12/30/04 - Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
12/29/04 - A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
12/28/04 - Tess Trueheart was the wife of Dick Tracy.
12/27/04 - If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
12/26/04 - Humans have 24 ribs.
12/25/04 - On Christmas Day, 1989, Eastern Europe was permitted to celebrate Christmas freely and openly for the first time in decades. Church masses were broadcast live for the first time in history.
12/23/04 - Three years after Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb in 1879, Edward H. Johnson, who worked for Edison's company, had Christmas tree bulbs especially made for him. He proudly displayed his electric tree lights at his home on Fifth Avenue, New York City. They caused a sensation although some years were to pass before mass-manufactured Christmas tree lights were widely available.
12/22/04 - In 1907, Oklahoma became the last USA state to declare Christmas a legal holiday.
12/21/04 - Epiphany, 6th January, is the traditional end of the Christmas holiday and is the date on which we take down the tree and decorations. To do so earlier is thought to bring bad luck for the rest of the year. From the middle ages until the mid-nineteenth century, Twelfth Night was more popular than Christmas day, and even today some countries celebrate Epiphany as the most important day of the Christmas season.
12/20/04 - Theodore Roosevelt, a staunch conservationist, banned Christmas trees in his home, even when he lived in the White House. His children, however, smuggled them into their bedrooms.
12/19/04 - Christmas Day in the Ukraine can be celebrated on either December 25, in faithful alliance with the Roman Catholic Gregorian calendar, or on January 7, which is the Orthodox or Eastern Rite (Julian calendar), the church holy day.
12/18/04 - Originally, Christmas decorations were home-made paper flowers, or apples, biscuits, and sweets. The earliest decorations to be bought came from Nuremburg in Germany, a city famous for the manufacture of toys. Lauscha in Germany is famous for its glass ornaments. In 1880, America discovered Lauscha and F.W. Woolworth went there and bought a few glass Christmas tree ornaments. Within a day he had sold out so next year he bought more and within a week they, too, had sold. The year after that be bought 200,000 Lauscha ornaments. During the First World War supplies of ornaments from Lauscha ceased, so American manufacturers began to make their own ornaments, developing new techniques that allowed them to turn out as many ornaments in a minute as could be made in a whole day at Lauscha.
12/17/04 - Frustrated at the lack of interest in his new toy invention, Charles Pajeau hired several midgets, dressed them in elf costumes, and had them play with "Tinker Toys" in a display window at a Chicago department store during the Christmas season in 1914. This publicity stunt made the construction toy an instant hit. A year later, over a million sets of Tinker Toys had been sold.
12/16/04 - The table for Christmas Eve dinner in the Ukraine is set with two tablecloths: one for the ancestors of the family, the other for the living members. In pagan times, ancestors were believed to be benevolent spirits who, when shown respect, brought good fortune.
12/15/04 - "White Christmas" (1954), starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, was the first movie to be made in Vista Vision, a deep-focus process.
12/14/04 - The Christmas season begins at sundown on 24th December and lasts through sundown on 5th January. For that reason, this season is also known as the Twelve Days of Christmas.
12/13/04 - "Hot cockles" was a popular game at Christmas in medieval times. It was a game in which the other players took turns striking the blindfolded player, who had to guess the name of the person delivering each blow. "Hot cockles" was still a Christmas pastime until the Victorian era.
12/12/04 - On Christmas Day, 1989, Eastern Europe was permitted to celebrate Christmas freely and openly for the first time in decades. Church masses were broadcast live for the first time in history.
12/11/04 - In France, Christmas is called Noel. This is derived from the French phrase "les bonnes nouvelles," which means literally "the good news" and refers to the gospel.
12/10/09 - Animal Crackers are not really crackers, but cookies that were imported to the United States from England in the late 1800s. Barnum's circus-like boxes were designed with a string handle so that they could be hung on a Christmas tree.
12/09/04 - A Christmas club, a savings account in which a person deposits a fixed amount of money regularly to be used at Christmas for shopping, came about around 1905.
12/08/04 - Christmas trees are edible. Many parts of pines, spruces, and firs can be eaten. The needles are a good source of vitamin C. Pine nuts, or pine cones, are also a good source of nutrition.
12/07/04 - In Finland and Sweden an old tradition prevails, where the twelve days of Christmas are declared to be time of civil peace by law. It used to be that a person committing crimes during this time would be liable to a stiffer sentence than normal.
