1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
3. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
4. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
5. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
6. There are more chickens than people in the world.
7. Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
8. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
10. All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.
11. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
12. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.
13. All 50 States are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
14. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
15. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
16. Maine is the only State whose name is just one syllable.
17. There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
18. The characters “Bert” and “Ernie” on Sesame Street were named after “Bert the cop” and “Ernie the taxi driver” in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
19. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
20. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
21. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
22. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
23. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
24. Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula.”
25. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
27. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
28. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
30. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
31. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
32. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
33. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
34. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
35. “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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Responses to “The Coolest 35 Facts You’ve Never Heard”
November 21st, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Never heard of? What, is this your first week on the Internet? Stupid, arrogant people…
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:06 am
Number 13 is wrong. There are only 26 states listed on the back of a $5.
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:07 am
It’s just a myth:
From IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/trivia
“There is a persistent myth that that all the clocks in the movie are set to 4:20 (although, certainly all the clocks on the wall in the pawn shop are set to 4:20). However, in at least two scenes it is obvious that this is not the case. In the “Bonnie Situation” while Jimmy, Vince and Jules are drinking coffee in the kitchen, the clock clearly reads 8:15. Secondly, when Vince and Jules go to retrieve the briefcase, it is “7:22 in the a.m.”. The significance of the time 4:20 is that it is slang for smoking marijuana.”
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:45 am
You are wrong about the Speaker of the House in the UK Government - he is allowed to speak.
I also think the ‘goldfish have a 3 second memory statement’ is an urban legend… but I can’t remember.
You also forgot about a few other words ending in ‘dous’ - vanadous, molybdous, mucidous, multifidous, nefandous, frondous, decapodous, lagopodous, tylopodous, steganopodous, heteropodous, gasteropodous, isopodous, and ligniperdous, amphipodous, apodous, blizzardous, gastropodous, hybridous, iodous, nodous, octapodous, palladous, paludous, pudendous, rhodous, sauropodous, schizopodous, solipedous, splendidous, tetrapodous, voudous and timidous.
Come that, how about adreamt, redreamt, undreamt & daydreamt for words ending in mt?
Dragonflies live for weeks or months, not just a day.
Cats don’t have any muscles in their ears, although they do have around 30 muscles to _control_ their ears.
Sharks don’t have eyelids and don’t blink.
There are only 48 states listed on the front of the Lincoln memorial and only 28 on the front.
Most people can’t sneeze with their eyes open, but a small proportion can.
Orange rhymes with sporange, silver rhymes with chilver & purple with hirple.
The flag on the Canadian two dollar bill is a Canadian one.
Winston Churchill was born in a bedroom in Blenheim Palace.
Did you actually bother to check any of these ‘facts’?
P.S.
’scraunched’ - one syllable, 10 letters, hardly ever used, or you can have ’squirreled’ with 10 or 11 letters depending on the number of ‘l’s that you want in it.
November 22nd, 2007 at 4:04 am
Would be factual if there was such a thing as a Canadian 2$ bill 
http://janroncommunications.com/images/pr-images/2006-10thanniversary.jpg
You CAN sneeze with you eyes open, I’ve forced it myself.
November 22nd, 2007 at 4:07 am
Screeched is 9 letters, but so is strengths. Makes me wonder about the rest of the list.
November 22nd, 2007 at 5:37 am
Fact #4 says: “The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.”
Is this the average English speaker with an English-language keyboard or does it apply to all keyboards for all languages?
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Not only is “Maine” a single-syllable word, but three of the United States have names with three syllables despite having five or fewer letters.
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November 28th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
No. 9 is incorrect (more accurately, it’s an urban legend based on a mistake)
The flag on the $2 bill (which is no longer printed, replaced with a coin a few years ago) is actually the Red Ensign, which was Canada’s flag before the Maple Leaf was introduced. Because the ensign has a dark box in the upper left corner, and is printed very tiny on the bill and covered in wavy lines, it is often mistaken for the American flag.
November 29th, 2007 at 6:45 am
The flag on the last Canadian $2 bill was definitely Canadian. However, some other bills (such as the $50) use an older illustration that shows the Canadian “Red Ensign” flag, which was the official Canadian flag before 1967. It looks faintly like the US flag just because it has a segment in the upper-left quadrant, as does the US flag.
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November 21st, 2007 at 3:20 pm
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