Yngwie

# 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. We 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.

# 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

# The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

# There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.

# When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

# John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

# A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

# A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.

# A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

# A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

# A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

# A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

# On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

# It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

# "Evian" spelled backwards is naive.

# The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

# Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

# It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

# The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.

# A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.

# Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.

# Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.

# Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."

# There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.

# ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni- frid.)

# What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same number with the digits in reverse order?
21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912.

# It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.

# 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.

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

# 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.

# 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.

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

# 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.

# Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969.)

# Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser himself.. And Greg Evigan sang the "My Two Dads" theme. Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show Growing Pains wrote the theme songs for The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes .

# 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 Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.

# 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 radios 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.

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

# The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

# 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.

# 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."

# The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

# Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry, founder of Blues Inc. They were the first electric white blues band ever seen in England- -1961

# Horses cannot vomit.

# The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.

# A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

# Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.

# The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."

# John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

# Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.

# The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.

# The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

# Dart-boards are made out of horsehair.

# One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant.

# Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.

# There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

# Octopi have gardens.

# "Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.'"

# Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.

# 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.

# 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

# One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'

# When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.

# Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.

# Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.

# Swans are the only birds with penises.

# A whale's penis is called a dork.

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