Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
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America once issued a 5-cent bill.
You’ll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver.
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He changed it every two innings.
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The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it’s stomach inside-out.
The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump.
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
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Telephone Trivia:
The use of telephone answering machines became popular in 1974.
In the first month of the Bell Telephone Company’s existence in 1877, only six telephones were sold!
On December 23, 1947, Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics.
In 1953, Sony Corporation obtained a transistor license from Western Electric Co. that led to its development of the world’s first commercially successful transistor radio.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, “Well, are you there?”. It wasn’t until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase “number please?”
Sometimes, early telephone operators would get to know their customers so well, the customers would ask for a reminder call when it was time to remove a cake from the oven, leave the phone off the hook near their sleeping child when they left the house, hoping the operator would hear any cries of distress, request a wake up call before taking a long nap.
Telephone is derived from two Greek words, tele + phone, meaning far off voice or sound.(Tele, far off + phone, voice or sound).
In Milan, Italy, when an operator dialed a wrong number, the phone company fined the operator.
Just like today’s computers, early telephones were very confusing to new users. Some became so frustrated with the new technology, they attacked the phone with an ax or ripped it out of the wall.
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On March 15, 1959, Robert Foster entered the swimming pool of the Bermuda Palms Hotel in San Rafael, California. Before entering the pool, Foster had primed himself for his ordeal by breathing oxygen from a tank for a half hour.
As Foster lowered himself into the pool, members of the Marine Skin Divers Club prepared to time him. A doctor was present and an expert in first aid stood by, as Foster intended to stay at the bottom of the pool longer than any other man had ever been under water.
This he did. When he emerged, the clockers stopped their watches at 13 minutes, 42.5 seconds.
Don’t try this on your own.
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An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
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”.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
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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.”
In 1915, a telephone call from New York to San Francisco cost $20.70 for the first three minutes.
The “Delicious” variety of apples were originally known as “Hawkeyes.”
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Queen Anne of England (1665 – 1714) outlived all 17 of her children.
The tallest man in the world, Robert Wadlow, was 8 feet eleven inches tall. He died at the age of 22, in 1949, due to an infection caused by the leg braces he needed to be able to stand on his feet.
Squirrle live to be about nine years old.
While the state of Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the USA, that’s really not true: technically, it is #47. Congress “forgot” to vote on admitting Ohio into the Union until August 7, 1953.
The tallest building in the world in 1885 was The Home Insurance Company in Chicago. It was nine stories tall.
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A female praying mantis will devour her male sexual partner while mating.
A fly’s taste buds are in its feet.
Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon. His mother’s maiden name was “Moon.”
Fidel Castro was voted Cuba’s best schoolboy athlete in 1944. He was a left-handed pitcher.
Right-handed people tend to scratch themselves with their left-hand. Vice-versa for lefties.
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Chuck Berry has a degree in cosmetology from Gibbs Beauty College. Maybe that’s why he went into music.
A dog’s normal body temperature is 101 degrees Fahrenheit.
A bee will flap its wings 300 times per second.
Reykjavik, Iceland is warmer than Chicago, Illinois during the winter.
Annie Oakley’s nickname was “Little Sure Shot.”
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