Amazing Facts And Figures

	Amazing Facts And Figures - (Submitted By Yoda & Lindsey)!!

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001	27% of Americans believe we never landed on the moon.
002	52% of Americans drink coffee.
003	55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
004	27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
005	56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball games each year
006	67 million pounds of pesticides and about 3 million tons of fertilizer are used annually on lawns in the US.
007	90% of New York City cab drivers are recently arrived immigrants.
008	85,000,000 tons of paper are used in the United States each year.
009	28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.
010	99% of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as jack-o-lanterns.
011	The abbreviation "ORD" for Chicago's O'Hare airport comes from the old name "Orchard Field."
012	The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii
013	166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the United States.
014	A 7-year study, which concluded in the summer of 2000, found that 33 U.S. deaths were caused by rottweilers, pit bulls were responsible for 27 deaths.
015	A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.
016	A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
017	The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
018	Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
019	"Corduroy" comes from the French, "cord du roi" or "cloth of the king."
020	The slash character is called a virgule, or solidus. A URL uses slash characters, not back slash characters.
021	The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
022	The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
023	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."
024	The English word with the most consonants in a row is latchstring.
025	The word "robot" was created by Karel Capek. It came from Czech/Slovak "robotovat," which means to work very hard.
026	The only word that consists of two letters, each used three times is the word "deeded."
027	A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.
028	The highest scoring word in the English language game of Scrabble is 'Quartzy'. This will score 164 points if played across a red triple-word square with the Z on a light blue double-letter square. It will score 162 points if played across two pink double-word squares with the Q and the Y on those squares. 'Bezique' and 'Cazique' are next with a possible 161 points. All three words score an extra 50 points for having seven letters and therefore emptying the letter rack in one go.
029	The stress in Hungarian words always falls on the first syllable.
030	The word "karate" means "empty hand."
031	The word "girl" appears only once in the Bible.
032	The abbrevation "PDX" (Portland International Airport) is derived from "P" standing for Portland and "DX" meaning long distance or wide reaching.
033	Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
034	A H I M O T U V W X Y are the symmetric capital letters in the Roman alphabet. i l o t u v w x are the symmetric lower case letters in the Roman alphabet.
035	All Hebrew orignating names that end with the letters "el" have something to do with God. Source: Joshua Allen
036	The 'v' in the name of a court case does not stand for 'versus', but for 'and' (in civil proceedings) or 'against' (in criminal proceedings).
037	The term, honeymoon, is derived from the Babylonians who declared mead, a honey-flavored wine, the official wedding drink, stipulating that the bride's parents be required to keep the groom supplied with the drink for the month following the wedding; that month became known as the honeymonth, hence our honeymoon. Source: Bryan Giese
038	"Rhythm" and "syzygy" are the longest English words without vowels.
039	A googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Mathematician Edward Kasner supposedly asked his nephew Milton Sirotta to suggest a name for the number, and he came up with this word.
040	The national anthem of the Netherlands "Het Wilhelmus," is an 'acrostichon.' The first letters of each of the fifteen verses represent the name "Willem Van Nassov" (old spelling.) Source: Albert Siersema
041	A grasshopper needs a minimum temperature of 62 degrees Fahrenheit in order to be able to hop.
042	A group od geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group in the air is a skein.
043	A group of crows is called a murder.
044	A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.
045	A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
046	A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
047	A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.
048	The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. It is a a pneumoconiosis caused by the inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
049	A hedgehog's heart beats 190 times a minute on average and drops to only 20 beats per minute during hibernation.
050	A hedgehog's skin is so tough that when they get run over, its entrails come out of its mouth and its ass.
051	A foal is a baby horse.
052	A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
053	The term "devil's advocate"comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should become a saint, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.
054	A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
055	A full-grown pumpkin has about 15 miles of roots.
056	A ghost writer pens an anonymous book.
057	A giant squid has eyes that can grow up to 20 inches in diameter. (Now think of how big your computer screen is..)
058	A giraffe and rat can go longer without water than a camel can.
059	A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. i know some people who can do some amazing stuff too.
060	A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
061	A herd of forty-five thirsty, rambunctious elephants stampeded into a brewery in Midnapore, where they smashed vats and slurped up beer in a bender that went on for two days.
062	"Xmas" does not begin with the Roman letter X. It begins with the Greek letter "chi," which was used in medieval manuscripts as an abbreviation for the word "Christ" (xus=christus, etc.)
