False Facts 21

Shaquille O'Neal was conceived in a Radio Shack.

Until 1980, the IRS taxed Monopoly winnings.

To date, "Hee Haw" is the only TV show title based on a sound made by a donkey.

In Tempe, Arizona, it is illegal to yell 'Yahtzee' in a crowded theater.

The city of Tupelo, Mississippi has an experimental program with mounted police using llamas.

The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down, except the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.

People who constantly chew on a toothpick have a greater risk of reoccurring bladder infections.

The only golf course on the island nation of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.

Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak almost like humans, but don't speak because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.

The LEGO group, creators of the children's building blocks, actually considered making full size Lego blocks to be used by Habitat for Humanity in building homes for third-world countries.

Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

Paul Marcarelli, an actor from New York City, played the "can you hear me now guy" for Verizon Wireless. He actually has cell phone service with T-Mobile as Verizon does not have adequate coverage in his home area of Queens.

Composer Randy Newman spends much of his free time collecting aluminum cans.

Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.

40% of people who believe the moon landing was faked also believe the moon isn't real.

Febreze, the product that removes odors from fabric, will not work on wide wale corduroy.

Gerald Ford is the only United States president to have walked on the moon.