GENERAL FACTS

LIST OF GENERAL FACTS

• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

• All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, or purple.

• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

• There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

• Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and it can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "LA"

• In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

• When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

• 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."

• A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

• 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.

• The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z; hence the name "OZ".

• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

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