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• A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why
• The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
• Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
• The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before.
• The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)
• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin Look-alike contest.
• The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!
• The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
• Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury. (Hooray Monopoly, gosh there is only like fifty billion different versions).
• The youngest pope was 11 years old. (I’m not sure I believe it. We’ll have to consult Lenzinil! Oh look he said no!)
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents! a great king from history: Spades - King David Hearts - Charlemagne Clubs -Alexander, the Great Diamonds - Julius Caesar
• If a statue in the park 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.
• In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed Firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight.” (In George Washington’s time, they had straw and if your bed wasn’t tight you could get bit.)
• 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 their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"
• In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
• Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show? A. No theme song
• Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year? A. Father’s Day
• 60 % of statistics are made up.....
• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough energy to heat a cup of coffee.
• There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the US than real ones.
• Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down
• You consume one tenth (.1) calories when you lick a stamp.
• The average speed of Heinz™ ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.
• In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.
• 4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year
• In 1977, George Willig was fined $1.10 for climbing the World Trade Center building.
• A deltiologist is someone who collects postcards
• In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a large brass statue dedicated to Winnie-the-Pooh.
• The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane