Trivia

Posted November 18, 1997

Source, unknown - Contributed by Dave Herman, Chamblee, GA

Music Control

Battle of the Sex's
- Men get hiccups more often than women.
- Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910
- 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 would marry the same man - 50%
- Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation - 58%
- Percentage of women who say they are happier - 85%
- Number of different familial relationships for which Hallmark makes cards - 105
Behavior
- Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
- Your nose and ears never stop growing.
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
- Eskimos never gamble.
- The youngest pope was 11 years old.
- Day of the year with the most phone calls - Mother's Day.
- Day of the year with the most collect phone calls - Father's Day.
- Chances that an American lives within 50 mi of where he/she grew up: 1 in 2.
- City with the most Rolls Royces per capita - Hong Kong
- State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work - Alaska. (maybe 'cause their cars won't start??)
- Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them - 36%
- Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services - 43%
- City with the highest per capita viewership of TV evangelists - Washington DC
- Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour - 61,000
- Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World - 70%
Diets, Fast Food, & Coca Cola
- Coca-cola was originally green. Thats strange...my nonfat sour cream was originally white!
- Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
- Only food that does not spoil - honey
- Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles PER YEAR.
- Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla - 33%
- Portion of potatoes sold that are French-fried - 33%
- Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day - 7%
- Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year - 44%
- Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class - $440,000. Bonus points if you can also answer this in mg of sodium!
Education, Innovation, Personalities
- Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average - 50%
- Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
- Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors - 80%
- Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved - 1 in 7
- Portion of land in the US owned by the government - 1/3
- Only President to remain a bachelor - James Buchanan
- Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt
- Only president to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy, for "Profiles in Courage"
- Only president awarded a patent - Abe Lincoln, for a system of buoying vessels over shoals.
- President who discovered a new proof for The Pythagorean Theorem - Jimmy Carter.
- Barbie's measurements (if she were life-size) - 39-23-33
Language and Literature
- The phone book in Iceland is alphabetic...by first name.
- The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
- First novel ever written on a typewriter - "Tom Sawyer"
Money
- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury. ....and its worth about the same!
Nature
- Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
- An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
- In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
- Polar bears are left-handed.
- Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
- Armadillos can be housebroken; they are also the only mammals that do not dream.
- It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. that explains the mess in the attic.
- Percentage of bird species that are monogamous - 90%
- Percentage of mammal species that are monogamous - 3%
- Only bird that can fly backwards - Hummingbird
- Only continent without reptiles or snakes - Antarctica
- Only animal besides human that can get sunburn - Pig - both the two legged and four legged varieties....
- Chances of a white Christmas in New York - 1 in 4
- Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April - 1/12
- Percentage of Africa that is wilderness - 28%
- Percentage of North America that is wilderness - 38%
Science and Technology
- The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515.
- They have square watermelons in Japan ... they stack better.
- Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
- Average life span of a major league baseball - 7 pitches.