Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32.
So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is
estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction!
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.
"I do." is the shortest (long) sentence in the English language.
Don McLean's song, "American Pie" was named after the plane
Buddy Holly died in.
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.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the
shutter on backwards.
Captain Kirk never said 'Beam me up, Scotty,' but he did say, 'Beam me up,
Mr. Scott'.
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Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at
the same height as the U.S. flag - and Texas may divide itself into 5
smaller states at any time.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end
in an "A" is Afghanistan.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
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.'
Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with
"Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six
minutes.
Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who
fathered over 160 children.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms
which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
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"Hang On Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.
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."
Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he
had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in
Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5:00 pm.
All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were
chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the
morning and been too sleepy to realize that *this* was the day of the
changeover.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Doctor Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "
rejoice."
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
There are coffee flavored PEZ.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter
is uncopyrightable.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is
from ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye
gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be
disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.
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The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase
"Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was
host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as
does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks
like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's
Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you
are entitled to receive ten cents from the town.
