-The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

-Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

-Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

-The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

-American car horns beep in the tone of F.

-No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

-Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

-Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

-The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

-The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

-A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.

-American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

-Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

-Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

-The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

-The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

-Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

-The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

-Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

-Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.

-Pearls melt in vinegar.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

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 staircases.

- In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

- Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo"

- Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

- There are 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.

- Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.

- When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.

- The Bible has been translated into Klingon.

- Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.

- Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

- Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

- 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.

- Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.

- Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.

- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

- Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.

- According to one study, 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament in their yard.

A multitude of weird things that you probably didn't know:


All porcupines float in water.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Studies show that if a cat falls off the 7th floor of a building, it has about 30% less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the 20th floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive.

Cat's urine glows under UV light.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

A whale's penis is called a dork.

If a statue in a park is of a person on a horse that has both front legs in the air, then the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

Starfishes have no brains.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside

Sometimes when you cry no one sees your tears...

Sometimes when you are worried no one sees your pain...

Sometimes when you are happy no one sees your smile...

But fart just one time...

Interesting Facts (With Interesting Comments)
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months,
enough gas is produced to create the
energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
(Oh my God...!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life I want to be a pig)

A cockroach will live nine days without
its head before it starves to death.
(Creepy.) (I'm still not over the pig)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
(Do not try this at home .. maybe at work)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate
while its head is attached to its body.
The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
("Honey, I'm home. What the....")

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What can be so tasty on the bottom of the pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life
... quality over quantity.)

Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmm........)

Right-handed people live, on average,
nine years longer than left-handed people do.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.
(OK, so that would be a good thing....)

A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out.)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains.
(I know some people like that too.)

Humans and dolphins are the only species
that have sex for pleasure.
(What about the pig?)

Langs de snelweg stond dit bord:
- U kijkt niet naar de weg!

A Malaysian monkey that has been trained to gather coconuts
from trees demonstrated a pressing need for retraining when
it leaped on to the shoulders of a passer-by in Kuala Lumpur
and tried to twist his head off.

As any experienced conversationalist can tell you, ambiguity
is the key to winning any argument. Following are a few
popular proverbs and counter-proverbs that will allow you to
turn a conversation in any direction you want. Who can argue
with the wit and wisdom of our fore fathers, or even our five
fathers?


Actions speak louder than words.
The pen is mightier than the sword.

Look before you leap.
He who hesitates is lost.

Many hands make light work.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Clothes make the man.
Don't judge a book by its cover.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Better safe than sorry.

The bigger, the better.
The best things come in small packages.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Out of sight, out of mind.

What will be, will be.
Life is what you make it.

Cross your bridges when you come to them.
Forewarned is forearmed.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
One man's meat is another man's poison.

With age comes wisdom.
Out of the mouths of babes come all wise sayings.

The more, the merrier.
Two's company; three's a crowd.
ANCIENT CHINESE PROVERBS

Man who farts in church
sits in own pew.

Foolish man give wife grand piano;
wise man give wife upright organ.

Man with one chop stick
go hungry.

Passionate kiss like spider's web:
soon lead to undoing of fly.

Man who eat many prunes
get good run for money.

Man who lives in glass house
should change clothes in basement.

On the other hand, the French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.

The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.

The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.

Conclusion:

Eat & drink what you like. It's speaking English that kills you.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire.

It's always darkest before dawn, so if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.

It takes many nails to build crib, but only one screw to fill it.

All my life I said I wanted to be somebody...I can see now that I should have been more specific.

The proper response to "Good morning" is not "Prove it!"

Our goal to promote a non-threatening and productive office environment is to establish language that is gender-neutral, ethnic-neutral, and age-neutral while celebrating our spirit of diversity.

"If you help a relative in need, he/she will remember you the next time they are in need."

Four things can never come back: time past, the spoken word, the sped arrow and a missed opportunity.

A most frustrated fellow was the man who bought a new boomerang and had a terrible time throwing the old one away.

Things That Are Difficult to Say When You're Drinking:

Indubitably; Innovative; Preliminary; Proliferation; Cinnamon.

Things That Are VERY Difficult to Say When You're Drinking:

Specificity; Cogito ergo sum; British; Constitution; Passive-aggressive disorder; Loquacious; Transubstantiate.

Things That Are Downright IMPOSSIBLE to Say When You're Drinking:

Nope, no more beer for me; Sorry, but you're not really my
type; Good evening, officer, isn't it lovely out tonight?
Oh, I just couldn't--no one wants to hear me sing!

It is said that when you tell an Englishman a joke, he will
laugh three times. First - when you tell it, to be polite.
Second - when you explain it, to be polite. And third - in
the middle of the night when he wakes up and finally gets it.

When you tell a German the same joke, he will laugh twice.
First - when you tell it, to be polite. And second - when
you explain it, to be polite. He won't laugh a third time
because he will never get it.

When you tell an American the same joke he won't laugh at
all. Instead he will say, "It's an old joke and besides,
you tell it all wrong!"

A window salesman phoned a customer. "Hello, Mr. Brown," said
the Sales Rep, "I'm calling because our company replaced all
the windows in your house with our triple-glazed weather-tight
windows over a year ago, and you still haven't sent us a
single payment."

The customer replied, "But you said they'd pay for THEMSELVES
in 12 months!"

Two wrongs don't make a right, but two Wrights do make an airplane.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

NOTICE:
TO THE PERSON OR PERSONS WHO TOOK THE LARGE
PUMPKIN ON HIGHWAY 87 NEAR SOUTHRIDGE STORAGE:
PLEASE RETURN THE PUMPKIN AND BE CHECKED.
PUMPKIN MAY BE RADIOACTIVE.
ALL OTHER PLANTS IN VICINITY ARE DEAD.

EXERCISE EQUIPMENT:
QUEEN SIZE MATTRESS & BOX SPRINGS -$175.

KELLOGG'S POT TARTS - $1.99 box

FULLY COOKED BONELESS SMOKED MAN - $2.09 lb.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

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.

A snail can sleep for three years.

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left-handed.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

You tried to lick your elbow, didn't you?

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.