In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. To wear your heart on your sleeve now means that it is easy for other people to know how you are feeling.
In the movie Casablanca Rick never says "Play it again, Sam." He says: "You played it for her, you can play it for me. Play it!". Ilsa says "Play it, Sam. Play `As Time Goes By"'.
In the Netherlands, in 1634, a collector paid 1,000 pounds of cheese, four oxen, eight pigs, 12 sheep, a bed, and a suit of clothes for a single bulb of the Viceroy tulip.
In the original Star Wars A New Hope when everyone is stuck in the trash compactor and the storm troopers come for C-3PO and R2-D2 the stormtroopers come through the door and one of them hits its head, very funny. They make it look like he did it on purpose by another stormtrooper says "Take care of him" which they added in there guess Lucas kept it as kind of a joke
In the original Wizard of Oz, during the scene in the forest, you can see a body hanging from a tree in the background. This is real. He was an actor that hung himself after he didnt get the part of the Tinman. They cut it out of the later versions, but if you have a movie from before the golden age of film editing, you'll see him.
In the pilot episode of Seinfeld (then called The Seinfeld Chronicles) , Kessler was the last name of the neighbor who would later become known as Kramer.
In the quiet town of Connorsville, Wisconsin, it's illegal for a man to shoot off a gun when his female partner has an orgasm.
In the Simpsons series, Homer has said 3267 "Doh!"
In the Spanish Pyrenees, when a beekeeper dies, each of his bees is splashed with a drop of Black Ink.
In the St. Louis, MO area, the word "hoosier" is used as a slang term for what the rest of the country would describe as "white trash," "rednecks," or "hillbillies".
In the ten years between 1987 and 1997, there was an increase of over 800 million people on the planet.
In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.In the United States bacteria in foods cause 6.5 million to 33 million cases of human illness and 9,000 deaths annually.
In the United States only 80 miles separate the highest point of land and the lowest point in the lower 48 states. Mount Whitney on the eastern border of Sequoia National Park in California is 14,496 feet high, and a pool called Badwater in Death Valley is 280 feet below sea level.
In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
In the United States, approximately seven billion pounds of chocolate and candy are manufactured each year.
In the United States, more Frisbee discs are sold each year than baseballs, basketballs, and footballs combined.
In the United States, poisoning is the fourth leading cause of death among children.
In the US a pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound or potatoes
In the US, about 127 million adults are overweight or obese; worldwide, 750 million are overweight and 300 million more are obese. In the US, 15% of children in elementary school are overweight; 20% are worldwide.
In the US, Delaware, Virginia and Michigan rank as the top three states for Ritalin use, and most of the prescriptions are for elementary and middle school age children. Doctors in these states prescribe at least 33 grams for every 1,000 residents, 56 percent more than the national average, according to figures compiled by the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency.
In the US, federal law states that children's TV shows may contain only 10 minutes of advertising per hour and on weekends the limit is 10 and one-half minutes.
In The Wizard of Oz the Scarecrow was looking for a brain, the Cowardly Lion was looking for courage, and the Tin Man was looking for a heart.
In the year 1763, there were over 200 coffee shops in Venice.
In the year 1790, there were two firsts in the United States; the first wholesale coffee roasting company, and the first newspaper advertisement featuring coffee.
In the year 498 B.C., in the city of Chung-tu, crime ceased to happen with the naming of a new Minister of Crime. Legend has it that nobody wanted to commit a crime because everyone idolized the new minister, someone by the name of Confucius.
In Tonawanda, New York homeless people may not start a fire in the park unless they intend to cook food.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma the limit on kisses is three minutes (by law).
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, it is against the law to open a soda bottle without the supervision of a licensed engineer.
In Turkey during the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.
In turtles, the colon(intestine) is also used for respiration, as it takes in oxygen. Thats how they stay underwater for so long.
In Utah a husband is responsible for all criminal acts committed by his wife while she is in his presence.
In Utah it is illegal to fish from horseback.
In Utah, birds have the right of way on all highways.
In Vermont it is illegal to paint landscapes in times of war.
In Vermont it is illegal to whistle while underwater.
In Vermont women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth.
In Vulcan, Alberta Canada, the tourist welcome sign is written in both English and Klingon (alien language from “Star Trek”).
