The legbones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
No matter how big or small the piece of paper, you can't fold it
in half eight times.
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.
The state of Maryland has no natural lakes.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully
ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who
ran a saloon there.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar
bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
Moisture, not air, causes superglue to dry.
Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous
transatlantic flight.
Sarsaparilla is the root that flavors root beer.
The U.S. Mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that marks its
pennies.
A full moon always rises at sunset.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
Rabbits love licorice.
Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of
Fraiser.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs
in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front
leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds recieved in
battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person
died of natural cause.
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a
man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few
hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit
his first, and only, home run.
Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.
Urea is found in human urine and dalmatian dogs and nowhere else.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
The Earl of Condom was a knighted personal physician to England's
King Charles II in the mid-1600's. The Earl was requested to produce
a method to protect the King from syphillis (Charles the II's
pleasure-loving nature was notorious) The result should be obvious.
There is no word in the English language that rhymes with orange.
