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Weird Facts - Oldies but goodies

Did you know that Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital?

Or that Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing?

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Uses every letter in the alphabet.     (developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications)

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

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

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 Pre-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 Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

Did you know that 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 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.

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-star Game.

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Most Recent User Comments
hillfamily
10/3/2009 3:16 PM
"Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz" also contains all the letters of the alphabet and it is shorter.
sciencegeek89
4/4/2007 2:01 PM
This is so awesome!!!! I took some ideas for our newsletter to help other people get a kick out of this!
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