In Washington D.C. it is illegal to post a notice in public which calls another person a 'coward' for refusing to accept a challenge to duel.
In Washington, anyone under the age of 18 must have parental permission to throw a tear gas canister.
In Waterloo, Nebraska it is unlawful for barbers to eat onions while on the job.
In West Virginia it is illegal to dig for ginseng on your neighbor's lawn without their permission.
In West Virginia you cannot fly a red flag in front of your house if you are disappointed in your sherrif.
In West Virginia, it is legal for one to take roadkill home for dinner....
In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, it is against the law for children under seven years of age to go to college.
In Wisconsin you are allowed to marry your house.
In Wisconsin, after 3:00 a.m., you have to send a rocket signal in the air after every mile you drive. Then wait a minute for a response.
In Wyoming it is illegal to tattoo a horse with the intent of making it unrecognizable to its owner.
In York, Pennsylvania, you can't sit down while watering your lawn with a hose.
Incan soldiers used to eat freeze-dried potatoes when they were on a march. The Incans would leave the food outside to freeze overnight, then thaw them out and stomp on them to remove the excess water.
Including the 2000 World Series, there have been only three meetings between teams from the same city: 1906 (Cubs vs. White Sox), 1944 (Cardinals vs. Browns) and 2000 (Mets vs. Yankees).
India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
India has the most post offices of any country with 280,181.
India is the leading film making country in the world. More than twice as many films are made in India each year than in France, the third highest film producers in the world.
Indiana has a city named Santa Claus.
Infant beavers are called kittens.
Influenza caused over twenty-one million deaths in 1918.
Insects shiver when they're cold.
Insomniacs may move as many as seventy times.
Insulin was discovered in 1922 by Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best.
Intel is a shortened name for Integrated Electronics. The company's founders wanted to use the full name when they went into business in 1968, but it was already in use.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
Irish cream and Hazelnut are the most popular whole bean coffee flavorings.
Irving Berlin has never learned to read music or to write it. He hums or sings his songs to a secretary, who takes them down in musical notation.
Isaac Newton, Peter Tchaikovsky and Annie Lennox were all born on Christmas.
Israel is the only country in the world, which has compulsory military service for women.
It has 51 meanings as a noun, 126 meanings as a verb, and 10 meanings as a participle adjective.
It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2000 balloons.
It has been proven that feathers directly evolved from reptiles' scales. Therefore, birds came after reptiles.
It has been reported that some dogs are able to sniff out skin cancer. It's in a journal on Lancet. Click here
It is against the law for a monster to enter the corporate limits of Urbana, Illinois.
It is against the law in Oregon to fish with canned corn.
It is against the law in Pueblo, Colorado, to raise or permit a dandelion to grow within the city limits.
It is against the law in Texas, NJ, Iowa, and 25 other states for gay men to have sex of any kind. The result of a man having sex with another man is punishable by fines and up to 6 months in jail. it is, however, LEGAL for a male in Texas to have sex with his sheep.
It is against the law to have a pet in Iceland.
It is also against the law in Oregon to get married in your bathing suit.
It is believed that the Greek poet Aeschylus was killed when a bird flying overhead dropped a tortoise and struck him. Birds have been known to carry shellfish to great heights and drop them in order crack the shells.
It is estimated that 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 snowflakes have fallen to the earth since it was formed.
It is estimated that a plastic container can resist decomposition for as long as 50,000 years.
It is forbidden for aircraft to fly over the Taj Mahal.
It is illegal for a man to kiss a woman while she is asleep in Logan County, Colorado.
It is illegal for a mother to give her daughter a perm without a state license.
It is illegal for both sexes to flirt or respond to flirtation using the eyes and/or hands.
It is illegal in Elkhart, Indiana, for a barber to threaten to cut off a youngster's ears...what about an oldster?
It is illegal in Georgia to use profanity in the presence of a corpse.
It is illegal in Lafayette, Louisiana to play a musical instrument for the purpose of attracting attention, without a license.
It is illegal in North Carolina to have sex in churchyards.
It is illegal in Reno, Nevada to conceal a spray-painted shopping cart in your basement.
It is illegal to accept a gratuity or tip in Iowa.
It is illegal to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at one time.
It is illegal to hunt camels in Arizona.
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
It is illegal to mistreat rats in Denver.
It is illegal to say "Oh, Boy" in Jonesboro, Georgia.
It is illegal to take more than 2 baths a month within Boston confines.
It is impossible for a pig to look up at the sky and people can not lick their elbows!!!!! be sure to remember that the next time you stick your elbow in spagetti =)
It is impossible for a solar eclipse to last for more than 7 minutes 58 seconds.
It is impossible for anyone to verbally count up to the number 1 trillion
it is impossible to drink more than a gallon of milk in 1 hour without throwing up!!!
It is impossible to get water out of a rimless tyre.
It is impossible to land on planet Jupiter, because, scientists believe that below all the gases and liguid there is a center [core] which is made up of small ball of pressurized iron, but it is impossible to tell for sutre.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
It is impossible to sneeze and keep your eyes open at the same time.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.It is only appropriate to fly the US flag upside down in emergencies. It means "Help Me, I am in Trouble!"
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
It is possible to lead a cow up stairs, but not down.
It is Texas law that when two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.
It is unlawful for small boys to throw stones, at any time, at any place in the District of Columbia.
It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis and Minnesota.
It takes 120 drops of water to fill a teaspoon.
It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
It takes 20 different muscles to form a kiss.
It takes 25 muscles to swallow.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver 15; fox 15 to 25; ermine 150; chinchilla 60 to 100.
It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
It takes about 1.25 seconds for moonlight to reach the Earth.
It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
It takes about 48 hours for your body to completely digest the food from one meal.
It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
It takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth, which also means, if you see the sun go out, it actually went out 8 minutes ago
It takes seven years for a lobster to weigh one pound.
It takes, on average, 345 squirts from a cow’s udder to yield one gallon of milk.
It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the original.
It took over 4 years to film milo and otis to get the animals to do what they are suppose to.
It was claimed that a Tiger shot dead by colonel Jim Corbett in 1907 had killed 436 people in India.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so that the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its' forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
It was during the 1600's that the first coffee mill made its debut in London.
It was proposed in the Rhode Island legislature in the 1970s that there be a $2 tax on every act of sexual intercourse.
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his
It was the Frisbie Pie Company of Bridgeport, CT, whose name -and lightweight pie tins -gave birth to the modern Frisbee.
It was the law in Scotland in 1288 that for each year known as "lepe yeare" any maiden lady could ask the man she liked to be her husband. If he refused and didn't have a good excuse he would be "mulcted of ye sum of one pound or less" (essentially, he would owe her a dollar). France enacted a similar law a year later.
It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. It was originally the right, but the translator messed up again.
It wasn't until 1913 that sports teams started using numbers on players' jerseys for identfication. It first happened during a football game between the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin.
It would take 15,840,000 rolls of wallpaper to cover the Great Wall of China.
Italians do not drink espresso during meals. It is considered to be a separate event and is given its own time.
Italians in Italy consume a million and a half tons of spaghetti every year.
Italy now has over 200,000 coffee bars, and still growing.
It's a common myth that chocolate aggravates acne. Experiments conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Naval Academy found that consumption of chocolate -even frequent daily dietary intake -had no effect on the incidence of acne. Professional dermatologists today do not link acne with diet.
It's a diverse world we live in. In the U.S., football, basketball and baseball are the three most watched sports on TV. In England, the top three most viewed are soccer, Formula One auto racing and boxing. In Russia, it's soccer, ice hockey and boxing. And in China, it's soccer, table tennis and swimming.
It's a good thing lemmings are promiscuous, they produce 4 times as many females as males.
It's against the law in Willowdale, Oregon, for a husband to curse during sex.
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
It's been estimated that man have been riding horses for over 3,000 years.
It's been estimated that one out of every two hundred women is born with an extra nipple.
It's been said that Adolph Hitler was a coprophiliac, which means he had a fetish for women's feces. He also had a thing for being urinated on by women.
It's believed that India gets its name from the Indus River. The interesting thing is that none of the river is actually in India...it's in Pakistan.
It's estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.
It's illegal in Newcastle, WY to have sex in a butcher shop's meat freezer.
It's illegal in Wilbur, Washington, to ride an ugly horse.
It's illegal to have sex on a parked motorcycle in London.
It's illegal to mispronounce the name of the state of Arkansas in that state.
It's impossible to get water out of a rimless tire.
It's impossible to lick your elbow.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
It's more likely you would be attacked by a cow than a shark.
