Interesting Facts

For Your Warehouse of Useless Knowledge

1. 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
2. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
3. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
4. 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5. 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
6. 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
7. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
8. 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential hell."
9. 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
10. 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
11. 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
12. 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
13. 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
14. 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
15. A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
16. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
17. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
18. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
19. A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
20. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
21. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
22. A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
23. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
24. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
25. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
26. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.
27. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
28. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
29. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
30. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
31. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
32. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
33. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
34. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.
35. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
36. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
37. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
38. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
39. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
40. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
41. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
42. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
43. A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
44. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
45. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
46. A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
47. A whale's penis is called a dork.
48. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
49. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
50. According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
51. Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
52. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
53. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
54. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
55. All porcupines float in water.
56. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
57. Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
58. America once issued a 5-cent bill.
59. America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
60. Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
61. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
62. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
63. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
64. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
65. Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
66. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
67. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
68. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
69. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.
70. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
71. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
72. Back in the mid to late 1980's, an IBM-compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
73. Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
74. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
75. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
76. Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
77. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
78. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
79. Bubble gum contains rubber.
80. Camel's milk does not curdle.
81. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
82. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
83. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
84. Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
85. Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
86. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
87. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
88. Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
89. Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
90. 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.
91. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
92. Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
93. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
94. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
95. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
96. Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
97. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
98. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
99. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
100. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
101. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
102. Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
103. Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
104. Every person has a unique tongue print.
105. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
106. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
107. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
108. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
109. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
110. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
111. Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
112. Giraffes have no vocal cords.
113. Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
114. Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
115. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
116. Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
117. Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
118. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
119. Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
120. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
121. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
122. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
123. If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
124. If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
125. 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.
126. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
127. If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.
128. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
129. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
130. In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
131. In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
132. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
133. In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
134. In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" were considered a dirty word.
135. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
136. In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.
137. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
138. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
139. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
140. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
141. In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
142. In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
143. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
144. In the movie "Casablanca," Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
145. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
146. In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
147. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
148. It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
149. It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
150. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
151. It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
152. It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
153. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
154. It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
155. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don't try this at home!)
156. Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
157. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
158. "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
159. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
160. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
161. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
162. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
163. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
164. Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
165. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
166. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its original size: "L.A."
167. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
168. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
169. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
170. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
171. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.
172. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
173. Montpelier, VT is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
174. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
175. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
176. More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
177. Mosquitoes have teeth.
178. Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
179. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
180. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
181. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
182. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
183. Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
184. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
185. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
186. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
187. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building looks like an American flag, but is actually the flag that flew over to Dominion of Canada before the Maple Leaf .
188. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
189. One in every 4 americans has appeared on television.
190. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
191. One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
192. Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
193. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
194. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
195. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
196. Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
197. Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
198. Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
199. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
200. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
201. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
202. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
203. Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws.
204. Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
205. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
206. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
207. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
208. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
209. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
210. Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
211. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
212. Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
213. Slugs have 4 noses.
214. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
215. Some toothpaste's contain antifreeze.
216. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
217. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
218. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
219. Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
220. Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
221. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
222. The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
223. The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
224. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
225. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
226. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
227. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
228. The average person laughs 15 times a day.
229. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
230. The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
231. The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella.
232. The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.
233. 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.
234. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
235. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
236. The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.
237. The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.
238. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
239. The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
240. 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.
241. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
242. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
243. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
244. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
245. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
246. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
247. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
248. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
249. The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
250. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
251. The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
252. The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
253. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
254. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
255. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
256. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
257. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
258. The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year. Do the math and you will clearly see that 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosours; the tallest ones, anyway.
259. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
260. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
261. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
262. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
263. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
264. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
265. The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
266. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
267. The only nation whose name begins with an "A" but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
268. 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.
269. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
270. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
271. The phrase, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.
272. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
273. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
274. The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
275. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
276. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
277. The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
278. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
279. The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... thus the saying.
280. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
281. The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
282. The state of Florida is bigger than England.
283. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
284. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
285. The United States Government keeps its supply of silver at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
286. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
287. The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
288. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
289. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
290. The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate." (MOdulate DEModulate)
291. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
292. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
293. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
294. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
295. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
296. There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
297. There are more chickens than people in the world.
298. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
299. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
300. There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the United States.
301. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
302. There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
303. There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
304. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
305. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
306. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
307. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
308. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
309. Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.
310. When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
311. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
312. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
313. White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (formerly of the Monkees).
314. Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
315. Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
316. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
317. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
318. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
319. You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
320. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
321. You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
322. You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
323. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
324. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
325. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
326. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
327. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

