Did You Know?


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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

The national anthem of Greece is 158 verses.

All of the clocks in the movie pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

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 $5.00 bill.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

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

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

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.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

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