Q. What occurs more often in
December than any other month?
A. Conception.
Q. What separates "60
Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
A. No theme song.
Q. Half of all Americans live within
50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace.
Q. Most boat owners name their boats.
What is the most popular boat name requested?
A. Obsession
Q. If you were to spell out numbers,
how far would you have to go until you would find the letter
"A" ?
A. One thousand
Q. What do bullet proof vests, fire
escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in
common?
A. All invented by women.
Q. What is the only food that doesn't
spoil?
A. Honey
Q. There are more collect calls on
this day than any other day of the year?
A. Father's Day
Q. What trivial fact about Mel Blanc
(voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots.
Q. What is an activity performed by
40% of all people at a party?
A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
Did you know...
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.
Men can read smaller print than women; women
can hear & smell better.
The State with the highest percentage of
people who walk to work: Alaska
The percentage of Africa that is wilderness:
28%
The percentage of North America that is
wilderness: 38%
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the
age of eleven: $6,400
The average number of people airborne over
the US any given hour: 61,000.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper
in their hair.
That San Francisco Cable cars are the only
mobile National Monuments.
Each king in a deck of playing cards
represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the
Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; Diamonds - Julius Caesar
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321
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.
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.
"I am." is the shortest complete
sentence in the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came
from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When
arming their airplanes on the ground, the . 50 caliber
machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before
being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired
all their ammo at a target, it got "The whole 9
yards."
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the
machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor
belt.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is
derived from an old English law which stated that you
couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation
used in the army for the "General Purpose"
vehicle, G.P.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves
only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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.
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 badly
so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere
(inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the
sores. ("a pocket full of posies"). Furthermore,
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").
