� Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.

� The tango originated as a dance between two men (for
partnering practice).

� Leon Trotsky, the seminal Russian Communist, was
assassinated in Mexico with an ice-pick.

� The Bronx, New York got its name from explorer Henry
Bronk.

� The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continually held sports
event in the United States (1875); the second oldest is the
Westminister Kennel Club Dog Show (1876.)

� "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the very first video
ever played on MTV.

� The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun
and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where
thrown by the same man.

� The native tribe of Tierra del Fuego has a language so
guttural it cannot have an alphabet.

� A family of six died in Oregon during WWII as a result
of a Japanese balloon bomb.

� AM and PM stand for "Ante-Meridian" and "Post-Meridian,"
respectively, and A.D. actually stands for "Anno Domini"
rather than "After Death."

� The penguins that inhabit the tip of South America are
called jackass penguins.

� To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court
swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

� During conscription for WWII, there were nine documented
cases of men with three testicles.

� Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate'
which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle.

� Benito Mussolini would ward off the evil eye by touching
his testicles.

� Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle

� Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.

� Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is
noticably shorter than his right.

� Scientists found a whole new phylum of animal on a
lobster's lip.

� The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover
Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

� Grover Cleveland's real first name is Stephen, Grover is
his middle name.

� Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.

� During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to drop bomb.

� Swans are the only birds with penises.

� A whale's penis is called adork.

� Some carnivores, rodents, bats and insectivores have a
penis bone, called a baculum.

� A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in
the world in relation to its size.

� Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penises.

� "I'd like clarify the comment about iguanas and komodo
dragons having two penises. In fact, they have a single
penis, but it is split in two (pretty much 'Y'-shaped.) This
organ is known as a hemipenes. Snakes also share this
interesting feature. Apparently, the dual penis is for ease
of left-handed or right-handed mating.

� Opossums have forked penises.

� Some female hyenas have a pseudo-penis.

� A winged penis was the city symbol of Pompeii, the
ancient Roman resort town destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius'
eruption.

� One way to tell seals and sea lions apart is that, sea
lions have external ears and testicles.

� Swahili is a combination of African tribal languages,
Arabic and Portuguese.

� A person from Glasgow, is called a Glaswegian.

� An enneahedron is solid with nine faces.

� Most armadillos seen dead on the road did not get hit by
the wheels. When an armidillo is frightened it jumps

� straight into the air.

� Armadillos can be housebroken.

� Armadillos have four babies at a time, always all the
same sex. They are perfect quadruplets, the fertilized cell
split into quarters, resulting in four identical armadillos.

� Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per
day.

� Armadillos can walk underwater.

� Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can
get leprosy.

� Jet lag was once called boat lag, back before jets
existed.

� Sirimauo Bandranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's
first popularly elected female head of state in 1960.

� There are more beetles than any other kind of creature
in the world.

� Velcro was invented by a Swiss guy who was inspired by
the way burrs attached to clothing.

� The hieroglyph for 100,000 is a tadpole.

� The Phillips-head screwdriver was invented in Oregon.

� Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian
sarcophagi's noses off would and therefore forstall curses.

� The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in
humans. (Watch out Inigo Montoya...)

� Polar bears' fur is not white, it's clear. Polar bear
skin is actually black. Their hair is hollow and acts like
fiber optics, directing sunlight to warm their skin.

� Polar bears camouflage themselves more completely during
a hunt by covering their black noses with their paws.

� The amount of tropical rainforest cut down each year is
an area the size of Tennessee.

� The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of
water.

� Medieval knights put sharkskin on their swordhandles to
give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales
into their palms.

� Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into
the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to
explode.

� The only planet without a ring is earth.

� Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.

� Cleopatra used pomegranate seeds for lipstick.

� Cleopatra's last name was Ptolemy, and she was Greek
rather than Egyptian.

� The Red sea in the Bible is a long-perpetuated
mistranslation of the Reed sea.

� If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will
explode.

� The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are
called Botts dots.

� The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen
supply.

� The concerti on the two Voyager probes' information
discs are performed by famed Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.

� Reindeer like to eat bananas.

� Chia Pets are only sold in December.

� Between 1947 and 1959, 42 nuclear devices were detonated
in the Marshall Islands.

� Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television
special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."

� A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

� Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."

� A group of frogs is called an army.

� A group of rhinos is called a crash.

� A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

� A group of whales is called a pod.

� A group of geese is called a gaggle.

� A group of ravens is called a murder.

� A group of officers is called a mess.

� A group of larks is called an exaltation.

� A group of owls is called a parliament.

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

� The physically smallest post office in the United States
is in Ochopee, Florida in the heart of the everglades.

� Physicist Murray Gell-Mann named the sub-atomic
particles known as quarks for a random line in James Joyce,
"Three quarks for Muster Mark!"

� Samuel Clemens's pseudonym "Mark Twain" was the nickname
of a riverboat pilot about whom Clemens wrote a needless
nasty satirical piece. Apparently, Clemens felt guilt later
and adopted the name as a nom de plume as some sort of
expiation. The phrase does not mean measuring the depth of
the river; it means a specific depth, to wit, two fathoms
(twelve feet.)

� Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.

� Money is made of woven linen, not paper

� A rhinoceros's horn is made of hair.

� Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a
calorie.

� The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written
about Rosanna Arquette, the actress.

� Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and
sister.

� Jean Harlow was the first actress to appear on the cover
of Life magazine.

� Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age
31 by sticking her head in an oven.

� Sylvia Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, was married three
times, and two of the women he married committed suicide.

� Jesus Christ died at age 33.

� Starfish don't have brains.

� Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.

� The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin
"tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in
ancient times, at an intersection of three streeets in Rome
(or some other Italian place), they would have a type of
kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be
interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of
"trivia."

� The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime
time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

� Coca-Cola was originally green.

� Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US
Treasury.

� Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

� Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear
better.

� City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong

� State with the highest percentage of people who walk to
work: Alaska

� Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%

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