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Date Posted: 14:49:47 01/23/02 Wed
Author: Neria
Subject: Fun Facts

Fun facts sent by Deb!

HOW CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT KNOWING THESE THINGS?
>
>1. The first couple to be shown in bed together on TV;
>Fred and Wilma Flintstone
>

>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 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 possibility of spreading the disease
>(".ashes, ashes, we all fall down!").
>
>24. Conception occurs more often in December than any
>other month.
>
>25. The difference between "60 Minutes" on CBS and
>every other TV Show - no theme song.
>
>26. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of
>their birthplace
>
>27. Most Boat owners name their boats. The most
>popular boat name requested is Obsession.
>
>28. If you were to spell out numbers you would have to
>go to one thousand to find the letter "A".
>
>29. Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers
>and laser printers were all invented by women.
>
>30. Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
>
>31. On Father's Day there are more collect calls than
>on any other day of the year.
>
>32. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs
>Bunny) is the most ironic? He was allergic to carrots.
>
>
>33. Snooping in your medicine cabinet is an activity
>performed by 40% of all people at a party.
>
>34. 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,"
>
>35. 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.
>
>36. 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,"
>
>37. 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.

THIS ONE MAY BE OFFESIVE!
>
>38. 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 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.
>
>39. 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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