Useless Facts
- Coca-cola was originally green.
- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
- Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2) poodle; 3) golden retriever; Dumbest--afghan
- The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
- Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
- Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000
- City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
- State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
- 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
- Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
- 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 family relationships for which Hallmark makes cards: 105
- Cost of raising a medium-size 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
- 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
- Only food that does not spoil: honey
- Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
- Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antartica
- Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig
- Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
- 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 youngest pope was 11 years old.
- 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 in our solar system combined.
- Hot water is heavier than cold.
- They have square watermelons in Japan...they stack better.
- Cream does not weigh as much as milk.
- 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.
- Heinz Tomato Ketchup 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.