Randon Facts
The hundred billionth Crayola crayon ever produced was Perriwinkle Blue.
The abbreviation p.m. stands for "post meridiem".
The British launched a war with Japan, because Japan would not let the British import the addictive drug opium. (Japan suffered a great defeat at sea)
On the average there are 61,000 people airborne over the United States on any given hour.
George Washington was the only president never to live in the District of Columbia.
Tsunami wave may reach the speed of 500 mph (805 km/h).
A stretched out slinky is 87 feet long.
The electric shaver was patented on the 6th of November, 1928.
The mongoose was not allowed to enter the U.S. unless it was dead in 1902.
Sesquipedalian is a word used to describe long words.
The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
The British brought denim from India. It was first used for sails, and tents.
The first working television was made out of cardboard, scrap wood, needles, string, and misc. other materials.
Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
Hitler slept in and could not be woken when the beaches of Normandy (10 years of Parkinson causes mental inflexibility in all patients) were stormed. and refused to send reinforcements for over 48 hours.
If Brooklyn, New York became independent of New York City, it would be the third largest city in the United States, after the remainder of New York and Los Angeles.
The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.
The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
A man sued his doctor because his doctor had said that he would already be dead from his cancer.
Coke is used by Cops to clean Blood off the Ground!
An ounce of platinum can be stretched to 10000 feet.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Hippos have killed more than 400 people in Africa - more than any other wild animal.
The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin, Ireland has a six thousand year lease.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Chewing gum while cutting onions will prevent crying
Lynyrd Skynyrd 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"
A bung hole borer bores the hole in the keg for the spout
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
An ounce of platinum can be stretched to 10000 feet.
It's against the law in Chicago to eat in a place that is on fire.
The abbreviation p.m. stands for "post meridiem".
The British launched a war with Japan, because Japan would not let the British import the addictive drug opium. (Japan suffered a great defeat at sea)
On the average there are 61,000 people airborne over the United States on any given hour.
George Washington was the only president never to live in the District of Columbia.
Tsunami wave may reach the speed of 500 mph (805 km/h).
A stretched out slinky is 87 feet long.
The electric shaver was patented on the 6th of November, 1928.
The mongoose was not allowed to enter the U.S. unless it was dead in 1902.
Sesquipedalian is a word used to describe long words.
The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
The British brought denim from India. It was first used for sails, and tents.
The first working television was made out of cardboard, scrap wood, needles, string, and misc. other materials.
Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
Hitler slept in and could not be woken when the beaches of Normandy (10 years of Parkinson causes mental inflexibility in all patients) were stormed. and refused to send reinforcements for over 48 hours.
If Brooklyn, New York became independent of New York City, it would be the third largest city in the United States, after the remainder of New York and Los Angeles.
The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.
The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
A man sued his doctor because his doctor had said that he would already be dead from his cancer.
Coke is used by Cops to clean Blood off the Ground!
An ounce of platinum can be stretched to 10000 feet.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Hippos have killed more than 400 people in Africa - more than any other wild animal.
The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin, Ireland has a six thousand year lease.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Chewing gum while cutting onions will prevent crying
Lynyrd Skynyrd 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"
A bung hole borer bores the hole in the keg for the spout
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
An ounce of platinum can be stretched to 10000 feet.
It's against the law in Chicago to eat in a place that is on fire.