It's safe to make love while parked in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Police officers aren't allowed to walk up and knock on the window. Any suspicious officer who thinks that sex is taking place must drive up from behind, honk his horn three times and wait approximately two minutes before getting out of his car to investigate.
It's strange that a city with a two letter abreviation (LA) was named after a river called "EL RIO DE SENORA LA REYNA DE LOS ANGELES DE PORCIUNCULA".
Jacksonville, Florida has the largest total area of any city in the United States. It takes up 460 square miles, almost twice the area of Los Angeles.
Jaguars are frightened by dogs
Jamaica Blue Mountain is often regarded as the best coffee in the world.
James Buchanan was certainly a good host. When England's Prince of Wales came to visit in the fall of 1860, so many guests came with him, it's said the president slept in the hallway.
James Madison, 5 feet, 4 inches tall, was the shortest president of the US. Abraham Lincoln was the tallest at six feet, 4 inches.
James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, stood only five feet four inches tall and weighed less than one hundred pounds.
James Ramsey invented a steam-driven motorboat in 1784. He ran it on the Potomac River in an event witnessed by George Washington.
Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix all died at the young age of 27.
Japan is the world's leading importer of iron ore.
Japan ranks Number 3 in the world for coffee consumption.
Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to bring the back teeth together for chewing.
Jayne Mansfield decorated her "Pink Palace" by writing to 1,500 furniture and building suppliers and asking for free samples. She told the donors they could then brag that their goods were in her outlandish mansion. The pitch worked, and Jayne received over $150,000 worth of free merchandise.
Jellyfish are 95% water
Jellyfish can sense a storm 10 to 15 hrs. before it actually occurs and leaves the shore and go into the deep sea.
Jergens Lotion was created by Andrew Jergens, a former lumberjack, in 1880.
Jerry Garcia only had four fingers on his picking hand, he lost one of his fingers when he was a boy.
Jerry Seinfeld's first sitcom wasn't Seinfeld. He played the governor's speechwriter on three episodes of Benson (he was fired from the job).
Jerry West was the model for the official NBA logo. His silhouette appears dribbling a basketball.
Jessica Tandy is the oldest winner of an Academy Award. She won the 1989 Best Actress award for Driving Miss Daisy at the age of 80 years and 9 months. She beat George Burns for that distinction by just a few months.
Jethro Tull is not the name of the rock singer responsible for such songs as "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick." Jethro Tull is the name of the band. The singer is Ian Anderson. The original Jethro Tull was an English horticulturalist who invented the seed drill.
JFK Jr. and Christine Amanapour of CNN were roommates at Brown University.
JFK's golf clubs sold for $772,500 at a 1996 auction. The buyer was Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Jim Delligatti, a McDonald's franchise owner in Uniontown, PA, invented the Big Mac in 1968. He originally named it the Big Mac Super Sandwich. The following year McDonald's sold it nationwide.
Jim Henson first coined the word "Muppet". It is a combination of "marionette" and "puppet."
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old when they died.
Jimmu, the legendary first ruler of Japan, began his reign in the year 660. Akihito, the current emperor, is said to be the 125th direct descendant of Jimmu to rule Japan.
Jimmy Carter was the first President born in a hospital.
Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital.
Joan of Arc was actually burned alive as a witch in 1431, and only considered a saint in the 20th century. (Them folks must be pissed to hear that)
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Supposedly, Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives."
John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to sign the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
John Milton used 8,000 different words in his poem, "Paradise Lost."
John Paul Jones' real name was John Paul. In a letter to Benjamin Franklin, he admitted he'd killed a sailor in the West Indies and changed his name to escape punishment. The "Jones" comes from Mrs. Willie Jones of North Carolina, whom he "admired."
John Tyler was the first president to be married in office on June 26, 1844.
John Wayne’s real name was Marion Michael Morrison.
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.
Johnny Depp is afraid of clowns.Johnson & Johnson created the Band-Aid in 1899 because Robert Wood Johnson attended a lecture concerning the prevention of infection in wounds during surgical operations. The company created the zinc oxide adhesive bandage for surgeons, and launched the consumer version, Band-Aids, in 1921.
Joseph Priestley not only discovered oxygen, but he also discovered ammonia, carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride, sulphur dioxide, and nitrous oxide. He was also the first person to isolate chlorine.
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