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The "London Bridge" is now in Arizona in the U.S.A. This fat cat(rich guy) bought it for only $2.46 million dollars.

The "Miss America" pageant made its network TV debut on ABC In 1954. Miss California, Lee Ann Meriwether, was crowned the winner.

The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."

The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

The "save" icon in Microsoft©®™ Word's toolbar shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

The "Sesame Street" characters Bert and Ernie were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the cab driver in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Like."

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

The "Spruce Goose" flew on November 2, 1947, for one mile, at a maximum altitude of 70 feet. Built by Howard Hughes, it is the largest aircraft ever built, the 140-ton eight-engine seaplane, made of birch, has a wingspan of 320 feet. It was built as a prototype troop transport. Rejected by the Pentagon, Hughes put the plane into storage, never to be flown again.

The "Twelve Days of Christmas" gifts: A partridge in a pear tree, two turtledoves, three French hens, four calling birds, five gold rings, six geese laying, seven swans swimming, eight maids milking, nine ladies dancing, ten lords leaping, eleven pipers piping, and twelve drummers drumming. (There are 364 gifts altogether)

The "y" in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a "th" sound, not "y". The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England used the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".

The "You Are Here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator.

The # symbols is often referred to as a "number sign" or "pound sign." Its actual name is an octothorpe

The 1922 Essex was the first popularly priced car available with a closed body. The two-door, six-cylinder sedan was called the Essex Coach and sold for $945.

The 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles was the first time the three-level winner's stand was used for the medal ceremony.

The 1st 20 African slaves were brought to the US, to the colony of Virginia in 1619, by a Dutch ship.

The 1st Academy Awards ceremony to be telecast was the 25th, in 1953.

The 1st Academy Awards were presented in 1927.

The 1st annual Grammy Awards were awarded in 1959. The Record of the Year was "Volare" by Domenico Modugno, the Album of the Year was "Peter Gunn" by Henry Mancini and the winner of the best R&B performance was "Tequila" by Champs.

The 1st buffalo ever born in captivity was born at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo in 1884.

The 1st CMA (Country Music Association) Awards, hosted by Sonny James and Bobbie Gentry, were presented at an awards banquet and show in 1967.

The 1st comic strip was "The Yellow Kid," in the New York World in 1896. The cartoonist was Richard Felton Outcault.

The 1st feature-length animated film, released by Disney Studios in 1937, was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

The 1st inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961 were Jimmie Rodgers, Fred Rose and Hank Williams were.

The 1st interracial kiss on TV took place Nov. 22, 1968 between Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Lt.Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) on an episode of "Star Trek."

The 1st kiss in a movie was between May Irwin and John Rice in "The Widow Jones," in 1896.

The 1st live televised murder was in 1963, when Jack Ruby killed JFK's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald while millions of viewers watched.

The 1st nuclear-powered submarine, the Nautilus, commissioned by the United States Navy in 1954, made her maiden voyage on Jan. 17, 1955.

The 1st performance of Handel's "Messiah" was on April 13, 1742 at the New Music rooms in Fishamble St., Dublin. Because of the demand for space, the men were asked not to wear their swords and the ladies not to wear hooped skirts.

The 1st personal computer, the Apple II, went on sale in 1977.

The 1st presidential news conference filmed for TV was in 1955. Eisenhower was the president.

The 1st televised presidential debate was September 26, 1960, between Nixon and Kennedy.

The 1st time the "f-word" was spoken in a movie was by Marianne Faithfull in the 1968 film, "I'll Never Forget Whatshisname." In Brian De Palma's 1984 movie, "Scarface," the word is spoken 206 times an average of once every 29 seconds.

The 1st unattended, 24-hour self-service laundromat in the United States was opened by Nelson Puett in 1949 on North Loop in Austin, Texas.

The 1st US federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. was in 1986.

The 1st US federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium) was enacted in 1909.

The 1st US federal penitentiary building was completed at Leavenworth, Kansas in 1906.

