More Totally useless information ('facts' from Weird News)

“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000
An ostrich’s eye is bigger that its brain.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
Cat’s urine glows under a blacklight.
City with the most Rolls Royce’s per capita: Hong Kong
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down – hence the expression “to get fired.”
Close your eyes to the faults of others and watch the doors of friendship swing open.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades – King David, Clubs – Alexander the Great, Hearts – Charlemagne, and Diamonds – Julius Caesar.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.
How about this…. The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the plague Infected people. With the plague they got red circular sores (“Ring around the rosey…”), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it 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!”)
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
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.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
In Cleveland, Ohio, it’s illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television’s Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not renumber the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for Profiles in Courage
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
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.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%
Percentage of American women who say they’d marry the same man: 50%
Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collie; 2) Poodle; 3) Golden retriever. Dumbest: Afghan hound.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser in that order.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the American Pie. (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It To Beaver.”
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the “General Purpose” vehicle, G.P.
The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.”
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
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-Star Game.
The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The sentence “The quick red fox jumps over the lazy brown dog” uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test its teletype communications.
The term “the whole 9 yards” came from WW II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got “the whole 9 yards.”
The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1.
The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald’s Big Mac bun.
Thirty-five percent of people using personal ads for dating are already married.
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
When opossums are “playing possum,” they are not playing. They actually pass out from sheer terror.