LITTLE KNOWN FACTS.

We have arrived at Friday again. See I told you the week goes by so fast. This should be Wednesday or something. Days melting into days, my sands in the hours glass sifting through so quickly. If I only I could pick up the glass and turn it over, start it over. Alas I have not the power. Nor do any of us. Make it count the sands whisper as they slide quickly, make it count.

I have decided today I will dazzle you with little known facts. I am sure you have been waiting just for me to do that. Right? After I had gotten these facts together, I asked two people if they knew Coca Cola had once been green. They both knew. So maybe these aren't as little known as I thought, except to me. Whatever, here goes.

LITTLE KNOWN FACTS


Coca-Cola was originally green.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served first class: $40,000.

City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.

State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

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 (I wonder how they discovered THIS?
I guarantee it wasn't original research on my part.)

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 if
they had it to do all over again: 50%

Average number of people airborne over the US at any given hour: 61,000

Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70%

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches

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

First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of
old 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.)

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
2nd, 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 and old English law
which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

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.

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.

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan.

So now you have suffered through all these facts. Are you dazzled yet? I hope so. For now I'm outta here.