Carolyn Bessette Kennedy's pet name for JFK Jr. was "Mouse."
Carpet slippers were created by thrifty housewives who found other uses for old, worn-out pieces of carpet.
Carrots have zero fat content.
Casanova wore condoms made of linen.
Castor Oil®™ is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
Cat gut, used in tennis rackets and strings for musical instruments does not come from cats, but from sheep.
Cat scratch disease, a benign but sometimes painful disease of short duration, is caused by a bacillus. Despite its name, the disease can be transmitted by many kinds of scratches besides those of cats.
Cat urine glows under a black light.
Cat was the name of Holly Golightly's pet cat in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Catfish from the Nile River swim upside-down.
Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.
Catholic Popes who died during sex: Leo VII (936-9) died of a heart attack, John VII (955-64) was bludgeoned to death by the husband of the woman he was with at the time, John XIII (965-72) was also murdered by a jealous husband, Pope Paul II (1467-71) allegedly died while being sodomized by a page boy.
Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine. Cats have 32 muscles in each ear.
Cats average 16 hours of sleep a day, more than any other mammal.Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
Cats sweat through the pads of their feet (especially when they hear a dog barking) and cannot taste sweet things.
Cat's urine glows under a black-light.
Celery does make you lose calories, it doesn't have a special chemical to do so but it has no calories so the chewing burns the calories burned
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living.
Certain frogs can reguritate their stomachs, in order to clean them (with their feet)
Chameleons can move their eyes in two different directions at the same time.
Chameleons can reel in food from a distance as far away as more than two and a half times their body lengths.
Chameleons change their color by dispersing the concentration of pigment in their skin. This is controlled by the autonomic nervous system. Color changes are determined by external factors such as light and temperature as well as emotions. They do not change color to match their background.
Charles Darwin thought that the 1,250 first run copies of his book The Origin of Species was too much. It turned out he was wrong as they sold out the first day of publication.
Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
Charles Dickens grew up in extreme poverty. At the age of 10, his father was sent to debtor's prison, his mother forced into menial labor, this brothers and sisters worked in factories, and Dickens himself had to tie and label sacks of lamp black. He would later draw on these experiences in his novels.
Charles Dodgson, also known as Lewis Carroll, wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" after Alice Pleasance Liddell. It was to be believed he fell in love with her and asked the parents if he could some day marry her. The parents disconnected their friendship. Alice Liddell has 12 letters, as does the pen name Lewis Carroll. It's a coincidence he uses 2 r's where the 2 d's are, as with the 2 L's. Talk about obsessed!
Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
Charlie Brown's dad was a barber.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Cheerios cereal was originally called Cheerioats.
Cheese closes the stomach and should always be served at the end of a meal.
Cheese fondue is said to have originated in the Gourmet Room of the Schweizerhof in Luzern, Switzerland.
Cheese is the oldest of all man-made foods.
Cheese was first made in the Middle East when hunters became herders and realized that milk could solidify (sour milk).
Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.
Cheetahs were originally called Leopards
Cher's last name was Sarkissian, she changed it because no one could pronounce it and it would not be accepted in show business.
Cher's real name is Cherilyn Sarkasian La Pier.
Chewing gum was created by the Mayans over 300 years ago. They boiled the sap of the sapodilla tree and chewed it.
Chewing gum was patented in 1869 by William Semple.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
Chicago has hosted the most presidential conventions with 25. Fourteen have been Republican and 11 Democratic.
Chicago's Lincoln Park was created in 1864. The original 120 acre cemetery had most of its graves removed and was expanded to more than 1000 acres for recreational use.
Chicken liver can be used to change A type blood to O type blood
Children grow faster in the springtime.
Children spend more time learning about life through media than any other manner. The average child spends approximately 28 hours a week watching television, which is twice as much time as they spend in school.
China has close to 25% of the world's population.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
China has trained 700,000 ducks and chickens to attack at the sound of a whistle in order to fight a national plague of locusts.
China was the first country to use paper money.
China. which covers an area of 178 acres.
China's Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat 9,000 people at one time.
Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.
Chocolate contains phenylethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.
Chocolate is potentially lethal to a dog coz cocoa beans contain theobromine which can poison the poor bastard
Chocolate kills dogs. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of the world's almonds and 20 percent of the world's peanuts.
Chocolate melts in your mouth because cocoa butter has a melting point of just below 35 degrees C, a little under body temperature.
Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.
Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.
