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I feel like I’m being picked up and shaken like a sock.This video is by Joe Walsh. It’s one I hold a great value in. From the 1:30 mark it illustrates to me for the next few minutes so much about this life that I find glorious, and sad, and awesome, like my dad. He reminds me of him, Joe Walsh. He always looked like him and his sense of humor was apparent. Today is his memorial in Wichita. I will not be present. If I had a few moments to stand up and say something I’d probably have a hard time holding my emotions in check.His mom died when he was 7. His dad remarried and died when he was 14. His step mom told him he should go. He went out on his own at 14 and became a hellion in a leather jacket and a motorcycle. He told me several versions of a story that basically ended in jail or the service. He chose the Marines. I heard a version of a story where he collected ears on a string he hung from his belt in the jungles of Laos. It was never confirmed or proven false. He was only 16 but lied and said he was 17 and his sister signed the paper to let him enlist. He was already discharged at 19 where he met my mom. Both underage and in a bar.My dad turned 20 years old one month and one week before I was born. Mom was also 20. As I grew up it was always easy to know how old they were. You just add 20. Then when I was 20 and had already been divorced, I understood how young he and mom were. I was put through something after that. Since living on this planet, I’ve always been obsessed with counting back to what dad was doing when I was 25 or 30 or 35 or 40. My dad reached greater heights and was twice the man I ever have been before he was 35. At least as far as the social ladders I saw growing up, he made it to the top for awhile.By 25 my parents had moved to Roseville and were the Kentucky Fried Chicken co-owners/builders/managers of the newest KFC franchise. It was 1967.By the time I was 8, they were 28 and we moved from the apartments we had watched the moon landing from to a house on a dead end street on a new neighborhood of middle class families. In 1970, middle class actually meant something different than it does today. People were able to live well and even save money being in the middle class.We lived in the only two story house on the street. Dad drove the latest new cool car to come out. In those years I remember a 65 Chevrolet Impala we moved here in. Dad said it was the fastest car he ever owned. It was stolen one day (he leaves keys in things) and thrashed. I remember a Mustang and a 442 while still in the apartments. A large Ford truck and a cab-over camper the apartments people let us park in a corner. When we moved to the house it was across the street from the Oldsmobile guy. So, each year dad got a new Olds.I recall a Toronado around 72 (after the 442), It had a personal license plate MARX 4. It was a little stab at his boss Pete Harman who had a MARK lV Cadillac. We always got a new truck every few years, and a newer camper after a while. Our house was the second from the end and beyond the dead end and beyond our back fence was fields and woods and trails and hills that stretched to the foothills in some directions.I was not surprised when I came home from school to find our back fence torn down and saw a big tractor had dug out a swimming pool. We had parties in those days that would be talked about for years. All of the hob-nobs attended. The owner of the phone company was there. My parents had Roseville Telephone stock they had to divide when they divorced later, as well as Harmans/KFC stocks.Wen dad was 34 he owned this Jaguar parked in our drivewayHe saw it sitting out in a field one day. It had the sun roof open, windows down, and had been sitting for years. Bought it and had it towed home. He completely refurbished it himself. Had all the interior leather replaced. Repainted. It was the nicest car I ever sat in. This picture is around 1976 right before we moved away to buy two more KFC’s that fell through.Dad lost his ass with that deal by trying to do business with a man on a handshake. My parents never really recovered as a couple from that but dad started making the best money he ever would make when I was 16. He was 36. They bought a house out by the lake. Our next door neighbor had a tennis court in his back yard. We were about a city block from the boat ramp and they bought a boat. He owned a warehouse in town and his outgoing bills were over $100k when he was 38.I graduated from high school when he was 37 and our state champion basketball team that year got to go around to all of these clubs to have a luncheon and some recognition. We went to the Lion’s Club for lunch and the meeting was chaired by my dad who was the Lion’s Club president that year.Here he is as Year of the Chicken… He was always ‘The Chicken Man’. Next to him, Rudy on the left was the Oldsmobile guy I mentioned, his best friend and neighbor. Rudy was 6′5″. Dad was 6′-2″. Dad always seemed tall to me, but by the team’s Lion’s Club luncheon I was almost 6′-4″ already. Little did I realize I was part of the first generation not to make more money than their parents.When dad and mom split he had an empire, nearly. He’d been going to LA mostly every week and was the number two guy in the company he signed on with when the KFC handshake debacle went down. I was there when he was offered the job…over a handshake. He became the Northern Cal sales rep for QFS Quick Frying Systems. He sold KFC their pressure cookers and started up programs for grocers all over who started to sell their own KFC type of chicken. He did really well, until the secretary there who ran the company and him decided they could run their own company and keep all the money. It may have worked out too if they both didn’t love cocaine so much.Mom was devastated. He had made the decision when she had been back in Utah getting her face scraped. She came home as a surprise to show my dad with scabs all over her face. She’d lost tons of weight before that, too. He asked for a divorce. They were 44 years old. My dad had a really good run up to that point. It’s from this point, looking back, that he began falling.The Lion’s Club friends all turned their back on him except for his closest friends. They all were friends with both of my parents and mom was well-loved. Dad had broken a rule unwritten somewhere. His friend Rudy had lots of money and bought up the warehouse to split and 2 rentals they owned across town and eventually my mom sold the house out at the lake.Dad rented a cool house for very cheap and another excellent office space for his new venture with the secretary. 2 years later that secretary would drive out of town in my dad’s van, towing his boat, and had $15k in cash. Dad tried for several years to rebound on his own. During that time he let his drinking and drugs take him for a long ride. He had no one to tell him he couldn’t. He had no one to be faithful to and no one wanted to play. He became deeper enmeshed in drugs and would eventually marry again to a hooker from Reno, Nevada.Both the secretary and the hooker were my age. The secretary was a few months older and the new step mom was a few month younger. I declined her pleading and begging. I think I was the only person my dad knew who didn’t get his penis into at least her mouth. I liked her though. We were friends, and she was the one who introduced my dad to crank (meth). But, he still liked his coke, and his Zanex, his Valium, his Vicodin, his weed of course, but his drug of choice was Budweiser.When I went to Europe I turned 30. Which means dad had turned 50. By the time I came home after 11 months the step mom had already gone with a lot. He’d had a sexual romp with his best friends daughter and the next day she told him (her dad-Rudy) to make him mad. It did. Dad got a raised rent notice on both his home and office and had to vacate to a whole new town where he would start seeing flying saucers and little green men. He started hearing voices and before long he was full on insane and had lost everything. He was 56. The age I am now.His last 20 years were spent on disability in Wichita, Kansas. His sister had a free room in her basement until his other sister who worked for the Social Security Department was able to expedite his paperwork and he received enough to buy a trailer to live in. He took medication for his voices and found the doctors gave him a pill that put him, “Right where I want to be”. It was a 20 year long vacation and reflection time for him to rethink of where he had fallen from. We talked every Sunday for a while. I saw him last year. It was hard when we talked about my next visit. He was in a home and unable to walk anymore. I’m not sure why. He figured he was good for maybe another 20 years. It was easier, and less tearful, than to act like we’d never see each other again.There was a period in my 20s that he was the best friend I had. He was the best dad anyone could ever hope to have. All of my friends thought I was so lucky because my dad smoked pot and drank with us. He took us out on the boat while we skipped school. He was a parent who was one of us. He was always, to me, one of us. Whoever we are. Lot’s of cemeteries and old rehab places, and prisons full of us. I’d like to hope I get 20 more years, too.He died April 5th, 2019. He was one month and one week from turning 77. He always kissed me on the lips hello and goodbye. Up to the last time I would say goodbye we kissed. He always told me how much he loved me. Plenty of love and affection from both of them. He also gave me a proclivity to compulsive addiction. As have I given it to my daughter. It’s the gift that just keeps on taking.RIP dad.

