1. President Lincoln, when informed that General Grant drank whiskey while leading his troops, reportedly replied "Find out the name of the brand so I can give it to my other generals."

2. Being intoxicated had desirable spiritual significance to the ancient Egyptians. They often gave their children names like "How Drunk is Cheops" or "How Intoxicated is Hathor."

Ants never sleep.

No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".

The human brain is 80% water.

Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.

The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

There are 86,400 seconds in day.

A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.

Singapore has only one train station.

The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.

On Sesame Street, Bert's goldfish were named Lyle and Talbot, presumably after the actor Lyle Talbot.

Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.

Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.

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

Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.

The newest dog breed is the Bull Boxer, first bred in the United states in 1990-91.

The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5 megabytes.

Teflon is the slipperiest substance in the world.

The ''King Ranch'' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.

The ''vintage date'' on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were picked, not the year of bottling!

The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.

The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.

The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.

The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.

The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.

The real name of Astro (the dog fromThe Jetsons) is "Tralfaz" -- his real owner appeared one day to claim him but wound up giving him back to the Jetsons.

A new baby usually deprives it's parents of 400-750 hours of sleep in the first year.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life.

Only two states' names begin with double consonants: Florida and Rhode Island.

The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.

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

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

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

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".

The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.

The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.

There are 365 steps on the front of the U.S. Capitol Building - one for every day of the year.

There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing!

To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow.

U-Haul is the world''s largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.

Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song ''Happy Birthday''. They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.

Warren Beatty once worked as a rat-catcher!

Wheel of Fortune star Vanna White holds the record for putting her hands together approximately 140,000 times to clap.

When Scott Paper Company first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.

Did You Know, Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

Did You Know, The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Did You Know, 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

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

Did You Know, Butterflies taste with their feet.

Did You Know, Coca-Cola was originally green.

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

Did You Know, Every day more money is printed for
Monopoly than the US Treasury.

Did You Know, It is impossible to lick your elbow.

Did You Know, Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Did You Know, 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world''s widest road.

Did You Know, 2 out of 3 adults in the United States have hemorrhoids.

Did You Know, 2,500 newborn babies will be dropped in the next month.

Did You Know, 20% of tuxedo rentals take place in May.

Did You Know, 20252 is Smokey the Bear''s own zip code.

Did You Know, 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

Did You Know, 25% of your bones are located in your feet.

Did You Know, 35% of the people using personal ads for dating are already married!

Did You Know, 4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.

Did You Know, 40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans.

Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.

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

Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.

A pig in Japan says "moo-moo".

India has about 50 million monkeys.

On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.

Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.

The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

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

The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."

Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S.

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

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

Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.

Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.

Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.

Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth.

Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.

Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.

New York''s Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.

Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.

Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world''s first billionaire.

On average, a disposable diaper can hold up to 7 pounds of liquid.

Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.

The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.

The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

Basketball is a famous American sport invented by a Canadian who was working at a YMCA in the U.S.

The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.

The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk.

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.

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

No president of the United States was an only child.

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

Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales.

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.

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.

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 violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

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

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.

During World War II, Uncle Ben''s was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.

Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.

Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.

Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes.

From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.

Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.

George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.

In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people''s clothes.

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