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The mudskipper is a fish that can actually walk on land.
The historic Ford 1,100-acre facility near the Rouge River was once the world's largest auto plant. Henry Ford built the plant in 1918 because he dreamed of building a car from start to finish in one location. The first subway was built in London (1860-63) by the cut and cover method. Other notable subways: Paris (the Metro 1898), New York (1900) Which ancient city was buried by a volcanic eruption? Pompeii Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham said Sunday they have conclusive evidence that the HIV virus has spread on at least three separate occasions from chimpanzees to humans in Africa. One of the interspecies transmissions launched the epidemic that now infects about 35 million people worldwide, they said. The last ever cavalry charge in the world took place at the battle of Omdurman. The young Winston Churchill took part in it. The sari has been used continuously and relatively unchanged for thousands of years. Catherine the Great of Russia suffered from nymphomania. The world's oldest and longest-reigning monarch is King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. Most people don't know that the second national city is Port Angeles, WA, designated by Abe Lincoln. That's where they would move the capital if something happened to D.C. Also John Elway was born there (his father was H.S. coach when I was a teen). The only NBA player ever to average a triple double for an entire season was Oscar Robertson. Friday the Thirteenth: Efforts to account for this unluckiest of days have focused on disastrous events alleged to have occurred on it. Tradition has it that on Friday the thirteenth, Eve tempted Adam with the 'apple'; Noah's ark set sail in the Great Flood; confusion of tongues struck the Tower of Babel; the Temple of Solomon toppled; and Christ died on the cross. The actual origin of the superstition appears also to be a tale in Norse Mythology. Friday is named for Frigga, the free-spirited goddess of love and fertility. When Norse and German tribes converted to Christianity, Frigga was banished in shame to a mountain top and labeled a witch. It was believed that every Friday the spiteful goddess convened a meeting with eleven other witches, plus the devil---a gathering of thirteen---and plotted ill turns of fate for the coming week. For many centuries, in Scandanavia, Friday was known as Witches' Sabbath. More similarities between Lincoln and Kennedy and their deaths: Lincoln was an unsuccessful candidate for vp in 1856; JFK was an unsuccessful vp candidate in 1956. Both of their vice presidents, Lyndon Johnson and Andrew Johnson, have 13 letters in their names; each was older than but died 10 years after their respective chiefs. In 1860 Lincoln beat Stephen Douglas, born in 1813, with less than 50 percent of the vote; in 1960, Kennedy beat Richard Nixon, born in 1913, with less than 50 percent of the vote. Lincoln and Kennedy each were killed in public, and each was accompanied by someone who was also injured but did not die in the attack. (And interestingly, Garfield and McKinley, the other two presidents who were assassinated, actually died of infection from their wounds, not the wounds themselves.) Miniature Donkeys measure under 36' at the withers. They are loving, wonderful pets and do not kill people. African Pygmy Goats were brought to America on the original Voyage of Christopher Columbus. The reason was because they were a good source of milk and meat, and were compact and did not take up much room. They originated as Camaroon House Goats. A snail has a speed of .005 MPH. Ketchup has a speed of .003 MPH Bobby Jones named his putter 'Calamity Jane'. He used that putter to record victories at the US Amateur, British Amateur, US Open and British Open in 1930. Shirlock Holmes never said 'elementary my dear Watson' One of the greatest actor/dancer/singer/choreographer of all time, Fred Astaire, had one of his first screen tests around the late 1920s. A studio executive reported back, 'Can't act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.' There was a big age difference between George and Louise Jefferson. Isabel Sanford is actually 20 years OLDER than Sherman Helmsley. Today, 'Weezy' is 81, and George is 61! Kangaroos are related to the Kangaroo Rat The record for the longest hair in the world belongs to Diane Witt. Pictures and information can be found on the Internet at http://www.alh.tj/diane-witt Since the Lego Group began manufacturing blocks in 1949, more than 189 billion pieces in 2000 different shapes have been produced. This is enough for about 30 Lego pieces for every living person on Earth. Over 30,000,000 Legos were used to construct the attractions and