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They now come in over 100 different stylesCrabs have very small hairs on their claws and other parts of their body to help detect water currents and vibrationsIn 1962, the first Wal-Mart opened up in Rogers, ArkansasDuracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own wasteVampire bat saliva has been responsible for many advances in research into stroke recoveryDuring the making of the movie "Fight Club," actor Brad Pitt chipped his tooth. However, he did not get his tooth capped until after the movie was done filming as he thought it would look better chipped for his characterClans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted peoplewithout killing them used to burn their houses down - hence theexpression "toget fired."In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked noseThe word "checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah-Mat," which means the king is deadIf you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffeeA common drink for Tibetans is Butter Tea which is made out of butter, salt, and brick teaBourbon was first made by a Baptist minsister from Bourbon County in Kentucky in 1789. That is where it got its nameThe Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whitesMcDonald restaurants serve food and drink to an amazing 43 million customers on a daily basisThe game Monopoly was once very popular in Cuba; however, Fidel Castro ordered that all games be destroyedNearly half of all Americans suffer from symptoms of burnoutDuring the era of Louis XIV, women used lemons to redden their lips70% of the poor people in the world are femaleThe thickness of the Arctic ice sheet is on average 10 feet. There are some areas that are thick as 65 feetThe adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen dailyThe biggest pumpkin the world weighs 1,337.6 poundsThe highest consumption of Pizza occurs during Super Bowl weekDuring World War II, condoms were used to cover rifle barrels from being damaged by salt water as the soldiers swam to shoreApproximately 55% of movies released are Rated RThe Roman emperor Domitian took great pleasure in being secluded in his room for hours and catching flies and stabbing them with pensTarantulas can live up to 30 yearsOn average redheads have 90,000 hairs. People with black hair have about 110,000 hairsMore than half the time spent in United States courts is cases that involve automobilesOne barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallonsThe smoke that is produced by a fire kills more people than a burn does because of carbon monoxide and other dangerous gasesThe Saguaro Cactus, found in the South-western United States does not grow branches until it is 75 years old.In Belgium, 172,000 tons of chocolate are produced in a yearThe word Nike comes from Greek Mythology. Nike is the goddess of victory and was often depicted as a small winged figure whom the goddess Athene carriedThe biggest bug in the world is the Goliath Beetle which can weigh up to 3.5 ounces and be 4.5 inches longLeaving the water running while brushing your teeth can waste four gallons of water in a minuteSteve Fletcher holds the record for the largest gum wrapper collection. His collection has 5300 gum wrappers from all across the worldThere was once a country called Prussia. After World War II, it was divided among Poland, Germany, and the USSRThe word Spain means "the land of rabbits."In 1936, the first practical helicopter was invented. It was the German Focke-Wulf Fw 61.The word tulip comes from the Turkish word for turbanPsychokinesis refers to the ability to move objects through psychic powerThe fat that comes from sheep, which is called tallow, can also be used to produce soap and candlesIn Britain, one out of every four potatoes is eaten in the form of french friesIn the movie Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock, chocolate syrup was used for blood in the shower sceneThe movie "Chicken Run" made in 2,000 had the most plasticine used in an animated movie. They used 2,380 kg of plasticine for the movieDuring WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The SteaglesThe titan arum flower is the largest flower in the world and gives off a horrible odor that smells like rotting flesh when it bloomsEvery day, the average person swallows about a quart of snotWhen the only queen ant dies, so does the entire colony, because no new workers are bornThe Dutch people are known to be the tallest people in EuropeThe average American kid will eat approximately 1.500 peanut butter sandwiches by high school graduationGoats do not have upper front teethIt has been suggested that shepherds are responsible for inventing the game golf. It is said that they used to use their staffs to hit the stonesThere are about 6,800 languages in the worldStudies have shown that by putting on slow background music it can make a person eat food at a slower rateBy walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in a yearIronically, when doctors in Los Angeles, California went on strike in 1976, the daily number of deaths in the city dropped 18%Octopus and squid are thought to be the most intelligent of all invertebratesOn average, a beaver can cut down two hundred trees a year.The name of the first menthol cigarette in the United States was "Spud."A world record 328-pound ovarian cyst was removed from a woman in Galveston, Texas, in 1905. updatedThe fastest shark is the "Shortfin Mako," which can swim as fast as sixty miles per hourThe flatulation from domesticated cows produce about 30% of the methane on this planetIronically, watermelons, which are 92% water, originated from the Kalahari Desert in AfricaThe first tattoo machine was invented by Samuel O'Reilly. He did this by using equipment that Thomas Edison used to engrave hard surfaces.In a lifetime, an average human produces 10,000 gallons of salivaA slug has four nosesChili Powder was invented in the 19th century in the American SouthwestThe sea cucumber spills its internal organs out as a defense mechanismApproximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow feverBraces were first invented by Pierre Fauchard in 1728. The braces were made by a flat strip of metal, which was connected to the teeth by the thread.Marilyn Monroe had six toesThere is a town in Texas called Ding Dong. In 1990, the population was only twenty-two peopleThe total volume of mail that went through the Canadian postal system in 1950 was 1,362,310,155 itemsThe highest toll paid by a ship to cross the Panama Canal was by the Crown Princess on May 2, 1993, in the amount of $141,349.97 U.S. fundsThe name of the famous snack "Twinkies" was invented by seeing a billboard in St. Louis, that said "Twinkle Toe Shoes."The word "Nazi" is actually an abbreviation for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which refers to the National Socialist German Workers PartyThe unique characteristics of Barbie dolls in Japan are that they have their lips closed with no teeth showingThe Coca Cola company offers more than 300 different beveragesNeptune was the first planet in our solar system to be discovered by mathematicsFive percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already marriedCamel is considered unclean meat in the BibleSoldier Field is the oldest field in the NFLIn the U.S., over one million gallons of cosmetics, drinks, and lotions are sold that contain aloe in them per yearThe name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.Eating eight strawberries will provide you with more Vitamin C than an orangeThe first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".Mosquitoes have teethTo be born on Sunday was considered a sign of great sin during the Puritan timesThe citrus soda "7 UP" was created in 1929. The original name of the popular drink was "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", but it got changed to "7 UP."The average four-year-old child asks over four hundred questions a dayProsopagnosia refers to the inability to identify people by their faces. In severe cased prosopagnosia, a person may not be able to identify themselves in a mirrorOn November 29, 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."An adult sheep can eat between 1 to 4 kg of food per dayIn 1888, Hollywood was founded by Harvey and Daeida Wilcox, who named the city after their summer home in ChicagoBlood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for paintIn 1876, the first microphone was invented