People


On average a person breaths enough air in their life, to fill 2 and a half blimps

 

Mark Twain is actually a depth measurement, equal to 12 fathoms

 

The average person fears spiders more than death

 

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots

 

The average woman eats 20kg of lipstick in her life

 

On average 100 people choke to death on a ball point pen per year

 

Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels

 

Hitler had Parkinson's disease and had a significant tremor in his left hand which was censored in the German media he also had syphilis which causes insane rage in it's advanced stages

 

More men are color blind than women

 

Shakespeare died on his birthday, April 23

 

The average person can live for eleven days without water, assuming an average temperature of 60 degrees fahrenheit

 

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone

 

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation

 

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene

 

Most people who read the word 'yawning' will yawn

 

The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man

 

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

 

Isaac Asimov is the only quthor to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category

 

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children

 

Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker

 

The characters Bert and Erine on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"

 

Bob Bylan's real name is Rober Zimmerman

 

The A$W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright founders of the company

 

John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrotor of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

 

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross

 

Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth

 

Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution besides sewing the first American flag was running a munitions factory in her basement

 

Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts"

 

Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distrubution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being

 

Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969

 

In 1963 baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20 1969 a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon Gaylord Perry hit his first and only home run

 

Alexander the Great was an epileptic

 

The the name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z hence "Oz"

 

The real name of the "L've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore

 

Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875

 

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer

 

Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister

 

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy

 

Dr. Samuel A, Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Mooth and whose shame created the expression of ignominy "His name is Mudd"

 

Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton Dean a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry founder of Blues Inc. They were the first electric white blues band ever seen in England in 1961

 

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles

 

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister

 

Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays

 

The most common name in the world is Mohammed

 

Of the six men who made up the Tree Stooges three of them were real brothers: Moe Curly and Shemp

 

Charlie Brown's father was a barber

 

Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When he died in 1910 Haley's Coment came into view again

 

Duddley DoRight's horses name was "Horse"

 

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery

 

Winston Churchhill was born in a ladies' room during a dance

 

Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston

 

On the cartoon show "The Jetsons" Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15

 

The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin

 

Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons"

 

Medieval knights put sharkskin on their swardhandles to give them a more secure gripn they would dig the sharp scales into their palms

 

Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister

 

Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus

 

Stalin was only five feet four inches tall

 

Stalin's left foot had webbed toes and his left arm is noticably shorter then his right

 

The only member of the band ZZ Top with out a beard has the last name Beard

 

Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox

 

Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"

 

Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would and therfore forstall curses

 

Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T

 

The 80's song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette the actress Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing

 

Barbie's measuerments if she were life size: 39-23-33

 

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