v In the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, if a man was not married by age 30, he would not be allowed to vote or watch athletic events involving nude young men.
v In playing poker, there is one chance in 500 of drawing a flush.
v In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "goodnight, sleep tight" came from.
v In Shakespeare, Rosalind, the heroine of "As You Like It", has more lines than any of Shakespeare's female characters. Cleopatra comes in second with 670 lines and third place belongs to Imogen ("Cymbeline"), with 591 lines.
v In seventy-five years the human heart pumps 3,122,000,000 gallons of blood, enough to fill in oil tanker over 46 times!
v In Seattle, Washington, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon that is over six feet in length.
v In Scotland, Irn-Bru is a soft drink that is more popular than Coca-Cola. When McDonalds opened in Glasgow and did not sell Irn-Bru, it was considered an insult, and the restaurant was subsequently boycotted.
v In Scituate, Rhode Island it is illegal to keep a flock of chickens in your motorhome if you live in a trailer park.
v In Saratoga, Florida it is illegal to sing while wearing a bathing suit.
v In Salem, Massachesetts sleeping in the nude in a rented room is forbidden, even for married couples.
v All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
v All mammals have tongues.
v Alexander H. Stephens was Jefferson Davis's Vice President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
v Alekthophilia is the love of chickens.
v After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
v Adding sugar to coffee is believed to have started in 1715, in the court of King Louis XIV, the French monarch.
v According to an Old English system of time units, a moment is considered to be one and a half minutes.
v According to a recent survey, more Americans lose their virginity in June than any other month.
v According to a global survey in 1997 by Durex Condoms Canadians are the world's fourth worst lovers. The worst three slots belong to South Africa, Russia, and Poland.
v Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
v Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House.
v Abraham Lincoln had to go across the street to the War Department to get news from the battlefield because there was no telegraph in the White House.
v About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
v About 80% of the city was burned in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
v About 75% of the people in the U.S. live on 2% land.
v About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
v About 55% of all movies are rated R. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
v About 24% of the total ground area of Los Angeles is said to be committed to automobiles.
v About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
v Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk.
v ABBA GOLD has been in the UK charts for over 280 weeks, thats over 5 years
v A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
v A total of 63 errors were made in the 1886 World Series.
v A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.
v "Hang on Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.
v "Flushable" toilets were in use in ancient Rome.
v "Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
v "Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between.
v "A motion to table a motion to reconsider a vote to table an appeal of a ruling that a point of order was not in order against a motion to table another point of order against a motion to bring to a vote the motion to call up the resolution that would institute a rules change."
v Frank Baum, the writer of "The Wizrd of OZ", looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
v On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.
v Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
v About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
v Penguins are not found in the North Pole.
v More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.
v A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
v Electrical stimulation of certain areas of the brain has been proven to revive long-lost memories.
v Crocodiles have brains no larger than a cigar and they cannot stick their tongue out.
v 'Crack Cocaine' is still cocaine. It is simply a different chemical process applied to cocaine powder that allows cocaine to be smoke able. This means that the 'high' from Crack Cocaine is much stronger and more immediate (taking about 8 seconds to reach the brain); and also shorter lived then from the powder.
v Cocaine works in a totally different way from narcotics such as morphine or heroin. Heroin works on receptor sites in the brain which are stimulated by the drug to produce pain-relieving and mood-enhancing chemicals. Cocaine on the other hand works by stimulating the central nervous system, and like alcohol, is processed through the liver.
v There was no soap in the ancient Mediterranean world. Olive oil was used to wash the body in addition to cooking.
v The largest body of fresh water in the world is Lake Superior.
v The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet.
v Chameleons can reel in food from a distance as far away as more than two and a half times their body lengths.
v A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of its body.
v A leech is a worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to drain "bad blood" from sick patients.
v A flea can jump 350 times is own body length. (say. you jumping the length of a soccer field)thanks seraph
v A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
v When Swiss cheese ferments, a bacterial action generates gas. As the gas is liberated, it bubbles through the cheese leaving holes. Cheese-makers call them "eyes."
v The song "When Irish Eyes are smiling" was written by George Graff, who was German, and was never in Ireland in his life.
v The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
v Faye Wong received a 7 digit fee for recording 'eyes on me' and it took her about 4 hours.
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