Stupid Facts---- They never stop :-)

Stupid Facts

• Murphy's Law is named for Captain Edward A. Murphy, an air force engineer who worked at Edwards AFB in 1949.

• Albert Einstein's brain was kept in two mason jars in Kansas long after his body was cremated.

• There are 25 remaining copies of the original Declaration of Independence.

• Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to sail around the world, but died before the trip was completed.

• In 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first black person to play major league baseball, playing with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

• A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.

• In 1949, Marilyn Monroe was crowned as the Artichoke Queen in Castroville, CA.

• Someone without a sense of smell suffers from anosmia and can therefore be called anosmiac.

• The word "Comet" comes from the Greek meaning "long hair."

• The word "Salary" was derived from the Latin salarium referring to the salt allotment for soldiers in the Roman army.

• Steak tartar was created by the men of Attila the Hun who tenderized raw lean meat cuts by placing them under their horses' saddles.

• Forks as eating tools were introduced in Greece by 1100 AD.

• Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

• Charles Manson and Hitler were both vegetarians.
  

• Food takes twenty-four hours to complete its 30-foot path through your body.
  (see Feces Health Quiz)

• Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.
  (See Military Ranks)

• The word "Cranky" comes from the fact that early automobiles were crank started. Someone having trouble starting their car was certainly cranky.

• Your brain is 80% water.

• A coat hanger is 44 inches (111.76 cm) long when straightened.

• Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.

• Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.

• Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

• The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

• Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined.
  (See The Solar System)

• The Roman emperor Caligula once made his horse a senator.
  (see Roman Emperors)
  

• Queen Elizabeth I owned at least 100 wigs in her lifetime.
  

• The White House was originally gray. The mansion was burned during the War of 1812. When it was rebuilt after the war, it was painted white to hide the smoke stains.
  

• The Cleveland Indians baseball team used to be called the Cleveland Spiders.
  (See World Series Winners)
  

• The United States bought Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 in 1867. (about two cents an acre)
  

• The motto on one of the first U.S. coins was "Mind Your Business".
  (see Coins and Currency)
  

• The word yo-yo originated in the Philippines and means "come back."
  

• In December 1961, it was discovered that a painting by Matisse in New York's Museum of Modern Art was hanging upside down.
  

• All race horses become one year older on New Year's Day, no matter when they were born.
  (see Kentucky Derby Winners)
  

• Summers on Uranus are 21 Earth-years long.
  (see The Solar System)
  

• It is illegal to hunt camels in Arizona.
  

• Abraham Lincoln appears on both sides of a US penny.
  (see Coins and Currency)

• A ten-gallon hat holds about three-fourths of a gallon (2.85 liters).
  (see Conversions)
  

• Hummingbirds can fly backwards.