063	A hinny is the offspring of a female donkey.
064	A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
065	A hippopotamus can run faster than a man can.
066	A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
067	There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere therein, herein.
068	A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey
069	"Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when your talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil"
070	A honey bee travels an estimated 43,000 miles to gather one pound of honey. A pound of honey consists of 29,184 drops.
071	A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
072	The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streeets in Rome (or some other Italian place), they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of "trivia."
073	A horse can sleep standing up.
074	A Horse has 18 more bones than a Human.
075	Hydroxydesoxycorticosteroneandhydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
076	A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
077	There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
078	A human has a bone just after the spine ends, which helps proves that humans once had tails (possibly).
079	A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.
080	Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
081	A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times in one second or over 5000 times a minute.
082	A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
083	A jellyfish is 95 percent water, and humans around 70%
084	The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are "screeched" and "strengths." Source: Michael Baraz
085	The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".
086	'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
087	The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
088	The second longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is "floccinaucinihilipilification," which means "the act of estimating as worthless."
089	Sheriff came from Shire Reeve. During early years of monarchial rule in England, each shire had a reeve who was the law for that shire. When the term was brought to the United States it was shortned to Sheriff.
090	The third longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".
091	The longest muscle name is the "levator labiisuperioris alaeque nasi" and Elvis popularized it with his lip motions.
092	A human's scent membrane in the nose is about the size of a postage stamp. A dog's is about the size of a handkerchief. It's olfactory lobe is also 4 times that of a humanThanx liz chell
093	'Stewardesses' and 'reverberated' are the two longest words (12 letters each) that can be typed using on the left hand.
094	The longest word that can be typed using on the right hand is 'lollipop'.
095	'Skepticisms' is the longest word that can be typed using alternate hands.
096	One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'
097	One out of every eight letters used in written English is an e. Source: "2201 Fascinating Facts"
098	Alma mater means bountiful mother.
099	No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
100	The language Malayalam, spoken in parts of India, is the only language whose name is a palindrome.
101	The words 'sacrilegious' and 'religion' do not share the same etymological root.
102	The phrase "sleep tight" originated when mattresses were set upon ropes woven through the bed frame. To remedy sagging ropes, one would use a bed key to tighten the rope.
103	No word in the English language rhymes with month.
104	"Evian" spelled backwards is naive.
105	The word denim comes from 'deNimes', or from Nimes, a place in France.
106	Dublin comes from the Irish Dubh Linn which means Blackpool.
107	Scottish is the language called Gaelic, whereas Irish is actually called Gaeilge.
108	"Freelance" comes from a knight whose lance was free for hire, i.e. not pledged to one master.
109	The term "Mayday" used for signaling for help after (SOS), it comes from the French term "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MayDay" and means, "Help Me"
110	The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have 1 syllable... it has three.
111	"Bookkeeper" and "bookkeeping" are the only words in the English language with three consecutive double letters.
112	When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."
113	Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle.
114	AM and PM stand for "Ante-Meridian" and "Post-Meridian," respectively, and A.D. actually stands for "Anno Domini" rather than "After Death."
115	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.
116	Lucifer is latin for "Light Bringer". It is a translation of the Hebrew name for Satan, Halael. Satan Means "adversary", devil means "liar".
117	Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
118	The heraldic term "gules", meaning red, comes from the French word "gueules", meaning a throat.
119	The "D" in D-day means "Day". The French term for "D-Day" is "J-jour".
120	The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is 'angstschreeuw'.
121	There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
122	The letters H I O X in the latin alphabet is the only ones that look the same if you turn them upside down or see them from behind.
123	There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
124	The youngest letters in the English language are "j," "v" and "w."
125	The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one end point is P.
126	The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
127	"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
128	"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
129	There are only three words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum and continuum.
130	The first letters of the names of the Great Lakes spell HOMES.
131	The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON.
132	The oldest word in the English language is "town"
133	The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."
134	The word "Boondocks" comes from the Tagalog (Filipino) word "Bundok," which means mountain.
135	Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
136	The "Nullarbor" in Nullarbor Desert in Western Australia is a Latin name; Null=No, Arbor=Trees.
137	The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
138	"Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting."
139	The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
140	The word "moose" was originally Algonquin.
141	The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
142	The ampersand (&) is actually a stylised version of the Latin word "et," meaning and."
143	The word "hangnail" comes from Middle English:ang- (painful) + nail. Nothing to do with hanging.
144	QANTAS, the name of the Australian national airline, is a (former) acronym, for Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service.
