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1) The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
2) There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.
3) Coca-Cola was originally green.
4) The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters, A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W, ' (which is called an okina)
5) The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
6) Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades--King David, Clubs--Alexander the Great, Hearts--Charlemagne and Diamonds--Julius Caesar.
7) Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know your there
8) In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
9) There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
10) If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

Amazinggggg!!!!!

1) There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.

2) Napoleon was terrified of cats.

3) The oldest known vegetable is the pea.

4) Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.

5) The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in seven months. They died of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning and being thrown from a horse.

6) In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses. The type was made from baked oxen dung.

7) It takes a ton of water to make a pound of refined sugar.

8) In 1221 the daughter of Genghis Khan ordered the killing of the entire population of the city of Nishapur (about 60,000) in one hour. The order came after her husband killing. (Moguls claim that 1.7 million were killed) There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.

9) King Henry III of France, Louis XVI of France and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia--fear of cats.

Interesting Facts

1) There was once a town in West Virginia called "6."

2) The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.

3) Napoleon made his battle plans in a sandbox.

4) Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.

5) The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.

6) Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.

7) On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.

8) Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.

9) A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.

10) Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

Amazing Facts!!!

1) The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

2) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

3) Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.

4) The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one.

5) During World War II, IBM built counting machines the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.

6) During World War II, the British Intelligence used the Colossus Machines (precursor to computers) at Bletchley Park to help decode the enigma code of the Nazis.

7) Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.

8) The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.

9) Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

10) A dime( US Coin) has 118 ridges around the edge.

Few More Interesting Facts

1) The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon’s bedroom.

2) Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.

3) For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality. (As of 2006)

4) Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it's cheaper to do so than buy back the bonds on which they are based.

5) In Bhutan government policy is based on Gross National Happiness; thus most street advertising is banned, as are tobacco and plastic bags.

6) Camel's milk, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than cow's milk.

7) Iceland has the highest concentration of broadband users in the world.

8) The age limit for marriage in France was, until recently, 15 for girls, but 18 for boys. The age for girls was raised to 18 in 2006.

9) The two most famous actors who portrayed the “Marlboro Man” in the cigarette ads died of lung cancer.

10) The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.

Have Fun- Part 4

1) The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.
2) Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
3) A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
4) The new 787 Boeing was revealed on 7/8/07 or July 8th, 07.
5) Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it
6) Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
7) The national orchestra of Monaco (a nation in Europe) has more individuals than its army.
8) Earthworms have five hearts.
9) The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
10) Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defense secretary in US history.

Interesting Facts

1) The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
2) German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
3) Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
4) The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
5) Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
6) Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
7) Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
8) There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
9) Beer is made by fermentation cause by bacteria feeding on yeast cells and then defecating. In other words, it's a nice tall glass of bacteria doo-doo.
10) The custom of saying "Bless you" when someone sneezes was first used by ancients when they believed that breath was the essence of life, and when you sneeze a part of you life is escaping. Evil spirits rush into your body and occupy the empty space. By saying "God bless you" the speaker is protecting the sneezer from that spirits.

Amazing!!!

1) Mickey Mouse was the first non-human to win an Oscar.
2) Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
3) Galileo became totally blind just before his death. This is probably because of his constant gazing at the sun through his telescope.
4) The "black box" that houses an airplane's voice recorder is orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.
5) Some china is called "bone" china because some powdered animal bone is mixed in with the clay used to make this china: it gives the china a special kind of strength, whiteness, and translucency.
6) The largest pyramid in the world is not in Egypt but in Cholulu de Rivadahia, Mexico. It is 177 feet tall and covers 25 acres. It was built sometime between 6 and 12 AD.
7) Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
8) Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
9) Bulgaria was the only soccer team in the 1994 World Cup in which all 11 players' last names ended with the letters "OV."
10) It takes a plastic container 50000 years to start decomposing.

Coincidents-Abraham Lincoln & John F Kennedy

1) Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
2) Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
3) The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
4) Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
5) Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.
6) Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
7) Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.
8) Both were assassinated by Southerners.
9) Both were succeeded by Southerners.
10) Both successors were named Johnson.
11) Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
12) John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born! ! in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
13) Both assassins were known by their three names.
14) Both names are composed of fifteen letters.
15) Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Kennedy.'
Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln.'
16) Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.
17) Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.


And here's the kicker... A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.