Check out these wierd yet TRUE facts!  Did you even know this stuff?  I didn't,
but I don't really care either....

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched".

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over Parliament building is an American flag.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size:  39-23-33 (Editor's note.  This was before
the debut of today's fatter, flatter Barbie.)

All the clocks on Pulp Ficiton are stuck on 4:20.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
(Got my English teachers still trying this)

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoin Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room durning a dance.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

There are only four words in the English language which in "-dous".
Tremendous, Horrendous, Stupendous, and Hazardous.

The *LONGEST* place-name that is STILL in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu.
(and where's this lovely place you say? New Zealand hill.)

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina delos 
Angeles de Porcluncula" and can be abberviated to 3.63% of its size "L.A."

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

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