IJMC - Yet More Random Facts

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learn every little itty bitty fact out there. Just don't count on them 
all to be true...                                                  -dave








HUMOR: Random facts to know, Part IV

More than you ever wanted to know about just about everything----

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert
the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful
Life"

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
Building is an American flag..

All of the clocks in  the movie Pulp Fiction  are stuck on 4:20.

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen
rows.

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.

The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.

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.)

Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person
who has a speaking role.

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.

A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the
production of  Guinness beer.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de
losAngeles 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.

Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on an
analog watch  is 10:10 because it make the watch look like it's
smiling.

The time displayed on digital watches is 10:58.  Advertisers don't know
why.

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.  It was eliminated when he
was sewn up after surgery.

Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same
pattern of whiskers.

Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
and
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

When the University of Wyoming Cowboys play football at home, the
stadium becomes the state's largest city.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul
Reiser himself..

Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraser.

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

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

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.

Horses and Rabbits cannot vomit.

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

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

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

Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.

Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.

Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a
statement made by swearing on their testicles.

The only planet without a ring is earth.

Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.