Did You Know...

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Cracker cookie zoo!!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!!
Camels have 3 eyelids in order to protect their eyes from sand!!
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!!
Ancient Egyptians slept on rock pillows!!
Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!!
A cockroach can live several weeks with it's head cut off!!
When licking a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie!!
In a year, over 10,000 birds die from hitting windows!!
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark!!
During your lifetime you'll eat about the weight of 6 elephants!!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!!
There are more plastic flamingos than real in the U.S.!!
The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9,000 years old!!
When you sneeze, it travels at about 100 m.p.h.!!
Slugs have 4 noses!!
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!!
Honeybees have hair on their eyes!!
A starfish can turn it's stomach inside-out!!
In a year, more monopoly money is printed than real money!!
Elephants cant jump!!
1/4 of the bones in your body are found in your feet!!
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf in his hat to keep him cool!!
Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!!
A giraffes tongue is 21 inches long!!
Bats always turn left out of caves!!
In Tokyo, toupees are made for dogs!!
Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!!
Every second, Americans all together eat 100 pounds of chocolate!!
The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!!
Every minute approximately 50 Bibles are sold across the world!!
In North America, kids spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum each year!!
In 32 years there are about 1 billion seconds!!
Baby robins eat 14 feet of worms each day!!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!!
Millions of trees are unknowingly planted by squirrels who bury nuts and forget where they buried them!!
The object that most Americans choke on is a toothpick!!
The original name for the butterfly was flutterby!!
Smelling bananas and green apples can help you lose weight!!
Apples are more efficient in keeping you awake than caffeine!!
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons a day!!
The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons!!
The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2,200 people!!
A housefly, after eating, regurgitates its food and then eats it again!!
The Mona Lisa has NO eyebrows!!
It is estimated that 4 million automated phone calls are made every day!!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 times!!
Porcupines float in water!!

Valentine's Day: Did You Know

73% of people who but flowers on Valentine's Day are men!!
189 million stems of roses are sold in the U.S. on Valentine's Day!!
About 1 billion Valentine's cards are exchanged every year in the U.S.!!
Valentine's cards are given to teachers, children, mothers, wives, sweethearts, and pets, in order of popularity!!
3% of pet owners give Valentine's gifts to their pets!!
About 8 million candy hearts are produced each year!!
At least 10 new conversation heart sayings are introduced each year!!
Valentine's Day was named after an early christian martyr!!
Valentine's Day is the 4th biggest holiday of the year for purchases!!
More than 36 million heart shaped boxes of chocolate are sold each year for Valentine's Day!!
The first box of Valentine's chocolate was introduced by Richard Cadbury in 1868!!
Valentine's Day is celebrated in the United States, Canada, Mexico, France, United Kingdom, and Australia!!

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Did You Know

He wrote the famous "I Have a Dream" speech!!
He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964!!
He led many marches for equal rights for African Americans!!
He enrolled in college at the age of 15!!
He was assassinated in 1968 while standing on a hotel balcony!!
He inspired many people, including white people, to stand up for what they believed in!!
King helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat up!!
He was on the cover Time magazine in 1947!!
King was arrested because of his peaceful marches and protest!!
King was a preacher!!
In his last sermon he said that at his funeral he didn't want his achievements and awards mentioned, he wanted to be remembered for the fact the he tried to "feed the hungry", "clothe the naked", "be right on the [Vietnam] war question", and "love and serve humanity"!!
In 1983 president Ronald Reagan signed a bill to create a holiday to honor King, that day was first observed January 20, 1986 and was called Martin Luther King Jr. Day!!
The holiday is now celebrated on the 3rd Monday of January, close to the time of King's birthday!!
Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially observed by all 50 states on January 17, 2000!!

Christmas: Did You Know...

The names of Santa's reindeer sound like boy names but Male reindeer lose their horns during the winter so Santa's sleigh must be pulled by female reindeer!!
The first artificial Christmas trees were made by Germans out of dyed goose feathers!!
More than 3 billion Christmas cards are sent yearly in the U.S.!!
The gifts in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" equal 364 gifts!!
The traditional three colors of Christmas are green, red, and gold. Green has long been a symbol of life and rebirth; red symbolizes the blood of Christ, and gold represents light!!
Christmas trees have been sold in the U.S. since 1850!!
Christmas Purchases account for 1/6 of U.S. sales!!
Christmas is a time to celebrate the best gift ever... JESUS!!
The Christmas movie that is shown on t.v. the most is What a Wonderful Life!!
The most famous Christmas ballet is the Nutcracker!!
The song Jingle Bells was originally written for Thanksgiving!!
The most popular Christmas food is... Ham!!
The world's biggest snowman was 113 feet tall and was built by residents of Maine!!
The world's tallest Christmas tree was 221 feet high!!
12th Century French nuns started the tradition of putting tangerines and other fruit into stockings of the poor!!
The definition of a "White Christmas" in the UK is for a single snowflake to be observed falling within the 24 hours of December 25th!!
The poinsettia is known as the "Flower of the Holy Night"!!

Thanksgiving: Did You Know...

The first American Company to sponsor a Thanksgiving Day Parade was Gimbel's Department Stores!!
The Wampanoag tribe was the first to eat Thanksgiving with the pilgrims!!
The word turkey comes from the Hebrew word "tukki" which means "big bird or pheasant type bird"!!
Indian corn (colored brown, orange, and red) is not to be eaten, it is only for decoration!!
Only 5 of the women at Plymouth survived the first year, they had to prepare the feast themselves!!
It is a presidential tradition to pardon a turkey every year and send it to a farm called Frying Pan Park!!
The first thanksgiving dinner was eaten with only spoons and knives!!
Only 50 of the 102 pilgrims survived to enjoy the Thanksgiving feast!!
Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird of the United States!!
Every year, Americans eat the weight of Singapore at Thanksgiving!!

Disney: Did You Know...

Pluto was at first Minnie's dog, but later became Mickey's!!
The 3rd Mickey cartoon had sound!!
Goofy's name was Dippy Dawg and Dippy the Goof before it was Goofy!!
Donald has starred in more cartoons than Mickey!!
Walt Disney won 22 academy awards in his lifetime!!
Disney's first cartoons were called Laugh-o-grams!!
More than 100 features were produced by the Disney Studio!!
The California Disneyland theme park cost $17 million!!
The Disney theme parks will "never be completed -- as long as there is imagination in the world."
By the time Walt Disney died he had produced 21 full-length animated films, 493 short subjects, 47 live-action films, 7 true-life adventures, 330 hours of Mickey Mouse Club T.V. programs, 78 half-hour Zorro T.V. adventures, and 280 other T.V. shows!!
Park entrance fee on 1955 was $1!!