Tidbits of Information.
*An old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
*Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury
*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 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: 30%
*Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of 11: $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%
*The average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches
*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
*It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs
*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.
*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
*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; the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes
*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.
*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
*An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain
*The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 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 cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of oil it burns
*The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado
*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.
*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-star Game
*The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan"
*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.
*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.
*111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
*Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
*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.
*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 black light.
*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.
*Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
*In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
*It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
*Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
*There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
*The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
*Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
*The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
*When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
*It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
*The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
*Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
*Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
*Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
*On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
*In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
*Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years.
*Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6 years.
*Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
*The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
*Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
*According to one study, 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament in their yard.
*Internationally, Baywatch is the most popular TV show in history.
*Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
*The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses
*There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
*The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing
*A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
*There are more chickens than people in the world
*Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey
*The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched"
*All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20
*No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple
*"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
*All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill
*Almonds are a member of the peach family
*Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance
*Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable
*There are only four words in the English language which end in dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
*Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"-- and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
*A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
*Tigers have stripped skin, not just stripped fur
*In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
*Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer
*The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross
*When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city
*The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"
*A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours
*A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
*A dime has 118 ridges around the edge
*On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1"encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner
*It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open (DON'T try this @ home!)
*The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world
*Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself
*In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak
*The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz"
*The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
*John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles
*The average person falls asleep in seven minutes
*There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
*"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand
*Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
*In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
*You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
*An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
*Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
*Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
*The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
*A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
*A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
*The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
*Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
*The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
*In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
*Every person has a unique tongue print.
*Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
*Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
*Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
*Bubble gum contains rubber.
*You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
*Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
*The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jell-O.
*Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
*Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
*The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
*Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
*In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
*A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
*About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
*It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
*Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
*Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
*Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.
*Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
*There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
*Most lipstick contains fish scales.
*Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
*Mosquitoes have teeth.
*Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
*The three best-known Western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
*When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
*Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
*27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
*In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
*Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?)
*"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.