List of 50 Most Romantic Movies of All Time

List of 50 Most Romantic Movies of All Time-
In romantic comedy movies, the general story is that two people will meet, and then part ways due to certain obstacles. They must overcome these obstacles in order to be together.
They are meant to make you laugh and smile and make you cry.
Everyone has a different perspective on what is romantic.
Here is my list of top 50 romantic movies.


1. The Notebook
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Drama
MPAA rating: PG-13
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner
Plot: A man tells the story of a young couple who struggle through the times as rich daughter and a poor mill worker some 50 or 60 years ago. An old man is reading a story to an old lady in a nursing home. The story is about two young lovers (Allie and Noah) who are from two completely different upbringings.
Allie's family is quite wealthy and disapproves of Noah because of his lack of wealth. So her parents move her away and make every attempt to never let her see him again.

2. Titanic (1997)
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Drama
MPAA rating: PG-13
Director: James Cameron
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane
Plot: The maiden voyage of the Titanic sets the stage for a love affair between a young socialite and a poor artist. An old woman tells a story of her days on the Titanic. The romance between herself and a young man who loved her and would do anything for her to survive.

3. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Genres: Comedy, Romance Rating: PG-13 Language: English
Director: Gil Junger
Actors: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt,Larisa Oleynik,David Krumholtz,Andrew Keegan
Plot- A remake of the classic Shakespare play "The Taming of the Shrew", this story is set in a modern day high school.Bianca is dying to go out with Joey, the most popular and attractive guy at their school.
Bianca's sister Kat would rather die than go out with a boy. Their father has a rule where Bianca can only date when Kat does. Because Joey wants to go out with Bianca, so he arranges a deal with Patrick to woo Kat into going out with him. But Patrick and Kat end up falling for each other.

4. Bicentennial Man (1999)
Genres: Sci-Fi, Drama Rating: PG Language: English
Director: Chris Columbus
Actors: Robin Williams Embeth, Davidtz, Sam Neill, Oliver Platt ,Kiersten Warren, Wendy Crewson
Plot - the love stories of future human generation.
Williams plays Andrew, a robot programmed for domestic chores and sold to an upper-middle-class family, the Martins, in the year 2005. The family patriarch (Sam Neill) recognizes and encourages Andrew's uncommon characteristics, particularly his artistic streak, sensitivity to beauty, humor, and independence of spirit. In so doing, he sets Williams's tin man on a two-century journey to become more human than most human beings. The passion of Andrew as a convert to the human race and his willingness to sacrifice all to give and take love. Williams rises to an atypical challenge here as a futuristic Everyman, relying, perhaps for the first time, on his considerable iconic value to make the point that becoming human means becoming more like Robin Williams.

5. Dirty Dancing (1987)
Genres: Drama, Romance- Rating: PG-13-Language: English
Director: Emile Ardolino
Actors: Patrick Swayze,Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze,Jerry Orbach,Cynthia Rhodes, Kelly Bishop
Plot - A family is on vacation at Kellerman's when baby meets Johnny the Dancing teacher who falls in love with each other. One of the teenage daughters attends a summer camp and learns how to dance from the camp's dance instructor. She ends up falling in love with him, against her father's wishes.

6. Gone With the Wind (1941)
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA rating: PG
Director: Victor Fleming
Actors: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, George Reeves
Plot: An epic civil war tale of a strong woman, Scarlett, who loves the man she didn’t marry. It is simple tale of love.






7. An Affair to Remember (1957)
Genres: Drama, Romance, Rating: NR,Language:English
Director: Leo McCarey
Actors: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning,Neva Patterson, Cathleen Nesbitt,Robert Q. Lewis
Plot-In this poignant and humorous love story nominated for four Academy Awards, Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous and the lover's future takes an emotional and uncertain turn.

