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