Saturday, July 7, 2012

Random Facts I Learned Today...


American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
Flies jump backwards when they take off. 
Every year more people are killed by donkeys, than in aircraft crashes. 
The first word spoken on the moon was Okay. 
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. 
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. 
The longest place-name still in use is: 
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupoka-wenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill. 
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. 
In Kentucky, it's illegal to carry an icecream cone in your back pocket
Carnivores will not eat an animal that has been hit by lightning.

2 comments:

  1. That's wrong unites States of america does not end with the same letter it starts with

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  2. It's America. The USA is strictly the US. That doesn't include Mexico or Canada, and the USA is not the entire continent. And I assume 'North' and 'South' aren't included as continental names for some reason.

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