**Do You Know That**

[Asalbanoo]

The longest one-syllable word in English language is "Screeched."

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und".

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous & hazardous.

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

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, here, ere, therein, herein.

" Strengths" is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.

" I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

When two words are combined to form a single word( e.g., motor + hotel= motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch)the new word is called "Portmanteau."

The words 'facetious' and 'abstemious' contain all the vowels in the correct order, as doesarsenious, meaning "containing arsenic".

[Asalbanoo]

* An Indian Elephant has Only One Finger.


* The country Australia has Two National Songs.

* The Saint in Tamil Nadu Named Brighuhas ThreeEyes.

* The Cow has Four Lungs.


* The Earth Worm has Five Hearts.


* In Universe Man only has Sixth Sense.


* Great Philosopher Confucius was Seven Feet Height.

* A Spider has both Eyes and Legs as Eight.


* To Reach Mouth Everest their are Nine Ways.


* The Planet Satrun Has Ten Moons.


* A Silkworm has Eleven Brains.


* A flower name Kuranji in Tamil buds in once in Twelve Years.

* Indian National Song has Thirteen Lines.


* Mumtaj of Taj Mahal had Fourteen Children.


* The Lifetime of Wolf are Fifteen Years.

[Asalbanoo]

1.Coca-Cola was originally green.

2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

3. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

5. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.

7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

8. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

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11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

12. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

13. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

14. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.

Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

15. 111,111,111 × 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

16. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

17. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.

18. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

19. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.

20. Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Ans. – Honey

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21. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

22. A snail can sleep for three years.

23. All polar bears are left handed.

24. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

25. Butterflies taste with their feet.

26. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

27. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

28. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

29. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

30. Stewardesses are the longest word typed with only the left hand.

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31. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

32. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

33. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.

34. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

35. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

36. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

37. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

38. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

39. There is a Butterfly in Brazil which has the color of chocolates and also smells like Chocolate

40. Giraffe can clean there ears with their tongue

41. Both Humans and Giraffe have the same number of bones in the neck

42. And finally 99% of people who read this would try to lick their elbow now

[Asalbanoo]

Most people know that America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, but few know why. Two myths about Vespucci are common. The first is that Vespucci was a fraud who never traveled to the New World. The second is that he was the first European to set foot on mainland America. Both are untrue.

Vespucci made two trips to the New World as a ship's navigator, the first in 1499. Then in 1503 and 1504 he published two letters he had written to Lorenzo de Medici about his voyages. In the letters he put forward the idea that what Columbus had discovered was not in fact a new route to Asia, but rather a new continent. Vespucci also published the first letter under the title Novus Mundus, or New World, thereby coining that phrase. The letters were a media hit (but whether their popularity was because of his innovative navigational theories or his description of the --- lives of American Indians is a question), and Vespucci became a celebrity.

In 1507, the cartographer Martin Waldseemueller published a map in his book Cosmographiae Introductio that designated the new world as America and the name was coined. Like many Italians of his era, Vespucci used the Latinized version of his first name, Americus, in formal writing. Waldseemueller used the feminine form of the name, America, because the names of Europe and Asia were also in the feminine.

So, America is named after the man who first recognized that it was a new continent and not just a part of Asia. Rather fitting actually, at least from a European perspective.

There is a legend, common in Britain, that America is actually named after a 15th century Bristol merchant named Richard Ameryk, who had some tenuous and vague connection with Cabot's voyages of exploration (exactly what role he played is not known, but it was probably minor and connected with financing the voyages). While Ameryk did exist, there is no evidence to indicate the New World continents are named after him. Waldseemueller's notes clearly indicate that he named the continents after Vespucci and most of the claims by supporters of the Ameryk hypothesis are not supported by anything other than a coincidence in spelling and a fierce, English patriotism that wishes the tale were true.

[mir@]

I was looking for this one which I had read when I was younger!!
Exellent





6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.

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[galaxy_110]

Oh my Goodness,

You guys do know our language even better than us.

Cheers

[Asalbanoo]

Pass the butter this is interesting.
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings.

DO YOU KNOW...the difference between margarine and butter?

Read on to the end...gets very interesting!

1. Both have the same amount of calories.

2. Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.

3. Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

4. Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.

5. Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added!

6. Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.

7. Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.

Now for Margarine
1. Very high in Trans fatty acids.

2. Triple risk of coronary heart disease.

3. Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

4. Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.

5. Lowers quality of breast milk.

6. Decreases immune response.

7. Decreases insulin response.

8. Here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING! Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC…

This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

You can try this yourself: Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area.
Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:

* No flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)

* It does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value; nothing will grow on it even those teeny weenie microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

Share This With Your Friends..... (If you want to "butter them up")

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thank for information

[mehrdad21]

How did an English police force become known as “Scotland Yard”?

In the tenth century, in an effort to stop hostilities between their two
countries, the English gave a Scottish king land in London with the pro-
vision that he build a castle on it and live there for a few months every
year. Seven centuries later, with the two nations united under one king,
the land returned to English ownership. In 1829, the London police took
up residence on the land, which by then was known as Scotland Yard

[mehrdad21]

Why were executions held at sunrise?

In prehistoric times, executions of condemned prisoners were carried
out as sacrificial ceremonies to the rising sun. In the Middle Ages,
because the executions were public, they continued to be held early in
the day so as not to attract huge crowds. It wasn’t until well into the
twentieth century that more enlightened societies brought capital punishment indoors, not because executions were shocking, but because they were too popular

[mehrdad21]

Why is natural ability called “talent?”

In the ancient world a talent was a unit of weight used to value gold and
silver. Today’s use of the word comes from the Book of Matthew,
wherein three servants are given equal amounts of money, or talent, by
their master. Two invest wisely and profit while the third buries his and
doesn’t. That parable is how talent came to refer to the natural gifts we
are all born with. The moral of the tale is that we must use our talents
wisely or we will fail

[Asalbanoo]

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it's such a great surprise and happiness to see you here.
thank you dear Mehrdad for your usefull information
i appreciate it.

[mehrdad21]

thank u my dear friend asalbanoo

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Why do people pray with a string of beads?
The rosary, or “wreath of roses,” first appeared in fifteenth-century
Europe, but the practice of reciting prayers with a string of beads or
knots goes back about five hundred years before the dawn of
Christianity. The word bead comes from the Anglo-Saxon word bidden,
meaning “to ask.” The principle for both Christians and Muslims
is that the more you ask or repeat a prayer the more effective it is, and
so the rosary is an aid in keeping count

[mehrdad21]

Why is a large cup called a “mug”?

A mug is a large drinking cup with a handle and is most commonly
used to drink coffee, although it’s not unknown to beer drinkers. “A mug” is also slang for the face. In the eighteenth century, drinking vessels were shaped and painted to look like the heads of pirates or local drunks or even despised public officials or politicians. Now called “Toby jugs,” these cups with faces became known simply as mugs

[mehrdad21]

Why do we call the first weeks of marriage a “honeymoon”?

The custom of a “honeymoon” began over four thousand years ago in
Babylon, when for a full lunar month after the wedding, the bride’s
father would supply his son-in-law with all the honey-beer he could
drink. It was called the “honey month.” The word honeymoon didn’t
enter our language until 1546, and because few people could afford a
vacation, a honeymoon didn’t mean a trip away from home until the
middle of the nineteenth century

[Asalbanoo]

WATER

. Many people around the world chronically dehydrated.

. Many people thirst mechanism is so weak
That it is mistaken for hunger.

. MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism by 3%.


. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs
For almost 100% of the dieters according to University of
Washington study.

. Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.

. Research indicates that 8-10 glasses of
Water a day could significantly ease back
and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.


. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term
Memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on
The computer screen or on a Printed page.

. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of
Colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast
Cancer by 79%., and one is 50% less likely to develop
Bladder cancer. Are you drinking the amount of water
You should drink every day?


COKE
. In many states the highway patrol carries
Two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from
The highway after a car accident.


. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke
And it will be gone in two days.


. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the
Toilet bowl and let the "real thing" sit for one hour,
Then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes
Stains from vitreous China.

To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers:
Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds
Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour
A can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble
Away the corrosion.


. To loosen a rusted bolt: Apply a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola
To the rusted bolt for several minutes.


. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into
The baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake.
Thirty minutes before ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix
With the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.


... To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke
Into the load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run
Through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen
Grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your
Windshield.


