Hannah's Fun Facts!
GEORGE W. BUSH is our 43rd president, but there actually have only been 42 presidents: Cleveland was elected for two nonconsecutive terms and is counted twice, as our 22nd and 24th president.
THE ANCESTRY of all 43 presidents is limited to the following seven heritages, or some combination thereof: Dutch, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Swiss, or German.
In South Bend, IN, it's against the law to make a monkey smoke.
In Oxford, OH, a woman may not remove her clothing while standing in front of a picture of a man.
ACCEDED, CABBAGE, BAGGAGE, DEFACED, EFFACED and FEEDBAG are seven-letter words which can be played on a musical instrument. CABBAGED is an eight-lettered one.
The word "assassination" was invented by Shakespeare.
The word "karate" means "empty hand."
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is most ironic?-- He was allergic to carrots.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100 of a second
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc.) the total is 5050.
More than 99.9% of all the animal species that have ever lived on Earth were extinct before the coming of man.
Nearly 50% of all bank robberies take place on Friday.
The linen bandages that were used to wrap Egyptian mummies averaged 1,000 yards in length.
There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
All 50 states are listed across the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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Wacky Poem of the Month
One dark day, in the middle of the night,
Two dead soldiers rose to fight.
They stood back to back and faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other.
A deaf policeman heard the noise,
And went to shoot the two dead boys.
If you don't believe this story is true,
Ask the blind man, he saw it too.
