"Did you know" conversation starters (don't know if they are true or false) . . .

[Toon]

"Did you know" conversation starters (don't know if they are true or false) . . .

• Coca-Cola was originally green.
• Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury
• Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
• Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
• Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000
• Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
• Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
• 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'd marry the same man: 50%
• 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/Disney World: 70%
• 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.
• Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
• First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
• 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 re-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
• Hang On Snoopy 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
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and 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
• Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired"
• 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 Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
• David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere
• The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
• The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
• The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
• Cat's urine glows under a blacklight
• 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 Superbowl.
• 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-stars 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."
• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
• Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
• In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
• A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
• Polar bears are left handed.
• The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
• A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
• The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. (ouch, it better be good!)
• Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (thankfully)

[El Peligroso]

santa's suit was originally green until he was 'sponsored' by coca cola and they had him wearing the now infamous red suit...

[Toon]

Originally Posted by Toon

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.

Sounds like a one night stand at Roxies!!

[James Jones]

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar

Never knew that before

[graphic-designer-joe]

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair

who invents this stuff