Things to make you Feel Smarter!!!

 Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

 A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

 111,111,111 x 111,111,111   =   12,345,678,987,654,321

 The Ramses brand condom is named after the great Pharoah Ramses II,  who
 fathered over 160 children.

 There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten
 words without rearranging any of its letters,  "THEREIN."    ( the, there,
 he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein)

 Canola oil is actually grapeseed oil,  but the name was changed in Canada
 for marketing reasons.
 
 When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home,  the
 stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

 Duelling is legal in Paraguay, as long as both parties are registered
 blood donors.

 John Larroquette of  "Night Court"  and  "The John Larroquette Show"  was
 the narrator of  "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
 
 A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

 A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.   (So is a duck's!)
 
 The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the
 Cop, and Ernie the Taxi Driver in Frank Capra's  "Its A Wonderful Life."

 A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

 A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

 A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

 A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

 On an American one-dollar bill,  there is an owl in the upper left-hand
 corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front
 upper right-hand corner.
 
 No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.

 It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

 "Evian" spelled backvards is naive.

 The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

 Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

 It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.  The frog
 throws up its stomach first,  so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. 
 Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents,
 and then swallows the stomach back down again.

 The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.

 A baby eel is called an elver,  a baby oyster is called a spat.

 Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.

 Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.

 Charles de Gaulle's final words were,  "It hurts."

 There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.

 ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first
 names.      ( Agnetha,  Bjorn,  Benny,  Anni-frid )

 What five digit number,  when multiplied by the number 4,  is the same
 number with the digits in  reverse order?    21978.  (21978 x 4 = 87912 )

 It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France,  because there is a law against
 selling dolls without human faces.

 In the 1983 film, "JAWS 3D,"  the shark blows up.  Some of the shark guts
 were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.

 Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.

 The Beatles song,  "Dear Prudence,"  was written about Mia Farrow's
 sister.