Thursday, April 9, 2009

You probably don't kneed to know that:

"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
Children grow faster in the springtime.
A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.
Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime
There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.
The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.
If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.
Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
Walt Disney was Afraid of Mice.
you drive on a parkway and park in a driveway.
You lose more calories sleeping than you do watching TV
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
A snail can sleep for three years.
The Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
Babies are born without knee caps.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Einstein’s parents thought he was retarded because he couldn’t talk fluently by the age of 9
A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours