As firewood, spruce and pine burn faster than oak, hickory, birch and ash. Wood burns best when it's one or two years old. Applewood and cherry add fragrance and birch gives blue flames.

(Arsonists Take Note! Do you want your fires to burn fast or slow? Do you want them to smell nice or look pretty?)

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An earthworm has 5 hearts. (How can you trust anything that says it loves you with all its hearts?)

The Vatican has more than 4,000 rooms. (And an outhouse out back for visitors.)

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Eighty percent of all people offered a new pen to try write their own names.

(The other twenty percent are trying to forge them!)

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Cranberries will bounce and can actually be dribbled like a basketball. (Nice to know for the really really Peewee teams.)

Green is the most soothing of all colours. (Oh, yeah? Then why was the 'pea soup' scene in 'The Exorcist' so disgusting!??)

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Memorial Day was first celebrated in 1868.

(Too bad not many people remember what they are celebrating.)

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A watermelon is about 92% water. (So, at $3.99 each, you're paying 32¢ for watermelon and $3.67 for the same thing a dog drinks out of a toilet bowl!)

The St. Joe River in Idaho, USA, is the highest navigable river in the world. (Which is all well and good if you enjoy navigabling rivers.)

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The spread of an ordinary parachute when open is 24 feet. (Which is directly proportional to the ordinary waistline a week after Christmas.)

A scrambled ostrich egg is big enough to serve six people. (Or one-sixth of a Marlon Brando.)

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A baseball can be made to curve 6½ inches from its original course.

(A few beers can make a person swerve a lot more than that!)

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The Romans had price fixing and minumum wage laws 1,600 years ago.

(Sure... That's the one thing we had to learn from history!)

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The Taj Mahal, begun in 1632, required 20,000 men working daily for 22 years to complete.

(Not counting coffee breaks.)

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In playing poker, there is one chance in 500 of drawing a flush.

(Odds are slightly higher if played in the bathroom of the local railway station.)

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