DID YOU KNOW...?
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: 1) Scottish border collie; 2) Poodle; 3) Golden retriever.
dumbest: Afghan hound.
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
Most maniacal secret agent: Chives, "Hitman e' pluribus unum" for the
mysterious international foundation know as The S.I.R Foundation.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
Average number of days a West German goes without washing his
underwear: 7
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they
had it to do all over again: 80%
Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Most "mooned" CEO: Bill Gates of Microsoft.
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: John F. Kennedy 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.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
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 is
uncopyrightable.
Hang On Snoopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
Did you know that 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 figured out how to walk up straight 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.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne,
and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the
pair, 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 people without
killing them would burn their houses down - 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." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II 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."
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 and 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 it's brain.
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.
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.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
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 toilet facilities for blacks and
whites.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in
Colorado.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
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.
No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a
Superbowl.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports
are the day before the All star baseball game and the day after.
1.Why do pajamas have pockets?
2.Why do people sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they are
already there?
3.Does anybody actually enjoy the music they hear when they're on
"hold"?
4.Why is it called a hamburger when it is beef?
5.Why are they called apartments when they're all together?
6.Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?
7.How come permanents (in your hair) are temporary?
8.Before they invented golf balls, how did they measure hail?
9.Why aren't they called bakies instead of cookies?
10.Why isn't the word "phonetic" spelled the way it sounds?
11.Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
12.Do you need a silencer to shoot a mime?
13.Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
14.How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?
15.If a 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on
the doors?
16.If a cow laughed, would milk come out of her nose?
17.If nothing sticks to Teflon, how do they make the Teflon stick to the
pan?
18.Since cats always land on their feet & buttered toast always lands
butter-side down, what would happen if you tied buttered toast to the back
of a cat and tossed it?
19.If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you
turn on the headlights?
20.Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of a drive-up ATM?
21.Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
22.Why is it cargo on a ship and a shipment in a car?
23.If the little indestructible black box is indestructible, why can't they
make the whole plane out of the same substance?
24.Why is it that while you are driving and looking for an address, you turn
down the volume on the radio?
25.Will they let you buy anything specific at a general store?
26.Where do you park if you work at a fire hydrant factory?
27.When will they make a decaffeinated coffee table?
28.What is another word for thesaurus?
29.What did cured ham have before it was cured?
30.What is an occasional table when it is not a table?
31.Why is abbreviated such a long word?
32.If pro is the opposite of con, then what is the opposite of progress?
33.Do vegetarians ever eat animal crackers?
34.Why do women open their mouths when they put on mascara?
35.Why do people who know the least know it the loudest?
36.When it rains, why don't sheep shrink?
37.If police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has a right to remain silent?
38.If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?
39.What do you do when you discover an endangered animal that eats only
endangered plants?
40.When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs?
41.After eating, do amphibians have to wait one hour before getting out of
the water?
42.If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it
considered a hostage situation?
43.Why do kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
44.How do you know when it is time to tune your bagpipes?
45.Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?
46.When you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?
47.Why do they call it a TV Set when you only get one?
48.What was the best thing before sliced bread?
49.What happens if you can't remember where you planted your
forget-me-nots?
50.What does a compass do at the North Pole?
51.How do they get deer to cross the roads at those yellow signs?
52.Why do they call it "raising" a building when they tear it down?
53.When an alarm sounds, why do we say it goes "off"?
54.Why do elevators go down?
55.Why is quicksand so slow?
56.Why do packages of circus peanuts include nutritional facts?
57.Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
58.Why are builders afraid to have a 13th floor, but book publishers aren't
afraid to have Chapter 11?
59.Why do we play in recitals and recite in plays?
60.Where are Preparations A-G?
61.If knees bent backwards, what would chairs look like?
62.When you open a new bag of cotton balls, are you supposed to throw the
top one away?
63.How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?
64.Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
65.If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?
66.Why in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?
67.Can fat people go skinny-dipping?
68.Why does your nose run and your feet smell?
69.How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't live there?
70.What would Geronimo say if he jumped out of an airplane?
71.Why do light switches say on/off? When it is on you can see it is on and
when it is off you can't see to read?
72.Does a goose get people bumps?
73.Who invented the dickey? And Why?
74.Why do they call it evaporated milk if it's still there when you open the
can?
75.Who decides it's "I" before "E" except after "C"?
76.Why do umpires always turn around to sweep off home plate?
77.If we smoke in smoking jackets, and we sleep in sleeping bags,what do
we do in wind breakers?
78.Why do they sterilize needles for a lethal injection?
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