Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. ( Now proven to be
quackery..Sorce)
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 airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie". (Thus the name
of the Don McLean song.)
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually
pass out from sheer terror.
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.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the
Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine
gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage.
If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them
looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
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 Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five
must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times
of war or other emergencies.
No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won
a Superbowl.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports
games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the
Major League All-Star Game.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's
supply of footballs.
There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
It takes 40 minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles
per year.
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.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female
gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of whales is called a pod.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink"
.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially
for Ronald Reagan.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book
in every Dewey-decimal category.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
During WW II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
There is a type of parrot in New Zealand that likes to eat the rubber
strips that line car windows
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
Hacky-sack was invented in Turkey
Scientists found a whole new phylum of animal on a lobster's lip.
Starfish don't have brains.
Cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have a very high probability of having
six toes.
Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
The dial tone of a normal phone is in the key of F
Rabbits love licorice.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' symbolizes 'two women living under
one roof'.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
Hamsters love to eat crickets.
Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.
The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next
to your temple, is called a tragus.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
Spencer Eldon was the name of the naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's
album Nevermind.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally
without being hurt.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about
ten.
The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's
womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born.
There are fourteen blimps in the world. The existing biggest blimp is
the Fuji Film blimp
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War
II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
A penguin only has sex twice a year.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
It is physically impossible for pigs to lookup into the sky.
