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Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump".
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people.
"Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
No president of the United States was an only child.
Blue is the favorite color of 80% of Americans.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton. Before the 1950's it was made from hemp-the stem and leaves of a marijuana plant.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
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.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Half the world's banana crops are grown in Africa.
The word banana is African.
A man in India holds the record for eating bananas- 81 in a half-hour.
Ice fishes don't have red blood cells.
Turtles can live 100 years.
When a crocodile loses a tooth, it gets a new one. Crocodiles may go through 50 sets of teeth in their lifetime.
Kindergarten lasts for 3 years in Japan.
It is illegal to grow or sell pork in Israel.
An artichoke is actually a flower bud.
More fresh mangoes are eaten world-wide than any other fruit.
Kiwis are the about the same size as chickens, but their eggs are almost as big as ostrich eggs.
Palm trees don't have annual growth rings.
All known vitamins are found in eggs except vitamin C.
Throughout Mexico, over 200 different insects are eaten.
Earth is an almost perfect sphere.
A single bat is said to be able to eat 600 mosquito-sized bugs in one night.
Bats have recorded life-spans of over 30 years.
Earthworms can live up to 6 years.
Deer have no front teeth.
Dr. Pepper is the oldest major sort-drink brand. It was introduced at the 1904 World Fair Exposition.
It takes 300-pounds-per-square-inch of pressure to break the shell of Macadamia nuts.
Adult tongues carry about 9,000 taste buds.
Some insects taste through their feet.
Cats are among the very few animals that do not prefer a sweet taste.
The human eye can see 7,000,000 colors.
In 1971 a hen in NY laid an egg that had 9 yolks.
Opossums have 50 teeth, more than any other mammal.
Salt is one of the few spices that is all taste, and no smell.
Poison Ivy belongs to the same family as cashews and mangoes.
Cows and deer stand facing east is good weather is coming, and west if it's not.
LEGO came from the Danish words "Leg godt", meaning "play well".
Sea Slugs secrete sulfuric acid for defense.
Arachibutyrphobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth.
In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not renumber the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
All porcupines float in water.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
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.
The term "candy" is derived from the Arabic word qandi, meaning "candied".
The male penguin incubates the egg until it hatches.
Cat populations range from sparse to more than 2,000 per square mile.