"Be good, do good, live long in peace." --DJ 

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n what appears to be a very long page of the Web, Don Jibaro has compiled a "maj larga que'l cará" collection of not so useless information, but that once you start reading it's hard to stop... Do you care to know who was the first man to fly a flag in Puerto Rico? ...or that of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers... or that Don Jibaro once was a baby?

  • Puerto Rico is the third country of the world with more physicians in proportion to its population
  • It is estimated that there is more Nickel in the mountains of Puerto Rico than in the whole United States, including Alaska and Hawaii
  • The most dynamic pier in the Caribbean is in San Juan.  50% of all business, for a total of 1,400 millions in goods is transported to or from here.
  • The wood from our native tree ''El Guayacan'' is so strong that it suffers less wear and tear than steel
  • The first puertorican municipality founded in the 20th century was Jayuya in 1911.
  • That the male Coqui sings in a different way than the female.  The male sings ''Coqui'' and the female ''co-coqui''...
  • Though its small size, 39 different kinds of soils have been identified in Vieques (a small island off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico)
  • The El Morro Castle in Puerto Rico is actually bigger than the one in Cuba, despite the fact that Cuba is bigger. Get this... The north wall is 30 ft. thick!
  • The best pineapples are grown there. They are called the Golden pineapples of Puerto Rico in the industry.
  • They manufacture 95% of all of the medicines produced by American pharmaceuticals.
  • People come from around the world to hire their engineers and scientists chemists and doctors.
  • They are the jurisdiction with the most roads by square mile (and still there are traffic jams, due to the fact there are more vehicles than people on the island.)
  • They have the longest swimming pool in the world (Cerromar Hotel)
  • La 'Calle del Cristo' (in old San Juan ) was the first road of 'The New World ' to be paved - with (Ballast from sailing ships) bricks that are blue in color on the top and still in use today.
  • 86% of all the rum consumed in the U.S. is produced in Puerto Rico. Don Q, Capt. Morgan, Bacardi. Ron Rico. (Not that i'm proud of that!)
  • They have more female engineers than any other country.
  • They kicked the DREAM TEAM'S butt.
  • Puerto Rico has one of the world's highest productivity ratios.
  • Puerto Rican Salsa style music was the fastest growing genre in the last 20 years.
  • A great number of the musicians, who play in the different orchestras, have studied at the world renowned Casals conservatory of music located in San Juan.
  • Four Puerto Ricans received the Congress Medal of Honor - Eurípides Rubio, Carlos Lozada De Ciales), Héctor Santiago and Fernando Luis Ledesma García - more than any other jurisdiction under the American flag; with the exception of Texas . The other medal winners are too numerous to mention.
  • There are at least 19 active generals in the U.S. Army in addition to the ones in the air force, the Admirals in the navy and not to mention the lieutenant Colonels, Colonels, Captains, etc. in each of the branches of the United States armed Forces.
  • From the past crops of officers one was named head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - Admiral Rivero.
  • Only 4 baseball players have 2 Home Runs in the same Inning; 3 of them are Puerto Ricans (Roberto Clemente, (Hall of Fame) Roberto Alomar and Carlos Baerga).
  • Tito Trinidad, the boxer, never went to the Olympics; but defeated 4 gold medal champions.
  • There have been many, many boxing title holders and contenders,including a heavy weight champion.
  • Number one HYUNDAI record holder for most autos sold in the world is from Bayamon, Puerto Rico ( HYUNDAI DE BAYAMON
  • A Puerto Rican, Nellie Toledo, designed the 1984 Camaro Berlinetta.
  • They were the 5th area in THE WORLD to have a radio station (before Washington D.C.)
  • Junior Cordero (Puerto Rican) won the Kentucky Derby three times.
  • There are only 7 fluorescent lagoons in the world; they have 4 of them.
  • Giovanni Hidalgo is considered the best percussionist in THE WORLD.
  • Jose Feliciano is in the top 3 guitar players in THE WORLD (don't forget he is blind).
