Stupid Facts

• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
  
  
• The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
  
  
• 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."
  
  
• Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
  (see World Series Winners)
  
  
• Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
  
  
• First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
  
  
• The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
  
  
• Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
  
  
• In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not renumber the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
  
  
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
  
  
• Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for Profiles in Courage.
  (see U.S. Presidents)
  
  
• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
  
  
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
  
  
• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
  
  
• Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collie; 2)Poodle; 3) Golden retriever. Dumbest: Afghan hound.
  
  
• Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
  (see U.S. States)
  
  
• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
  
  
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
  
  
• The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
  
  
• The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
  
  
• The youngest pope was 11 years old.
  (see Roman Catholic Popes)
  
  
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
  
  
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
  (see Coins and Currency)