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-The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
-Coca-Cola was originally green.
-Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
-It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
-Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collie; 2) Poodle; 3) Golden Retriever. Dumbest: Afghan hound.
-The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
-Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
-Amount that 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%
-If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33, and she wouldðstand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
-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'd marry the same man: 50%
-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/Disney World:70%
-Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
-Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage"
-Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
-The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
-The youngest pope was 11 years old.
-Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
-First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
-A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
-In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1 (of course, this was pre-cable TV).
-The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
-The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
-Hang On Snoopy is the official rock song of Ohio. (Note: Real title is "Sloopy")
-Did you know that there are coffee-flavored PEZ?
-The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
-The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (hence the name of the Don McLean song.)
-When possums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
-The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
-Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades -King David, Clubs -Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds -Julius Caesar.
-The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.
-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.