| 1. Rubber bands last longer when
refrigerated.
2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of
dynamite.
3. There are 293 ways to make change for a
dollar.
4. The average person's left hand does 56% of
the typing.
5. A shark is the only fish that can blink
with both eyes.
6. There are more chickens than people in the
world.
7. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown
in New Jersey.
8. The longest one-syllable word in the
English language is Screeched.
9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag
flying over the Parliament
buildings is
an American flag. (Though the bill's now been
replaced
by a $2 coin!)
10. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp
Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
11. No word in the English language rhymes
with month, orange,
silver,
or purple.
12. "Dreamt" is the only English word that
ends in the letters "mt".
13. All 50 states are listed across the top of
the Lincoln Memorial on
the back of the
$5 bill.
14. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
15. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies'
room during a dance.
16. Maine is the only state whose name is just
one syllable.
17. There are only four words in the English
language which end in
"dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
18. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de
Nuestra Senora la Reina
de los Angeles
de Porciuncula"
~Author
Unknown~
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