by Emile Berliner."I am." is the second shortest complete sentence in the English languageOn average, a person will spend about five years eating during their lifetimeEach king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius CaesarMany cancer patients that are treated with chemotherapy lose their hair. For some when the hair grows back, it can grow back a different color, or be curly or straightA volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphereThe longest hiccups on record were by an American pig farmer whose hiccups persisted from 1922 to 1987Coupons were introduced in 1894 when Asa Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula for $2,300 and gave people coupons that he had written out to receive a free glass of cokePanthers are known as black leopards, as they are the same species of leopard. If looked at closely, black spots can be seen on a pantherApproximately 25% of all scald burns to children are from hot tap water and is associated with more deaths than with any other liquidIn London, during rush hour traffic moves on average at 13 kilometers an hourTomatoes and cucumbers are fruitsIn the United States, approximately 50 million people fish per yearCattle can produce up to 180 liters of saliva in one dayDolphins hear by having sound waves transmit through their skull to their inner ear regionTeflon was accidently discovered by scientist Dr. Roy Plunkett while he was conducting a coolant gas experiment in 1938The risk of cardiovascular disease is twice as high in women that snore regularly compared to women who do not snore. updatedClose to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercialsThe first theatre to show motion pictures was the Nickelodeon on June 19, 1905, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was opened by Harry Davis on Smithfield StreetThe White House has a movie theater, swimming pool, bowling lane, jogging track, and a tennis courtAbout two hundred years before the birth of Christ, the Druids used mistletoe to celebrate that winter was approachingCats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about tenA butterfly can see the colors red, green, and yellowIn the game of Monopoly, the most landed on properties are B&O Railroad, Illinois Avenue, and "Go."The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the nameof the Don McLean song.)Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.A baby kangaroo is called a joeyMontreal is the second largest French-speaking city after ParisThere were 43,687 toilet-related accidents in the United States in 1996In Albania, nodding your head means "no" and shaking your head means "yes."Ringo Starr appeared in a Japanese advertisement for apple sauce. Ironically his name means "apple sauce" in JapaneseThe average US worker toils for two hours and 47 minutes of each working day just to pay income tax. Indeed, the average American pays more in taxes than for food, clothing and shelter put togetherThere is cyanide in apple pipsTrue spiders always have organs for spinning silk known as spinneretsGreat Britain has the highest consumption of ice cream than any other European nationEvery continent has a city called RomeThe movie "Cleopatra" cost $44 million to make in 1963. The same movie would now cost $300 million to make taking inflation into accountA species of dolphin is born naturally blind in the Indus and Ganges rivers in South Asia. These dolphins have a highly sophisticated sonar system and swim on only one side of their bodyKermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott, a childhood friend of creator Jim Henson, who became a professor of philosophy at Purdue UniversityWeatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonaldAztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.Actor Sylvester Stallone once had a job as a lion cage cleanerPlay-Doh was introduced in 1956 by Hasbro Inc. The only color availabe was an off white, and it came in one size which a one and a half pound canThe USSR launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957.An oyster can change its genderFrom all the states, Montana has the most different species of animalsThe actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M.). It is located in the city of Rome, Italy, has an area of two tennis courts, and as of 2001 has a population of 80, 20 fewer people than the Vatican. It is a sovereign entity under international law, just as the Vatican isQueen Elizabeth, I always wore a necklace with a little perfume bottle attached everywhere she wentA group of people that are hired to clap at a performance is called a claqueThe tallest tree recorded is located in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California. It is a coast redwood and has been measured at 117 meters highIn 1926, a waiter in Budapest committed suicide. He left his suicide note in the form of a crossword and the police had to get help from the public to solve itAnti-American demonstrators protesting in Bangladesh after September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks carried posters of Osama bin Laden sitting alongside Bert, a beloved Sesame Street Muppet characterPolar bear livers contain so much Vitamin A that it can be fatal if eaten by a humanLeather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning processFinland is also known as "the land of the thousand lakes," because of the over 188,000 lakes found in this countryIn a year, an average American kid eats 46 slices of pizzaIn Las Vegas, casinos do not have any clocksBubble gum contains rubberWhen Kleenex was first introduced to the market in 1924, it was marketed as a makeup or cold cream removerIn the year 1900, for women to be a telephone operator she had to be between the ages of 17 and 26 and not be marriedThe first spacecraft to visit the planet Venus was Mariner 2 in 1962.Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasureBabies that are exposed to cats and dogs in their first year of life have a lower chance of developing allergies when they grow olderUrophobia is the fear of urine or urinatingIn 1949, forecasting the relentless march of science, Popular Mechanics said: "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."Water that is safe to drink is referred to as POTABLEActor John Ritter was the voice of Clifford, from "Clifford The Big Red Dog."Chocolate accounts for less than two percent of the fat in the American dietThe band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella."The accent that Mike Myers used for the character Shrek came from the accent that his mother would use when she was telling him bedtime stories when he was a childIn the Netherlands, there are special traffic lanes for bicycles. There are approximately 17,000 kms of cycle lanes with special bicycle traffic lights.It was believed by Ancient Hindus that the world was a sphere and rested on the back of four elephants, which stood on a turtleAlexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epilepticEvery year, more than one million miles of Twizzlers licorice is madeA penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hourThe word Thailand means "land of the free."A rose imprint that was fossilized in a slate was discovered in Florisant, Colorado, which is said to be thirty-five million years oldU.S. bills are 2.61 inches wide, 6.14 inches long, and are .0043 inches thick and weigh 1 gramThe highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere is Mount Aconcagua in Argentina. It rises 22,834 feet above sea levelThe Barn Owls hearing is so highly developed that they can hunt for their prey in total darknessThe average number of bridesmaids at a wedding is fourAverage number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000In 1876, Maria Spelterina was the first woman to ever cross Niagara Falls on a high wireOn April 6, 1925, the first in-flight movie was shown. It was a silent film and appeared on a Deutsche Luft Hansa flightThe temperature of lightning bolts is sometimes hotter than the surface of the sun.When Burger King introduced the Whopper Sandwich in 1957, it cost only thirty-seven centsChopsticks originated from China approximately 4,000 years agoThe favorite honeymoon place is HawaiiThe 1960 Summer Olympics were the first Olympics to be aired on television by CBSThe Canadian holiday Boxing Day got its name from the custom of giving. Servants were given boxes which had money hidden inside them from their employers. The servants would have to break the box into pieces to get the moneyIn proportion, if Jupiter were a basketball, then the sun would be the size of the Louisiana Super DomeThe Toronto Maple Leafs used to be called the Toronto Arenas, then the St. Patricks and finally the Maple LeafsA dime has 118 ridges around the edgeNext, to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the worldIn 1391, China began producing toliet paper for use by its EmperorsIn the United States, the most frequent month for a tornado to occur is in May.There are some ice creams that are 75% airIn the United States, lightning hits the ground 40 million times a year.A mother hen turns her egg