145	The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
146	The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.'
147	No modern language has a true concept of "I am." It is always used linked with are in reference of another verb.
148	The naval rank of "Admiral" is derived from the Arabic phrase "amir al bahr", which means "lord of the sea"
149	In Chinese, the words for crisis and opportunity are the same.
150	German has a word for the peace offerings brought to your mate when you've committed some conceived slight. This is "drachenfutter" or dragon's food.
151	The Chinese ideogram for "trouble" symbolizes "two women living under one roof".
152	The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
153	Swahili is acombination of African tribal languages, Arabic and Portuguese.
154	The abbreviation for pound, "lb.," comes from the astrological sign Libra, meaning balance, and symbolized by scales.
155	The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
156	The native tribe of Tierradel Fuego has a language so guttural it cannot have an alphabet.
157	The Greek version of the Old Testament is called the Septuagint.
158	Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don't.
159	A flea can jump 350 times is own body length. (say..you jumping the length of a soccer field)
160	"Anorgasmy" is the clinical term for the inability to achieve orgasm.
161	Taco Bell changed the Chilito's name to the Chili Cheese Burrito, only after discovering that "chilito" was a derogatory slang term in Spanish that meant "small penis."
162	A law in Fairbanks, Alaska does not allow moose to have sex on city streets.
163	About 50% of women have one breast that is larger than the other.
164	In many cultures, an unmarried woman is considered a virgin, even if she's a prostitute. It's only after marriage that she loses her virginity.
165	Studies prove it?s harder to tell a convincing lie to someone you find sexually attractive.
166	Ancient Greeks admired the small firm penis, and considered the large member aesthetically unappealing.
167	66% pet owners claim they allowed their pets to remain in the bedroom during lovemaking.
168	Average number of times a man will ejaculate in his lifetime: 7,200.
169	Average speed of male ejaculation: 28 miles per hour.
170	Odors that increase blood flow to the penis: lavender, licorice, chocolate, doughnuts, pumpkin pie.
171	The average person swallows three spiders annually.
172	The average teaspoon of semen contains 5-7 calories.
173	A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peels and raisins.
174	Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
175	Two out of five husbands tell their wife daily that they love them.
176	George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
177	Odds of being killed by falling out of bed- 1 in 2 million.
178	The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
179	The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota is the size of 78 football fields --- 9.5 million square feet.
180	Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
181	Beaver Cleaver's locker number was #9
182	The origin of the word "penis" is Latin, meaning "tail."
183	Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
184	The most collect calls are made on Father's Day.
185	About 100 calories are burned during human sexual intercourse.
186	"Passion purpura" is the medical term for a hickey.
187	The word "vanilla" comes from the Latin word for vagina, because of the vanilla pod's resemblance to the female genitalia.
188	The left testicle usually hangs lower than the right, although the reverse may be true of left-handed men.
189	10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
190	In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver inside a tollbooth.
191	More than 110 billion Tampax tampons have been sold since 1936.
192	The word "gymnasium" comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means "to exercise naked."
193	The well-recognized Egyptian Ankh is actually a symbol representing the male and female sex organs the upper oval represents the womb of the woman, and the lower vertical line represents the sexual organ of the male.
194	Adcomsubordcomphibspac" is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command.
195	The clinical term for a hairy buttocks is "daysypgal."
196	A Tremonton, Utah law states that no woman is allowed to have sex with a man while riding in an ambulance.
197	An adulterous Greek male was sometimes punished by the removal of his pubic hair and the insertion of a large radish into his rectum.
198	It takes just 35 days for a mouse to reach sexual maturity. It takes a female gorilla six years to reach sexual maturity.
199	The first automatic vibrator was invented in 1869 and was steam powered. It was used to treat female disorders.
200	According to Kinsey, half of the men raised on farms have had a sexual encounter with an animal.
201	The gestation period of the macaque is 160 days. For sheep, it?s 150 days. For dogs, it?s 61 days.
202	"Erotodromomania" is the abnormal impulse to travel to escape painful sexual situations.
203	The Netherlands has the lowest incidence of teen pregnancies, abortions and sexually transmitted diseases among Western nations.
204	In 1709 it was believed that the widespread infertility of Spanish women was due to singing during sex.
205	Ultrasound tests have revealed that male fetuses have the capability for erections in the last trimester of gestation.
206	In Oxford, Ohio, it's illegal for a woman to strip off her clothing while standing in front of a man's picture.
207	A fly hums in the middle octave, key F.
208	"Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.
209	A fly always jumps backwards for a quick getaway when you try to hit it.
210	A flock of sheep grazed during Woodrow Wilson's term. Their wool was sold to raise money for the Red Cross during World War I.
211	"Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when you're talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil."
212	A five and a half year old weighing 250 pounds was exhibited at a meeting of the Physical Society of Vienna on December 4, 1894. She ate a normal diet and was otherwise in good health. The problem: she wasn't able to sweat.
213	A fish's memory span is 3 seconds.
214	A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
215	A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
216	A female swine or sow will always have an even number of teats or nipples.
217	A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
218	A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
219	A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.
220	A father Emperor penguin withstands the Antarctic cold for 60 days or more to protect his eggs, which he keeps on his feet, covered with a feathered flap. During this entire time he doesn't eat a thing. Most father penguins lose about 25 pounds while they wait for their babies to hatch. Afterward, they feed the chicks a special liquid from their throats. When the mother penguins return to care for the young, the fathers go to sea to eat and rest.
221	A fagot is a bundle of sticks or a bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be shaped by rolling or hammering at high temperature.
222	A Fag is to work hard or to tire by strenuous activity and cigarettes are sometimes called Fags
223	A dragonfly is also known as "devil's darning needle", "horse stinger" and "devil's steelyard".
224	A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
225	A dragonfly can fly 25 mph.
226	A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule will not.
227	A dog can hear high frequency sounds, which a human ear cannot.
228	A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.
229	A device invented sometime around the time of the birth of Jesus as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero is used today as a rotating sprinkler.
230	A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
231	A bathometer is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel.
232	A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar, or it could just sit down on and enjoy that honey properly.
233	A bat is the only mammal that flies.
234	A beaver's teeth never stop growing.
235	A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell
236	A bibliophile is a collector of rare books. A bibliopole is a seller of rare books.
237	A Baboon called "Jackie" became a private in the South African army in World War I.
238	A acre of coffee trees can produce up to 10,000 pounds of coffee cherries. That amounts to approximately 2000 pounds of beans after hulling or milling.
239	A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
240	A Blue Earth, Minnesota, law declares that no child under the age of twelve may talk over the telephone unless monitored by a parent.
241	A 6 pound sea-hare can lay 40,000eggs in a single minute.
242	A 17 year old girl from Miami, Florida started to sneeze on 4th January'66 ant continued till 8th June'66.
243	A 14-year old French girl had extraordinary electrical power. With a gentle touch she could knock over heavy pieces of furniture and people in physical contact with her received an electrical shock.
244	A 10-gallon hat actually only holds about 3/4 gallon.
245	A 1.5 oz. milk chocolate bar has only 220 calories. A 1.75 oz. serving of potato chips has 230 calories.
246	A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.
247	A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.
248	A "jiffy" is actually a proper time unit for 1/100th of a second
249	The word "queueing" is the only English word with five consecutive vowels.
250	The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate." (MOdulateDEModulate)
251	"Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.
252	The shortest French word with all five vowels is "oiseau" meaning bird.
253	Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
254	The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
255	The only word in the English language with all five vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental."
256	"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.
257	"Second string," meaning "replacement or backup," comes from the middle ages. An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke.
258	"Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
259	"Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between.
260	"Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.
261	"Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
262	"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
263	"Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.
264	"Fickleheaded" and "fiddledeedee" are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet.
265	"Flushable" toilets were in use in ancient Rome.
266	"Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.
267	"Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
268	"Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.
269	"Hang on Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.
270	"Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.
271	Kemo Sabe, meaning an all knowing one, is actually a mispronunciation by Native American of the Spanish phrase, Quien lo Sabe, meaning one who knows."
272	The lunula is the half-moon shaped pale area at the bottom of finger nails.
273	"Ma is as selfless as I am" can be read the same way backwards. If you take away all the spaces you can see that all the letters can be spelled out both ways.
274	"Mad About You" star Paul Reiser plays the piano on the show's theme song.
