Trois.

More than 70 percent of Seinfeld episodes contain a reference to Superman

The lowest McDonald's, 1,299 feet below sea level, is in the Israeli village of Ein Bokek, near the Dead Sea.

Urville is a city of 14 million inhabitants that exists entirely in the mind of Gilles Trehin, a French autistic savant.

Edgar Allan Poe sent a letter in Aug. 13, 1841 to his publishers asking if they would publish a collecyion of his prose, he was turned down. In 1944 the letter it self was worth $3000

Hangmen have a simple math solution on how to hang a person successfully.

To stop hiccups, swallow 1 teaspoon of ordinary table sugar dry. works on 19/20 people.

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

In 1891, Sylvain Dornon walked from Paris to Moscow on stilts. It took him only 58 days.

Using only his bare hands and climbing shoes, Alain Robert has climbed more than 70 structures worldwide, including the Eiffel Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Sydney Opera House and the 1,668-foot Taipei 101, the world's tallest building. When he reaches the top, the first thing he does is call his children.

The medical term for sneezing is sternutation.

Ernest Hemingway and Cleopatra are just some of the famous suicides.

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

Goats sheep and pigs were first domesticated in 8000 BC.

Shortest reinging pope : Urban VII (elected in 1590): 13 days

The longest word in the English language is FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION.

It means "the act of estimating (something) as worthless."

A hapax legomenon is a word that occurs only once in a given body of text:

Whale songs can travel up to 1,800 miles.

A monkey has one chance in 19,928,148,895,209,409,152,340,197,376 of correctly typing the first 20 letters of Hamlet (ignoring punctuation, spacing, and capitalization).

A true sphinx would have the head of a woman.

No one knows what the ancient Egyptians called it, but its Arabic name, Abu al-Hôl, translates as "Father of Terror."

German arithmetician Zacharias Dase (1824-1861) once multiplied two 100-digit numbers in his head. It took him 8 hours 45 minutes.

Herman Mudgett, an enterprising serial killer, built a row of three-story buildings near the Chicago fair and opened it as a hotel. Guests discovered — too late — that it was a maze of more than 100 windowless rooms, where Mudgett would trap them, torture them in a soundproof chamber, and then asphyxiate them with a custom-fitted gas line.

Factual Intelligence II

π seconds = 1 nanocentury

The Glass Bead Game was thought of before the world wide web, it's basically an exact description, but game form.

Due to the precession of Earth's axis, the stars have moved by 24 degrees during the last 2,000 years. (therefore horescopes are wrong)

There are 1057 atoms in the sun, and 1066 atoms in our galaxy

Tim Benton took a walk along a mile of shoreline on Ducie Island, a speck of land 4,970 miles east of Australia. he found  953 items of debris altogether, on an island of 2.5 square miles, in the least populous country in the world.

A Buddhist walks up to a hot dog vendor and says, "Make me one with everything."

Artist Kamiel Proost makes miniature paintings on dollar bills.

a plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible." — W.H. Auden

Your mother is so stupid, she tried to use substitution to find the definite integral of f(x)=x2 over the interval 0.

SPACESHIP (first print use: 1894)

The word ghoti can be pronounced "fish":

gh as in laugh

o as in women

ti as in nation

Genioglossus is the muscle connecting your tounge//lower jaw

National Spelling Bee winning words:

1995: xanthosis

1996: vivisepulture

1997: euonym

1998: chiaroscurist

1999: logorrhea

2000: demarche

2001: succedaneum

2002: prospicience

2003: pococurante

2004: autochthonous

Famous left-handed people:

Alexander the Great

Napoleon Bonaparte

Julius Caesar

Charlemagne

Benjamin Franklin

Michelangelo

Leonardo da Vinci

Mark Twain

Beethoven

Mozart

Charlie Chaplin

Cary Grant

Henry Ford

Helen Keller

Albert Einstein

symbolics.com (registered 3/15/85) number one oldest registered dot com website 

Proof that one dollar equals one cent:

$1 = 100¢

= (10¢)2

= ($0.10)2

= $0.01

= 1¢

canada has an average of 26 vaca days per year

OGC

edundant acronym = ATM machine (automatic teller machine machine)

 the 6 billionth baby was born at 12:02 a.m. on Oct. 12, 1999, to Fatima Nevic and her husband, Jasminko, in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

2050: 9.1 billion = predicted population of world

JOKE: Cartoon Law Of Physics One : Any body  in mid-air will continue to stay in mid-air until the realization that it is in fact in mid-air. 