The 1st US Minimum Wage Law was instituted in 1938. The minimum wage was 25 cents per hour.

The 1st US Mormon temple was dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio in 1836.

The 1st US zoo was built in Philadelphia, PA, in 1876.

The 1st winner of the Academy Award for best picture, and the only silent film to achieve that honor, was the 1927 film, "Wings."

The 2,000 Arabica coffee cherries it takes to make a roasted pound of coffee are normally picked by hand as they ripen. Since each cherry contains two beans, it takes about 4,000 Arabica beans to make a pound of roasted coffee.

The 26 letters of our alphabet can make 403,290,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 different combinations.

The 3 Magi:(or Wise Men) and their gifts: Melchoir, "king of light," offered Gold, Gaspar ,"or the white one," offered frankincense, and Balthazar, "lord of treasures," offered myrrh.

The 5 oldest colleges in the U.S. are, in order, Harvard, William & Mary, Yale, Princeton, and Penn.

The 7 Dwarfs are Happy, Grumpy, Dopey (the beardless one), Doc, Bashful, Sneezy, Sleepy. They were miners.

The 772-778 Digits of pi are 9999998.

The abbreviation 'ORD' for Chicago's O'Hare airport comes from the old name 'Orchard Field.'

The Academy Award was rumored to have gotten its nickname of Oscar for its resemblance to a film librarian’s Uncle Oscar.

The act of snapping your fingers has a name: fillip.

The active ingredient in smelling salts is ammonia.

The Agen plum which would become the basis of the US prune industry was first planted in California in 1856.

The air we breathe is 78% nitrogen, 21.5% oxygen, .5% argon and other gases.

The air we breathe is comprised of 78% nitrogen, 21.5% oxygen and 0.5% argon.

The airplane, Buddy Holly died in, was the "American Pie," which is where Don McLarean got the song title from.

The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was formed in 1866.

The amount of drag or air resistance produced by putting your bicycle on top of your car is so great that on a trip from England to Scotland it would be cheaper to send it by train because of the fuel consumption to overcome the drag

The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instead of laying eggs.

The ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

The ancient Egyptians trained baboons to wait on tables.

The ancient Romans built such an excellent system of roads that the saying arose "all roads lead to Rome," that is, no matter which road one starts a journey on, he will finally reach Rome if he keeps on traveling. The popular saying came to mean that all ways or methods of doing something end in the same result, no method being better than another.

The anemometer is an instrument which measures the force, velocity, or pressure of the wind.

The Angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara Falls.

The Angel Falls in Venezuela is the highest waterfall in the world, its waters drop from over 3,200 feet.

The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.

The animal that tends to cling to rocks and boats are barnacles.

The animal whose brain accounts for the largest share of its body weight is the squirrel monkey. It's brain makes up about 5% of its total weight.

The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.

The annual Night of the Radishes is held in Oaxaca, Mexico. It's held on December 23rd of every year as part of a pre-Christmas tradition. Farmers carve figures from radishes and display them in the city's main plaza.

The annual White House Easter egg-roll was started by President Hayes in 1878.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight.

The anti-malarial drug quinine is taken from the bark of the Andean cinchona tree.

The Apollo 11 plaque left on the Moon says, "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969, A.D. / WE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND."

The apricot can be traced back to China at least four thousand years ago, and it first appeared in Greek mythology as the "golden apple".

The Arabica is the original coffee plant. It still grows wild in Ethiopia. The arabica coffee tree is an evergreen and in the wild will grow to a height between 14 and 20 feet.

The Arabs are generally believed to be the first to brew coffee.

The Arctic ocean is the smallest and shallowest. The Arctic Ocean is the world's smallest ocean. It is mostly covered by solid ice, ice floes, and icebergs.

The aroma and flavor derived from coffee is a result of the little beads of the oily substance called coffee essence, coffeol, or coffee oil. This is not an actual oil since it dissolves in water.

The art of knitting originated in Scotland.

The ashes of the average cremated person weigh 9 pounds.

