The Pop Rocks candy (the one with the reputation of
killing the
eater if combined with Coca-Cola) is made by pressing hot sugar and
carbon dioxide together at six hundred pounds per square inch. The gas
combines with the sugar, forms bubbles, and solidifies. When a person
sucks on the candy, it liquefies again, causing the bubbles to POP!
The Beatles didn't dabble with marijuana until Bob
Dylan introduced them to it.
China is a bigger English-speaking country than the
USA. (more English speakers live there than in the U.S.)
If properly led, a cow will walk up stairs, but not
down.
Before Wilma met Fred Flintstone, her last name was
Slaghoople.
Before Betty met Barney Rubble, her last name was McBicker.
The
Amazon River has so much volume that it empties fresh water
100 miles into the Atlantic Ocean.
There
is only one U.S. state that ends with a "K":
New York.
The only president to be born on Independence Day was
Calvin Coolidge.
Janis
Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrrison, Kurt Kobain, Rolling Stones' Brian
Jones, Hank Williams, and blues legend Robert Johnson all died at age
27.
In the USA, 3 sex change procedures are carried out
every day on average.
During the average year, more than 2,500 left-handed
people die trying to use products designed for righties.
All the kings in a deck of cards have moustaches
except for the king of hearts.
Hong Kong has more Rolls Royce automobiles than any
other city in the world (per capita).
The youngest general in the history of the United
States was Custer. He was just 23.
When a child scratches a scratch-and-sniff sticker,
what they're
actually doing is puncturing microscopic bubbles or gelatin that
contain the scented chemical(s), thereby releasing the trapped aromas.
There is only one town clock in existence that
strikes in accord to
ships' time. It's located in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. (The clock rings
every thirty minutes--to a max of eight in each four hour period.)
Miss Piggy's measurements are 27-20-32.
As early as 700 AD, Chinese people utilized
fingerprints to identify people.
Seven
out of 100 American people can't sing the first nine words of the
American national anthem word for word, but CAN sing the first seven of
Canada's anthem.
Five out of 100 Canadain people can't sing the first
seven words of
the Canadian national anthem, but CAN sing the first 9 of America's.
Once upon a time in Scotland, there was a new game
created. It was
for Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden. Most people know this game as
GOLF.
River dolphins of all species are in jeopardy of
extinction. Native
to the Yangtze River of China, the Baiji dolphin is the most rare of
all
cetacean.
The Eskimo people sometimes store their food in
refrigerators so they won't freeze.
New Jersey should bring eggplants to mind, as the
state produces 2/3 of the planet's supply of them.
There is only one capital letter in the Roman
alphabet that bears just one endpoint: "P".
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