Most people move about forty times in their sleep during the night.
Most-visited presidential grave: John F. Kennedy's in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. The only other president buried in Arlington: William Howard Taft.
Mount Everest is a foot higher today than it was a century ago, and it's believed to still be growing.
Mount Everest moves approximately 2.4 inches (10 cm) in a Northeasterly direction every year.
Mount Everst in Nepal, China: 29,035 feet / 8850 meters (seven feet [2.1 meters] above it's height of 29,028 feet which was determined in 1954).
Mountain Dew does reduce your sperm count significantly.
Movie detective Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.
Mozart sold one of his most prized pieces, Symphony No. 5 for under $20.
Mr Ennis used to be a singer for a jazz band (He's my modern history teacher)
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.
Mt. Athos, in northern Greece, likes to call itself an independent country. It has a population of about 4,000...all men. No females of any kind, including animals, are allowed. There are twenty monasteries within a space of twenty miles.
MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. on August 1, 1981 The first music-video shown on the rock-video cable channel was, appropriately, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. MTV's original five veejays were Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, J.J. Jackson and Alan Hunter.
Muhammad Ali won his heavyweight championships on three continents: North America, Asia and Africa.
Muhammad is the most common first name in the world.
Mules are genetically sterile. i.e. they cannot reproduce.
Murphy's oil soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
Mushrooms have no chlorophyll so they don't need sunshine to grow and thrive. Some of the earliest commercial mushroom farms were set up in caves in France during the reign of King Louis XIV (1638-1715).
Nabisco's "Oreo's" are the world's best-selling brand of cookie at a rate of 6 billion sold each year. The first Oreo was sold in 1912.
'Naked' means to be unprotected. 'Nude' means unclothed.
Names for Atlantic hurricanes can be only French, English, or Spanish.
Napoleon Bonaparte is the historical figure most often portrayed in movies. He has been featured in 194 movies, Jesus Christ in 152, and Abraham Lincoln in 137.
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
Napoleon took 14,000 French decrees and simplified them into a unified set of 7 laws. This was the first time in modern history that a nation's laws applied equally to all citizens. Napoleon's 7 laws are so impressive that by 1960 more than 70 governments had patterned their own laws after them or used them verbatim.
NASCAR stands for National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing.
Natural gas has no odor. The smell is added artificially so that leaks can be detected.
Nearly 400 cocoa beans are required to make a pound of chocolate liquor, the semi-liquid mass produced by grinding the beans. A non-alcoholic substance, chocolate liquor is the basis of all chocolate and cocoa products.
Nearly 50% of all bank robberies take place on Friday.Nearly half the people on the earth live in only one thirtieeth of the total land area.
Neck ties were first worn in Croatia.
Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
Neil Shoen, the guitarist from Journey got his start playing in San Francisco with Santana.
Neil Young was once roommates with Rick James.
Neither Fruit Flies nor May Flies are flies.
Nevada was the first state to sanction the use of the gas chamber, and the first execution by lethal gas took place in February, 1924.
New Hampshire law forbids you to tap your feet, nod your head, or in any way keep time to the music in a tavern, restaurant, or cafe.
New Hampshire's license plates are stamped with the motto "Live Free Or Die." They are made by prison inmates.
New Jersey, with 96, is the US state with the greatest number of hazardous waste sites.
New Orleans' first Mardi Gras celebration was held in February, 1826.
New York City has 570 miles of shoreline.
New York City's administrative code still requires that hitching posts be located in front of City Hall so that reporters can tie their horses.
New York City's nickname the "Big Apple" is named after an early swing-dance that originated in a South Carolina club (which used to be a church) called "The Big Apple."
New York's first St. Patrick's day parade was held on March 17, 1762.
New Zealand is the only country that contains every type of climate in the world.
Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They gradually merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5.
Next time you start a riot in Wisconsin remember that it is illegal to use a laser pointer to do so.
Nine U.S. Presidents never went to college: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, and Harry Truman.
Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.
No evidence of man's evolutionary ancestors has so far been found in either North or South America. Fossils and other remains suggest that the first Americans crossed the Bering Straits (which at the time was dry land) from Asia between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago.
No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second.No language has more synonyms than English.
No man is allowed to make love to his wife with the smell of garlic, onions, or sardines on his breath in Alexandria, Minnesota. If his wife so requests, law mandates that he must brush his teeth.
No one knows where Mozart is buried.
No one knows why there is a 33 on a Rolling Rock bottle... the secret died with the original brewer.
No one knows why, but 90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right....
No one may catch fish with his bare hands in Kansas.
No piece of dry square paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
No piece of square, dry paper can be folded more than seven times in half
No president of the United states was an only child.
No SEAL has ever surrendered and no wounded or dead SEAL has ever been left on the field during battle.
