A Short List of Odd But True Things
1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
3. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one
in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
4. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
5. The average secretary’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
6. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
7. There are more chickens than people in the world.
8. Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
9. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
“screeched.”
10. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the
Parliament Building is an American flag.
11. All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
12. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver or purple.
13 “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”
14. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial
on the back of the $5.00 bill
15. Almonds are members of the peach family.
16. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
17. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
18. There are only four words in the English language which end in
“-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
19. Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la
Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula.” And can be abbreviated to
3.63% of its size, “LA”
20. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
21. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
22. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
23. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time
displayed on a watch is 10:10.
24. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
25. The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
26. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at
home, the stadium becomes the state’s third largest city.
27. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named
after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s
“It’s A Wonderful Life”
28. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
29. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
30. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
31. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper
left-hand corner of the “1″ encased in the “shield” and a spider
hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
32. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
33. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
34. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
35. The name for Oz in the “Wizard of Oz” was thought up when
the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw
A-N, and O-Z, hence “Oz.”
36. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by
a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
37. John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
38. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Sounds from our backyard
I recorded these frogs and birds with my digital recorder……
All from one
*An adult human body contains approximately 100 trillion cells.
*Developmentally, every human being spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Blood and spit
*A single human blood cell takes only 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
*The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime
Dolphins never sleep
Dolphins never sleep. When they rest, they shut their brains down one hemisphere at a time, and are known to swim in figure-8 patterns when in that mode.
