AWESOME FACTS


for all of you "intellectual"
people out there, I figured
at least a few of you who
would be interested in this
section! Here are some awesome facts
I have accumulated. Look around and learn!


Did you know:
The letter "W" is the only letter in the english language that is pronounced with more than 2 syllables!
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed!
The “57? on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had!
A “2 by 4? is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2!
The “spot” on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes!
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day!
John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son!
Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape!
The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil)!
India has a Bill of Rights for cows!
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads!
Over a course of about eleven years, the sun’s magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called “Solarmax”!
There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour!
Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald’s!
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with!
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries!
A snail can sleep for 3 years!
China has more English speakers than the United States!
One in every 9000 people is an albino!
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world!
In every episode of “Seinfeld” there is a Superman picture or reference somewhere!
If Barbie were life-size she would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck!
About 55% of all movies are rated R!
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes!
There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world!
Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey!
Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters “MT”!
Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie!
“101 Dalmatians” and “Peter Pan” are the only Disney animations in which both of a character’s parents are present and don’t die during the movie!
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider!
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain!

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