EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW II

More than you ever wanted to know about just about everything----

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)
The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser himself..
Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Frasier.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
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 "Oz."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Horses cannot vomit. Rabbits cannot vomit.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
Dartboards are made out of horse hairs.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
The only planet without a ring is earth.
Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.