Facts I'm Not Sure You Really Need to Know:
** In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
** Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
** A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
** 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.
** 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
** The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
** The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five
must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times
of war or other emergencies.
** 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.
** No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a
Superbowl.
** The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
** The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
** In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
** It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's
supply of footballs.
** Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
already married.
** Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
** It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.
** Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of
their hands.
** Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of
vodka.
** The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
** On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
** In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's
nuclear weapons combined.
** Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
** Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
** In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
** Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
** A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
** 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.
** 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
** The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
** The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five
must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times
of war or other emergencies.
** 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.
** No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a
Superbowl.
** The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
** The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
** In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
** It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's
supply of footballs.
** Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
already married.
** Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
** It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.
** Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of
their hands.
** Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of
vodka.
** The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
** On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
** In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's
nuclear weapons combined.
** Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
** Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
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