At one time, Venus de Milo had arms.
At sea level there are 2,000 pounds of air pressure on each square foot of your body area.
At the age of 26, Michelangelo began sculpting his monumental statue of David. He finished it seventeen months later, in January, 1504.
At the beginning of the year 2001 all Canadian cigarette packaging will depict graphic images of rotting teeth and deteriorating organs.
At the distance at which our sun is located from the center of the Milky Way galaxy, Earth and the rest of our solar system are moving at a speed of about 170 miles per second around the center.
At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life", an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.
At the end of WWII the Germans had more planes than the start of the war.
At the height of its power (400 BC) the Greek city of Sparta had 500,000 slaves and only 25,000 citizens.
At the time of the U.S. Revolutionary War, Philadelphia was the second largest English-speaking city in the world, surpassed only by London.
At Will's first competition he competes with the sword, and after his first victory Jeff gives a little speech which recieves no response until one of Will's friends cheers. this was a mistake none of the extras spoke english and so missed their cue to start cheering, and needed a reminder from one of the lead actors. This scene was going to be shot but the director decided this was better than what they had planned.
Attila the Hun (invader of Europe; 406-453), Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), and Pope Leo VIII (d 963-965) all died while having sex.
Audrey Hepburn’s real name was Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston.
August 9, 1173 marked the first day of construction on the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It was completed sometime in 1370 after two building stoppages. In 1178, when the tower was three stories tall, construction was halted for unknown reasons. It wasn't until 1272 that construction resumed, and that lasted until 1278 (the tower was seven stories at that point). In 1360, construction of the belfry that would eventually hold seven bells began.
Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 1889, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.
Australia has no native monkeys. (in the wild)
Australia is a major exporter of camels
Australia is the only country that is also a continent.
Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
Australians consume 60% more coffee than tea, a sixfold increase since 1940.
Australia's box jellyfish has toxins more potent than the venom in cobras, and is one of the most dangerous jellyfish in the world
Average calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race: 10,000.
Average length of a coat hanger when straightened: 44 inches.
Average number of eggs laid by the female American Oyster per year: 500 million. Usually only one oyster out of the bunch reaches maturity.
Average number of hummingbirds required to create the weight of 1 ounce: 18.
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.Average number of squirts from a cow's udder needed to yield a gallon of milk : 345.
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.
Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 golden goblets of hot chocolate every day. It was thick, dyed red and flavored with chili peppers.
Aztec emperor Montezuma had nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
Aztecs believed that the sun died every night and needed human blood to give it strength to rise the next day. So they sacrificed 15,000 men a year to appease their sun god, Huitzilopochtli. Most of the victims were prisoners taken in wars, which were sometimes started solely to round up sacrificial victims.
Babe Ruth hit his first major-league home run on May 6, 1915. He was playing for the Boston Red Sox at the time. 'The Sultan of Swat' went on to smash 714 round-trippers before he retired, as a New York Yankee, in 1935.
Babe Ruth kept a lettuce leaf under his hat to keep cool during a game.
Babe Ruth was able to throw two baseballs in such a way that the balls remained parallel to each other all the way from his hand to the catcher's glove. Ruth was famous for this stunt and would demonstrate it on request.
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his hat while playng baseball, and he used to change it every two innings.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Babies crawl an average of 200m a day
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
Baby elephants can drink over 80 litres of milk a day. (Do you drink milk?)
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
Back in 1924, a monkey was convicted in South Bend of the crime of smoking a cigarette and sentenced to pay a 25 dollar fine and the trial costs.
Back in the mid to late 80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
Badgers and coyotes hunt ground squirrels together. The badger tracks the squirrel and digs into its tunnels, and the coyote catches it when it tries to escape.
Bald men have the same amount of hair on their heads as other men.
Ballistics is the science that deals with the motion of projectiles.
Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University.
Balneology is the science of swimming pools. Balneologists study problems of heating, cleaning, maintenance, and construction.
Bamboo can grow up to 36 inches in a day. Click here
Banana oil never saw a banana; it's made from petroleum.
Banana plants are the largest plants on earth without a woody stem. They are actually giant herbs of the same family as lilies, orchids and palms.