  • The Discovery 500, solar car designed by the Mayaguez College, won 41 awards in Sunrayace, Iowa in 1993.
  • They established the first lottery system in the New World.
  • They were printing books in Old San Juan 100 years before James-town was founded.
  • Walmart in Carolina , Puerto Rico broke the selling records of all Walmart stores
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  • Puerto Rico is the country with the most cars per square mile in the world: 146 vehicles per street mile and 4,300 vehicles per square mile.
  • Plaza Las Americas mall in San Juan is the most profitable mall per square foot in the world
  • The highest grossing Borders book store in US territory is located in Plaza Las Americas Mall,  in Puerto Rico.
  • Busiest Toys "R" Us in the world is also in Plaza Las Americas, Puerto Rico.
  • The highest grossing Sears store in the World is in Puerto Rico
  • The highest selling Kmart in the US is in San Juan , Puerto Rico.
  • The Radio Shack store in Plaza Las Americas mall is the busiest and highest grossing Radio Shack in the world.
  • The largest JC Penney store in the world (a full 4 stories) is
    located at Plaza Las Americas mall, in Puerto Rico.
  • The Port of San Juan is the fourth busiest seaport in the
    Western Hemisphere
  • San Juan is the oldest city in US territory (Older than the city of St. Augustine , FL ) and was founded in 1508 by Juan Ponce de Leon.
  • Piña Colada was "born" in PR in 1954.
  • The legal drinking age is 18.
  • Puerto Rico has won the Miss Universe pageant a record five times
  • Puerto Rico has the only rain forest in the US- El Yunque.
  • The place in the world with more pharmaceutical companies per square mile is Puerto Rico
  • There are about 1,100 people per square mile, a ratio higher than within any of the 50 states in the United States .
  • Puerto Rico 's population density per square miles is among the world's highest - only Bangladesh, The Maldives , Barbados, Taiwan, South Korea and the city-states of Hong
    Kong and Singapore are more crowded.
  • Puerto Rico is the third country in the world with more physicians in proportion to its population
  • The Camuy river in Puerto Rico is among the top three longest
    underground rivers in the world
  • Puerto Rico has one of the highest rates of alcohol consumption in the world.
  • The longest pool in the world is located in a hotel in Dorado, PR
  • It is estimated that there is more Nickel in the mountains of
    Puerto Rico than the whole United States , including Alaska and Hawaii.
  • There are more Puerto Ricans living in the rest of the United States than in the island of Puerto Rico itself
  • La Fortaleza in San Juan is the oldest executive mansion in the New World
  • The state of Florida was discovered by Puerto Rico 's first governor, Don Juan Ponce de Leon
  • The first shot fired by the United States in World War I was in Puerto Rico by Lt. Teofilo Marxuach.
  • 86% of the rum drunk in the U.S. is from Puerto Rico
  • Puerto Rico has one of the world's highest productivity ratios.
  • The world's highest concentrations of bioluminescent waters are in Puerto Rico
  • Coffee grown and brewed in Puerto Rico is the official coffee of the Vatican.
  • Puerto Rico ranks 6th in the world when it comes to college graduates
  • Puerto Ricans are the only people in the world who regularly
    applaud when a plane lands and when it reaches the gate
  • Puerto Rico has more Gas Stations, Churches, Cars, Roads, and  Walgreens per square mile than any other country in the world.
  • World biggest and largest radio telescope is in Puerto Rico
  • Telemundo, the second largest Spanish language television station in the United States, was founded in Puerto Rico
  • Puerto Rico has more rivers per square mile than any other place in the world..
  • The second radio station to be inaugurated in the US was in PR.
  • The longest running TV program was in Puerto Rico.
  • The first Emmy went to a Puerto Rican... Jose Ferrer. He also got the Academy award for the same role.
  • Rita Moreno got those two and one for Best Actress in a Broadway show. No one else has matched that.
  • The most outstanding soldier in Europe at the end of the Second WW was chosen from the Pueto Rican 65th Infantry.
  • One of the three still living WWI veterans is a Puerto Rican.

