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Stop The Factoids

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class.
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%.
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33 (99-58-83).
Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7.
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%.

Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400.
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland / DisneyWorld: 70%.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (e.g., two-way radios in taxicabs) but did they did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David. Clubs - Alexander the Great. Hearts - Charlemagne. Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the “General Purpose” vehicle, G.P..
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is CURRENTLY necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports events (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.”

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Rams in 2000 spoil the factoid about dome team winning the superbowl…

Interesting Facts. I had no clue that Coke used to be Green. They got rid of Vanilla Coke up here In Canada, and that was my favorite. I had no clue that Iceland consumed more Coke Than any other nation. That kind of seems awkward. Which Country invented Coke Anyway?

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