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Well they are supposed to be true anyway, I had trouble believing a few :hehe:
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1.Abraham Lincoln was born in 1808. John F. Kennedy was born in 1908. Lincoln became president in 1860. JFK became president in 1960. They were both killed on Fridays. Booth who shot Lincoln was born in 1839 and Oswald who shot JFK was born in 1939. Lincoln's personal assistant was Kennedy while Kennedy's personal assistant was Lincoln. The names of the presidents elected after Lincoln and Kennedy were both Johnson's.
2. 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. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
3. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
4. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired."
5. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."
6. Only two people signed the American 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 five years later.
7. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
8. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
9. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo.
10. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
11. The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye," is from ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was: "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.
12. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
13. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
14. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
15. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
16. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a
calorie.
17. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
18. An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
19. Cat's urine glows in a blacklight.
20. Coca-Cola was originally green.
21. Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000.
22. City with most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.
23. State with highest % of people who walk to work: Alaska.
24. Percent Of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percent Of America that is wilderness: 38%
25. A duck's quack does not echo and nobody knows why.
26. Cost of raising a medium sized dog to age of 11: $6400.
27. # Of people airborne of US at any given time: 61,000
28. % Of Americans who have visited Disney Land/World: 70%
29. Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.
30. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
31. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country.
32. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications.
33. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
34. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
35. In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way taxicabs, for instance) but did now re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
36. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
37. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
38. Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
39. Did you know that there are coffee flavored Pez?
40. 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.
41. The airplane Buddy Holly crashed in was the "American Pie." Thus the name of the Don McLean song.
42. When opossums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
43. 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.
44. 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.
45. 111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
46. "I Am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
47. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
48. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
49. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for black and whites.
50. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
51. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
52. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
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1.Abraham Lincoln was born in 1808. John F. Kennedy was born in 1908. Lincoln became president in 1860. JFK became president in 1960. They were both killed on Fridays. Booth who shot Lincoln was born in 1839 and Oswald who shot JFK was born in 1939. Lincoln's personal assistant was Kennedy while Kennedy's personal assistant was Lincoln. The names of the presidents elected after Lincoln and Kennedy were both Johnson's.
2. 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. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
3. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
4. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired."
5. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."
6. Only two people signed the American 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 five years later.
7. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
8. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
9. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo.
10. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
11. The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye," is from ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was: "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.
12. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
13. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
14. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
15. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
16. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a
calorie.
17. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
18. An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
19. Cat's urine glows in a blacklight.
20. Coca-Cola was originally green.
21. Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000.
22. City with most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.
23. State with highest % of people who walk to work: Alaska.
24. Percent Of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percent Of America that is wilderness: 38%
25. A duck's quack does not echo and nobody knows why.
26. Cost of raising a medium sized dog to age of 11: $6400.
27. # Of people airborne of US at any given time: 61,000
28. % Of Americans who have visited Disney Land/World: 70%
29. Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.
30. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
31. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country.
32. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications.
33. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
34. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
35. In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way taxicabs, for instance) but did now re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
36. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
37. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
38. Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
39. Did you know that there are coffee flavored Pez?
40. 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.
41. The airplane Buddy Holly crashed in was the "American Pie." Thus the name of the Don McLean song.
42. When opossums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
43. 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.
44. 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.
45. 111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
46. "I Am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
47. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
48. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
49. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for black and whites.
50. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
51. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
52. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