8. Amelie (2001)
Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay,
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA rating: R
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus
Plot: A Paris woman, in search of helping others finds love in mysterious ways. The title character (the bashful and impish Audrey Tautou) is a single waitress who decides to help other lonely people fix their lives. Her widowed father yearns to travel but won't, so to inspire the old man she sends his garden gnome on a tour of the world; with whispered gossip, she brings together two cranky regulars at her café; she reverses the doorknobs and reprograms the speed dial of a grocer who's mean to his assistant. Gradually she realizes her own life needs fixing, and a chance meeting leads to her most elaborate stratagem of all.

9. Pretty Woman (1990)
Director: Garry Marshall
Actors: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere,Jason Alexander, Alex Hyde-White, Hector Elizondo
Genres: Romance, Comedy Rating:R
Language: English
Plot - A rich lawyer type falls in love with a prostitute as he takes her to his social events and uses her for sex until they both realize there is something more.
Edward is a rich and sophisticated businessman. Vivian is a Los Angeles prostitute struggling with her lifestyle and has a hard time paying the rent.
On a business trip to Los Angeles, Edward hires Vivian to be his girlfriend for a week while he visits the local social circles. Love and complications complicate their arrangement and have the pair wondering if their story could a happy ending.

10. Runaway Bride (1999)
Genres: Comedy, Romance,Rating:PG,Language:English
Director: Garry Marshall
Actors: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere,Joan Cusack,Hector Elizondo,Rita Wilson, Paul Dooley
Plot - Maggie is known in town as "the Runaway Bride", because she has left so many men standing at the alter. But recently she's decided to give marriage another go by getting engaged once more. A reporter is assigned to write a story about her, and comes all the way to her home town to do it. However, as the two get closer, Maggie finds herself having second thoughts about her fiance.

11. Roman Holiday (1953)
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
Plot: A princess escapes her boring family life when she meets an American Newsman and falls in love.
A YOUNG PRINCESS, TIRED OF THE CONSTRAINTS HER POSITION BRINGS, RUNS AWAY. SHE DOESN'T KNOW THE MAN WHO BEFRIENDS HER IS AREPORTER OUT FOR A STORY.

12. Casablanca (1943)
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Plot: Set in Africa during the 1940s, Humphrey Bogart stars as a man with a past trying to hide the past. He meets his former lover at his own bar as things begin to complicate. Rick Blaine owns a nightclub in Casablanca during World War II. One night an old flame Ilsa arrives in town with her husband Victor Laszlo, who is a Czech underground leader. Rick and Ilsa plan to run off together with 2 valuable pieces of transit. But it doesn't all go as planned.

13. City of Angels (1998)
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Rating: PG-13,Language:English
Director: Brad Silberling
Actors:Nicolas Cage,Meg Ryan,Andre Braugher,Dennis Franz,Colm Feore,Sarah Dampf
plot- the movie is inspired from German film Wings of Desire.Meg Ryan stars as Dr. Maggie Rice, a heart surgeon who is grieving over a lost patient when an angel named Seth (Nicolas Cage) appears to comfort her. She can see him despite the "rule" that angels are invisible, and Seth's love for Maggie forces him to choose between angelic immortality and a normal human existence on earth with her.

14. When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Director: Rob Reiner
Actors:Meg Ryan,Billy Crystal,Lisa Jane Persky,Carrie Fisher,Steven Ford,Bruno Kirby
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Rating: R Language: English
Plot - A friendship is born basically at college between a man and a woman who think it is best to maintain friends rather than have sex ruin their relationship. 20 years or so pass and they figure maybe it's time to give it a shot.

15. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Genres:Drama, Comedy,Rating: PG-13,Language:English
Director: Tim Burton
Actors:Johnny Depp,Winona Ryder,Kathy Baker,Anthony Michael Hall,Dianne Wiest,Vincent Price
Plot - A man that has scissors for hands tries to fit into suburban neighborhood.Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon lady took him home to live with her family. And so began Edward's fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia.
The story follows a young man named Edward (Johnny Depp), who was created by an inventor (Vincent Price, in one of his last roles) who died before he could give the poor creature a pair of human hands. Edward lives alone in a ruined Gothic castle that just happens to be perched above a pastel-colored suburb inhabited by breadwinning husbands and frustrated housewives straight out of the 1950s. One day, Peg (Dianne Wiest), the local Avon lady, comes calling. Finding Edward alone, she kindly invites him to come home with her, where she hopes to help him with his pasty complexion and those nasty nicks he's given himself with his razor-sharp fingers. Soon Edward's skill with topiary sculpture and hair design make him popular in the neighborhood--but the mood turns just as swiftly against the outsider when he starts to feel his own desires, particularly for Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder).

