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Here's a list of oddball facts for y'all, that I found some time ago...
1) Men can usually read smaller printed words, but women can hear better.
2) Coca-Cola was originally green.
3) It is physically impossible to lick your own elbow (admit you just tried it).
4) Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work in the United States.
5) There are roughly 61,000 people airborne over the U.S. at any given time.
6) The first published novel ever written on a typewriter was Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer".
7) The only mobile U.S. National Monuments are San Francisco's cable cars.
8) Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a historical ruler: David for spades, Charlemagne for hearts, Alexander the Great for clubs, and Julius Caesar for diamonds.
9) Of all fifty-six signatures on the Declaration of Independence, only two were penned on July 4th, 1776: Charles Thomason & John Hancock.
10) Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
11) Verbally spelling out the English number system, you'd reach 1,000 before finding one with the letter "A" in it.
12) Invented by women: Barbie dolls, chocolate-chip cookies, circular saws, colored flares, computer compilers, dishwashers, engine mufflers, fire escapes, insulin, Kevlar, laser printers, Liquid Paper, non-reflective glass, vacuum-packing systems, and windshield wipers.
13) There are 2,293 individual patents attributed to Thomas Alva Edison.
14) The phrase "good night, sleep tight" comes from Shakespeare's time, when mattresses were secured on their frames by ropes, and tightened for firmness.
15) The word "honeymoon" comes from a Babylonian tradition, where the bride's father would give his son-in-law all the mead he could drink for an entire month. Mead is made from honey, and the ancient Babylon calendar was lunar-based.
16) The phrase "mind your P's and Q's" was originally "pints and quarts", used as a warning in old English pubs. Around the same time, regular customers would have whistles baked into their cups, used to signal a refill...hence, "wet your whistle".
17) President Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook" speech was actually broadcast from Disney World.
18) Bikini designer Louis Reard said a two-piece bathing suit couldn't be called a bikini "unless it could be pulled through a wedding ring."
19) Alaska is 75 times the size of New Jersey.
20) "Hunger Games" author Suzanne Collins also wrote for the "Clarissa Explains It All" TV series.
21) During the Cold War, the U.S. government actually considered airdropping enormous condoms labeled "Medium" on the Soviet Union.
22) The U.S. Constitution does not require the Speaker of the House of Representatives to actually be a member of the House.
23) William McKinley was on the $500 bill, Grover Cleveland was on the $1,000, and James Madison was on the $5,000.
24) Popular "Sesame Street" character Oscar the Grouch was originally colored orange.
25) "3 Musketeers" candy bars were originally split into three pieces with different flavors: vanilla, chocolate and strawberry.
26) Alaska is the only United State with a name that can be typed on one line of a typewriter or keyboard.
27) The only number whose letters are in alphabetical order is 40 (f-o-r-t-y).
28) When Coca-Cola announced the return of Coke's original formula in 1985, ABC News interrupted General Hospital to break the story.
29) The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.
30) The sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel is 666.
31) A church organization exists which holds a philosophy based on the film "The Big Lewbowski". Its appointed "ministers" are called Dudeist Priests.
32) Michael Jackson's 1988 autobiography Moonwalk was edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
33) Brenda Lee was only 13 years old, when she recorded "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree."
34) Other names considered by Walt Disney for the Seven Dwarfs included Chesty, Tubby, Burpy, Deafy, Hickey, Wheezy, and Awful.
1) Men can usually read smaller printed words, but women can hear better.
2) Coca-Cola was originally green.
3) It is physically impossible to lick your own elbow (admit you just tried it).
4) Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work in the United States.
5) There are roughly 61,000 people airborne over the U.S. at any given time.
6) The first published novel ever written on a typewriter was Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer".
7) The only mobile U.S. National Monuments are San Francisco's cable cars.
8) Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a historical ruler: David for spades, Charlemagne for hearts, Alexander the Great for clubs, and Julius Caesar for diamonds.
9) Of all fifty-six signatures on the Declaration of Independence, only two were penned on July 4th, 1776: Charles Thomason & John Hancock.
10) Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
11) Verbally spelling out the English number system, you'd reach 1,000 before finding one with the letter "A" in it.
12) Invented by women: Barbie dolls, chocolate-chip cookies, circular saws, colored flares, computer compilers, dishwashers, engine mufflers, fire escapes, insulin, Kevlar, laser printers, Liquid Paper, non-reflective glass, vacuum-packing systems, and windshield wipers.
13) There are 2,293 individual patents attributed to Thomas Alva Edison.
14) The phrase "good night, sleep tight" comes from Shakespeare's time, when mattresses were secured on their frames by ropes, and tightened for firmness.
15) The word "honeymoon" comes from a Babylonian tradition, where the bride's father would give his son-in-law all the mead he could drink for an entire month. Mead is made from honey, and the ancient Babylon calendar was lunar-based.
16) The phrase "mind your P's and Q's" was originally "pints and quarts", used as a warning in old English pubs. Around the same time, regular customers would have whistles baked into their cups, used to signal a refill...hence, "wet your whistle".
17) President Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook" speech was actually broadcast from Disney World.
18) Bikini designer Louis Reard said a two-piece bathing suit couldn't be called a bikini "unless it could be pulled through a wedding ring."
19) Alaska is 75 times the size of New Jersey.
20) "Hunger Games" author Suzanne Collins also wrote for the "Clarissa Explains It All" TV series.
21) During the Cold War, the U.S. government actually considered airdropping enormous condoms labeled "Medium" on the Soviet Union.
22) The U.S. Constitution does not require the Speaker of the House of Representatives to actually be a member of the House.
23) William McKinley was on the $500 bill, Grover Cleveland was on the $1,000, and James Madison was on the $5,000.
24) Popular "Sesame Street" character Oscar the Grouch was originally colored orange.
25) "3 Musketeers" candy bars were originally split into three pieces with different flavors: vanilla, chocolate and strawberry.
26) Alaska is the only United State with a name that can be typed on one line of a typewriter or keyboard.
27) The only number whose letters are in alphabetical order is 40 (f-o-r-t-y).
28) When Coca-Cola announced the return of Coke's original formula in 1985, ABC News interrupted General Hospital to break the story.
29) The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.
30) The sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel is 666.
31) A church organization exists which holds a philosophy based on the film "The Big Lewbowski". Its appointed "ministers" are called Dudeist Priests.
32) Michael Jackson's 1988 autobiography Moonwalk was edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
33) Brenda Lee was only 13 years old, when she recorded "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree."
34) Other names considered by Walt Disney for the Seven Dwarfs included Chesty, Tubby, Burpy, Deafy, Hickey, Wheezy, and Awful.