More totally useless stuff for you to know

It staggers the mind.

• The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
• Coca Cola was originally green.
• Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.
• Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men. Women can also smell better than men.
• Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
• Cost of raising a medium sized dog to the age of 11: $6,400.
• Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour:61,000.
• The world’s youngest parents were 8 & 9 and lived in China in 1910.
• The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
• First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer
• The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile national monuments.
• Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on 4 JULY: John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on 2 AUG, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later.
• “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• The term “whole 9 yards” came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the 50-caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got the “whole 9 yards”.
• The Interstate system was designed so that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. The Interstates official name is The National Defense Highway System.
• The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only 6″ for each gallon of fuel that it burns.
• The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey…). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell (”pocket full of posies…”). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease (”ashes, ashes, we all fall down”).