1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
2. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US
Treasury.
3. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
4. Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collie; 2) Poodle; 3)Golden retriever.
Dumbest: Afghan hound
5. Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
6. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
7. Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each
salad served first class: $40,000
8. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
9. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
10. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America
that is wilderness: 38%
11. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
12. Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear:
7
13. Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
14. Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
15. Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70%
16. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
17. Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for 'Profiles in Courage'
18. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
19. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
20. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
21. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
22. First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
23. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
24. 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.
25. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
26. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter
is 'uncopyrightable.'
27. Hang On Snoopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
28. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
29. 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.
30. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the 'American Pie.' (Thus the name
of the Don McLean song.)
31. When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not 'playing.' They actually
pass out from sheer terror.
32. 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.
33. 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.
34. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =12,345,678,987,654,321
35. 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.
36. 'I am.' is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
37. 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.'
38. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them
looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
39. 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.
40. An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
41. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
42. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five
must be straight. These straight sections areusable as airstrips in times
of war or other emergencies.
43. 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.
44. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. (neat)
45. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the
'General Purpose' vehicle, G.P.
46. 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.
47. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.
48. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
49. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in
Colorado.
50. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.