Random Facts Part 4

1. It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
2. It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
3. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
4. It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
5. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don't try this at home!)
6. Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
7. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
8. "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
9. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
10. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
11. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
12. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
13. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
14. Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
15. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
16. 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 original size: "L.A."
17. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
18. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
19. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
20. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
21. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.
22. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
23. Montpelier, VT is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
24. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
25. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
26. More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
27. Mosquitoes have teeth.
28. Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
29. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
30. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
31. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
32. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
33. Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
34. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
35. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
36. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
37. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
38. 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.
39. One in every 4 americans has appeared on television.
40. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
41. One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
42. Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
43. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
44. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
45. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
46. Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
47. Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
48. Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
49. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
50. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.