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
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
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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 an 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.
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.
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 games (MLB, NBA,
NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day
after the Major League all-stars 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."
How about this....
The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a
rhyme about the plague Infected people with
the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring
around the rosey..."), these sores would smell
very badly so common folks would put flowers
on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously),
so that it 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!") >>
- submitted by Tuna, of OKB fame
From the Mouths of Babes
- Children's Letters To God:
Dear GOD,
Did you mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an
accident? -Norma
Dear GOD,
Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why
don't You just keep the ones You have now? -Jane
Dear GOD,
Who draws the lines around the countries?
-Nan
Dear GOD,
I went to this wedding and they kissed right in church.
Is that okay?
-Neil
Dear GOD,
What does it mean You are a Jealous God?
I thought You had everything.
-Jane
Dear God,
Did you really mean "do unto others as they do unto you"?
Because if you did, then I'm going to fix my brother!
-Darla
Dear GOD,
Thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a
puppy. -Joyce
Dear GOD,
It rained for our whole vacation and is my father mad!
He said some things about You that people are not supposed to
say, but I hope You will not hurt him anyway. Your friend.
(But I am not going to tell you who I am)
Dear GOD,
Why is Sunday school on Sunday?
I thought it was supposed to be our day of rest.
-Tom L.
Dear GOD,
Please send me a pony.
I never asked for anything before, You can look it up.
-Bruce
Dear GOD,
My brother is a rat. You should give him a tail. Ha ha.
-Danny
Dear GOD,
Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each other so much
if they had their own rooms. It works with my brother.
-Larry
Dear GOD,
I want to be just like my Daddy when I get big,
but not with so much hair all over. -Sam
Dear GOD,
I think the stapler is one of your goodest inventions.
-Ruth M.
Dear GOD,
I bet it is very hard for You to love all of everybody in the
whole world. There are only 4 people in our family and I can
never do it. -Nan
Dear GOD,
If You watch me in church Sunday, I'll show You my new shoes.
-Mickey D.
Dear GOD,
I would like to live 900 years like the guy in the Bible.
Love, Chris
Dear GOD,
We read Thomas Edison made light. But in school they said
You did it. So I bet he stoled your idea.
Sincerely, Donna