* Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
* Emus cannot walk backwards.
* The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
* Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.
* The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
* The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
* Jamie Farr (who played Klinger on M*A*S*H) was the only member of the cast who actually served as a soldier in the Korean war.
* Vincent Van Gogh comitted suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows.
* 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.
* Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
* It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
* 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."
* Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
* An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
* Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
* 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.
* A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
* The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
* First novel ever written on a typewriter:
Tom Sawyer.
* The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
* "A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious." -- Aristotle (384-322 BC) Greek philosopher; Source: Politics, 343 B.C.
* Now if you think
you're above average,
just don't tell anyone,
the average person
doesn't want to know.
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