Wow.... the number of visitors on the last one of these was awesome!...over 2,000 visits...nice....so to keep the fans happy, I now present to you this list....
-Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
-A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.
-The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
-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
-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.
-The Pentagon in Washington, D. C. has five sides, five stories, and five acres in the middle.
-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 like fresh cut cucumbers.
-In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)
-Anne Boleyn had six fingernails on one hand , but only five fingers on that hand. She had a small extra nail on the side of her finger that she kept hidden with long sleeves.
-When angered, the ears of Tazmanian devils turn a pinkish-red.
-The naval rank of "Admiral" is derived from the Arabic phrase "amir al bahr," which means "lord of the sea".
-The roads on the island of Guam are made with coral. Guam has no sand. The sand on the beaches is actually ground coral. When concrete is mixed, the coral sand is used instead of importing regular sand from thousands of miles away.
-Jamie Farr (who played Klinger on M*A*S*H) was the only member of the cast who actually served as a soldier in the Korean War.
-The only person ever to decline a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was Sinclair Lewis for his book Arrowsmith.
-There are almost twice as many people in Rhode Island than there are in Alaska.
-Alexander Hamilton was shot by Aaron Burr in the groin.
-Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
-The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
-An iguana can stay under water for twenty-eight minutes.
-The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have one syllable, it has three.
-Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
-There are only three types of snakes on the island of Tasmania and all are deadly.
-The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
-Emus have double-plumed feathers, and they lay emerald/forest green eggs.
Well, there you have it...enjoy,
~Zoo