275	"One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
276	A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.
277	A body decomposes four times as fast in water than on land.
278	A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
279	A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.
280	A broken clock is right at least twice a day.
281	A butterfly can look at you through 12,000 eyes.
282	A Californian doctor has set the record of eating 17 bananas in two minutes.
283	A Canadian tattoo artist had 4,831 tattoos on his body.
284	A capon is a castrated rooster.
285	A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
286	A cat has 4 rows of whiskers.
287	A cat uses it's whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
288	A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.
289	A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
290	A Cheetah at full speed takes strides of 8 meters.
291	A cheetah is the fastest animal, clocked in at: 70mph.
292	A chef's hat is tall and balloons at the top so as to counteract the intense heat in the kitchen. The unique shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool.
293	A Chicago law forbids eating in a place that is on fire.
294	A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before dropping dead.
295	A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
296	A citizen of Calcutta, India , grew the fingernails on his left hand to a length of 76 inches.
297	A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas, which are known as fingers.
298	A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
299	A cockroaches favorite food is the glue on the back of stamps.
300	A company, Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday".
301	A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
302	A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
303	A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
304	A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
305	A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
306	A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
307	A cucumber is 96% water.
308	A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout.
309	A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year.
310	A decree declares that anyone caught stealing soap must wash himself with it until it is all used up.
311	A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.
312	A "Blue Moon" is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).
313	A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
314	98% of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
315	98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
316	90% of bird species are monogamous; only 3% of animals are.
317	Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
318	Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
319	It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
320	84% of a raw apple is water.
321	One in ten people live on an island.
322	By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
323	In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid, which is Disney spelled backward.
324	80% of arrested criminals are male.
325	80% of animals on earth are insects.
326	78 rpm albums, used prior to 1948, were only capable of recording for four minutes. It wasn’t until later that year that Columbia Records introduced 33 rpm albums capable of playing 23 minutes per side.
327	48% of astronauts experience motion sickness.
328	43.7% of all statistics are made up right on the spot
329	40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
330	40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.
331	4 tablespoons of ketchup has about the same amount of nutrition as a ripe tomato.
332	315 words in the 1996 Webster's dictionary were mispelled.
333	315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
334	3% of all mammals are monogamous
335	259200 people die every day.
336	25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
337	22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
338	203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
339	2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
340	1959's A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be produced on Broadway.
341	123,000,000 cars are being driven on highways in the United States.
342	1200 equals 1 pound (72 rupees).
343	111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321
344	11% of the world is left-handed.
345	10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria
346	"Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
347	"Tautonyms" are scientific names for which the genus and species are the same.
348	"Teh" means "cool" in Thai. (Pronounced "tay").
349	"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
350	"THEREIN" is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein.
351	"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
352	1 and 2 are the only numbers where they are values of the numbers of the factors they have.
353	1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
354	1 in every 3 people in the country of Israel use a cell phone.
355	1 kg (2.2 pounds) of lemons contain more sugar than 1 kg of strawberries.
356	1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire are strung across the Unites States.
357	1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day. In Discovery Channel, its a quart.
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399	Some of Ghandi's ashes are at the Lake Shrine in Pacific Palisades near Los Angeles. These were the only ashes allowed outside of India when he died.
400	In 1919, Boston had a molasses disaster. 2 million gallons of crude molasses burst from a tank and pushed its way through the neighborhood and city. It killed at least 21 people and took weeks to clean up.
401	The "largest" city in the United States is Juneau, Alaska. It covers about 3,000 square miles. That's larger than the state of Delaware. In case you are wondering, Jacksonville, Florida is the largest in the lower 48 at just over 800 square miles.
402	The California grizzly bear is the state's official animal. However, in 1953 when it was named, it had already become extinct. The last known California grizzly to have been seen was killed in 1922.
403	Venus Fly Traps only live in the wild in the Carolinas and nowhere else in the world.
404	Not only was Ronald Reagan the oldest person ever elected president at age of 69, he has lived longer than any former president ever has, and has died at the age of 93. We will love you dearly, Mr. President!
405	Francis Scott Key, who penned the Star Spangled Banner, was a practicing lawyer. His sister, Anne Key, married Roger Brooke Taney, who later would be the Chief Justice that gave the decision in the Dred Scott case.
406	Martin Luther King, Jr., was originally named Michael, like his father. When Jr. was 5, dad changed both their names to Martin.
407	Amelia Earhart designed her own line of clothes that were sold all over the United States.
408	Degas, the great French painter, lived in New Orleans for one year, 1872-1873.
409	Calvin Coolidge had 2 pet racoons.
410	There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.
411	President James Garfield devised an original proof of the Pythagorean Theorem and piblished it in 1876. He once taught math at Hiram College.