Bananas are actually herbs. Bananas die after fruiting, like all herbs do.
Bananas are America's #1 fruit.
Bananas are one of the few fruits that ripen best off the plant. If left on the plant, the fruit splits open and the pulp has a "cottony" texture and flavor. Even in tropical growing areas, bananas for domestic consumption are cut green and stored in moist shady places to ripen slowly.
Bananas are perennial crops that are grown and harvested year-round. The banana plant does not grow from a seed but rather from a rhizome or bulb. Each fleshy bulb will sprout new shoots year after year.
Bananas were officially introduced to the American public at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. Each banana was wrapped in foil and sold for 10 cents. Before that time, bananas came to America on the decks of sailing ships as sailors took a few stems home after traveling in the Caribbean.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Barbara Bush's book about her English Springer Spaniel, Millie's book, was on the bestseller list for 29 weeks. Millie was the most popular "First Dog" in history.
Barbers are forbidden by law from shaving a man's chest in Omaha, Nebraska.
Barbers at one time combined shaving and haircutting with bloodletting and pulling teeth. The white stripes on a field of red that spiral down a barber pole represent the bandages used in the bloodletting.
Barbies full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Bart Simpson's voice on the Simpsons is actually done by a woman, Nancy Cartwright.
Baseball is the only sport that looks backwards in a mirror.
Baseball rules were codified in 1846 by Alexander Cartwright of the Knickerbocker Baseball Club.
Baseball's home plate is 17 inches wide.
Baseball's National League was born in 1876. Eight competing baseball teams met in New York City's Grand Central Hotel. The first president of the new league was Morgan Gardner Bulkeley, who later became a US Senator. The eight original cities with teams were: Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Louisville and Hartford. Two of the original teams are now in the American League (Boston and New York) while Louisville and Hartford are now minor-league baseball towns.
Based on a US Justice Department study conducted between 1992 and 1996, workplace violence troubles 1.7 million Americans a year. Number of workers attacked or threatened per thousand: Police officers: 306, Private security guards: 218, Taxi drivers: 184, Prison guards: 117, Bartenders: 91, Mental health professionals: 80, Gas station attendants: 79.
Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith. He set out to invent a game to occupy students between the football and baseball seasons.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. Bats are the only mammals that are able to fly.Bayer was advertising cough medicine containing heroin in 1898.
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.
Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
Because of Davy Jones's popularity as a member of The Monkees, another young singer in London, also named David Jones, was forced to change his name to David Bowie.
Because of the speed at which the sun moves, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.
Because of TV censorship, actress Mariette Hartley was not allowed to show her belly button on Gene Roddenberry's STAR TREK [episode #78 "All Our Yesterdays" in 1969] but later Roddenberry got even when he gave Hartley "two" belly buttons in the sci-fi movie Genesis II (1973).
Beer has a bitter taste and slightly pungent aroma because of lupulin, a substance found in hops.
Bees and dogs can smell fear
Bees can see ultraviolet light.
Bees have five eyes.
Bees kill more people a year than sharks do.
Bees visit over 2,000 flowers and fly over 55,000 miles to produce just 1 lb. of honey.
Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
Beethoven used to pour cold water over his head to stimulate his brain before sitting down to compose.
Beethoven who was a coffee lover, was so particular about his coffee that he always counted 60 beans each cup when he prepared his brew.
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and white worms like fried pork rinds.
Before 1850, golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers.
Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate.
Before 1917, goalies (in hockey) were not allowed to fall to the ice to make saves or else they were penalized.
Before Columbus, Europe had never tasted cord, potatoes, tomatoes, red peppers, sweet potatoes, tapioca, chocolate, pumpkins, squash, coconuts, pineapples, strawberries, and much more. Why? All these food items are native to America.
Before jets, jet lag was called boat lag.
Before roasting, some green coffee beans are stored for years, and experts believe that certain beans improve with age, when stored properly.
Before the 984 foot high Eiffel Tower was built in 1889, the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. was the tallest building in the world at 555 feet.
Before the first French cafe in the late 1700's, coffee was sold by street vendors in Europe, in the Arab fashion. The Arabs were the forerunners of the sidewalk espresso carts of today.
