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I need to credit the source first anf for most. But I just love these amusing facts and thought you might too. http://www.marijuanauniversity.com/Amusing%20Facts/amusingfacts17.htm Roulette was invented by French mathematician Blaise Pascal. The popular game of chance was a byproduct of his experiments with perpetual motion. All cheerleaders were male in 1898. Now, about three percent are. The baseball home plate is 17 inches wide. Moderate dancing burns 250 to 300 calories an hour. The U.S. motto, E pluribus unum, means "out of many, one." It first appeared in a Roman poem as part of a recipe for making a salad. In Latin, the word "disco" means "I learn." Forty-two percent of American women are able to belch on command. In scientific terminology, the Sun is considered a "Yellow G2 Dwarf." The saying "the sky's the limit" originated in Don Quixote. Because of outrageously high costs in California during the Gold Rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Hawaii for washing and pressing. Two-thirds of the world's lawyers practice in the United States. A cow has four stomachs: the rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum. Before the year 1000, the word "she" did not exist in the English language. A group of moles is called a "labor." "Dacryphilia" is arousal from seeing tears in the eyes of a partner. Mosquitoes hibernate. Twinkies got their name when their inventor, James Dewar, was inspired by a billboard he saw advertising Twinkle Toe Shoes. Originally, MCI stood for Microwave Communications, Inc. Kangaroos can't walk. The name Rasputin means "debauched one." Rasputin's real name was Grigory Efimovich Novykh. Red and blue are the most popular tie colors in the U.S. A mother kangaroo is called a "flyer." Fingernails are made out of the same stuff as horse hooves, bird talons, bull horns, and bear claws. In Great Britain, rummage sales are called "jumble sales." In the opening procession of the Olympics, the team representing the host nation always marches last. "Horripilation" is the medical term for goosebumps. Thirty-four percent of Microsoft employees are Indian. American electric razors hum in the key of B flat. Razors in England, however, buzz in the key of G. The pilgrims took apart the Mayflower and used the wood to build a barn. Forty percent of people in America have never been to see a dentist. A cosmic year is the amount of time it takes the Sun to revolve around the center of the Milky Way. That's about 225 million years. Major league baseball bats are made of ash. Just about half of the people charged with homicide in the U.S. are convicted of the crime. Toys R Us was originally the Children's Supermart. The first portable calculator placed for sale by Texas Instruments, in 1972, weighed 2.5 pounds and cost $150. Melba toast is named after Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba. Sixty percent of Americans can name all Three Stooges. Just 17 percent can name three Supreme Court judges. The back of the human hand is the "opisthenar." Norway has won more total medals at the Winter Olympic Games than any other nation. The official name of Rhode Island, used on all state documents, is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.