Coca-Cola was originally green.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

Smartest dogs: Scottish border collie Poodle Golden Retriever. Dumbest: Afghan hound.

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

Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000

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

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 if they had it to do all over again: 50%

Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400

Average number of people airborne over the US at any given hour: 61,000

Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70%

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches

Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for 'Profiles in Courage.'

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

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.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but 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 only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?

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 airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

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, and 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.

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."

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.

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

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.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."

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

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.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

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.

David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

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 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 cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

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.

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".

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.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

Did you know??

In West Virginia there is a law that states that if you are going to have sex with an animal it must weigh more than thirty pounds.

In Massachussetts blowjobs are illegal.

In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: There is a law agains having sex with a truck driver in a toll booth.

In Nevada: There is a law against having sex without a condom.

In Willowdale, Oregon: There is a law against a husband talking dirty in his wife's ear during sex.

In Clinton, Oklahoma: There is a law against masturbating while watching two people have sex in a car.

In the state of Washington: There is a law against having sex with a virgin under any circumstances (including the wedding night).

In Tremonton, Utah: There is a law against having sex in an ambulance.

In Newcastle, Wyoming: There is a law against having sex in a butcher shop's meat freezer.

In Alexandria, Minnesota: There is a law against a man having sex with his wife with the stink of onions, sardines, or garlic on his breath.

In every state in the union: There is a law against having sex with a corpse. (presumably it is the perceived *necessity* for this law that earned it a place on the list.)

In Ames, Iowa: There is a law against drinking more than three slugs of beer while lying in bed with a woman.

In Fairbanks, Alaska: There is a law against two moose having sex on the city sidewalks.

In Kingsville, Texas: There is a law against two pigs having sex on Kingsville airport property.

In Ventura County, California: There is a law against cats and dogs having sex without a permit.

In Washington, D.C.: There is a law against having sex in any position other than face-to-face.

When the husband of a Tasmanian woman dies, the law requires that she wear her dead husband's penis around her neck. The women of Gippsland,in Australia, do the same thing. (I wonder how these laws would apply to Lorena)

According to Iranian law, a man is required to perform his abutions if he ejaculates while having sex relations with an animal.

On a similar note, Citizens of most Middle Eastern countries are forbidden to eat lamb under certain circumstances covered by Islamic law. The law reads, "After having sexual relations with a lamb, it is a mortal sin to eat its flesh." (What I want to know is "Why would this have to be made?")

The law in Bhutan doesn't allow a younger brother to lose his virginity before an older brother loses his. Nor may a younger brother marry before an older brother marries.

In Uruguay, a husband who who catches his spouse in bed with another man is given an option under the current law. He has the right to kill both his wayward wife and her lover-or he can choose to slice off his wife's nose and castrate her lover! (AHHH, the joy of giving the public a choice! Capitalists would be proud)