Odds-n-Ends . Volume 04 | Issue 01

Things You Need To Know!

1.The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were 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%

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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. 111,111,111x 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 all-stars Game.
23. How about this…. The nursery rhyme “Ring around the Rosey” is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (“Ring around the rosey…”), 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. There are more people living today than have ever died.
25. There are more chickens in the world than people.
26. Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?
A. Conception.
27. Q. What separates “60 Minutes,” on CBS from every other TV show?
A. No theme song.
28. Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace.
29. Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
A. Obsession
30. Q. If you were to spell out numbers in order, how far would you have to go before you found the letter “A”?
A. One thousand.
31. Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers have in common?
A. They were all invented by women.
32. Q. What is the only food that doesn’t spoil?
A. Honey.
33. Q. What day of the year are the most collect calls made?
A. Father’s Day.
34. Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc(the voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots.