Great Facts about Lincoln and Kennedy:
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.
Now it gets really weird.
Lincoln 's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln .
Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.
Now hang on to your seat.
Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.'
Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln ' made by 'Ford.'
Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
And here's the kicker...
A week before Lincoln was shot; he was in Monroe, Maryland
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe
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Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury.
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter 'A'A. One thousand
In Shakespeare' s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on.
Hence the phrase...... ... 'goodnight, sleep tight.'
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.
AMAZING FACTS ABOUT MEN N ANIMALS.
AMAZING FACTS ABOUT MEN N ANIMALS.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only onone row ! of the keyboard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heartstops for a millisecond.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughesttongue twister in the English language.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress asneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air,the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Question: What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laserprinters all have in common?
Ans. All invented by women.
Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Ans. - HoneY.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A snail can sleep for three years.
All polar bears are left handed.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from eachsalad served in first-class.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Ants don't sleep.
Ants don't sleep.
Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary.
They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs." There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
A baby bat is called a pup.
The worlds largest bacteria, Thiomargarita namibiensis, which was only discovered in 1998, is actually bigger than the full stop on this page!
The worlds largest bacteria, Thiomargarita namibiensis, which was only discovered in 1998, is actually bigger than the full stop on this page!
Excessive use of alcohol can lead to a pregnancy.
Guitar was the first instrument on which Christmas carol ‘Silent Night’ was played.
Weight of Santa`s sleigh loaded with one Beanie Baby for every kid on Earth is 333,333 tons.
The word 'Queue' is the only word in the English language that can be pronounced the same even if the last four letters have been removed one by one.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using only the letters on the top row of a computer keyboard.
December is the most popular month for nose jobs.
The tongue of a mature Blue Whale has approximately the same mass as that of an entire adult elephant.
The longest non-medical word in the English language is floccipausinihilipilification (29 letters), which means "the act of estimating as worthless."
The life of an eyelash is about 6 weeks.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
SCUBA is an acronym for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.
Hyperpolysyllabicomania is a fondness for big words.
The scientific term for nose-picking is Rhinotillexonamia.
Exobiology is the study of extraterrestrial life.
Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.
4,108 terrorist incidents occurring in India between the years 1970 and 2004. During this period, India ranked sixth among all countries in terms of terrorist incidents.
A total of 5,011 people were killed in the terrorist attacks in India between 2002 and 2007
On the average a fart is composed of about 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, 9% carbon dioxide, 7% methane, and 4% oxygen. Less than 1% is what makes them stink.
Los Angeles's full name is: El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina delos Angeles de Porciuncula and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, LA
The term Boss was used in English for the first time in the year 1625. According to the Dutch, boss was a standard title for a ship's captain. The word boss originated from the Dutch word "baas", meaning "a master".
Hamburgers are named after the city of Hamburg, Germany where the serving of hamburgers first became popular.
Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts salt water to fresh water.
The game of GOLF was invented in Scotland, and for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.
The word ALPHABET is derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet - ALPHA and BETA.
The term "spa" is derived from a town in Belgium of the same name, known for its baths and mineral springs.
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms that are antonyms of each other: Adhere and Separate.
The word Salary was derived from the Latin salarium referring to the salt allotment for soldiers in the Roman army.
The points of light that you see behind your eyelids when you shut your eyes really hard are called Phosphenes.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Every queen named Jane has either been murdered, imprisoned, gone mad, died young, or been dethroned.
Harvard University's original name was Cambridge. It only changed when John Harvard donated 400 books to the school.
Harvard University's original name was Cambridge. It only changed when John Harvard donated 400 books to the school.
Levi's 501 jeans got its number from its original stock number in the first Levi's store.
The number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in its name as its meaning.
Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village
Passion Purpura is the medical term for a hickey.
Olympic testing of athletes for anabolic steroids began in 1976.
Danish cyclist, Knut Jensen, collapsed and died during the 1960 Rome Olympics. It was later revealed that drug overdose led to his death.
The word Gymnasium comes from the Greek word Gymnazein which means to exercise naked.
