Yngwie

# The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

# Chrysler built B-29's engines that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.

# On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

# The vignette on the reverse of the five-dollar note depicts a likeness of the front of the Lincoln Memorial as it appeared in 1922 when it was first dedicated. At that time, there were only 48 states that made up the United States of America. The names of 26 states were engraved on the front of the Memorial. This is why only the names of 26 states appear in the vignette on the reverse of the five-dollar note. In the upper frieze of the façade in the vignette the states are from left to right: Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado, and North Dakota. In the lower frieze from left to right the names of the states are: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Carolina, Hampshire, Virginia and New York.

# 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- gihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukup okai- 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.

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