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No word in the English language rhymes with month, silver, or orange.
The word rhythms is the longest word in the English language without any vowels.
Mark Twain, Samuel Clements pseudonym is an acronym. Twain stood for "Tools Without An Interesting Name."
In France it's illegal to sell an ET doll because selling dolls without human faces is illegal.
The longest word in the English language is
pnuemonoultramicroscopicsiliovolcanoconosis. It's a lung disease caused
by the inhalation of volcanic ash
Russians generally answer the phone by saying "I'm listening."
Smokey the Bear has his own zip code 20252.
Mafia in old Arabic means "sanctuary."
The New York phone book had 22 Hitler's before WWII after;0.
7% of Americans think Elvis is still alive.
There is a town in Texas called Ding Dong.
In 1980 a Texas funeral home was listed under "frozen foods" in the phone book.
Shakespeare's daughter was illiterate.
In "Fantasia" the sorcerer's name was Yensid, Disney spelled backwards.
The liquid substance inside a young coconut can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japenese.
Teddy Roosevelt's wife and mother passed away on the same day.
Time magazine listed 1938's "man of the year" as Adolf Hitler.
About 10% of the world's population is left handed.
Some famous dyslexics; Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Cruise, Hans Christian Anderson, and Albert Einstein.
Texas was the first state to adopt lethal injection.
The FDA allows 30 or more insect fragments and one or more rodent hairs for every 100 grams of peanut butter !!!!!! Yick
The white part of an egg besides being called the white is called the albumen.
The elephant is the only animal to have four knees.
The Silbo language of the Canary Islands is based solely on whistles.
Sigmund Frued had a morbid fear of ferns.
Members of the Nazi SS had their blood type tattoed on the armpit.
Taxpayers spent 57,000 dollars on gold-embossed playing cards for Air Force One.
The slit made by a saw or knife is called a kerf.
In the province of Quebec, Canada, it is illegal to display advertisements in English.
Artist Constantino Brumudi fell from the dome of the U.S. Capitol
while painting a mural around the rim. He died four months later.
Elizabeth I of England suffered from anthophobia, the fear of roses.
The population of Columbia doubles every 22 years.
The U.S. Postal Service assures it's customers they will not get fat licking stamps, each stamp is 1/10 of a calorie.
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizone.
Voltaire considered Shakespeare's works so deplorable that he referred to the Bard as "that drunken fool."
There is a disease called icthyosis that turns the skin scaly like a fish.
No one knows where Mozart is buried.
In Washington D.C., no building can be built taller than the Capitol.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
The thigh bone (tibula) is hollow.
Nero did not fiddle while Rome burned. The violin had not yet been invented.
Bhutan is the only country in the world without phone service.
Until the 1950's Tibetians disposed of dead bodies by taking the
body up a hill, hacking it into little pieces and feeding the remains to
the birds.
Celery has negative calories, it takes more to eat than it has to begin with.
a Nazi version of punishment in WWII was to have the condemned
person lie on their back, with their eyes open forcen to watch the
guillotine blade.
In Medieval England, beer was often served with breakfast.
The Swedes drink more coffee than any other people in the world.
Thomas Jefferson invented the dumbwaiter.
The word "tip," meaning gratuity, is an acronym for "To Insure Promptness"
In San Salvador, the punishment for driving drunk is death by a firing squad.
During the Civil War undertakers were addressed as "Doctor."
