| So...you've been through my whole page. Nothing makes your eyes light up (even though they're getting teary by the glow of your monitor). Well, you've come to the right place! Hopefully, my "Boredom" page will have you leave my site feeling somewhat enlightened! |
|
1. Coca-cola was originally green. 2. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury. 3. Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2) poodle; 3) golden retriever; 4. Dumbest--afghan 5. Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters. 6. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better. 7. Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up: 1 in 2 8. Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000 9. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong 10. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska 11. Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4 12. Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44 13. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33 14. Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7 15. Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36 16. Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43 17. City with the highest per capita viewership of television evangelists: Washington DC 18. Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80 19. Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50 20. Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58 21. Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85 22. Number of different family relationships for which Hallmark makes cards: 105 23. Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400 24. Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000. 25. Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70 26. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. 27. Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3 28. Portion of potatoes sold that are French fried: 1/3 29. Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7 30. Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90 31. Percentage of mammal species that are: 3 32. Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50 33. Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5 34. Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7. 35. Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3 36. Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanon 37. Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt 38. Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage" 39. Only President awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for a system of buoying vessels over shoals 40. Only food that does not spoil: honey 41. Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird 42. Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antartica 43. Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig 44. Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water. 45. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it. 46. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees. 47. Polar bears are left-handed. 48. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. 49. Eskimos never gamble. 50. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. 51. The youngest pope was 11 years old. 52. Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school. 53. Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses. 54. Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner. 55. Your nose and ears never stop growing. 56. Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined. 57. Hot water is heavier than cold. 58. The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515. 59. They have square watermelons in Japan...they stack better. 60. Cream does not weigh as much as milk. 61. Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg. 62. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation. 63. There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year. 64. Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year. 65. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. 66. Men get hiccups more often than woman. 67. Armadillos can be housebroken. 68. The hacky-sack was invented in Turkey. 69. The ice cream sundae got it's name by a law set in Illinois in the 1800's, stating that you can't buy fountain sodas on Sunday. So the ice cream parlors got together and came up with a new invention -- the soda syrup on ice cream minus the soda water. They sold this on Sundays and called it the ice cream sundae. 70. Kermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott, a childhood friend of Jim Henson's, who became a Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. 71. The longest English word consisting entirely of consonants (and not including "y" as a vowel) is the word "crwth" which is from the fourteenth century and means crowd. 72. Roger Ebert won the 1959 Illinois High School Association State Speech competition in Radio. 73. The way you can usually tell whether a chicken will lay white eggs or dark eggs: If the chicken has white ear lobes, she will lay white eggs. If the chicken has red ear lobes she will lay brown eggs. 74. The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator. 75. In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value. 76. Quebec and Newfoundland are the only two Canadian provinces which do not allow personalized license plates. 77. Zip code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y 78. Try dividing 81 into 99999999999. 79. The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days. 80. The Netherlands and the United States both have national anthems which do not mention their country's name. |
