Some Facts

• Coca-cola was originally green.
• Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treas.
• Smartest dogs: 1)border collie; 2)poodle; 3)golden retriever
• Dumbest: afghan
• Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
• Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
• Chances that an American lives within 50 mi of where he/she grew up: 1 in 2
• Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000
• City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong
• State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
• Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4
• Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12
• Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28
• Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38
• Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44
• Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
• Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36
• Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43
• City with the highest per capita viewership of TV evangelists: Wash., DC.
• 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 would marry the same man: 50
• Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58
• Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85
• Number of different familial relationships for which Hallmark makes cards:105
• Cost of raising a medium-sized 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 or Disney World: 70
• Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
• Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3
• Portion of potatoes sold that are French-fried: 1/3
• Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7
• Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90
• Percentage of mammal species that are: 3
• Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50
• Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
• Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7
• Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
• Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanan
• Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt
• Only president to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy, for _Profiles in Courage_
• Only president awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for a system of buoying vessels over shoals
• Only food that does not spoil: honey
• Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (subject is boxing)
• Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
• Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica
• Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: Pig
• Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
• An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
• In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
• Polar bears are left-handed.
• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
• Eskimos never gamble.
• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
• The youngest pope was 11 years old.
• Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
• Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
• Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
• Your nose and ears never stop growing.
• Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
• Hot water is heavier than cold.
• The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515.
• They have square watermelons in Japan...they stack better.
• Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.
• Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
• First novel ever written on a typewriter was _Tom Sawyer_.
• There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
• Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
• Men get hiccups more often than woman.
• Armadillos can be housebroken.