Chocolate Timeline:1824: John Cadbury, an English Quaker, begins roasting and grinding chocolate beans to sell in his tea and coffee shop. In 1842 Cadbury's Chocolate Company in England creates the first chocolate bar. 1875: A Swiss chocolate maker, Daniel Peter, mixes Henri Nestle's condensed milk with chocolate and the two men found a company to manufacture the first milk chocolate. 1894: Milton Hershey adds a line of chocolate to his caramel manufacturing business. Soon he invents the Hershey Bar by experimenting with milk chocolate. Hershey's Cocoa appears next. 1896: Leonard Hershfield invents the Tootsie Roll, named after his daughter. 1897: Brownies are first mentioned in print, listed for sale in the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogue. 1940: The Mars company invents M&M's for soldiers going to World War II.
Chocolate was introduced into the United States in 1765 when cocoa beans were brought from the West Indies to Dorchester, Massachusetts.Cocoa butter is the natural fat of the cocoa bean. It has a delicate chocolate aroma, but is very bitter tasting. It is used to give body, smoothness, and flavor to eating chocolate.
'Chop Suey' translates to something like 'pieces of meat' and was invented by Chinese railroad workers who didn't know how to cook anything except to 'chop stuff up and fry it'
Chopsticks are called "o-hashi" in Japan and "kwai-tse" in China.
Chris Ford of the the Boston Celtics sank the NBA's first three-point shot in 1979.
Christmas became a national holiday in the US in 1890.
Christopher Columbus had blonde hair.
Christopher Columbus was the greatest explorer NEVER to discover America. In fact, he didn't even come close.
Cicadas have their hearing organs in their stomachs, at the base of the abdomen.
Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator. It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.
Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600's by a translator.
Cindy Laupher had dyslexia and failed every subject in school.
Citizens of Monaco are prohibited from gambling in Monte Carlo, but they're exempt from taxation.
Citrus has been added to coffee for several hundred years.
City Ordinance number 352 in Pacific Grove, CA makes it a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly.
City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.
Clans many many years ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them, burnt their houses down - hence the expression " to get fired."
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them, burnt their houses down hence the expression "to get fired."
Cleveland law forbids you to operate a motor vehicle while sitting in another person's lap.
Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C."
Close to two million people who go to hospitals in the United States for one ailment wind up catching another.
Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
Coca-Cola does not reduce your sperm count
Coca-Cola was originally green
Coca-Cola was so named back in 1885 for its two 'medicinal' ingredients: extract of coca leaves and kola nuts. As for how much cocaine was originally in the formulation, it's hard to know.
Cocaine was sold to cure sore throat, neuralgia, nervousness, headache, colds and sleeplessness in the 1880s.
Cocaine was the first local anesthetic; being used as such from about 1884 onwards.
Cocaine works in a totally different way from narcotics such as morphine or heroin. Heroin works on receptor sites in the brain which are stimulated by the drug to produce pain-relieving and mood-enhancing chemicals. Cocaine on the other hand works by stimulating the central nervous system, and like alcohol, is processed through the liver.
Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.
cockroaches can change course as many as 25 times in one second
Cockroaches can live for nine days without their heads, at which point they die of starvation.
Cockroaches can live with no heads, they only die because of starvation.
Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks.
Coffee as a medicine reached its highest and lowest point in the 1600's in England. Wild medical contraptions to administer a mixture of coffee and an assortment of heated butter, honey, and oil, became treatments for the sick. Soon tea replaced coffee as the national beverage.
Coffee beans are similar to grapes that produce wine in that they are affected by the temperature, soil conditions, altitude, rainfall, drainage and degree of ripeness when picked.
Coffee beans can be mixed into B type blood, changing it into O type blood
Coffee is generally roasted between 400F and 425F. The longer it is roasted, the darker the roast. Roasting time is usually from ten to twenty minutes.
Coffee is graded according to 3 criteria: Bean quality (Altitude and Species) Quality of preparation Size of bean
Coffee is grown commercially in over forty-five countries throughout the world.
Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.
Coffee lends its popularity to the fact that just about all flavors mix well with it.
Coffee Recipe from: 'Kitchen Directory and American Housewife' (1844)
Coffee represents 75% of all the caffeine consumed in the United States.
Coffee sacks are usually made of hemp and weigh approximately 132 pounds when they are full of green coffee beans. It takes over 600,000 beans to fill a coffee sack.
Coffee trees are evergreen and grow to heights above 15 feet but are normally pruned to around 8 feet in order to facilitate harvesting.
Coffee trees are self-pollinating.
