IJMC - More Interesting Facts

If I thought I said enough in my last message, I wouldn't have anything 
else to write. But I do, so I'm not done yet. Enough for tonight, but not 
enough by a long shot. Life is good, and will get better. G'night.  -dave







I know you sent out one list before, but I think none of these are on that
list.  Which is still plenty more. . .
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* A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

* In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile
services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number
the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2
and up, but no channel 1.

* The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the
shutter on backwards.

* The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways.
The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced,
thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough;
after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

* The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which
are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

* The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is uncopyrightable.

* Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct
order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

* Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat
of arms for that reason.

* Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have
about ten.

* The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah
Mat", which means "the king is dead".

* Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

* Camel's milk does not curdle.

* In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

* An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.

* Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean
elephants.

* The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

* Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.

* All porcupines float in water.

* Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

* Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?

* Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator
while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."

* Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

* If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town
hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.

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

* Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

* The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the
name of the Don McLean song.)

* Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag
at the same height as the U.S. flag.

* The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in
an "A" is Afghanistan.

* Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first
baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.

* When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They
actually pass out from sheer terror.

* The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every
year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account
the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

* The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five
must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of
war or other emergencies.

* The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston,
Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a
train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

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

* David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke
all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by
James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

* Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

* In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

* Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

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

* Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.

* The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is
necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had
segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

* No word in the English language rhymes with month.

* The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.

* There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

* Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal
category.

* Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City,
after the Catholic Church.

* Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered
a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

* The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

* Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

* It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a
gallon to clean the pot.

* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

* Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2-6 years of age.

* The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in
Colorado.

* Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously

* 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.

* The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

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

* No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever
won a Superbowl

* The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".

* In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only
6 people were injured

* Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.

* One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in
the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers --they saw it as competition. It is
not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

* The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports
games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major
League All-Star Game.

* Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older

* The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan"