Weird Facts #7

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

The Ten Commandments contain 297 words.

The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words.

A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26, 911 words.

There are more collect calls made on Father's Day than on any other day.

Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.

Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men.

The world's youngest parents were 8 & 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey...). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell ("pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down").

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

American Airlines saved $40, 000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

Timekeepers have clocked the action in a 60 minute football game to actually be around 14 minutes.

The word "funky" appears in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers.

A domestic cat has eighteen claws: five on each of its front paws and four on each of its back paws.

The tip of a whip makes a cracking sound because it is moving faster than the speed of sound.

An ear of corn almost always has an even number of rows (twelve, fourteen, or sixteen).

Earthworms have five hearts.

Whale vomit is used in perfume and the flavoring of dried fruit and tobacco.

All Polar bears are left handed.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

A shrimp's heart is in its head.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetic Spaghetti specially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

Posted: 2:53 p.m. EST June 30, 2006 by me ts