A giraffe’s tongue is 18 inches long.
Elevated Taste
Trivia
Trivium
The longest English word with only one vowel is strengths.
Head Start
High school dropouts:
- Cary Grant
- George Carlin
- Groucho Marx
- Hank Williams
- Herman Melville
- Humphrey Bogart
- Joe DiMaggio
- John Travolta
- Johnny Depp
- Keanu Reeves
- Kid Rock
- Kiefer Sutherland
- Neil Young
- Orville and Wilbur Wright
- Prince
- Quentin Tarantino
- Ray Charles
- Roy Rogers
- Tom Cruise
- William Faulkner
- Woody Guthrie
Trivium
The only common English word that has five vowels in a row is queueing.
Till Death, Um …
Famous bachelors:
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Johannes Brahms
- Plato
- Lewis Carroll
- Sir John Gielgud
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Henry James
- Bill Maher
- Isaac Newton
- Al Pacino
- Blaise Pascal
- Alexander Pope
- Cecil Rhodes
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Adam Smith
- Nikola Tesla
- Luther Vandross
- Voltaire
- King William II of England
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Gold Star
Bill Gates has not missed a day of work since 1975.
Heigh-Ho
Rejected dwarf names considered for Disney’s Snow White (1937):
- Awful
- Hoppy
- Weepy
- Dirty
- Cranky
- Hungry
- Sneezy-Wheezy
- Lazy
- Snoopy
- Goopy
- Wistful
- Soulful
- Gabby-Blabby
- Crabby
- Flabby
- Helpful
- Tearful
- Deafy
- Thrifty
- Shifty
- Nifty
Only about 3 people in 100 can name the seven dwarfs that were finally used.
Hotcakes
Both Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince set records as the fastest-selling books in history.
American Idols
The “most admired people of the 20th century,” compiled by the Gallup Organization:
- Mother Teresa
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- John F. Kennedy
- Albert Einstein
- Helen Keller
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Billy Graham
- Pope John Paul II
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Winston Churchill
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Nelson Mandela
- Ronald Reagan
- Henry Ford
- Bill Clinton
- Margaret Thatcher
Duck!
Famous people who have been hit with pies:
- Pat Buchanan, politician and columnist (hit with a salad)
- Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, monarch
- Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and chairman
- Jean-Luc Godard, filmmaker
- Calvin Klein, clothing designer
- Helmut Kohl, former chancellor of Germany
- Ralph Nader, American Green party politician
- Oscar de la Renta, fashion designer
- William Shatner, then-Star Trek star
- Jeffrey Skilling, Enron CEO
- Sylvester Stallone, action movie star
- Andy Warhol, artist