Strange and Interesting Facts

Did You Know?
--The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
--Coca-Cola was originally green.
--The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
--The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
--The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
--The youngest pope was 11 years old
--The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
--The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
--San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
--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
--111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
--The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
--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.
--"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
--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 or what we know today as the "honeymoon".
--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 their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's".
--In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden. Thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
--What occurs more often in December than any other month? Conception.
--What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show? No theme song.
--What is the only food that doesn't spoil? Honey