The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television
were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.Coca Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men.
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%.
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.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII 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".The phrase "Rule of Thumb" is derived from an old English law which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your
thumb.The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.The nursery rhyme Ring Around The Rosey is a rhyme about the
plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores
(Ring Around the Rosey) .. these sores would smell very badly so common folk would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores (a pocket full of posies...). People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease (ashes, ashes, we all fall down).What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser
printers all have in common? All were invented by women.The only food that doesn't spoil? Honey.
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by
ropes...when you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened, making the
bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "good night, sleep tight"
came from.The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave it To Beaver".
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every
year....so BE CAREFUL!!It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month
after a couple's wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law
with all of the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because
their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know today as the "honeymoon".In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England,
when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind
their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase
"mind your P's and Q's".Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the
rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they
used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle," is the phrase
inspired by this practice.
Barbara Midberry
Submitted by Shawn Keally, California, USA