- Studies show that weight-lifters wearing blue gym clothes are able to handle heavier weights than when they wear another color!
- You burn 7% more calories walking on hard dirt than on pavement!
- Jasmine can only be picked at night, when the flowers bloom!
- The $2 bill, featuring Thomas Jefferson's image, was reissued in 1976, and is one of the least circulated of all U.S. notes except at Monticello, where you get them as change!
- Victorians declared their love with red Tulips not roses!
- A bottle of Chanel No. 5 is sold every 30 seconds!
- Women who wear lipstick get kissed 3 times more often that those who don't!
- Experts use the term "irritable male syndrome" to describe a condition in men that's similar to PMS. But men's hormones pulsate hourly; women`s every 28 days!
- The average person will spend 1.2 years waiting on hold!
- Iced tea was first served at the World's Fair in St. Louis, 1904!
- Shopping burns off 325 calories an hour!
- Everyone's taller in the morning. During the day, our spines compress about half an inch, and only return to full length during sleep!
- Cape May New Jersey, is America's oldest seashore resort!
- The human stomach can stretch to 50 times its empty size!
- E! Entertainment host Jules Asner wore the most expensive dress ever made-a diamond-studded stunner that cost more than $6 million-at the 2002 Academy Awards!
- If all the Coca-Cola ever produced was placed in eight-ounce bottles and stacked one on top of another, the pile would reach the moon and back 1,100 times!
- The ancient Greeks believed copper had the power to avert evil and attract love, so they used it for both weapons and jewelry!
- On average, women need 52 more minutes of sleep per day than men!
- Mozart once composed a piano piece that required the player to use both hands and his nose to hit all the correct notes!
- President Nixon's daughter Tricia named the family's cocker spaniel "Checkers" for its black and white spots!
- Studies show watching a sitcom before bed can help you fall asleep faster!
- According to the American Sleep Disorders Association, the optimum temperature for sleep is between 60 F and 64 F!
- Studies show that blondes and brunettes are more resistant to pain than redheads!
- Thomas Jefferson designed the University of Virginia's first dormitories and students still live in them!
- Thirty-three percent of dog owners call home when they are out and leave answering machine messages for their pet!
- Research say dreams of brushing your hair mean you'll solve an annoying problem!
- About 12 couples exchange vows at the top of the Empire State Building every February 14th!
- Four hundred twenty five Rhode Islands could fit into Alaska!
- Most kids born today are taller than they were 100 years ago because they are fed better!
- Europeans had never seen a cactus until Christopher Columbus brought them back from the "New World" in the early 1500's!
- Just calling a friend can boost your energy!
- During the Middle Ages, bedrooms were often used for receiving guests. The more elaborate the canopy, the more important the sleeper!
- Poodles were orginally used as hunting dogs in Europe!
- Research shows upping exposure to bright, outdoor light curbs appetite!
- Tigers sleep for over 18 hours a day!
- Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, couldn't stand carrots. Every time he had to bite into one during recording, producers would have to stop the tape so he could spit it out!
- The moon has mirrors. Astronauts planted them to reflect laser beams sent from Earth!
- Babies recognize their mother's voice at birth!
- Studies show people who get and give more hugs are healthier!
- Ivy in a home was once thought to protect the inhabitants from harm!
- Sugar is the only taste humans are born craving. And each of us consumes about 43 pounds of it a year!
- Studies show people with pets live longer!
- The most popular name for a dog is Brandy!
- A flamingo's eye is actually larger than its brain!
- In England in the 1880's, "pants" was considered a dirty word!
- In 600 B.C., only royalty could wear red nail polish, other women had to wear pale colors!
- Avoid wearing orange if your on a diet, it stimulates the appetite!
- In some European countries the Tooth Fairy is a mouse!
- In the 18th century, women who blushed frequently wee considered great beauties!
- We spend two weeks of our lives kissing!
- Wear blue to feel relaxed, it causes the brain to release calming hormones!
- Our brains, on average make up 2% of our total body weight!
- A full 72% of American women save the corsage from their prom!
- Butterflies can't fly if their body temperature falls below 86 F.!
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur!
- More than 90% of us keep family photos on our desk!