Coffee trees produce highly aromatic, short-lived flowers producing a scent between jasmine and orange. These blossoms produce cranberry-sized coffee cherries. It takes four to five years to yield a commercial harvest.
Coffee was first known in Europe as Arabian Wine.
Coffee, along with beer and peanut butter, is on the national list of the "ten most recognizable odors."
Coffee, as a world commodity, is second only to oil.
Cojo, the 1st gorilla born in captivity, was born at the Columbus Zoo, in Ohio, in 1956 and weighed 3 1/4 pounds.
Cole Porter had nine pounds of fudge shipped to him each month from his hometown.
Colgate claims "Tooth Fairy" as a registered trademark.
Colored diamonds are caused by impurities such as nitrogen (yellow), boron (blue). With red diamonds being due to deformities in the structure of the stone, and green ones being the result of irradiation.
Colour blind people are used to detect camouflaged units in previous war-fare. And some of you thought Jonathan was useless.. :P~
Columbus brought cacao (chocolate) beans back to Spain on his fourth voyage in 1502.
Comedian/actor Billy Crystal portrayed Jodie Dallas, the first openly gay main character on network television on ABC's Soap, which aired from 1977 to 1981.
Commercially flavored coffee beans are flavored after they are roasted and partially cooled to around 100 degrees. Then the flavors applied, when the coffee beans' pores are open and therefore more receptive to flavor absorption.
Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.Compulsive or pathological sexual behavior have a 12-step program available to them through SLAA, the Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous.
Coney Island in New York got its name from rabbits. In early days it was overrun by rabbits, which were often referred to as coneys.
Coral (pro osteon) has molecular architecture and chemistry similar to human bone and so it can be used to replace bone grafts, helping bones heal faster. 150-200 pounds of it can sustain hundreds of graphs
Cornelius van Drebel, a Dutch physician, built and successfully demonstrated the first submarine in 1620. It was a wooden framework covered with greased leather. The propulsion was provided by oars worked from the inside. It was tested in the Thames River in London.
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Cotton candy's original name was "fairy fluff."Cows and horses sleep standing up.
Cows are incapable of putting their lips together to make sounds like humans, so they are actually saying "OOOOO" instead of "Moo."
Cows are usually found lying down before it starts to rain.
Cows release 50 million metric tonnes of methane gas a year.
Cows sweat through their noses.
Cows, like my grannie, do not have upper teeth.
'Crack Cocaine' is still cocaine. It is simply a different chemical process applied to cocaine powder that allows cocaine to be smokeable. This means that the 'high' from Crack Cocaine is much stronger and more immediate (taking about 8 seconds to reach the brain); and also shorter lived then from the powder.
'Crack' is the street name given to cocaine that has been processed from cocaine hydrochloride to a free base for smoking. Rather than requiring the more volatile method of processing cocaine using ether, crack cocaine is processed with ammonia or sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and water and heated to remove the hydrochloride, thus producing a form of cocaine that can be smoked.
Cranberries are one of just 3 major fruits native to North America. Blueberries and Concord grapes are the other two.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
Crocodiles can snap their jaws in 1/8th of a second and can use over 40 sets of teeth
Crocodiles have brains no larger than a cigar and they cannot stick their tongue out.
Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico are all a part of the Greater Antilles.
Currently the world's tallest building is the Petronas Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Petronas Towers measures 1,483ft.
Cutthroat Island is the biggest movie flop in history, losing an estimated $81 million. It’s almost double the loss of the second-biggest money loser, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ($48.1 million).
Cyprus has a map on its flag.
D. H. Lawrence enjoyed taking off his clothes and climbing mulberry trees.
Dall's porpoise never sleeps, elephants sleep two hours a day, horses nap standing up, and Sitatunga antelopes can sleep submerged
Damascus, Syria is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. Civilization can be traced as far back as 2,000 B.C.
Dana Carvey changed his name to "Tom" for 2 weeks because he thought Dana was a girl's name.
Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.
Daniel Butterfield was the author of the melody "Taps," and it was the only song he ever wrote.
Danishes are called Vienna cakes in Denmark, and Spanish rice is unknown in Spain.
Dark roasted coffees actually have LESS caffeine than medium roasts. The longer a coffee is roasted, the more caffeine burns off during the process.
Dave Matthews relocated to the United States to avoid service in the South African Military.
David Sarnoff received the Titanic's distress signal and saved hundreds of passengers. He later became the head of the first radio network, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC).
David Wolf was the first person to cast an absentee ballot from space. In November 1997, he cast a vote via e-mail for the mayor of Houston while onboard the space station Mir.