approximately 50 times in a day. This is so the yolk does not stick to the shellThe reason why flamingos are pink is that they eat shrimp which have a red pigmentTotally Hair Barbie is the best selling Barbie of all time. It sold over ten million unitsJellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years. This is before sharks and dinosaursAlthough white wine can be produced from both red and white grapes, red wine can only be created from red grapesShirley Temple was considered to play the role of Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz."Babies that wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to get a diaper rash than babies wearing a cotton diaperOne million cloud droplets are needed to make enough water to produce one raindrop.In the world, the Netherlands has the highest concentration of museums in the world. Just in Amsterdam alone, there are 42 museumsAmongst pre-schoolers, Caillou is the fastest-ever-growing television show and is seen in close to 97% of U.S. householdsRice flour was used to strengthen some of the bricks that make up the Great Wall of ChinaResearch has indicated that a tie that is on too tight can increase the risk of glaucoma in menEach year all of the Hostess bakeries combined bake 500 million Twinkies a year. (A twinkie is a sponge cake with a creamy filling.)Charlie Chaplin once lost a contest for a Charlie Chaplin look alikePluto is the only planet in our solar system that has not been visited by a spacecraftThe worlds tallest free fall rollercoaster is The Giant Drop located in Australia. The drops are 120 meters which are equivalent to a 39 story buildingStalks of sugar cane can reach up to 30 feetThe markings that are found on dice are called "pips."Joseph Gayetty is credited for inventing toilet paper in 1857. Unfortunately, his invention failed and did not catch on until ten years laterA newly hatched fish is called a "fry."The music band UB40 got its name from an unemployment form in EnglandThe Olympic Flame was introduced in 1928 in AmsterdamThe YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the worlds largest zipper manufacturerArmadillos can be housebrokenThe Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergenciesThe material to build the Taj Mahal was brought in from various parts of India by a fleet of 1000 elephantsMedical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growthIn the USA, 32% of employees eat lunch and work at the same timeIn Alabama, it is against the law to wear a fake mustache that could cause laughter in the churchIn the United States, more than 4.2 million couples live together that are not marriedBill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer. newThe male howler monkey of Central and South America is the noisiest land animal, which can be heard clearly from a distance of ten miles awayNerve cells can travel as fast as 120 meters per secondIt is said that grapefruit got its name because it grows like grapes in clusters. One cluster can have up to 25 grapefruitsAbdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumesAn average adult produces about half a liter of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a dayMaine is the toothpick capital of the worldPeanut butter is an effective way to remove chewing gum from hair or clothesThe longest kiss on record lasted 30 hours and 45 minutes. Dror Orpaz and Carmit Tsubara recorded it on April 5, 1999, at a kissing contest held in Tel Aviv, IsraelPolar bears are excellent swimmers. They have been known to swim more than 60 miles without a restThe most expensive perfume in the world is Parfum VI, which was made by Arthur Burnham. A 4-inch bottle which is covered with diamonds and 24-karat gold costs $71,380If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the worldCimeti?re du Pere Lachaise located in Paris is the most visited cemetery in the world. The cemetery opened in 1805 and has over one million people buried there, including rock star Jim MorrisonIn Australia, a dust-devil is called a "willy-willyThe Leaning Tower of Pisa is 58.36 meters above the groundAmericans write approximately 50 billion checks a year making it the second most frequent payment method used after cashThe name "Snickers" for the popular candy bar was named after a horse that the Mars family ownedThe #1 peanut producing state is GeorgiaKeeping Warm With an Axe is the title of a real how-to book. Click Here For More DetailsAn artificial Christmas tree last up to six years in a homeWomen are four times more likely to have foot problems than menIn 1783, the hot air balloon was invented in France.There was an army general during the Liberia Civil War who used to lead his army into battle naked. His nickname was "General Butt Naked." Joshua Milton Blahyi (his real name) is now an evangelical preacher in MonroviaThere are no two zebras who have stripes that are exactly the sameThe Angel Falls in Venezuela was named after an American pilot, Jimmy Angel, whose plane got stuck on top of the mountain while searching for goldLake Ontario was originally named Lake St. LouisActor John Travolta was offered the role of Billy Flynn many times for the movie "Chicago." Richard Gere ended up playing the roleThe Canadian province of New Brunswick had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839There are more than 2,400 flea species in the worldNinety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States is for the sole purpose of decorationDavid McConnell started the California Perfume Company (CPC) in 1886. Today the company is known as Avon, which he named after his favorite playwright William Shakespeare, and Stratford on AvonAmericans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil WarChicago has the largest cookie factory, where Nabisco made over 4.6 billion "Oreo" cookies in 1997In 1963, Mister Rogers was ordained as a Presbyterian ministerThere was a post office on the Russian space station Mir. Visiting cosmonauts would use unique postal "markers" to stamp envelopes and other items as having flown aboard the Mir space stationIn one day, 230 marriage licenses are issued in Las VegasEvery second there are 418 Kit Kat fingers eaten in the worldThe Great Comet of 1843 had a tail that was over 300 kilometers long.The dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan HoundsThere are no blossoms on the branches of a fig tree, instead, it is inside the fruitThe largest chicken egg ever laid weighed a pound and had a double yolk and shellBilliards used to be so popular at one time that cigarette cards were issued featuring playersChewing gum has rubber as an ingredientAn orca whale can hold its breath for up to 15 minutesAlexander the Great was an epilepticWood frogs can be frozen solid and then thawed, and continue living. They use the glucose in their body to protect their vital organs while they are in a frozen stateCanadians eat more Kraft Dinner (Macaroni and Cheese) per capita than any other country in the worldIn a day, a mature oak tree can draw approximately 50 gallons of waterThe reason why bubble gum is pink is that the inventor only had pink coloring left. Ever since then, the color of bubble gum has been predominantly pinkEmilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica in 1978A top freestyle swimmer achieves a speed of only 4 miles per hour. Fish, in contrast, has been clocked at 68 mphEvery single hamster in the United States today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930Research on pigs led to the development of CAT scans.The Hundred Years War lasted for 116 yearsSome dolphins can swim up to 40 kilometers an hourIn the last 30 years, only seven people have been killed by a polar bear in CanadaThe longest U.S. highway is Route 20, which is over 3,365 milesThe largest LEGO castle that was ever built was built with 400,000 LEGO bricks and was 4.45 m x 5.22 mIn the U.S. there are approximately 65.8 million catsOne of the steepest main streets in Canada is located in Saint John, New Brunswick. Over a distance of two blocks, the street rises about 80 feetAvery Laser Labels are named after company founder R. Stanton AveryThe highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in ColoradoOn September 9, 1950, dubbed laughter was used for the first time on television. It was used for the sitcom "The Hank McCune Show."A violin actually contains 70 separate pieces of woodThe human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a distance of thirty feetOne out of four American households own a catQueen Lydia Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. She was also the only Queen the United States ever hadEvery day 2,700 people die of heart diseaseThere are 10 million bacteria at the place where you rest your hands at a deskThe quills of a porcupine are soft when they are bornAn average American child watches approximately 28 hours of television in one weekQuality standards for pasta were set in the 13th century by the PopeThe A.A. Milne character of Winnie the Pooh made his animated film debut in 1966 in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey TreePeople have the