Random Facts:

-China has more English speakers than the United States.

-The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

-Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren’t added to it.

-Coca-Cola- Coca-Cola's name is derived from the coca leaves and kola nuts used as flavoring. Coca-Cola creator John S. Pemberton changed the 'K' of kola to 'C' for the name to look better.

-The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

-A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

-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.

-The longest one-syllable word is "screeched."

-The French words 'eau' [water] and 'oui' [yes] have no consonants.

-The word 'rhythm' has no vowels.

-The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

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

-111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 equals 12,345,678,987,654,321..

-The human brain is about 85% water.

-Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

-You blink about 25,000 times a day.

-Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

-Pencils contain graphite or carbon, NOT lead.

-Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.

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

-The phrase "raining cats and dogs" originated in 17th Century England. During heavy downpours of rain, many of these poor animals unfortunately drowned and their bodies would be seen floating in the rain torrents that raced through the streets. The situation gave the appearance that it had literally rained "cats and dogs" and led to the current expression.

-Bananas don’t grow on trees.
HOW DO BANANA PLANTS GROW?
Most people assume that bananas grow on trees, but this is not true. Bananas actually grow on plants that are giant herbs. These herbs are related to the lily and orchid family. Banana plants are perennial plants that produce fruit for many years. The plants are among the world's largest plants without woody stems. The plant’s gigantic leaves can reach up to 30 feet in length and the stems can weigh up to 100 pounds.

-There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

-Giraffes & rats can go without water longer than a camel can.

-From space, the brightest man-made place is Las Vegas, Nevada.

-Saturn is the only planet that could float on water.

-The lightning that we see actually goes from the ground to the sky.

-Lightening is 3 times hotter than the surface of the sun. The surface temperature of our sun is around 10,000 degrees Farenheit, while lightening is 30,000 degrees.

-A dentist invented the electric chair.

-Our eyes never grow, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

-No word rhymes with month, purple, orange or silver.

-The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

-No president of the United States was an only child.

-Apple- For the favorite fruit of co-founder Steve Jobs and/or for the time he worked at an apple orchard. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computer if his colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 p.m. Apple's Macintosh is named after a popular variety of apple sold in the US. Apple also wanted to distance itself from the cold, unapproachable, complicated imagery created by the other computer companies at the time had names like IBM, NEC, DEC, ADPAC, Cincom, Dylakor, Input, Integral Systems, SAP, PSDI, Syncsort and Tesseract. The new company sought to reverse the entrenched view of computers in order to get people to use them at home. They looked for a name that was unlike the names of traditional computer companies, a name that also supported a brand positioning strategy that was to be perceived as simple, warm, human, approachable and different. Note: Apple had to get approval from the Beatle's Apple Corps to use the name 'Apple' and paid a one-time royalty of $100,000 to McIntosh Laboratory, Inc., a maker of high-end audio equipment, to use the derivative name 'Macintosh', known now as just 'Mac'.

-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 and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."

-Stars twinkle because the light we see coming from the stars travels through the atmosphere around the earth and there is turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.