12/06/04 - Franklin Pierce was the first United States' president to decorate an official White House Christmas tree.
12/05/04 - Candy canes began as straight white sticks of sugar candy used to decorated the Christmas trees. A choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral decided have the ends bent to depict a shepherd's crook and he would pass them out to the children to keep them quiet during the services. It wasn't until about the 20th century that candy canes acquired their red stripes.
12/04/04 - Alabama was the first state to recognize Christmas as an official holiday. This tradition began in 1836.
12/02/04 - An artificial spider and web are often included in the decorations on Ukrainian Christmas trees. A spider web found on Christmas morning is believed to bring good luck.
12/01/04 - "Wassail" comes from the Old Norse "ves heill"--to be of good health. This evolved into the tradition of visiting neighbors on Christmas Eve and drinking to their health.
11/30/04 - Most spiders have 8 eyes.
11/29/04 - Snow kills hundreds of people in the United States each year. The primary snow-related deaths are from traffic accidents, overexertion, and exposure, but deaths from avalanches have been steadily increasing.
11/23/04 - According to historical accounts, the first Christmas in the Philippines was celebrated 200 years before Ferdinand Magellan discovered the country for the western world, likely between the years 1280 and 1320 AD.
11/22/04 - Each year an average of 105 snow-producing storms affect the continental United States. A typical storm will have a snow-producing lifetime of two to five days and will bring snow to portions of several states.
11/21/04 - The tradition of the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving is steeped in myth and legend. Few people realize that the Pilgrims did not celebrate Thanksgiving the next year, or any year thereafter, though some of their descendants later made a "Forefather's Day" that usually occurred on December 21 or 22. Several Presidents, including George Washington, made one-time Thanksgiving holidays. In 1827, Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale began lobbying several Presidents for the instatement of Thanksgiving as a national holiday, but her lobbying was unsuccessful until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln finally made it a national holiday with his 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation.
11/19/04 - If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
11/15/04 - Name of the B-29 that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima : Enola Gay
11/14/04 - Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean McBricker.
11/13/04 - An elephant's average heart beat is 25 times a minute.
11/12/04 - Name of the B-29 that dropped the atom bomb on Nagasaki : Bock's Car
11/09/04 - Rainy day cure for dog odor... Next time your dog comes in from the rain, simply wipe down the animal with Bounce or any dryer sheet, instantly making your dog smell springtime fresh.
11/08/04 - Rosemary, oregano, thyme and marjoram all belong to the mint family.
11/07/04 - Before settling on the name of Tiny Tim for his character in "A Christmas Carol," three other alliterative names were considered by Charles Dickens. They were Little Larry, Puny Pete, and Small Sam.
11/05/04 - Nationwide, the average snowfall amount per day when snow falls is about two inches, but in some mountain areas of the West, an average of seven inches per snow day is observed.
11/04/04 - John Clayton Jr. was the childhood name of the fictional character Tarzan.
11/03/04 - Number of Twinkies that Twinkie inventor Jimmy Dewie ate in his lifetime : 40,177
11/02/04 - The three-mile coastal territorial limit from the United States coastline was determined by the distance that coastal cannons could fire a shell.
11/01/04 - There seven distinctive types of combs on chickens: rose, strawberry, single, cushion, buttercup, pea, and V-shaped.
10/28/04 - Halloween candy sales average about 2 billion dollars annually in the United States
10/26/04 - Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft.
10/25/04 - Of all canned fruits and vegetables, pumpkin is the best source of vitamin A. Just a half-cup of the orange stuff has more than three times the recommended daily requirement.
10/24/04 - Black cats, those customary Halloween icons, were originally believed to be witches' familiars, a kind of cosmic sidekick who protected the witches' powers from negative forces.
10/23/04 - The Roman Catholic Church created All Saints Day (also called Hallomas) on November 1st to honor Saints and All Souls Day on November 2and to honor and pray for the souls of the dead. These holidays were created by the church, in part to downplay the pagan holidays. Needless to say, it did not succeed. Halloween as we know it today, has grown from the ancient Druid Holiday.
10/22/04 - Halloween was commonly referred to as "All Hollows" Eve. It originated from the pagan holiday honoring the dead.