     NOT TOO BAD FOR A 100 X 35 MILES ISLAND!

Wait...!
There's more...
from the rest of the world!!!

  • The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)
  • Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
  • The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick.
  • There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
  • The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
  • The straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process beer without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the top of the container.
  • David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
  • The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY
  • There are only thirteen blimps in the world.
  • Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States.
  • The existing biggest blimp is the Fuji Film blimp.
  • Naugahyde, plastic "leather" was created in Naugatuck, Connecticut.
  • The Swiss flag is square.
  • The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'. The abbreviation for the British Pound Sterling comes from the same source: it is an 'L' for Libra/Lb. with a stroke through it to indicate abbreviation.
  • Sames goes for the Italian lira which uses the same abbreviation ('lira' coming from 'libra'). So British currency (before it went metric) was always quoted as "pounds/shillings/pence", abbreviated "L/s/d" (libra/solidus/denarius).
  • The three largest land-owners in England are the Queen, the Church of England and Trinity College, Cambridge.
  • The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and compline.
  • If you come from Manchester, you are a Mancunian.
  • No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though thir body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.
  • The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
  • Madrid is the only European capital city not situated on a river.
  • The name for fungal remains found in coal is sclerotinite.
  • 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.
  • Emus cannot walk backwards.
  • The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
  • Hacky-sack was invented in Turkey.
  • If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
  • There are six five words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate and duumvir, residuum.
  • The "Calabash" pipe, most often associated with Sherlock Holmes, was not used by him until William Gillette (an American) portrayed Holmes onstage. Gillette needed a pipe he could keep in his mouth while he spoke his lines.
  • Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
  • Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.
  • The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
  • The shortest French word with all five vowels is "oiseau" meaning bird.
  • Camel's milk does not curdle.
  • "Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.
  • The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was a spin-off of the Danny Thomas Show.
  • Sunbeams that shine down through the clouds are called crepuscular rays.


  • Very small clouds that look like they have been broken off of bigger clouds are called scuds.
  • On a dewy morning, if you look at your shadow in the grass, the dew drops shine light back to your eye creating a halo called a heilgenschein (German for halo.)
  • The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
  • Giraffes have no vocal cords.
  • Joe DiMaggio had more home runs than strikeouts during his career.
  • All porcupines float in water.
  • Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
  • A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peel and raisins.
  • Many northern parishes (counties) of Louisiana did not agree with the Confederate movement. To show their disapproval, they changed their names. That's why there is a Union Parish, Jefferson Parish, etc.
  • 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.
  • Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)
  • The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' symbolizes 'two women living under one roof'.
  • German has a wood for the peace offerings brought to your mate when you've committed some conceived slight. This is "drachenfutter" or dragon's food.
  • In Chinese, the words for crisis and opportunity are the same.
  • No word in the English language rhymes with month.
  • Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
  • The poisonous copperhead smells likefresh cut cucumbers.
  • In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)
  • The smallest mushroom's name is "Hop-low."
  • Anne Boleyn had six fingernails on one hand.
  • Mustard gas was invented in the McKinley Building on the American University campus. Additionally, preliminary work on the Manhattan Project was done in that building. The government used the McKinley Building because of its unusual archticture. If there would be any type of large explosion inside the building, the building would implode onto itself, containing any lethal gas or nuclear material. The building now houses the Physics Department.
  • When angered, the ears of Tazmanian devils turn a pinkish-red.
  • The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
  • The naval rank of "Admiral" is derived from the Arabic phrase "amir al bahr", which means "lord of the sea".
  • The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.
  • A cat has four rows of whiskers.
  • Vincent Van Gogh comitted suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows.
    • It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
    • The antifungal, nystatin, which is sometime used for treating thrush, is named after New York State Institute for Health (Acronym)
    • QANTAS, the name of the Australian national airline, is a (former) acronym, for Queensland And Northern
    • Territories Air Service.
    • The world's largest four-faced clock sits atop the Allen-Bradley plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
    • Almonds are members of the peach family.
    • The first video ever played on MTV Europe was "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits.
    • If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050
    • The "Grinch" singer and voice of Tony the Tiger is a charming man named Thurl Ravenscroft.
    • The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin," pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "Star Trek" lore.
    • The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
    • Ham radio operators got the term "ham" coined from the expression "ham-fisted operators", a term used to describe early radio users who sent Morse code (i.e. pounded their fists).
    • While the Chinese invented gunpowder, they were not the first to develop firearms. Sam Colt invented the "revolving pistol." Therefore, all revolvers are correctly called pistols.
    • A 12 gauge "rifled slug" does not spin, even though there are grooves on it's bearing surface. A slug actually travels like a dart.
    • Revolvers cannot be silenced, due all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.

