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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your
thumb.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left
handed people do.

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter in the alphabet.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

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On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
Building is an American flag.

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".

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

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

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served in first-class.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.
Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million
people in the world?

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body
to squirt blood 30 feet.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.

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

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

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

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

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton
growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as
competition.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

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

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.

If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would
stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of
a normal human's neck.

Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as
is necessary.

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Polar bears are left-handed.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1
for animal having the most taste buds.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter
is uncopyrightable.

First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane
crashes.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with.

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

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

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to
death.
Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Starfish haven't got brains.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has
memorized all 158 verses.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

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."

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a
watch is 10:10.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube
and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

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

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

A dragonfly has a lifespan 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.

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


SOURCE: mail from my friend Mervin Bas