FOR YOUR INFORMATION:


. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid.
It will dissolve a nail in about four days. Phosphoric
Acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major
Contributor to the rising increase of osteoporosis.

. To carry Coca-Cola syrup! (the concentrate) the
Commercial trucks must use a hazardous Material place
Cards reserved for highly corrosive materials.

. The distributors of Coke have been using it to clean
Engines of the trucks for about 20 years!



Now the question is, would you like a glass of water?

Or Coke


Quick! Send this helpful info on to your friends
Health conscious or not!!!!

[saaana]

wonderfullllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I lOve that

[علیرضا]

REALLY AMAZING !!!
I`ve never heared them Anywhere even in Persian Language world !!!


Thank you Dear Asalbanoo !!!
BTW... weird Avatar !

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:46:!!An inactive thread gets alive


The longest non-medical word in the English language is FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION, which means "the act of estimating as worthless".

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means, "the King is dead
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[mr.2beta]

very wonderful
thank u dear users

[siiina2]

.In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.
.The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

[siiina2]

.Karaoke means 'empty orchestra' in Japanese



.The three words in the English language with the letters "uu" are: vacuum, residuum and continuum

[مرتضی nvcd]

Second facts


The sun is flinging 1 million tons of matter out into space every second


At the heart of the Sun 600 million tonnes of hydrogen are converted into helium every second


Between four and five people are born every second - Two people die every second


The Sun loses up to a billion kilograms every second because of the solar wind that blasts out from its surface


The sun's energy production each second is enough to supply the electrical need of the U.S. for 50 million years at the current rate of consumption


Every three seconds, an area of the South American rain forest the size of a football field is cut down


Every second, a hurricane releases as much energy as the explosion of a Hiroshima-type atomic bomb


Lightning travels 90,000 miles a second — almost half the speed of light


Americans purchase an average of 100 cans of Campbell's Soup every second of every day in the month of January


In the second it takes to turn the page of a book, you will lose about 3 million red blood cells. During that same second, your bone marrow will have produced the same number of new ones

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Second Facts


At least 100,000 different chemical reactions occur in the normal human brain every second


Every person has nearly 400,000 radioactive atoms disintegrating into other atoms in his or her body each second


Twenty-four frames per second are projected in most animated films No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second


The ruby-throated hummingbird beats its wings at the incredibly rapid speed of 50 to 70 times a second


A cheetah can advance 7 to 8 meters in a single stride, and the animal completes four strides per second


Alligators and old people have something in common, at least auditorily. They can hear notes only up to 4,000 vibrations a second


The average minimal speed of birds in order to remain aloft in flight is reported to be about 16 feet per second


The hum of a hummingbird comes from the super-fast beat of the wings The smallest ones beat their wings the fastest — up to 80 times per second. Even the slower beat of bigger hummingbirds (20 times per second) is so fast you can only see a blur

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Seconds Facts

Cats purr at 26 cycles per second, the same as an idling diesel engine


One hundred thousand cubic feet of water pours over the Niagara Falls every second


A bumble bee flaps its wings 160 beats per second. A dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 times a second, bees and houseflies 200 times, some mosquitoes 600 times, and a tiny gnat 1,000 times


A fly can react to something it sees and change direction in 30 milliseconds


Biologists have discovered that cockroaches can change course as many as 25 times in one second, making them the most nimble animals known


The American lobster can move through the water at a rate of up to 25 feet a second


The Pacific equatorial countercurrent flows eastward toward South America, carrying up to 40 million tons of warm water with it every second


The sound of thunder travels about 1,100 feet per second


A space vehicle must move at a rate of at least 7 miles per second to escape Earth's gravitational pull


Barnard's star is approaching the Sun at a speed of 87 miles/second


Because it is pouring energy out into space so rapidly, the Sun is a weight equivalent to a million elephants to a million elephants every second


Some neutron stars spin 600 times a second, which is as fast as a dentist's drill


If you attempted to count the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second, it would take around 3,000 years to count them all


Traveling at the speed of 186,000 miles per second, light take 6 hours to travel from Pluto to Earth


Tiny dust particles surround a comet. They are swept into a long tail by the solar wind, which consists of subatomic particles speeding from the sum at speed of hundred of miles per second

