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Scotland, famous for golf, actually banned golf in 1457 because it was a threat to archery practice and, therefor, to national defense.
The term 'cuckold' comes from the bird 'cuckoo' which lays eggs in other birds' nests. The young, when hatched, are bigger than their nest mates and toss them out of the nest. Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals and a glass harmonica. Abe Lincoln is the U.S. president most frequently portrayed in films. Approximately one million people speak Esperanto. Robert Waldrow, 1918-1940, was thought to be the world's tallest man at 8'11'+. Almost all flashing 'Don't Walk' signs do not contain an apostrophe --- they only take up space. Most seven layer cakes only have four or five layers. Salt Lake City, Utah, has a law against carrying an unwrapped ukulele on the street. In Quebec 'take out chicken' was translated to 'poulet pour sortir' or 'chicken to go out with'. The average American blows his or her nose 256 times a year. Approximately half of American consumers wet their toothbrush prior to placing toothpaste on it. The average American spends 35 minutes, per week, vacuuming their house. If you send a husband and wife to a store separately to purchase beer, they will only return with the same brand 15% of the time. Almost 38% of Americans say they would rather have a tooth extracted than take a car to a dealership for repairs. The average consumer puts 3.2 ice cubes in a glass. Over $18 billion is spent annually in the U.S. on children's clothing. Nine million U.S. preschoolers are in day-care programs. Over 11 million people sell their blood annually in the United States. The annual expenditures on prostitutes in the United States is estimated to be $20 billion. North American companies will spend over $3.5 billion this year (1996)is sports-related sponsorships. Older adults (50 plus) spend, on the average, $86 per child for holiday gifts. Seniors with under $25,000 annual income spend $55, seniors with annual income over $75,000 spend $272. The kitchen is not the safest room in the house and kitchen utensils are not your friend. In 1994, there were over 420,000 accidents caused by kitchen knives, 122 thousand by drinking glasses, 29 thousand by refrigerators, and 7 thousand by dishwashers. Every year, 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out bizarre sexual positions. The average human being will walk 160 billion millimetres in a lifetime. The angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara Falls. Sharks are immune to cancer. Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms. Tasmania has the cleanest air in the inhabited world. The shortest British monarch was Charles I, who was 4'9'. Human thighbones are as strong as concrete. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off. The (you are here arrow) on a map is called the IDEO locator. Guinness Stout on draught has 135 calories per 12 ounce serving, only one more than Michelob Light. Last year over 700 million pounds of peanut butter and one billion pounds of jelly and jam were sold in America. Peanut butter and jelly is the favorite sandwich of the under-18 crowd, regardless of race, gender, or socioeconomic background. One million Americans call 900 numbers each day to cast their votes in one kind of poll or another. 7-11 sells more than 60 million cups of coffee and soda in America each month. The Marlboro Man sells a lot of cigarettes in the United States but he was a bust in Hong Kong. Hong Kong consumer's like to think of themselves as cultured and urbane and see little charm in riding around on a horse in the hot sun. Andorra is the only country in the world to offer free postal service. Although Federal legislation to control billboards was passed in 1965, there are 320,000 more billboards in America than there were then. Almost all of the states in the United States have a chili cook-off. Medieval cooks candied carnations. Richard Nixon was the first president to visit all 50 states. Almost 70% of Americans get all their news from radio and television. In 1992, only 5 million Americans did not have a telephone. In 1995, 34 million did not have health insurance. More than 50% of the people in the world have never placed nor received a telephone call. Product payment in movies is becoming more the norm. Sources say that General Foods paid $40,000 to place Sanka in Crocodile Dundee II. Only 10% of U.S. shoppers demand a high level of service when they are shopping. Based on an average life span of 11 years, the cost of owning a dog is $13,350. The speed of a typical raindrop is 7 miles per hour. Thirty percent of all resumes are falsified. Almost one-half of U.S. adults surveyed said they would rather buy a two to three year-old car and save the money than to buy a new car. Married men in France use more cosmetics than their wives. In Mexico yellow flowers are a sign of death. In France they represent infidelity. The number four is considered unlucky in Japan because the words for 'four' and 'death' are pronounced the same. Christmas has different meanings in different countries. Christmas Eve in Japan is a good day to eat fried chicken and strawberry short-cake. African-Americans, the largest ethnic group in the United States, spend about $170 billion annually. The color blue, rated as the favorite by 80% of Americans, can have a calming affect on people. Depending upon the shade, the brain may send up to 11 tranquilizing chemicals to calm the body. In 1960, red wine was the best seller with 75 percent of all sales. It now has dropped to 15 percent of all sales. American corporations spend more than $5 billion a year to produce and distribute annual reports. Each year, over 20 million adults in the United States go to class reunions or other similar activities. There are over 150 thousand class reunions a year. It is estimated that illiteracy costs U.S. businesses $225 billion a year in lost productivity. Four of five Americans over 100 are women. In 1991, the life expectancy of a white American female was 80 years. It is 74 years for a black female, 73 years for a white male, and 65 years for a black male. In 1900, one in every 65 people in the United States were over the age of 65; in 1994, it is one of every eight Americans. Most of the vitamin C in fruits is in the skin. An average mattress contains 2 million house dust mites. You blink about 84,000,000 times per year. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste order Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing.' The were over 16 million accidents in 1994, resulting in over 40 thousand deaths. The first car accident in the U.S. was in 1896 when a car collided with a bicycle. Over three quarters of the 100 largest U.S. firms 70 years ago are no longer on the list. Aeschylus, the Greek poet and dramatist, was killed when an eagle flying overhead dropped a turtle on his head. While direct eye contact is considered a sign of sincerity in the west, it borders on being rude in the far east. It is estimated that advertising expenditures in the U.S. will exceed $320 billion by the year 2000. Some lions mate 50 times a day. The bat is the only mammal that can fly (without a plane). There are more Mormons than Jews in the United States. The average household in Kuwait owns 3.7 cars. Pocahontas died in 1617 at aged 21. Tagalog is the sixth most popularly spoken foreign language in the United States. According to a study from Texas A & M, children between 4 and 12 spend $2 billion on junk food, $1.9 billion on toys and games, and $486 million on arcade video games. Elvis Presley flunked an audition for the Talent Scouts, a popular TV program in the 1950's. A newspaper publisher once fired Walt Disney because he had no good ideas. Roughly 100,000 children take guns to school every day. The Steel Phantom in West Millen, PA, is the fastest roller coaster in America, reaching speeds of 80 mph. The tootsie roll was first sold in 1896. The average American visits a fast food restaurant six times a month Speleology is the study of caves. The average person flexes the joints in their finger 24 million times during a lifetime. The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets Per word. It only takes 7lbs of pressure to rip your ear off. Length of beard an average man would grow if he never shaved 27.5 feet. Driving at 75 miles per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn's rings. The yo yo was originally a weapon in the Philippines. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue. The 'sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick' is reputed to be the most difficult tongue-twister in the English language. The University of Calgary offers a two-day course in igloo building.
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