Strange Facts iii

• If you were to count off 1 billion seconds it would take you 31.7 years.
  
• The Pentagon spent $50 million on Viagra for American troops and retirees in 1999.
  
• Each year, Americans use enough foam peanuts to fill ten 85-story buildings.
  
• The parents of the groom pay for the weddings in Thailand.
  
• Alaska is the state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work.
  
• The London Zoo employes an "entertainment director" for the animals.
  
• Blue neckties sell best, red ones sell second best.
  
• Top 4 high school hazing sports: swimming, diving, soccer, lacrosse.
  
• It is said the average person speaks only 10 minutes a day.
  
• The U.S. Postal Service owns 176,000 cars and trucks, the largest civilian vehicle fleet on earth.
  
• It is legal for the dead to vote if they die after they mail out their absentee ballot.
  
• In Venice, Venetian blinds are known as "Persian Blinds."
  
• Benjamin Franklin gave guitar lessons.
  
• When medievil Europeans burned witches, their families had to pay for the firewood.
  
• The two steps at the top and the two at the bottom are the four most dangerous steps in a stair case.
  
• French and African marigolds both come from North America.
  
• India has an estimated 550 million voters.
  
• It is illegal to water a garden in the rain in Montreal Canada.
  
• Minnesota has 99 lakes named mud lake.
  
• Adolph Hitler had his own private 15 car train named Amerika.
  
• You can loose your driver's license in Athens, Greece for being "poorly dressed" or "unbathed."
  
• Adults have, on average, 2 gallons of air in the space between their skin and their cloths.
  
• An exocannibal is a cannibal that eats only enemies and an indocannibal eats only friends.
  
• Al Capone's older brother Vince was a policeman in Nebraska.
  
• When the ancient Greeks played cards, aces were known as "dogs."
  
• The most used expression of any language is "OK."
  
• The average computer worker types 90,000 keystrokes in an 8-hour work shift.
  
• About 21,000 commercial airline flights are scheduled daily in the U.S. with only about 5,000 planes available to fly them.
  
• When Shakespeare moved to his new home, he named it "New Home".
  
• There is no ice covering Iceland.
  
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
  
• Oregon has the most ghost towns of any other state.
  
• Wyoming Valley is so difficult to find because it is in Pennsylvania.
  
• This year, Harvard University will deny admission to an estimated 1,600 High School aledictorians.
  
• The sun is visable 24 hours a day during the summer months in Reykjavik, Iceland.
  
• The busiest stretch of highway in the U.S. is New York's George Washington Bridge.
  
• The first golf rule booklet was published in Scotland in 1754.
  
• The higest denomination ever minted by the U.S. Treasury was the $100,000 bill, the lowest was the 5 cent bill.
  
• Quotation marks have only been around for about 300 years, they're the youngest punctuation marks in the english language.
  
• India imported ice harvested from ponds in the U.S. in the 19th century.
  
• Warsaw is the city with the largest Polish population on earth, Chicago has the second largest.
  
• In the 1820's, a temperance movement tried to ban coffee and nearly succeeded.
  
• In 1912, the Archbishop of Paris declared dancing the tango a sin.
  
• Another word for volleyball is minonette.
  
• There is 118 groves etched into U.S. dimes, 119 in quarters.
  
• In the 1500's England's Queen Elizabeth I outlawed wife beating after 10 p.m.
  
• Freud charged the equivilent of $8.10 per hour for his therapy lessons.
  
• Christopher Columbus's fee for "discovering" America was about $300.
  
• A person sneezing was the first thing Thomas Edison filmed with his movie camera.
  
• A champagne cork can travel as fast as 100 mph when it is popped.
  
• The "five golden rings" in the Twelve Days of Christmas weren't originally rings, they were ringed necked pheasants.
  
• Elvis was nearsighted and owned $60,000 worth of perscription sunglasses when he died.
  
• It isnt a "big band" unless it has 14 different instruments.
  
• The most popular T.V. show in Venezuela is the "Miss Venezuela Pagent."
  
• None of the characters in Shakespear's plays smoke.
  
• If you refrigerate your rubber bands, they last longer.
  
• Police are sometimes called the "fuzz" because London police used to wear fuzzy helmets.
  
• There are more than 5,500 islands in the British Isles.
  
• The oldest vehicle in human history is a floating log.
  
• Saunas outnumber cars in Finland.
  
• Oklahoma is the U.S. state with the highest population of Native Americans. It has no Indian Reservations.
  
• If an entire family is overweight, the odds are the dog is too.
  
• A gozzard is a person who owns geese.
  
• Plants can suffer from jet lag.
  
• Spains Queen Isabella bathed only twice in her entire lifetime.
  
• The word "gullible" is not in the dictionary.
  
• Charlie Brown's father was a barber.