[AAKOJ]

A sphere has two sides. However, there are one-sided surfaces.
There are shapes of constant width other than the circle. One can even drill square holes.
There are just five regular polyhedra
In a group of 23 people, at least two have the same birthday with the probability greater than 1/2
Everything you can do with a ruler and a compass you can do with the compass alone
Among all shapes with the same perimeter a circle has the largest area.
There are curves that fill a plane without holes
Much as with people, there are irrational, perfect, complex numbers
As in philosophy, there are transcendental numbers
As in the art, there are imaginary and surreal numbers
A straight line has dimension 1, a plane - 2. Fractals have mostly fractional dimension
You are wrong if you think Mathematics is not fun
Mathematics studies neighborhoods, groups and free groups, rings, ideals, holes, poles and removable poles, trees, growth ...
Mathematics also studies models, shapes, curves, cardinals, similarity, consistency, completeness, space ...
Among objects of mathematical study are heredity, continuity, jumps, infinity, infinitesimals, paradoxes...
Last but not the least, Mathematics studies stability, projections and values, values are often absolute but may also be extreme, local or global.
Trigonometry aside, Mathematics comprises fields like Game Theory, Braids Theory, Knot Theory and more
One is morally obligated not to do anything impossible
Some numbers are square, yet others are triangular
The next sentence is true but you must not believe it
The previous sentence was false
12+3-4+5+67+8+9=100 and there exists at least one other representation of 100 with 9 digits in the right order and math operations in between
One can cut a pie into 8 pieces with three movements
Program=Algorithms+Data Structures
There is something the dead eat but if the living eat it, they die.
A clock never showing right time might be preferable to the one showing right time twice a day
Among all shapes with the same area circle has the shortest perimeter

[AAKOJ]

Did you know 11% of people are left handed?

Did you know August has the highest percentage of births?

Did you know unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it?

Did you know the average person falls asleep in 7 minutes?

Did you know a bear has 42 teeth?

Did you know an ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain?

Did you know most lipsticks contain fish scales?

Did you know no two corn flakes look the same?

Did you know lemons contain more sugar than strawberries?

Did you know 8% of people have an extra rib?

Did you know 85% of plant life on earth is found in the ocean?

Did you know no words in the English language rhyme with the words angel, angst, breadth, bulb, depth, eighth, month, ninth, orange, purple, scalp or twelfth?

Did you know Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz?

Did you know rabbits like licorice?

Did you know the Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters?

Did you know 'Topolino' is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy?

Did you know a lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue?

Did you know an ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain?

Did you know armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same ---?

Did you know reindeer like bananas?

[AAKOJ]

Did You Know?

Did you know that non-Jewish Israelis cannot buy or lease land in Israel?

Did you know that Palestinian license plates in Israel are color coded to distinguish Jews from non-Jews?

Did you know that Jerusalem, both East and West, is considered by the entire world community, including the United States, to be occupied territory and NOT part of Israel?

Did you know that Israel allots 85% of the water resources for Jews and the remaining 15% is divided among all Palestinians in the territories? For example in Hebron, 85% of the water is given to about 400 settlers,while 15% must be divided among Hebron's 120,000 Palestinians?

Did you know the United States awards Israel $5 billion in aid each year?

Did you know that yearly US aid to Israel exceeds the aid the US grants to the whole African continent?

Did you know that Israel is the only country in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons?

Did you know that Israel is the only country in the Middle East that refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections from its sites?

Did you know that Israel currently occupies territories of two sovereign nations (Lebanon and Syria) in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions?

Did you know that Israel has for decades routinely sent assassins in to other countries to kill its political enemies?

Did you know that high-ranking military officers in the Israeli Defense Forces have admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were Executed by the IDF?

Did you know that Israel refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?

Did you know that Israel routinely confiscates bank accounts, businesses, and land and refuses to pay compensation to those who suffer the confiscation?

Did you know that Israel blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt and attacked a U.S. ship in international waters, killing 33 and wounding 177 American sailors?

Did you know that the second most powerful lobby in the United States, according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of Washington insiders, is the Israeli AIPAC?

Did you know that Israel stands in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council Resolutions?

