Tuesday, August 12, 2008

crazy facts2

-Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
-In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
-Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
-The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
-Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth.They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
-Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were seventh cousins.
-If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green
-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 theParliamentbuilding is an American flag.
-All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
-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 to! p of the Lincoln Memorialon 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": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
-Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula"
-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, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
-Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
-The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named afterBert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a WonderfulLife."
-A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
-A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

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