More Facts
As always, no guarantees: 

*The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every
five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips
in times of war or other emergencies. 

* The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston,
Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail
under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane. 

* Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have
about ten.

* Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and
ears never stop growing. 

* David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars.
He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going
to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the
screening of the movie. 

* Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time. 

* Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. 

* February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have
a full moon. 

* Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a
McDonalds. 

* The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms
as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia
still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for
blacks and whites. 

* No word in the English language rhymes with month. 

* The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for
each gallon of diesel that it burns. 

* Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every
Dewey-decimal category. 

* Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York
City, after the Catholic Church. 

* Cat's urine glows under a black light. 

* Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't
considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run
Microsoft's Flight Simulator. 

* The first Ford cars had Dodge engines. 

* Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. 

* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. 

* Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the
child reaches 2-6 years of age. 

* The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point
in Colorado. 

* Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

* The most common name in the world is Mohammed. 

* Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of
the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. 

* No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has
ever won a Superbowl.

* The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". 

* In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down
but only 6 people were injured.

* Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son. 

* One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton
growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers.
--they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive
as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

* The only two days of the year in which there are no professional
sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and
the day after the Major League All-Star Game. 

* Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

* The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan".