Useless Information No One Actually Needs To Know

1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
2. Every day, more money is printed for Monopoly than the US treasury.
3. An eagle was spotted in Georgia, flying away with a baby deer.
4. Mark Twain never graduated.
5. Men get the hiccups more often than women.
6. The average housefly hums in the middle octave, key F.
7. An ostrich's eye is about as large as its brain.
8. The longest recorded flight for a chicken is 13 seconds.
9. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
10. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"
11. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
12. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your child with anything wider than your thumb.
13. Every time you lick a stamp, you are consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
14. JK Rowling is a Hufflepuff.
15. According to a survey of American mothers of school-age kids, 44 percent of elementary school children prefer a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich packed into their lunchbox. Their second sandwich choice is bologna, at 16 percent.
16. A man named Ed Peterson is the inventor of the Egg McMuffin.
17. In a city in Alabama, it's illegal to wear a fake mustache in church.