04/21/04 - It is believed that the Irish began the tradition of Trick or Treating. In preparation for All Hallow's Eve, Irish townsfolk would visit neighbors and ask for contributions of food for a feast in the town.
10/19/04 - When Irish Immigrants came to America, they quickly discovered that Jack O'Lanterns were much easier to carve out and began using them. This truly neat tradition quickly spread to the general population in America and elsewhere.
10/17/04 - The Irish carved Turnips and put coals or small candles inside. They were placed outside their homes on All Hallow's Eve to ward off evil spirits. They were also known to use potatoes and Rutabagas.
10/16/04 - Pumpkins have inhabited the planet for several thousand years. They originated in Central America. They were used then (and now) as a food crop. Over the course of centuries, pumpkins spread their vines across all of North and South America. When Europeans arrived in the New World, they found pumpkins plentiful and used in cooking by Native Americans. They took seeds back to Europe where they quickly became popular.
10/15/04 - Halloween's roots can be traced back to Celtic culture in Ireland. According to their "Druid" religion, November 1st was New Years' on their calendar. The celebration would begin on October 31st ,and last into the following day. The spirits of all who died in the prior year, would rise up and roam the earth on this night.
10/13/04 - Lima beans were grown in Beverly Hills, California before it became home to the rich and famous.
10/12/04 - The seven colors of the rainbow are: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
10/11/04 - There are 62,000 miles of arteries, capillaries and veins in the adult human body.
10/10/04 - The asparagus belongs to the lily family, as are the onion and garlic.
10/07/04 - About 500 meteorites hit the earth each year. Most of them go unrecorded falling into oceans, deserts and other uninhabited areas.
10/06/04 - A full moon is 10 times brighter than a half moon.
10/05/04 - The slug has 4 noses and 3,000 tiny teeth.
10/04/04 - In 1996, Switzerland became the last country to disband it's carrier pigeon program. It's army owned 7,000 pigeons and had another 23,000 privately owned birds on standby in case of a national emergency.
10/03/04 - There are four places in the United State with the word "chicken" in their name. Chicken, Alaska; Chicken Bristle; in Illinois and Kentucky; and Chicken Town, Pennsylvania.
10/01/04 - The oldest church bells in the United States are in Boston's Old North Church. They were made in England in 1744 and shipped to Boston.
09/29/04 - The ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel was painted blue with silver stars before Michelangelo painted his famous fresco.
09/28/04 - Oscar the Grouch's pet worm on Sesame Street is named Slimey.
09/27/04 - The earth travels 18.5 miles per second in it's orbit around the sun.
09/26/04 - Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
09/25/04 - In 1891 the United States government bought Alaska's Eskimos 16 Siberian reindeer.. it was the start of the state's herd.
09/22/04 - The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
09/21/04 - All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
09/20/04 - A crocodile can travel up to 30 miles and hour on land and 20 miles an hour in water.
09/19/04 - The outer layer of our skin, the epidermis, replaces itself about once every 4 weeks.
09/17/04 - Chlorine is the most plentiful element in seawater.
09/16/04 - The theft of a pig triggered the legendary feud between the Hatfields and McCoys.
09/15/04 - Dog mushing is the state sport of Alaska.
09/14/04 - The skeleton of an average 160 pound person weighs approximately 29 pounds.
09/12/04 - Teflon was put between the steel framework and the copper skin of the restored Statue of Liberty to prevent corrosion.
09/09/04 - Johnny Matthis dubbed Miss Piggy's singing voice in The Muppet Movie.
09/08/04 - A cow belches approximately 35 cubic feet of gas on an average day.
09/07/04 - The maximum life span of a goldfish in cpativity is 25 years.
09/06/04 - The sound of thunder travels about 1,100 feet per second.
09/03/04 - A group of rhinoceroses is called a crash.
09/02/04 - During World War I, Thomas Edison directed U.S. Navy research in torpedo mechanisms and anti-submarine devices.
09/01/04 - A Christmas club, a savings account in which a person deposits a fixed amount of money regularly to be used at Christmas for shopping, came about around 1905.
08/30/04 - Who was the last man on the moon? ~ Neil Armstrong
08/29/04 - Boris Karloff's real name was William Henry Pratt.
08/28/04 - Benjamin Franklin had two years of schooling.. one year in grammar school and one with a private teacher.
08/27/04 - Boston was the first American city to establish a police department. It was created May 5, 1838.
