Assorted Bizzare Facts

• Q is the only letter in the alphabet that is not in the name of any of the U.S. states.
  
  
• It took more than 10 million bricks to erect the Empire State Building.
  
  
• A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run out of beer.
  
  
• 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
  
  
• A group of crows is called a murder.
  
  
• Dr. Seuss coined the word nerd in his 1950 book "If I Ran The Zoo."
  
  
• A car is stolen every 30 seconds in the United States.
  
  
• 92% of pay-per-view tv programs contain violence.
  
  
• A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows.
  
  
• Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham University.
  

• Jet lag was once called boat lag, before there were jets.
  
  
• Laughter is a proven way to lose weight.
  
  
• 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is a meaningless existential hell.
  
  
• 60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the phone during a thunderstorm.
  
  
• In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.
  
  
• Out of all of the postage stamps in the United States with people's faces on them, there is not one that has the picture of someone alive.
  
  
• People in Sweden, Japan, and Canada are more likely to know the population of the United States than are Americans.
  
  
• In the summer of 1959, the United States Postal Service experimented with the delivery of letters by guided missile.
  
  
• Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham University.
  
  
• Happy Birthday To You is the most often sung song in America

• Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on all of the band's albums.
  
  
• 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
  
  
• The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
  
  
• Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabet Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
  
  
• If you add together all the numbers on a roulette wheel (1 to 36), the total is the number 666.
  
  
• Mr. Peanut was invented in 1916 by a Suffolk, Virginia schoolchild who won $5 in a design contest sponsored by Planters Peanuts.
  
  
• The most expensive advertisement slots in American TV history were during the last episode of "Seinfeld". Each 30-second spot sold for an estimated $1.5 million. NBC made more than $30 million in advertising revenues on that one show.
  
  
• The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper.
  
  
• For $33.80, you can buy a corpse scent kit. These are technically used for training search and rescue dogs, but it is a product with interesting possibilities.
  
  
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
  

• The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
  
  
• The audio CD first arrived in the US in 1984.
  
  
• Silly Putty was originally designed as an alternative to rubber.
  
  
• Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
  
  
• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
  
  
• The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
  
  
• People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.