Bats that don’t live in caves have a less acidic diet.
Contrary to popular belief, plural for mantis is not mantisi or mantises, but mantisen.
Toupees made of dog hair last, on average, three weeks longer.
Dogs can swim until the age of 77 (people years).
Catfood laced with alcohol makes an atrocious appetizer.
"Fingernails For Fish" is the only band to win the Oshkosh Limp Bizket tribute contest.
Blinking occurs too fast to hear.
Robins are rarely seen driving Mac Trucks with eight-tracks.
Panties can’t be worn on the arm in Great Bend, KS.
Dead skin plays a vital role in fried chicken.
Grape Rabbits are a diabetic alternative to Chocolate Bunnies on Easter.
Laughter kills hamsters.
All that is left of the original Benji of movie fame is his ears and a part of the tail, in a science museum in Burbank. The rest was stolen.
All facts compiled for the World Almanac are confirmed by the Psychic Friends Network.
2 out of 6 people will be as many as a third of all people.
84% of 1984 was longer than the other 22% (4% is undecided).
The most popular nickname: Guy.
Truth is not stranger than fiction. Any truth can be made stranger, and fictional, by adding, “And then Elvis said to the Pope, 'Hey, where’s my robotic fish?'”
The role of Jabba the Hut was offered to Calista Flockhart, who turned it down, and so animatronics was used instead.
At 141 years of age, Harriet Hanley was still able to tap a keg and “chug like a frat boy.”
The largest American flag in the world, “Ethel’s Progress,” would have enough cloth in it to make over 4000 pairs of “jams” (a kind of beachware) --except it’s made of conch shells.
One of the required skill for working in the Israeli State Department: metallurgy.
3% of the budget for Batman Forever went to doughnuts and shaving cream.
Desks for sale in Fibinaci, Kentucky, come with a free economics text.
Straw Wars was a less succesful film also released in 1977.

"When cats eat cake it's like
Christmas in July," was Millard
Filmore's seventh most famous
saying.
Leroy Delindo, a martial arts expert from Hollywood, has tatooed teeth. Pictures of dragons, of course.
Hotels in Sweden do not provide pillows.
Troy Donahue’s original name was Tory Huenadon.
In ancient Greece, perfection in a woman was considered to be symmetrical elbows.
Purple gummi bears attract honeybees.
Shiney knees, known as “nitesco supplex,” is unlinked to liver cancer.
Pizza containes food from all of the basic food groups. The crust is from the bread group. The cheese is from the milk group. The asparagus is from the vegetable group. The watermelon rind is technically from the fruit group. Spiced rattlesnake comes in three varieties and more or less comes from the meat group. There is no “cardboard group.”
You can lead a horse to water, you can even make him drink. But just try to get one into a tutu.
Tim Meadows, of Saturday Night Live fame... well, okay, he’s not that famous.
Of the six noble gasses, Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, Radon, Xenon is actually merely “aristocratic.”
One thing still is just for breakfast anymore: eating after not having eaten for a long time.
Not as popular: Mambo no. 514.
Crack babies: yes. Coca-cola and Manishewitz babies: probably not.
Live spelled backward is evil. Rearrange the letters in Santa to get satan. High Noon (1952, starring Gary Cooper) becomes “High No-No.”
Weeble Wobbles may wobble, but they do not stay crispy in milk.
The DSM V (the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) differs only from IV by the addition of a newly analyzed disorder: driving with the turn signal on.
A full moon is really full. A fool moon just looks like it.
A fisherman’s wager is when you bet that you won’t catch any fish and you win.
Roja is Spanish for red. It is also Spanish for rouge, rot, and vermelho.
Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced the reformed Gregorian calendar, had three nostrils.
An elephant’s knees are called “wrinkly” (they have four, each).
Nirvana can be reached also through eels.
The Betty Ford Clinic is actual not a clinic; it is a center.
The reason the thumb is not a finger is because actually it is only a fing.
Stephen Hawking prefers Barq’s to A&W. Richard Feynman prefered Fanta to Dad’s. Leon Lederman prefers Henry Weinhardt’s to Sasparilla Sunday’s. But the one thing that theoretical and experimental physicists agree on: root beer is better than creme soda.
To improve patience, try a rosemary high colonic.

