I'm sure you couldn't go on living without knowing the following facts,
so here they are:

* Coca-Cola was originally green

* City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita:  Hong Kong

* State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

* Percentage of Africa that is wilderness:  28%
  Percentage of North America that is wilderness:  38%

* Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven:
  $6,400

* Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour:
  61,000.

* Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World:
  70%

* Average life span of a major league baseball:  7 pitches.

* Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

* The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in
  1910.

* The youngest pope was 11 years old.

* Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

* First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

* A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

* 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.

* The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments

* The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter
  is uncopyrightable.

* Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

* 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.

* The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the
  name of the Don McLean song.)

* When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They
  actually pass out from sheer terror.

* The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year
  because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the
  weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

* Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
  Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, 
  and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

* 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

* Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people
  without killing them would burn their houses down - hence the expression
  "to get fired."

* "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

* Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them
  looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

* The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which
  stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your
  thumb.

* An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

* The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

* 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.

* In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

* The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as
  is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the  state of Virginia
  still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for
  blacks and whites.

* The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each
  gallon of diesel that it burns.

* Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

* If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you  have
  $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being 
  able to make change for a dollar.

* The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".

* The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports 
  games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the 
  Major League all-stars Game.

* The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."