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average person will spend two weeks of their life kissing
The show Gilligan's Island has been running in syndication ever since it left the mainstream airwaves. It has never been off the air once.
The first LIVE-ACTION (i.e., not counting Fred & Wilma Flintstone, who were the true first) TV couple to share a bed were Darrin & Samantha Stevens from 'Bewitched'. Producers felt they could get away with it because Samantha wasn't human, she was a witch.
George Clooney is best known as Dr. Doug Ross on the TV show 'ER' -- in 1984 he played a medical intern named Ace on another medical program that also was set at a Chicago hospital. The show's name was 'E/R'
The first toilet ever to be seen on television was on 'Leave it to Beaver'
'The Commodores' could not agree upon a title for the group when they first got started. It was very last minute & they had to come up with one. One of the members said he was going to open a dictionary & another member had to point to a word. It did not matter what it was, first word his finger landed on would be their name. They were one word away from being 'The Commodes'
On an ice hockey ring the reason the blue off-sides line is dashed and not solid like the red midfield line is because in the days of black and white TV viewers could then tell which line the players were crossing.
There are more people alive today, than have EVER died!
In public restrooms, the toilet closest to the door is the least used, and therefore has the least germs on it. The germiest part of a public restroom is the door going out because people don't wash their hands. Lesson: Use the bathroom closest to the door, flush with your foot, wash your hands, then open the door to leave with a paper towel.
If you start the movie 'The Wizard of Oz' when the lion roars (the real lion, not the one in the movie) turn the volume down on the TV and also start the Pink Floyd's CD, Dark Side of the Moon, the music coincides with what is going on in the movie. I tried it. It really works!
In some city (I forgot where), an entry in the local TV Guide about The Wizard of Oz had this summary: Young girl kills. Teams up with three strangers to kill again.
When they filmed The Shining the TV mini-series, the little boy who played
Danny had to stay in room 217. His mom didn't want him to, for it might have
scared the boy. So they taped another number on the door.
Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
A woman stabbed her husband twice for talking during a TV program the two were watching. According to police in Manitoba, Canada, sixty year-old George Armstrong suffered wounds to his hands, face, chest and shoulder, when Margaret Armstrong, 64, allegedly attacked him with a kitchen knife. She claims she repeatedly told him to shut up while she was watching one of her favorite programs. Forty minutes later, a second disagreement broke out, and Armstrong was stabbed again. He was hospitalized and is in stable condition, while his wife is in jail, facing charges of aggravated assault.
The average person sees more than 20,000 TV commercials in a year.
The First episode of 'Joanie Loves Chachi'(Happy Days spinoff) was the highest rated American TV program on Korean television. Why?? 'Chachi' is Korean for penis...
Over 1.5 millions regularly watch television in the nude.
Percentage of U.S. women born blonde: 16. Percentage of women who are blonde today: 33. Percentage of TV newscasters who are blonde: 64. Percentage of Miss Americas who are blonde: 65.
Only 3 TV series ended their run as the No. 1 rated show of the year. One each from the 50's, 60's & 90's. Can you name them? They are: 'I Love Lucy', 'The Andy Griffith Show' & 'Seinfeld'
containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet
to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. (eeewwwwwwwww!!)
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers first flight.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served
in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteens "Born in the USA."
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of
pickles the company once had.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. (all together
now...eeeewwwwwwwww!!!!!)
The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it
by her doctor.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in
public.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of
footballs.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Average life span of a major league baseball: seven pitches.
A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured
out how to walk up straight staircases.
Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal."
The second?
William Jefferson Clinton
Eyelashes live for about 4 months.
Animators drew nearly 6.5 million black spots for the film "101 Dalmatians".
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average person will spend two weeks of their life kissing
The show Gilligan's Island has been running in syndication ever since it left the mainstream airwaves. It has never been off the air once.
The first LIVE-ACTION (i.e., not counting Fred & Wilma Flintstone, who were the true first) TV couple to share a bed were Darrin & Samantha Stevens from 'Bewitched'. Producers felt they could get away with it because Samantha wasn't human, she was a witch.
George Clooney is best known as Dr. Doug Ross on the TV show 'ER' -- in 1984 he played a medical intern named Ace on another medical program that also was set at a Chicago hospital. The show's name was 'E/R'
The first toilet ever to be seen on television was on 'Leave it to Beaver'
'The Commodores' could not agree upon a title for the group when they first got started. It was very last minute & they had to come up with one. One of the members said he was going to open a dictionary & another member had to point to a word. It did not matter what it was, first word his finger landed on would be their name. They were one word away from being 'The Commodes'
On an ice hockey ring the reason the blue off-sides line is dashed and not solid like the red midfield line is because in the days of black and white TV viewers could then tell which line the players were crossing.
There are more people alive today, than have EVER died!
In public restrooms, the toilet closest to the door is the least used, and therefore has the least germs on it. The germiest part of a public restroom is the door going out because people don't wash their hands. Lesson: Use the bathroom closest to the door, flush with your foot, wash your hands, then open the door to leave with a paper towel.
If you start the movie 'The Wizard of Oz' when the lion roars (the real lion, not the one in the movie) turn the volume down on the TV and also start the Pink Floyd's CD, Dark Side of the Moon, the music coincides with what is going on in the movie. I tried it. It really works!
In some city (I forgot where), an entry in the local TV Guide about The Wizard of Oz had this summary: Young girl kills. Teams up with three strangers to kill again.
When they filmed The Shining the TV mini-series, the little boy who played
Danny had to stay in room 217. His mom didn't want him to, for it might have
scared the boy. So they taped another number on the door.
Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
A woman stabbed her husband twice for talking during a TV program the two were watching. According to police in Manitoba, Canada, sixty year-old George Armstrong suffered wounds to his hands, face, chest and shoulder, when Margaret Armstrong, 64, allegedly attacked him with a kitchen knife. She claims she repeatedly told him to shut up while she was watching one of her favorite programs. Forty minutes later, a second disagreement broke out, and Armstrong was stabbed again. He was hospitalized and is in stable condition, while his wife is in jail, facing charges of aggravated assault.
The average person sees more than 20,000 TV commercials in a year.
The First episode of 'Joanie Loves Chachi'(Happy Days spinoff) was the highest rated American TV program on Korean television. Why?? 'Chachi' is Korean for penis...
Over 1.5 millions regularly watch television in the nude.
Percentage of U.S. women born blonde: 16. Percentage of women who are blonde today: 33. Percentage of TV newscasters who are blonde: 64. Percentage of Miss Americas who are blonde: 65.
Only 3 TV series ended their run as the No. 1 rated show of the year. One each from the 50's, 60's & 90's. Can you name them? They are: 'I Love Lucy', 'The Andy Griffith Show' & 'Seinfeld'