It costs the Coca-Cola Company more to buy the can than it costs them to make the cola.
I Bet Ya Didn't Know
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Skywriting pilots say the letters "S" and "K" are the hardest to write.
Most paranoids are male.
There is more than 150 million sheep in Australia and only 15 million people.
The male silkworm moth can detect mating signals from 6.5 miles away.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Sleep like a baby? 77% of pediatricians surveyed had recommended nonprescription sleep medications for kids in the previous six months. 58% had prescribed one, and about 15% had recommended herbal remedies.
The solverenus is a fish that has hair instead of scales.
There are twice as many billionaires in the U.S. today as there were 10 years ago.
A warning to motorists to beware of lions at Serengeti Wildlife Park in Taganyika, Africa, features the skull and crossed bones of a lion.
The curtain fig tree of Yungaburra, Australia, is a giant tree with branches so dense that they form a natural curtain.
The woodcock never sees its food. Its 3-inch beak is driven deep into the mud, and it devours earthworms it has located by sense of feel.
Two iron houses were shipped to Melbourne, Australia, from England during the gold rush and are still inhabited today, over 115 years later.
The strangest cuneiform ever found is a fragment the size of a quarter on which an ancient Babylonian copyist had inscribed 144 words of prayer in 30 lines.
The Duchess de Longueville (1619-1679), a member of the French royal family, heartbroken over the death of her son in battle, vowed that she would never again sit down again for the remainder of her life. For 7 years she stood all day, slept at night on the bare ground, and died on her feet.
Just 64% of USA drink alcohol, but 75% of Spaniards, 88% of the French, and 89% of Brits booze it up.
Q: What is the significance of the following words: Wolf, Snow, Worm, Pink, Flower, Strawberry, Buck, Sturgeon, Harvest, Hunter's, Beaver, Cold? A: According to the FARMERS' ALMANAC, they are the traditional names of the 12 full moons.
Chemist R.S. Lazeny of Waco, TX, invented Dr Pepper in the Old Corner Drugstore in 1885.
Caterpillars have 4,000 muscles, humans have only 639.
Plagued by poor hearing, inventor Thomas Edison proposed to his future wife in Morse Code. She replied, "Yes" the same way.
Mary Lou Retton was the first female to appear on the front of a Wheaties box.
Mia Farrow was the cover girl of PEOPLE magazine's first issue in 1974.
Balboa, the Spanish explorer who discovered the Pacific Ocean, was accused of treason in 1519 and beheaded.
The Hollywood thoroughfare that gave its name to a classsic Billy Wilder film starring Gloria Swanson is Sunset Boulevard.
The captain of the JOLLY ROGER was James Hook.
The first company to put beer in a can was the Krueger Brewing Company of Newark, NJ in 1935.
They began test-marketing their Cream Ale the same way in Richmond, Virginia on January 24, 1935.
A single pair of guppies, if all its progeny survived, would produce 3,000,000 descendants a year, yet of all these, no two males would look exactly alike.
The Bay of Fundy, Canada, with a tide range of approximately 50 feet, this bay has the highest tides in the world.
At any given time, 13% of adults have neck pain.
There are 4,300 known species of ladybugs in the world.
"Video Killed The Radio Star " by Buggles was the first Music Video broadcast by MTV in the US
The statue "Chief Crazy Horse" is 563 feet tall and is the tallest free standing statue in the world!
On the early children's show HOWDY DOODY, the young audience was seated in the "Peanut Gallery."
Doctors take the Hippocratic oath. Nurses take the Florence Nightingale Pledge.
The most popular type of lettuce, iceberg, is basically devoid of nutrition. The deeper the color of lettuce, the more vitamins and nutrients it contains.
The big chill: The South Pole is colder than the North Pole.
Who are Leonard, Julius, Milton, and Herbert? They are the Marx Brothers.
Which nation has maintained a zero birth rate for many years? Vatican City