Strange Facts

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.

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.

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 Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?

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


"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.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman
somewhere.

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.

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.