Coca-Cola was originally green.

Every day more money is printed for “Monopoly” than the US Treasury.

The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better than men.

Hong Kong has more Rolls-Royce automobiles per capita than any other city in the world.

The average cost of raising a medium sized dog to the age of 11 is $6,400.

The average number of people airborne over the United States during any given hour is 61,000.

The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.

 

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: the spades are King David, the clubs are Alexander the Great, the hearts are Charlemange, and the diamonds are Julius Caesar.

John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only two people who signed the Declaration of

Independence on July 4, 1776. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until five years later.

“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The term “whole nine yards” came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet.  If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got the “whole nine yards.”

Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes the candies looks like it is kissing the conveyor belt.

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the Army for the “General Purpose” vehicle, G.P.

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

No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Super Bowl.

The nursery rhyme “Ring Around the Rosey” is a rhyme about the plague. People infected with the plague would get red circular sores (“Ring around the Rosey...”). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell (“pocket full of posies...”).  People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease (“ashes, ashes, we all fall down”).

“60 Minutes” is the only show in television that has never had a theme song.

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

If you were to spell out consecutive numbers, you would have to go to one thousand before finding the letter A.

The bullet-proof vest, the fire escape, windshield wipers and the laser printer were all invented by women.

Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil.

More collect calls are made on Father’s Day than any other day of the year.

Mel Blanc, the original voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.

91% of Americans surveyed by the National Turkey Federation eat turkey at Thanksgiving. The average weight of a Thanksgiving turkey is 15 pounds, which means approximately 675 million pounds of turkey are consumed in the United States each Thanksgiving.

Over the course of a year, the average American consumes 17.6 pounds of turkey.

According to the Bureau of Natural Resources, Fisheries Division, state fishermen set a few records locally. At Lake Lillinonah, Brookfield, Joseph Nett caught a Northern Pike in 1980 that weighed 29 pounds. In 1988, William Shaw caught a tiger trout from the Pootatuck River in Newtown that weighed 5 pounds 12 ounces.

In 1997, Jack Balint caught an Atlantic Bonito on Block Island Sound that weighed 8 pounds, nine ounces.