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1) The first couple to be shown in bed together on
prime time were Fred and Wilma Flinstone.
2) Coca-Cola was originally green.
3) Everyday more money is printed for Monopoly than
the US Treasury.
4) Men can read smaller print than women can; women
can hear better.
5) The state with the highest percentage of people who
walk to work: Alaska
6) The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
now get this...
7) The percentage of North America that is wilderness:
38%
8) The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of
eleven: $6,400
9) The average number of people airborne over the US
any given hour: 61,000
10) Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in
their hair.
11) The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and
lived in China in 1910.
12) The youngest pope was 11 years old
13) The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom
Sawyer.
14) Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile
National Monuments.
15) Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a
great king from history: Spades - King David, Hearts -
Charlemagne, Clubs-Alexander the Great, Diamonds -
Julius Caesar
16) 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
17) 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.
18) 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.
19) "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the
English language.
20) Hershey's Kisses are called that because the
machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the
conveyor belt.
21) No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed
stadium has ever won a Super Bowl.
22) 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
Baseball All-star Game.
23) How about this.... 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 common folks would put flowers on their bodies
somewhere inconspicuously so that they 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!").
24) In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on
bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the
mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on.
Hence the phrase goodnight, sleep tight".
25) It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000
years ago that for a month after the wedding, the
bride's father would supply his son-in-law with
all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and
because their calendar was lunar based, this period
was called the honey month or what we know today as
the "honeymoon".
26) In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and
quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly,
the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints
and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the
phrase "mind your P's and Q's".
27) Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a
whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic
cups. When they needed a fill, they used the whistle
to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase
inspired by this practice.
28) In ancient England a person could not have sex
unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in
the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby,
they got consent of the King, the King gave them a
placard that they hung on their door while they were
having sex. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication
Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where
that came from.
29) In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was
entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden ... and thus
the word GOLF entered into the English language.
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. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the
most popular boat name requested?
A. Obsession
Q. What do bulletproof 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
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