· Did you know that Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital?
· Or that Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing?
· The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Uses every letter in the alphabet. (developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications)
· In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
· Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
· 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 Pre-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
· 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 Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
· 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." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
· When opossums 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.
· The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
· Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
· If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19.You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
· No NFL team, which plays its home games in a domed stadium, has ever won a Super Bowl.
· The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver".
· 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-star Game.
· Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
· The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
· In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
· It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
· Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
· There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
· The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
· The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
· When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
· It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
· The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
· Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
· Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
· Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
· On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
· In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
· Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
· Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years.
· Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
· The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
· Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
· According to one study, 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament
in their yard.
· Internationally, Baywatch is the most popular TV show in history.
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