The Atlantic Ocean has a greater salt content than the Pacific Ocean.

The Australian emu holds the land speed record for birds (31 mph).

The average 3 year-old watches about 30 hours of television a week.

The average adult guinea pig weighs 2 pounds.

The average adult has about 3,500 square inches of skin. The skin itself has roughly a billion pores or openings.

The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.

The average adult raccoon weighs 21 pounds.

The average age of an Italian barista is 48 years old. A barista is a respected job title in Italy.

The average American consumes over 28 pounds of bananas each year.

The average American spends 120 hours a month watching television, the equivalent of five complete days in front of the TV.

The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.

The average American woman spends 55 minutes per day getting showered, dressed, and groomed.

The average annual coffee consumption of the American adult is 26.7 gallons, or over 400 cups.

The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

The average bra is designed to last for only 180 days of use.

The average capacity of a pelican's pouch is 12 quarts.

The average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids.

The average chicken lays about 260 eggs a year.

The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.

The average child will eat 1,500 PB sandwiches by high school graduation.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs melted into it.

The average cod deposits between 4 and 6 million eggs at a single spawning.

The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60MPH.

The average cow produces 40 glasses of milk each day.

The average cup of coffee contains more than 1000 different chemical components, none of which is tasted in isolation but only as part of the overall flavor.

The average duration of sexual intercourse for humans is 2 minutes.

The average elephant produces 50 pounds of dung each day.

The average elephant weighs less than the average blue whale's tongue

The average family will spend $250,000 (thats a quarter million dollars) on each child from the time he/she is born until he/she turns 18.

The average flea can jump up to 350 times its own length. To match that a human would have to jump 1,000 feet.

The average fox weighs 14 pounds.

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

The average healthy human being farts 16 times a day.

The average healthy porpoise lives 30 years.

The average home size in the United States is now 2,200 square feet, up from 1,400 square feet in 1970, according to the National Association of Home Builders.

The average housefly lives for only two weeks.

The average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail,sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.

The average human body has enough fat to make 7 bars of soap.

The average human breathes about 700,000 cubic inches of air every day.

The average human eats 8 spiders in his/her lifetime at night.

The average human head weighs about eight pounds.

The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a life time.

The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

The average life expectancy of a beaver in captivity is five years.

The average life expectancy of a kangaroo in captivity is 7 years.

The average life expectancy of a leopard in captivity is 12 years.

The average life expectancy of a rhinoceros in captivity is 15 years.

The average life expectancy of a toilet is 50 years.

The average life expectancy of geese, barring all accidents, is 25 years.

The average life span of a moose is 15 to 25 years.

The average life span of a mosquito is two weeks.

The average life span of a taste bud is 10 days.

The average life span of the hedgehog is 10 years.

The average lifespan of a Major League baseball is five to seven pitches.

The average light bulb can last for about 750 to 1,000 hours.

The average litter of Mexican wolves is between four and seven pups.

The average llama weighs 375 pounds.

The average marathon runner's heart beats about 175 times per minute during a race. A typical adult's heart beats 68 times a minute at rest.

The average mature oak tree sheds approximately 700,000 leaves in the fall.

The average number of cars stolen per day in Mexico City this year is 124.

The average number of peanuts in a box of Cracker Jacks is 27.

The average per capita consumption of soap, in all of its uses, in the United States is about forty pounds per year.

The average person drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

The average person grows up to 6 feet of nose hair.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year

The average person in the United States watches 239 minutes of television per day.

The average person ingests about a ton of food and drink each year.

The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

The average person loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.

The average person produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.

The average person releases nearly a pint of intestinal gas by flatulence every day. Most is due to swallowed air. The rest is from fermentation of undigested food.

The average person swallows one liter of snot every day. This is from the MN Science Museum.

The average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.

The average person's hair will grow approximately 590 inches in a lifetime.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The average person's scalp has 100,000 hairs.

The average porcupine has more than 30,000 quills.

The average porpoise weighs 103 pounds.

The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.

The average snail moves at a rate of approximately 0.000362005 miles per hour.

The average speed for a migrating duck is fifty miles per hour.

The average steer reaches sexual maturity six months after birth.

The average US male will spend 2,965 hours shaving during his lifetime.

The Aztecs of Mexico roasted and ground up the cacao bean, mixed it with water, added peppers and other spices, stirred it up to a froth and drank the pungent mixture they called "chocolatl."

The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the baseball player.

The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.

The banana is the most prolific of all food plants with as many as 300 bananas growing on the same stalk.

The banana market is controlled by five large corporations Chiquita (25%), Dole (25%), Del Monte (15%), Noboa (11%) and Fyffes (8%). Most bananas are grown on huge plantations, controlled by these corporate giants. The remaining banana production for export comes from small banana producers.

The banana plant reaches its full height of 15 to 30 feet in about one year. The trunk of a banana plant is made of sheaths of overlapping leaves, tightly wrapped around each other like celery stalks.

The bands on hats traces back to the custom on knights wearing their lady loves' scarves around the helmet.

The banjo is America's only true native musical instrument. It was first developed in the South in the 1790s.

The barn owl has one ear higher than the other. The left ear is higher and points downward to hear sounds from below it, while the right ear is lower and pointed upward to pick up sounds from above.

The base of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is large enough to cover 10 football fields.

The basis of the Macintosh computer was Apple's Lisa which was released in 1983. This was the first system to utilize a GUI or Graphical User Interface. The first Macintosh was released in 1984.

The Beatles' 1st song to hit the UK charts was "From Me to You" in June, 1963.

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.

The Beatles were depicted in wax at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London, in 1964, the first pop album stars to be honored.

The Beatles were George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr. But there were also two lesser known, previous members of the band: Pete Best and Stu Sutcliffe.

The BEAVER, is America's largest rodent and can remain underwater for 20 minutes! erm... sealions can do that as well (just something random)

The beluga whale, otherwise known as the white whale, is nicknamed the "sea canary" because of the birdlike chirping sounds it makes.

The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.

The bestselling books of all time are The Bible (6billion+), Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (900million+), and The Lord of the Rings (100million+)

The Bible devotes some 500 verses on prayer, less than 500verses on faith, but over 2000 verses on money and posessions.

The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.

The bible does not specify exactly how many wise men were sent to Bethleham.

The Bible has been translated into Klingon.

The Bible is the best selling book of all time with approximately six billion books sold. The second-best selling book is Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-Tung with about 800 million sales.

The Bible was written by about 40 men over a period of about 1600 years dating from 1500 BC to about 100 years after Christ.

The big differences between pythons and boa constrictors: pythons are longer and lay eggs. Boas give birth to live babies.

The Big Room at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico is 2,500 feet in length, 600 feet wide, and 250 feet high.

The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).

The biggest specie of apes are the gorillas.

The biro was invented by George and Lazio Biro.

The Black Death reduced the population of Europe by one third in the period from 1347 to 1351.

The Black Hole, 1979, was Disney's first PG-rated movie.

The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.

The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.

The blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its blood vessal is so broad, that a person could swim through it.

The board game Monopoly was originally rejected by Parker Brothers, who claimed it had 52 fundamental errors.

The body can function without a brain. And anyone who has walked around the city on a Saturday night will know what I mean.

The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet

The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.

The book The Doors of Perception, by Aldous Huxley, was the inspiration behind Jim Morrison naming his band The Doors. The book extolls the use of hallucinogenic drugs.

The border between Canada and the U.S. is the world's longest frontier. It stretches 3,987 miles (6,416 km).

The botanical name of the chocolate plant is Theobramba cacao, which means "Food of the Gods."

The brewing of beer is recorded as far back as 6,000 years ago. Until the 12th century (when skilled experts took over), women performed the task of making beer as part of their household chores.

The bridge across the Niagra Falls began with a kite carrying a line across it.

