additionally, if you have any new and interesting facts that you think might be a boingerism, you could send that to me, also.

• it has been 1215313405 seconds since the UNIX Epoch (i.e., the birth of UNIX, January First, 1970)...really...if you don't believe me, reload this frame!
• oral sex is illegal in cincinnati (it is expressly specified under the sodomy laws).
• yellow dye #5 shrinks your testicles and has been linked to testicular cancer (if you're male, that is).
• there is a direct correlation between ice cream consumption and drowning deaths. do you know why? well, in the summer, it's hot, so people eat more ice cream and swim more.
• It is Sunday, Jul 06, 2008 at 03:03:25am in Greenwich.
• flourescent lights cause condoms to decompose. (just open one and watch it for a while...okay, a long while, but it still happens relatively fast)
• sperm/vaginal secretions from vegetarians tastes better than meat eaters (stay away from asparagus, though).
• alcohol does not kill brain cells. it detaches them (they cannot be re-attached, as that would involve reproduction of nervous tissue, which is impossible after approximately age five).
• the minimum age for alcohol consumption isn't actually a national law, but federal highway funds are withheld from states who don't comply (of which there are none).
• according to the catholic church, masturbation is a mortal sin (i.e., you'll burn in Hell for it).
• lightning starts from the ground.
• none of Freud¹s theories are testable, and are therefore invalid.
• According to a study, America is the third most violent nation in the world. (Iran and Iraq 'beat' us by a little bit)
• In California the number of gallons of water needed to produce one pound of beef is 5214, the amount to produce one pound of tomatoes is 23. (This came from "Water requirements for food production" Soil and Water, #38 (fall 1978), Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, Via EarthSave.)
• The Church of Satan does not believe in Satan (or God).
• When Satan is first presented in the bible, he is the equivalent of God's prosecuting attorney, notably not God's enemy (in fact, they're hanging out together at one point).
• Oprah used to be on crack (she claims not to be anymore, but i don't believe it for a second.)
• If you are struck by lightening once, you are 100,000 times more likely to be struck a second time.
• Saturn is the top-selling make of car among lesbians.
• Mary (Jesus' mom) wasn't a virgin until the sixth century, when they (the people who make those decisions) 'adjusted' the story to correlate with the myth of Hercules. This was done so that the Greeks/romans could relate better to the Jesus story.
• You know how all of those big office parks have man-made ponds with the fountains in them? Well, they actually have to have those...before they can get a license to build such a complex, they first have to agree to dig a big pond, and they also have to agree to slope all of the cement toward the pond. the pond also has to be filtered, of course, to get all the crap and run-off and stuff out of the water.
• Madrid is the only European capital city not situated on a river.
• The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is not the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane because the "25 de Abril" bridge in Lisbon, over the "Tejo" river also has a train below the cars, so this could happen there too, especially since the airport is inside the city.
• It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
• Emus cannot walk backwards.
• There are only thirteen blimps in the world.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
• David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
• The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
• Des Moines, Iowa has the highest per capita Jell-O consumption in the U.S
• Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
• The pupil of octopi and goats eyes are rectangular.
• The first prime number after 1,000,000 is 1,000,003.
• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
• Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
• Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
• Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
• There are almost twice as many people in Rhode Island than there are in Alaska.
• Alexander Hamilton was shot by Aaron Burr in the groin.
• Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
• St. Augustine was the first major proponent of the "missionary" position.
• Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
• Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
• On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
• The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
• Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties in climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.
• Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
• Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
• Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
• If you have three quarters, 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.
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• Only humans and horses have hymens.
• The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second.
• Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster than the rest of us.
• In case you ever find yourself piloting a dogsled, shout "Jee!" to make the dogs turn left and "Ha!" to go right.
• Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman, and child in the world.
• The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
• The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with, e.g. Asia, Europe.
• Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
• Pierre, South Dakota is the only example of a state and capital in the U.S. that don't share any letters.
• Several buildings in Manhattan have their own zip code! The World Trade Center has several.
• Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
• Dr. Seuss is pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
• You would have to count to one thousand to use the letter "A" in the English language to spell a whole number.
• A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
• A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
• No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver, month, oriole, or purple.
• Former US Senator Barry Goldwater attended the opening night ceremonies and festivities at Bugsy Siegel's famous Las Vegas casino. They left him out of the movie Bugsy. He is pissed.
• It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
• Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
• Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about 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. At about that height it hits maximum speed and when it hits the ground it's rib cage absorbs most of the impact. So, throw your cat off a building today!
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
• The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
• The phrase "rule of thumb" is not derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than her thumb. (info)
• To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
• During conscription for W.W.II, there were nine documented cases of men with three testicles.
• Benito Mussolini would ward off the evil eye by touching his testicles.
• 'matinee' (used by Americans to refer to an afternoon show) is derived from a French word meaning morning.
• Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle
• Swans are the only birds with penises.
• Polar bears' fur is not white, it's clear.
• Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
• If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
• The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots (according to some people) or 'Cat's Eyes' (according to others)...notably, the inventor calls them Cat's Eyes.
• Starfish don't have brains.
• Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
• 'Restaurant' actually means 'soup' (it's actually a French word)
• Coca-Cola was originally green.
• Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
• Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collie; 2) Poodle; 3) Golden retriever.
• Dumbest dog: Afghan hound.
• Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
• Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
• Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000
• City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
• State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
• Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
• Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
• Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
• Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear:7
• Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%
• Cost of raising a dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
• Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
• Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70%
• Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
• Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage"
• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
• The youngest pope was 11 years old.
• Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
• First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
• A duck's quack does echo, and it's "proven" here.
• In the 1940s, 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. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
• The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
• There are coffee flavored PEZ.
• 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.
• The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
• When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from fear.
• No library on any university anywhere is sinking to a notable degree because of the weight of books. Anyone who tells you otherwise is full of shit. [info]
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
  Spades - King David,
  Clubs - Alexander the Great,
  Hearts - Charlemagne, and
  Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• 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 received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. (maybe)
• Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
• Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
• The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
• Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
• The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
• The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
• The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
• The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
• The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
• No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium had won a Superbowl until the 1999/2000 season.
• The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
• The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.
• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
• Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, "Psycho," which actually took 7 days to shoot.
• Chocolate contains phenylethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.
• After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
• Every person has a unique tongue print.
• In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.
• According to the Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis on record measures 13 inches. The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches.
• In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting advertising space on his cows.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500’s.
• A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
• More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
• Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott."
• Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
• In Disney's "Fantasia," the Sorcerer's name is ‘Yensid’ (Disney backwards.)
• Any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
• A zebra is white with black stripes.
• The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.
• Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.
• Attila the Hun bled to death from a nosebleed on his wedding night.
• Ventriloquist Paul Winchell, who had a popular kids' TV show in the 1950s (and who more recently has provided many cartoon character voices, like Pooh's pal Tigger), also invented the valves used in the artificial heart.
• Ferrets have 8 hour erections.
• Elephants have 30 second erections :)
• There are "interstates" in Hawaii.
• Levan, Utah is "navel" spelled backwards. It is so named because it is in the middle of Utah.
• Deer do not have gall bladders.
• The price for one metric ton of baltic squid from poland is US $995 (As of mid 1999).
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
• The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• Two thirds of the world's eggplants are grown in New Jersey.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." (and "strengths" is the same number of characters)
• All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
  

