REDMANSIONS BLOG

• The wheel on "Wheel of Fortune" is eight and one half feet in diameter
• Cockroaches can go nine days without a head before dying of starvation
• Florida grows two-thirds of America's eggplant.
• 50% of bank robberies take place on Fridays
• There are 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet
• 336 dimples cover the regulation golf ball
• China, although covering five time zones geographically, uses only one time zone, Beijing's (GMT +8)
• The book Les Miserables has the longest sentence in literature, it is 823 words long.
• The original NBC peacock had 11 plumes
• Vitamin A is the only essential vitamin not found in a white potato
• The average escalator moves 120 feet per minute
• After black, Henry Ford released cars that were painted maroon and green
• Ants, when intoxicated, will fall on their right side, always
• George Washington's second inaugural address was only 135 words long.
• On average, right handed folk live nine years longer than the left handed
• One penny doubled everyday becomes over 5 million dollars in just 30 days
• The dots over the letters i and j are called tittles
• A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall
• Mongolia was the second country to adopt communism.
• First book written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer
• An edible sea snail is called a winkle
• Rubber bands will last longer when refrigerated
• There were seven Ringling Brothers
• Elephants can't jump
• Between 1835 and 1837, there was no national debt.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men
• Every year 8,000 people injure themselves while using a tooth pick
• It takes an average of three seconds to pick up a penny, which works out to $12 an hour
• Uncopyrightable is the only 15 letter word that has no repeating letters
• In Paraguay, dueling is legal provided both duelers are registered blood donors
• Henry Longfellow was the first American poet to have plumbing installed in his house in 1840
• Chilis are measured in Scoville Units. The mildest is a bell pepper (0-325). The hottest is a habanero (above 325,000)
• The QE2 uses one gallon of diesel fuel for every six inches
• The San Francisco Street Car is the only national landmark that moves
• Most baby giraffes first experience is falling six feet, as its mother often gives birth while standing
• Twelve people have walked on the moon.
• You can accidentally kill yourself by drinking over 40 cups of coffee in one day. The amount of caffeine is sufficient to cause respiratory failure
• A dime has 118 ridges around the edge
• In modern English, screeched, scratched, scrounged, scrunched, stretched, straights, strengths are the longest mono-syllabic words, each with nine letters.
• There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia
• We are living in the Cenozoic Era
• The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver"
• Almonds are a member of the peach family
• 111,111,111 * 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,3 21
• The Walkman was originally called the Soundabout
• The giant squid is the worlds largest invertebrate
• Twenty-five cents per hour was the first minimum wage
• The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado
• The tongue is the strongest muscle in the body
• The average bank teller loses $250 per year
• The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
• John Napier created the decimal point
• Lickable stamps provide 1/10 of a calorie
• A sixty minute cassette tape contains 565 feet of tape
• The "black box" of airplanes is really orange
• Crossing a zebra with a donkey yields a zeedonk
• It just makes sense, you can make change for a dollar 293 ways.
• Farting consistently for 6 years and nine months yields as much energy as a nuclear bomb
• G-Tech, the world leader in lottery transactions, processes more transactions per second than Master Card, Visa, American Express, and Discover... combined.
• The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows"
• The Queen (or King) of England may not enter the House of Commons, as she is not a commoner
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked passed a radar tube and his chocolate melted
• Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott"
• Dark green lettuce leaves are more nutritious than lighter green leaves
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad they served in first class
• In the United States, credit cards outnumber humans 2:1
• Cows can walk upstairs, but their knees don't bend the right way to walk downstairs
• The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used
• Your thumb is also known as your pollex
• The Egyptian hieroglyph for 100,000 is a tadpole
• City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
• A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance
• Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
• Watching people eat in hopes they'll share their food is called groaking
• The US standard railroad gauge (distance between rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches
• Every single hamster in the USA today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930
• State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
• The span from your thumb's end to your pinkies end is equal to the distance between your nipples, go ahead, try... told you
• The word 'lethologica' describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want
• Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation
• The first prime number after 1,000,000 is 1,000,003
• Five Jell-O flavors have flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple and chocolate
• When the Titanic sunk there was 7,500 lbs. of ham on it
• American car horns beep in the tone of Subaru Fan Clutch.
• A ducks quack does not echo
• The Statue of Liberty's mouth is 3 feet wide
• During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair
• In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value
• It would take 15,840,000 rolls of wallpaper to cover the Great Wall of China
• Bubble gum contains rubber
• The Gideons want you to take that Bible
• Alekthophilia is the love of chickens
• At 6.5 million square feet, the Pentagon is the largest office building in the world
• Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself
• The study of soil is paedology
• Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms
• Coca-Cola was originally green
• The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Bottsdots
• Snails can sleep for three years straight