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| Conception occurs most often in December than in any other month. The thing that separates 60 Minutes on CBS from every other TV show is that it has no theme song. Half of all Americans live within fifty miles of their birthplace. If you were to spell out numbers, you would have to count to one thousand before you found the letter "a". Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women. The only food that doesn't spoil is honey. There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year. That ironic fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is that he was allergic to carrots. The activity performed by 40% of all people at a party is to snoop in the medicine cabinet. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Coca-Cola was originally green. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear and smell better. The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work is Alaska. The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38% The average number of people airborne over the US at any given hour is 61,000. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments. If a statue in the park of a person on a horst 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. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the S. Pacific. When arming their planes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." 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. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. The nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosey" is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores "ring around the rosey". The sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would mask the smell of the sores "a pocket full of posies". Furthermore, people who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease "ashes, ashes, we all fall down". The only animal besides a human that can get sunburned is a pig. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation. Men get hiccups more often than women. Montpelier, Vermont, is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald's. An average of 13 boxes of Jell-O are purchased ever second in the United States. The very first ice cream cone appeared in St. Louis at the 1904 World's Fair. |