POINTS TO PONDER
>SOME FACTS TO PONDER > >Coca-Cola was originally green. > >Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation. > >Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for 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 dog >1. 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 in first class: $40,000. > >City with the most Rolls Royce automobiles per capita: Hong Kong > >State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska > >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 to do it 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 > >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 Prize: 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. > >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 >renumber the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has >channels 2 and up, but no channel 1. > >The San Francisco's Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments > >The only 15 letter word in the English language 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 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. > >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. > >111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 > >If a statue of a soldier on a horse has both front legs in the air, >the soldier died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the >air, the soldier died as a result of wounds received in battle. If >the horse has all four legs on the ground, the soldier died of >natural >causes. > >Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of 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 Prowes, the actor portraying Darth Vader in Star Wars. Spoke >all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be >re-voiced by James Earl Jones until he saw 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 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 games (MLB, NBA, >NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League >Baseball All-Star Game. > >Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. > >The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."