For your Monday Morning Edification (and perhaps complete waste of time? 🙂 )
Coca-Cola was originally green.
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400.
The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour is 61,000.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The 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.
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.
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.
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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flint-stone.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work is Alaska.
The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%. Now get this: The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%. (I have this urge to fact-check this, but if this sentence is still here, I never got to it. Anyone?)
The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
How is”wilderness” defined? Occasionally, my back yard might qualify. Yours probably does.
Good question, Kurt!! The importance of definitions!
I knew about Fred & Wilma. Everyone thinks of Lucy & Desi, the first human couple to do so. Regarding wilderness, considering vast areas of Northern Canada, North America was my guess from the start.
Thanks, Frank. Good call on the northern Canadian wilderness areas. Most of us probably forgot that.
If the humerous is broken into 2 pieces then it is possible to lick the elbow. I think it would take an enormous amount of opioids to accomplish that, but it is possible.
It is impossible to lick an elbow with an intact humerous on the same side.
‘Humorous’ answer there, Jim! 🙂