The Funny Section

• Women have a keener sense of smell than men.
• By simply smelling a piece of clothing, most people can tell if it was worn by a woman or man.
• Each of us has an odor that is, like our fingerprints, unique.  One result, researchers say: Much of the thrill of kissing comes from smelling the unique odors of another’s face.
• Smells stimulate learning.  Students given olfactory stimulation along with a word list retain much more information and remember longer.
• Many smells are heavier than air and can be smelled only at ground level.
• We smell best if we take several short sniffs rather than a long one.

• Your teeth are 6 months older than you are - they start growing 6 months before you’re born
• The enamel in your teeth is the hardest substance in your body
• Your fingernails are made from the same substance as a bird’s beak
• More babies are conceived in December than in any other month
• At takes the average person 7 minutes to fall asleep on an average night
• There are over 250,000 sweat glands in a pair of human feet

• Along with the chiltepin, the jalapeno pepper is the official pepper of Texas 
• A typical jalapeno pepper is approximately 4,500 Scoville units. This means that it takes 4,500 parts of sugar water to dilute one part jalapeno extract until its heat can no longer be felt
• Are usually green when mature but sometimes they can be red
• Are sold sliced, canned, and pickled
• Are added to many products during processing including cheeses, sausages, and jellies

• Scrabble is a registered trademark owned by Hasbro in America and Canada, and everywhere else in the world by J.W. Spear & Sons PLC, a subsidiary of Mattel.
• The Scrabble game board is 15 squares wide by 15 squares tall.
• Architect Alfred Mosher Butts invented the game in 1938, which he originally called “Criss-Crosswords”.
• Butts determined the letter value by meticulously counting letter usage in various publications.
• Lawyer James Brunot bought the game from Butts in 1948, made some minor gameplay changes, and renamed it ‘’Scrabble'’.

10,000 Maniacs: One of the band members misunderstood the name to the cult movie 2,000 Maniacs.

Pearl Jam: The name was coined by lead singer Eddie Vedder in honor of his Aunt Pearl’s homemade jam.  It’s also slang for semen.

DEVO: Short for de-evolution, something the band believed was happening to the human race.

ZZ Top: Inspired from a poster of Texas bluesman Z. Z. Hill and rolling-paper brandnames Zig Zag and Top.

Blind Melon: Bassist Brad Smith said the name was slang for unemployed hippies in a Mississipi town.

Rouleau is another name for a roll of coins wrapped in paper.

The highest denomination of any U.S. coin is the Platinum American Eagle, valued at $100.

About 19.5 million U.S. pennies are minted each day by the U.S. Treasury.

60% of the country of Liechtenstein’s GNP is generated by the sale of false teeth.

The 1909 Lincoln penny is the first U.S. coin to feature a President.

Although Eisenhower endorsed the admission of both the Alaskan and Hawaiian territories during the 1952 campaign, neither were officially added to the union until 1959.

There are more caribou in Alaska than there are people.

Part of Alaska, the Aleutian Islands extend past the 180 degree line of longitude, putting them in the Eastern Hemisphere and technically making Alaska the eastern most state.

Over half of the total United States coastline of the is in Alaska.

Alaska was sold by Russian Czar Alexander II to the United States for $72 million to pay off his gambling debts.

Myth:  Your hair and nails continue to grow after you die.

Fact: They don’t.  Your tissue recedes from your hair and nails, making them appear longer.

In the 1860’s the Church family owned the Vulcan Spice Mills.  Their logo was an arm and a hammer, representing the Roman god Vulcan (who was a blacksmith).  When the family formed a baking soda company in 1867, they used the same logo . . . and eventually named the company after it.