- There are 119,592 frames of film in Antz
- If Antz were to be rendered on one processor, it would have taken 54 years, 222 days, 15 minutes and 36 seconds
- The only word in the English language with all five vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental."
- Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated two years after he had died.
- The first fossilized specimen of Austalopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the palentologists' favorite song, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, by the Beatles.
- Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time
- Spencer Eldon was the name of the naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's album Nevermind
- Dracula is the most filmed story of all time, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is second and Oliver Twist is third.
- Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate', which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle.
- Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy
- Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T
- Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5. Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tetonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.)
- Cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia have a very high probability of having six toes.
- The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus
- 1 in 8 people have been employed by McDonalds
- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee
- On average people fear spiders more than they do death
- You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
- In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
- A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
- then there's Miracle Mike, the headless chicken of Fruita Colarado, who strutted around for 18 months without his head!
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
- The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE
- The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
- The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animals having the most taste buds.
- Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
- A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes
- The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated
- Elephants are the only animals that can't jump
- Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
- you can get a cow drunk by feeding it apples
Roger Moore used to be an animator! Also Beverly D'Angelo used to paint backgrounds for Hanna-Barbera. Tim Matheson was the voice for the original Jonny Quest! Also I've heard that one of the Go-Gos former band group member ( the drummer) works for Disney. original drummer Steve ( Boom-Boom) DePace from the punk band "Flipper" is currently working as an assistant director at Warner Bros. animation.
The first recording ever of Jon Bon Jovi was on Christmas in the Stars (Star Wars Christmas album from 1980)
here's an amusing tidbit, Ewan McGregor's (Obi Wan in the new Star Wars movies) uncle Denis Lawson played Wedge Anitillies in the original Star Wars!
snails have their teeth on their tongue...(fact courtesy of Jennifer Quinn)
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses ;-)
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a
watch is 10:10.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the
stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for
a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his
son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey
beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was
called the "honey month" or what we know today as the
"honeymoon."
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old
England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at
them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's
where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked
into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a
refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your
whistle," is the phrase inspired by this practice.
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by
ropes...when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened,
making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "good
night, sleep tight" came from.
Only 2 words
in the English language contain all the vowels abstemious and
facetious (fact courtesy Grace Escobar)
the smallest fish in the world is the Pandaka pygmea found in
the Phillipines(fact courtesy Grace Escobar)
the trunk of an elephant could hold 6 quarts of water(fact courtesy Grace Escobar)
Felicity, California is the official Center of the World.
swastika was used by American Indians, Hindus, Buddhists, Vikings,
Greeks, Romans, Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Mayans, Aztecs, Persians, Christians, and neolithic tribes. There are even Jewish
swastikas found in ancient synagogues side-by-side with the star of David!
(fact found on an article about the Man Woman, a man living in Alberta Canada, he is on a spiritual journey of sorts to get rid of the bad rap the swastica has earned, you can read the article here)
The swastika was associated with the hammer of Thor which returned to him like a boomerang, the footprints of Buddha, the
emblem of Shiva, Apollo, Jupiter, and even Jesus Christ! The swastika was the first Christian symbol and is found in the
catacombs in Rome. Hindus and Buddhists to this day still revere the swastika as their sacred sign. Jains make the sign of
the swastika similar to the Christian sign of the cross. In the early part of the twentieth century Rudyard Kipling used the
swastika as his coat-of-arms, Coca Cola made a swastika-shaped lucky watch fob, American pilots used it on their planes
when they fought for the French in World War One, it was the symbol for the Ladies Home Journal sponsored Girls' Club and
the Boy Scouts. A town in Ontario was named Swastika in 1911 because of a lucky gold strike.
(this fact came from the same article as the preceeding fact, you can read it here
(note, because I KNOW people will complain: I am not a racist or Nazi, this fact is entirely true, the Swastika is a religious symbol used my many cultures around the world, and was considered a sign of good luck until Hitler used it as a symbol of hatred in WWII)
One
year at the Heinz catsup factory, they had to raise the protein level on the back of the label because the
tomatoes they used had worms.
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