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1.Before Prohibition, Shlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic church.

2.If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

3.Kermit the Frog is left-handed.

4.Nondairy creamer is flammable.

5.The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.

6.If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.

7.The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

8.The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F."

9.The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

10.In the four major US professional sports (baseball, basketball, football, and hockey), there are only seven teams whose nicknames do not end with an "S." Basketball: The Miami Heat, The Utah Jazz, The Orlando Magic. Baseball: The Boston Red Sox, The Chicago White Sox. Hockey: The Colorado Avalanche, The Tampa Bay Lightning. Football: None.

11.Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for Lord of the Flies, and this is where the book's title comes from.

12.It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

13.Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

14.When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

15.In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.

16.Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.

17.The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.

18.Every second, your senses send about 100 million different messages to your brain.

19.Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
*Obsession 

20.In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's" 

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

21.If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

22.If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.

23.If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. 

24.It is impossible to lick your elbow.

25.Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

26."I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

27.Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

28.In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight".

29.It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month we know today as the honeymoon.

30.Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is he phrase 
inspired by this practice.

31In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

AND FINALLY
At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

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