Subject: Trivia -Coca-Cola was originally green. -The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000. -City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong. -State with highest % of people who walk to work: Alaska. - % of Africa that is wilderness: 28% - % of America that is wilderness: 38% - A duck's quack does not echo and no one knows why. - Cost of raising a medium size dog to age of 11: $6400. - # of people airborne over US at any given time : 61,000. - % of Americans who have visited Disneyland/World: 70%. - Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair. - The youngest Pope was 11 years old. - Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country. - The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications. - In every episode of Seinfeld there was a Superman somewhere. - Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. - 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 learned how to walk up standard staircases. - The airplane Buddy Holly died on was named 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. - 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321. - Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people (without killing them) used to 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, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. - "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. [Some say "I Do." could be the longest sentence.] - Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. - An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's 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. The straight sections could be 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 his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie. - 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 black and whites. - The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. - The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. - 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. - 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 games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-star Game. - Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. - Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars. - The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. - It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs. - Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. - In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. - Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California. - Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can. - The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.