16. Father of the Bride (1991)
Genres:Family, Comedy,Rating: PG,Language:English
Director:Charles Shyer
Actors:Steve Martin,Diane Keaton,Kimberly Williams,Kieran Culkin,George Newbern,Martin Short
Plot-A father must hold it together while he plans for his daughter's wedding.
movie inspired from Father of the Bride (1950)

17. Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Genres:Comedy,Rating:PG-13,Language:English
Director:Chris Columbus
Actors:Robin Williams,Sally Field,Pierce Brosnan,Harvey Fierstein,Lisa Jakub,Matthew Lawrence
plot-Daniel Hillard is faced with a divorce. His wife gains custody of his three children, and, not satisfied with only visiting once a week, he uses his own talents, and those of his makeup artist brother, to create the perfect nanny/housekeeper.

18. My Fair Lady (1964)
Genres:Musical, Crime,Rating:PG,Language:English
Director:George Cukor
Actors:Audrey Hepburn,Rex Harrison,Stanley Holloway,Gladys Cooper,Theodore Bikel,Wilfrid Hyde-White
Plot-A poor flower girl is taken in by a English language master to be taught how to sing and speak properly on based on a bet between himself and his friend putting the poor flower girl in the middle.

19. My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
Genres:Comedy, Romance,Rating:PG-13,Language:English
Director:P.J. Hogan
Actors:Julia Roberts,Dermot Mulroney,Cameron Diaz,Rupert Everett,Philip Bosco,M. Emmet Walsh
plot-Michael O'Neal and Julianne Potter have been best friends for a long time. When Michael announces he's getting married, Julianne rushes to his side for support, but also because she has every intention of breaking the marriage and taking him for herself as she realizes her love for him.
Julia plays a prominent Chicago restaurant critic whose best friend (Dermot Mulroney) is a former lover from her college days with whom she'd made a binding pact: if neither of them were married by the age of 28, they'd marry each other. Just when they're about to reach the deadline of their agreement, Mulroney arrives in Chicago to introduce Roberts to his seemingly perfect fiancée (Cameron Diaz) and announce their wedding in just three days. That leaves the shocked Julia with just three short days to sabotage the wedding and marry the man she now realizes she's loved all along.

20. Message in a Bottle (1999)
Genres:Drama, Romance,Rating:PG-13,Language:English
Director:Luis Mandoki
Actors:Kevin Costner,Robin Wright Penn,Paul Newman,John Savage,Illeana Douglas,Robbie Coltrane
plot-Robin Wright Penn as Theresa, a Chicago Tribune researcher who finds a note encased in a green bottle that has floated onto a Cape Cod shore. The message within is a heartfelt, yearning declaration of love to a woman named Catherine, but the author is unknown until Theresa (rather improbably) tracks him down in North Carolina. He's Garret Blake (Kevin Costner), a taciturn builder of sailboats and a grieving widower whose late wife, poetically speaking, was the intended recipient of the seafaring note Theresa found. Theresa, a divorcée with a son, decides to meet Garret, only to find him as bottled-up as his message. Nevertheless, a romance blooms on the strength of quality time in a sailboat and lots of cuddling,

21. Modern Times (1936)
Genres:Comedy, Romance,Rating:NR,Language:English
Director:Charles Chaplin
Actors:Charles Chaplin,Paulette Goddard,Henry Bergman,Tiny Sandford,Al Ernest Garcia,Stanley Blystone
plot-A man who struggles with life is struggling to get along in the industrial society. He finds help when he meets a homeless woman.

22. It Happened One Night (1934)
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA rating: NR
Director: Frank Capra
Actors: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Roscoe Karns
Plot: A rich daughter runs away from home to be discovered by a semi washed up reporter looking for a story. Will they fall in love?