No solar eclipse can last longer than 7 minutes 58 seconds because of the speed at which the sun moves.No species of wild plant produces a flower or blossom that is absolutely black, and so far, none has been developed artificially.
No two human outer EARS (pinnae)-even your own- are exactly alike.Earology, as the system is called, was developed to supplement identification by fingerprints.
No two lions have the same pattern of whiskers, like a fingerprint.
No two spider webs are the same.
No woman may have sex with a man while riding in an ambulance within the boundaries of Tremonton, Utah. If caught, the woman can be charged with a sexual misdemeanor and "her name is to be published in the local newspaper." The man isn't charged nor is his name revealed.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
Nobel, actually invented dynamite, (Dynamite no.1 and Ballistite) but when he saw the destruction it caused, he decided to do something benevolent with all the money he made. Hence the Nobel Prize.
Nobody is buried in Grant's tomb. President & Mrs. Grant are entombed there. A body is buried only when it is placed in the ground and covered with dirt.
Nobody knows what happened to the body Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. During his funeral in 1791, a thunderstorm suddenly appeared and his funeral party dropped the coffin and ran for cover. When they returned, the coffin was gone.
Nobody knows where Mozart is buried.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
Non-married couples in Idaho who engage in sexual intercourse can be jailed for up to six months
No-one has ever died from smoking cannabis
North America was called Turtle Island by the Delaware Indians.
Not only do apple seeds contain cyanogens, precursors to cyanide, but peach pits, almond skins, citrus fruits and some berrys contain them aswell.
Nothing rhymes with the word 'month'
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Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously it can kill you.
Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are at least fifty years old.
October 1st is the official Coffee Day in Japan.
Oddly, no term existed for "homosexuality" in ancient Greece there were only a variety of expressions referring to specific homosexual roles. Experts find this baffling, as the old Greek culture regarded male/male love in the highest regard. According to several linguists, the word "homosexual" was not coined until 1869 by the Hungarian physician Karoly Maria Benkert.
Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.
Of all the languages in the world, English has the largest vocabulary about 800,000 words.
Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions.
Of Chief Executives, only Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of a President.
Of the 206 bones in the human body, 52 are in the feet.
Of the 2200 persons quoted in the current edition of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," only 164 are women.
Of the 25 highest mountains on earth, 19 are in the Himalayas.
Of the 266 men who have been pope, 33 have died violently.
Of the 3,000 islands in the Bahama chain in the Caribbean, only 20 are inhabited.
Of the 60,000 americans who fled to Canada during the Viet Nam war 30,000 still reside there.
Of the estimated 162 million land-based telephones in the U.S., 25 million have unlisted numbers.
Of the Top 10 grossing movies of the 1980s, seven were either produced or directed by Stephen Spielberg or George Lucas. They also represent the men behind the top three grossing films of the 1970s.
Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
Officially, the term "boulder" is applied only to stones larger than 10 inches in diameter.
Ok food fans! Whats in an oxtail soup? "Oxen tails!" i hear you say...well, wrong. Try beef cattle.
Okay, ketchup actually began in Thailand. There it was labelled "Kachiap".
Olympic badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers.Olympic pools are 50 meters long.
Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system.
On a bingo card of 90 numbers there are approximately 44 million possible ways to make bingo.
On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.
On a clear night in the Northern Hemisphere the naked eye can discern some 5000 stars.
On an American one-dollar bill there is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the upper-right-hand "1" and a spider hidden in the front upper-right-hand corner.
On April 12, 1938, the state of New York passed a law requiring medical tests for marriage license applicants, the first state to do so.
On April 25, 1889, The Kansas Times and Star was the first newspaper to use the phrase “bestseller.” On that day the newspaper listed six books as the “best sellers here last week.”
On August sixth, 1945, during World War Two, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated 140,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.
On average 150,000 pints of Guiness are lost each year in the mustaches of English tavern-goers.
On average 900 people start the Navy SEALs training program. On average 650 people drop out.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day.
On average, 42,000 balls are used and 650 matches are played at the annual Wimbledon tennis tournament.
On average, 90% of the people that have the disease Lupus are female.
On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
On average, about 500 meteorites strike the surface of the Earth each year. The calculated risk of being struck by a meteorite in the United States is once every 9,300 years.
On average, adults watch double the amount of TV as teenagers do.
On average, Americans consume eighteen acres of pizza daily
On average, Americans spend about 6 months of their lives waiting at red traffic lights.On average, cows poop 16 times a day.
On average, every American consumes 109 pounds of beef a year. It takes eight pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef.
On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.
On average, every person in the United States owns 2.1 radios.
On average, more people fear spiders than death.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do dying. However, statistically you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by the bite of a poisonous spider.
On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
On average, right-handed people live 9 years longer than their left-handed counterparts.
On average, twelve newborns are given to the wrong parents each day.
