Non-dairy creamer is flammable. 

Stewardesses and reverberated are the two longest words
(12 letters each) that can be typed using only the left hand. 

The longest word that can be typed using only the right hand 
is lollipop. 

Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands. 

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. 

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese 
in the air is a skein. 

The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog 
peels off several times a year with new growth. 

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National 
Monuments.

The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, 
with the shutter on backwards. 

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways.
The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, 
dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets 
of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and
 hiccoughed." 

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct
order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic." 

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the 
Australian coat of arms for that reason. 

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only 
have about ten. 

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase 
"Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead". 

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head." 

Camel's milk does not curdle. 

An animal epidemic is called an epizootic. 

Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean 
elephants. 

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used. 

Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan. 

All porcupines float in water. 

Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio. 

The world's largest wine cask is in Heidelberg, Germany. 

Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an 
alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom." 

St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers. 

Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state 
flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. 

The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end
in an "A" is Afghanastan. 

When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They
actually pass out from sheer terror. 

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every
year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into 
account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. 

Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?

If you're sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in?

I just got skylights put in my place. The people who live above me 
are furious.

Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?

Do they have reserved parking for non-handicapped people at the 
Special Olympics?

Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?

If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?

Isn't Disney World a People Trap Operated by a Mouse?

Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in  it?

Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people
appear bright until you hear them speak?

More Strange Facts

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.

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

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%

Percentage of American men who say they would marry the 
same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%

Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the
same man: 50%

Cost of raising a medium-size 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.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other 
nation.

First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

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".

Hang On Snoopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

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 sheer terror.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch 
every year because when it was built, engineers failed to 
take into account the weight of all the books that would 
occupy the building.

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.

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.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

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.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

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.

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.

No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has 
ever won a Superbowl.

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.

NOT SICK OF THEM YET???? HERE'S MORE!!!!

In Case You Were Wondering Dept...

 
No word in the English language rhymes with month, 
orange, silver or purple. 

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the
letters "mt". 

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial
 on the back of the $5 bill. 

There are only four words in the English language which end
in"-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. 

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. 

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed 
on a watch is 10:10. 

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. 

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross. 

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. 

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper 
left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a 
spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner. 

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. 

Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Why
it's Paul Reiser himself. 

The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth
from 1.8 miles away. 

The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the 
creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N,
and O-Z, hence "Oz." 

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. 

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". 

There are two credit cards for every person in the USA. 

The most common name in the world is Mohammed. 

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together." 

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. 

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. 

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. 

Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads
in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday
at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This 
time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers 
would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to 
realize that *this* was the day of the changeover. 

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during 
World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. 

Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with rejoice." 

In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never did say 
"Play it again, Sam." 

Sherlock Holmes never did say "Elementary, my dear Watson." 

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in
air crashes. 

The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye"
is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was,
"No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way
to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out. 

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton. 

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a 
calorie. 

MOVIE STRANGE FACTS

All telephone numbers in America begin with the digits 555.

All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach up
to the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on 
the man lying beside her.

The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding
place. No-one will ever think of looking for you in there and 
you can travel to any other part of the building you want 
without difficulty.

Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, 
it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German 
accent will do.

A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious 
beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

Kitchens don't have light switches. When entering a kitchen at
night, you should open the fridge door and use that light instead.

Cars that crash will almost always burst into flames.

Wearing a vest or stripping to the waist can make a man 
invulnerable to bullets.

If you find yourself caught up in a misunderstanding that 
could be cleared up quickly with a simple explanation, for 
goodness sake, keep your mouth shut.

Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.

A cough is usually the sign of a terminal illness.

All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red
readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.

When in love, it is customary to burst into song.

When confronted by an evil international terrorist, sarcasm and 
wisecracks are your best weapons.

One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them 
than 20 men firing at 1 man.

Creepy music coming from a cemetery should always be investigated 
more closely.

If being fired at by Germans, hide in a river - or even a bath. 
German bullets are unable to penetrate water.

Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the 
communication systems of any invading alien civilization.

Freelance helicopter pilots are always eager to accept bookings
from international terrorist organizations - even though the job 
will require them to shoot total strangers and will end in their 
own certain death as the helicopter explodes in a ball of flames.

Most people keep a scrapbook of newspaper clippings - especially 
if any of their family or friends have died in a strange 
boating accident.

All computer disks will work in all computers, regardless of 
software.

Police Departments give their officers personality tests to make 
sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their 
total opposite.

When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English 
to each other.

Action heroes never face charges for manslaughter or criminal 
damage despite laying entire cities to waste by their actions.

You can always find a chainsaw when you need one.

Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds
- unless it's the door to a burning building with a child trapped 
inside.

You can tell if somebody is British because they will be wearing 
a bow tie.

When driving a car it is normal to look not at the road but 
at the person sitting beside you or in the back seat for the 
entire journey.

An electric fence, powerful enough to kill a dinosaur will cause 
no lasting damage to an eight year old child.

Honest and hard working policemen are traditionally gunned down 
three days before their retirement.

If you are blonde and pretty, it is possible to become a world 
expert in Nuclear Fission at age 22.

The more a man and a woman hate each other, the more likely they 
will fall in love.

Having a job of any kind will make father's forget their son's 
eighth birthday.