DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW?
 111,111,111 X111,111,111=12,345,678,987,654,321
 If the statue in a park 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, then the person died of natural causes.
 no word in the English language rhymes with orange, silver, or purple.
 Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down—hence the expression, “to get fired”
 Canada is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”.
 There are 2 credit cards for every person in the us.
 Only 2 people signed the declaration of independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thompson. Most of the rest signed on august 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later.
 “I am”. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
 The term “the whole 9 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, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got “the whole 9 yards”.
 The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
 The word “samba” means “to rub navels together”.
 The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
 The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
 Mel Blanc (the voice of bug’s bunny) was allergic to carrots.
 Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to the right-hand was done on a week day at 5p.m. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time of the day was chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have woken up in the morning and been to sleepy to realize this was the day of the change over.
 The first bomb dropped by the allies on Berlin during WWII killed the only elephant in Berlin Zoo.
 Dr.Suess pronounced “suess” such that it rhymed with “rejoice.”
 In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said “Play it again, Sam.”
 Sherlock Holmes never said, “Elementary, my dear Watson.”
 More people are killed by donkeys than in air crashes.
 The term “It’s all fun and games until one person loses an eye” is from ancient Rome. The only rule in wrestling matches was no gouging out eyes. Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone’s eye out.
 A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
 The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.
 Hershey’s kisses are called that because the machine makes them look like it is kissing the conveyer belt.
 Money isn’t made out of paper, it is made out of cotton
 Every time you lick a stamp, you are consuming 1/10th of a calorie.
 The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than you thumb.
 An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain
 The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.