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

Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men. Women can also smell better than men.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

Cost of raising a medium sized dog to the age of 11: $6,400.

Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour:61,000.

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

The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer

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:
1.. Spades - King David
2.. Clubs - Alexander the Great
3.. Hearts - Charlemagne
4.. Diamonds - Julius Caesar

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 (Very interesting indeed!)
Check it out!

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on 4 JULY: John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on 2 AUG, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

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

The term "whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the 50-caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got the "whole 9 yards".

The Interstate system was designed so that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. The Interstates official name is The National Defense Highway System.

The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only 6" for each gallon of fuel that it burns.

Thanks Uncle Don for this one

Just when you thought you knew everything....

1. In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.

2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days.

3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl... Let The "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean.

4. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from china (plates).

5. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

6. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

7. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.

8. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan; wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.

9. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains.

10. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

Your lips appear red because of the concentration of tiny capillaries (a type of blood vessel) just below the skin. The blood in these vessels is bright red because it is highly oxygenated. Lips turn blue in cold weather because the cold causes the capillaries to constrict and the blood loses oxygen and becomes darker. When a person has lost a great deal of blood, or is anemic, the lips appear pale.

Hiccups are muscle spasms in the throat and diaphragm. The sound they make is caused by rapid closure of the vocal cords. It is generally believed that these abrupt diaphragmatic contractions do not serve any useful purpose. Hiccups often start for no apparent reason and they usually disappear after a few minutes. Rarely, hiccups can persist for days, weeks, or months. The best way to get them to stop is to relax and forget about them so the diaphragm and throat will calm down. Perhaps this is what some home remedies for hiccups are based on (such as scaring a person).

When astronauts remain weightless in space for prolonged periods, their bones lose a measurable amount of weight and thickness. So weightlessness actually causes them to shrink.

How long is a fruitcake edible? Quite a long time (that is, if you consider it edible to begin with). According to "The Joy of Cooking" by Irma Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker, fruitcakes "well-wrapped and stored in airtight tins, are reputed to remain enjoyable for as long as 25 years; we have not sampled one." The cakes are saturated with alcoholic liquors to keep down mold (and, of course, to taste better).

According to Pennsylvania Dutch and French tradition, "Bells Nichols" is Santa Claus' brother. He is said to visit every home on New Year's Eve and fill empty plates with cakes and cookies. Guess he's making up for all those sweets Santa took on Christmas Eve.

Humans have fewer bones as they grow older.

Infants are born with 300 to 350 bones. As they grow up, some of those bones fuse together. The average adult has just 206 bones. Those bones don't weigh that much, either. On average, the skeletal system accounts for less than twenty percent of your weight.

How many basic tastes are there.

It's usually said that there are four basic tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. However, the Japanese add the taste 'umami' and some Western food scientists are beginning to take the idea of a fifth taste seriously. 'Umami' has been variously translated as 'savory,' 'pungent,' and 'meaty.' The taste is conveyed by several substances naturally occurring in foods, such as glutamates and aspartates.

Your mother was right! When you frown, you use 43 muscles! Only 17 muscles are used to smile.

Humans aren't the only animals that use mosquito repellent. Capuchin monkeys living in the tropical forests of Venezuela anoint themselves with the oils produced by millipedes by massaging the little creatures into their fur. The oils are rich in defensive chemicals called benzoquinones, which prevent mosquitoes from harassing the millipedes. 'We think this is the clearest case yet' of an animal's using organic material for medicinal purposes, Ximena Valderrama, a graduate student in anthropology at Columbia University, told the New York Times. 'We're fortunate that the chemical analysis leaves very little room for doubt.'

Do millipedes really have 1,000 legs?

Millipedes are commonly known as 'thousand leggers,' but they usually only have a measly few hundred legs. The MOST number of legs counted on a millipede is 752. (Most have less than 200-300.) You'd think that all those legs would make them extraordinarily fast, but having too many legs, like too many cooks, is not necessarily efficient. Because of the numerous legs, the animals walk slowly, with a wavelike motion of the legs down the body. However, the legs do provide the force needed to burrow into the ground.

Monkeys are divided into two easy-to-remember categories: Old World monkeys and New World monkeys. Old World monkeys, including baboons and macaques, are more closely related to apes and humans. New World monkeys, found only in the Western Hemisphere, include tamarins, marmosets, and capuchins. The cute little monkey that spied on Indiana Jones and Marion was a capuchin, but capuchins don't live in northern Africa where the film takes place! They range from northern South American north to southern Mexico, depending on the species. Here's an interesting fact: The capuchin monkey was named after a European hairstyle because the distinctive crown of hair resembles the cowl, or capuche, of an order of Franciscan friars. Capuchins, the stereotypical 'organ grinder monkeys,' are extremely intelligent monkeys, demonstrating cue-producing behaviors and the use of tools. Their intelligence and even temperament make them excellent choices for film and television roles.

If 99.9% is good enough then.... 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped/year 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled/hour 2,000,000 documents will be lost by the IRS this year 2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong covers Two planes landed at Chicago's O'Hare airport will be unsafe every day 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written this year 880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic strips 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly during the year 5.5 million cases of soft drinks produced will be flat 291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly 3056 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections A typical day would be 24 hours long (give or take 86.4 seconds) George W. Bush would be the next President of the United States. (or possibly Al Gore)

What Does the M&M stand for on a M&M ?
A: Mars and Murrie... The twos Head of Of M&M CO. in 1940's

The youngest presidents.

John F Kennedy was the youngest to be ELECTED at 43 But not the YOUNGEST Theodore roosevelt at the age of 42 was after he moved up when the assassinated William McKinley in 1901

THE OLDEST PRESIDENT of US

RONALD REAGAN at age 69

Family Presidents

Of course George Bush & George Bush But there was also John Quincy Adams 6th president was son of John Adams 2nd president
Also Benjamin Harrison 1889 president Grandson of William Henry Harrison who was president in 1841.
2 cousins presidents were Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt.

Presidents Killed while in office

4 of them: Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, James Garfield by Charles Guiteau, William McKinley by Leon Czolgosz, & John F Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald.

THE WHITE HOUSE WASN'T ALWAYS WHITE

After British troops captured Washington DC During the war of 1814 Forcing James Madison and his wife to flee, They burnt the White house.
After it was rebuilt they painted the GREY virginia sand stone white to hide the smoke stains left behind.

RECORD OFFICE TERMS

Now a days our presidents can only serve 2 terms equaling 8 years But Franklin Roosevelt was in office for 12 years.

The term Teddy Bear came from Theodore Roosevelt which was his nick name. He disliked it and refuse to shoot bears On a hunting trip in Mississippi.

Only 1 Prime Minister has been assassinated
Spencer Perceval, who was shot at point blank range in the lobby of the house of commons on May 11 1812. John Bellingham was the assassin.

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