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Author Topic: Useless Facts  (Read 9075 times)

Offline Dare

Useless Facts
« on: January 28, 2007, 09:30:38 PM »
Useless facts
1. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

2. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

3. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

4. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

5. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

6. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

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

8. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.

9. 101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don't die throughout the movie. .

10. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

11. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

12. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.

13. Reindeer like to eat bananas.

14. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.

15. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

16. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

17. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

18. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II Killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

19. More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes.

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


Mark Twain once opined, "it's easier to con someone than to convince them they've been conned."

davewilson

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Re: Useless Facts
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2007, 01:56:31 PM »
A town in North Wales are named LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH?
Liverpool Cathedral is the largest Anglican Cathedral in Britain?
Edinburgh is built on an extinct volcano?
Titanic was built in Belfast?
Christmas carols were banned in England between 1647 and 1660?
In 1879 Blackpool was the first place in the world to have electric street lighting?
Dublin has over 600 pubs in the city?
One of the first attractions of the West Pier in Brighton was a minature camera fired exactly at noon caused by reflection of a burning glass?
It rains about 300 out of 365 days a year in Ireland?
The first traffic lights was in use 1868 in London to control the horse buggies?
British cops didn't carry guns in 1969?
About 1200 hotels can be found in London?
London Underground is the oldest underground system in the world?
London has more than 6000 restaurants?
London is home to over 200 museums?
London Underground has several abandoned stations?
Buckingham Palace has over six hundred rooms?
The most popular drink in Britain is Tea?
Harrods in Britain installed the first escalator in 1878?
London has about 500000 surveillance cameras around the city?
In London the average tourist is being caught on surveillance cameras about 300 times a day?
Christmas cards was first produced in London around 1843?
One station in the London Underground has two different names of its platforms, Bank and Monument?
Harrods department store in London still delivering goods by horse carriage?
The most expensive shoes was sold at Harrods in London for $1.6 million?
Some of the Squares in London are not really squares?
London has about 1,700 parks?
Saint Valentine is buried in Dublin under the altar of Whitefriars Church in Dublin?

The Stig

Offline Wizzo

Re: Useless Facts
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2007, 02:59:41 PM »
1. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.

2. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I

3. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

4. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.

5. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

6. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.

7. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

8. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

9. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

10. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

11. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

12. The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500's.

13. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

14. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

15. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

16. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

17. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

18. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.

19. Every person has a unique tongue print.

20. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

21. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

22. Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.

23. Bubble gum contains rubber.

24. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.

25. Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

26. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.

27. Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.

28. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

29. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.

30. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.

31. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.

32. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

33. About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.

34. It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.

35. Some toothpaste contains antifreeze.

36. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

37. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.

38. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.

39. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

40. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

41. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.

42. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.

43. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

44. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

45. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

46. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

47. 27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."

48. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

49. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."

50. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark (hence, the light bulb).
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Offline Dare

Re: Useless Facts
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2007, 05:38:56 PM »
Things I learned from movies
1. If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a passing St Patrick's Day parade - at any time of the year.

2. All beds have special L-shaped top sheets that reach up to armpit level on a woman but only waist level on the man lying beside her.

3. All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.

4. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off - even while scuba diving.

5. The ventilation system of any building is a perfect hiding place. No one will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building without difficulty.

6. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do.

7. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window of any building in Paris.

8. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

9. When paying for a taxi, never look at your wallet as you take out a note - just grab one at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.

10. If you lose a hand, it will cause the stump of your arm to grow by 15cm.

11. Mothers routinely cook eggs, bacon and waffles for their family every morning, even though the husband and children never have time to eat them.

12. Cars and trucks that crash will almost always burst into flames.

13. A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of a football stadium.

14. Medieval peasants had perfect teeth.

15. All single women have a cat.

16. Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.

17. One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them all than 20 men firing at one.

18. Creepy music coming from a graveyard should always be closely investigated.

19. Most people keep a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings - especially if any of their family or friends has died in a strange boating accident.

20. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involved martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessor.

21. During a very emotional confrontation, instead of facing the person you are speaking to, it is customary to stand behind them and talk to their back.

22. When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your room will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.

23. Dogs always know who's bad and will naturally bark at them.

24. When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.

25. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their arch-enemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gases, lasers and man eating sharks that will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.

