1. Father's Day was first observed in Spokane, Washington, in 1910. Sonora Louise Smart Dodd,of Washington, first proposed the idea of a "father's day" in 1909.
2. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
3. First Stock Exchange of America was in Philadelphia & it was established in 1791.
4. Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
5. For over 100 years, until the 16th century, the Spaniards maintained control of Canaries, selling only males to other European countries. Then, due to a shipping accident, a large cargo of canaries escaped and flew to the Island of Elba. They soon were sold all over Europe.
6. Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
7. Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
8. Every person has a unique tongue print.
9. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
10. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
11. Giraffes can not swim.
12. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
13. Girls however are slightly more likely than boys to use home computers for e-mail, word processing and completing school assignments than playing games.
14. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
15. Global Positioning System (GPS) is the only system today that can show your exact position on the Earth anytime, in any weather, no matter where you are.
16. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
17. Google, with a brand value of $86 billion, is the world's most powerful brand.
18. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
19. Half of the world's refugees and displaced people are women and girls. As refugees, they are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence while in flight, in refugee camps and during resettlement.
20. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
21. Harvester larvae are carnivorous. They feed on aphids not plants.
22. Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
23. Here are some interesting numbers to look at. (*1997)
24. Giraffes have no vocal cords.
25. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
26. Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
27. 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
28. Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
29. 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
30. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
31. 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
32. Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
33. 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
34. Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
35. Honey bees have a type of hair on their eyes.
36. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
37. Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
38. Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
39. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
40. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
41. Human use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
42. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
43. Human have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
44. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
45. Humming birds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.
46. If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
47. Humming birds can weigh less than a penny..
48. If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
49. If ribbon worms did not find food stuff then they will eat themselves.
50. 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.
51. If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
52. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
53. If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange.
54. If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.
55. If you could throw a snowball fast enough, it would totally vaporize when it hit a brick wall. It takes 17 muscles to smile & 43 to frown.
56. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
57. If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.
58. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
59. If you go blind in one eye, you'll only lose about one-fifth of your vision (but all your depth perception.)
60. In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
61. POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
62. In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
63. In 2004, Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Sophia Loren won a grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for narrating the Russian National Orchestra's "Peter and the Wolf/Wolf Tracks."
64. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
65. In a lifetime the average US resident eats more than 50 tons of food and drinks more than 13,000 gallons of liquid.
66. In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
67. In a lifetime the marrow creates about half a ton of red corpuscles.
68. In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" were considered a dirty word.
69. In Bangladesh, 15 year young kid can be jailed for cheating on their finals examination.
70. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
71. In Britain 70% mothers go for work.
72. In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.
73. In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
74. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
75. In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces.
76. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
77. In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.
78. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
79. In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
80. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
81. Indians have been biting into juicy mangoes for 3,000 years. But the western world came to know about it only 300 years ago.
82. In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
83. India's first television center was set up at Delhi.
84. In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
85. Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.
86. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
87. It can easily learn about any cat's present state of mind by observing the posture of his tail.
88. In the movie "Casablanca," Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
89. It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States.
90. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
91. It is said that Hatchet fish will break the surface of the water and "fly" after their prey using their large pectoral fins as "wings".
92. In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
93. It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.
94. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
95. It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
96. It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
97. It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
98. It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
99. It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
100. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
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