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The Wizard of Oz was a Broadway musical 37 years before the MGM movie version was made. It had 293 performances and then went on a tour that lasted 9 years.

The word "checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means, "The King Is Dead."

The word "coach" is derived from the village of Kocs, Hungary, where coaches were invented and first used.

The word "crap" came from Thomas Crapper-a famous plumber in the early days of the toilet.

The word "dude" is the name for an infected elephant butt hair.

The word "earthling" was first found in print in 1593.

The word "homosexual" was not coined until 1869 by the Hungarian physician Karoly Maria Benkert.

The word "honcho" comes from a Japanese word meaning "squad leader" and first came into usage in the English language during the American occupation of Japan following World War II.

The word "karate" means "empty hand."

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

The word "maverick" came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick.

The word "MOW" can be read the same way upside-down, hence the word ambigram. Many other words can be written differently using special characters of writing to make the word appear the same way from different points.

The word "piano" is really an abbreviation for the word "pianoforte."

The word "pure" appears on the scroll held by the Quaker pictured on the packages of Quaker Oats cereal.

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

The word "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," from the movie Mary Poppins, was added to the Oxford dictionary in 1964.

The word "tip" dates back to the old London coffeehouses. Conspicuously placed brass boxes etched with the inscription, "To Insure Promptness," encouraged customers to pay for efficient service. The resulting acronym, TIP, has become a byword.

The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial.

The word Assassin is derived from a Middle Eastern religious and political sect known as Hashishins. The name means 'hashish smoker'which refers to the practice of taking hashish to induce visions of ecstacy before murdering their enemies as their religious duty. They were very good at what they did.

The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'

The word 'cappuccino' is the result of several derivations, the original of which began in 16th century. The Capuchin order of friars, established after 1525, played an important role in bringing Catholicism back to Reformation Europe. Its Italian name came from the long, pointed cowl, or cappuccino, derived from cappuccino, "hood," that was worn as part of the order's habit. The French version of cappuccino was capuchin, from which came English Capuchin. In Italian cappuccino went on to describe espresso coffee mixed or topped with steamed milk or cream, so called because the color of the coffee resembled the color of the habit of a Capuchin friar. The first use of cappuccino in English is recorded in 1948 in a work about San Francisco. There is also the story line that says that the term comes from the fact that the coffee is dark, like the monk's robe, and the cap is likened to the color of the monk's head.

The word gargoyle comes down from the Old French: gargouille, meaning throat or gullet. This is also the origin of the word gargle. The word describes the sound produced as water passes the throat and mixes with air. In early architecture, gargoyles were decorative creatures on the drains of cathedrals.

The word 'geography' is derived from the greek words geo (the Earth) and graphein (to write).

The word gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to exercise naked.

The word 'lethologica' describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

The word 'monosyllable' actually has five syllables in it.

The word 'news' did not come about because it was the plural of 'new.' It came from the first letters of the words North, East, West and South. This was because information was being gathered from all different directions.

The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element'.

The word quisling comes from the name of Major Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian who collaborated with the Germans during their occupation of Norway. The word now means "traitor."

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

The word vaccine comes from the Latin word "vacca," which means cow. This name was chosen because the first vaccination was derived from cowpox which was given to a boy.

The words "volt" and "voltage" are named for a member of the Italian nobility in the 1700s named Count Voltman.

The words "video recording” and "videotape” were first used in the early 1950s. At the time, only television professionals used them.

The words racecar, kayak, level and Navy Van are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left, and these are called palindromes. The longest palindromes in the dictionary however are the words 'Malayalam''rotavator' 'redivider'. Now check these out. 'A man a plan a canal panama'. 'Ten animals i slam in a net'thanx seraph, mashkur, hannah b, marky and jay, jelly baby king

The words silent and listen have the same letters. Santa and Satan do too.

The work "fuck" is used 257 times in the movie Pulp Fiction.

The works of Gregor Mendel, father of the science of genetics, went undiscovered for sixteen years after his death.

The World Bank estimates that Mexico owes the most money of any country in the world. They have $165,743,000,000 in external debt. Brazil is second with $159,139,000,000 in debt.

The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.

The world record for balancing people on your head is 92 in one hour.