08/26/04 - The Mayfly lives 6 hours. It takes 3 years for its eggs to hatch.
08/25/04 - It takes a bee 40,000 trips from flower to hive to make a pound of honey.
08/23/04 - The name of Edgar Bergen's female dummy was Effie Klinker.
08/22/04 - Wolf was the name of the dog with Rip Van Winkle when he fell asleep for 20 years.
08/20/04 - Lana Lang was Clark Kent's high school sweetheart.
08/19/04 - An item must contain 92.5% silver to be considered sterling.
08/18/04 - Sore Throat? Just mix 1/4 cup of vinegar with 1/4 cup of honey and take 1 tablespoon six times a day. The vinegar kills the bacteria.
08/17/04 - Drinking two glasses of Gatorade can relieve headache pain almost immediately without the unpleasant side effects caused by traditional pain relievers.
08/12/04 - Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
08/11/04 - The record for laying the most eggs: seven in one day.
08/10/04 - Crickets hear through their knees.
07/28/04 - McDonald's in india doesn't serve beef -- only chicken, mutton and fish. [Source: notice displayed in McDonalds bombay outlet ]
07/27/04 - Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
07/26/04 - Kool-Aid to clean dishwasher pipes. Just put in the detergent section and run a cycle, it will also clean a toilet.
07/24/04 - Balm for broken blisters... To disinfect a broken blister, dab on a few drops of Listerine... a powerful antiseptic.
07/22/04 - In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
07/21/04 - February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
07/20/04 - Cure urinary tract infections with Alka-Seltzer. Just dissolve two tablets in a glass of water and drink it at the onset of the symptoms. Alka-Seltzer begins eliminating urinary tract nfections almost instantly -- even though the product has never been advertised for this use.
07/16/04 - No word in the English language rhymes with month.
07/15/04 - Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt.
07/14/04 - "The Star Spangled Banner" was adopted as the national anthem in 1931.
07/11/04 - In 1903 only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
07/09/04 - A vexillogist is an expert in flag history.
07/08/04 - Betsy Ross developed a technique for folding a piece of cloth so all it took was one snip to cut a perfect star.
07/07/04 - Quaker Oats, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa is the largest cereal company in the world.
07/06/04 - A star is added to the flag on the Fourth of July following a state's admission to the United States.
07/05/04 - The national flower of Russia is the Sunflower.
07/03/04 - There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
07/02/04 - There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
06/30/04 - The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
06/28/04 - The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
06/27/04 - Since Bounce is designed to help eliminate static cling, wipe your television screen with a used sheet of Bounce to keep dust from resettling.
06/24/04 - 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
06/23/04 - Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
06/22/04 - Pearls melt in vinegar.
06/21/04 - Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
06/20/04 - Chickens make sounds with actual meaning. They give different alarm calls when threatened by different predators.
06/19/04 - Only First Lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt
06/17/04 - The chicken can travel up to 9 miles per hour.
06/16/04 - Assumed age of the oldest living tree, a bristle pine in California named Methuselah : 4700 years
06/14/04 - Ripley's Believe It or Not has dubbed Burlington, Iowa's Snake Alley the most crooked street in the world.
06/13/04 - Sherlock Holmes never said 'Elementary, my dear Watson.'
06/12/04 - Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
06/10/04 - Use a sheet of Bounce to wipe up sawdust from drilling or sand papering. It will collect sawdust like a tack cloth.
06/09/04 - Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
06/08/04 - Heinz catsup leaving the bottle travels 25 miles per year.
06/07/04 - Beaver Cleaver's locker number was #9.
06/03/04 - A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long.
06/02/04 - Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
05/28/04 - Eskimos never gamble.
05/24/04 - Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.
05/23/04 - In 1903 one in ten US adults couldn't read or write.
05/15/04 - The largest chicken egg on record was nearly 12 oz., measuring 12 1/4" around.
05/14/04 - Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
05/13/04 - You can fix cracks in china by simmering the piece in milk for 40 minutes.
05/12/04 - The lobster draws in water through it's legs and lets it out through it's head. That's how it breathes.
05/08/04 - Fenlon Place Elevator in Dubuque, Iowa is the world's steepest and shortest railway.
05/06/04 - Bounce fabric softener sheets deodorizes shoes. Place a sheet of Bounce in your shoes or sneakers overnight.