412	Jimmy Carter was the first president born in a hospital.
413	President William H. Taft had quite a second career. 9 years after his presidency, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by President Harding. Taft was also the first president to submit a national budget and set a precedent by doing so.
414	Gen. Robert E. Lee married a relative of George Washington, Mary Ann Randolph Custis. She owned a plantation called "Arlington." They lived there 30 years until Gen. Lee resigned his commission to avoid fighting against his home state. The Lees vacated the property in 1861. Union troops occupied it and 200 acres were set aside to bury fallen Union soldiers. Today over 250,000 war dead are buried there. Now of course, it is known as Arlington National Cemetery.
415	In the middle of the Mojave Desert in California, sits a lone telephone booth, 50 miles from Interstate 15, and basically in the middle of nowhere. Nobody seems to remember when and why it was built. Years ago miners who worked nearby used it. Today you can get to it on dirt roads. It has a world-wide cult following now, with people from all over the world calling and visiting it. Nicknamed the Mojave Desert Phone Booth, it's number is: (760)733-9969. Kiddies, get your parent's permission! (*Note: This telephone apparently has been torn down.)
416	A mechanical engineer invented a device in the 1870's to oil train wheels while the train kept running. It was called a lubricator. He made several others for various machines. His name was Elijah McCoy, and imitators followed. These imitations did not work as well, and people coined the phrase, "The Real McCoy" to denote the originals. What is so amazing about this fact? He was born to a runaway slave family. That's right, The Real McCoy was an African-American!
417	Immigrants being awed by the Statute of Liberty is a tale that has been romanticized over the years. This was a view of richer passengers. The truth is, most immigrants who came here by ship near the turn of the century were very poor. As a result, they traveled below deck with hardly any view at all. The first thing most of them remember is being herded like cattle onto Ellis Island.
418	A town called Terminus was founded in Georgia in 1837 because it was the end of a railroad line. This town was made into Marthasville in 1843. What is this "town" called today? Since 1845 it has been called Atlanta, of course.
419	The original bell, now referred to as the Liberty bell, was cast in London and came to this shore in 1752. It cracked a month later and was recast twice. The time and place of the current crack is actually unknown.
420	Contrary to many people, no star on the flag is specifically representing any one state. In fact, no law exists as to how they are even to be arranged.
421	A redwood tree in California has been dubbed the Tallest Living Thing. It is about 367 feet high and resides in Montgomery Woods State Reserve. It is now taller than the previous "Tallest" tree because it was damaged in a storm and is now about 10 feet shorter.
422	July 4, 1776, is the "official" date when our country was born, but actually was not one country until 1788. (I'll let you find out why!)
423	Martin Van Buren was the first president born in America after it declared its independence from England. So, he was actually the first president born in the United States, the country.
424	Edgar Allan Poe was once an army cadet at West Point.
425	The first American poet to achieve any notoriety was an African female slave named Phillus Wheatly. One of her poems was first published when she was 13. She wrote a poem about George Washington and later met him. She died tragically at the age of 30 in 1784.
426	Ben Franklin composed his own epitaph when he was 22 years old.
427	Charles Lindbergh was not the first person to fly across the Atlantic. He was the first to make it alone. 2 Britains did it in 1919, and 2 weeks later U.S. Navy pilots did the same thing! What is amazing is that nobody remembers them!
428	Amelia Earhart was the first female to fly across the Atlantic, once as a passenger, and once as a solo pilot. She was the first to fly solo from California to Hawaii, and the first to fly solo from Mexico City to New Jersey.
429	Harry S. Truman was the only president in this century who didn't have a college education.
430	During the Civil War, more soldiers died of disease than they did from gunshots and fighting.
431	Maine is the only state in the lower 48 that touches only one other state.
432	Long before the island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay became a prison, it was used as a military fort. Shortly prior to this, the first light house located on the West Coast was built here in 1854.
433	In 1924, 14 buffalo were taken to Catalina Island off the coast of California. They were used in a movie, "The Vanishing American." The buffalo were left behind, the herd grew larger, and today about 250 still roam free on the island. During later years, the population has been "controlled".
