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--Wilson Mizner
More QuotationsThe difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
--Tom Clancy
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/twx communications.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If you have three quarter, 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.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
In the 1940's, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile Services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. This is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no Channel 1.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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.
When oppossums are playing 'possum', they are not 'playing'. They actually pass out from sheer terror.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about a thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs, it will let you go instantly.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
