WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG

 

 

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

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

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

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

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Jesus Christ was born on April 16th

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 most common name in the world is Mohammed.

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

Almonds are a member of the peach family

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896.
Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle
name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

Stewardesses, is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter in the English language.

The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line
would never end because of the rate of reproduction

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served in first-class.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population
of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres.

The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.

You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a
distinct part of DNA.

No president of the United States was an only child.

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.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs
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 use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get
fired."

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII 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."

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.

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.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes
them, looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

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

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Butterflies taste with their feet.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

Elephants can't jump.

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

All polar bears are left-handed.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.

>> A little something they never taught us in school
>> Consider this...And remember that it's ALL COMPLETELY TRUE...
>>
>> Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
>> John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
>>
>> The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
>> Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
>> Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
>>
>> Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
>> Both were shot in the head.
>>
>> Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
>> Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.
>>
>> Both were assassinated by Southerners.
>> Both were succeeded by Southerners.
>>
>> Both successors were named Johnson.
>> Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
>> Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
>>
>> John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
>> Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy (so they say) was born in
>1939.
>>
>> Both assassins were known by their three names.
>> Both names comprise of fifteen letters.
>>
>> Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
>> Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.
>>
>> Booth and Oswald were both assassinated before their trials.
>>
>> And here's the kicker...
>>
>> A week before Lincoln was shot he was in Monroe, Maryland.
>> A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.