Amusing Facts - 3

Radio personalities Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh were both born on January 12.

"Reltney" is archaic slang for "penis."

About 100 people a year choke to death on ballpoint pens.

There are 40,000 traffic intersections in Los Angeles.

Yellowstone was the world's first national park.

In publishing, a left-hand page is called "verso." The right is called "recto."

Cecil B. Demille's middle name was Blount.

The first known written advertisement is more than 3,000 years old. It was found in the ruins of Thebes.

A group of bears is called a "sleuth."

The decibel was named after Alexander Graham Bell.

Major League baseball teams use about 850,000 balls per season.

During Roman times, it wasn't uncommon for dice to be made from the knuckles of sheep.

"Maori" translates as "ordinary."

Of the 398 million telephones in the world, more than a third are in the United States.

Harry Houdini's motto was, "Secure knots secure not Houdini."

The Vatican's Swiss Guard still wears a uniform designed by Michelangelo in the early 16th century.

"Parathesia" is the medical condition commonly referred to as "pins and needles."

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

The English language has about 1,000 recognized euphemisms for "vagina."

It's estimated that armed citizens kill three times more criminals than police officers do.

The female ants are the ones that do all the work.

There are 132 Hawaiian islands.

America has just about an equal proportion of extroverts (49.3 percent) and introverts (50.7 percent).

Charles Dickens wrote under the pen name Boz.

The expression "hat trick" comes from cricket, where at one time, if a player scored three consecutive wickets, he was awarded a hat.

Bruce Lee was the 1958 Cha-Cha champ of Hong Kong.

It takes 60 seconds for blood to make one complete circuit of the human body.

A male donkey is a jackass. A female is called a jenny.

In France, the U.S. TV drama Law and Order is called New York District.
 

Fishermen in China train otters to herd fish into their nets.

The most push-ups ever performed in one day was 46,001.

John D. Rockefeller was world's first billionaire.

King Arthur's horse was named Lamri. The word means "the foaming one."

Studies show more women talk to their cars than men do.

The perfect pickle should have seven "warts" per square inch.

The Salvation Army's motto is, "Blood and fire."

One-fifth of all of America's dairy cows are in Wisconsin.

William Shatner shared the first interracial kiss in American television history with Star Trek costar Nichelle Nichols in 1968. The episode was titled "Plato's Stepchildren."