II Did Not Know That

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?
A. Obsession

Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to
count until you found 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 were invented by women.

Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey

Q.There are more collect calls on what 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 TV 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 and smell
better.

The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work is
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 age eleven: $6,400.

The average number of people airborne over the US at any given hour
is 61,000.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

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.

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
gallonof 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
aroundthe rosey"). The sores would smell very badly so common folks would
put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it
would mask 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").

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