The brightest star in history was the supernova of 1054, which formed the Crab Nebula. It was brighter than Venus and bright enough to be seen in daylight and to cast a shadow at night. We know about it through the astronomic records of China and Japan.

The Brownie box camera, introduced by Eastman Kodak, sold for $1.00 in 1900. The camera's 6-exposure film sold for 15 cents.

The bubbles in Guiness beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top as in other beers.

The Burramundy, a fish, grows up as a male, but after 2 years or so, it turns into a female to breed. (i think papaya(papua?) trees are the same)

The Butterfinger candy bar was first produced by Chicago's Curtiss Candy Co. in 1923. As an advertising ploy, candy bars were dropped from an airplane on cities in 40 states.

The California grape and wine industries were started by Count Agoston Haraszthy de Moksa, who planted Tokay, Zinfandel, and Shiras varieties from his native Hungary in Buena Vista in 1857.

The California redwood coast redwood and giant sequoia are the tallest and largest living organism in the world.

The calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race average 10,000. The 1,149-mile race commemorates the 1925 "Race for Life" when 20 volunteer mushers relayed medicine from Anchorage to Nome to battle a children's diphtheria epidemic.

The Canadian government legalized marijuana for medicinal use in 1999. After discovering a shortage of local growers they began to import the dope from Mississippi.

The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae "Island of Dogs."

The candy bar, Baby Ruth, is named after President Clevelands' daughter, not Babe Ruth the baseball player.

The Cannes Film Festival was conceived in 1938 by two French journalists while they were traveling by train to the Venice Film Festival.

The canning process for herring was developed in Sardinia, which is why canned herrings are better known as sardines.

The cashew nut in its natural state contains a poisonous oil. Roasting removes the oil and makes the nuts safe to eat.

The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.

The caterpillar has more than 2,000 muscles

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The catgut formerly used as strings in tennis rackets and musical instruments does not come from cats. Catgut actually comes from sheep, hogs, and horses.

The Catholic Church only declared in 1992 that the earth may go round the sun.

The center of the earth is almost 4000 miles beneath our feet.

The chameleon has several cell layers beneath its transparent skin. These layers are the source of the chameleon's color change. Some of the layers contain pigments, while others just reflect light to create new colors. Several factors contribute to the color change. A popular misconception is that chameleons change color to match their environment. This isn't true. Light, temperature, and emotional state commonly bring about a chameleon's change in color. The chameleon will most often change between green, brown and gray, which coincidently, often matches the background colors of their habitat.

The chances for a mother giving birth to quadruplets (four Childs) are almost 1 in 600,000.

The chances of an exact duplication of fingerprints are about 64 billion to 1.

The channel between England and France grows 300mm each year.

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

The characters of Homer, Marge, Lisa, and Maggie were given the same first names as Simpsons creator Matt Groening's real-life father, mother, and two sisters.

The Charlotte Dundas, a paddle-wheel steamboat, was the world's first steam-powered vessel, not Robert Fulton's Clermont. In 1802, five years before Fulton's famous ship took sail, The Dundas was a steam-powered tugboat in Great Britain.

The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.

The chemical n-acetyl-cysteine found in raw eggs is proven to help hangovers.

The Chinese language does not require punctuation.

The Chinese were using aluminum to make things as early as 300 AD Western civilization didn't rediscover aluminum until 1827.

The Chinese, during the reign of Kublai Khan, used lions on hunting expeditions. They trained the big cats to pursue and drag down massive animals from wild bulls to bears and to stay with the kill until the hunter arrived.

The chow-chow and the Chinesse Shar-Pei are the only dogs that have a black tongue. The tongues of all other dogs are pink.

The Church of Scientology was founded in 1953, at Washington DC, by US science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.

The citrus industry started in the United States in 1873 when two Riverside, CA ranchers obtained some orange saplings from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Two years earlier, the government had secured a dozen saplings from Brazil.

The City of Istanbul straddles two separate continents, Europe and Asia.

The city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the only city where all major sports teams share the same colors (black and gold).