More Interesting Facts...

bluebell22 · #1 (**permalink**) 06-20-2006, 02:16 PM

- Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
- Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."
- Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
- The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.
- The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds.
- Pinocchio was made of pine.
- Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
- A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
- Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
- New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
- There was once a town in West Virginia called "6."
- The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
- Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.

timmathews.com · #2 (**permalink**) 07-06-2006, 10:33 PM

Wow... No "e"'s?
That must have been some easy reading! Not. 6 e's in that sentence...

pagetta · #3 (**permalink**) 07-07-2006, 12:25 PM

the flamingos thing is weird - but the no Es thing? extreme. for anyone who wants to read it:

http://www.spinelessbooks.com/gadsby/

apparently it stressed him out so much he died the day it was published! so just to release some tension:
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

timmathews.com · #4 (**permalink**) 07-09-2006, 10:50 AM

Good call on the gadsby link...
Thanks pagetta