58) Upper and lower case letters are named "upper" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.
59) There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
60) There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
61) The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
62) The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
63) The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
64) There are 4 cars and 11 lightposts on the back on the US 10 dollar bill.
65) Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. It also took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
66) If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
67) Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
68) If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes and 4 pennies, you'd have $1.19. You would also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
69) The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".
70) The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
71) The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
72) The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
73) The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
74) Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
75) By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
76) Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby Doo.
77) Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
78) Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
79) In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.
80) Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
81) Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
82) An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
83) Sharon Stone was the first StarSearch spokesmodel.
84) The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
85) The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
86) Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
87) Back in the mid to late 80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
88) Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!
89) Mney isn't made out of paper. It's made out of cotton.
90) The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents he number of varieties of pickle the company once had.
91) A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
92) Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
93) The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
94) The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
96) Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
97) A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
98) A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
99) A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
100) 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
101) Every person has a unique eye & tongue print.
102) The "spot" on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
103) 315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
104) During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in the distance.
105) On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
106) John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
107) Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.
108) Chocolate kills dogs. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
109) Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
110) Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
111) Most lipstick contains fish scales.
112) Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
114) Dr. Seuss is actually pronounced Seuss such that it sounds like Sue-ice.
115) Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. 116) During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.

All fifty states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

The typical bed houses 2 million dust mites.

Ancient Egyptians shaved their eyebrows off to mourn the deaths of their cats.

*Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. .

*Four Marathon runners will lose about 9.5 pounds of sweat in one race.

*Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

*Donkeys kill more people annually than airplane crashes.

*If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

*It takes four pounds of potatoes to make one pound of potato chips.

*There are 4.3 births and 1.7 deaths per second in the world.

*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.

*One-fourth of Los Angeles is taken up of automobiles.

*Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.

*Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

*If you get a pizza in Italy it will probably come with no cheese.

*Some bacteria can produce 16,000,000 offspring in 8 hours.

*If you put a goldfish in a dark room for a while it will turn white.

*The dial tone of a normal telephone and American car horns beep in the key of "F".

*More than 50% of the world's population have never made or received a phone call.

*The lifespan of a taste bud is ten days.

*The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

*The most commonly used password on computer systems is "password".

*The name 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." .

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

*The toilet was invented by a man named John Crapper.

*Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

*Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.

*We shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.

*The world's termites outweigh the world's humans ten to one.

*Coca-Cola can be used as car oil but don't try it!

*Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

*Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone.

*Whispering and shouting stretch the vocal cords.

*You blink your eyes about 20 000 times a day.

*The number one source of employment in Afghanistan is mine clearance.

*Girls see better in the dark than boys.

*There are more plastic flamingos in the US than real ones.

*If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

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

*On an average people fear spiders more than they do death.

*There are more telephones than people in Washington, DC.

*Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

*The plastic things that are at the end of shoelaces are called aglets. The back of a sock is called a gore.

*Most American cars honk in the key of F.

*The record for chicken flight is 13 seconds.

*Blue is the favorite color of 80% of Americans.

*Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

The largest traffic jam occurred in Japan in 1990. It was 84 miles long.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

*When a person shakes their head from side to side in Sri Lanka, they are saying yes.

*No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

*It's against the law to have a dog in Iceland (unless it's a seeing eye dog).

*The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

*In the USA, deaf people have safer driving records than hearing people.

*The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles Strawberries have more vitamin C in them than oranges.

*In Chinese, the Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan, "Finger Lickin' Good." comes out as "Eat your fingers off."

*1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

*All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

*Himmelherregottkruezmillionendonnerwetter is the longest swear word in the world. It means Heaven Lord cross million thunder and lightning.

*The longest case of hiccups lasted for 68 years, Charles Osborne in Iowa.

*Abraham Lincoln's dog, Fido, was assassinated, too He was stabbed to death.

*Having a banana in a fruit bowl will make the other fruit ripen more quickly.

*The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

*Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

*Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

*Children grow faster in the spring.

*The average child spends approximately 28 hours a week watching television, which is twice as much time as they spend in school.

*Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.<P>

*The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

*The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

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

*"bookkeeper" is the only English word with 3 sets of double letters.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly. The Snickers bar is the number 1 candy sold in vending machines.

fun things to say and do while in a public restroom

1. Stick your palm open under the stall wall and ask your
neighbour, "May I borrow a highlighter?"

2. Say "Uh oh, I knew I shouldn't put my lips on that."

3. Cheer and clap loudly every time somebody breaks the silence
with a bodily function noise

4. Say, "Hmmm, I've never seen that color before."

5. Drop a marble and say, "Oh shoot! My glass eye!"

6. Say "Darn, this water is cold."

7. Grunt and strain real loud for 30 seconds and then drop a
cantaloupe into the toilet bowl from a high place and sigh
relaxingly.

8. Say, "Now how did that get there?"

9. Say, "Humus. Reminds me of humus."

10. Fill up a large flask with apple juice. Squirt it
erratically under the stall walls of your neighbours while
yelling, "Whoa! Easy boy!!"

11. Say, "Interesting....more sinkers than floaters"

12. Using a small squeeze tube, spread peanut butter on a wad of
toilet paper and drop under the stall wall of your neighbor.
Then say, "Whoops, could you kick that back over here, please?

13. Say, "C'mon Mr. Happy! Don't fall asleep on me!

14. Say, "Boy, that sure looks like a maggot"

15. Say, "Darn, I knew that drain hole was a little too small.
Now what am I gonna do?"

16. Play a well known drum cadence over and oven again on your
butt cheeks

17. Before you unroll toilet paper, conspicuously lay down your
"Cross-Dressers Anonymous" newsletter on the floor visible to
the adjacent stall.

18. Lower a small mirror underneath the stall wall and adjust it
so you can see your neighbor and say, "Oooh, you might want to get
a doctor to check that out"

19. Drop a D-cup bra on the floor under the stall wall and sing
"Born Free."