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      • A bullet fired from the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge (also called the .308 Winchester) is still supersonic at 1000 yards.
      • 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."
      • The home team must provide the referee with 24 footballs for each National Football League game.
      • The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
      • A flea expert is a pullicologist.
      • A bear has 42 teeth.
      • M&M's stands for the last names of Forrest Mars, Sr., then candymaker, and his associate Bruce Murrie.
      • The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
      • The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
      • Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 105.6 miles per hour.
      • In Irian Jaya exists a tribe of tall, white people who use parrots as a warning sign against intruders.
      • In the Dutch province of Twente people live on average half a year shorter than in the rest of the Netherlands.
      • Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be
      • right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties in climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.
      • Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
      • If the Spaceship Earth ride at EPCOT was a golf ball, to be the proportional size to hit it, you'd be two miles tall.
      • On Sesame Street, Bert's goldfish were named Lyle and Talbot, presumably after the actor Lyle Talbot.
      • The word "hangnail" comes from Middle English: ang- (painful) + nail. Nothing to do with hanging.
      • Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.
      • Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain smoked forty cigars a day for the last years of his life.
      • Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When
      • He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
      • Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
      • Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
      • The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
      • If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birthplace was listed as a post office box in Albequerque.
      • Robert Kennedy was killed in the Ambassador Hotel, the same hotel that housed Marilyn Monroe's first modelling agency.
      • Ronald Regan sent out the army phoyographer who first discovered Marilyn Monroe.
      • Carbonated water, with nothing else in it,can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Moh's hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient in soda pop.
      • Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
      • The newest dog breed is the Bull Boxer, first bred in the United states in 1990-91.
      • The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5 megabytes.
      • South of Tucson, Arizona, all road signs are in the Metric System.
      • In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.
      • The real name of Astro (the dog fromThe Jetsons) is "Tralfaz" -- his real owner appeared one day to claim him but wound up giving him back to the Jetsons.
      • Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
      • The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."
      • Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously
      • When a film is in production, the last shot of the day is the "martini shot", the next to last one is the "Abby Singer".

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        •  Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
        • It is a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly -- so says City Ordinance No. 352 in Pacific Grove, California.
        • If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
        • Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life! What about milk, you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living!
        • When Saigon fell the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.
        • The Fort George Point in Belize City was formed by the silt runoff of Hurricane Hattie.
        • If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe.
        • Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
        • The expression "What in tarnation" comes from the original meaning: "What in eternal damnation"
        • Gary Burgough who played Walter Radar O'Reily on M*A*S*H has a deformed left thumb. If you watch closely you will see that he never shows his left hand.
        • Only two states' names begin with double consonants: Florida and Rhode Island.
        • The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean
        • Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
        • The Cincinnati Reds baseball team name was officially changed to the Redlegs during the anti-communist movement.
        • Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
        • "Xmas" does not begin with the Roman letter X. It begins with the Greek letter "chi," which was used in medieval manuscripts as an abbreviation for the word "Christ" (xus = christus, etc.)
        • The ampersand (&) is actually a stylised version of the Latin word "et," meaning and."
        • The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
        • The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
        • Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
        • On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.
        • In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
        • Only humans and horses have hymens.
        • No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. (Texas Stadium, home of the Cowboys, is not a dome, there is a large hole in the roof.)
        • The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
        • The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". Wally and Beaver had a baby alligator which they kept in the toilet.
        • In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured
        • The most eastern part of the western world is located in Ilomantsi, Finland.
        • "Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting."
        • Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
        • Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

