Neat Facts




~a duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
~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 sentance dontains them all: "a rough coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman stode 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.
~the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
~facetious and abstemious caontain all the vowels inthe correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
~cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs have about ten.
~the work "checkmate" in chess comes from the persian phrase "shah mat," which means "the king is dead".
~pinocchio is italian for "pin head".
~camel's milk does not curd.
~in every episode of seinfeld there is a superman somewhere.
~an animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
~murphy's oil soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
~the united states has never lost a war in which mules were used.
~blueberry jelly bellies were created especially for ronald reagan.
~all porcupines float in water.
~cat's urine glows under a black light.
~if you bring a raccoon's head to the henniker, new hamshire town hall, you are entitled to recieve $10 from the town.
~the reason firehouses have circular shairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. the horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight stair cases.
~non-dairy creamer is flammable.
~the airplane buddy holly died in was called "american pie." (thus the name of the don mclean song.)
~the only nation whose name begins with an "a", but doesn't end in an "a" is afghanistan.
~when opossums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing". they actually pass out from sheer terror.
~emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and they are on the australian coat of arms for that reason.
~the main library at indiana universite sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all of the books that would occupy that building.
~if you toss a penny 10,000 times, it would not be heads 5,000times, but more like 4,950. the heads of a picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
~the glue on israeli postage is certified.
~the rames brand condom is named after the pharaoh Rames II who fathered 160 children.
~dueling is legal in paraguay as long as both parties are registed blood donors.
~the characters bert and ernie on sesame street were named after bert the coip and ernie the taxi driver in frank capra's "it's s wonderful life."
~ben and jerry send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers for feed. pigs love the stuff, except for one flavoe: mint oreo.
~al capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
~armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always the same gender.
~amardillos are the only animals besides humans that can get leprosy.
~a group of unicorns is called a blessing.
~twelve or more cows is called a "flink".
~a group of frogs is called an army.
~a group of rhinos is called a crash.
~a group of kangaroos is called a mob.
~a group of whales is called a pod.
~a group of ravens is called a murder.
~a group of officers is called a mess.
~a group of larks is called an exaltation.
~a group of owls is called a parliament.
~every time you lick a stamp, you're consumin 1/10 of a calorie.
~the phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early attresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bedframe. a tight sleep was a comforatble sleep.
~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 meantioned once in the first episode on their radiuo newscast about the wreck.
~wilma flintstones's maiden name was wilma slaghoopal, and betty rubble's maiden name was betty jean mcbricker.
~"stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the lefthand.
~the baby ruth candy bar was actually named after grover cleveland's baby daughter, ruth.
~in england, the speaker of the house is not allowed to speak.
~ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. they had been overmixing the soap formula causing exess air bubbles that made it float. customers wrote and told how much they loved that is floated, and it has floated ever since. (it float in gasoline, too.)
~studies show that is a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about 30% less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. it supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurrimg, relax and correct itself.
~the sying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the civil war. the cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called brass monkey. when it got extemely cold outside, they would break off... thus the saying.
~your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, or it will digest itself.
~the snskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
~if a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both fron legs in the air, the person dies in a 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. (ed note: if the rider's head is up the horse's ass, the rider died a lawyer.)
~no word in the english language rhymes with month, srange, silver, and purple.
~clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their house down - hence the expression "to get fired."
~canada is an indian word meaning "big village."





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