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& ONLY IN AMERICA You may have read some of this before, but chances are you haven't read all of it.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.) Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law that stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. 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 name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". Cat's urine glows under a blacklight. 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. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands. Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California. Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years. Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6. Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself. (How did they study this? Ummmm?) If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. There are more chickens than people in the world. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the \\$5 bill. Almonds are a member of the peach family. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. There are only four words in the English language which end in -dous:
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 its brain. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city. 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. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. 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 bill encased in the shield and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!) The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. 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. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. Most lipstick contains fish scales! Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands! A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein! Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants! There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building! If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion! Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive! A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth! The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth! Clinophobia is the fear of beds! A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second! Porcupines float in water! Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head"! The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet! The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"! The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds! The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur! The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1! The electric chair was invented by a dentist! Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland! A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average! Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand! The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times! Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks! A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night! Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone! A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside! A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove! A hummingbird weighs less than a penny! Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee! The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons! A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off! The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year! One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television! The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year! It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska! You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206! Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete! 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem! 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem! Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows! The state of Florida is bigger than England! It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland! Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day! Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark! During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants! Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food! Dolphins sleep with one eye open! The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old! In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow! There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones! About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30! More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones! A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.! Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe! In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons! Slugs have 4 noses! Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours! Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet! Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue! The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year! It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland! There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses! Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes! Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy! A jellyfish is 95 percent water! In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals! The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs! A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate! More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world! The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out! The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly! 'Q' is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States! One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet! America once issued a 5-cent bill! You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow! Here are some people with strange names. (some of these specific facts have not be verified)
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different! There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, silver, and month! Interesting tries:
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings! Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung! A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow! A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying! Here are some interesting numbers to look at! (*1997)
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave! The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head! In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs! There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S! Dogs and cats consume over \\$11 billion worth of pet food a year! Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails! You blink over 10,000,000 times a year! Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day! In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word! Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin! The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice! The average person laughs 13 times a day! Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
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ONLY IN AMERICA...
Only in America...can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance... Only in America...are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink... Only in America...do people order double cheese burgers, a large fry, and a diet coke... Only in America...do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters... Only in America...do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and leave useless things and junk in boxes in the garage... Only in America...do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place... Only in America...do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight... Only in America...do we use the word "politics" to describe the process so well: "Poli" in latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "blood-sucking creatures". If you have anything to add to this page, please e-mail me at:
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