On average, we lose 11 oz. of weight while we are asleep at night.
On average, we spend 6 months of our lives waiting for red lights.
On average, when asked for a color, 3 out of 5 people will say red.
On Dec. 10th 1901 the 1st Nobel prizes were awarded. Literature Rene Sully-Prudhomme; Physiology Emil von Behring; Chemistly Jacobus van't Hoff; Physics Wilhelm Roentgen; Peace Jean Henri Dunant Frederic Passy.
On December 20, 1860, South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union.
On February 6, 1971 the first golf ball was hit on the moon by Alan Shepard.
On February 7, 1969 a meteorite weighing over 1 ton fell in Chihuahua, Mexico.
On February 9, 1993, "Dateline NBC" was forced to publicly apologize, and NBC president Michael Gartner resigned for a scandal caused by "Dateline" rigging a GM truck with explosives to simulate a "scientific" crash-test demo.
On Hilton Head Island, South Carolina it is illegal to shine a flashlight on a sea turtle.
On its trip around the sun, the earth travels over a million and a half miles per day.
On July 28th, 1945, a US Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York's Empire State Building, killing 14 people.
On July 4, 1776, King George III of England noted in his diary: "Nothing of importance happened today."
On June 26th, 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco. (The text of the charter was in five languages: Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.)
On May 25, 1957, two men with the same name scored holes in one on the same golf course. Edward Chapman got a hole in one on the eighth hole at Richmond, Surrey in England. Later that day, Edward Chapman hit one from from the sixth tee.
On record, the largest iceberg ever, was larger than the country of Belgium.
On record, the only time it recently snowed in the Sahara Desert was on Feb.18,1979.
On September 13th, 1916 an elephant that had killed a man was hanged until dead from a rail road crain in Erwin, Tennesee. On their first attempt the elephant fell to the ground. It was very sad.
On the cartoon show "The Jetsons," Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15 years old.
On the old Canadian 2 dollar bill,the flag flying over the Parliament Building is NOT an American flag.
On this planet there is a can of SPAM opened every four seconds.
Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.
One - quarter of the world's cattle live in India.
One 75-watt light bulb gives off more light than three 25-watt light bulbs.
One American of every 16 will have one of the Top 12 most common last names.
One beaver can cut down as many as 216 trees per year.
One in about eight million people has progeria, a disease that causes people to grow faster than they age.
One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
One in every 9000 people is an albino.
One in every four Americans has appeared on television.
One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.
One light year the distance light travels in a year at the speed of 186,000 miles per second is just under six thousand billion miles. Earth's nearest neighbor in space, outside our own solar system is four light years away (about 24 trillion miles).
One million tons of oil is equivalent to about 13,000,000,000 kilowatt hours of electricity.
One of the greatest soldiers in history, Alexander the Great, was tutored by the greatest thinker of all time, Aristotle.
One of the holiest Christian holidays is named after a pagan goddess. The name "Easter" derives from the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre, who governed the vernal equinox.
One of the largest carriers of hepitius B is diner mints.
One of the many Tarzans, Karmuala Searlel, was mauled to death by a raging elephant on set.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as competition).
One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured.
One penny doubled everyday becomes over 5 million dollars in just 30 days.
One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.
One pound of tea can make 300 cups of the beverage.
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
One square mile of land contains more insects than total number of human beings on earth.
One tonne of uranium produces the same amount of energy as 30,000 tonnes of coal.
Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.
Only 16% of able-bodied males in the American colonies participated in the Revolutionary War.
Only 4 mayors of U.S. cities went on to become president: Calvin Coolidge, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Andrew Johnson.
Only 3 words in the English language end in "ceed": "proceed," "exceed," and "succeed."
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
Only about 20% of harvested coffee beans are considered to be a premium bean of the highest quality.
Only female mosquitoes bite. Females need the protein from blood to produce their eggs. Males only drink water and plant juice.
Only four countries in the world start with the letter 'D'. They are Denmark, Dominica, Djibouti and the Dominican Republic
Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.
Only 1 out of 100 people have a computerOnly one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.
Only one movie has had three Academy Award nominees in the same category. In 1963, Tom Jones earned Best Supporting Actress nominations for Diane Cilento, Dame Edith Evans and Joyce Redman.
Only one of the 88 stable chemicals are named after a person gadolinium. It's named after Finnish chemist Johan Gadolin.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 years old.
Only six baseball teams remain from the original National League, which was founded in 1876.
Only three horses who had never previously won a race earned their first victories at the Kentucky Derby. They were Buchanan in 1884, Sir Barton in 1919 and Brokers Tip in 1933.
Only three Presidents graduated from the military academies: Grant, Eisenhower (West Point) and Carter (Annapolis).
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
Orange juice helps the body absorb iron easily when consumed with a meal.
Oranges, lemons, watermelons, and tomatoes are berries.
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