23. I Am Sam (2001)
Genres:Drama,Rating:PG-13,Language:English
Director:Jessie Nelson
Actors:Sean Penn,Michelle Pfeiffer,Dakota Fanning,Dianne Wiest,Loretta Devine,Laura Dern
plot-a mentally challenged man fighting to retain custody of his 7-year-old daughter. Sam (Sean Penn), who has the mental age of 7, wipes down tables at a Los Angeles Starbucks and takes good care of his daughter Lucy, who was left with him shortly after birth by a homeless woman. Sam has gotten by just fine with a little help from his friends, including his eccentric neighbor (Diane Wiest) and a lovable group of similarly challenged friends, but a series of misunderstandings leaves Sam fighting to get Lucy back from the state. Sam's lawyer, Rita Harrison (Michelle Pfeiffer), is an overly ambitious woman whose life is soon transformed by proximity to Sam's brimming humanity.

24. Maid in Manhattan (2002)
Genres:Comedy, Romance
Director:Wayne Wang
Actors:Jennifer Lopez,Ralph Fiennes,Natasha Richardson,Stanley Tucci,Tyler PoseyAmy Sedaris
plot-Marisa Ventura (Jennifer Lopez) is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son (Tyler Posey). One fateful day hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall (Ralph Fiennes) meets Marisa and mistakes her for a wealthy socialite. After an enchanting evening together the two fall madly in love. But when Marisa's true identity is revealed issues of class and social status threaten to separate them. Can two people from very different worlds overcome their differences and live happily ever after?

25. Dying Young (1991)
Genres:Drama, Romance
Director:Joel Schumacher
Actors:Julia Roberts,Campbell Scott,Vincent D'Onofrio,David Selby,Ellen Burstyn,Colleen Dewhurst
plot-With little money, a poor education and no luck when it comes to love, Hilary O'Neil (Roberts) answers a want ad and finds her whole world suddenly changed. Hired as the caretaker to a seriously ill young man (Scott), she unexpectedly discovers they have much in common, even though he is wealthy and intelligent. Their growing friendship quietly develops into a deep and powerful romance that ultimately tests the boundaries of true love.

26. Romancing the Stone (1984)
Genres: Action, Adventure
Director:Robert Zemeckis
Actors:Michael Douglas,Kathleen Turner,Danny DeVito,Zack Norman,Alfonso Arau,Manuel Ojeda
plot-A romance writer receives a treasure map in the mail and is soon headed to Columbia to save her sister from kidnappers, dodge a corrupt cop and maybe fall in love with a rogue soldier-of-fortune.

27. Sleeping With the Enemy (1991)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin Director: Joseph Ruben
plot-Julia Roberts plays an abused wife who fakes her death and starts anew under a different identity in Iowa. Her psychopathic husband (Patrick Bergin) figures it out and stalks her and her new boyfriend (Kevin Anderson).

28. French Kiss (1995)
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Director:Lawrence Kasdan
Actors:Meg Ryan,Kevin Kline,Timothy Hutton,Jean Reno,Renée Humphrey,François Cluzet
plot- a girl runs behind her boy, thief behind money and a love happens.
Ryan plays a woman whose fiancé (Timothy Hutton) leaves her for a Parisian beauty. She jets over to the City of Lights to fight for her man, but an incapacitating fear of flying forces her to seek help from a fellow passenger, a French thief played by Kevin Kline, who then tutors her in the ways of getting her beau back.

29. You’ve Got Mail (1998)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan Director: Nora Ephron
plot-Joe Fox is the executive of a large chain of mega-sized bookstores. His latest venture is about to open up across the street from a small children's bookstore owned by Kathleen Kelly.
Afraid of going out of business, Kelly detests Joe and the corporate culture he represents. But, unknown to her (and to him), this is the same man she has been chatting intimately with online.
the Ernst Lubitsch classic, The Shop Around the Corner, to contemporary Manhattan, where Joe Fox (Hanks) is a cheerfully rapacious merchant whose chain of book superstores is gobbling up smaller, more specialized shops such as the children's bookstore owned by Kathleen Kelly (Ryan). Their lives run in close parallel in the same idealized neighborhood, yet they first meet anonymously, online, where they gradually nurture a warm, even intimate correspondence. As they begin to wonder whether this e-mail flirtation might lead them to be soul mates, however, they meet and clash over their colliding business fortunes.

30. Sabrina (1995)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond Director: Sydney Pollack
plot-Remake of the 1954 film about a modern-day Cinderella who is the daughter of a wealthy family's chauffeur. When she is transformed into a graceful woman, she captures the attention of the sons of the family.

