I was browsing the web for a certain topic when I came across a site for interesting facts. I'm too lazy to verify the accuracy so I'll leave that task to yall.
Here are a few to start with. I'll post more later if all goes well.
* If all retired US ships that now serve as memorials were used to form a new navy, it would rank as the third largest in the world.
* In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
* Married women could not view the Olympic Games in ancient Greece under penalty of death.
* The first sound recording ever made: Mary Had a Little Lamb in 1877.
* In the 1800's anyone in England who unsuccessfully attempted suicide faced the death penalty.
* Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.
* In 1960, an estimated 4,000 people were over 100 years old in the U.S. By 1995 the number had jumped to 55,000.
* Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S. but technically it's number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the union.
* Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
* There is a lawsuit every 30 seconds in the U.S.
* More than 50% of time spent in U.S courtrooms is over automobile cases.
* The world's longest-named lake has 45 letters (Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg).
* In the U.S. there are 18 doctors called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is also a dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a psychiatrist called Dr. Couch and an anesthesiologist named Dr. Gass.
* The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' which describes a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of volcanic matter or a similar fine dust.
* In the English language there are only three words that have a letter that repeats six times. Degenerescence (six e's), Indivisibility (six i's), and nonannouncement (six n's).
* The only three words in the English language to have 2 consecutive u's is vacuum, residuum, and continuum.
* The only word in the English language that has 4 sets of double letters in a row is balloonneer.
* A moment is defined as zero seconds long.
* The only words with all the vowels listed in order are facetiously and abstemiously.
* The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
* The only word with all the vowels in reverse order is subcontinental.
* There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!
* Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
* Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, Gadsby, which contains over 50,000 words none of them with the letter E! Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions!
* Check this out, look at your keyboard, the only ten letter word that you can spell with the top row of letters is typewriter.
* The first novel ever written on a typewriter was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
* It's estimated that more than 6 billion copies of The Bible have been printed.
* The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the United States.
* Pinocchio is Italian for pine eye!
* The first TV couple to sleep in the same bed was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
* Charles Dickens slept facing North. He thought it improved his writing.
* The house where Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence was replaced with a hamburger stand.
*Mary Todd Lincoln claimed she was haunted during her life, and sewed money into clothes to foil the invisible thieves.
* In 1841, the 8th 9th and 10th presidents served in office all in one year. They were Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, and John Tyler.
* Calvin Coolidge is the only president born on July 4th, in 1872.
* The only man to ever be President and Vice-President but never be elected to either was Gerald Ford.
* George Washington's salary as President was $25,000 a year.
* On July 4, 1826, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson passed away.
* M&M's stands for the names of Forrest Mars, Sr., the candymaker and his associate Bruce Murrie.
* Dixie which was a popular song among the Confederates during the Civil War, was written by a Northerner named Dam Emmett.
* After Custer's Last Stand, Sioux Indian leader Chief Sitting Bull became an entertainer and toured the country with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
* Englands Queen Anne (1665-1714) outlived all 17 of her children.
* Mozart never went to school.
* Smokey The Bear's original name was Hotfoot Teddy.
* Queen Elizabeth was an 18 year old mechanic in the English military.
* The white powder on chewing gum is actually sweetened marble dust.
* There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
* Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
* Coca-cola was originally green.
* Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.
* The two most commonly sold items in grocery stores are breakfast cereals and soda.
* Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
* Americans eat 75 acres of pizza a day.
* 80% of people eat their corn on-the-cob in circles rather than side to side.
* If you took all the hen's eggs laid in America for 1 year and laid them end to end, they'd circle the earth 100 times.
* The first toilet ever seen on television was on Leave It To Beaver.
* One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
* In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
* The Pentium II chip can make more than half-a-billion calculations per second.
* Nanotechnology has produced a guitar no bigger than a blood cell. The guitar, 10 micrometers long, has six strummable strings.
* The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
* It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
* Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 5 pitches.
* 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
* The actual playing time in a Major League Baseball game which lasts two and a half hours has been clocked at 9 minutes and 55 seconds.
* Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
* Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4.
* Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee.
* There is a city called Rome on every Continent.
* We don't know if there's a Heaven on earth, but there is a Hell, it's a town in Norway. Also, there is a Hell in Michigan, and to exit the area you must go through Angel's Pass to get to Monk's Road. Yet another Hell is in the Grand Cayman Islands.