Odd Facts

-Barbie's measurements (if she were life-size): 39-23-33

-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 dog: 1) afghan

-The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters

-First novel ever written on a typewriter was "Tom Sawyer"

-There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year

-Heinz Catsup 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 women

-Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better

-Chances that an American lives within 50 mi of where he/she grew up: 1 in 2.

-Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $440,000

-City with the most Rolls Royces 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

-Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12

-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

-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 TV 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

-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

-Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50

-Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5

-Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7

-Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3

-Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanan

-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

-President who discovered a new proof for The Pythagorean Theorem: Jimmy Carter

-Only food that does not spoil: honey

-Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird

-Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica

-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

-Eskimos never gamble

-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

-Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner

-Your nose and ears never stop growing

-Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined

-The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515

-They have square watermelons in Japan ... they stack better

-Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation