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1. The study of stupidity is called “monology.”
2. The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth.
3. When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn’t understand German.
4. St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was not Irish.
5. The lance ceased to be an official battle weapon in the British Army in 1927.
6. St. John was the only one of the 12 Apostles to die a natural death.
7. Many sailors used to wear gold earrings so that they could afford a proper burial when they died.
8. Hindu men believed it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marring a tree first. The tree (his third wife) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again.
9. More money is spent each year on alcohol and cigarettes than on life insurance.
10. In 1911 three men were hung for the murder of Sir Edmund Berry at Greenbury Hill, their last names were Green, Berry, and Hill.
11. A firm in Britain sold fallout shelters for pets.
12. During the seventeen century, the Sultan of Turkey ordered his entire harem of women drowned, and replaced with a new one.
13. Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill “If you were my husband, I would poison your coffee.” His reply, “if you were my wife, I would drink it!”
14. There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
15. The Great Pyramid of Giza consists of 2,300,000 blocks each weighing 2.5 tons.
16. On February 9th, 1942, soap rationing began in Britain.
17. Paul Revere was a dentist.
18. The budget speech on April 17th, 1956 saw the introduction of premium savings bonds into Britain. The machine which picks the winning numbers is called “Ernie,”an abbreviation, which stands for “electronic random number indicator equipment.”
19. Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants.
20. The Russian mystic, Rasputin, was the victim of a series of murder attempts on December 16-17, 1916. The assassins poisoned, shot, and clubbed him in quick succession, but they found they were unable to finish him off. Rasputin finally succumbed to the icy cold waters of a river.
21. Bonnie Prince Charlie, the leader of the Jacobite rebellion to depose of George II of England, was considered a great Scottish hero, he spent his final years as a drunkard in Rome.
22. The Liberal Prime Minister, William Gladstone, apparently, as a result of his strong Puritan impulses, kept a selection of whips in his cellar with which he regularly chastised himself.
23. A parthenophobic has a fear of virgins.
24. South American gauchos were known to put raw steak under their saddles before starting a day’s riding, in order to tenderize the meat.
25. There are 240 white dots in a Pacman arcade game.
26. In 1939 the US political party “The American Nazi Party” had 200,000 members.
27. King Solomon of Israel had about 700 wives as well as hundreds of mistresses.
28. Urine was once used to wash clothes.
29. North American Indian, Sitting Bull, died on December 15, 1890. His bones were laid to rest in North Dakota, but a business group wanted him moved to a “more natural” site in South Dakota. Their campaign was rejected so they stole the bones, and they now reside in Sitting Bull Park, South Dakota.
30. St. Nicholas, the original Father Christmas, is the patron saint of thieves, virgins, and communist Russia.
31. Dublin is home of the Fairy Investigation Society.
32. Fourteen million people were killed in World War I, twenty million died in a flu epidemic in the years that followed.
33. People in Siberia often buy milk frozen on a stick.
34. Princess Ann was the only competitor at the 1976 Montreal Olympics that did not have to undergo a sex test.
35. Ethelred the Unready, King of England in the 10th century, spent his wedding night in bed with his wife and his mother-in-law.
36. Coffins which are due for cremation are usually made with plastic handles.
37. Blackbird, who was the chief of Omaha Indians, was buried sitting on his favourite horse.
38. The two highest IQ’s ever recorded (on a standard test) both belong to women.
39. The Tory Prime Minister, Benjamin Disreali, was noted for his oratory and had a number of memorable exchanges in the House with his great rival William Gladstone. Asked what the difference between a calamity and a misfortune was Disreali replied: “If Gladstone fell into the Thames it would be a misfortune, but if someone pulled him out again, it would be a calamity.”
40. The Imperial Throne of Japan has been occupied by the same family for the last thirteen hundred years.
41. In the 17th century a Boston man was sentenced to two hours in the stocks for obscene behavior, his crime, kissing his wife in a public place on a Sunday.
42. President Kaunda of Zambia once threatened to resign if his fellow countrymen didn’t stop drinking so much alcohol.
43. Due to staggering inflation in the 1920′s, 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 German marks were worth 1 U.S. dollar.
44. Gorgias of Epirus was born during preparation of his mother’s funeral.
45. The city of New York contains a district called “Hell’s Kitchen.”
46. The city of Hiroshima left the Industrial Promotion Center standing as a monument to the atomic bombing it endured.
47. During the medieval crusades, transporting bodies off the battlefield for burial was a major problem, this was solved by carrying a huge cauldron into the Holy wars, boiling down the bodies, and taking only the bones with them.
48. A 10 gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon.
49. George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
50. All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
51. Canada is an Indian word meaning “Big Village.”
52. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
53. Almonds are members of the peach family.
54. The symbol on the “pound” key (#) is called an octothorpe.
55. The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
56. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
57. Charlie Brown’s father was a barber.
58. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
59. Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp).
60. Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
61. In Mel Brooks’ “Silent Movie,” mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
62. Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make —five million going to actor’s salaries.
63. A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
64. 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.”
65. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
66. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
67. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
68. Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
69. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
70. Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
71. Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.
72. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
73. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint—no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
74. Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
75. The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
76. Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Zimmerman.
77. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
78. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state’s third largest city.
79. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
80. 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.”
81. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
82. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
83. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
84. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
85. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
86. 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.
87. Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
88. Charles de Gaulle’s final words were, “It hurts.”
89. ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid).
90. 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.
91. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
92. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
93. Who’s that playing the piano on the “Mad About You” theme? It is Paul Reiser himself.
94. Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
95. The male gypsy moth can “smell” the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
96. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
97. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
98. Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
99. 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.”
100. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
101. A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won’t.
102. Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
103. Hugh “Ward Cleaver” Beaumont was an ordained minister.
104. John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
105. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
106. The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
107. Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
108. Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
109. Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
110. Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
111. To “testify” was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
112. The only planet without a ring is earth.
113. Wayne’s World was filmed in two weeks.
114. A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
115. The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

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