- A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
- Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
- you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
- Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny
- In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
- Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
- There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
- There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
- America once issued a 5-cent bill!
- The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head! and male praying mantis cannot have sex until it's head detatch which is why the female inticiates sex by ripping the males head off.
- An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
- In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
- Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
- Bulls are colorblind so it is the cape waving not the color red they attack
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- most Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
- Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first
- baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
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