Odd Facts

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: afghan

Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

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 first class: $40,000

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

Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36

City with the highest per capita viewership of TV evangelists: Wash., 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

Cost of raising a medium-sized dog to the age of eleven: $6,400

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:

Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90

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

Only food that does not spoil: honey

Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (subject is boxing)

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.

Hot water is heavier than cold.

The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515.

They have square watermelons in Japan…they stack better.

Starfish have eight eyes–one at the end of each leg.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

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.

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

Men get hiccups more often than woman.

Armadillos can be housetrained.