434	In 1940, Maurice and Richard McDonald opened a barbecue car-hop type restaurant located in San Bernardino, Ca. Shortly after W.W.II, they paired the menu down to offer burgers, fries, and shakes. Ray Croc, a restaurant appliance salesman, was baffled as to why they needed so many milk shake makers. He found out soon enough. Franchise rights were sold in 1955, and Ray Croc opened one up in Des Plaines, Ill. This was his first, but actually the 9th McDonalds. And the rest, as they say, is history. A museum has recently opened up at the original location-14th and E streets in San Bernardino.
435	Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator, had visited Hawaii and became aware of its beauty. He lived most of his life on the East Coast, however. When he was ill and weeks away from dying, he checked himself out of a New York hospital and traveled to Hawaii. He made plans for his burial, and when he died he was buried at a site on Maui. (Yes he is still there today.)
436	Los Angeles was not as "tall" as other large cites, and sprawls for miles. One reason is that before 1957, there was a law against any building having more than 13 stories. They were afraid of earthquakes. City Hall, built in 1927, was the lone exception. This is the building that dominates the skyline in the old Dragnet and Superman TV series. Today, it seems quite hidden.
437	According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are 140 towns and cities in the U.S. that have the word "Christmas" in their names.
438	General Motors, in 1954, became the first corporation in the U.S. to have $1 billion in net income.
439	The Poinsettia plant was named after Joel Poinsett, the first U.S. ambassador to Mexico in the early 1800's. He "discovered" them in Mexico in 1825.
440	In 1971, cigarette ads were banned from television in the U.S.
441	The largest free-swinging bell will be located in Kentucky. It is being cast in France and will weigh 33 tons. It is for a monument to the new millennium.
442	The first two navel orange trees in the U.S. were from Brazil and planted in Riverside, California, about 1875. Virtually all navel oranges grown in the U.S. are offspring from these trees. One of the original trees was replanted by Teddy Roosevelt in in 1903 but died. The other is still alive today in a park in Riverside!
443	The first holiday celebrated nation wide in the U.S. was the 100th anniversary of George Washington's inauguration, April 30,1889.
444	You don't need to travel out of the country to see one of Egypt's ancient ruins. A 3,000 year old obelisk, named Cleopatra's Needle is located in New York's Central Park. Stands about 66 feet tall, weighs somewhere near 220 tons. It was given as a gift of friendship in 1879. Its "sister" is in London. It was a "monumental" task to bring it here!
445	John F. Kennedy is the only president to have died before his parents.
446	The largest oil-producing field in the lower 48 states is in Taft, California.
447	The spillway over Shasta Dam in Redding, California creates the world's largest man-made waterfall at 438 feet.
448	The crookedest street in the world is Snake Alley, located in Burlington, Iowa.
449	The first motel was built in San Luis Obispo, California during the 1920's when the Motor Inn merged the two words, motor and hotel. It is still there today!
450	Japan sent bombs aboard balloons to the United States during World War II. Dozens of them actually landed, doing some damage. A family in Oregon was actually killed by one in 1944. There might be more just laying around undiscovered! This story is perhaps the most amazing here!
451	The largest man-made lake in the U.S. is Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam.
452	Boulder City, Nevada, is the only place left in the state where gambling is illegal. The government did not want workers on the Hoover Dam to gamble their money away.
453	All banks in the U.S. were closed during the week of March 5th - 12th, 1933. This was to keep scared people from taking all their money out.
454	The deadliest hurricane in the U.S. hit Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900. There is no exact count , but estimates are between 6,000 and 10,000 people were killed.
455	The 30's gangster Machine Gun Kelly gave the FBI the nickname "G-Men."
456	The first gold rush in the United States happened in Dahlonega, Georgia, 1828.
457	Before 1913, the U.S. had no income tax. The 16th Amendment was needed so the government could do what they wanted to with the money.
458	Iced tea was first served at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. A British businessman wanted to increase tea sales in America.
459	The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
460	Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was the first known carrier of typhoid fever in the U.S. She was confined to a hospital the last 20 years of her life because she refused to stop working as a cook. She died in 1938.
461	President John Tyler was aboard the USS Princeton when a gun exploded. It killed 8 people including the man who would have been his future father-in-law. John Tyler was also the first president to get married while in office.
462	The London Bridge, built about 160 years ago in London, was transplanted in 1968 to Lake Havasu, Arizona.
463	In 1850, the U.S. wanted to build a canal through Nicaragua, not Panama. The French started the Panama Canal, gave up, and sold the rights to the U.S.