Snails have been eaten as food since at least ancient Roman times. Apicius, the author of the oldest surviving cookbook (1st century B.C - 2 century A.D.) has a recipe for snails in his cookbook.
Heliculture is the science of growing snails for food.
Oysters are the richest source of the mineral zinc, needed for immunity, wound healing, healthy skin and fertility. They were also reputed to be Cassanova's favourite food!
The letters ‘AD’ appearing after a date do not, as many believe, mean ‘After Death’, in reference to the death of Jesus Christ. the initials actually stand for "Anno Domini," a Latin phrase meaning "in the year of the Lord. ‘A.D.’ refers to dates occurring after the birth of Christ.
The letters ‘AD’ appearing after a date do not, as many believe, mean ‘After Death’, in reference to the death of Jesus Christ. the initials actually stand for "Anno Domini," a Latin phrase meaning "in the year of the Lord. ‘A.D.’ refers to dates occurring after the birth of Christ.
The words "naked" and "nude" are not the same. Naked implies unprotected. Nude means unclothed.
The carotenoids in eggs may reduce the risk of cataracts and age-related macular degeneration.
Heart-attacks are more common among men because they cry less frequently than women.
To keep your feet warm, put on a hat: 80% of all body heat escapes through the head.
Proctor & Gamble originally manufactured candles before moving on to soap.
The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can’t retract its claws.
Oscar was designed by MGM's chief art director, Cedric Gibbons.
If you are ‘mysophobic’, you have an intense fear of infection.
Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.
Jet lag was once called boat lag, before there were jets.
The Swift is a bird that remains airborne for 2-3 yrs, during which it sleeps, drinks, eats, and mates on the wing.
Ancient Egyptians kissed with their noses instead of with their lips.
Ancient Egyptians kissed with their noses instead of with their lips.
Kissing each day will keep the dentist away. Kissing encourage saliva to wash food from the teeth and lowers the level of the acid that causes decay, preventing plaque build-up
Pnigophobia is the fear of choking on fish bones
Mercedes Benz cars are named after Mercedes Jellinek, the daughter of Emil Jellinek, the Austrian businessman who founded the company.
A "quinquagenarian" is someone in their fifties.
The country of Andorra has a zero percent unemployment rate.
Sony's first product was a rice cooker.
A cocktail of gin and vermouth is called a Gibson if it has an onion in it. A cocktail of gin and vermouth is called a martini if it has an olive in it.
Before "SOS" was introduced as the most recognized distress signal, the signal was "CQD." "CQ" stood for "seek you" and "D" stood for "Danger"
Because of their racing metabolisms, hummingbirds are always two hours away from starvation.
The 1912 Olympics was the last time gold medals were made entirely of gold.
Pregnant mothers carrying boys are less forgetful than those carrying girls.
Pregnant mothers carrying boys are less forgetful than those carrying girls.
In the Czech Republic, peas are thrown at brides and grooms rather than rice.
Anyone in good enough condition to run three miles a day is in good enough condition not to have to.
Honeybees, turtles and termites are all deaf.
The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci.
"Paraphilia" is the technical term for sexual deviation or perversion.
Lions sleep almost 20 hours a day.
"Caterpillar" means "hairy cat" in Old French.
Waterskiing was originally called "plank-gliding" in England.
There are more germs in the human mouth than in the anus.
The first issue of Playboy, in 1953, which sold for a mere fifty cents, was never dated, because Hugh Hefner assumed he'd never publish another.
Badminton used to be known as "poona."
Giraffes were at one time referred to by Europeans as "cameleopards," believing giraffes were the offspring of camels and leopards.
Japan's Tokyo Zoo closes for two months each year to give the animals a break from visitors.
Because of heavy traffic congestion, Julius Caesar banned all wheeled vehicles from Rome during daylight hours
During the film Don Juan, John Barrymore delivers a grand total of 191 kisses to a variety of different women, at the rate of one every 53 seconds
Phagophobia is the fear of swallowing
The average woman uses about 7,000 words a day. Men use around 2,000. No Wonder Women are so talkative.
The colors yellow, red and orange are used in fast food restaurants because those are the colors that stimulate a hunger response.
