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FUN FACTS
~Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
~Pearls melt in vinegar.
~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.
~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.
~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.
~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.
Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great;
Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
~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.
~Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them look like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
~An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
~The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
~The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
~The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
~Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
~No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.
~The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
~Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
~If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
~Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
~Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
~The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
~Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
~There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
~All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20
Movie Mosts: Most extras assembled for a single scene: 300,000, for the two-minute funeral scene in Gandhi. (Imagine catering their lunch!) Most insects used in a film: 22 million bees in The Swarm. Most kisses in a movie: 127, by Lionel Barrymore in Don Juan (1926). The recipients were Mary Astor and Estelle Taylor. This was also the first feature film with a musical soundtrack (but no dialogue).
A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.
~ Lee Segall