During the ancient roman empire in britian, was the beginnings of hopscotch, and kids made smaller forms of their training fields and added a scoring system, the game lived on.

epalpebrate

adj. lacking eyebrows

a = b

a2 = ab

a2 - b2 = ab - b2

(a - b)(a + b) = b(a - b)

a + b = b

b + b = b

2b = b

2 = 1

your mother's so fat her belt size is equator.

Jimi Hendrix, Sept. 18, 1970 (27) death by chocking

A falling person reaches a top speed of around 120 mph

A classification of demons, from occultist Francis Barrett's 1801 book The Magus:

Satan: prince of witches and warlocks

Pithius: prince of liars and liar spirits

Unless it's a leapyear

January begins on the same day of the week as October.

February begins on the same day of the week as March and November.

April begins on the same day of the week as July.

December begins with the same day of the week as September.

No other month begins on the same day of the week as May or June.

Factual Intelligence Part One

Average human lifespan, by era:

Neanderthal: 20 years

Neolithic: 20 years

Classical Greece: 28 years

Classical Rome: 28 years

Medieval England: 33 years

End of 18th century: 37 years

Early 20th century: 50 years

Circa 1940: 65 years

Current (in the West): 77-81 years

Today the average Zambian dies at age 37, the average Japanese at age 81.

Albert Einstein said, "You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it." He might have been surprised. Roulette wheels have subtle flaws, and in this technological age a sophisticated observer can make some serious money:

In 1873, British engineer Joseph Jaggers hired six clerks to study the wheels at the Beaux-Arts Casino in Monte Carlo. One wheel showed a clear bias, which Jaggers exploited to the tune of $325,000.

As early as 1961, mathematician Claude Shannon had built a wearable computer to find likely numbers.

By the late 1970s, a group of computer hackers known as the Eudaemons were frequenting casinos wearing computers in their shoes.

In the early 1990s, Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo used a computer to analyze the roulette wheels at the Casino de Madrid. He won more than $1 million over a period of several years.

In 2004, a group in London was using a special laser cameraphone and microchip to predict a ball's path, a technique called sector targeting. They won £1.3 million.

In both of the latter two cases, the casinos mounted legal challenges — and lost. If you're not influencing the ball, the courts ruled, you're not cheating. Modern casinos monitor their wheels to keep them as random as possible, but the long-term odds favor the engineers.

In 1897, Indiana physician Edward J. Goodwin decided that pi was wrong. 

siagonology

n. the study of jawbones

In the 20th century small pox killed more people than world war 2

 world's most popular languages, by number of native speakers:

Chinese, 937 million

English, 335 million

Spanish, 332 million

Hindi/Urdu, 291 million

Arabic, 193 million

Bengali, 189 million

Malay/Indonesian, 176 million

Portuguese, 170 million

Russian, 165 million

Japanese, 125 million

"The great thing about human language," wrote Lewis Thomas, "is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."

"Can't Be Done":

"You can't stand for five minutes without moving, if you are blindfolded."

"You can't stand at the side of a room with both your feet lengthwise touching the wainscoting."

"You can't get out of a chair without bending your body forward, or putting your feet under it; that is, if you are sitting squarely on the chair, and not on the edge of it."

"You can't break a match if the match is laid across the nail of the middle finger of either hand, and passed under the first and third finger of that hand, despite its seeming so easy at first sight."

"You can't stand with your heels against the wall and pick up something from the floor."

"Don't try to rub your ear with your elbow, for it will be a failure."

"It takes a clever person to stand up when placed two feet from a wall with his hands behind his back and his head against the wall."

In October 1998, 300 dead starlings fell out of the sky in Tacoma, Wash.

No one knows why.

IQ scores around the world have been going up by about three IQ points per decade.

The sum of the numbers 1 through 10 is 55.

The sum of the numbers 1 through 100 is 5,050.

The sum of the numbers 1 through 1,000 is 500,500.

Standing shoulder to shoulder, all the people in the world could fit on the Indonesian island of Bali

Egypt's Great Pyramid weighs 5,750,090 tons.

25 percent of people sneeze when exposed to bright light.

solar year = 365.2422 days

Except for the beds, Sweden's Ice Hotel is made completely of ice blocks

Until 2000, calling 760-733-9969 would connect you to a single phone booth in the Mojave desert, 15 miles from the nearest interstate and miles from any building.

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment." — Ansel Adams"

A "sonic alphabet" composed by Harry Matthews:

Hay, be seedy! He-effigy, hate-shy jaky yellow man, O peek! You are rusty, you've edible, you ex-wise he!

sonnet, composed in 1936 by David Shulman each line an anagram for WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE.

3. A train leaves New York for Chicago at 90 mph. At the same time, a bus leaves Chicago for New York at 50 mph. Which is farther from New York when they meet?

Answer: Neither — when they meet they'll be equally distant from anywhere, n'est-ce pas?