31. Ghost (1990)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore
plot-(Sam and Molly) who are deeply in love. While walking through an alley one night they are mugged, and Sam is murdered.Sam is left on the earth as a ghost. He soon realizes that his murder was no accident, and he must worn Molly of the danger she is in.He finds a psychic who can hear him and uses her to communicate with Molly before time runs out. Patrick Swayze plays a ghost who teams with a psychic (Whoopi Goldberg) to uncover the truth behind his murder - and to rescue his sweetheart (Demi Moore) from a similar fate.

32. A Walk To Remember (2002)
Starring: Mandy Moore, Shane West Director: Adam Shankman
plot-Landon Carter, the most popular guy in school, gets into some trouble, and as punishment his principal makes him tutor a younger student, and be in the school's spring play.
Jamie Sullivan is considered an outcast in school and is also in the school play.
One day Landon realizes that he's in over his head and ends up asking Jamie for help. Soon Landon unexpectedly finds himself falling in love with Jamie.

33. It's a Wonderful Life (1947)
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed Director: Frank Capra
plot-George Bailey (played superbly by James Stewart) grows up in the small town of Bedford Falls, dreaming dreams of adventure and travel, but circumstances conspire to keep him enslaved to his home turf. Frustrated by his life, and haunted by an impending scandal, George prepares to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. A heavenly messenger (Henry Travers) arrives to show him a vision: what the world would have been like if George had never been born.

34. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Starring: Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara Director: George Seaton
plot-Six year old Susan has doubts childhood's most enduring miracle Santa Clause. Her mother told her the "secret" about Santa a long time ago, so Susan doesn't expect to receive the most important gifts on her Christmas list. But after meeting a special departement stare Santa who's convinced he's the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all - something to believe in.

35. The Proposal (2009)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds
plot-Margaret (Sandra Bullock) is a workaholic, tyrannical book editor (reminiscent of The Devil Wears Prada) who suddenly finds her career in jeopardy as she faces deportation back to Canada. Her solution is to simply fake an engagement to her unsuspecting assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds), who in turn blackmails her for a promotion. However, when Margaret is forced to head to Alaska with Andrew to visit his family in an effort to make their story believable to the deportation officers, they soon realize that their plan may not be so simple after all. The supporting cast of Dad (Craig T. Nelson), Mom (Mary Steenburgen), and kooky Grandma (Betty White, still a scene-stealer at 87) is great casting that makes for many amusing scenes.

36. Sweet November (2001)
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron Director: Pat O'Connor
plot-Theron is Sara, who pathologically lures men into romance for one month at a time, "helping" them before moving onto the next month's catch. She's avoiding long-term commitments because she's deathly ill--a fact revealed by hundreds of prescription bottles hidden in her medicine cabinet. Reeves is Nelson, the fast-lane advertising executive who reluctantly becomes Sara's Mr. November. He's insulting and callous until he learns the truth,
the movie will make you cry, and soundtracks are great, they will keep impact on your mind.

37. While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman Director: Jon Turteltaub
plot-As Lucy, a lonely subway worker, she becomes smitten with a handsome stranger (Peter Gallagher -- MALICE). But when she saves his life after he's been mugged and fallen into a coma, his hilariously offbeat family mistakes her for his fiancee! Soon, the mix-ups escalate as Lucy fabricates a life between herself and a man she's never met! And when Lucy falls for his charming brother (Bill Pullman -- INDEPENDENCE DAY) the situation really gets uproarious as she's forced to make a choice between the two!

38. Forever Young (1992)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis Director: Steve Miner
Plot - Just prior to World War II, a man believes his sweethear to have died in a car accident and so consents to be a human subject in a cryogenics experiment. He wakes up in the 90s baffled by the world as it has become,Daniel, a daring test pilot who is deeply distraught by the apparent death of his girlfriend, Helen, in 1939. Feeling little reason to live, he volunteers for a pioneering cryogenics experiment and is thawed out 50 years later by two young boys. They bring the confused pilot home to Nat's single mom, Claire (Jamie Lee Curtis). but finds that true love waits forever.