decorations at Legoland in Carlsbad, California. Although many of the bricks used to build the LegoLand theme park came in colors unavailable to the general public, none of the bricks came in sizes, shapes, or forms that cannot be found at a local toy store. All the bricks were either normal Lego (ages 6 and up), Duplo (for toddlers), and Primo (for babies). Suzie Derkins is the only character in Bill Watterson's comic strip, 'Calvin and Hobbes,' to have a first and last name. Calvin's parents have no names at all. The Salvation Army in Australia made the world's first full length feature movie in 1900. It was called 'Soldiers of the cross' Words that are spelled the same but have a different root and meaning, and sometimes different pronunciation, are called homographs, e.g. wound: to injure and wound: past tense of wind. Emmanuel Leutze, a German painter, was commissioned to paint a mural of George Washington crossing the Delaware on Dec. 12, 1776, for the Capitol. He used the Rhine as a model for the Delaware, and if you look closely you'll see that the flag depicted was not adopted until 1777, a year after the 1776 crossing. The size of your foot is approximately the size of your forearm. The word 'barbecue' did not originate from the French 'barbe et queue', but from the Spanish American word 'barbacoa', which was a special cooking frame made from sticks. The 'barbe et queue' story is inaccurate, but because it's cute, it continues to be touted as the truth. Benjamin Franklin invented swim-fins, and created daylight savings time. Kangaroos are marsupials. Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, Missouri is the largest beer producing plant in the nation. The head of beer does disappear if you put your finger in it, but first you must rub the side of your nose. These oils from your skin react with the foam, which causes the head to break down. In Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, there is a famous scene in the Mount Rushmore Cafeteria where Eva Marie Saint shoots Cary Grant (with blanks). If you look carefully, as Eva Marie Saint pulls out her gun, you will see a small boy put his fingers in his ears to shield them from the noise of the gun - the scene was shot several times and he obviously knew what was coming. The first man to die in the American Civil War was Noble Leslie Devotie. He fell off of a ship and drowned. He was also a founder of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity The average horse's head weighs 11.84 pounds Hank Aaron's 715th home run. Pitcher: Al Downing. The outfielder who climbed the fence in a vain attempt to catch the ball: Bill Buckner. Who caught the ball? Tom House, relief pitcher for Atlanta Not all calico or tortoiseshell cats are female. Although extremely rare, male cats with calico or tortoiseshell colouring do exist. Homer's hair is made up of a 'M' and a 'G.' This is Matt Groening's initials. In the opening credits of The Simpsons, how much does Maggie cost? $847.63. It has been claimed by many that Matt Groening once stated that the figure reflects the amount once determined to be the monthly cost of raising an infant in the United States. However, no reliable source confirms this. The Roman vomitorium's purpose was not for people who felt sick during banquets to excuse themselves so they could puke. It was used by everyone. The Roman feasts were huge! After every course, the whole party went to the vomitorium, barfed up the feast, and went back to eat some more. Did U know Adolph Hitler was the designer of the Talmadge Bridge in Savannah,Ga? Bailor shells are large shells that lay eggs and were once used by sailors to bail their boats. Rugby, North Dakota is the Geographical Center of North America, not the geographical center of the United States. That is located in Butte County, S.D., on the state's western border. If only the 48 contiguous states are included, the point is in Smith County, Kansas. All of the DNA in an adult human body could fit inside one ice cube, but if unwound, stretched out, and joined end to end, it would reach from the earth to the sun and back again more that 400 times. Only 3 TV series ended their run as the No. 1 rated show of the year. One each from the 50's, 60's & 90's. Can you name them? They are: 'I Love Lucy', 'The Andy Griffith Show' & 'Seinfeld' Friday 13th is supposed to be associated with the Knights Templar. The French king, who was jealous of their riches and power, organised an assault of their strongholds and broke the power of the Knights. The assault took place on Friday the 13th. Kiwis are the only birds that hunt by the sense of smell. The term scumbag was originally used early in this century to refer to a condom. More people know how to speak English in China than in the USA. [Editor's note: there are also a LOT more people in China!] There are more Maltese people in Melbourne, Australia then in Malta. 