Trivia spam

I just got this in a email form a friend. Just spam, but I thought it was funny.

Sorry for the length, but this is hiow it came...

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and
Wilma Flintstone.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
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.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne,
Clubs - Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks
like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace
Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name
requested?
A. Obsession
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you
would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser
printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
Q. What is the only naturally-occurring food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey
Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year?
A. Father's Day
Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most
ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots.
Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party?
A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When
you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to
sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight."
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month
after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all
the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was
lunar based, this period was called the honey month we know today as the
honeymoon.
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when
customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints
and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and
Q's"
Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim
or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the
whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by
this practice.
In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies
Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
~~~~~~~~~~~AND FINALLY~~~~~~~~~~~~

At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

Cheers
Mick

[fatal xception]

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when
customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints
and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and
Q's"

I remember reading this.

[vass0922]

/me did not try to lick my elbow

Very nice mick, will have to add some of them to my collection

[Redwolf]

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and
Wilma Flintstone.

Dunno, can't find onfo on this.

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

I think this is true.

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

Dunno. I can hear bettert than some women I know.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/green.asp

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

Yup

The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

Not according to the US Department of Labor, South Dakota does:
http://www.bls.gov/lau/#tables
http://www.bls.gov/web/mstrtcur.gif

The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%


The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%


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


The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000


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.

Can't find info on this

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Actually, about 20:
Thax for the correction Chaos
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-an...?msg_id=0006iW

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


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


Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne,
Clubs - Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Of course, and 11x11 is 121 and 111x111 is 12321.

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



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

Actually, this is only a rumor, noone knows why kisses are called so.

Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace
Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name
requested?
A. Obsession
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you
would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser
printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.

Not true.

http://inventors.about.com/library/i...lforensic2.htm
http://inventors.about.com/library/i...r_printers.htm
http://inventors.about.com/library/i...blanderson.htm

[EndobioticChaos]

Another much more plausible explanation (and from a much more reliable source - a '70s edition of the Childcraft series that I read dozens of times when I was a kid...) about the "mind your p's and q's" dealt with old printing presses. To set the type they had to put in each letter individually, and the letters were backwards (obviously, since they had to be to print correctly...) so it was very easy to forget and get your p's and q's mixed up.

[Redwolf]

Wouldn't that be mind your p's and d's and mind your q's and b's

[EndobioticChaos]

Oh, and just noticed in that link you gave about the youngest pope... if you look at it more carefully, it says 12 is incorrect, actually he was about 20.

All over the Internet (and I mean, ALL over it), the myth is being sown by anti-Catholics that the youngest man ever elected pope was just eleven or twelve years old -- and he is sometimes named as Benedict IX.
The truth, however, is found in the Catholic Encyclopedia and in an article from a "Defending the Faith" site (by Fr. Joseph Brusher, S.J.), from which I have taken these excerpts:
[Source I] "The nephew of his two immediate predecessors, Benedict IX [became pope] when a mere youth, not, however, apparently of only twelve years of age ... but of about twenty (October, 1032)."

[draboo]

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and
Wilma Flintstone

hmmm....i was watching an old i love lucy and i was rather shocked to see the two of them in bed togather,but i m assu;ming it was because they were actually married,same with fred and wilma.

my guess is that I-L-LUCY was on the air before the flintstones,but its just a guess

[vass0922]

ya know draboo I think I read that somehwere too.. hmmm

you a little bored over there red?

[Redwolf]

Yup, really bored. Waitin till 8:30 when LoTR on PPV starts.