SANTA TRIVIA
(disclaimer - not my math)
The average American takes six months to pay
off holiday credit-card bills.
Pogonophobia: the fear of beards.
There are currently 78 people named S. Claus
living in the U.S. -- and one Kriss Kringle.
December is the most popular month for nose jobs.
Weight of Santa's sleigh loaded with one
Beanie Baby for every kid on earth: 333,333 tons.
Number of reindeer required to pull a 333,333-ton sleigh:
214,206 -- plus Rudolph.
Average wage of a mall Santa:
$11 an hour. With real beard: $20.
To deliver his gifts in one night, Santa would
have to make 822.6 visits per second, sleighing at
3,000 times the speed of sound.
At that speed, Santa and his reindeer would burst
into flame instantaneously. (Sorry about that).
TRIVIAL FACTOID
(disclaimer - not my terms)
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves
per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange,
purple, and silver!
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5
dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during
World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a $10
dollar bill.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, also, it took him 10
years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
Editor's Note: If you have seen one factoid, you have seen all
factoids. By the way what is a factoid?
