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Daffy Duck's middle name is "Dumas"
Betty Boop is a red head. She appeared in her only colour cartoon, Cinderella, with red hair
Red Dawn was the first movie to have a PG13 rating
"Jaws" is the first movie ever to make over 100 million dollars
In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field
In Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a wall carving of R2-D2 and C-3P0 behind the ark
Gary Cooper was the first Academy Award winner for best actor to make his acceptance speech on television
101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Hercules and Mulan are the only Disney movies where both parents are present and don't die by the end of the movie
Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty"
The Brothers Grimm wrote 211 fairy tales
It used to be illegal to swim by daylight
William Shakespeare claimed that honorificabilitudinitatibus was the longest word used in any of his plays
The words "Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatossilphioparaomelitoatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolatoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon", "Taumatawhakatangihangihangakoauotamateaturipukakapiikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" and "Nordosterjokustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranlaggningmaerielunderhallsuppfoljknintssystemdiskussionsinlaggsforberedelsearbeten" are all in the spell checker, but not in any dictionary, yet the words ""Pnemonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" and "Floccipaucinihilipilification" are in the English Dictionary, but not in the spell checker!
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. "I" is the most spoken word in the English language
The fastest broadcaster in history is Canadian Gerry Wilmont, from Victoria B.C. He was a hockey commentator
Nova Scotia boasts Sober Island, 30 miles from Wine Harbor
15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toenails
Deborah Ann Fountain, the 1981 Miss New York State, was disqualified from the Miss U.S.A pageant for padding her bathing suit
In a speech made in 1961, John F. Kennedy was recorded as speaking at 327 words per minute, the fastest in public history
David Rice Atchinson was President of the United States for only one day
The bikini bathing suit was so named because it was created the same year the atomic bomb was tested on Bikini Isalnd
South Dakota is the only U.S state which shares no letters with the name of it's capital, Pierre
Maine produces more toothpicks than any other U.S state
The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu
The Florida Citrus Bowl football game was previously named for the tangerine
You have to pay a tax in Denmark to use the back seat of your car for passengers There is a law in France against selling dolls without human faces
The Vatican city registered 0 births in 1983
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the worlds widest road
There is a city in Norway called "Hell"
An Egyptian has to say "I divorce thee" three times to be legally divorced
Salvador Dali once arrived at an exhibition with flies glued to his face
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand while drawing with the other
Leonardo wrote backwards, so that the only way to properly read his writing was to hold it up to a mirror
After studying it for 47 days, the New York Museum of Modern Art discovered that the Matisse painting Le Bateau was hanging upside down
Blondes have more hair than dark haired people
The human brain uses the same amount of energy as a 10-watt lightbulb
The human brain is 85% water
Children grow faster in the springtime
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