Micheal Jackson was due to a meeting on September 11th 2001 at 10:00am But Slept In.


On average, an iceberg weighs 20 million tonnes.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.

Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

In the winter of 1063, the Thames river froze for a record 14 weeks.

Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)

King Richard I the Lion-Hearted passed the first law requiring standards for length and volume. These standards were made from iron and were kept by sheriffs and magistrates.

Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.

Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.

A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.

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, "L.A."

Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on watch is 10:10.

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.

Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The
frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's
mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's
contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.

Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."

ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)

The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser himself..

Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of
Fraiser.

The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8
miles away.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

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."

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.

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A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

Most boat owners name their boats. The most popular boat name requested is Obsession.

100% of all lottery winners gain weight.

The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.

Cats can hear ultrasound.

In a recent survey, Americans revealed that banana was their favorite smell.

In all three Godfather films, when you see oranges, there is a death (or a very close call) coming up soon.

23% of employees say they have had sex in the office.

Oxford University once had rules that specifically forbade students from bringing bows and arrows to class.

There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.

Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet.

3.9% of all women surveyed say they never wear underwear.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28, Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38

Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80

Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50

Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58

Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90

Percentage of mammal species that are monogamous: 3

Chances that a burglary in the United States will be solved: 1 in 7

One third of the land in the United States is owned by the government.

Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying "R2D2". George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project he was working on.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.

Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.

Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.

They have square watermelons in Japan - they stack better.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

Heinz Ketchup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.

The first Fords had engines made by Dodge.

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

The flashing warning light on the cylindrical Capitol Records tower spells out HOLLYWOOD in Morse code.

One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.

Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

The State of Florida is bigger than England.

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.


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There are 1792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

In mediaeval England, pots and dishes were made from a clay called "pygg", and spare change was often saved in such a pot. Around 1600, an English potter unfamiliar with this custom was asked to make a "pygg bank". Misunderstanding the instructions, he created a clay vessel in the shape of a pig. This is how the piggy bank came to be.

You would have to drink 100 cups of coffee in four hours to get the lethal dose of caffeine which is 10 grams.

Flamingos get their pink colour from the shrimp they eat The more shrimp they eat the deeper pink they become.

Dolphins don't automatically breathe they have to tell themselves to.

The average heart beats 100,000 times each day.

When you crack your knuckles the pop you hear is a bubble of gas bursting.

An elephant's penis is about 1.5 metres long, the longest of any animal.

No word in the English language rhymes with silver, month, orange or purple.

Just 20 seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.

You can see the stars during the day from the bottom of a well.

The Australian emu holds the land speed record for birds at about 50 kilometres per hour.

Generally, a dog's mouth has fewer germs and bacteria than a human's mouth.

The aeroplane Buddy Holly died in was the American Pie. Thus the title of the Don McLean song.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

Scissors were invented by Leonardo da Vinci.

The number of births in India each year is greater than the entire population of Australia.

Two million hydrogen atoms might just cover the full stop at the end of this sentence.

More people are killed by donkeys each year than are killed in plane crashes.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma in an emergency.

Try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or your tongue. Every letter should sound exactly the same.

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.

A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface.

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.

If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.

"60 Minutes" on CBS is the only TV show to not have a theme song or music.

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.

You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee.

The state of Florida is bigger than England.

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The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

Slugs have 4 noses.

Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.

A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.

In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.".

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?

The Pentagon, in Arlington Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary.

When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

Alexander Graham Bell (who invented the telephone) also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of 72.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

Michael Jordan made more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers...they saw it as competition.

You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

There are 2 credit cards for every person in the US.

For every ton of fish that is caught in all the oceans on our planet, there are three tons of rubbish dumped into the oceans.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb".

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone!

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

If a statue of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

If you were to spell out numbers starting at number 1, you wouldn't use the letter "A" until you got to 1000.

Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windscreen wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.

Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capitol without a McDonald's.

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts... So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them "Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down." It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's!"

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 son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month...which we now know today as the honeymoon!


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