50 Things You Didn't Know!

• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. 
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. 
• The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing. 
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes 
• There are more chickens than people in the world. 
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is”screeched.” 
• On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. 
• All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20. 
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. 
• “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”. 
• Almonds are a member of the peach family. 
• There are only 4 words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. 
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. 
• In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. 
• Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer. 
• The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “It’s a WonderfulLife.” 
• A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. 
• A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds. 
• It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. 
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. 
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. 
• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. 
• The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. 
• A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death. 
• A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear. 
• Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth,which is why 
• Elvis’ middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also 
• misspelled on his tomb stone. 
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants. 
• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane 
• crashes. (Not any more!) 
• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. 
• Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.” 
• Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot. 
• If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. 
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. 
• The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language . 
• The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start. 
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. 
• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. 
• A snail can sleep for 3 years. 
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class 
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 
• Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres. 
• “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 
• No president of the United states was an only child. 

      And finally...

• The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it.