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          • In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch.
          • Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
          • Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
          • The "heat" of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale.
          • Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand
          • was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize *this* was the day of the changeover.
          • In left hand drive countries, such as the UK, Ireland, Japan, and Australia, drivers sit on the right hand side of the car. Except for Sweden, where drivers sat on the left, as in North-America.
          • Japan is the third most densely populated country in the world. First is the Netherlands, followed by Belgium.
          • Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
          • The "D" in D-day means "Day". The French term for "D-Day" is "J-jour".
          • Female orcas live twice as long as male orcas. The larger numbers of female orcas in a pod are because of the female's longer lifespan, not because the males have collected a harem.
          • Most spiders belong to the orb weaver spider family, Family Aranidae. This is pronounced "A Rainy Day."
          • The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.
          • Genghis Khan started out life as a goatherd.
          • The type specimen for the human species is the skull of Edward Drinker Cope, an American paleontologist of the late 1800's. A type specimen is used in paleontology as the best example of that species.
          • The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".
          • The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum.
          • Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
          • The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan"
          • Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards
          • All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park.
          • The Holland and Lincoln Tunnels under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and New York are an engineering feat. The air circulators in the tunnels circulate fresh air completely every ninety seconds.
          • The dirt road that General Washington and his soldiers took to fight off General Clinton during the Battle of Monmouth was called the Burlington Path.
          • The only social fraternity founded during the Civil War was Theta Xi fraternity, at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1864.
          • The Hudson River along the island of Manhattan flows in either direction depending upon the tide.
          • Several buildings in Manhattan have their own zip code! The World Trade Center has several.
          • Cockroaches' favorite food is the glue on envelopes and on the back of postage stamps
          • Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
          • Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
          • Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott".
          • The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown differently during times of peace or war.
          • The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought at neighbouring Breed's Hill.
          • The state of Maryland has no natural lakes.
          • Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
          • theme songs for The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes.
          • The license plate number of the Volkswagon that appeared on the cover of the Beatles Abbey Road album was 281F.
          • Pinocchio was made of pine.
          • The "Hallelujah Chorus" fits into the Easter portion of Handel's Messiah, not Christmas.
          • Michigan was the first state to have roadside picnic tables.
          • they first heard the Spaniards.
          • The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome.
          • between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acrylate, he couldn't get the prisms apart
          • armadillos, the closest relative to the spiny anteater is the platypus, and the aardvark is in an order all by itself.
          • There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
          • Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
          • During conscription for WWII, there were nine documented cases of men with three testicles. Probably Puerto Rican.
          • The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans. (Watch out Inigo Montoya...)
          • Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor
          • belt.
          • Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
          • Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
          • The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosey...") These sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies..."), People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")

            Now the Test... DON'T CHEAT!

            Write down your answers to check them at the end.

            1. On a standard traffic light, is the green on the top or bottom?
            2. How many states are there?
            3. In which hand is the Statue of Liberty's torch?
            4. What 6 colors are on the classic Campbell's soup label?
            5. What 2 letters don't appear on the telephone dial?
            6. What 2 #'s on the telephone dial don't have letters by them?
            7. When you walk does your left arm swing w/ your right or left leg?
            8. How many matches are in a standard pack?
            9. On our flag, is the top stripe red or white?
            10. What is the lowest # on the FM dial?
            11. Which way does water go down the drain, clockwise or counter-clockwise?
            12. Which way does a "no smoking" sign's slash run?
            13. How many channels on a VHF TV dial?
            14. Which side of a woman's blouse are the buttons on?
            15. On a NY license plate, is New York on the top or bottom?
            16. Which way do fans rotate?
            17. Whose face is on a dime?
            18. How many sides does a stop sign have?
            19. Do books have even # pages on the right or left side?
            20. How many lug nuts are on a standard car wheel?
            21. How many sides are there on a standard pencil?
            22. Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc. Who's missing?
            23. How many hot dog buns are in a standard package?
            24. On which card in a deck, is the cardmaker's trademark?
            25. On which side of a venetian blind is the cord that adjusts the opening between the slats?
            26. On the back of a $1 bill, what is in the center?
            27. There are 12 buttons on a touch tone phone. What 2 symbols bear no digits?
            28. How many curves are in a standard paper clip?
            29. Does a merry-go-round turn clockwise or counter-clockwise?

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            Answers:

            1. Bottom
            2. 50
            3. Right
            4. Blue, red, white, yellow, black, and gold
            5. Q, Z
            6. 1, 0
            7. Left
            8. 20
            9. Red
            10. 88
            11. Counter-clockwise (unless you happen to be south of the equator)
            12. Towards the bottom right
            13. 12 (no #1)
            14. Left
            15. Top
            16. Clockwise as you look at it
            17. Roosevelt
            18. 8
            19. Left
            20. 5
            21. 6
            22. Bashful
            23. 8
            24. Ace of spades
            25. Left
            26. ONE
            27. *, #
            28. 3
            29. Counter-clockwise

            Scoring:

          30-28 — Genius... NASA is calling!
          25-27 — Not too shabby!
          20-24 — You could do better if you give up polyester!
          16-19 — McDonald's is calling!
          15 or below — Being blind wouldn't hurt you one bit!!

           


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