The world record frog jump is 33 feet 5.5 inches over the course of 3 consecutive leaps, achieved in May 1977 by a South African sharp-nosed frog called Santjie.

The World Rubik Cube championship was held in Budapest on June 5, 1982. Nineteen National Champions took part. Minh Thai, the US Champion, won by solving the Cube in of 22.95 seconds. The world record, in competitive conditions, grew progressively lower and now stands at 16.5 seconds.

The world smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

The world's costliest coffee, at $130 a pound , is called Kopi Luwak. It is in the droppings of a type of marsupial that eats only the very best coffee beans. Plantation workers track them and scoop their precious poop.

The world's deadliest mushroom is the Amanita phalloides, the death cap. The five different poisons contained by the mushroom cause diarrhea and vomiting within 6 to 12 hours of ingestion. This is followed by damage to the liver, kidneys, and central nervous system and, in the majority of cases, coma and death.

The world's first adhesive postage stamp went on sale in England in 1840. It was the Penny Black, portraying Queen Victoria.

The world's first chocolate candy was produced in 1828 by Dutch chocolate-maker Conrad J. Van Houten. He pressed the fat from roasted cacao beans to produce cocoa butter, to which he added cocoa powder and sugar.

The World's first microprocessor was created in 1971, called the 4004 by Intel. It contained 2300 transistors.

The world's first singing commercial aired on the radio on Christmas Eve, 1926 for Wheaties cereal. The four male singers, eventually known as the Wheaties Quartet, sang the jingle.

The world's first speed limit regulation was in England in 1903. It was 20 mph.

The world's highest mountain, even higher than Mt.Everest is Mauna Koa an underwater mountain which rises 33,476 feet and has its peak on the island of Hawaii.

The world's highest railway is in Peru. The Central Railway climbs to 15,694 feet in the Galera tunnel, 108 miles from Lima. Tourists take it to get to the ruins of Machu Picchu.

The world's largest alphabet is Cambodian, with 74 letters.

The world's largest art gallery is the Winter Palace and Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. Visitors would have to walk 15 miles to see the 322 galleries which house nearly 3 million works of art.

The world's largest art gallery is the Winter Palace and the Hermitage in Leningrad. Visitors walk fifteen miles to visit each of the 322 galleries, which house nearly 3 million works of art and archaeological remains.

The world's largest burrito weighed 4,217 lbs.

The world's largest Gothic cathedral is in new York City. It is the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Amsterdam Avenue and 112th Street. The cathedral measures 601 feet long, 146 feet wide, and has a transept measuring 320 feet from end to end.

The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.

The world's largest palace is the Imperial palace in the heart of Peking,

The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.

The world's longest name is: Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver

The world's longest suspension bridge opened to traffic on April 5, 1998. The 3,911-meter (12,831-feet) Akashi Kaikyo Bridge is 580 meters (1,900 feet) longer than the Humber Bridge in England, the previous record holder.

The world's most popular hobby is stamp collecting.

The world's number one producer and consumer of fresh pork is China.

The world's smallest and oldest republic is San Marino. It's 25 square miles and is located mostly on top of a mountain entirely surrounded by Italy.

The world's smallest independent state is the Vatican City, with a population of about 1,000 and a zero birthrate.

The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.

The world's tallest grass, which has sometimes grown 130 feet or more, is bamboo.

The world's tallest mountains, the Himalayas, are also the fastest growing. Their growth about half an inch a year is caused by the pressure exerted by two of Earth's continental plates (the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate) pushing against one another.

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1

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

The worldwide "Spanish Flu" epidemic which broke out in 1918 killed more than 30 million people in less than a year's time.

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 use 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 a map is called the IDEO locator.

The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina. She gave birth to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother's Day), at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days.

The youngest movie star to win an Academy Award was Shirly Temple who won an Oscar in 1934 at the age of 6.

The youngest person to give birth was a five-yr. old tribal girl (C-Section of course)

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

The yo-yo was introduced in 1929 by Donald F. Duncan. The toy was based on a weapon used by 16th-century Filipino hunters.

The yo-yo was originally a weapon in the Philippines.

The zebra is basically a light-colored animal with black stripes.

