Interesting Facts 14.
1. Average number of days a German goes without washing his underwear: 7.
2. Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%.
3. Percentage of American women who say they’d marry the same man: 50%.
4. Cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of 11: $6,400.
5. Average people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
6. Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
7. The only President to win a Pulitzer Prize: John Kennedy for “Profiles in Courage.”
8. The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
9. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
10. First novel ever written on a typewriter: “Tom Sawyer.”
11. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why. (This was challenged and proved wrong by the TV show “Mythbusters”)
12. The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
13. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades–King David, Clubs–Alexander the Great, Hearts–Charlemagne and Diamonds–Julius Caesar.
14. 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 leg front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all 4 legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
15. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. The last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later.
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