Did you know that today's Israel sits on the former sites of more than 400 now-vanished Palestinian villages, and that the Israeli's re-named almost every physical site in the country to cover up the traces?

Did you know that it was not until 1988 that Israelis were barred from running "Jews Only" job ads?

Did you know that four prime ministers of Israel (Begin, Shamir, Rabin, and Sharon) have taken part in either bomb attacks on civilians, massacres of civilians, or forced expulsions of civilians from their villages?

Did you know that the Israeli Foreign Ministry pays two American public relations firms to promote Israel to Americans?

Did you know that Sharon's coalition government includes a party Molodet: which advocates expelling all Palestinians from the occupied territories?

Did you know that Israel's settlement-building increased in the eight years since Oslo?

Did you know that settlement building under Barak doubled compared to settlement building under Netanyahu?

Did you know that the Palestinians have already accepted Israel's existence on 78% of what was Palestine. Bible: God said to Abraham, "Unto thy seed, I will give thy land." Abraham had two sons. Ismael-the Arab son, and Isaac-the Jewish son. So even if one wants to go to the Bible, the land would belong to both.

Did you know that Palestinian Christians are considered the "living stones" of Christianity because they are the direct descendants of the disciples of Jesus Christ?

Did you know that despite a ban on torture by Israel's High Court of Justice, torture has continued by Shin Bet interrogators on Palestinian prisoners?

Did you know that Palestinian refugees make up the largest portion of the refugee population in the world?

[AAKOJ]

did you know?
Before he became president, Lyndon Johnson was a teacher at a small school in South Texas.
Before he became president, Woodrow Wilson was president of Princeton University.
Only one president was a preacher -- James Garfield.
Did you know that William Howard Taft is the only President who served as both President and Chief Justice of the United States?
President John F. Kennedy won a Pulitzer Prize in 1957 for his collection of essays, Profiles in Courage.
Both George Washington and Jimmy Carter were farmers before they became president -- President Washington was a planter and a farmer at his home in Mount Vernon, and Before he was President, Jimmy Carter ran his family's peanut farm in Plains, Georgia.
Before he became president, Barack Obama was a U.S. Senator. Before that, he was an Illinois State Senator, and before that he was a community organizer in Chicago.
The President's personal office is called the oval office. Any plane he flies on is called Air Force One, and any helicopter is called Marine One.
The "S" in Harry S. Truman's name isn't short for anything. The President was named after both of his grandfathers, Anderson Shippe Truman and Solomon Young. The initial honors them both.
The first public reading of the Declaration of Independence took place in Philadelphia -- where the bell now-known as the Liberty Bell rang out to call the city's population together on July 8, 1776.
On July 9, 1776, General George Washington gave an order for the Declaration of Independence to be read to his army.
In the early part of the 19th century, a network called the Underground Railroad, which received its name in 1831, helped escaped slaves gain freedom. As a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman helped 300 slaves gain freedom during the 1800s.
The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
President Lincoln owned only one home during his lifetime -- in Springfield, Ill.
President Jefferson spent more than 40 years designing and building his home in Charlottesville, VA known as Monticello. The President admired classical architecture and incorporated this style into his home.
President Jackson's estate outside of Nashville, TN was known as the Hermitage.
President Richard M. Nixon was offered a position as a player's representative to the Major League Baseball Players Association in 1965. He declined, stating that he was needed in politics. Nixon served as President from 1969 to 1974.
George H.W. Bush played first base on the Yale University team that twice reached the finals of the College World Series.
Grace Coolidge, wife of President Calvin Coolidge, could often be found keeping a perfect scorecard while watching baseball games in the presidential box.
In 1915, Woodrow Wilson became the first President to attend the World Series, where he and his fiance, Edith Gault, made their first public appearance since announcing their engagement. The President insisted on paying for his own tickets.
In 1787, just four years after the end of war with Great Britain, 55 delegates gathered in Philadelphia to replace the Articles of Confederation. The Constitutional Convention led to the creation of the U.S. Constitution, which was signed on September 17, 1787.
On December 7, 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the Constitution.
The first day Congress conducted business under the Constitution was April 6, 1789. On this day, members of Congress counted the votes of the electors, who unanimously elected George Washington as the nation's first president.
In order to amend the Constitution, three quarters of all states must vote in favor before the proposed amendment becomes law.