Some facts you can't live without knowing Coca-cola was originally green. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than US Treas. Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better. Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where he or she grew up: in 2 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 Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4 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 Avg. number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7 Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36 Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43 City with the highest per capita viewership of television evangelists: Washington DC 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 familial 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 Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. 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 Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5 Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3 Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanon Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for _Profiles in Courage_ Only President awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for a system of buoying vessels over shoals Only food that does not spoil: honey Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (subject was boxing) 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. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it. 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. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. The youngest pope was 11 years old. Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school. Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses. Your nose and ears never stop growing. Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined. Hot water is heavier than cold. The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515. They have square watermelons in Japan...they stack better. Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg. Iceland consumes more Coca-cola per capita than any other nation. There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. Men get hiccups more often than woman. Armadillos can be housebroken. Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling. 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. Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University. Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many places -- refers to "40 days," they meant many days. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. 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 year later. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII 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." The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy." Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston. The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y". The word "samba" means "to rub navels together." The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive--so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.) Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator. It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize *this* was the day of the changeover. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice." In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam." Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott". Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life" The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown differently during times of peace or war. A portion of the flag is blue, while the other is red. The blue portion is flown on top in time of peace and the red portion is flown in war time. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute. The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him. Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk. If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation. Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike. The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified is to poke someone's eye out. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living. 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 Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of linen. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.