26. Having a job of any kind will make all fathers forget their son's eighth birthday.

27. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.

28. It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting.

29. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.

30. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps.

Mark Twain once opined, "it's easier to con someone than to convince them they've been conned."

davewilson

  • Guest
Re: Useless Facts
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2007, 10:25:19 PM »
Cant stop myself:
Australia was once called New Holland?
In Australia light bulbs are called globes?
Ayers Rock means meeting place in the Aboriginal language?
Lonely Planet is based in Melbourne Australia?
Australians have about 380,000 sq m of land/per person. Yet 91% live in urban areas?
Australia has more than 1500 species of spiders?
Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth?
95 percent of the world's opals are mined in Australia?
Australia has the biggest number of wild one humped camels in the world?
The biggest pure-gold nugget was found in Australia in 1869 and weighed 156 pounds?
Australia use to have stamps that actually look like gems?
The first time South Africa beat Australia in a cricket game was in Adelaide in 1910-1911?
The only continent occupied by only one nation is Australia?
Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth?
Australia has more than 1500 species of spiders?
There are 6000 species of flies in Australia?
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is the largest organic construction on earth?
A billabong is a stagnant body of backwater attached to a river or a stream?
QANTAS stands for Queensland and Northern Territories Airline Service?
Australia is the world's driest continent?
In Australia a banana bender means that a person comes from Queensland?
It was an Australian meteorologist who first began to give tropical storms women's names at the end of the 19th century?
Melbourne in Australia has, after Athens, the largest Greek population in the world?

Keep romephius on his toes at least!

The Stig

Offline Dare

Re: Useless Facts
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2007, 01:59:39 AM »
can't help myself either Stig


UK Useless Facts

95% of £5 notes have been in contact with cocaine.

If you buy a lottery ticket at 7pm on Saturday, you are more likely to die in the hour before the draw than you are to win.

No word in the English language rhymes with the word unicorn.

The easiest way to become a millionaire is to convert £4 sterling into Turkish Lire.

The Guiness Book of Records lists 'The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick' as the hardset tongue twister.

The most dangerous part of a plane journey from the UK to Australia is the drive to the airport.

An average of four people a year in Britain are killed by writing instruments.

Three serious accidents a year in Britain can be attributed to pencil sharpeners.

Last year, 43 British adults died in their bathtubs.

27 million porn mags are sold in the UK each year.

Britons eat on average 2.2 curries a week - spending £2.8 billion every year.

Lambeth council in south London owes £850 million (as of 1999) - this is more than the national debt of Guatemala.

During December 1998, Barclays Bank's cash machines in the UK dispensed a total of £1.24 billion in notes.

The average British motorist is overcharged by 50p a year for their petrol due to faulty pumps.

Accidents in the UK home for 1996: 343 injured putting on their socks; 112 hurt reading a newspaper; 41 hospitalised by marbles; 34 hurt by cardboard; 12 hosipitalised by paperclips; 11 accidents involving bathroom scales; 6 hurt using talcom powder; 2 hurt by tea cosys.

In 1870, British boxing champ Jim Mace and an American challenger fought for almost 4 hours without landing a single punch!

On 3rd March 1991, the Queen needed 3 stitches in one of her fingers after she tried to break up a fight between two of her corgies.

During World War 2, the British Minister of food considered a plan to feed the population with black pudding - secretly made from surplus human blood bank donations. The idea was thankfully rejected.

In the last 10 years, 8 people in Britain have been killed by cows.

During the 1978 fireman strike an army unit rescued an old lady's cat from a tree and then run over it as they drove away.

50% of male Internet users in Britain have viewed pornography on the Internet.

On average, in the UK per year:

    488 people are injured by zips;
    3,078 people are injured by slippers;
    315 people are injured by photo frames;
    and 70,000 are injured by dogs.

If every credit card in Britain was laid end to end they would stretch from London to Istanbul. (As of November 2001).
Mark Twain once opined, "it's easier to con someone than to convince them they've been conned."