- The first perms (invented in 1905) took over 12 hours to complete!
- Totally Hair Barbie, with hair down to her toes, was the best-selling Barbie Doll ever!
- According to Greek Mythology, Hyacinth was a beautiful youth killed by a jealous god, from his blood sprang the flower named after him!
- The age most women consider old? 71!
- The first mascara was invented in 1913 by Maybelline founder T.L.Williams. He created it for his sister Mabel!
- The whale has the slowest metabolism of any mammal on Earth, which helps it last an hour or more underwater on a single breath!
- Only 5% of babies actually arrive on their due date!
- In the 1300's candles used in churches were made of beeswax, because bees were believed to have originated in Paradise!
- The world's first glass bottom boats premiered on Catalina island, so abalone fishermen could spot their quarry on the ocean floor!
- The first toy ever advertised on TV was Mr. Potato Head in 1953!
- According to Italian superstition, hearing a cat sneeze is a good omen!
- In Japan dinner guest bring fancy boxes of seaweed as a hostess gift!
- Tiny coqui frogs sometimes climb to El Yunque's treetops then launch themselves into the air to escape predators, making it "rain" frogs in the rain forest!
- To the Chinese, the lily is the most romantic flower to give or get because it means "forever in love"!
- Italian sailors from Genoa, known for wearing denim pants, were called "Genes", and the name stuck to the pants too!
- The bicycle was invented in 1817 by Baron von Drais, who needed help getting around his extensive gardens!
- When 15-year old Brooke Shields claimed "Nothing comes between me and my Calvins," over 200,00 pair flew off the shelves in one day!
- The bikini was so shocking when it was introduced in 1946 that models refused to wear it on runways!
- The most popular cat names? Sassy, Misty, Max, and Sam!
- The most popular color for new cars? It`s not red, blue, or green, it's white!
- The first photograph was taken in 1827!
- 84% of us believe in miracles!
- Recent research indicates that looking at the color red revs our metabolism by 13.4%!
- The average 12-ounce can of soda contains about 10 teaspoons of sugar!
- People report more bad dreams when they sleep in cold rooms!
- A group of jellyfish is called a "smack"!
- The world`s biggest dollhouse is a reproduction of the White House, and it weighs 10 tons!
- Exercisers make better lovers!
- Research shows women are more sexually responsive after 20 minutes of vigorous exercise!
- Cedar Point Amusement Park's latest scream machine, "Top Thrill Dragster" roller coaster, reaches speeds of 120 mph, a record breaker!
- The average person drinks more than 20 gallons of bottled water each year!
- Studies show that husbands who kiss their wives before leaving home in the morning live five years longer than those who don't!
- 53% of women say they won`t leave the house without their makeup on!
- Flowers keep you alert! People who keep flowers in their home perform better on everyday memory tasks!
- Ladybugs chew from side to side, not up and down like people do!
- People who live in homes built before 1974 are twice as likely to walk a lot than those who live in newer houses! The reason: older neighborhoods have more sidewalks and shops within walking distance!
- Queen Victoria started the fashion for white wedding gowns. Before then, brides wore any color they liked!
- Drew Barrymore once had a landscaper fill her entire yard with daisies!
- 38% of women would rather be late than leave home with bad hair!
- Father`s day is the number 1 day of the year for collect calls!
- The first bed quilts are believed to come from 14th century Sicily, and the first quilted garments date back to ancient Egypt!
- New York is the second largest wine producer in the U.S. after California!
- The first computer mouse was made of wood!
- Madonna once painted her Hollywood home with red and yellow stripes!
- People who read food labels typically eat 5% less fat than those who don't!
- A law in Kansas once made it illegal to serve ice cream with cherry pie!
- The custom of lighting birthday candles began with ancient Romans, who lit candles to protect themselves from evil spirits they believed visited on birthdays!
- Norman Rockwell used his real-life Vermont neighbors as models for his Saturday Evening Post paintings!
- Although the Declaration Of Independence was adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776, it wasn't signed till almost a month later!
- The tune for The Star Spangled Banner written in Baltimore in 1814, was taken from a popular 18th century drinking song!
