Assorted Bizzare Facts

Assorted Bizzare Facts

Q is the only letter in the alphabet that is not in the name of any of the U.S. states.
It took more than 10 million bricks to erect the Empire State Building.
A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run out of beer.
315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
A group of crows is called a murder.
Dr. Seuss coined the word nerd in his 1950 book "If I Ran The Zoo."
A car is stolen every 30 seconds in the United States.
92% of pay-per-view tv programs contain violence.
A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows.
Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham University.

Jet lag was once called boat lag, before there were jets.
Laughter is a proven way to lose weight.
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is a meaningless existential hell.
60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the phone during a thunderstorm.
In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.
Out of all of the postage stamps in the United States with people's faces on them, there is not one that has the picture of someone alive.
People in Sweden, Japan, and Canada are more likely to know the population of the United States than are Americans.
In the summer of 1959, the United States Postal Service experimented with the delivery of letters by guided missile.
Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham University.
Happy Birthday To You is the most often sung song in America

Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on all of the band's albums.
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabet Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
If you add together all the numbers on a roulette wheel (1 to 36), the total is the number 666.
Mr. Peanut was invented in 1916 by a Suffolk, Virginia schoolchild who won $5 in a design contest sponsored by Planters Peanuts.
The most expensive advertisement slots in American TV history were during the last episode of "Seinfeld". Each 30-second spot sold for an estimated $1.5 million. NBC made more than $30 million in advertising revenues on that one show.
The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper.
For $33.80, you can buy a corpse scent kit. These are technically used for training search and rescue dogs, but it is a product with interesting possibilities.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
The audio CD first arrived in the US in 1984.
Silly Putty was originally designed as an alternative to rubber.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.