  According to Steven Hager, editor of High Times, the term 420 originated at San Rafael High School, in 1971, among a group of about a dozen pot-smoking wiseacres who called themselves the Waldos. The term 420 was shorthand for the time of day the group would meet, at the campus statue of Louis Pasteur, to smoke pot. "Waldo Steve," a member of the group who now owns a business in San Francisco, says the Waldos would salute each other in the school hallway and say "420 Louis!" The term was one of many invented by the group, but it was the one that caught on. "It was just a joke, but it came to mean all kinds of things, like 'Do you have any?' or 'Do I look stoned?'" he said. "Parents and teachers wouldn't know what we were talking about." The term took root, and flourished, and spread beyond San Rafael with the assistance of the Grateful Dead and their dedicated cohort of pot-smoking fans. The Waldos decided to assert their claim to the history of the term after decades of watching it spread, mutate and be appropriated by commercial interests. The Waldos contacted Hager, and presented him with evidence of 420's history, primarily a collection of postmarked letters from the early '70s with lots of mention of 420. They also started a Web site, http://www.waldo420.com. "We have proof, we were the first," Waldo Steve said. "I mean, it's not like we wrote a book or invented anything. We just came up with a phrase. But it's kind of an honor that this emanated from San Rafael."
  Maria Alicia Gaura for the San Francisco Chronicle, 4/20/00 p. A19;

  more "versions" at this site. note: phish blows, but had the best info.

• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
• Almonds are a member of the peach family.
• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
• Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" -- and it can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size with "L.A."
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
• Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
• The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
• When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
• 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."
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Try it!)
• Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
• John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
• it's impossible to drink a gallon of milk in an hour.
  I finally have had someone send me evidence of this pseudo-fact - you can see it in vivid color here.
• The first bomb dropped by the Allies in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo at the time.
• Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
• Pearls melt in vinegar.
• It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
• Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
• The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser.
• Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
• Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
• The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)
• "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
• Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
• Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
• James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
• Assuming that each fold neatly overlaps its opposite side, a dollar bill can be folded only 6 times, 7 if you put it in a vise.
• Most tropical marine fish could survive in a tank filled with human blood.
• You can tell a whale's age by counting the lines of growth in its earwax.
• Cats purr at 26 cycles a second - the same as an idling diesel engine.
• Swallowing semen is beneficial to the health of women who will become pregnant by desensitizing the woman's body to the man's DNA, so, her body isn't as likely to try to reject the pregnancy (pre-eclampsia).

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