29 Crazy Facts About Everything
September 4, 2008 by seoHere you will learn about 29 Crazy Facts about everything, that you probably didn’t know.
The first of these 29 crazy facts about everything, is that many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled “Gentlemen Only…Ladies Forbidden”…and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
A crazy fact that you probably didn’t know is that Fred and Wilma Flintstone were the first couple that was shown on prime time TV in bed together.
A crazy fact that you might not know, is that more money for Monopoly is printed every day, than it is printed for the US Treasury.
You probably didn’t know that women can hear better than men, but men can read smaller print than women.
Did you know that the Declaration of Independence on July 4th was signed by two people only? John Hancock, and Charles Thomson. The others signed it on August 2nd, but it wasn’t until 5 years later that the last signature was added!
Alaska is the state with the highest percentage of people who go to work by foot.
Africa’s wilderness percentage is 28%; whereas, –get this- the percentage of wilderness in North America is of 38%.
Raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven costs $ 16,400. This surely is a crazy fact!
Q. Half of all Americans live a 50-mile distance from where?
A. Their birthplace!
Q. Most boats are named by their owners. So, what is the most requested and popular boat’s name?
A. Obsession
Can you believe that the only mobile National Monuments are the San Francisco Cable Cars? Well, they are!
In the 1400′s a law stated that men were not allowed to beat their wives with a stick no thicker than their thumbs; hence, “the rule of thumb” was born.
Originally, Coca-Cola was green.
Do you know what 61,000 is? The average number of people that airborne over the US at any given hour!
More zinc and copper are found in the hair of intelligent people.
Tom Sawyer was the first novel ever written on a typewriter.
Here’s a crazy fact that you may not know… yet! In a deck of playing cards, each king represents a great king in history:
The King of Clubs -Alexander, the Great
The King of Hearts – Charlemagne
The King of Spades – King David
The King of Diamonds – Julius Caesar
If you see a statue of a person on a horse and both of the horse’s front legs are in the air, it means that the person died in battle. If one of the horse’s front legs is in the air, that person died as a consequence of battle wounds. And if you see the horse’s four legs on the ground, it means the person died of natural causes.
Ropes on bed frames secured mattresses in Shakespeare’s time. When the ropes were pulled, the bed was firmer to sleep on because the mattress would tighten; thus, the “good night, sleep tight” phrase was born.
In Babylon, 4,000 years ago after a wedding, it was a common practice for the bride’s father to give his son-in-law all the mead that he could drink for a month. And since their calendar was lunar based, and mead is a honey beer, they used to call this period “the honey month”, which is now known as the “honeymoon”.
The phrase “mind your P’s and Q’s” was originated in old England, at the English pubs. Ale was usually ordered by pints and quarts… So when the customers got restless, the bartender would yell at them “Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down.”
More Crazy Facts
Many years ago, pub frequenters in England had a whistle baked into their ceramic cups’ handle or rim, so whenever they wanted a refill, they would use their whistle to get some service. This common practice was the inspiration for the phrase “Wet your whistle”.
Q. How far would you have to go until you find the letter “A”, if you were to spell out numbers?
A. One thousand! (We bet this is one of the crazy facts that you might have never even wondered about, right? It’s good to know it now!)
Q. What do the fire escapes, windshield wipers, bullet-proof vests, and laser printers have in common?
A. They were all invented by women.
Q. Do you know what is the only food that doesn’t spoil?
A. Honey
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Amzanig huh?
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Elbows are impossible to lick
And the last of these crazy facts is that… At least 75% of people who read this, will try to lick their elbows!
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