Friday 27 August 2010

Interesting Facts

  1. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
  2. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
  3. Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
  4. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
  5. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
  6. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
  7. Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
  8. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
  9. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
  10. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
  11. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
  12. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
  13. Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
  14. Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
  15. Every person has a unique tongue print.
  16. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
  17. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
  18. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
  19. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
  20. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
  21. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
  22. 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 their radio's newscast about the wreck.
  23. Giraffes have no vocal cords.
  24. Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
  25. Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
  26. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
  27. Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
  28. Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
  29. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
  30. Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.

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