Daylight savings time started during World War I, so Americans could use as much natural lighting as possible and conserve energy needed for war production. Despite the Uniform Time Act, which Congress passed in 1966 to standardize the time change, several states within the United States do not observe Daylight Saving Time. They are Arizona, Hawaii, parts of Indiana, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa.
Death Valley, California, has a point that is 280 feet below sea level.
December 1972 U.S. astronaut Eugene Cernan becomes the last person to set foot on the moon.
Deer sleep only 5 minutes a day.
Dennis H. sent in a link proving this fact to be wrong, which means the book I got it from was wrong. I contacted the U.S. Mint and found that the first circulated coins 11,178 copper cents were minted in March 1793.
Dentists have recommended that toothbrushes be kept at least six feet from toilets to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.Despite a population of well over one billion people, there are only an estimated 250 million televisions in use in China.
Despite its reputation for being finicky, the average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids. In case you were wondering, cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
Despite the break up of the USSR, Russia is still the largest country in the world. It’s almost twice the size of Canada, which ranks second.
Despite the fact that federal spending on the drug war increased from $1.65 billion in 1982 to $17.7 billion in 1999, more than half of the students in the United States in 1999 tried an illegal drug before they graduated from high school. Additionally, 65% have tried cigarettes by 12th grade and 35% are current smokers, and 62% of twelfth graders and 25% of 8th graders in 1999 report having been drunk at least once.
Despite the fact that Madagascar is situated about 300 miles off the Eastern African coast, the majority of it's population is from Indonesia which is 3000 miles further East.
Despite the many rat infested slums in New York City, only 311 people are bitten by rats in an average year. But 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers
Detroit policeman William L. Potts is credited with inventing the modern street traffic light in 1920. He worked out an electric light system that allowed him to control three street intersections from one tower He picked the red, yellow and green because railroads used them.
Developed in Egypt about 5,000 years ago, the greyhound breed was known before the ninth century in England, where it was bred by aristocrats to hunt such small game as hares.
Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts.
Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for about 180,000 deaths per year.
Diamond is the hardest naturally occurring substance, and is also one of the most valuable natural substances. Diamonds are crystals formed almost entirely of carbon. Because of its hardness, the diamond is the most enduring of all gemstones. They are among the most costly jewels in the world, partly because they are rare, Only four important diamond fields have been found in Africa, South America, India, and the Soviet Union.
Did you know a tuna called the 'Blue Fin' tuna can be sold for over $20,000 around the world?
Did you know that 85.7% of statisics are made up?
Did you know that a goldfish has a memory spand of 5 seconds??? You wouldn't wanna tell a goldfish anything to improtant!!
Did you know that cow farts are one major cause of global warming.
Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live?
Did you know that in Tibet there is actually a practice called 'polyandry' where many men, usually brothers, marry a single woman? This takes place so that only one set of children will inherit the land.
Did you know there was one U.S. state that no longer exists? In 1784 the U.S. had a state called Franklin, named after Benjamin Franklin. But four years later, it was incorporated into Tennessee.
Diet Soda kills brain cells because they use so many chemicals to make it "diet"...
Dill seeds are so small that approximately 10,000 dill seeds would be required to make an ounce.
Discovered in the foundations of Dudley Castle near Birmingham, England, these condoms were made from fish and animal intestines and dated back to 1640.
Dismal first-year sales of famous products: VW Beetle (U.S.)--sold 330 first year. Liquid Paper--sold 1,200 bottles first year. Cuisinart--sold 200 first year. Remington typewriter--sold 8 first year. Scrabble--sold 532 first year. Coca-Cola--sold 25 bottles first year. (For total of $50; supplies and advertising ran $70.)
Disney World in Orlando, Florida covers 30,500 acres (46 square miles), making it twice the size of the island of Manhattan, New York.
Disneyland opened in 1955.
Dogs and humans are the only species that have prostates.
Dogs can't decifer size. Thats why little dogs are mean.
Dolley Madison is credited with inventing ice cream. Nancy Johnson, the wife of a naval officer, is credited for inventing the ice cream freezer.
Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.
Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to.
Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of the water. They frequently rise to the surface for air.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open
Dolplins are the only other mamals besides humans that have sex for fun.
Domestic cats hate lemons or other citrus scents.
Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags.
Dominique Larrey, Napoleon's chief surgeon, could amputate a leg in 13 seconds.
Don Mac Lean's song "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who all died in the same plane crash.
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, has been translated into more languages than any book outside of the Bible.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Donald Duck lives at 1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota.
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