Amusing Facts - 22

Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced.
 

After the "Popeye" comic strip was launched in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States.
 

All the Krispy Kreme donut stores collectively could make a doughnut stack as high as the Empire State Building in only 2 minutes.
 

Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.

On average, 350 squirts are needed from milking a cow to make a gallon of milk.

Tomato ketchup is a good conditioner for the hair. It also helps get the greenish tinge that some blonde haired people get after swimming in water with chlorine in it.

 

One acre of wheat can produce enough bread to feed a family of four people for about ten years.
 

Americans consumed more than twenty billion hot dogs in 2000.

Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not cause acne.

Over 500 million gallons of Kool-Aid drink are consumed each year.


An egg that is fresh will sink in water, but a stale one won't.

In the United States, approximately seven billion pounds of chocolate and candy are manufactured each year.

Annually, approximately 46 millions Cokes, five million pounds of french fries, and seven million hamburgers are consumed at Walt Disney World Resort.

Bourbon was first made by a Baptist minister from Bourbon County in Kentucky in 1789. That is where it got its name.
 

Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.

If all the salt were to be extracted from the Earth's oceans, you would have enough salt to cover all of the continents five feet deep.

Caffeine is the world's most popular stimulant.

Each year all of the Hostess bakeries combined bake 500 million Twinkies a year.
 

Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears.

Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.
 

Coffee has about five times the amount of caffeine as a can of Coke.

Every day, over five billion gallons of water are flushed down toilets in the United States.
 

Heineken beer's foam is supposed to last five minutes.
 

If a raisin is dropped into a glass of champagne it will bounce up and down in the glass.

Krispy Kreme make five million doughnut a day.

First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

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

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

 Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.