Posted by Charles (64.12.106.42) on January 24, 2002 at 01:05:12:
Now, I know it's a lot. But there's some good stuff in here. Enjoy!
Everyone always wanted to know . . . What is a blue moon? Well, when their are two full moons in one month, the second one is called a "blue" moon.
There are about 5,000,000,000 years on of sunlight left, like I really care?
When the moon is directly over your head, you weigh slightly less.
If you traveled the speed of light, it would only take you 0.0000294 seconds to climb Mt. Everest.
The period at the end of this sentence can hold 2,000,000 hydrogen atoms.
You have enough red blood cells in your body to circle (the veins) the planet 2.5 times.
Planet Jupiter spins so fast that there are 2 sunrises and 2 sunsets every 24 hours by earth time.
Planet Venus is the only planet to spin counter-clockwise.
It is impossible to land on planet Jupiter, because, scientists believe that below all the gases and liguid there is a center [core] which is made up of small ball of pressurized iron, but it is impossible to tell for sutre.
Minus forty degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus forty degrees Fahrenheit.
The coldest outdoor temperature ever recorded on earth was 127 below zero in Antarctica on August 24, 1960.
The highest recorded temperature in the US was 134 Fahrenheit in Death Valley, California.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
You breath 13 pints of air per minute.
Rubber bands last longer if you keep them refrigerated.
In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper had no choice but to fix a computer glitch manually. The source of the problem? A moth. Hence the term "computer bug."
One of the largest carriers of hepitius B is diner mints.
After the sun, the closest star to Earth is 25,000,000,000,000 miles away.
Stars with really strong gravity cause themselves to become smaller and smaller and eventually turn into black holes.
Stars come in different colors; hot stars give off blue light, and the cooler stars give off red light.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive, so much so that they will set off an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction. 2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.
Dry ice does not melt, it evaporates.
The human body has over 45 miles of nerves.
The record for the biggest one day rainfall was set on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, on March 15, 1952, where 74 inches of rain fell in 24 hours.
The right lung takes in more air than the left.
Of the 206 bones in the human body, 52 are in the feet.
It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
One 75-watt light bulb gives off more light than three 25-watt light bulbs.
The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas burning.
For 186 days you can not see the sun in the North Pole.
Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of it's surface tension.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
A full-grown pumpkin has about 15 miles of roots.
Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
Every ten minutes, another plant or animal life form becomes extinct.
The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
In space, astronauts are unable to cry, tears can't flow down, because of the lack of gravity.
Wet sand weighs less than dry sand.
The shape of a plants' collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons.
Lightning strikes somewhere about 6,000 times per second on Earth.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
A women's heart beats faster than men.
The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
Our eyes are always stay the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Men can read smaller print than women.
If you are having problems remembering the planets in their correct order, just remember this sentance "My very educated mother justed served us nine pickles," Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupitor, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
Here are some useless information facts that I swiped off another website... I found them to be quite amuzing...
Look at the number four on a clock face that uses Roman numerals. If the clock is made correctly then the Roman numeral four is wrong. The standard and correct way to write the Roman numeral four is "IV," but the traditional way to show it on a clock face is "IIII." Legend has it that a clock was made for a British king. When he saw the clock he mis- informedly corrected the clock maker who re-did the clock face to show a "IIII" instead of an "IV" thus not risking offending the king. Other clock makers followed suit so as not to embarass the king. Now it is the traditional way to make clocks.
Every episode of "Seinfeld" contains at least one Superman.
Hummingbirds can't walk.
June Foray, the voice of Talking Tina from the classic Twilight Zone episode "Living Doll", was also the voice of Rocky the talking squirrel from "Rocky & Bullwinkle".
The dunce cap of schoolhouse fame originates from a paper cone that was placed on the heads of accused witches during the Middle Ages. When Joan of Arc was martyred, she was wearing one of them.
Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.
"Rhythm" and "syzygy" are the longest English words without vowels.
There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible.
The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II.
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
"Halloween" took place in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois but almost all the cars in the film had California license plates.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.
The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.
Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on "Scooby-Doo."
Soda water does not contain soda.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
"Smithee" is a pseudonym that filmmakers use when they don't want their names to appear in the credits.
The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.
Bob May played the Robot on "Lost In Space" (1965-68) and Dick Tufeld was the voice.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith's (of the Monkees) mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.
The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be it's country of origin.
More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the U.S. Treasury.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theatre.
The spaceship 'Valley Forge' from "Silent Running" (1971) actually got it's name from the location used to film some of its interiors; a decommissioned aircraft carrier named the U.S.S. Valley Forge.
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
If you pause "Saturday Night Fever" at the "How Deep Is Your Love" rehearsal scene, you will see the camera crew reflected in the dance hall mirror.
Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter.
It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.'
Jean-Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original "PREDATOR" in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.
Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversiary of Canada's independence.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Huptmobile.
In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
Brazil got it's name from the nut, not the other way around.
A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his characters.
Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm.
Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
Albert Brooks's real name is Albert Einstein.
The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat droppings.)
Kathleen Turner was the voice of Jessica Rabbit, and Amy Irving was her singing voice.
Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job.
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.
St. Bernards, famous for their role as alpine rescue dogs, do NOT wear casks of brandy around their necks.
Sharon Stone was the first "Star Search" spokesmodel.
It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breath-alyzer to read 0.
Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a day.
There are only three cities that are named exactly after the state they are located in: Maine, ME; New York, NY; and Wyoming, WY.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
Bela Lugosi died during the filming of "PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE". Director Edward D. Wood Jr. used a taller relative who held a cape in front of his face so the audience wouldn't know the difference so he could complete filming.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
Here are some more facts that I found in my endless surfing across the internet...
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.
There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
The name of the Vulcan's heaven is Sha Ka Ree, this is a play on the name Sean Connery who was considered for the part of Sarek, Spock's father.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
The first time the word "hell" was spoken on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "City on the Edge of Forever". The exact quote was "...let's get the hell out of here...", spoken by William Shatner.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.
All of the officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated.
Human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.
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 magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 116 years.
The first inter-racial kiss on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "Plato's Stepchildren". The kiss was between Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner.
No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written.
In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena,Italy, if your name is Mary.
The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."
Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother. They were both deaf.
Soweto in South Africa was derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.
The car manufacturer Henry Ford was awarded Hitler's Supreme Order of the German Eagle.
The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was spun-off from the Danny Thomas Show.
On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan.
Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that have blue eyes.
There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts until 1989.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
While at Havard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a spanish exam.
Barbie's full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
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.
Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)
The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof'.
It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired."
The childrens' nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-Round-The-Rosies' actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.
Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere.
Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
Lizzie Borden was acquitted.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
Cat urine glows under a blacklight.
Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan. Mitsubishi built the Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
On the new one hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Hindu men believe(d) it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marrying a tree first. The tree ( his third wife ) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again.
The province of Alberta in Canada has been completely free of rats since 1905.
Melanie Griffith's mother is actress Tippi Hendren, best known for her lead role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. His reply ' if you were my wife, I would drink it!'
142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multipled by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142
King Kong is the only movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) released the same year (1933).
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam." Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott."
Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants.
John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
A dragonfly has a lifespan of twenty-four hours.
A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon.
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.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
"Evian" (the bottled water) spelled backwards is "naive."
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
In the film 'Star Trek : First Contact', when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible .. but New Zealand is missing.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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 recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
Cheryl Ladd (of Charlie's Angels fame) played the voice, both talking and singing, of Josie in the 70s Saturday morning cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats."
Lynyrd Skynard was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, "You boys ain't never gonna amount to nothin'."
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on the radio newscast about the wreck. The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."