Thread: Stuff you didn't know you didn't know!

Stuff you didn't know you didn't know!


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Every
day more money
is printed for Monopoly than the
U.S. Treasury.

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Men
can read smaller
print than women can; women
can hear better.

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Coca-Cola was
originally green.

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It
is impossible to lick
your elbow.

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The
State with the
highest percentage of people who
walk to work:
Alaska

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The
percentage of
Africa that is wilderness:
28%
(now get this...)

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The
percentage of
North America that is wilderness:
38%

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The
cost of raising
a medium-size dog to the age of
eleven:
$ 16,400

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The
average number
of people airborne over the U.S.
in any given hour:

61,000

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Intelligent
people
have more zinc and copper in their
hair..

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The
first novel ever
written on a typewriter, Tom
Sawyer.

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The
San
Francisco
Cable cars are
the only mobile
National
Monuments.

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Each
king in a deck
of playing cards represents a
great king from
history:

Spades
- King David

Hearts
- Charlemagne

Clubs
-Alexander,
the
Great

Diamonds
- Julius
Caesar

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111,111,111
x
111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,
654,321

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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 because of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has all four legs on
the ground, the person died
of natural
causes

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Only
two people
signed the Declaration of
Independence on
July 4, John Hancock
and Charles
Thomson. Most
of the rest signed on August
2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

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Q.
Half of all
Americans live within 50 miles of
what?

A.
Their birthplace

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Q.
Most boat owners
name their boats. What is the
most popular boat
name requested?

A.
Obsession

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Q..
If you were to
spell out numbers, how far would
you have to go until you
would find the letter
'A'?

A.
One thousand
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Q.
What do
bulletproof vests, fire escapes,
windshield wipers and laser
printers have in
common?

A.
All were invented
by women.

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Q.
What is the only
food that doesn't
spoil?

A.
Honey

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Q.
Which day are
there more collect calls than any
other day of
the
year?

A.
Father's Day

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In
Shakespeare's
time, mattresses were secured on
bed frames by ropes.
When you pulled on the ropes,
the mattress tightened,
making the bed firmer to
sleep on. Hence the
phrase...'Goodnight , sleep
tight'

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It
was the accepted
practice in
Babylon 4,000 years ago
that for a month after
the wedding, the
bride's father would supply his son-in-law
with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a
honey beer and because
their calendar was lunar
based, this period was called the
honey month,
which we know today as the
honeymoon.

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In
English pubs, ale
is ordered by pints and
quarts... So in old England ,
when customers got unruly, the bartender
would yell at them 'Mind
your pints and quarts,
and settle down.'

It's
where we get
the phrase 'mind your P's and
Q's'

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Many
years ago
in England
, pub
frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim,
or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill
they used the whistle to get some service.
'Wet your whistle'
is the phrase inspired by
this practice.

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At
least 75% of
people who read this will try to
lick their
elbow!
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YOU
KNOW
YOU ARE LIVING IN 2011 when...

1.
You accidentally
enter your PIN on the
microwave.

2.
You haven't
played solitaire with real cards in
years.

3.
You have a list
of 15 phone numbers to reach
your family of three.

4.
You e-mail and text the
person who works at the
desk next to you.

5.
Your reason for
not staying in touch with
friends and family is that they
don't have e-mail or
text addresses.

6.
You pull up in
your own driveway and use your
cell phone to see if anyone is
home to help you
carry in the groceries...

7.
Every commercial
on television has a web site
at the bottom of the
screen

8.
Leaving the house
without your cell phone,
which you didn't even have the first
20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now
a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

10.
You get up in
the morning and go on line before
getting your coffee.

11.
You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
: )

12
You're reading
this and nodding and
laughing.

13.
Even worse, you
know exactly to whom you are
going to forward
this message.

14.
You are too busy
to notice there was no #9 on
this list.

15.
You actually
scrolled back up to check that
there wasn't a #9 on
this list

I got a kick out of those, but it's also impossible to rape a woman with a dress on?

Women run much faster with dress up than man do with their pants down.