Before the merger with MGM in 1981, eight of the top ten movies released by United Artists were James Bond films.
Belgium is the only country that has never imposed censorship for adult films.
Believe that Buddha, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad... are all prophets from God? Have you heard of the baha'i faith?
Ben Franklin invented crop insurance.
Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.
Besides the genitals and the breasts, the inner nose is the only other body part that routinely swells during intercourse.
Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.
Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
Bette Midler, Barry Manilow and many other famous vocalists got their start in a New York City club called The Continental Baths.
Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney collected thirty-five Oscars.
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
Between 1940 and 1987, a total of 94 patents had been taken out on shaving mugs.
Between 1991 and 1996, India produced the most movies per year on average. The 851 movies per year beat the yearly average of the United States (569) by 282 for the same time frame.
Between April 1st and September 30th it is legal to capture and castrate any horse or donkey that you find roaming around your property.
Bibliomancy is the practice by some people of opening the Bible at random and being guided for the day by whatever verse they see first.
Bilbo Baggins was born on September 22 1290.
Bill Clinton is the only President ever to be elected twice without ever receiving 50% of the popular vote. He had 43 percent in 1992 and 49 percent in 1996.
Bill Gates began his business career at the age of 14 by forming a company called Traf-O-Data with some friends of his.
Bill Gates once was an employee for Apple. He worked with Jobs and Wasniak (sp?) to develop the OS for the first Apple computers. Later, he left Apple and began his own little company, known as Micro-Soft. It later became known as Microsoft... the reigning king of the software industry as we all know it.
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.
Bird eggs come in a wide variety of sizes. The largest egg from a living bird belongs to the ostrich. It is more than 2,000 times larger than the smallest bird egg, which is produced by the hummingbird. Ostrich eggs are about 7.1 inches long, 5.5 inches wide and typically weigh 2.7 pounds. Hummingbird eggs are half an inch long, a third of an inch wide and weigh half a gram, or less than a fifth of an ounce.
Birds are largely unaffected by spicy things, like chilies, as they not sensitive to capsaicin, the hot stuff in chilies.
Bittersweet chocolate is what is usually called for in baking. It contains more chocolate liquor (at least 35%) and less sugar than sweet chocolate. Semisweet chocolate contains 15% 35% chocolate liquor.
Black lemurs are the only primates that can have blue eyes.
Blaise Pascal's father was a French tax collector who had trouble keeping track of his collections. So in 1642, young Pascal designed and built a mechanical adding machine to help. It was the first mechanical calculator in history.
Blondes have more hair than dark haired people do.
Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide.
Blue and fin whales can create the loudest sound by animals ever recorded; sounds that have more energy than jet plane noise.
Blueberry Jelly Belies were created especially for Ronald Regan.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman, he changed it in honor of Dylan Thomas.
Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead learned to play slide guitar on stage much to the chagrin of Jerry Garcia.
Bock's Car was the name of the B-29 Bomber that dropped the Atom Bomb on Nagasaki.
Boil in tin pot twenty to twenty-five minutes. If boiled longer it will not taste fresh and lively.
Boiled grape juice was the fluid used as a lubricant for the first contact lenses. Eugene Flick, who invented contact lenses in 1887, chose boiled grape juice over sugar water to lubricate the thick glass lenses that covered the entire eye.
Books on religion outnumbered works of fiction by a 2 to 1 margin in 1870 England. Sixteen years later, novels surpassed religious works.
Born on November 2, 1718, British politician, John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, is credited with naming the 'sandwich.' He developed a habit of eating beef between slice of toast so he could continue to play cards uninterrupted.
Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations.
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
Bourbon whiskey gets its name from Bourbon County, Kentucky, where local distillers developed the drink around 1800.
Bowlers are allowed to have a maximum of five finger grip holes on a regulation bowling ball.
Boy George used to go out with his drummer.
Bozeman, Montana, has a law that bans all sexual activity between members of the opposite sex in the front yard of a home after sundownif they're nude. (Apparently, if you wear socks, you're safe from the law!)
Brabara Cartland is the world's top-selling author with over 500 million copies sold.
Brain damage occurs at an internal temperature of 105 degrees Fahrenheit.
