Awkward's Humour and Sillies
Strange But True
- Coca-cola was originally green.
- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
- Smartest dogs:
- border collie;
- poodle;
- golden retriever;
- Dumbest dog: Afghan
- Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
- Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
- Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up: 1in 2
- Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000
- City with the most Rolls Royce's 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
- Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
- Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36%
- Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43%
- City with the highest per capita viewership of television evangelists: Washington 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 after their divorce or separation: 85%
- Number of different family relationships for which Hallmark makes cards: 105
- 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.
- 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: 733.
- Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90%
- Percentage of mammal species that are: 3%
- Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50%
- 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 Buchanon
- 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. JoyceBrothers (subject is boxing)
- Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
- Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antartica
- 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 in our solar system 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.
- Cream does not weigh as much as milk.
- 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.
- Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
- It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
- Men get hiccups more often than woman.
- Armadillos can be housebroken.
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