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In 1976 Rodrigo’s Guitar Concierto de Aranjuez’ was No 1 in the UK for only three hours because of a computer error.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
In 1990 there were about 15,000 vacuum cleaner related accidents in the US
In the 19th century, the British Navy attempted to dispel the superstition that Friday was an unlucky day to embark on a ship. The Keel of a new ship was laid on a Friday, she was named HMS Friday, commanded by a Captain Friday, and finally went to sea on a Friday. Neither the ship nor her crew were ever heard of again.
In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it ‘Bitch.’
In the Balanta tribe of Africa, a bride remained married until her wedding gown was worn out. If she wanted a divorce after 2 weeks, all she had to do was rip up her dress.
In the country of Turkey, in the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.
IN the flim ‘Star Trek: First Contact, when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible .. But new Zealand is missing.
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
In the heart of the Antarctic winter, temperatures drop to as low as 127 degrees Fahrenheit. In the Marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the Couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other.
In the middle Ages, the highest court in France ordered the execution of a cow for injuring a human.
In the past 100 years only 12 people have been attacked by mountain lions in the state of California. Five died and two of those were because of rabies in 1909
In the United States there is one birth every 8 seconds and one death every 14 seconds.
In the White House, there are 13,092 Knives, forks, and spoons.
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
In Toy Story, the carpet designs in Sid’s hallway is the same as the carpet designs in The Shining.
In Vermont, USA, it is illegal for women to wear false teeth without the written permission of their husbands.
Ireland is the only place where windmills turn clockwise.
Irving Berlin, who was born on 11 May 1888 and who composed three thousand songs in his lifetime, couldn’t read music.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey decimal category.
It costs $6,400 to raise a medium size dog to age eleven.
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equipt and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
It is illegal to own a dog in Reykjavik.
It is illegal to swim in central park.
It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not downstairs.
It take 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to the earth.
It takes a yard of sugarcane to make one sugar cube.
It take a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
it takes more than 500 peanuts to make one 12 ounce jar of peanut butter.
It take the insect eating Venus Flytrap plant only half a second to shut its trap on prey.
It took engineers 22 years to design the zipper.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls with out human faces.
It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
It is against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Omaha, Nebraska
It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.
It’s against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland.
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customer wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
J.S.Bach had 20 children, 7 with his first wife and 13 with his second.
Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II
James Buchanan was the only unmarried president of the US
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to being the back teeth together for chewing.
Jean Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original Predator in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.
Jet lag was once called boat lag, beck before jets existed.
Jimmy Carter is a speed reader (2000 wpm).
Jimmy Carter was the first US president to have been born in a hospital.
John Cage composed ‘Imaginary Landscaper No.4', which was scored for twelve radios tuned at random.
John has a long moustache was the coded signal used by the French Resistance in WWII
John Larroquette of Night Court And the John Larroquette Show was the narrator of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theatre.
John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.
Judy Jetson is a Libra.
June Foray, the voice of Talking Tina from the classic Twilight Zone episode Living Doll, was also the voice of Rocky the talking squirrel from Rocky & Bullwinkle.
Just twenty seconds’ worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
Kathleen Turner was the voice of Jessica Rabbit, and Amy Irving was her singing voice.
Kemo Sabe, the name Tonto called The Lone Ranger means Soggy Shrub in Navajo Indian.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
Killer whales have such a good sense of touch that if you dropped a pill into a bucket and feed it to the orca it would eat the fish and spit out the pill.
King Kong in the only movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) relaced the same year (1933)
Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
Knitted socks discovered in Ancient Egyptian tombs have been dated back as far as the 3rd century AD.
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI
Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill ‘if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee’. His reply ‘if you were my wife, I would drink it
Larry Lewis ran the 100 yard dash in 17.9 seconds in 1969, there by setting a new world’s record for runners in the 100 years or older class. He was 101.
Lawsuits riled be California inmates cost the taxpayers more than 25 million in 1994.
Lee Harvey Oswals’s cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992
Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks! They grow more than 24,000 new teeth every year!
Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one had and draw with the other at the same time.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, played the viola, and spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa’s lips.
Less than 1% of the Caribbean Islands are inhabited.
Less than 7% of the population donates blood.
Less than 2% of the water on Earth is fresh.
Li is the family name for over 87 million People in China.
Lightning strikes the earth about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son.
Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith’s (of the Monkees) mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.
Lobsters have blue blood.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of Lorne Green’s Wild Kingdom.
Los Angeles’s full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, LA
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.