tendency to chew the food on the side that they most often use their handAntarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any countryThe Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as isnecessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the ste of Virginia stillhad segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks andwhites.The Lemon shark grows about 24,000 new teeth a year. A new set of teeth grow approximately every 14 daysOne billion seconds is about 32 yearsAn average American eats approximately 60 hot dogs per yearIceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nationThe water displacement product, WD-40, can be found in 80% of American homesDexter is the smallest type of cow. This cow was bred to be a small size for household livingAs part of the original design, the names of 72 French scientists and other famous people is imprinted on the sides of the Eiffel towerThe first domain name ever registered was World's first and oldest registered .com domain name on the InternetThirty to 40 gallons of sugar maple sap must be boiled down to make just one gallon of maple syrupThe most frequent season for most suicides to occur is in the spring. The winter months have the lowest number of suicidesA seven year old boy was the first person to survive the Horeshoe Falls (Niagara Falls) in just a life jacketThe longest punt return for a touchdown was 103 yardsThe most popular Hot Wheels vehicle sold is the CorvetteA giraffe is able to clean its ears with its own tongueThe slowest growing finger nail is on the thumb nail and the fastest growing is the finger nail on the middle fingerFlu shots only work about 70% of the timePeople of Salt Lake City eat the most lime-flavoured gelatin Jell-O in the United StatesIn a survey conducted in 2000 by Kimberly-Clark, it was found that men prefer to fold their toilet paper, and women like to wad itOn average, a person has two million sweat glandsFrance, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Greece, and Australia have always been in the modern Olympics since it began in 1896The longer white infants from low-income families are breast-fed, the less likely they will be overweight as young children, researchers said on Monday111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is one of the few places in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplaneThe most popular treat for Halloween trick-or-treaters are candy bars with Snickers being the most popularCorned beef got its name because this beef was preserved with pellets of salt that were the size of corn kernels, which was also referred to as "corns" of saltThe Canandian province of New Brunswick had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839.In 1908, the first machine to make lollipops opened for business in New Haven, ConnecticutIn 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a fifty pound rock. More than twenty people witnessed the ceremonyThe most diners per capita in the world are located in the U.S. state New JerseyIn Denmark, people eat about 36 pounds of candy a year. The highest consumption of candy of any countryJohn Van Wormer invented paper milk cartons after dropping a bottle of milk one morning. The bottle broke spilling the milk everywhere. That annoyance was enough for Van Wormer to come up with the idea.The long fibres that are found in bananas are excellent in making paper. The long fibres that are found in the banana plant can make the banana fibre paper approximately 3000 times stronger than regular paperThe state of Tennessee was known as Franklin before 1796Over 90% of poison exposures occur in homesHonolulu, Hawaii boasts the only royal palace in the United States of AmericaSeven asteroids were especially named for the Challenger astronauts who were killed in the 1986 failed launch of the space shuttleAmericans consumed more than twenty billion hot dogs in 2000The production of toilet paper in China began in 1391, which was used for the EmperorsThe reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yorewhen the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on theground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.It would take approximately twenty-four trees that are on average six to eight inches in diameter to produce one ton of newsprint for the Sunday edition of the New York TimesEvery year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gumThe tuatara lizard of New Zealand has three eyes, two in the center of its head and one on the top of its headThe world population of chickens is about equal to the number of peopleThe largest number of children born to one woman, who was a Russian peasant is 69In a lifetime, an average driver will release approximately 912 pints of wind inside a carThe loss of eyelashes is referred to as madarosisApproximately 75% of human poop is made of waterThe popular chocolate bar "Three Musketeers" got its name because when it was first introduced in 1932 there were three individual bars. The flavours were strawberry, chocolate, and vanillaEvery photograph of the first American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold EdgertonHeinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per yearIn 1864, A Quebec farmer found a frog inside a hailstoneActor Sylvester Stallone once had a job as a lion cage cleanerThe first time there was an instance where they had a separate toilet for women and men was in 1739 at a ball in ParisIn the marriage ceremony of the Ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each otherMaine is the only state whose name is just one syllableSome birds have been know to put ants into their feathers because the ants squirt formic acid, which kills parasitesOn average, 42,000 balls are used and 650 matches are played at the annual Wimbledon tennis tournamentThe WD in WD-40 stands for Water DisplacerLachanophobia is the fear of vegetablesLake Baikal, in Siberia, is the deepest lake in the worldIn the Middle Ages, peacocks and swans were sometimes served at Christmas dinnersIndia has the most post offices in the worldWomen take three times longer than men when using the toiletIn America, approximately 25% of kids aged 6-14 have a magaznie subscriptionCanada has more donut shops per capita than the United StatesIn 1886, Coca-cola was first served at a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia for only five cents a glass. A pharmacist named John Pemberton created the formula for Coca-cola75% of all raisins eaten by people in the United States are eaten at breakfastWhale oil was used in some car transmissions until 1973Flamingos are able to fly at a speed of approximately 55 kilometers an hour. In one night they can travel about 600 km1 out of every 4 kids in the USA is overweight"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in NavajoIn 1903, there were originally only eight Crayola crayons in a box and they sold for five centsMen are able to read fine print better than women canOn average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each daySpiders usually have eight eyes, but still they cannot see that wellOne ragweed plant can release as many as a million grains of pollen in one dayWomen hearts beat faster than menThe Central African raffia palm is known to have the longest leaves. The leaves can measure up to 82.5 feet long.Due to the shortages of lead and metals during World War II, toothpaste was packaged in plastic tubes and have been ever sinceIt is estimated that 93% of American children will go out trick or treating for HalloweenIn humans, the epidermal layer of skin, which consists of many layers of skin regenerates every 27 daysA group of crows is called a murderEllen Macarthur, yachtswoman, had a total of 891 naps in 94 days that were each 36 minutes long while on her Vendee Round the Globe yacht raceDavao City, located at the Southern state of Philippines, is the largest city in the world in terms of areaCastaways Travel, a Houston-area travel agency, offers an all-nude flight to Cancun Mexico. Once the plane reaches cruising altitude, you are allowed to take off all your clothes and roam about the cabinPeople generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paperCertain female species of spiders such as the Australian crab spider, sacrifice their bodies as a food source for their offspringOne grape vine produce can produce about 20 to 30 glasses of wineThe TV show "Saturday Night Live" made its debut on October 11, 1975In a pack of Skittles candy, there is an equal 20% distribution of each flavourThe names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardiaThe Hubble telescope is so powerful that it is like pointing a beam of light at a dime that is two hundred miles away.The word "umbrella" is derived from the Latin root word "umbra", which means shade or shadowAn ear of corn consists of 80% waterLeonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona LisaOn average people fear spiders more than they do deathEvery day, over five billion gallons of water are flushed down toilets in the United StatesIn one trip, a honey bee visits about 75 flowersBarney, the