Yeah, well, TV is pitiful:

* The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every
five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips
in times of war or other emergencies.

* The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue,
Boston,Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can
sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

* Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

[Now I have to contest this, being the privileged servant of His
Ecumenical All-Pugliness, Porkos Puglios XIII. Porky has a lot
more than ten, including purring on certain occasions. He can
also snore like several different sizes of power saws.]

* Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
stop growing.

* David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He
spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be
dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the
movie.

* Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

* In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

* February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

* Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.

* No word in the English language rhymes with month.

* The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of
diesel that it burns.

* There are two credit cards for every person in the United States
(circa 2008).

* Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal
category.

* Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York
City, after the Catholic Church.

* Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't
considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run
Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

* The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

* Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

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

* Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2-6 years of age.

* The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

* Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

* If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have
$1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without
being able to make change for a dollar.

* The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

* Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the
Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

* No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever
won a Superbowl.

* The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".

* In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down
but only 6 people were injured.

[Boy, those Brits know how to do a fire up right, don't they?!]

* Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.

* One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers
in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers --they saw it as competition.

* The only two days of the year in which there are no professional
sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day
after the Major League All-Star Game.

[And if the Church had any sense, she would jump on both and
make them high holy feast days].

* Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

* The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan".