1. Coca-cola was originally green.
2. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than
for the US Treasury.
3. Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2) poodle;
3) golden retriever;
4. Dumbest--afghan
5. Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
6. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear
better.
7. Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of
where they grew up: 1 in 2
8. Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating
one olive from each
salad served first class: $40,000
9. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita:
Hong Kong
10. State with the highest percentage of people who walk
to work: Alaska
11. Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1
in 4
12. Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April:
1/12
13. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28
14. Percentage of North America that is wilderness:
38
15. Estimated percentage of American adults who go on
a diet each year: 44
16. Barbie's measurements if she were life size:
39-23-33
17. Average number of days a West German goes without
washing his underwear: 7
18. Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken
to them: 36
19. Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious
services: 43
20. City with the highest per capita viewer ship of television
evangelists:
Washington DC
21. Percentage of American men who say they would marry
the same woman
if they had it to do all
over again: 80
22. Percentage of American women who say they would marry
the same man: 50
23. Percentage of men who say they are happier after
their divorce or separation: 58
24. Percentage of women who say they are happier:
85
25. Number of different family relationships for which
Hallmark makes cards:105
26. Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven:
$6,400
27. Average number of people airborne over the US any
given hour: 61,000.
28. Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland
or Disney World: 70
29. Average life span of a major league baseball:
7 pitches.
30. Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla:
1/3
31. Portion of potatoes sold that are French fried:
1/3
32. Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each
day: 7
33. Percentage of bird species that are monogamous:
90
34. Percentage of mammal species that are: 3
35. Number of US states that claim test scores in their
elementary schools are above
national average:
50
36. Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors:
4/5
37. Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved:
1 in 7.
38. Portion of land in the US owned by the government:
1/3
39. Only President to remain a bachelor: James
Buchanon
40. Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver:
Eleanor Roosevelt
41. Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy
for Profiles in Courage
42. Only President awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln,
for a system of buoying
vessels over shoals
43. Only food that does not spoil: honey
44. Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000
Question: Dr. Joyce
Brothers (subject is boxing)
45. Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
46. Only continent without reptiles or snakes:
Antarctica
47. Only animal besides human that can get sunburn:
pig
48. Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for
water.
49. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with
it.
50. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb
trees.
51. Polar bears are left-handed.
52. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their
hair.
53. Eskimos never gamble.
54. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived
in China in 1910.
55. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
56. Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
57. Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than
horses.
58. Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
59. Your nose and ears never stop growing.
60. Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our
solar system combined.
61. Hot water is heavier than cold.
62. The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515.
63. They have square watermelons in Japan...they stack
better.
64. Cream does not weigh as much as milk.
65. Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each
leg.
66. Iceland consumes more Coca-cola per capita than any
other nation.
67. First novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom
Sawyer.
68. There are more collect calls on Father's Day than
any other day of the year.
69. Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles
per year.
70. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
71. Men get hiccups more often than woman.
72. Armadillos can be housebroken.