It.s illegal to ride an ugly horse down the street in Wilbur, Washington.
The skin on your eyelid is one one-thousandth of an inch deep (the thinnest); the skin on your back is one-fifth of an inch (the thickest).
According to research, you.ll blow your nose about 250 times this year.
Cows can be identified by noseprints.
There are 2,598,960 possible hands in a five-card poker game.
A group of frogs is called an army.
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents are present and don't die throughout the entire movie.
An electric eel's charge is so potent it can knock a horse unconscious from twenty feet away.
70% of house dust consists of human skin.
Artichokes are flowers.
Elephants breathe 12 times a minute.
It's impossible to snore in the weightlessness of space.
Mosquitos have 47 teeth.
An ecstatically weeping woman paid $8,625 at an auction for a pair of horseshoes worn by Mr. Ed.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. (Right, Shair?)
The first tennis balls were stuffed with human hair.
The average blink of an eye lasts one-tenth of a second.
The average American uses 12 gallons of water while showering.
Abe Lincoln's favorite sport was wrestling.
In the Middle Ages, you were supposed to throw eggs at the bride and groom.
In Lawrence, Kansas, it.s against the law to carry bees around in your hat on city streets.
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the number of injuries caused by plug-in air fresheners is 1,823.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Tomato ketchup was once sold in the U.S. as a medicine.
Snakes can get malaria.
Only 30% of humans can flare their nostrils.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Ducks can get the flu.
Siberia means "sleeping land."
In the Leaning Tower of Pisa, 6 of the tower.s eight floors are without safety rails. More than 250 people have fallen to their deaths since 1174.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
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All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.(DON'T try this @ home!)
Mr.Rogers is an ordained minister.
A golden razor removed from King Tut's Tomb was still sharp enough to be used.
Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. The 117,000 volumes were carried by 400 camels trained to walk in alphabetical order.
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition, from 1910-1911, the word toast was borrowed from the Old French toste, which has the Latin root of torrere, tostum, meaning to scorch or burn.
Acting was once considered evil, and actors in the first English play to be performed in America were arrested.
All of the officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated.
All office seekers in the Roman empire were obliged to wear a certain white toga for a period of one year before the election.
At the turn of the last millennium, Dublin Ireland had the largest slave market in the world, run by the Vikings.
Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant plenty of excrement.
Before the 1800's there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet.
Czar Paul I banished soldiers to Siberia for marching out of step.
Dog Days: Days of great heat. The Romans called the hottest weeks of summer canculares dies. Their theory was that the Dog Star (Sirius) rising with the sun, added to its heat and the dog-days (about July 3 to August 11) bore the combined heat of both.
During 18th century France, visitors to the royal palace in Versailles were allowed to stand in a roped-off section of the main dining room and watch the king and queen eat.
During the Cambrian period, about 500 million years ago, a day was only 20.6 hours long.
During the Depression, banks first used Scotch tape to mend torn currency.
During the eighteenth century, books that were considered offensive were sometimes punished by being whipped.
Everyone believed in the Middle Ages--as Aristotle had--that the heart was the seat of intelligence.
Evidence of shoemaking exists as early as 10,000 B.C.
Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem 'The Star Spangled Banner' after being inspired by watching the Americans fight off the British attack of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem became the words to the national anthem.
High-wire acts have been enjoyed since the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Antique medals have been excavated from Greek islands depicting men ascending inclined cords and walking across ropes stretched between cliffs. The Greeks called these high-wire performers neurobates or oribates. In the Roman city of Herculaneum there is a fresco representing an aerialist high on a rope, dancing and playing a flute. Sometimes Roman tightrope walkers stretched cables between the tops of two neighboring hills and performed comic dances and pantomimes while crossing.
If a family had 2 servants or less in the U.S. in 1900, census takers recorded it as lower middle-class.
If we had the same mortality rate as in the 1900s, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.
If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birth place is listed as a post office box in Albequerque.
In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.
In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death.
In certain parts of India and ancient China, mouse meat was considered a delicacy.
In midieval England, beer often was served with breakfast.
In the 1700's, you could purchase insurance against going to hell, in London, England.
In the 19th century, the British Navy attempted to dispel the superstition that Friday was an unlucky day to embark on a ship. The keel of a new ship was laid on a Friday, she was named H.M.S Friday, commanded by a Captain Friday, and finlly went to sea on a Friday. Neither the ship nor her crew were ever heard of again.
In the Great Fire of London in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only six people were injured.
In the marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other.
In Turkey, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.
In Victorian times, there was an intense fear of being buried alive, so when someone died, a small hole was dug from the casket to the surface, then a string was tied around the dead persons finger which was then attached to a small but loud bell that was hung on the surface of the grave, so then if someone was buried alive, they could ring the bell and whomever was on duty would go and dig them up. Someone was on the clock 24 hours a day- hence the grave yard shift.
Income tax was first introduced in England in 1799 by British Prime Minister, William Pitt.
It cost more to buy a car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to the New World.
It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.
January is National Soup month.
Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness.
53,312 inmate lawsuits were filed nationwide in 1995.
A Virginia law requires all bathtubs to be kept out in the yards, not inside the house.
According to British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
Christmas was once illegal in England.
George Washington is the only man whose birthday is a legal holiday in every state of the U.S as of a few years ago.
Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
In a tradition dating to the begining of the Westminster system of government, the bench in the middle of a Westminster parliarment is two and a half sword lengths long. This was so the government and oppositon couldn't have a go at each other if it all got a bit heated
In Alaska it is illegal to shoot at a moose from the window of an aero plane or other flying vehicle.
In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
In Hartford, Connecticut, it is illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sundays.
In Italy, it is illegal to make coffins out of anything except nutshells or wood.
In Jasmine, Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300 km of a private home.
In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice-cream in your back pocket.
In Texas, it is illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.
In the UK, there is no act of parliament making it illegal to commit murder. Murder is only illegal due to legal precedent.
It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California.
It is illegal to frown at cows in Bladworth, Saskatchewan.
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.
Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize witchcraft.
107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today.
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