If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?
If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
Why do we say something is out of whack? What's a whack?
If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
When someone asks you, "A penny for your thoughts," and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.
When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?
(see Cheese)
Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person that drives a race car is not called a racist?
Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?
Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one?
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?
If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call the resulting company Fed UP?
Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?
What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?
I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older. Then it dawned on me..... they're cramming for their final exam.
If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
How come no one ever says, "It's only a game" when their team is winning?
Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?
Whatever happened to Preparations A through G?
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Elephant trunks hold up to 1 1/2 gallons of liquid.
Penguins can jump 6 feet high.
Ostriches measure up to nine feet from head to feet, and weigh as much as 350 pounds.
A baby kangaroo is only on inch long.
A dragonfly, the fastest flying insect, can move up to 35 mph.
An African ostrich egg weighs about 30 pounds.
Tarantula spiders can live for over two years without eating.
A gorilla will stick its tongue out when angry.
The elephant is the only animal that has 4 knees.
The black bulldog ant of Australia can kill a person.
The giant squid has the largest eyes than any other creature.
The greyhound has the best eyesight of all breeds of dogs.
The heaviest dog on record was a St. Bernard that weighed 310 pounds.
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The first beer can was used by Krueger Beer, and introduced in 1935.
The first bra was created by a French designer in 1902.
The first city in history to boast a million inhabitants was London, in 1811.
The first continental phone call occurred in 1915 between New York and San Francisco.
The first electronic computer was built in 1889 for the U.S. Census Bureau.
The first heart transplant took place on December 3, 1967.
The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine featured a photo of John Lennon on the cover.
The first pay phone was installed in a Hartford, Connecticut bank in 1889.
The first scheduled TV broadcast, in 1931, featured George Gershwin and Kate Smith.
The first shopping center was built in Baltimore, MD, in 1896.
The first sound recording ever made was "Mary Had a Little Lamb," in 1877 by Tom Edison.
The first sperm banks opened in 1964 in Tokyo and Iowa City.
The first stereo record went on the market in 1958.
The first stewardesses were on United Airlines in 1930, and had to be registered nurses.
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The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
(see Worlds Tallest Buildings)
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
(see The Solar System)
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S. than real ones.
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
(see U.S. States)
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'.
In 1944, Fidel Castro was voted Cuba's best schoolboy athlete. A left-handed pitcher, Castro was later given a tryout by the Washington Senators but was turned down by the baseball club.
The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
Most soccer balls have 32 panels.
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