Facts, are they all true or not?

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Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

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Coca-Cola was originally green.

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It is impossible to lick your elbow.

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The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400.

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The average number of people airborne over the US in any given hour: 61,000.

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The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

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

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

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What occurs more often in December than any other month? Conception.

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Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

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What is the most popular boat name requested? Obsession.

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If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? One thousand.

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Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.

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What is the only food that doesn't spoil? Honey.

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40% of all people at a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.

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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".

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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".

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

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Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. Hence the phrase "Wet your whistle". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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

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

LOL!!! I have to admit....I tried to lick my elbow. *shame*


Great post!

Tried too. Ouch! Now gotta go to my chiropractor.

Check out snopes.com - this site specializes in urban legends. they cover a few of the topics you mentioned, i.e. the green coke.

http://www.snopes.com

according to snopes coke was not green:


Though this tidbit of knowledge has been widely distributed as part of an Internet "Did You Know?" list, at no time in Coca-Cola's history has that beverage been green. The original formula called for caramel to give Coca-Cola its rich brown color, and although the recipe has undergone some changes through the years, none of them affected the ultimate color of the product.


(Brown also hides impurities in any given batch, something the backroom chemist who invented Coca-Cola in 1886 kept well in mind as he proceeded with his formulation. These days syrup producers and bottlers have no impurities to hide, but back in the "three copper kettles in somebody's basement" days, covering up what might have inadvertently dropped into the mix was a concern, and brown hid indiscretions remarkably well.)


Coke has at times been bottled in green glass bottles, which perhaps explains the popularity of this particular rumor.


Barbara "rub of the green" Mikkelson


Last updated: 16 November 1999

i have read the origin as being from scotland as goylf. that may or may not be true. again from snopes:


This specious word origin has gained credence in recent years through its being made part of interminable Internet-circulated "Did you know . . .?" lists. Though the length of those lists varies from one manifestation to the next (some have six entries; others have close to fifty), the truth value of this entry never changes -- it's false.


We've said it before, but it bears saying again: only a few words have acronymic pedigrees, and those harken from the 20th century and later. Though terms that have been part of the English language for centuries may well have fascinating backstories (and many do), they won't have begun their linguistic lives as acronyms, words formed by combining the initial letter(s) of a compound term or phrase.


Golf is an old word, one that first appeared in our written language in 1425. One theory says it derives from the Dutch word kolf, a generic term for "club" that surfaces in writings related to a number of ancient games of a tennis, croquet, or hockey-like nature. It's a fine explanation, but it does leave a dual mystery in its wake: Dutch word for 'club' or not, golf began in Scotland, and thus we would expect its name to have also come from that place. To assume otherwise would mean we'd have to believe the Scots invented and then become enthralled with a pastime they left unnamed until the Dutch showed up with a word for it. Second, there was no corresponding Dutch game that at all resembled what the Scots were playing. Would the Dutch be coining a term for a game that wasn't common to them?


Another theory ascribes golf to the Scottish goulf (also gowf), a verb meaning "to strike or cuff." This theory would at least place the origin of the word with the people who invented the game. As for "striking or cuffing," an integral part of the game is, after all, hitting the ball.


(In those older Scottish writings, golf is variously spelled gouff, goiff, goffe, goff, gowff, and golph. Our modern determination to have only one correct spelling for each word would have struck our ancestors as hilariously pedantic and priggish. The norm for them was any number of spellings for common terms, provided those written representations validly reflected the pronounciation of the word. When viewed from that angle, those odd-looking spellings begin to appear far less mysterious.)


Games similar to golf have been around since Roman times, but golf as we now know it dates approximately to 1552, when the famed St. Andrews course was constructed. Earlier Scottish versions, however, were called "golf" even though the game itself was not at that time all it would finally become.


(Bridge has a similar history. The card game we now know by that name dates only to the 1920s, yet games called "bridge" in which trump suits were named and outcomes were determined by the number of tricks taken were around by 1860. As bridge historian Jack Olsen explains it, "Whist led to bridge-whist, which led to auction bridge, which led to contract bridge, which led to murder, divorce, suicide, mayhem, and other social evils." We can't help but find that a charmingly succinct yet apt history of the development of the game, even if it leaves off mention of "trump," the fifteenth century game that preceded whist.)


As for golf and this wholly unfounded "gentlemen only; ladies forbidden" word origin, its appeal is attributable to a societal shift in the nature of who now plays the game. Women these days take as many trips around the links as do their male counterparts, and golf has grown to be pastime enjoyed by both sexes. It's thus somewhat pleasing to imagine that this now egalitarian game was at its inception intended strictly for one gender; that indeed its very name declared it off limits to the fair sex (presumably keeping them from becoming "the fairway sex" as well). Women enjoy this notion because they take satisfaction from the image of having stormed and overcome a defended male bastion, whereas men like the specious word origin because it "confirms" that it's really their game, even if the ladies now run rampant through it.


Were it up to us to promote one false word origin over another, we'd argue for golf being flog backwards. Less sexist, and far more accurate a representation, we think.


Barbara "veteran of the golf war" Mikkelson