- The world's largest camera is almost 10 feet high and 50 feet long!
- Safari means "long journey" in Swahili!
- Tulips come in every color except blue and black!
- 82% of Americans shop from home through catalogs or the internet!
- Giraffes can live up to a month without water!
- The first miniskirt, which created a huge scandal when it debuted in the 1960s, only went just above the knee!
- 200,000 women have breast enhancement surgery every year. Most go from an A cup to a C!
- A Cheetah can run up to 70 mph!
- For its Animal Kingdom theme park, Disney made climate-controlled rocks for the big cats so they wouldn`t lie in the shade where visitors couldn't see them!
- Kleenex was invented in 1924 as a cold cream remover. It wasn't until a company executive got hay fever that the tissues were sold as alternative to cloth handkerchiefs!
- Elephants communicate with each other sub-sonically, below the reaches of human hearing, and can "talk" this way over a distance of about 70 miles!
- 95% of Americans admit to fantasizing about being somewhere else at least once a day!
- Engineers predict that someday we'll be able to operate all our appliances by remote control!
- In Denver it takes four minutes to soft boil a three minute egg because of the altitude!
- The pattern of a Zebra's Stripes are unique to each animal. When a baby is born, the mother walks around it, over and over again, so the baby can learn her pattern and know who Mom is!
- The movie Out Of Africa was shot in Africa, but lions were imported from California because local laws prohibited the use of wild animals in films!
- According to an old wives tale, if you carry a lavender sachet at night, ghosts can't sneak up on you!
- The number-one attribute women look for in a husband is a good sense of humor, but in a friend, it's honesty!
- Studies show that apples are actually better than caffeine for waking you up in the morning!
- During her lifetime, the average American woman will spend 23 years sleeping, six years eating, and nine years pursuing leisure activities!
- Ceiling fans have been around for ages! In the 1500s, Middle Easterners relied on servants to create a breeze by pulling a rope connected to a canvas-covered frame hanging from the ceiling!
- Polls show families spend more time together in the kitchen than in any other room!
- The British army developed khaki in 1846 to camouflage English soldiers in the dusty battlefields of India!
- They may be a sanctuary for the rich and famous now, but the first spas were created to help Roman soldiers recover after battle!
- More people have an October 5 birthday than any other day!
- Corduroy is French for "the cloth of kings"!
- The brightest leaf colors come after a rainy summer and a dry fall with cool nights!
- Legend has it that if you catch a falling leaf on the first day of autumn, you won''t catch a cold all winter long!
- Prior to the filming of Chicago, Renee Zellweger had never sung in public in her life!
- The White House got its first built-in bathtub in 1851!
- Women are twice as likely as men to be "visual learners"!
- "The little black dress" has been a must have since 1926, when Coco Chanel introduced hers!
- In 1947, Queen Elizabeth II bought her wedding dress with war ration coupons!
- More American households have dogs, but cat lovers are more likely to adopt more than one!
- During the Revolutionary War, brides wore red dresses to symbolize the independence the Colonists desired!
- In 1966, trendy party hostesses could buy a paper dress with matching place mats, coasters, drinking glasses, and place cards, courtesy of Hallmark!
- Love the Mad tea Party ride at Disneyland? Pick the purple teacup, it twirls the fastest!
- Until the 1930s, it was fashionable for boys under age seven to wear dresses, the longer the dress, the more prominent the family!
- Smokey's real name is Smokey bear. He became Smokey "the" Bear after the release of a popular song about him in 1952!
- "Apocolocynposis" is the fear of turning into a pumpkin!
- New England, the traditional site for fall "Leaf-Peeping", had over 26 billion trees!
- Every October, the town of Banner Elk, C, holds a festival to predict the winter forecast--and they have a 90% accuracy rate!
- Although practiced since ancient times in the Far east, very few Americans had ever heard of meditation until the Beatles traveled to India in 1967 to study a particular technique known as Transcendental Meditation!
- The busiest muscles in the body are the eye muscles, they flex more than 100,000 times a day!
- 52% of us say Fall is our favorite season!
- Sea Monkeys are actually artemia salina, tiny little brine shrimp related to lobsters, crabs and other crustaceans!
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