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Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over
the Parliment
building is an American flag.
No word in the English language rhymes with mouth,
orange,
silver or purple.
"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.
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.
The longest place-name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki-
maungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora
la Reina
de los Angeles de Porcinucula" and can be abbreviated
to 3.63% of its
size. "L.A."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time
displayed
on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture
dealer.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were
named
after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank
Capra's
"It's A Wonderful Life".
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in
the upper
left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield"
and a spider hidden
in the front upper right-hand corner.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Who's playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Why it's
Paul Reiser himself!
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy
moth
from 1.8 miles away.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up
when the
creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and
saw A-N,
and O-Z, hence "Oz."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked
by a radar
tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with
only the
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