'The electric chair, which runs on A.C. (alternating current), was invented by Thomas Edison, due to his 'rivalry' with Mr. Westinghouse. Apparently, Edison was a big proponent of D.C. (direct current), but Westinghouse thought a lot of A.C. So, Edison invented the Electric Chair and wired it for A.C. so that the public would think that A.C. was a 'killer'! It didn't work, and today, we have both A.C. and D.C. As many people know, the sentence, 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy brown dog' uses all the letters of the alphabet. This was the result of a contest in the 1930's to find the shortest sentence with all the letters of the alphabet. However, a shorter entry was actually entered: 'Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs'. Unfortunately, due to prohibition it was disallowed! At the end of the useful life of a light water reactor fuel bundle, most of the heat energy is being generated by the fissioning of Plutonium-239. The word 'Loo' comes from the fact that a long time ago the English did not like other guests to know when they were going to do their business in hotels, so, instead of writing the word 'toilet' on the toilet door, they wrote the number 100, which looks like the word loo. The pacemaker and fog horn were invented by Canadians. The Imax film system was invented by Ivan Grame Ferguson in 1967 to premiere at Expo 67. He was Canadian. A 45 min Imax production has a film length of 4.5 kilometers, 10 meters a minute. The average person living in North Americia opens the fridge 22 times daily. The first official hit in the HHH Metrodome in Minneapolis, MN was made by Pete Rose playing for the Cincinatti Reds in a preseason game. The word coach came from the name of a Hungarian village called Kocs, because they made the first coaches here. A top fuel dragster can accelerate from 0 to 100 miles an hour in 0.8 second.. From 0 to 330 miles an hour in 4.5 seconds using 10 gallons of nitro-methane. Brazil is the only country named after a tree (and not the other way around): 'brazil wood' (pau brasil) in archaic Portuguese means 'ember-like wood' for its strong red color, used for dyeing, the colony's first explored resource. Mulan was the first movie to feature people who have belly buttons. Turkey has the highest cereal consumption in the world. Monaco is smaller than Central Park in New York City Honolulu is closer to Japan than it is to New York City Grover Cleveland was the first and only president to be married in the White House. During WWI, Woodrow Wilson's wife grazed sheep on the White House lawn. On Jan,1 1907 Teddy Roosevelt shook hands with 8,513 people. George Washington's face was scarred from smallpox. Theodore Roosevelt was Elenor Roosevelt's Uncle. John Tyler, a former President, had 15 children. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's birthday is a legal holiday in the Virgin Islands. Per Capita, it's safer to live in New York City than it is to live in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Tug-of-war was an Olympic event from 1900-1920. Hitler was voted Time Magazines man of the year in 1938 It's Illegal to name your kid 'Monica' In Equatorial Guinea In the 'old days', it use to take a fire in a room approximately 15 minutes to reach a temperature hot enough to create the correct mixtures of heat and fuel to 'flashover'. Today, with the difference in building materials and chemicals, the same condition is reached in about 2-3 minutes. The garfish has green bones. Dolphins that live in the Amazon are pink America's first minimum wage was 25 cents an hour back in 1938 Noon originally meant 3pm There is a McDonalds without golden arches in Sedona, Arizona. In the Wizard of Oz, During the witch's castle sequence in the end, Dorothy's hair is 3 different lengths in 3 different shots. The word 'hippopotamus' is Greek for 'river horse'. All snakes are carnivores [meat eaters]. A rodent`s incisors [front teeth] never stop growing. For this reason, rodents must gnaw. A rat can chew through concrete. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone -- but his mom was deaf. Saudi Arabia has no rivers. The Nile has frozen over twice. Once in 1010, and once around 826 only 1% of the carribean islands are inhabited New Zealand's national sport is Rugby In Finland, the national sport is dancing the tango. Patty & Selma smoke 'Laramie' brand Cigarettes (Simpsons Trivia) Krusty is Jewish. (Simpsons Trivia) Lisa is a Vegiterian (Simpsons Trivia) Not only is Bart's voice done by a woman, but also all the rest of the non-adult males have voices done by women. (Simpsons Trivia)
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