Brazil accounts for almost 1/3 of the world's coffee production, producing over 3-1/3 billion pounds of coffee each year.
Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way round.
Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world (behind Russia, Canada, China and the United States). It’s only 300,000 square miles smaller than the United States. Australia, India, Argentina, Kazakhstan and the Sudan round out the Top 10.
Brazil is the location of the worlds widest road. 160 cars can drive side by side.
Brazil is the only country to have played in every World Cup soccer tournament.
Brigham Young invented the department store. Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI as it's known to those in Utah) is still in operation in Salt Lake City.
Britain's first escalator was installed in Harrods in 1878.
Britain's present royal family was originally named Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The name was changed in 1917, during WW1 because of German connotations. The name Windsor was suggested by one of the staff. At the same time the Battenberg family name of the cousins to the Windsors was changed into Mountbatten.
Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.
Brown eggs come from hens with red feathers and red ear lobes; white eggs come from hens with white feathers and white ear lobes.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves.
Bruce Lee was the Hong Kong 'cha cha' dance champion in 1958 He was also an American born in San Francisco and had a German grandfather.
Bubble gum contains rubber.Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms.
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.
Bullfrog Dietrich of the Chicago White Sox was the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter while wearing eyeglasses. He did it in 1937.
Bulls are colorblind, it is the motion of the cape which angers them.
Bulls are not attracted to the color red
Bulls don't really get angry when they see the color red, it's really movement that makes them charge.
Bumping foreheads with a hands shake is the traditional greeting in Tibet.
Bunny rabbits poop almost every time they hop around in a newly-explored area.
Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
BVD stands for the organizers of the company: Bradley, Voorhies, and Day.
By 1850, the manual coffee grinder found its way to most upper middle class kitchens of the U.S.
By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
By the time a child finishes elementary school she will have witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on television.
By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)
C3P0 is the first character to speak in Star Wars.
Caffeine is on the International Olympic Committee list of prohibited substances. Athletes who test positive for more than 12 micrograms of caffeine per milliliter of urine may be banned from the Olympic Games. This level may be reached after drinking about 5 cups of coffee.
Caffeine: there are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams in a six-ounce cup of cocoa, 5 to 10 milligrams in one ounce of bittersweet chocolate, and 5 milligrams in one ounce of milk chocolate.
Calculating DNA length for each person, it would stretch across the diameter of the solar system. 6 000 000 000 000 basepairx 0.6 nm x 1013 cell = 3.6x1016 metres
caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a
California's Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11-years-old.
Calling for shutgun comes form the Western Days when in the wagon the guy sitting next to the driver held a Shotgun for protection.
Calvin Coolidge, was so famous for saying so little that a White House dinner guest made a bet that she could get him to say more than two words. She told the president of her wager. His reply: "You lose."
Calvin Coolidge's Vice President Charles Dawes earned a Nobel Peace Prize.
Camel milk does not curdle.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
Campanology is the study of bells.
Canada actually comes from the word 'Kanata', a Huron or Iroquois word for village, and Canada is a 'big village'.
Canada declared national beauty contests canceled as of 1992, claiming they were degrading to women.
Canada declared that all national beauty contests to be cancelled in 1992, claiming they were degrading.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."
Canada's national sport is lacrosse not hockey.
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in Orange County, California. Number one is heart disease.
Cannibalism, eating human flesh, is also called anthropophagy.
Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons.
Capsaicin, which makes hot peppers "hot" to the human mouth, is best neutralized by casein, the main protein found in milk.
Captain Cook lost 41 of his 98 crew to scurvy (a lack of vitamin C) on his first voyage to the South Pacific in 1768. By 1795 the importance of eating citrus was realized, and lemon juice was issued on all British Navy ships.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard's (Star Trek) fish was named Livingston.
Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott."
Captain William Driver, skipper of the brig Charles Doggett, was the first person to call the American flag "Old Glory". He made a ceremony of it in 1824.
Car wash attendants in San Francisco, California may not use old pairs of underware to wash or dry vehicles.
Carbonated soda water was invented in 1767 by Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen.
Cards may not be played in the street with a Native American.
Carnegie Hall in New York City opened in 1891 with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
Carob trees do not produce fruit until they are seventy years old.
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