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Have you ever wondered?
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1.)Coca-Cola was originally green.
2.)Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
3.)Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000.
4.)City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong
5.)State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
6.)Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%
7.)Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 30%
8.)Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of 11: $6,400
9.)Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
10.)Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70%
11.)The average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
12.)The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
13.)The youngest pope was 11 years old.
14.)Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
15.)First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
16.)It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
17.)The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore, when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
18.)The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
19.)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.
20.)If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
21.)Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
22.)The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W. II 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."
23.)Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
24.)An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
25.)The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
26.)The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight.
These straight sections are usable airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
27.)In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
28.)The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of oil it burns.
29.)The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
30.)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.
31.)The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
32.)The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-star Game.
33.)The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
TECHNOLOGY
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT." But then you would have to buy more seats.
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five per cent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
10. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grab hold of the radio antenna.
11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.
12. Every time GM introduced a new model car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine.
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