Harleen Quinzel Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Voldemort means “flight of death†in French. Link to post Share on other sites
ckravitz Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1. Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 The world’s smallest Christmas card is so small, it could fit onto the surface of a postage stamp 8,276 times. Link to post Share on other sites
ckravitz Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana. Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 The song “California Gurls†by Katy Perry was written as a response to Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind.†Link to post Share on other sites
ckravitz Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 YouTube skips a second of every video that is uploaded. Link to post Share on other sites
ckravitz Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 A man disrupted the 2004 Olympics by jumping in the pool wearing a tutu and polka-dotted tights. Link to post Share on other sites
ckravitz Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane. Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 In the Disney film Sleeping Beauty, Princess Aurora appears as an adult for only 18 minutes. Link to post Share on other sites
ckravitz Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Popsicles were invented by an 11-year-old. Link to post Share on other sites
ckravitz Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 The most body piercings in one session is 1015 piercings in 7 hours and 55 minutes. This was achieved by Charlie Wilson and Kam Ma of the UK at Sunderland Body Art on March 4, 2006. Link to post Share on other sites
ckravitz Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991. Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Dogs can tell the size of another dog by listening to its growls. Link to post Share on other sites
ckravitz Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner. Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 A German conman tried to get out of jail by talking in court for 14 hours straight. Link to post Share on other sites
ckravitz Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Mosquitoes have teeth. Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties is the highest-grossing animated film of all time in China. Link to post Share on other sites
ckravitz Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate. Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 The wrong winner was mistakenly announced during the season six finale of Australia’s Next Top Model. Link to post Share on other sites
ckravitz Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII 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." Link to post Share on other sites
Harleen Quinzel Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Isabel MartÃnez de Perón of Argentina was the first female to become president of a republic. Link to post Share on other sites
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