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2. Coca Cola was originally green. 3. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury. 4. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better. 5. The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work? Alaska. 6. The percentage of Africa that is wilderness? 28% (now get this.....) 7. The percentage of America that is wilderness? 38% 8. The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6400.00 9. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. 10. The world's youngest parents were eight and nine and lived in China in 1910. 11. The youngest pope was eleven years old. 12. The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer. 13. The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments. 14. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades: King David; Hearts: Charlemagne; Clubs: Alexander the Great; Diamonds: Julius Caesar. 15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 16. 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. 17. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2nd, but the last signature wasn't added until five years later. 18. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 19. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. 20. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Super Bowl. 21. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. 22. The nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosy" is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (ring around the rosy), these sores would smell very bad, so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere inconspicuously so that they would cover the smell of the sores (a pocket-full of posies). People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease (ashes, ashes, we all fall down.) Q. What occurs more often in December that any other month? A. Conception. Q. What separates "60 Minutes" on CBS from every other TV show? A. No theme song. Q. Half of all Americans live within fifty miles of what? A. Their birthplace. Q. Most boat owners name their boat. What is the most popular boat name? A. Obsession. Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? A. One thousand. Q. What do bullet-proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers have in common? A. They are all invented by women. Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil? A. Honey. Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year: A. Father's Day. Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic? A. He was allergic to carrots. Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party? A. Snooping in your medicine cabinet. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When one pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on.....hence the phrase, "goodnight, sleep tight." In olden times, it was an accepted practice that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey wine and because old calendars were lunar-based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know today as the "honeymoon." In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when someone got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to "mind their own pints and quarts and settle down!" It's where we get the phrase, "mind your P's and Q's." Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic mugs. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice. In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled, "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden"......and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.  |