BUNCH OF INTERESTING FACTS


Coca-cola was originally green.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.

Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2) poodle;  3) golden retriever

Dumbest: afghan

Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where he/she grew up:
1 in 2

Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served first class:  $40,000

City with the most Rolls Royces per capita:  Hong Kong

State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work:  Alaska

Chances of a white Christmas in New York:  1 in 4

Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April:  1/12

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness:  28

Percentage of North America that is wilderness:  38

Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year:  44

Barbie's measurements if she were life size:  39-23-33

Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them:  36

Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services:  43

City with the highest per capita viewership of TV evangelists:
Washington, DC.

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 would marry the same man: 50

Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or
separation: 58

Percentage of women who say they are happier:  85

Number of different familial relationships for which Hallmark makes
cards: 105

Cost of raising a medium-sized 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 or Disney World: 70

Average life span of a major league baseball:  7 pitches.

Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla:  1/3

Portion of potatoes sold that are French-fried:  1/3

Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonald's each day:  7

Percentage of bird species that are monogamous:  90

Percentage of mammal species that are:  3

Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools
are above national average:  50 (number, not per cent)

Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors:  4/5

Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved:  1 in 7

Portion of land in the US owned by the government:  1/3

Only President to remain a bachelor:  James Buchanan

Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver:  Eleanor Roosevelt

Only president to win a Pulitzer:  John F. Kennedy, for "Profiles in
Courage"

Only president awarded a patent:  Abraham Lincoln, for a system of
buoying vessels over shoals

Only food that does not spoil:  honey

Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce
Brothers (her subject was boxing)

Only bird that can fly backwards:  Hummingbird

Only continent without reptiles or snakes:  Antarctica

Only animal besides human that can get sunburn:  Pig

Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

Polar bears are left-handed.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Eskimos never gamble.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.

Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.

Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.

Your nose and ears never stop growing.

Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.

Hot water is heavier than cold.

The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515.

They have square watermelons in Japan. They stack better.

Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

First novel ever written on a typewriter was "Tom Sawyer."

There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the
year.

Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

Men get hiccups more often than woman.

Armadillos can be housebroken.


  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
  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.

  No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and
  purple.

  Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without
  killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get
  fired."

  Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

  There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

  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 WWII 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."

  The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

  The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

  The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

  The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

  Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

  Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden.
  The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic
  stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to
  prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and
  been too sleepy to realize that *this* was the day of the changeover.

  The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II
  killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

  Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."

  In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."

  Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

  More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

  The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from
  Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye
  gouging."  Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be
  disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.

  A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

  The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

  Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them
  looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

  Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

  Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

  The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
  stated that you could beat your wife with anything that wasn't wider
  than your thumb - (regardless of whether she deserved it).

  An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

  The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds