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                    Fascinating Facts

* Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

* Coca-cola was originally green

* Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US
Treasury

* Smartest dogs: 1) border collie 2) poodle 3) golden retriever

* Dumbest: afghan

* The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters

* The 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 women

* Men can read smaller print than women. Women can hear better

* Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where he / she
grew up: 1 in 2

* The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served first class: $440,000

* The city with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong

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

* The chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4

* The portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12

* The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28

* The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38

* The estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each
year: 44

* The percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36

* The percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services:
43

* The city with the highest per capita viewership of TV evangelists:
Washington, DC

* The percentage of American men who say they would marry the same
woman if they had it to do all over again: 80

* The percentage of American women who say they would marry the same
man: 50

* The percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce
or separation: 58

* The percentage of women who say they are happier: 85

* The number of different familial relationships for which Hallmark
makes cards: 105

* The average number of people airborne over the US in any given hour:
61,000

* The percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney
World: 70

* The average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches

* The portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3

* The portion of potatoes sold that are French-fried: 1/3

* The percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7

* The percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90

* The percentage of mammal species that are: 3

* The number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary
schools are above national average: 50

* The portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5

* The chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7

* The portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3

* The only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanan

* The only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt

* The only president to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy, for "Profiles
in Courage"

* The only president awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for a system of
buoying vessels over shoals

* The only food that does not spoil: honey

* The only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird

* The only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica

* The only animal besides a human that can get a 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 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

* Starfish have eight eyes-one at the end of each leg

* Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation

* Armadillos can be housebroken


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