Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet
came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.

The St. Louis Gateway Had A Projected Death Toll While It Was Being Built. No One Died.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache

The Queen of spades told him to shave it off cause it tickled when he went down on her.

Every year, over 8800 people injure themselves with a toothpick

When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.

Bats Always Exit A Cave To The Left

Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

Americans spend twice as much money on pornography than they do on cookies.

THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT USED THE McKINLEY BUILDING BECAUSE OF IT'S UNUSUAL ARCHITECTURE. IF THERE WAS ANY TYPE OF EXPLOSION INSIDE THE BUILDING WOULD IMPLODE ON TO ITS SELF.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

THE PENTAGON IN ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA HAS TWICE AS MANY BATHROOMS AS NECCESSARY. WHEN IT WAS BUILT IN THE 1940s, THE STATE OF VIRGINIA STILL HAD SEGREGATION LAWS REQUIRING SEPERATE TOILET FACILITIES FOR BLACKS AND WHITES

typical..will spend all that energy to make a product so he doesn't have to spend the energy to give an orgasm himself

hey yngwie NICE TRY BUT YOU CAN ONLY POST 1 THING AT A TIME, not an entire list :-)

Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real
brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)

10% of people switch tags in the store to pay less for an item.

A Hamlet Is Classified As A "grouping Of Houses Smaller Than A Village", And It Usually Has Around 20 People. It Has No Mayor Or Any Form Of Central Or Municipal Government. Sherwood Park, Alberta Is The Largest Hamlet In The World With A Population Of 45,000 And No Government.

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.

lol..flattery will get you everywhere

In Florida, Penalty for horse theft is death by hanging.

All Polar Bears Are Left-handed

The Founder Of Jc Penny Had A Last Name Of "cash."

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

# 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.

The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific
Ocean

People in parts of Western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.

NO WAR HAS BEEN FOUGHT WHERE BOTH COUNTRIES HAD A McDONALDS

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

A Chinese Scientist discovered that the Earth is round during the Han Dynasty by measuring the sun and moon's path in the sky. He recorded this fact down in the imperial records but went unnoticed until it was unearthed recently by Chinese archaeologists.

The month of July is named in honor of Julius Caesar.

# Some carnivores, rodents, bats and insectivores have a penis bone, called a baculum.

# A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.

# Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would and therefore forestall curses.

# The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.

# The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.

# Medieval knights put sharkskin on their sword handles to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.

# Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

# The only planet without a ring is earth.

# Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.

# If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.

# The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.

# Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."

# A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

# Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."

# A group of frogs is called an army.

# A group of rhinos is called a crash.

# A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

# A group of whales is called a pod.

# A group of geese is called a gaggle.

# A group of ravens is called a murder.

# A group of officers is called a mess.

# A group of larks is called an exaltation.

# A group of owls is called a parliament.

# The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress.

# Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

# Starfish don't have brains.

# Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.

# Did you know that the actor Jane Seymour's birth name is:
Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg.
Roy Rogers name was Leonard Slye
Dale Evans was Frances Octavia Smith.

# The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streets in Rome, they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of"trivia."

# Henry VIII only had two of his wives executed;
Anne Boleyn (#2) and Catherine Howard (#5).
Catherine of Aragon (#1) died after he had divorced her,
Jane Seymour (#3) died after childbirth (of Edward),
Anne of Cleves (#4) died after he divorced her
Katherine Parr (#6) actually outlived Henry.

# Jellyfish have no brains, yet they can tell light from dark, and sence movement.

# The term 'flying on cloud 9' originates from military flights. Cloud types are classified as numbers... with 'cloud 9' being a very tall thunderstorm. Jets have to climb to an extremely high altitude in order to fly over 'cloud 9.

# A dogs sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew. In fact, if you unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes from inside a dogs nose, the membranes would be larger than the dog itself.

# Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. I keep my toothbrush in the living room now.

# The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

# Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

# 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 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
The wingspan of the B-36, a retired USAF bomber, was twice as long.

# 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.

# Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

# Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

# The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
So did the first 'Marlboro Man'.

# Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

# All U.S. presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like to be seen wearing them in public.

# Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

# Pearls melt in vinegar.

# It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

# The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

# Turtles can breathe through their butts

# A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

# A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

# A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

# Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

# Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

# February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

# In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

# If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

# If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

# Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

# No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

# Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

# Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

# Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

# The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

# The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.

# The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

# The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

# There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

# There are more chickens than people in the world.

# Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

The photo most often requested from the U.S. National Archives is that of the meeting between Elvis Presley and President Nixon in 1970. Presley had requested that Nixon make him an honorary drug enforcement agent and Nixon accommodated him.

The Foreign City Most Visited By Americans Is Tijuana.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.

Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva.

Every Male Over 18 Is Considred Part Of The Arizona Militia If They Live In Arizona.

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."

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

Americans use over 16,000 tons of aspirin a year.

A bird 'chews' with its stomach.