Offline romephius

Re: Useless Facts
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2007, 06:34:48 AM »
In Australia Light bulbs are still Light bulbs
Australia is the only continent where venomous snakes outnumber their non-venomous cousins.
Australia has the top ten deadliest snakes for the world.  And most of them can be found near my home town.
In Australia victorians are referred to by New south wales residents as 'mexicans'
Ayres Rock means Ayres Rock, however the aboriginal name for it "uluru" does mean meeting place.  Ayres Rock was re-named back to it's aboriginal name several years ago.
Australia has the same geographical size as America, but 1/15 the population
90% of all Australians live on the coast
Australia's second largest bird (next to the emu) is the cassowary, which has killed people 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary

As an australian, out of and all the people I know (large group of people) and all the people I have met, no-one has EVER used the phrase "chuck a shrimp on the barbie"  Firstly because we call them prawns and secondly, I don't know why.  Now if it was "chuck a snag on the barbie" it'd be pretty damn close.

And these 'little' fellas can be found everywhere (My housemate had one bigger than this in his room 2 nights ago)

« Last Edit: January 30, 2007, 06:36:33 AM by romephius »

davewilson

  • Guest
Re: Useless Facts
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2007, 04:45:23 PM »
1782 James Watt builds the first engine crank.
1792 The first U.S. toll roads opened in PA and CT.
1860 Jean Lenoir invents the spark plug.
1887 The Benz became the first car offered for sale.
1896 The Duryea became the first production motor vehicle in the U.S.
1897 The first auto insurance policy is purchased in Westfield, MA.
1900 The first Guide Michelin published mostly containing a list of gas stations in France.
1901 The first Grand Prix race was won with an average speed of 46 mph.
1901 The first American car manufactured in any quantity, the "Curved Dash" Olds is offered for $650.
1913 More than one million cars registered in the U.S.
1914 The Chevrolet bow-tie emblem first appears.
1914 The first electric traffic light was installed in Cleveland.
1923 Powered windshield wipers became standard equipment on many cars.
1923 A radio was first offered as an accessory.
1939 Buick introduces turn signals as standard equipment.
1946 The first power windows were introduced.
1948 Harley Earl introduces the tail fin on the Cadillac. Fins don't go away for over a decade.
1953 Chevrolet introduces its Harley Earl-designed Corvette.
1954 Padded dashboards introduced for safety.
1956 Electric door locks introduced on several luxury models.
1958 The first remote adjusted side view mirror.
1958 Ford introduces the first electric trunk release.
1958 Chrysler introduces the day-night rearview mirror.
1960 All-weather antifreeze plus coolant introduced.
1963 Seat belts first offered as standard equipment.
1965 Rear seat belts became standard on most cars.
1974 National 55 mph speed limit enacted after oil shortages.
1984 Chrysler introduces the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth voyager minivans.
1972 Cars traveled along LA freeways at an average speed of 60 mph. In 1982 the average was only 17 mph!
1974 The average American family spent 33 percent of their yearly income for a new car. In 1995 the average was 50 percent.
1995 the Big Three sold a whopping 97,000 cars in Japan.
Dont like Spiders!
The Stig

davewilson

  • Guest
Re: Useless Facts
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2007, 06:15:30 PM »
Residents of Hawaii eat an average of four cans of Spam per person, per year - more than any other place on earth.

The Quickest boxing match in history was 10.5 seconds. This included the 10-second count.

A Saudi Arabian woman can file for divorce if her husband doesn't make her a cup of coffee.....Why can't we have easy options?...Here......The Stig

Men are four times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

The average duration of sexual intercourse for humans is two minutes....That's because a GP is 0N Television...The Stig

In 1980, the yellow pages accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under "frozen foods".

The number of Britons injured last year in accidents involving out-of-control Scalextric cars was five.

The most common name for a pub in England is The Red Lion.

During George W Bush's recent state visit to Britain, muggings went up by 20 per cent.

By Law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons.

The Goodies is the only British Comedy said to have killed someone. On 24 March 1975, bricklayer Alex Mitchell, of King's Lynn apparantly laughed himself to death while watching a sketch about a Scotsman being attacked by a black pudding.

