FACT #100

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.

FACT #99

Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.

FACT #98

Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.

FACT #97

Once Charlie Chaplin entered a contest for
“Charlie Chaplin look-alikes” and he came in third.

FACT #96

Pirates wear eye patches so that they can see
in the dark.

(When they go to a lower deck with poor lighting,
they can remove the patch and see better with
that eye since it's used to the dark, whereas the
other eye would take several minutes to adjust to
the change in light.)

FACT #95

At many hotels asking for "an extra pillow" is a code for wanting a prostitute.

FACT #94

The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over
the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English
language.

FACT #93

Actor jack nicholson found out that his sister was actually his mother when he was 37

FACT #92

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar
and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after
38 minutes.

FACT #91

In UK, if you reach your 100th birthday or 60th wedding anniversary, you get a personalized card from the Queen mailed to you.

FACT #90

 In India, November 14th is celebrated as "Children's Day" -- 9 months after "Valentine's Day."

FACT #89

Jon Heder was paid $1,000 to play Napoleon Dynamite. The movie grossed over $40,000,000 in the United States.

FACT #88

Mosquitoes survive being hit by a raindrop, even though it is 50 times their weight and would be like a bus hitting a human. This is the “highest ever recorded acceleration that animals have survived.”

FACT #87

VW owns Audi, Audi owns Lamborghini, and Lamborghini owns Ducati.

FACT #86

At the 1912 Olympics, a marathon runner quit and went home to Japan without telling officials and was considered a missing person in Sweden for 50 years. In 1966, he was invited to complete the marathon. His time: 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.379 seconds.