Coca-Cola was originally green.
-It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
-Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
-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%
-Average number of days a West German goes without washing his
underwear: 7 (I wonder how they discovered THIS?)
-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
if they had it to do all over again: 50%
-Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
-Average number of people airborne over the US at 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
-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.
-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 re-number
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.
-Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
-The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days
of old 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, 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 2nd, 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 Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars.
He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be
Dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of 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's 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 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."
worthless facts...but interesting
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quote:Smelly, too. As mori's response will be, I'm sure.
"-Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7 (I wonder how they discovered THIS?)" Thats staggering.
The only one I know not to be true:
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
I had 10 ducks at one time and had to round them up occasionally...usually by trapping them in the barn. They get very upset when cornered and their quacks ehcoed off the tin walls in the barn to a deafening level.
A wonderful collection, but I contest these two:
>> - If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; . . . <<
Then why does Andrew Jackson's horse -- his statue stands in Jackson Square in the French Quarter -- have both forelegs in the air? Jackson won the Battle of New Orleans, but he didn't die in that or any other battle.
>> -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. <<
No! This has been disproved many times. See Christina Hoff Sommers's Who Stole Feminism? on this myth. She wrote:
"[This rule] is not to be found in William Blackstone's treatise on English common law. On the contrary, British law since the 1700s and our American laws predating the Revolution prohibit wife beating, though there have been periods and places in which the prohibition was only indifferently enforced." Have a look here: http://www.debunker.com/texts/ruleofthumb.html
As for cat urine glowing under a blacklight: so do scorpions. Talk about a creepy thing to see!
-- Paul W.
"I had 10 ducks at one time and had to round them up occasionally...usually by trapping them in the barn. They get very upset when cornered and their quacks ehcoed off the tin walls in the barn to a deafening level."
You may have debunked this "worthless fact", now, how do we investigate this German Underwear situation. I'm not volunteering.
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What's "underwear"? ![[Confused]](images/icons/confused.gif)
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Oh.
quote:Something your wife makes you wear when your are going out to dinner. (As opposed to bib overalls which said wife won't allow when going out to dinner).
Originally posted by moribundman: What's "underwear"?
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Do barking spider's echo?
quote:Another Leave it to Beaver first. -The first direct reference to sexual relations between television sitcom parents. June: "Ward, you were little hard on the Beaver last night."
-The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
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What's a beaver?
And what's a toilet?
PS: The one who actually gives a serious reply gets a gift from me.
quote:One of the most challenging songs to play on drums: Tom Sawyer
Originally posted by Schmoe: -First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
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But wouldn't you play Tom Sawyer on tom-toms?
Mori is a commando?
A beaver is a large, aquatic rodent which builds dams and lodges, and from what I've seen, should know better than to attempt to cross a road.
A toilet was originally a dressing table where a person placed his grooming tools and stuff.
I knew about the whole nine yards stuff, but I heard it orignated in Britain, not the Pacific.
And what kind of perv wants to lead a cow upstairs?
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