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  Not True Facts #6
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Delaware is the only state whose lemon law only applies to actual lemons.

4 out of 5 men have gotten their arm stuck in a vending machine.

Every United States President with a beard has been a Republican.

Until last year, National Hockey League games that ended in a tie were settled by the Vice President.

Levi-Strauss lost millions when they marketed a line of blue jeans for horses.

At 5 feet, 9.2 inches, Tim Felder of Provo, Utah holds the Guinness Record for the most average height.

Prior to the discovery of Penicillin in 1928, laughter WAS the best medicine.

The Army Corps of Engineers has spent millions of dollars trying to cross a bridge before they come to it.

At the height of "Star Wars" mania, Jimmy Carter gave an oval office address in a Chewbacca costume.

The original plans for the Statue of Liberty called for the statue to wave but France did not want to spend the money.

In order to become licensed, a courtroom sketch artist must demonstrate the ability to make defendants look "shifty".

Teddy Roosevelt was the last president to wear a hat in the shower.

A strict vegan will not indicate nonsense by using the word "baloney".

Until 1955, traffic signals also included a purple light which meant "up to you".

The National Weather Service has three employees who do nothing but watch for clouds that look like animals.

Leonardo da Vinci drew up plans for the first novelty set of chattering teeth.

You are more likely to be charged by a rhino than to be pulled over for not wearing your seatbelt.

The Dalai Lama's birth name is Doug Reynolds, Jr.

Every Tuesday and Thursday at 4 PM, President Bush has a banjo lesson.

A 150-pound person weighs 165 pounds in Canada.

Due to a misprint, some Gideon Bibles list "the Gospel according to Mark" as "the Gospel according to Marv".

Only 3% of American homes are equipped with a telegraph.

Until 1970, the IRS taxed Monopoly winnings.

To date, "Hee Haw" is the only TV show title based on a sound made by a donkey.

In Tempe, Arizona, it is illegal o yell 'Yahtzee' in a crowded theater.

The city of Tupelo, Mississippi has an experimental program with mounted police using llamas.

The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down, except the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.

People who constantly chew on a toothpick have a greater risk of reoccurring bladder infections.

The only golf course on the island nation of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.

The recent tsunami in Southeast Asia has apparently affected the sugar cane crop - the yield is unexpectedly way up, which will in turn lower prices for the next several years.

Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak almost like humans, but don't speak because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.

The LEGO group, creators of the children's building blocks, actually considered making full size Lego blocks to be used by Habitat for Humanity in building homes for third-world countries.

Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

Paul Marcarelli, an actor from New York City, plays the "can you hear me now guy" for Verizon Wireless. He actually has cell phone service with T-Mobile as Verizon does not have adequate coverage in his home area of Queens.

Composer Marvin Hamlisch spends much of his free time collecting aluminum cans.

Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.

40% of people who believe the moon landing was faked also believe the moon isn't real.

Febreze, the product that removes odors from fabric, will not work on wide wale corduroy.

Polar bears can eat as many as 22 penguins in a single sitting.

You can get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 16 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.

A Wisconsin man was beaten by an angry mob because he asked for "no cheese" on his Whopper.

King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

In the early 70s, McDonalds briefly offered customers a choice of French fries or consomme.

Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.

Human saliva has a boiling point twice that of regular water.

30% of women who apply makeup while driving have accidentally swallowed a tube of lipstick.

Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.

Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained small particles of real camel dung.

You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.

At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.

Labrador retrievers dream about bananas.

If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind.

Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.

Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."

When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.

After you die, your tongue continues to grow.

Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.

If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.

When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.

Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.

The Count of Monte Cristo died from cardiac arrest after eating too many Monte Cristo sandwiches.

In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.

The trucking company Elvis Presley where worked as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.

The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.

Contestants on the reality show "Survivor" quietly receive a case of Quaker granola bars to eat if they're really hungry.

George Washington died of a wig infection.

The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

Ingesting small doses of ink over an extended period of time will change your eye color slightly.

In 1960, a then-unknown Dan Rather auditioned for the voice of cartoon character Dudley Do-Right but was turned down by animator/director Jay Ward.

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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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