Pearls melt in vinegar.

 It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough
leather for a  year's  supply of footballs.   (Eeeeewwwww)

 Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating  are already married.

 The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro,  Coca-Cola,  and  Budweiser,  in that order.

 It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

 Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the  palms of  their hands.

 Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the  sale  of vodka.

 The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses  every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by
Western Union to  Test  telex/two communications)

 The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without  repeating a  letter is uncopyrightable.

 Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the  left  hand.

 No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,  silver,  and purple.

 "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English  language.

 The average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

 A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

 The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days  of  yore when the engines were pulled by horses.  The
horses were  stabled on  the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight  staircases.

 The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus  the  name of the Don McLean song.)

 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.

 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

 Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted  people  without killing them used to burn their houses
down - hence the expression "to get fired."

 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.

 Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes  them  looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

 An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

 The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

 The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for  the  "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

 The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point  in  Colorado.

 Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

 If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you  have  $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money
in coins  without being  able to make change for a dollar.

 No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has  ever  won a Superbowl.

 The only two days of the year in which there are no professional  sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day
before and the  day  after the Major League All-Star Game.

 Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

 The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was  actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

 If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep  floating  to the top and sinking to the bottom.

 Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.

 Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman  roommates at Harvard

 The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable  from  those of humans, so much so that they could be
confused at a  crime  scene.

 Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the  13th."

 James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star  Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his
right hand.

 The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one  mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are
 usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

 There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

 All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are  stuck on 4:20.

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