The most popular boat name
requested is Obsession.
The muzzle of a lion is like a
fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
The name Jeep came from the
abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The name Wendy was made up for the
book "Peter Pan."
The oldest business in the United
States of America is the Avedis Zildjian Cymbal Company. which was founded by
Avedis Zildjian in Constantinople in 1623.
The only 15 letter word that can be
spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
The only two days of the year in
which there are no professional sports events (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the
day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
The 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 whites.
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.
The plastic things on the end of
shoelaces are called aglets.
The Ramses brand condom is named
after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
The reason firehouses have circular
stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The
horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight
staircases.
The right lung takes in more air
than the left.
The San Francisco Cable cars are
the only mobile National Monuments
The six official languages of the
United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is
present at all important meetings of the University of London
Why do ostriches bury their heads
in the sand? They actually don't. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period
of eighty years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head
in the sand (or attempted to do so).
You burn more calories sleeping
than you do watching television.
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