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[Elaine Koogler]

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I had to share this with you guys...there is some requisite food content
in the message, and some of it is even period!!!

Kiri
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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 07:51:23 -0400
From: Jim Garm <Philip.Garm at oracle.com>
Organization: Oracle University
To: ekoogler at chesapeake.net
Subject: [Fwd: Yeah so?]
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Who comes up with these?  Curious Facts

The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which
are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is uncopyrightable.

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct
order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the
Australian coat of arms for that reason.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have
about ten.

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase
"Shah Mat," which means, "the king is dead".

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

Camel's milk does not curdle.

An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.

Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean
elephants.

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan

All porcupines float in water.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of
yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled
on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was called "American Pie."
(Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in
an "A" is Afghanistan.

When opossums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing." They
actually pass out from sheer terror.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every
year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into
account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times,
but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up
on the bottom.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Ben and Jerry's sends the waste from making ice cream to local pig
farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor:
Mint Oreo.

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

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

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

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.

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

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.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left
hand.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover
Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the
same sex.

Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early
mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched
across the bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.

"Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came
about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people
needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.

Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used
once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The
skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was
mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about
the wreck.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing
the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float.
Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it
has floated ever since. [It floats in gasoline, too.]

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building
it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that
falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors
for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a
brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones
used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid
formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside,
they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks
or it will digest itself.

The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."

If a statue in the park of a person 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.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver,
and purple.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people
without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the
expression "to get fired."

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

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