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These are NOT true facts, but they sound good! For substantiated true facts, click HERE. False Facts #1 - click HERE False Facts #2 - click HERE False Facts #3 - click HERE False Facts #5 - click HERE False Facts #6 - click HERE Fidel Castro once hosted "Saturday Night Live". Officially, if you say "Have a nice day" to someone after 5 PM, it refers to the next day. Christopher Columbus actually had four ships: Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria and "Life's a Beach". No one in Canada has a birthday on March 16th. Linens and Things was considering a merge with Crate and Barrel forming a new chain "Linens and Barrels". Bob Saget lives in the old set of "Full House". Nancy Reagan can palm a basketball. The earliest English Muffins contained nooks but no crannies. The longest human pregnancy on record was 37 months. Every 46 seconds, someone is scalded at Starbucks. "Planet of the Apes" is based on a true story. Horoscopes accurately predict future events 85% of the time. In the early 1900s, a dozen actually was a measurement based on weight. Only in 1933 did the Department of Weights and Measures come up with an item count of twelve as a definition. The word "apple" comes from the Latin word meaning "apple". Due to a horse shortage, the 1936 Kentucky Derby was run with giraffes. Because of an onion allergy, the singer Meatloaf can't eat meatloaf. Tommy Lee Jones and Kim Jong Il were freshman roommates at Harvard. The actual Godzilla was only 5 feet tall and was killed by Japanese soldiers within seconds. Half and half is actually closer to 60-40. Alan Shepard was the only astronaut to leave his wallet on the moon. Actor James Woods actually served as the governor of Idaho for a week while researching a movie role in the late 1990s. In San Diego, California, it is illegal to have a garage sale unless you are selling an exercise bike. The 11th president, James K. Polk, did not speak English. Einstein taught that space and time are the same thing. He discovered this when he kept showing up three miles late for meetings. Only 26% of ranchers actually use ranch dressing. Sheep ranchers counting the number of animals in their herd often doze off. Archeologists have found evidence in the Middle East that in the Stone Age, mankind had developed a primitive Swiffer. The original Mickey Mouse cartoon was in the Mouse language, with English subtitles. President Richard Nixon was an avid CB radio user. A city councilman (Carl Freeborn) from Asheville, North Carolina is attempting to legally change his name to "Arack Bobama" to perhaps ride on the coattails of another famous politician. At any given moment, 93% of American TIVOs contain at least one episode of "Sanford & Son". Ted Williams' last words: "I was kidding about being frozen";. Gary Busey has won more Academy Awards than any other actor. Other than man, the elk is the only animal that celebrates birthdays. A cucumber is 96% water and 4% cucumber. 22% of airline pilots have a child named "Roger". Liberace was a notorious womanizer. If you take the sugar and flavoring out of Cool Whip, the result is molecularly very close to the plastic used in ping pong balls. Contrary to popular belief, if you drive backwards, the odometer does not go backwards. It actually makes the odometer less accurate - up to 10% for each six miles driven backwards. The brand name "Jelly Belly" was created in 1982 after Nancy Reagan made a much-publicized quip about her husband's 20-pound weight gain, mostly due to his penchant for jelly beans. BMW is developing a side-view mirror in which objects may be farther away than they appear. Double-yolk eggs, while larger than normal hen's eggs, actually have less nutritional value per ounce, but take about half as long to cook. Pond's cold cream has an ingredient which is comprised of material which is found in pond scum. The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions. Everyone knows that staring at a solar eclipse can blind you. But staring at a lunar eclipse can also harm you - the eye is fooled into allowing too much infrared light into the eye, which can result in red-green color blindness. The FBI's eleventh most wanted fugitive is Lyle Lovett. George W. Bush is a member of the mile-high club in Air Force One. Human tonsils are so dense that they can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they've been removed. Elvis impersonators account for much more annual tax revenue than Elvis ever did. Larry King wears suspenders in the shower. Police lineups always put the guilty guy in the middle. As a rule, tall people attract fewer mosquitoes. Comic duo Cheech and Chong were originally known as Spic and Span before changing due to pressure from Chicano organizations. At the last supper, Jesus was automatically billed eighteen percent gratuity because his party included six or more people. To thank the French for the Statue of Liberty, in early caricatures of "Uncle Sam", he always wore a beret (instead of the trademark stovepipe hat). The city of Slaughter, Texas (population: 11,284), has never had a homicide occur within its boundaries. George W. Bush has negotiated with the governor of South Dakota to get his face added to Mount Rushmore. Construction is scheduled to start in 2012. No death-row inmate has ever asked for tofu as his last meal. The last dinosaur roamed the earth in 1946. A Canadian study has shown that if you choose a baby's name before it is born, the baby will most likely be female. The father of the famous murderer "Son of Sam" actually was named Percy. Cats really do land on their feet, except when they're in heat. Rubbing Tabasco on one's upper lip before bedtime is an effective temporary cure for sleep apnea. In an eighteen month period in 1973-1974, since there was renovation work on the Capitol building in St. Paul, Minnesota, state government was actually run out of an office building in River Falls, Wisconsin. British pop singer Baby Spice is the great-great-great-great-great-great-grandniece of Archduke William Pinkley-Hogue of Staffordshire, making her 103rd in line for the throne of England. Rosie O'Donnell was recently offered $1,000,000 to pose nude for Playboy. The egg of a hummingbird will actually float in mid-air in foggy conditions. In the northern hemisphere, water goes down the drain clockwise. In the southern hemisphere - counterclockwise. On the equator, water flows both ways, depending on the moon's phases. Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench sleeps in the crouching position. Osama bin Laden has seen Woody Allen's "Annie Hall" 15 times. Studies show newborns will recognize their mother's face more readily if their mother wears glasses. The curved shape of a hockey stick is a throwback to prehistoric use of mastodon tusks in a similar game. Male ladybugs always have an odd number of spots, and one spot will always be white. The record for most appearances on the cover of Time Magazine is 26 by Tom Arnold. Evian water got its name from the first founder of the company, who remarked, "People have got to be really naive to buy bottled water". The name stuck; Evian is naive backwards. From 1970 through 1972, the penny actually showed Abraham Lincoln with a mustache but no beard. False Facts #1 - click HERE False Facts #2 - click HERE False Facts #3 - click HERE False Facts #5 - click HERE False Facts #6 - click HERE Many of the above "fun facts" come from the writers on the Late Show. Thanks, Dave Letterman! © 2010 compiled from many sources by Howard Daughters |
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