39. Pearl Harbor (2001)
Starring: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale Director: Michael Bay
This real-life tale of catastrophic defeat, heroic victory, and personal courage focuses on the war's devastating impact on two daring young pilots, Ben Affleck (ARMAGEDDON) and Josh Hartnet (BLACK HAWK DOWN), and a beautiful, dedicated nurse, Kate Beckinsale (SERENDIPITY).

40. Hannah Montana The Movie (2009)
Actors: Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Lucas Till
Directors: Peter Chelsom
plot-when Hannah Montana (Miley Cyrus) shows signs of forgetting her roots as Miley Stewart, her father Robbie Ray (Billy Ray Cyrus) puts his foot down. Miley has always strived to live a relatively normal teenage life, but when late stage entrances, exclusive shopping trips that end in brawling catfights, and ditching friends and family in favor of Hannah appearances become commonplace, Robbie Ray whisks her away from a date at the New York Music Awards for a dose of hometown reality at her grandma's in Crowley Corners, Tenn. Unfortunately, she's followed by Oswald (Peter Gunn), a relentless reporter from Britain's Bon Chic Magazine. Miley's initial fury at being tricked into staying at Grandma's spurs her to commence operation Save Hannah Montana, but her bad attitude eventually gives way to resignation and then the beginnings of reconnection between Miley and her family. As the days progress, Miley glimpses her growing self-absorption, finds she's attracted to old elementary friend Travis (Lucas Till), realizes that her selfishness has negatively affected her dad's personal relationships, and is drawn into her grandma's fight against the commercialization of Crowley Corners. A boastful impulse leads to Miley being charged with bringing Hannah Montana to Crowley Corners for a benefit concert; when Miley's worlds collide onstage, she reveals her true identity and declares that Hannah Montana is no more. Can Miley's hometown possibly keep Miley's secret, silence the reporter, and convince Miley that she can have the best of both worlds, or is this the end of Hannah Montana? Well-known Hannah Montana songs, including "Best of Both Worlds" and "Let's Get Crazy" are featured in the film as well as the fun new song "Hoedown Throwdown" (complete with line dance instruction), the heartfelt "Butterfly Fly Away," and the inspirational "The Climb." More important than the great music is the film's wholesome message about staying true to oneself and one's family and friends.

41. Forrest Gump (1994)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn Director: Robert Zemeckis
plot-Hanks plays the title character, a shy Southern boy in love with his childhood best friend (Robin Wright) who finds that his ability to run fast takes him places. As an All-Star football player he meets John F. Kennedy; as a soldier in Vietnam he's a war hero; and as a world champion Ping-Pong player he's hailed by Richard Nixon. Becoming a successful shrimp-boat captain, he still yearns for the love of his life, who takes a quite different and much sadder path in life.

42. The Reader (2008)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes Director: Stephen Daldry
Plot-In postwar Germany, young schoolboy Michael (German actor David Cross) meets and begins a tender romance with the older, mysterious Hanna (Kate Winslet, whose performance is a revelation). The two make love hungrily in Hanna's shabby apartment, yet their true intimacy comes as Michael reads aloud to Hanna in bed, from his school assignments, textbooks, even comic books. Hanna delights in the readings, and Michael delights in Hanna.
The Reader, set in post-WWII Germany, follows teenager Michael Berg as he engages in a passionate but secretive affair with an older woman named Hanna. Eight years after Hanna s disappearance, Michael is stunned to discover her again as she stands on trial for Nazi war crimes. The Reader is a haunting story about truth and reconciliation and how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another. Kate Winslet won and Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her performance.

43. Summer of '42 (1971)
Starring: Katherine Allentuck, Oliver Conant
plot-Coming of age drama set in a New England beach community during World War II.
Hermie (Gary Grimes) and his two buddies Oscar (Jerry Hauser) and the nerdy Benjie (Oliver Conant) are spending the summer doing the things preadolescents do: hanging out, eating ice cream, stealing "dirty" books from their parents, and trying unsuccessfully to act manly around the gawky girls they take to the movies. Then Hermie spoils everything by really falling in love, this time with the adorable older woman Dorothy, played by Jennifer O'Neill. Dorothy's husband conveniently leaves for duty overseas, and then, even more conveniently, becomes one of those "we regret" telegrams. Dorothy, desperate for comfort and sweetness, turns to Hermie--and surely makes his summer. The setting and the date give this movie a double helping of nostalgia for anyone who was once an adolescent boy desperately trying to get rid of both his callowness and his virginity.

