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The USDA allows a maximum of six maggot eggs or partial carcasses in every can of canned mushrooms.
The rectal temperature of the Icelandic codfish is 34 degrees F.
A dog's sense of smell is so powerful that it can actually sniff out potential cancer in a person
When the Ku Klux Klan first started the original idea was for them to wear a white sheep. But a clerical error was made and the supplies department ordered 500 white sheets by mistake.
In Tennessee, it's illegal for a female to drive a motor vehicle, unless there's a man on the hood of the car, with a shot gun which is used to shoot off rounds of ammunition to alert oncoming drivers that there is a women at the wheel.
Anytime you come to a crossroad; you have to shoot your gun, waive a lantern, and blow the horn. It's to warn anyone approaching that you have an automobile so that you don't scare their horse. I guess if you don't have a gun, you shouldn't be driving.
The most misspelled word: Remember. Well, according to my spell check it is. At least, to the best that I can remebre.
Pete Rose wrote a book, "How to play baseball", and stated that Ty Cobb had a lifetime batting average of .367. He said that it would never be repeated, and players would have trouble achieving .300, and will never again get to .333. The next year, Rod Carew retired with a lifetime batting average of .333.
Miss Piggy's measurements are 27-20-32
Starburst candy had to change it's slogan from "The Juice is Loose" to "Turn up the Juice" because of the OJ Simpson fiasco
In 1917, the Montreal Warriors of the National Hockey league had what is probably the worst run of bad luck in the history of hockey. After winning their opening game, they proceeded to lose games 2 thru 6, and then their stadium burned down, ending the team's existence.
In medieval times, a primitive form of biological warfare was used, called trebuchet. A catapult would fling a dead, rotting animal carcass into enemy territory, spreading disease.
Abraham Lincon signed the legislation to create the Secret Service on April 14, 1865, the same day he was shot
The closest living relative of the t-rex is the chicken
Officials in the Philipines requested a free print of Dirty Harry from Warner Brothers to use as a training film for their police
The phrase "See you next monday" appears in one form or another in every film directed by John Landis
The longest section in the "American Dictionary of Slang" is devoted to vomit.
Every Israeli woman must serve 2 years in th army before attending university
If it were possible to sneeze with your eyes open, they would pop out of their sockets
The RCMP's first tracking dog was named Dale
Jack Simplot has provided potatoes to McDonalds since the chain began. he is now the richest man in Idaho
In 1980, Mr. Scott Fahlman invented the smiley face emoticon :-)
The Sleeping Prophet, Edgar Cayce, claimed that baldness could be cured by washing your hair with three-day-old coffee grinds, followed by a dousing of crude oil.
The Royal Canadian Air Force won the 1948 Olympic Gold medal for hockey
John Molson built Canada's first steamboat in 1809
The Granny Smith apple originated in 1869 when Maria Ann Smith planted seeds rotting in a gin barrel in New Sout Wales
Shakespeare stole the line "Love is blind" from Geoffrey Chaucer
The Jordanian city of Amman was once named Philadelphia
"The Roosevelt Bears" is the only comic strip to ever run in the New York Times
Jaques Edwin Bradenberger invented cellophane in 1908
This is probably outdated but the last time I checked the most stolen car in America was a white four door Honda Accord.
In the original story, Cinderella's slippers were made out of fur, they were changed to glass in the 1600's by a translator not only was the slipper made of fur but the evil stepsisters cut off their toes in order to try and fit their feet into the slipper.
Even though it is widely attributed to him Shakespeare never actually used the word "gadzooks".
Despite what is seen in cheesy 70s monster bug movies insects don't see one image for each facet. It's more like a highly pixelated single image. This helps in detecting motion.
The mathematically calculated speed of gravity has to be at LEAST 10 billion times c. In all of the math formulas for determining gravity not a single one takes c into account.
About 54% of Americans consider themselves fans of Star Trek. Not trekkies, just fans.
The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.
"Lip-Smacking Good: A San Francisco Chronicle feature alerted readers to the problem of people addicted to lip balm, especially Chapstick Brand. According to one addict who studied the problem, Chapstick ingredients fuse with the skin, requiring constant reuse. Another source cited a better nonaddictive lip balm: a person's own nose oil, which is reported to have been used by watchmakers for years to lubricate tiny gears."
Stewardesses and reverberated are the two longest words (12 letters each) that can be typed using only the left hand. The longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is lollipop. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why
In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
Australia has more types of mosquitos than any other country
The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
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 sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode 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 contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning, "containing arsenic."
The shape of plant collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons.
The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'. The abbreviation for the British Pound Sterling comes from the same source: it is an 'L' for Libra/Lb. with a stroke through it to indicate abbreviation. Same goes for the Italian lira, which uses the same abbreviation ('lira' coming from 'libra'). So British currency (before it went metric) was always quoted as "pounds/shillings/pence", abbreviated "L/s/d" (libra/solidus/denarius).
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
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. {Excellent! Hope that the US Army still has a few in inventory! Why do I have this vision of some poor schmuck soldier getting stuck with 'mule duty'... there they are, out in the desert of Iraq together, both wearing camo and night vision goggles...?? }
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
All porcupines float in water
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
The world's largest wine cask is in Heidelberg, Germany.
St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers
The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was "Rock the Casba" by the Clash.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanastan.
The names of the three wise monkeys are Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror
In Connorsville, Wisconsin no man shall shoot of a gun while his female partner is having a sexual orgasm.
Medicine Hat (Alberta, Canada) is home to the worlds largest Teepee
During the heat of the space race in the 1960s, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of about US $1 million. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on earth. The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors
Another interesting fact is that Coca-Cola used to be colored green (probably from the cocaine leaf)
In Kingsville, Texas, there is a law against two pigs having sex on the city's airport property.
The names of the 50 states used up just about every letter in the alphabet except the letter Q.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over-mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
What is the difference between a wharf and a pier you ask? A pier runs perpendicular to the shoreline, while a wharf runs parallel to the shoreline
Australia is home to the koala bear, the platypus, and the kangaroo, but not one active volcano or glacier. It is the only continent that lacks either one.
Wild horses in America are not really wild, they are feral. Hernando Cortez first brought the first horses to America in 1518. He brought 17 horses with him. Before Cortez, an ancestor of the horse migrated to the Americas 10,000 years ago, but they died out long before anyone thought about using them as we do the modern horse.
That stuff you find on the keyboard and covering your mouse ball is not called gunk, the technical name is candy.
The length of the finger dictates how fast the fingernail grows. Therefore, the nail on your middle finger grows the fastest, and on average, your toenails grow twice as slow as your finger-nails
There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
In 1984, a New Jersey man opened a summer camp for Cabbage Patch dolls.
You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.
In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary formally married her 50-pound pet rock.
In 1980, the Yellow Pages accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under frozen foods.
In 1977, a 13-year-old boy discovered a tooth growing on his left foot.
In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
In the early '80s, a toad was discovered that meows instead of croaking.
In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
In 1681, the last dodo bird died.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
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