HERE ARE SOME INTERESTING FACTS...
Coca Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.
Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men.
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
City with the most Roll Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
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.
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.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it is 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.
The Interstate system was designed so that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of fuel that it burns.
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 people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell ("pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down")
Q: What occurs more often in December than 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 50 miles of what?
A: Their Birthplace.
Q: What is the most popular name that boat owners name their boats?
A: Obsession
Q: If you were to spell out consecutive 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 all have in common?
A: All invented by women
Q: What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A: Honey
Q: There are more collect calls made on this day than any other?
A: Fathers Day
Q: What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is most ironic?
A: He was allergic to carrots
And did you know ...
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it.)
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!)
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.) (I'm still not over the pig.)
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Do not try this at home...... maybe at work.)
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. ("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes... lucky pig... can you imagine??)
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)
Butterflies taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know.)
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmm........)
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (OK, so that would be a good thing....)
A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)
Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.)
Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (What about that pig??)