Here are some facts I found fastinating!
Things You Might Have Learned In School,
Had You Paid Attention.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television:
Fred and Wilma Flintstone
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
Smartest dogs? Scottish border collie, poodle, golden retriever.
Dumbest? Afghan hound
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served first class: $40,000.
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28 percent
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38 percent
Barbie's measurements if she were life size, average height: 39-23-33
Average number of days a West German goes
without washing his underwear: 7 days
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same
woman if they had it to do all over again: 80 percent
Percentage of American women who say they'd marry
the same man: 50 percent
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches
Only President to win a Pulitzer: JFK for Profiles in Courage.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
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.
The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter:
"uncopyrightable."
"Hang On Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.
There are coffee-flavored PEZ.
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 had figured out how to walk up staircases.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie."
(Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing."
They actually pass out from sheer terror.
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.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades: King David; Clubs: Alexander the Great;
Hearts: Charlemagne; Diamonds: Julius Caesar.
Monument protocol: If a park statue 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.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted
kinsmen without killing them would burn their houses;
hence the expression "to get fired."
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.
"I am." and I do." are the shortest complete sentences in the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards" originated with WW I fighter pilots in
the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the.50
calibre machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet long, prior
to being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at
a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that
makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
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.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.
Some humans have similar ocular superiority.
They see things they can't understand.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
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.
In every episode of Seinfeld, there is a Superman somewhere.
(No, it is not Kramer.)
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
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 facilities for blacks and
whites. (Thought: Is it because there’s a lot of sh*t in the Pentagon?)
The Queen Elizabeth II cruise liner gets 6 ipg - that's six inches of
movement for every gallon of diesel fuel consumed by the engines.
The highest point in Pennsylvania
is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
(Remember that when your mother-in -law comes to visit!!!)
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.
As of 2000, no NFL team which plays its home games in a domed
stadium had ever won a Super Bowl.
Neither had the Patriots.
The first toilet ever seen on television: on "Leave It To Beaver."
(Go, Beave!)
The only two days of the year in which there are no major league
sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL): The day before
and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
After all, baseball isn't a sport, it's a "pastime."
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 years or older.
One may be your irritating cousin.
The name Wendy was created for the book "Peter Pan."
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