The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.

their wages in salt hence the word "Salary" derived.

Theodore Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to deliver an inaugural address without using the word "I". Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower tied for second place, using "I" only once in their inaugural addresses.

Ther very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

There are 1,218 peanuts in a single 28 ounce jar of Jif peanut butter.

There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

There are 10 million people who share your birthday.

There are 10,000,000 bricks in the Empire State Building.

There are 100 tiles in a 'Scrabble' crossword game.

There are 11 points on the collar around Kermit the Frog's neck.

There are 1189 chapters in the Bible: 929 chapters in the Old Testament and 260 chapters in the New Testament.

There are 13,678 McDonald's fast food joints in the United States.

There are 132 rooms in the US White House.

There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.

There are 2,320 Navy SEALs.

There are 2,382,500 (rounded) Smiths in the U.S.

There are 2,598,960 five-card hands possible in a 52-card deck of cards.

There are 24 known "perfect" numbers. These are numbers that equal the sum of all its divisors except itself. For instance, six the lowest of these numbers is divisible by 1, 2, or 3 and 1+2+3=6. The largest of the known "perfect" numbers has 12,003 digits.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are 300 distinct different types of honey.

There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.

There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play the first four moves per side in a game of chess.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation size golf ball.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330.

There are 350,000 Italians living in Toronto, Canada, a population about the same as that of Venice, Italy.

There are 38 peaks in South America higher than Mt. McKinley, which is the highest point in North America.

There are 403 steps from the foundation to the top of the torch in the Statue of Liberty.

There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.

There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different color combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube.

There are 44,523,312,694,361,020,971,556,671,544,734,879,370,359,807,003,367,569,358,848,000,000,000,000 ways to order a deck of cards.

There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.

There are 48 Gutenberg Bibles still in existence. Two of them were in Germany during World War II and are missing, but many book collectors believe them to be in private collections.

There are 49 different foods mentioned in the Bible.

There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

There are 63,360 inches in a mile.

There are a million ants for every person on Earth.

There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world.

There are about 30 milligrams of caffeine in the average chocolate bar, while a cup of coffee contains around 100 to 150 milligrams.

There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France.

There are about 5,000,000,000 years of sunlight left

There are about 7.7 million millionaires in the world (more than 1/1000th of the population).

There are approximately 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.

There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.

There are approximately 13,000 identifiable varieties of roses throughout the world.

There are approximately 2,700 different species of mosquitoes.

There are approximately 250,000 sweat glands in your feet.

There are approximately 45 billion fat cells in an average adult.

There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle.

There are approximately 75,000,000 horses in the world.

There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on the tongue.

There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world.

There are around 2,600 different species of frogs. They live on every continent except Antarctica.

There are at least two words in the English language that use all of the vowels, in the correct order, and end in the letter Y: abstemiously & facetiously.

There are four main Blood types: A, B, AB and O and each Blood type is either Rh positive or negative. Blood types in the US Type O positive 38.4%, O negative 7.7%, A positive 32.3%, A negative 6.5%, B positive 9.4%, B negative 1.7%, AB positive 3.2%, AB negative 0.7%

There are just over 7 million millionaires in the world (more than 1/1000th of the population).

There are more coffee drug addicts in the US than drug addicts of any other kind.

There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth.

There are more kinds of bacteria in your mouth then there are people in the world

There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the United States than real ones.

There are more stars than all of the grains of sand on earth.

There are more statues of Sacajewa, Lewis & Clark's female Indian guide, in the United States than any other person.

There are more than 100 distinct ethnic groups in the former Soviet states.

There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States. Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.

There are more than 2,000 muscles in a caterpillar.

There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.

There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year.

There are more than 500 varieties of banana in the world: The most common kinds are Dwarf Cavendish, Valery, and Williams Hybrid bananas. Other types of bananas include Apple and a small red banana called the Red Jamaica. A large type of banana called the plantain is hard and starchy and is almost eaten as a cooked vegetable. The Cavendish is the most common variety of bananas now imported to the United States. The Cavendish is a shorter, stubbier plant than earlier varieties. It was developed to resist plant diseases, insects and windstorms better than its predecessors. The Cavendish fruit is of medium size, has a creamier, smooth texture, and a thinner peel than earlier varieties.

