How
Can You Live Without Knowing These Things?
1. The first couple to be
shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
2. Coca-Cola was originally
green.
3. Every day 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 that 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 all-stars Game.
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. If you were to
spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter
"A"?
A.
One thousand.
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
Q. There are more
collect calls on this day than any other day of the year?
A.
Father's Day
Q. What trivia fact
about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
A.
He was allergic to carrots.
1. 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".
2. It was the
accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago: 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.
3. 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"
4. Many years ago in
England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their
ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some
service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
5. In Scotland, a new
game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden ... and thus
the word GOLF entered into the English language.
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