464	150 residences in New York City got the first televisions in 1936. The first program NBC broadcast to them was a cartoon of Felix The Cat!
465	More Civil War battles were fought in Virginia than in any other state.
466	The Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee, is the world's only reproduction of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece.
467	Hernando de Soto became the first European to reach the Mississippi River in 1581.
468	More than one-fourth of the entire population of Memphis, Tennessee, was wiped out by yellow fever in 1878.
469	Cathedral Caverns in Alabama, has what is believed to be the largest stalagmite, named Goliath, as well as the largest cave opening and cavern room in the world.
470	In the 1930's, the U.S. government sent farmers from the midwest to "colonize" the Matanusk Valley in Alaska. It proved a success and today that region is perhaps the only important agricultural area in the state.
471	The largest meteorite crater in the world is in Winslow, Arizona. 4,150 feet across and 150 feet deep.
472	General Ulysses S. Grant's real name was Hiram.
473	Virginia was once one state. People in the western half did not want to secede. So, West Virginia was "admitted" to the union in 1863. The other half, still named Virginia became a member of the confederate states.
474	US Highway 550, near Durango and Silverton, Colorado, is called the Million Dollar Highway because it was paved with low grade gold ore in the road bed.
475	The oldest capital city in the U.S. is Santa Fe, New Mexico, founded in 1610.
476	Grand Canyon of the Snake River, Idaho, is deeper than the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
477	Blackbeard, the infamous pirate, was killed in an inlet near Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, in 1718.
478	George Washington was in command of the first U.S. "navy," created in 1775. It started with 4 ships. The ships were sold after the war and the "real" navy began in 1798.
479	The 33rd president was Harry S. Truman. What is his middle name? His parents were going to give him the name Shippe or Solomon, the names of his grandfathers. They could not agree, so they gave him just an initial, "S."
480	In 1918 a flu epidemic killed 548,000 people in the U.S.
481	The tallest point in Florida is only 345 feet.
482	Ever hear of the American Girl Guides ? Probably not. They are now known as the Girl Scouts.
483	Ford Motor Company paid its auto workers $5 per day in 1914.
484	American Indians were not made citizens of the U.S. until congress acted in 1924.
485	Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, everyone knows that. But did you know that he was almost the first man "lost" in space ? He was aboard Gemini 8 when it began spinning out of control while attempting a docking maneuver. Armstrong almost blacked out before correcting the problem.
486	The last known passenger pigeon, Martha, died in 1914 at a Cincinnati zoo. They were then extinct.
487	Peanut butter was invented by the brilliant African-American scientist George Washington Carver. (1864-1943)
488	Zamboni machines, the ice rink resurfacers, were invented and still being manufactured near Los Angeles, California. Sonja Henie had one made for her.
489	Skylab, the first American space station, fell to the earth in thousands of pieces in 1979. Thankfully most over the ocean.
490	1816 has been called the "Year Without Summer." Canada and the northeastern U.S. experienced cold and snow throughout the summer months. An erupting volcano in the Dutch East Indies was to blame.
491	The tomato was put "on trial" on September 25, 1820 in Salem, New Jersey. In front of a courthouse, Robert Johnson ate a basket of tomatoes to prove they were not poisonous. The crowd waited for him to keel over dead. He never did.
492	The streets in Virginia City, Nevada, were once unknowingly paved with silver ore. When the locals found out what it was, they tore up the streets in a frenzy in less than 2 days.
493	The first rockets in America were deployed by the British against Fort McHenry in the War of 1812. This attack was witnessed by Francis Scott Key who immortalized them in what is now our national anthem.
494	President Clinton is listed as our 41st president, but only 40 men have held the office. Why? Grover Cleveland held office during 2 nonconsecutive terms. He was our 22nd and 24th president. Incidentally, his full name is Stephen Grover Cleveland.
495	The Missouri River is 2,466 miles long and the Mississippi River is 2,348 miles. Why is the Mississippi called our longest river? The Missouri is not continuous. More correctly, the Mississippi should be referred to as the longest continuous river.
496	In 1811, earthquakes hit an area near Tiptonville, Tennessee, and created what was to become Reelfoot Lake. It is 14 miles long.
497	The United States captured Mexico City in 1847.
498	John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826. This was 50 years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
499	Roger Sherman, was the only shoemaker to sign the Declaration of Independence.
500	The Rolling Stones gave their first official concert in the United States in my hometown of San Bernardino, California, June 1964.