44. Lilja 4-ever (2002)
Lilya 4-Ever (UK) (USA)
Lilja 4ever (Sweden) (alternative spelling)
Lilya 4-ever (International: English title)
Director and writer - Lukas Moodysson
actors-Oksana Akinshina ... Lilja (as Oksana Akinsjina)
Plot-Lilja is 16 years old. Her only friend is the young boy Volodja. They live in Estonia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej. He is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.
dream and fight for a good life and love for the life .
The movie has tragic end.
The movie has adult story line only for mature audience.
Why this movie is romantic I think?
In this movie I see the romance of girl and her life, romance of the girl with her dream and a boy and his dream.
This is not typical romantic movie boy meet girl.
Its totally different movie and for majority its not romantic movie.
It’s like there is black board with one dot.
In this movie I see this one dot of romance which touches our heart.
Love of life = Romantic Movie

45. The Clock (1945)
Starring: Judy Garland, Robert Walker Director: Fred Zinnemann, Tex Avery
plot-a soldier (Robert Walker) with a two-day pass in unfamiliar, overwhelming New York City. He meets an office worker (Judy Garland), and in the glow of the city and each other, they fall in love. Underlying the sweetness of the romance is the time limit of the soldier's leave, after which he will be sent overseas; the clock brings an urgency to the action, especially after the lovers lose each other in the crush of a subway
Soldier Joe Allen is on a two-day leave in New York, and there he meets Alice. She agrees to show him the sights and they spend the day together. In this short time they find themselves falling in love with each other, and they decide to get married before Joe has to return to camp.

46. The Piano (1993)
Starring: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel Director: Jane Campion
plot-Scottish woman named Ada (Holly Hunter), who has been mute since age 6 because she simply chose not to speak. Ada travels with her daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) and her beloved piano to a remote spot on the coast of New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a farmer (Sam Neill). She gives piano lessons to a gruff neighbor (Harvey Keitel) who has Maori tattoos on his face, and, well, things develop from there.
The relationship sours when her husband trades her beloved piano to their neighbor baines.

47. Big (1988)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins Director: Penny Marshall
plot-Big is the story of a 12-year-old boy who wishes he were older, and wakes up one morning as a 30-year-old man (Tom Hanks). The script by Gary Ross (Dave) and Anne Spielberg finds some unexpected ways of attacking obvious issues of sex, work, and childhood friendships, and in all of these things
Comedy about a 12-year-old boy who wishes to be bigger, and overnight becomes a 35-year-old man, who discovers that perhaps being a child isn't so bad after all.

48. Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Cristina Marsillach Director: Moshé Mizrahi
plot- David (Hanks) is an American pilot who joins the RAF before his nation enters the war. After his plane is shot down in North Africa, he recovers from a leg injury in Jerusalem, and meets a serene Jewish girl of Spanish descent (Cristina Marsillach). The two are attracted to each other but she is convinced that their diverse backgrounds mean it could never work because of her family's disapproval and the fact that he is a gentile son of a protestant minister. Although they keep running into each other in the small community, they find themselves parting as frequently as they find each other.
Every Time We Say Goodbye is the remarkable story of a forbidden love, religious /cultural differences, and the sacrifices that are made in the face of human prejudice.

49. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell Director: Billy Wilder
plot-A married man (Tom Ewell), whose wife and son are away for the summer, has his fidelity put to the test when a seductive starlet (Marilyn Monroe) moves in upstairs. Keeping his marriage vows in the face of her flirtations proves tough when challenged by the notorious "seven year itch." Faced with this provocative problem, he's victim to an outrageous mating dance filled with hilarious comedy!

50. Bus Stop (1956)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray Director: Joshua Logan
plot-A young and innocent cowboy discovers the girl of his dreams (Marilyn Monroe) and decides to make her his wife. She is more than reluctant to accept his proposal and he forces her to board a bus headed for Montana. The road is blocked and the journey is interrupted by an overnight stay at Grace's Diner, where her plight is soon revealed to all. Realizing his brute approach will never win her heart, he apologizes and kisses her goodbye, only to discover she really has grown to love him