Elizabeth I's nickname was "Fajita Face."
In much the same way that a corpse will go in and out of rigor mortis (several hours), turkey breast left out on the counter will go through a stage where it smells like cheese (several seconds).
There are exacty 19 kinds of stupid.
According to Rollercoaster Monthly, The 27 year old wooden coaster at "Joy Land" in Wichita, KS, is the 18th most exciting wooden coaster in Kansas.
Zeppelins used to be shape like pipes, but these were harder to keep “lit,” and so the shape was changed to a cigar-shape.
The captain of the Titanic had ample warning about the iceberg, but chose to ignore it, forgetting that whole “just the tip of the iceberg.” thing.
7-UP was originally called “6-ACROSS” but was changed due to confusion with crossword puzzles.
Goat milk makes better chocolate milk than cow milk, but worse strawberry milk. On lemon milk it’s a dead tie.
The first e-mail ever sent was written in 1961 by Doctor Giles Hermanger, and was a Good-Times virus warning.
"The Star Spangled Banner" has fifteen versus, one for each president over 6 feet tall.
Dum-dum bullets can still smart.
Radio waves travel at the speed of light. So do microwaves, if thrown really damn hard.
In order for "Off" to work, you must put it On.
Bagpipes are like fingerprints, snowflakes, fever blisters: no two are exactly alike.
Samuel Colt named his revolver "45" for the angle at which he liked t shoot at ducks. The caliber size is a coincidence.
It is not impossible to brush one’s teeth while sneezing, though it is highly improbable.
Hockey is called the “King’s Sport” because three Kings were goalies for the Montreal Monarchs: Edward III, 1882-1885 (sixteen shut-outs), Louis XXIV, 1911-1922 (3000+ blocked shots) and Donald King, 1967-1978 (still has five of his original teeth).
Ancient Romans ate tripe without the benefit of couscous.
In 1996 the National Coroners Association polled over 15,000 medical examiners to decide what the most horrible way to die would be. The unanimous result: to drown while being on fire anyway.
Digitalis, used in heart medicine, derived from foxglove, and having no discernible taste, is easily secreted into vats of barbecue sauce. However, doing so is largely ineffectual.
John Henry Kellogg invented the rotating bicycle, as well as corn flakes.
Darth Maul’s cousin, Darth Snopes, is half Portuguese.
Submarine sandwiches have little to do with actual submarines. In fact, in Germany (submarines were conceptualized by Da Vinci and Abraham Lincoln, but perfected in Germany), requesting a sub-sandwhich will earn you a lesser, not-up-to-scratch, sandwich. Be careful.
The skeletal remains of Beth Jerman were found to possess a perfect acoustic structure for a human-bone xylophone. The irony: Beth Jerman was deaf from birth. She agreed to let doctor musicians use her bones when she passed anyway.
As it goes flat, Diet Coke changes chemical composition.

Bags of taxis are called "Hackey Sacks."
Methane has less impact on the ozone layer when it is in solid form.
Frankincense, Gold, and Myrrh placed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd at Barnaby Downs in the 1933 derby.
Bacteria the size of frat boys were discovered lolling about the floor in the student union of a small university in the Midwest after a particularly nasty foosball game.
Henry Ford’s model T was the first car to have that new car smell.
Coconuts do not contain cocoa, nor is anyone coo-coo for coconuts.
Vinita Oklahoma, known for the world's largest McDonalds, is also known for the worlds most medium-sized church.
Strawberry daiquiris made with oranges instead of strawberries are often called “orange” daiquiris.
Mummification can take a long time- up to 70 years- before a person is dead enough to begin the process upon.
No one has ever “hurled for distance” on Quantas. There have been a few “upchucks,” however.
Spam has frightened more people than the movie Psycho.
For a brief instant every 248 years, Pluto and Neptune are exactly the same distance from the sun. Astronomy quizzes at this instant really suck.
Beer made from onions is called “Bee Beer” because of the buzz. This is not a pun.
Nuclear power exists, but nuclear obedience does not.
More than one titanium is titania. Shakespeare knew this.
Of all the historical inaccuracies in the film Titanic, probably the most compelling is the use of the phrase “Free DSL and an always-on internet connection” in the climactic sinking scene.
101 Dalmations, 76 Trombones, 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag, but only 2 Men Named Johnny Depp.
The ratio of emu to kangaroo in Australia is roughly 2:3. The ratio in Arkansas, however, is nearly 200:3.
No cough has been recorded in the key of F#.
Snot, in space, is not as sticky, loses it’s color after a few hours, and will form a perfect sphere or “mucosoid.”
Brass instruments like the ones found in Tut’s tomb, such as the fugelphone and the euphonium, were adapted from the original use as pickle vats to be made musical.
According to experts at Caltech, Bangor Maine is a mistranslation. It should be Bangand.
Chickens can fly, and do so if “spiked” with purified garlic poultices and a little electricity.
Raindrops can “jump” from cloud to cloud, and when they do so they become less acidic.
Pluto’s north pole is colder than it’s south, a reversal of the situation on Earth
When the Titanic sunk there was 7,500 lbs of ham on it, 1 ton of which in the form of “pork rinds.”