The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

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

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 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: (61,000)

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: (Tom Sawyer)

Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monument.

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

Hershey's Kisses are they may called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.  It's been said he worker use to lick the wrappers as they were put on by hand when the business started.

Q.  What occurs more often in December than any other month?

A.  Conception.

Q.  What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?

A.  No theme song

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

A.  Their birthplace.

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

A.  Obsession

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

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

A.  All invented by women.

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

A.  Honey

Q.  There is more collect calls on this day than any other day
of the year?

A.  Father's Day

Q.  What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?

A.  He was allergic to carrots

Q.  What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party?

A.  Snoop in your medicine cabinet.

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".

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

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.

AND FINALLY In Scotland, a new game was invented.  It was entitled "Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden" - and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

From Snopes.com:

Quoting:Claim:   Coca-Cola was originally green.

Status:   False.

Origins:   Though  this tidbit of knowledge has been widely distributed as part of an Internet "Did You Know?" list, at no time in Coca-Cola's history has that beverage been green. The original formula called for caramel to give Coca-Cola its rich brown color, and although the recipe has undergone some changes through the years, none of them affected the ultimate color of the product.

(Brown also hides impurities in any given batch, something the backroom chemist who invented Coca-Cola in 1886 kept well in mind as he proceeded with his formulation. These days syrup producers and bottlers have no impurities to hide, but back in the "three copper kettles in somebody's basement" days, covering up what might have inadvertently dropped into the mix was a concern, and brown hid indiscretions remarkably well.)

Coke has at times been bottled in green glass bottles, which perhaps explains the popularity of this particular rumor.

Barbara "rub of the green" Mikkelson

Last updated:   16 November 1999End Quote

I just defend my Deity's choice of beverage at all times!  All hail Pac-Man!

I was going to post about Snopes but I couldn't be bothered looking for the link..

At least the one about the duck's quack not having an echo wasn't in that list!  ;D

Makes me think. Is there a scientific reason for this? Anyone?

Quoting:
At least the one about the duck's quack not having an echo wasn't in that list!  ;D
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Cool post, bluntman!  8) ;D :)

Ok, here it is:
http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.htm