famous dinosaur that entertains kids is from DallasJupiter is the fastest rotating planet, which can complete one revolution in less than ten hoursA chicken loses its feathers when it becomes stressedNutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenouslyThe first Tupperware item marketed was the seven-ounce bathroom cup in 1945Sharks are immune to cancerManicuring the nails has been done by people for more than 4,000 yearsApproximately 1 billion stamps are produced in Australia annuallyThe study of the iris of the eye is called iridologyBack in 1919, the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff made headlines by grafting monkey testicles onto human males.The word Cotton originates from the Arabic word "Qutun."In 1946, the New York Yankees became the first baseball team to travel by planeMummy powder was once thought to be a cure for all remedies. English men used to carry the powder with them in a tiny bag wherever they wentBy recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hoursSlinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springsThe most popular brand of raisins is SunmaidEstuarine crocodiles are the biggest of all 26 species of the crocodilian familyAlaska got its name from the Aluet word "Alyeska" which means "The Great Land."The Mall of America, located in Bloomington, Minnesota is so big that it can hold 24,336 school busesEvery second, 630 steel cans are recycledThe word witch comes from the word "wicca" which translates to the "wise one."If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have$1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without beingable tomake change for a dollar.In the United States, poisoning is the fourth leading cause of death among childrenSurveys indicate that the number one reason people play BINGO is for leisureIn 1916, Charlie Chaplin was making $10,000 a week, making him the highest paid actor of his timeAnnually, an Australian eats 15 kg of bananas, which comes out to 27 meters of bananasThe largest stamp was issued by China and measured 210 x 65 mmNazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicleIt's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircasesThe best selling Crayola crayon box is the set of 24 crayonsPeople that smoke have 10 times as many wrinkles as a person that does not smokeThomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?)The name of the character that is behind bars in the Monopoly board game is Jake the JailbirdIn Colorado, there are about 83,000 dairy cowsJust by recycling one aluminum can, enough energy would be saved to have a TV run for three hours.The first telephone call from the White House was from Rutherford Hayes to Alexander Graham BellTurtles can breathe through their buttsA pregnant goldfish is called a twitThe name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."A glockenspiel is a musical instrument that is like a xylophone. It has a series of metal bars and is played with two hammersTeenage suicide is the second cause of death in the state of WisconsinDiamonds were first discovered in the riverbeds of the Golconda region of India over 4,000 years ago.French artist, Michel Vienkot, uses cow dung as paint when he creates his picturesCanada is an Indian word meaning "village" or "settlement."There are 122 pebbles per square inch on a Spalding basketballThe seventeenth president of the United States, Andrew Johnson did not know how to read until he was 17 years oldThe fastest growing tissue in the human body is hairBhutan issued a stamp in 1973 that looked like a record and actually would play the Bhutanese national anthem if placed on a record playerAsparagus comes in three colors: green, white and purpleOnly two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, JohnHancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, butthe last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.Pancakes are served for breakfast, lunch and dinner in AustraliaA lion feeds once every three to four daysA honey bee has four wingsChedder cheese is the best selling cheese in the USAIn the movie "The Matrix Reloaded" a 17 minute battle scene cost over $40 million to produceAccording to research, Los Angeles highways are so congested that the average commuter sits in traffic for 82 hours a yearOver one million Pet Rocks were sold in 1975, makine Gary Dahl, of Los Gatos, California, a millionaire. He got the idea while joking with friends about his pet that was easy to take care of, which was a rockFirst novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom SawyerBecause metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plasterThe head of a jellyfish is called the "Bell."The game Monopoly has been played by approximately 500 million people in the world, and the game is available in 26 languagesThe dragonfly has not changed over the last 300 million yearsIn 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toastAverage number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7Cotton crops can be sprayed up to 40 times a year making it the most chemical-intensive crop in the worldThe "Star Spangled Banner" did not become a national anthem until 1931. It was designated by an Act of CongressEvery year in the U.S., there are 178,000 new cases of lung cancerOn average, the American household consumes six pounds of peanut butter annuallyA housefly can only ingest liquid material. They regurgitate their food to liquify the food that they are going to eatBugs Bunny was originally called "Happy Rabbit."In 1685, New France used playing cards as currency because of the shortage of coinsSharks have upper and lower eyelids, but they do not blinkThe size of a red blood cell is 708 microns. This is equivalent to one millionth of a meterIn 1657, the first chocolate house was opened in London, England. The cost of chocolate was about 13 shillings per pound and was a drink that only the elite enjoyedIn the movie "Gandhi" 300,000 extras appeared in the funeral scene. Of the 300,000, approximately 100,000 received a small fee, and the other 200,000 did it for freeO.J. Simpson had a severe case of rickets and wore leg braces when he was a childThe majority of cats do not have any eyelashesReindeer like to eat bananasA barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in relation to its sizeThe hottest chili in the world is the Tezpur chili pepperOver half the textile fibers that are used in the world are cottonYou can send a postcard from Hell. There is a small town located in the Cayman Islands called "Hell." They even have a post officeThe property (ID, Facts) VALUES on the Monopoly game board are the same today as they were in 1935The song "Happy Birthday" brings in about $2 million in licensing revenue to Warner Communications who hold the copyright to the songIn 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world'snuclear weapons combined.Ed Cox from San Francisco invented the pot scrubbing S.O.S. pads in 1917. His wife came up with the name, which stands for "Save Our Saucepans."The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."Another word for hiccups is "singultus."Better wine can be produced by the soil being of poor quality. This is because the vines have to "work" harderA white tiger can only be born when both parents carry the gene for white colouringLipogram refers to writing that does not have certain letter or lettersIn October 1986, Pepsi paid close to $840 million to Nabisco for the Kentucky Fried Chicken empireEdinburgh has more booksellers per head of population than any other city in BritainThe most common rock on Earth is basaltThe papaya tree is known as "the medicinal tree" in some cultures because it?s seeds and leaves have been used as ingredients in different medicinesA cat has 32 muscles in each earIn one gram of soil, about ten million bacteria live in itWhen Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone back in 1876, only six phones were sold in the first month.Americans eat approximately 20 pounds of pasta per person each yearDolphins sleep with one eye openMinnows have teeth located on a bone in their throatThe 20th president of the United States James Garfield could write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same timeJapan uses the most energy per year than any other country.Over 436,000 U.S. Troops were exposed to depleted uranium during the first Gulf warApproximately two gallons of water are used to brush your teethTwo-thirds of Canadians live in Quebec and OntarioThe first television show to show any portion of a toilet was on "Leave it to Beaver." After fighting for ten weeks to show the toilet, CBS would only allow the producers to show the toilet tank, and not the whole toiletTexas is the only state that is allowed to fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flagGerman immigrant, Louis Prang was the first to bring Christmas cards to AmericaIn total, Americans eat more than 45 billion sandwiches each year, while sales of custom-made sandwiches are rising 15 percent per yearNinety percent of the population has an innie belly buttonThe fear of Halloween is called