1. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

2. Coca-Cola was originally green.

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

4. Men can read smaller print than women
can; women can hear better.

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

6. The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% ---now get this...

7. The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

8. The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400

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

10. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

11. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

12. The youngest pope was 11 years old.

13. The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer

14. San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

15. 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

16. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =

12,345,678,987,654,321

17. 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.

18. "I am." is the shortest complete
sentence in the English language.

19. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

20. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.

21. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.

22. How about this.... The nursery rhyme "Ring around the Rosey" is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosey..."), these sores would smell very bad, so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously) so
that they would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!").

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

24. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS, from every other TV how? No theme song.

25. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? Their birthplace.

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

27. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? One thousand.

28. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common? All invented by women.

29. What is the only food that doesn´t spoil?
Honey.

30. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year? Father's Day.

31. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic? He was allergic to carrots.

32. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a house party? Snooping in your medicine cabinet.

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Anyone know if these are all true?

1. I thought that a real couple were the first to appear in bed together although the decency code called for one of them to keep one foot on the floor at all times (kind of like shooting pool).

2. Coca-Cola is brown. The bottles were green. The city where the Coke was bottled was molded on the bottom of the bottle. This promoted a game called "Distance," where the person who got a bottle, from a dispenser machine, that was farthest away won and the other person had to pay for the Cokes. There was also a lame joke: "What is printed on the bottom of Coke bottles made in Poland?" Answer: "Open other end."

4. I can't believe that sight and hearing are sex selective.

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2. Coca-Cola is brown. The bottles were green. The city where the Coke was bottled was molded on the bottom of the bottle. This promoted a game called "Distance," where the person who got a bottle, from a dispenser machine, that was farthest away won and the other person had to pay for the Cokes. There was also a lame joke: "What is printed on the bottom of Coke bottles made in Poland?" Answer: "Open other end."

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coke was green, it also had cocaine in it, before it was known to be bad for you.