Funny Facts
1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
2. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
3. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
4. Smartest dogs:
1) Scottish border collie;
2) Poodle;
3) Golden retriever
Dumbest: Afghan hound.
5. The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
6. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
7. Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating
one olive
from each salad served first class: $40,000
8. City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong
9. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
10. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%;
percentage of North America
that is wilderness:38%
11.Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
12.Average number of days a West German goes without
washing his underwear: 7 DAYS
13. Percentage of American men who say they would marry
the same
woman if they had it to do all
over again: 80%
14. Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man:50%
15. Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
16. Average number of people airborne over the US at any given hour: 61,000
17. Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/DisneyWorld: 70%
18. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
19. Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage."
20. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
21. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
22. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
23. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
24. First novel ever written on a typewriter: "Tom Sawyer."
25. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
26. 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.
27. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
28. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without
repeating a
letter is uncopyrightable.
29. "Hang On Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.
30. Did you know that there are coffee-flavored PEZ?
31. 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.
32. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American
Pie."
(Thus the name of the
Don McLean song.)
33. When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing."
They actually pass out
from sheer terror.
34. 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.
35. 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.
36. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
37. 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.
38. 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."
39. 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.
40. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
41. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII 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."
42. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine
that makes
them looks like it's kissing
the conveyor belt.
43. 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.
44. An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.
45. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
46. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one
mile in every five
be straight. These straight
sections are usable as airstrips in times of
war or other emergencies.
47. 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.
48. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
49. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the
army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle,
G.P.
50. 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.
51. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six
inches for each
gallon of diesel that
it burns.
52. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
53. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
54. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
55. 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.
56. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed
stadium has
ever won a Superbowl.
57. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
58. 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.
59. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
60. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
61. All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
62. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over
the Parliament
building is an American
flag.
63. No word in the English language rhymes with month,
orange,
silver, or purple.
64. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
65. Almonds are members of the peach family.
66. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
67. The longest place-name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupoka-
wenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand
hill.
68. 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."
69. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
70. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
71. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh
Ramses II who fathered
over 160 children.
72. 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."
73. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
74. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
75. 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.
76. Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You"
theme?
Why it's Paul Reiser himself.
77. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked
by a radar
tube and a chocolate bar
melted in his pocket.
78. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
79. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
80. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
81. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
82. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with
only the left hand.