• All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
• Almonds are members of the peach family.
• If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050
• The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
• The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 Oz.
• The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
• Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
• Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
• Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
• The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes.
• In many cases, the amount of storage space on a record-able CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.
• Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
• Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
• Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
• If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
• Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
• The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
• Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
• The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
• On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.
• In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
• Only humans and horses have hymens.
• The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
• The state with the longest coastline in the US is Alaska
• We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)
• Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.
• Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats.
• The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...
• The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827.
• "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
• A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
• If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
• The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
• Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.
• In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to bad mouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as 'Fred.'
• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopics- ilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovol- canoconioses, its plural.
• The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatan- gihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai- whenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
• Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
• After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for damages that were caused by them building ships for the Confederacy. They originally asked for $1 billion but settled on $25 Million.
• There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.
• Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
• There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
• In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
• The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is 'angstschreeuw'.
• Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
• The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.
• The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".
• Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
• Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distribution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being.
• Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
• Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
• The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmentarianism".
• When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."
• Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
• The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
• In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.
• The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.
• Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
• Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement.
• The only real people to be a Pez head are
Betsy Ross, Paul Revere and Daniel Boone.
• Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'.
• Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
• Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
• Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons."
• Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
