Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:05:01 -0800
Subject: trivia



>On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
>Building  is an American flag..
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>All of the clocks in  the movie Pulp Fiction  are stuck on 4:20.
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>All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
>back of the $5 bill.
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>Almonds are members of the peach family.
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>The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
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>Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
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>Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
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>Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real
>brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
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>Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
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>In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person
>who has a speaking role.
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>Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actors'
>salaries.
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>Spot, Data's cat on  Star Trek:  The Next Generation , was played by six
>different cats.
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>A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the
>production of  Guinness.
>
>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 size,
>"L.A."
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>A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
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>An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
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>Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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>Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
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>In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a
>watch is 10:10.
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>Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.  It was eliminated when he
>was sewn up after surgery.
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>Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
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>Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
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>Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
>
>The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same
>pattern of whiskers.
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>Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
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>The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
>
>When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the
>stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
>
>Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
>blood donors.
>
>The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the
>cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"
>
>A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
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>A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
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>A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
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>A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
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>The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
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>It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog
>throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's
>mouth.Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's
>contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
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>Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
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>Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
>
>ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first
>names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)
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>The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's
>sister,Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the
>Beatles at a religious retreat in India.
>
>Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened
>cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
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>The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
>
>Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul
>Reiser himself..
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>Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Frasier.
>
>The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8
>miles away.
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>The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
>
>Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
>
>The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator,
>Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence
>"Oz."
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>The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and
>a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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>Horses cannot vomit. Rabbits cannot vomit.
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>A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
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>Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
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>Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
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>John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
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>The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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>The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
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>Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
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>Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
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>There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
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>Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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>Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
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>To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement
>made by swearing on their testicles.
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>The only planet without a ring is Earth.
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>Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
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> A group of unicorns is called a blessing