The black lines on a basketball are called the Channels
Nostophobia is the fear of returning home
Stygiophobia is the fear of hell
The common mousetrap was invented by the same guy who invented the machine gun—Hiram Maxim
Even if the stomach, the spleen, 80 percent of the intestines, one kidney, one lung, and virtually every organ from the pelvic and groin area are removed, the human body can still survive. And even if 80 percent of your liver were removed, the remaining part would continue to function. Within a few months, the liver would have reconstituted itself to its original size!
20% of the people have their Birthday in June between 20-29
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland
The liquid inside young coconuts Can be used as a substitute for Blood plasma.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. (I solemly swear never no cross a donkey)
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. (I think I'm going for a nap now... get fit lol)
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. (Since Venus is normally associated with women, what does this tell you!)
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. (There goes my daily dose of coffee)
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first "Marlboro Man."
Walt Disney was afraid OF MICE!
Pearls melt in vinegar.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs... but, not downstairs.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. (I keep my toothbrush in the living room now!)
"Adcomsubordcomphibspac" is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command.
"Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between
"Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
"Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor
"Fickleheaded" and "fiddledeedee" are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
"Feedback" is the shortest wod which contains ABCDEF
"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language.
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
There are thirteen languages spoken by more than 100 million people. They are: Mandarin Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Malay-Indonesian, French, Japanese, German, and Urdu
There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today
"Flushable" toilets were in use in ancient Rome
"Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.
"Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
"Hang on Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.
"Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.
"Kemo Sabe, meaning an all knowing one, is actually a mispronunciation by Native American of the Spanish phrase, Quien lo Sabe, meaning one who knows.
"One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
coco cola is green in color if it didnt add color
new born kangaroos are only 2.5cm long
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing.
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded
Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do. (Teach your kids to use righthand by default.)
If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction .
China has more English speakers than the United States
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill
If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.(Travelling in Time)
Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.(hahahahahaha)
Strange-but-true The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day
The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the fourty-eight poorest nations.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
The youngest pope was 11 years old
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches
According to Illinois state law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially recognized language is "American."
Over 2.7 billion searches are made on Google search engine each month
1 of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online
If myspace was a country it would be the 11th largest
The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the worlds population
The founders of Google didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface, thats one of the main reason why the home page is so bare
The name "Google" comes from a spelling mistake, the founders intendent to write "Googol"
The Google function "I feel lucky" is nearly never used, well compared to the high number of users
Yahoo stands for Yet Another 'Hierarchical Organizational Oracle'
The oldest surviving computer in the world is called CSIRAC and is located in Melbourne
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com
The highest amount of money paid for a domain name is for business.com, $7.5 million
Every single possible 3 character.com domain has been registered
Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
A new policy has been introduced in Washington to reduce the crime rate. As per that policy, the person who wants to do robbery or a crime has to inform the police in advance about the crime. Otherwise if he is caught after the crime, the police will treat it as additinal crime
In Alabama state in America, if someone knowingly or unknowingly throw salt on rail tracks, he will be hanged.
The traffic police in South Korea should compulsory inform his higher official about the bribe that he has taken
Unmarried girls should not fly by parachute on sundays in Florida.
The punishment for drunken drivers in San Salvedor is --- Shoot and kill him
In Malaysia the situation for drunken drivers is different. The driver will be put in jail alongwith his wife also
If any woman in Michigan wants to cut her hair, then she has to compulsory take her husband's permission
Do u know that in Los angels, 2 children should not be put in bath tub at the same time for bathing.
Do u know that in Los Angels, the husbands can beat their wives with leather belts, but the belt width should not be more than 2 inches.
Do u know that in Chicago, nobody should eat anything at a place where fire accident occurs
In virgenia, if smell of onions comes from the mouth of the school children, the parents have to pay the fine to school
Astronauts get taller when they are in space
A tree in metropolitan area will survive for approximately eight years.
According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until the 1730's, India was the only source for diamonds in the world
An olive tree can live up to 1500 years
An acre of trees can remove about 13 tons of dust and gases every year from the surrounding environment