SamhainophobiaIn France, the Big Dipper is called the "casserole."The first African-American to receive a Nobel Peace Prize was Ralph J. Bunche in 1950Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same timeOf all the golfers in Canada, 71.4% golfers are male, 28.6% are femaleResearch indicates that babies who suck on pacifiers are more prone to ear achesIn 1917, Margaret Sanger was jailed for one month for establishing the first birth control clinicIguanas can recognize their human handlers and greet them differently, compared with strangersBeing lactose intolerant can cause chronic flatulenceSome of the titles that were considered for the hit T.V. show "Friends" were Six Of One, Across the Hall, and Insomnia CafeThe only bone fully grown at birth is located in the earThe incidents of immune system diseases have increased by over 200% in the last five years"does": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardousBananas contain a natural chemical which can make a person happy. This same chemical is found in ProzacThe only desert in Canada is located in Osoyoos, British ColumbiaThe city of Seoul has been the capital city of Korea for more than 600 yearsRomans used to believe that walnuts could cure head ailments during the Renaissance since their shape was similar to that of a brainThere are coffee flavored PEZHalf of the 42 U.S. Presidents are of Irish descentThe General Lee cars used in the popular show The Dukes of Hazards were 1969 Dodge ChargersThe word "limelight" that is used in theatre to refer to the performers on the stage originated because before electricity was available lime was burned in a lamp, which created a white light that was directed at the performersMany hamsters only blink one eye at a timeIn Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocketIn 1988, the largest ice cream sundae in history was made. It was made in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and weighed in at over 24 tonsSports Illustrated has the largest sports magazine circulationThere are some hospitals in Shanghai that have issued a rule that a nurse must wear lipstick while on dutyThirteen percent of the human population resides in desertsThere are more chickens than people in the worldIn 1958, the Crayola crayon color "Prussian Blue" was changed to "Midnight Blue" by the request of teachers as kids could not relate to Prussian historyAmericans on average use about 580 pounds of paper per year per personWild turkeys can run at speeds of up to 25 miles per hourAnnually, fires that occur at home kill more Americans than all natural disasters combinedThe only sound Seahorses make is a small clicking or popping sound during feeding or courtshipThe Baltimore Orioles opened the 1988 baseball season by losing the first 21 games and 107 altogether for the entire seasonBorder collies are the most intelligent breed of dogTug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920There are 293 ways to make change for a dollarCoca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introducedAll the Krispy Kreme donut stores collectively could make a doughnut stack as high as the Empire State Building in only 2 minutesPepsi originally contained pepsin, (the same stuff in pepcid AC) thus the nameThe first letter Vanna White ever turned on the game show Wheel of Fortune was the letter "T."Harley Proctor got the idea to name the soap "Ivory" while he was listening to a bible reading at a church in 1879The average American drinks 400 glasses of milk in a yearCanada beat Denmark 47-0 at the 1949 world hockey championships. new111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321Each Jelly Belly jelly belly bean has 4 caloriesThe longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a starKissing can aid in reducing tooth decay. This is because the extra saliva helps in keeping the mouth cleanThere is a place called Hell, Michigan. It is about 50 miles from Detroit, MichiganIn 1929, the Coca-Cola slogan was "The Pause That Refreshes."Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 warsGoat meat contains up to 45 percent less saturated fat than chicken meatChef Boyardee is actually a real person. His real name is Hector Boiardi and he was born in northern Italy in 1898Bill Bowerman, the co-founder of the shoe company Nike, got his first shoe idea after staring at a waffle iron. This gave him the idea of using squared spikes to make the shoes lighterIn 1989, the space shuttle Discovery carried 32 fertilized chicken eggs into orbitThe most recycled product in the world is the automobile.Before the 17th century, carrots used to be the color purpleWilliam Taft who was the U.S. president between 1909-1913 once got stuck in the White House bathtubIf all the Oreo cookies ever sold were stacked on top of one another, they would be as high as 13.3 million Sears TowersAncient Egyptians kissed with their noses instead of with their lipsKrispy Kreme makes five million doughnuts a dayThe only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy RossThere were no red colored M&Ms from 1976 to 1987In 1681, the last dodo bird diedThere are over 600 different pasta shapesSome people start to sneeze if they are exposed to sunlight or have a light shined into their eyeIn 1989, twenty-three people were hired in Jacksonville Florida just to flush toilets so the pipes would not freezeLake Baikal is the oldest freshwater lake on Earth, having formed between 20 and 25 million years agoFrom 1939 to 1942, there was an undersea post office in the BahamasAn owl has three eyelidsInstead of a birthday cake, many children in Russia are given a birthday pieAtlantic salmon can jump as high as 4.5 meters out of the waterAlthough the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% waterEach nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left. However, smells can be detected more accurately when made by the left nostrilChildren who are breast fed tend to have an IQ seven points higher than children who are notEach king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king fromhistory. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts -Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and GreenlandIn the United States, approximately 135 million cars travel every day on the streets, roads, and interstates.A salmon with two mouths, two sets of teeth and two tongues was caught by Bob Bateman of CanadaThere is a "cemetery town" in California named Colma. Concerns about public health, crime, and the need for space forced the city of San Francisco to outlaw burials in 1902. The city of Colma, which is five miles south of San Francisco, was established to bury the dead. The ratio of dead to living people is 750 to 1Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donorsIn Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberriesThe most reproduced image in the world is Mickey Mouse, which can be found on over 7,500 different itemsOn average a person passes gas 14 times a dayVasaloppet, which is located in Sweden is the oldest, longest, and the biggest cross-country ski race in the world. Every year, 14,000 people compete in the raceThe clown fish has the ability to change its sex. If a breeding female dies, the male fish will change its sex and mate with another maleBats sleep during the day and feed at night. The place that bats sleep in is called the "roost."The puma and the leopard are the highest jumping mammals. They are able to reach a height of 16.5 feetThe chances of getting a cavity are higher if candy is eaten slowly throughout the day compared to eating it all at once and then brushing your teethThe 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 buildingOn average, a car driver will swear or blashpheme 32,025 times in their lifetime while drivingThe average ear grows 0.01 inches in length every yearThe first penny candy to be wrapped in America was the Tootsie Roll in 1896Buckingham Palace has over six hundred roomsMale owls weigh less and are smaller than female owlsHypnotism is banned by public schools in San DiegoThe city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the worldCows drink anywhere from 25-50 gallons of water each dayIn the United Kingdom, three million people play bingo every yearHumans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms oftheir hands.Every square inch of the human body has about 19,000,000 skin cellsIn 1994, 7-Eleven coined the term "brain freeze." The word was developed to explain the feeling people get when drinking a Slurpee.A swordfish can live as long as 25 years and weigh up to 1,200 poundsDue to eating habits in the USA, one in three children born in the year 2000 have a chance of getting type II diabetesThe world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.Each honeycomb in Honeycomb cereal has seven holesThe Nile river is 6,690 kilometers longBy law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain confidential for seventy-two yearsEighty percent of 10-year-old girls in the USA go on a diet97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaineThe name "Grey Poupon" used for mustard comes from two people: Maurice Grey and Auguste Poupon. Grey was the inventor of the machine that mass-produced finely textured mustard and Poupon was an already established maker of mustard. In 1886 the Grey-Poupon firm was formedThe Faberge, "Winter Egg" was sold in 1994 for $5.6 million. This is the most expensive decorative egg that has ever been soldThe name "Tonka" trucks were named after Lake Minnetonka located in Minnesota. Tonka means "great" in Sioux18% of an Americans income is spent on transportationFeb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moonTurkeys have a wingspan of approximately 4.5 feetThe first music video ever played on MTV Europe was by Dire Straits, "Money For Nothing."Arnold Palmer was the first player to win $1 million on the PGA TourThree years after a person quits smoking, their chance of having a heart attack is the same as someone who has never smoked beforeIn a year, the average Americans eat approximately 18 pounds of TurkeyThe household wrench was invented by boxing heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in 1922Squids move through the ocean using a jet of water forced out of the body by a siphonBack in 1796, dimes were called dismesPilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingersThe average human has about 20 square feet of skin weighing about 6 poundsMass murderer Charles Manson recorded an album titled "Lie."On average, each American consumes approximately two hundred and sixty pounds of meat in a yearThe term "The Big Apple" was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930s who used the slang expression "apple" for any town or city. Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time - The Big AppleAn apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. They all taste sweetThe United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.Decaffeinated coffee is not 100% caffeine free. When coffee is being decaffeinated, 2% of the caffeine still remains in itSales of antacids increase by as much as 20% the day after the SuperbowlAutomobile building is the largest manufacturing industry in the world.A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyesPolar bears can eat as much as ten percent of their body weight in less than one hourMarlboro was the first cigarette company to market a cigarette that had a red filter called "beauty tip." This was done to hide the lipstick marks left on the filter from women smokersIn Japan, the number four is considered to be unlucky because the Japanese word for four sounds very similar to the word deathThe life expectancy of a $100 bill is nine yearsThe words moron, imbecile, and idiot are not interchangable. The one with the highest level of intelligence is a moron, followed, by an imbecile, and then the idiotAnise is the scent on the artificial rabbit that is used in greyhound racesThe first known American novelist to hand in a manuscript that was typed was Mark Twain. His typewriter was a Remington No.1, which was invented by Christopher Sholes and Carlos Glidden.The city of Nottingham in England was the first city to have Braille signs (signs for the blind) in its shopping malls for the blindThe only woman that has appeared on a U.S. paper currency is Martha WashingtonThe name of the Taco Bell dog is GidgetEach year approximately half of billions of dollars is spent on bubble gum by the kids in North AmericaHair and fingernails are made from the same substance, keratinThe average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at nightThe number one cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetesIndia has a Bill of Rights for cowsA drink used to be made by the Aztecs for the gods which had the ingredients of ground cocoa mixed in with spices and cornIn America, the most common mental illness is Anxiety DisordersThe stage was the television sitcom "Friends" is shot on is said to be hauntedGases that build up in your large intestine cause flatulence. It usually takes about 30 to 45 minutes for these gases to pass through your systemThe largest earthworm on record was found in South Africa and measured 22 feetWhooping cranes are born with blue eyes that change to bright gold by the time they six months oldBelize is the only country in the world with a jaguar preserveTomatos were once referred to as "love apples." This is because there was a superstition that people would fall in love by eating themThe American Kestrel hawk weighs only four ouncesA 27-year-old heir to a sausage empire was handed a ticket for 116,000 pounds for driving at 80 km/hr in a 40 km/hr zone. This is because the speeding tickets in Finland are based on how much money a person makesIn China, pancakes are generally served as side dishes. They are stuffed with meat, bean sprouts, and other vegetables93% of all greeting cards are purchased by womenPaper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundryThe most deadly fires that occur in the home happen between 6 pm and 10 pmThere are over 200 parts in a typical telephoneThere is an automobile model called Stutz Bearcat.If you were standing on Mercury, the Sun would appear 2.5 times larger than it appears from EarthThe water inside of a coconut is identical to human blood plasma. Many lives in third world countries have been saved from coconut water fed through an IVThe least likely day to eat out in the United States is MondayLittle Miss Muffet was a girl from the 16th century whose name was really PatienceIn 1978, the World Water Speed record was made by Ken Warby from Australia. His average speed was 317.6 mph, and his jet-powered hydroplane was 27 feet long called "Spirit of Australia." Warby built the boat himself in his back yardAmericans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every secondPeople who study laughter are called "gelotologists."Adolf Hitler was one of the people that were responsible for the creation of the Volkswagen Beetle. He came up with the idea of producing a car that was cheap enough for the average German working man to afford.Chameleons can move their eyes independently. One eye can be looking forward and one eye backward at the same timeBruce Lee was so fast, that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That is the opposite of the normOver 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stressIn 1953, racecar driver Tim Flock raced at Nascar with a monkey in the seat beside himTaipan snakes have 50 times more toxic than a cobra snakeInfluenza caused over twenty-one million deaths in 1918English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvyUkrainian people celebrate Christmas on January 7th, which is the Orthodox Christmas DayGorillas are considered apes, not monkeys. The way to distinguish between an ape and a monkey is that apes do not have tailsEarly Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicksThe longest human beard on record is 17.5 feet, held by Hans N. Langseth who was born in Norway in 1846Honey is used sometimes for antifreeze mixtures and in the center of golf ballsThe size of a raindrop is around 0.5 mm - 2.5 mm, and they fall from the sky on average 21 feet per second.In the United States, the first cookbook was published in 1796 and it contained a recipe for watermelon rind picklesThe word "walkman" was included in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1986A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherriesThere is an area located off the south-eastern Atlantic coast of the United States called the "Bermuda Triangle." It is known for a high rate of unexplained losses of ships, small boats, and aircraft, which has led some people to believe that this triangle has supernatural powersThe state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: AlaskaSome toothpaste and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreezeThe Shroud of Turin is the single most studied artifact in human historySmartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collie; 2) Poodle; 3) Golden retrieverThe sperm count of an average American male compared to thirty years ago is down thirty percentHumpback whales are capable of living up to 95 years1912, a wrestling match in Stockholm between Finn Alfred Asikainen and Russian Martin Klein lasted more than 11 hours. Klein eventually won but was too tired to participate in the championship matchManitoulin Island is the largest island in a fresh water lake. It is located in Canadian Lake SuperiorCost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400The Chinese politician Mao Zedong refused to ever brush his teeth and instead just washed his mouth with teaThe Super Bowl is broadcast to over 182 countries in the worldBanging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hourIn 1884, Dr. Hervey D. Thatcher invented the milk bottle.Some Ribbon worm will eat themselves if they cannot find food. This type of worm can still survive after eating up to 95% of its body weightThe only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."Singer Chaka Khan came out with a line of chocolates called "Chakalates."In a day 34,000 children die every day from causes that are related to poverty and hunger