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Advertisers are paying about $53,000 per SECOND for the right to air their commercials during this year's Superbowl, which will be seen by more than 100 million Americans.
The Matterhorn at Disneyland in Anaheim has a full basketball court at the very top of the structure, because at the time it was built the only structures that could be that tall were sports arenas. In 1971 the UN declared that there was 576100 tonnes of tea in China In the movie 'A Fish Called Wanda', Ken tries to revenge Otto by using a steamroller Daffy Duck's middle name is 'Dumas' The Virginia Opossum is the only marsupial (pouched mammal) in North Americia. They will play dead when threatened but they do not sleep hanging by their tail. They have a litter size up to 22 but only a maximum of 13 live. Their babies stay in the pouch for the first 60 days. Fleas can jump 150 times their body length and 80 times their height Most people think that John F.Kennedy was our nation's youngest President. In fact,he was not. Theodore Roosevelt was. Teddy Roosevelt was President McKinley's vice-president. When Mckinley was assassinated, Roosevelt was 42, making Roosevelt the youngest president. John Kennedy, at 43, was the youngest elected President. More people die on Monday mornings from a heart attack than any other time during the week. What is the most common town name in the US? 1.Fairview 2.Midway 3.Oak Grove 4.Franklin 5.Riverside 6.Centerville 7.Mount Pleasant 8.Georgetown 9.Salem 10.Greenwood In the movie the wizard of Oz, Judy Garland was the lowest paid of the main actors. Toto the dog made more money for the flick than she did. The Hammerhead Shark is the only aqautic animal in the world that gets sunburned. Every month, 4 quadrillion (4,000,000,000,000,000) transistors are produced, about half-a-million for each person on earth. According to a study from Texas A & M, children between 4 and 12 spend $2 billion on junk food, $1.9 billion on toys and games, and $486 million on arcade video games. Hong Kong has just taken overtaken Tokyo as the world's most expensive city. US cities don't even make the list till number 21 (New York). Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. There are almost 2 billion Christians in the world, about a billion Muslims, 800 million Hindus, 300 million Buddhists, and 14 million Jews. In 1997, it cost a family of four an average of $106 to attend a Major League Baseball game, $214 to see an NBA team, $222 to attend an NFL game and $229 in the NHL. In a typical restaurant, customers receive 27 cents worth of food for each dollar they spend. Hacky Sack was invented by a football player in the mid 1970’s who used it to strengthen tendons he had torn in his knee The custom of giving teachers apples originated when public school teachers were paid with whatever the community could afford, often in food or goods Valentine’s Day was actually an effort by the Catholic Church to keep teenagers from becoming lovers There are more chickens than people in the world. “I Love Lucy” was banned for years in some Moslem countries because Lucy “dominated” Ricky. P. J. Tierney, fater of the modern diner, died of indigestion in 1917 after eating at a diner. The Chinese were the first to invent ketchup which was called ke-tsiap and which had pickled fish and spices (no tomatoes). In the 1870’s New England colonists mixed tomatoes into the sauce creating present day ketchup A McDonald’s Big Mac bun has an average of 178 sesame seeds Taxpayers spent $57,000 on gold-embossed playing cards for Air Force One The three most valuable brand names on earth: marlboro, Coca-Cola, Budwiser (in that order). Dogs will yawn in order to express that there is a conflict of interest between their own ideas or desires and those of their owners. There is an elevator company named Schindler's, meaning that there are Schindler's lifts! Brazil is the world's largest exporter of tobacco. On the average, there are 8 peas in a pod. The only floating McDonald's can be found on the Mississippi River in St Louis. It is shaped like a paddle-wheel boat on a permanent barge. It sits on the Riverfront underneath the St Louis Gateway Arch! Bora Milutinovic remains the only person to manage four different teams in four consecutive Soccer World Cups. Mexico in 1986 (Hosts - Mexico), Costa Rica in 1990 (Hosts - Italy, USA in 1994 (Hosts - USA) and Nigeria in 1998 (Hosts - France). Britain's last gold mine closes at the end of the week (Friday 29th January) in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales. If you ever needed statistical proof that Notre Dame has the all-time richest tradition in college football, here it is. The school with the best winning percentage of all time? Notre Dame (76 percent). With the most national championships? Notre Dame (eleven). With the most consensus All-Americans? Notre Dame (seventy-seven). And with the most Heisman Trophy winners? Notre Dame (seven). Sex for one hour will burn off 11 Hershey Kisses, 360 calories In the movie 'The Little Mermaid' in the scene at the end where they are getting married, the priest has an erection. Ketchup originated from China According to Wild Discoveries, it takes a monkey ten years of instruction to learn how to crack a nut open (which is achieved by placing the nut in a knoll of a tree and then striking it with a tree limb). 39% of all senior citizens enjoy the mysterious art of frivilous spanking Shakespeare invented the words 'puke' and 'bedroom' In the movie 'Interview With the Vampire,' the little girl Claudia throws a fit and cuts her hair off, then throws the scissors down and runs into another room and slams the door. She then re-emerges from the room carrying the same scissors she threw down in the previous scene. [Editor's Note: it's a good thing real scissors don't work like that] On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is the Red Ensign, NOT an American flag. The Catholic Church is the largest land owner in New York City. The City of New Delhi employs 100 professional cow catchers to control the 40,000 cows that roam the streets. Did you know that last summer (1998), 470 Chinese people were injured by spontaneously exploding beer bottles? Did you know that on average, one new Starbucks cafe opens every day? Did you know that you are just as likely to fall out of bed and die, as you are to get struck by lightning and die? The inside of a McDonald's french fry box is striped yellow and white because it gives the impression that there are more fries in the container than there really are. The small village of Blacks Harbour in New Brunswick Canada is home to the world's largest sardine fish processing factory. More than 85% of the residents of the village work at the factory. Both Leonardo da Vinci(Mona Lisa,Last Supper) and Michaelangelo Buonarroti (The Creation of Man) were gay. The fear of friday the Thirteenth does not come from Christ's last supper (seating 13) and his arrest on Friday. It comes from the arrest of the Knights Templar on Friday the 13th, 1307 by King Philip. This was viewed as a bad omen. Sheep prefer to drink running water. ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC is the longest acronym. [Editor's note: What does it stand for?] Claus Schiko of MindShare has placed more ads on TV than anyone else. After 20 years buying TV airtime for Ford, BT and Visa, he has spent over 1.2 billion dollars. The Malay people (of Malaysia and Indonesia) have two forms of writing, the roman alphabet and arabic khat. The Beatles got their name from a dream of John Lennon's. In the dream, a man on a flaming pie told John 'You are all beetles with an A.' The Egyptians did NOT use the number Pi when constructing the pyramids - the ONLY pyramid that comes remotely close is Khufu. It was a tried and tested method, of how high a pyramid could be built with the least amount of ground area. Khufu was 11 cubits high for every 3.5 across, or 22/7 - close to pi. Anyone who believes otherwise is on an exercise in futility. Over 50% of all people fantasize more often about money than sex, so technically, Bill Gates is the hearthrob of the world. A compilation of recent news reports, I am amazed to find that the following men in history had 1 testicle: James Cameron, Jim Carrey, Fred Astaire, former president Jimmie Carter, and Dale Earnhardt. One can see the stars during the day from the bottom of a well In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a brass statue of Winnie-the-Pooh There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script The average American's vocabulary contains 10,000 words The letters that accompany the year on the Jubilee door blessing are not the names of the Magi. It is something Latin. Black and White Cats are said to be meaner than other kinds of cats. A mud room built on to the entry of a home is called a 'WANAGAN' in Alaska. won-a gen. Chimpanzees will actually hunt and kill monkeys and sometimes human infants. Female crocodilians help their babies from the nest, even by gently placing the eggs in her mouth and cracking them open. Then she will carry the young ones to the water. When a young crocodilian is in trouble, it gives a distress call and any adult within range will present a full-fledged attack, even if they are not related. 43% of all women want to enjoy sadomasochistic behavior before and after smelling vanilla extract [Editor's note: I'd love to know how they performed such a study!] Have you ever wondered where the Egyptians got the blocks of stones to construct the Pyramids of Egypt? They got them from neighboring countries, especially Syria. Contrary to popular belief, the first day of the 21st Century is Monday, January 1, 2001, not January 1st 2000. This is due to the fact that we didnt start counting the current calendar in the year 0. We started in the year 1 CE. [Editor's note: This is a subject of great debate, and I've added it because this argument is true to some extent. My personal scientific outlook on the matter is that the sooner the party, the better. ] Mice are quite ferocious. They will attack in defense at animals many times their size. The condom was originally made of sheep intestine. It was invented by a Dr. Condom in the early 1500s for Henry VIII. Seems that Henry wanted to sleep with various women without leaving any evidence (i.e. children). You can still buy these condoms in specialty stores, but they do not protect against HIV or any other sexually transmitted diseases. [Editor's note: cute theory, anyone got some research on this?] If you unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes from inside a dogs nose, the membranes would be larger than the dog itself! 1 out of 3 of all cows in the US used for food purposes (beef) are used by the McDonald's Corp. Hove (Pop.60,000) near Brighton, England is the largest town in the UK without a McDonalds. McD in the UK are at present selling Winnie the Pooh figures at £0.99 each - identical figures in World of Disney shops are £4.95! Meg Ryan never lets any blonde actors/actresses onto the set with her. (movie) It is illegal to hunt and/or kill camels in Arizona. It takes the sun's rays about 8.5 minutes to reach the earth from the sun. The lead star of La Femme Nikita is Peta Wilson, an Australian. Pope Alexander VI was known to have at least two children: Cesare Borgia and Lucrezia Borgia. This is against the rule that 'a priest must be chaste'. Bill Clinton's father, William Jefferson Blythe, was probably not his real father. He was fighting in WWII at the time the future President should have been conceived, and he died in the war before he returned home. In Knoxville, Tennessee, it is illegal to lasso fish. You always get to see the same half of the moon because it is rotating at exactly the same rate it is moving around the earth: 29.5 earth days. This, however, is no coincidence since this match is caused by unequal mass distribution on the moon. If you put a bit of dry bread under your top lip when cutting onions your eyes won't water. I didn't believe it but it's true, so long as the bread stays dry. Thing is - does anyone know why? Only 75% of the population is covered by the 9-1-1 emergency number. Smokers in their 30s and 40s have five times as many heart attacks as non-smokers. Heart disease is the leading cause of death overall, but injuries are the leading cause of death for ages 1 to 40. One in three Americans visits an emergency department each year. Forrest General averages more than 75,000 patients a year in its emergency department alone. The Lord's Prayer contains 68 words. The Gettysburg Address has 267. A 1989 US Report on cabbage: 29,911. One pound of wool can make ten miles of spun yarn. An allergy poll conducted among leading New York dermatologists indicated there are fewer allergies to pure wool than any other known fiber. The sheep industry began in central Asia over 10,000 years ago. Spinning started in 3500 B.C. In biblical times, wool was left outside at night to absorb the dew and wrung out in the morning. The Albanian language, as one of the original 9 Indo-European languages, is one of Europe's oldest languages and is not derived from any other language. The other 8 Indo-European languages are Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Germanic, Hellenic, Indian, Iranian, Italic, and Keltic!
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