The Stig

davewilson

  • Guest
Re: Useless Facts
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2007, 07:46:00 PM »
Has dare conceeded to stig:

Offline Dare

Re: Useless Facts
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2007, 08:05:50 PM »

one last one

    * lfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton
    * At 300 pounds, William Howard Taft was the only US President to get stuck in the White pHouse bathtub
    * Taft also had a special re-enforced steel dinning chair.
    * Lee Harvey Osawald's body tag was auctioned off for $6,600
    * Dan Aykroyd's conehead from Saturday Night Live was auctioned off at $2,200
    * Hrand Araklein, a Brinks's car guard, was killed when $50,000 worth of quarters crushed phim.
    * Donald Duck's sister is called Dumbella
    * Howdy-Doody had 48 freckles
    * Niel Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot
    * Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to pindicate laziness
    * Goofy had a wife, Mrs. Goofy, and one son, Goofy jr.
    * Benjamin Franklin lived at 141 Market Street, Philidelphia, PA
    * The the first ever televised murder case appeared on TV in 1955, Dec. 5-9. The accused pwas Harry Washburn.
    * Gavin, from the band Bush, has an innie bellybutton
    * Superman is in every Seinfeld episode (it's on a shelf in Jerry's apartment
    * Uma Thurman doesn't have a innie or an outie bellybutton, but a 'stretch'
    * The guy in the Darth Vader suit didn't know that James Earl Jones was doing the woice puntil the screenplay.
    * Sumerians (from 5000 BC) thought that the liver made blood and the heart was the center of thought.
    * Queen Elizabeth was good friends with William Shakespeare
    * In honor of Johan Vaaler, inventor of the paper clip, a 221/2 paper clip was erected in Oslo, Norway
    * Yasir Arafat is addicted to watching television cartoons
    * Augusts Ceaser had achluophobia -- the fear of sitting in the dark
    * Queen Elizabeth the First had anthophobia -- the fear of roses
    * Malcom Lowry had pnigophobia -- the fear of choking on fish bones
    * Lee Harvey Oswald was dyslexic
    * Beaver Cleaver graduated in 1953
    * Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
    * On Beaver Cleaver's US tour, he visited Albequrque on a tuesday
    * Li Hung-chang is the father of Chop Suey
    * Beaver's phone number is KL5-4763
    * There have been about a quarter of a million Elvis sightings since his death.
    * When Einstein was inducted as an American, he attended the ceremony without socks
    * The average American has $104 in their wallet
    * 64% of the population can roll their tongue
    * Michael Jordan shaves his head on Tuesdays, and Fridays
    * A signature is called a John Hancock because he signed the Declaration of Independce. Only 2 people signed the declaration of independence on July 4. The Last person signed 2 years later.
    * Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidecaphobia, the fear of the number 13. He died p13 minutes from midnight on Friday the 13th.
    * Mozart wrote the nusery rhyme 'twinkle, twinkle, little star' at the age of five.
    * Elvis was once appointed Special Agent of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous pDrugs.
    * weatherman Willard Scott was the first original Ronald Mcdonald
    * Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
    * Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
    * The airplane Buddy Holly died in was named the American Pie.
    * Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de
    * los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.
    * Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers. (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
    * Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.
    * Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
    * The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
    * 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.'
    * Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
    * Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
    * Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden pname was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
    * Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of 'Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom.'
    * Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
    * Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
    * Paul Reiser is playing the piano in the 'Mad About You' theme.
    * Charles de Gaulle's final words were, 'It hurts.'
    * Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
    * Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired ppilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
    * Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
    * Dr. Seuss pronounced 'Seuss' such that it rhymed with 'rejoice.'
    * Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
    * In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said 'Play it again, Sam.'
    * Sherlock Holmes never said 'Elementary, my dear Watson.'
    * Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?)
    * Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant 'plenty of excrement'
    * The youngest pope was 11 years old.
    * Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
    * Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
    * Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep cool. ( He changed it every two innings)
    * Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister
    * Hugh 'Ward Cleaver' Beaumont was an ordained minister.
    * John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
    * Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
    * Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
    * In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
    * A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
    * The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
    * In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
    * Eskimos never gamble.
    * State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
    * The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
    * Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
    * John F. Kennedy's rocking chair was auctioned off for $442,000
    * Meteorologists claim they're right 85% of the time (think about that one!)
    * Alex Trebek enters onto the Jeopardy! stage through the letter P.
    * The only real person to ever to appear on a pez dispenser was Betsey Ross.
    * Mike Neismith's (the guitarist of The Monkeys)mom invented White Out.
    * At 12 years old, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued everyday for 91 years.
    * 20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
    * Shakespeare spelled his OWN name several different ways
    * Bruce was the nickname of the mechanical shark used in the JAWS movies.
    * Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
    * Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
    * The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
    * Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
   

Mark Twain once opined, "it's easier to con someone than to convince them they've been conned."

 


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