05/02/04 - Average number of frogs eaten by the French yearly : 200,000,000
05/01/04 - Bounce fabric softener sheets repel mice.. spread them around foundation areas, or in trailers, cars that are sitting and it keeps mice from entering your vehicle.
04/29/04 - The Sergeant Floyd Monument in Sioux City, Iowa honors the only man to die during the Lewis and Clark expedition.
04/25/04 - Use a Bounce sheet to collect cat hair. Rubbing an area with a sheet of Bounce will magnetically attract all the loose hair.
04/22/04 - Tie a sheet of Bounce through a belt loop when outdoors during mosquito season,it repels mosquitoes.
04/21/04 - Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
04/20/04 - Portion of land in the U.S. owned by the government: 1/3
04/19/04 - Prevent thread from tangling. Run a threaded needle through sheet of Bounce before beginning to sew.
04/17/04 - Strawberry Point, Iowa is the home of the world's largest strawberry.
04/15/04 - In the four major US professional sports, (Baseball, Basketball, Football, and Hockey), there are only seven teams whose nicknames do not end with an "S:" Basketball: The Miami Heat, The Utah Jazz, The Orlando Magic. Baseball: The Boston Red Sox, The Chicago White Sox. Hockey: The Colorado Avalanche, The Tampa Bay Lightning. Football: None.
04/14/04 - Iowa is the only state whose east and west borders are 100% formed by water. The Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
04/12/04 - Former US Senator Barry Goldwater attended the opening night ceremonies and festivities at Bugsy Siegel's famous Las Vegas Casino. They left him out of the movie Bugsy. He was pissed.
04/12/04 - Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens.
04/11/04 - The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
04/10/04 - 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 your thumb.
04/07/08 - The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
04/06/04 - Layed head to claw, KFC chickens consumed worldwide would stretch some 275,094 miles. They would circle the Earth at the equator 11 times or stretch from the Earth approximately 50,094 miles past the moon.
04/05/04 - It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was translated. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the lastword is spear.
04/04/04 - The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.
04/02/04 - The term 'Chicken Pox' didn't come from people believing that they came from chickens, it came from the Old English term 'gican pox' - which means the itching pox.
04/01/04 - There are more collect calls on Father's Day than anyother day of the year.
03/31/04 - It's impossible to lick your elbow. Go figure!
03/30/04 - China not only has the most people in the world, but also has the most Horses with 10,000,000 and chickens with over 3,000,000,000 of them.
03/29/04 - In Gainesville, Georgia - the chicken capital of the world - it is illegal to eat chicken with a fork. [Source: local ordinance]
03/28/04 - A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
03/26/04 - In English Pubs, ale is ordered by pints or quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell "Mind your pints and quarts and settle down." It is where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
03/25/03 - Nearly 97% of the world's water is salty or otherwise undrinkable. Another 2% is locked in ice caps and glaciers. That leaves just 1% for all of humanity's needs... all it's agriculture, residential, manufacturing, community, and personal needs.
03/24/04 - Water expands by 9% when it freezes. Frozen water (ice) is lighter than water, which is why it floats.
03/23/04 - A person can live a month without food, but only about a week without water.
03/21/04 - There is the same amount of water on Earth as there was when the Earth was formed. The water from your faucet could contain molecules that dinosaurs drank.
03/20/04 - Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
03/19/04 - The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
03/18/04 - Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. What a pleasant thought.
03/17/04 - Much of St. Patrick’s life is shrouded in mystery. Historians disagree on many dates and places in his life story. Patrick was born sometime around 380 in Scotland or Wales. His parents were Calpurnius and Conchessa, who were Romans living in Britain in charge of the colonies. His real name was believed to be Maewyn Succat as he took the name Patrick (or Patricus) after he became a priest.
03/16/04 - The longest distance flown by any chicken is 301 1/2 feet.
03/15/04 - The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
03/14/04 - In order to be labeled tequila, the product must be produced in a specifically designated area of Mexico, in and around the town of Tequila.
02/28/04 - If you were spelling out numbers, you would have to go to the number one thousand before you would find the letter A.
02/27/04 - What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common? They were all invented by women.
02/26/04 - 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."
02/25/04 - George Washington was the best spymaster in American History. He ran dozens of espionage rings in British-held New York and Philadelphia, and the man who supposedly could not tell a lie was a genius at disinformation. He constantly befuddled the British by leaking, through double agents, inflated reports on the strength of his army.
