Factoids......just in case you were wondering: * All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20. * On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. * If she were life size, Barbie's measurements are: 39-23-33. * No word in the English language rhymes with month, 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. * 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. * The longest place-name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai- wenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill. * Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" 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 Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children. * The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its 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 that 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 left hand. * Conception occurs more often in December than any other month? * Only 14% of Americans say they've been skinny dipping with the opposite sex. What is it? * What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS, from every other TV show? -- No theme song/music. * Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. * Most boat owners name their boats. The most popular boat name requested is Obsession. * More women wash their hands in the bathroom than men. Women ~ 80% Men ~ 55% * 100% of all lottery winners gain weight. * In a recent survey, Americans revealed that banana was their favorite smell. * If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? -- One thousand * Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women. * Married men revealed that they change their underwear twice as often as single men. * A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals causing relaxation. Women seem to like it light and frequent, men like it more strenuous. * The only food that doesn't spoil is Honey. * There are more collect calls on Fathers Day than any other day of the year. * What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is most ironic? -- He was allergic to carrots. * 40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet. * 3.9% of all women surveyed say they never wear underwear. * What common everyday occurrence is composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen and 9% dioxide? -- A fart. * About 1/3 of all Americans say they flush the toilet while sitting? * What person, not a "Seinfeld" regular cast member, is featured on every episode of "Seinfeld"? -- Superman, either by name or pictures on Jerry's refrigerator. * 85% of the guys who die while having sex are cheating on their wives. * It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know today as the "honeymoon." * In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's." * Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle," is the phrase inspired by this practice. * In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes - when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "good night, sleep tight" came from. * The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications) * The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. * When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror. * 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 "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." * The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. * An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. * The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P. * The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. * Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. * No NFL team, which plays its home games in a domed stadium, has ever won a Super Bowl. * The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver." * Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. * In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license. * It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs. * Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. * There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun. * The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1. * The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. * When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year. * Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka. * On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. * In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. * A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death. * A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair. * The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. * A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear. * 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. * Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. * Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. * More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. * Shakespeare invented the word "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 do. * The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. * The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. * TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. * If the population of China walked past you in a single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. * The words "racecar" and "kayak" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. * A snail can sleep for 3 years. * American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class. * China has more English speakers than the United States. * The electric chair was invented by a dentist. * Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres. * The longest town name in the world has 167 letters. * Did you know 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. [does that mean that "I Do" is the longest sentence?] * The longest word in the English language is 1,909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA. * No president of the United States was an only child. * The 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 emergencies.