There are more than 700 species of plants that grow in the United States that have been identified as dangerous if eaten. Among them are some that are commonly favored by gardeners: buttercups, daffodils, lily of the valley, sweet peas, oleander, azalea, bleeding heart, delphinium, and rhododendron.

There are more than 900,000 known species of insects in the world.

There are nine rooms on a 'Clue' game board. A forfeited baseball game is recorded as a 9-0 score.

There are no clocks or windows in any casino.

There are no female characters in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island because he was following the instructions of his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, for whom he wrote the book. Llyod wanted a story "about a map, a treasure, a mutiny and a derelict ship...No women in the story."

There are no geeze in the southern hemisphere.

There are no living descendents of William Shakespeare.

There are no public toilets in Peru.

There are no turkeys in Turkey.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, or silver.

There are one million ants for every person in the world.

There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.

There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are only 81 stable chemical elements. Rhenium was the last one to be found in 1925. Fifteen other elements have been discovered since then, but they are all radioactive.

There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are only two sequences of four consecutive letters that can be found in the English language: "rstu" and "mnop." Examples of each are understudy and gymnophobia.

There are orange peels and raisins in A-1 Steak Sauce.

There are over 3,500 bras hanging behind the bar at Hogs and Heifers, a bar in Manhattan. So many, in fact, that they caused a beam to collapse in the ceiling.

There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 885,000,000 people in China that speak that language.

There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul's armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas.

There are six U.S. Presidents with the first name James: Madison, Monroe, Garfield, Buchanon, Carter, Polk.

There are songs in all of Shakespeare's plays except The Comedy of Errors.

There are ten human body parts that are only three letters long: eye, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, jaw, rib, lip, and gum.

There are ten million bricks in the Empire State Building.

There are thirteen languages spoken by more than 100 million people. They are: Mandarin Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Malay-Indonesian, French, Japanese, German, and Urdu.

There are two credit cards for every person in the U.S.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

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

There are, on average, 259 raisins in a box of Raisin Bran and 388 in a box of Premium Raisin Bran.

There has never been a time in Super Bowl history where a punt return resulted in a touchdown.

There have been about 30 films made at or about Alcatraz, the now-closed federal prison island in San Francisco Bay, including The Rock (1996), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), and Escape from Alcatraz (1979).

There have been no recorded instances of anybody being killed by a meteorite.

There have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Grahm Bell over rights to the patent of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history.

There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas.

There is a 6-foot tall stone monument dedicated to the cartoon character Popeye in Crystal City, TX. .

There is a butterfly found in Brazil that has the smell and color of a chocolate.

There is a flower called the Scarlet Pimpernel that can forecast the weather. If the flower is closed up, rain is coming and if it is opened up, the day will be sunny.It is a.k.a 'the poor man's weatherglass'

There is a Massachusetts law requiring all dogs to have their hind legs tied during the month of April.

There is a member of the spider family called the demodex folliculorum that lives at the root of people's eye lashes. It's harmless and normal.(so they claim) To look for them, grab a handful of your eyelashes and dunk them in warm water. They'll start swimming out. It is prevalent in nearly 100% of old people in the U.S.

There is a sea squirt (found in the seas near Japan) that digests its own brain. When the sea squirt is mature it permanently attaches itself to a rock. At this point it does not need to move anymore and has no need for a brain.

There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

There is a street in Canada that runs for a distance of nearly 1900 kms.

There is a way of writing 1 by using all ten single-digit numbers at once: 148/296 + 35/70 = 1.

There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."

There is about 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.

There is about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout history.

There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable.

There is air in space, but very little of it. In fact, it is equivalent to a marble in a box 5 miles wide. Most of the gas is captured by the gravitational pull of other celestial bodies.Thanx M.Lerner

There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment.

There is an extra leg in the Iwo Jima memorial statue and extra hand. While the legend is that these extremedies belong to God, who is helping the Marines win, they are actually there for added support to the statue, and designed not to look like a metal rod going throught the middle of the group of Marines.

There is coffee flavored Pez.

There is cyanide in apple pits.

There is more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of U.S and Canada combined. Thanx Julie for this and a couple more