02/24/04 - Canada is the world's second largest country (next to Russia) but houses only 27 million people - making it rank only 28th in population.
02/23/04 - The 18th U.S. president, Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant, but he changed his name because he didn't like his monogram.. HUG.
02/22/04 - Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
02/21/04 - In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. Ouch!
02/19/04 - Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; * Clubs - Alexander the Great; * Hearts Charlemagne; * Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
02/18/04 - All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
02/17/04 - A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
02/16/04 - Coca-Cola is better at cleaning your drain pipes than products like Draino.
02/13/04 - If a rooster is not present in a flock of hens, a hen will often take the role, stop laying, and begin to crow.
02/12/04 - The greatest number of yolks in one chicken egg is nine.
02/11/04 - Chickens and turkeys are known to cross-breed, these breeds are known as "Turkins".
02/10/04 - The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When 20 of the church's most important convene in deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.
02/09/04 - Cream does not weigh as much as milk.
02/08/04 - The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
02/07/04 - In the 2000 Presidential election, the highest voting rates were were found in the District of Columbia, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Maine and Minnesota, each at or about 70 percent.
02/06/04 - Based on National Weather Service records for 1961 through 1990, Rochester, New York averages 94 inches of snow annually and is the snowiest large city in the United States. Rochester has a population more than 200,000 and annual municipal snow-removal budget of $3.7 million (1995 figures).
02/05/04 - Buffalo, New York, is a close runner-up in terms of U.S. large cities with the most snow. A 39-inch snowfall in 24 hours in early December 1995 cost the city nearly $5 million for snow removal.
02/04/04 - Slot machines bring in about 40% of a casino's gross income.
02/02/04 - The greatest snowfall officially reported at the Phoenix, Arizona National Weather Service Office was one inch. That occurred twice. The first time was January 20, 1933. It happened again four years later on the same date.
02/01/04 - Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
01/31/04 - The commonly used ten-to-one ratio of snowfall to water content is a myth for much of the United States. This ration varies from as low as 100-to-one to as high as about three-to-one depending on the meteorological conditions associated with the snowfall.
01/30/04 - The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
01/29/04 - The traditional Christmas dish called Plum Pudding has never contained a plum.
01/28/04 - As a young lifeguard at a riverside beach near Dixon, Illinois, future 40th U.S. president Ronald Reagan rescued 77 people from drowning.
01/27/04 - Almost 187 inches of snow fell in seven days on Thompson Pass, Alaska in February, 1953, according to the National Snowfall and Snow Depth Extremes Table provided by the National Climatic Data Center.
01/26/04 - Cool Whip will condition your hair in 15 min.
01/25/04 - Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. president, dueled with Charles Dickinson after he insulted Jackson's marriage. Jackson let his opponent fire first, giving himself time to take aim. Jackson took a bullet in the chest and, without flinching, calmly killed his man.
01/24/04 - Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
01/23/04 - James Buchanan, 15th U.S. president and the first unmarried man to be elected president, reportedly took great pride in his tiny feet, although he was a large robust man.
01/10/04 - William Taft, 27th president of the United States, weighed more than 300 pounds and had a special oversized bathtub installed in the White House.
01/09/04 - The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
01/08/04 - In the western United States, mountain snow pack contributes up to 75 percent of all year-round surface water supplies.
01/07/08 - Fresh snow is an excellent insulator. Ten inches of fresh snow with a density of 0.07 inches, seven percent water, is approximately equal to a six-inch-layer of fiberglass insulation with an insulation R-value of R-18.
01/06/04 - It's said that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breath-alyzer to read 0.
01/05/04 - The 43rd U.S. president, George W. Bush was head cheerleader at Phillips Academy, a prep school in Andover, Massachusetts, where his father had been a legendary student leader and athlete. Nicknamed "Lip," George W. also organized an intramural stickball league at the school.
01/04/04 - The 38th president of the United States, Gerald Ford turned down offers to play professional football for the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions.
01/03/04 - An avid golfer, 42nd U.S. president Bill Clinton was infamous for taking a high number of "mulligans," or "do-overs" while playing. The only Rhodes-scholar president also developed a reputation for creative math skills in tallying his score; according to one report, Clinton once took some 200 swings to record a score of 82.
01/02/04 - The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of War or other emergencies.
01/01/04 - It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
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