AMUSINGLY IRRELEVANT FACTS (?) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Walter Cavanaugh, "Mr. Plastic Fantastic," has 1,196 different valid credit cards. The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. It's name was Fred. In 1987, a 1,400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed in Ireland. There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo. In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI. If an orangutan belches at you, watch out. He's warning you to stay out of his territory. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it. In 1984, a New Jersey man opened a summer camp for Cabbage Patch dolls. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather. How can you tell when a gorilla is angry? It sticks its tongue out. The first sperm banks were opened in Tokyo and Iowa City. In 1980, the Yellow Pages accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under frozen foods. 1,200 college students streaked at the same time in Boulder, CO in 1974. In 1977, a 13-year-old boy discovered a tooth growing on his left foot. In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows. About 96% of all American children can recognize Ronald McDonald. An average person laughs about 15 times a day. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air. The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h. America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men. In 1681, the last dodo bird died. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year. Howdy Doody had 48 freckles. What color was Christopher Columbus's hair? Blonde. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan. Every person has a unique tongue print. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does. Women's hearts beat faster than men's. When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog. Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are. [Well, duh, why do you think they go? The men drive them crazy!] Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.] {What about those of us that spend all our money to go to college???} It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas. Every day, an estimated 6,000 American teenagers lose their virginity. Someone paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore in Some Like It Hot. Some toothpastes contain antifreeze. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as Pres. Bush in 1991. [I wonder what she could do that he couldn't???] Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones. [And most of them are in Parma!] Most lipstick contains fish scales. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music. Captain Kangaroo won five Emmy awards. 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell." In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die. An estimated one in five Americans - some 38 million - don't like sex. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement." Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.