What You May Not Know

A law in Kirkland, Illinois, forbids bees from flying over the town.

On a Canadian Two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.

In Oklahoma, dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate on private property in groups of three or more.

Almonds are a member of the Peach family.

If all the blond girls in California laid end to end, nobody would be surprised.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

Adolf Hitler was Time's man of the year for 1938.

A Crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

The revenues collected from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks and spectator sports combined.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time 1/100th of a second.

"stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand; "Lollipop" with the right.

In Minnesota, it is illegal to cross state lines, with a Duck on your head.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

You can be fined up to $500 in Chico California for detonating a nuclear device within city limits.

Typewriter, is the longest word that can be made using just one row of the keyboard.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The parents of Albert Einstein were worried that he was mentally slow because it took him a long time to learn how to speak.

The Sea of Tranquility on the moon is deeper than the highest mountain on Earth.

Half the population of the world earns only 5% of the world's total wealth.

Every person spent half an hour as a single cell.

The wealth required to provide adequate food, water, education, health and housing for everyone in the world for a whole year, is equivalent to the amount spent on arms in 2 weeks worldwide.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

There are vitamins in beer but not many, so you have to drink a lot to get any benefit.

Mississippi Bay is actually off the coast of Yokohama, Japan.

There are enough calories in a "Big Mac" to run a vacuum for 98 minutes.

The largest living thing on Earth is an underground mushroom in Oregon. It is 3.5 miles across.

A Galactic year is 250 million earth years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution of the milky way galaxy.

Almost 50% of bank robberies take place on Fridays.

The slang term "hootch" came from the Hootchinoo Indians, who made liquor so strong that it knocked out many of the first white settlers that tried it.

If you count one star a second, you won't get out of our galaxy for over 2,000 years.

If everybody in China jumped up and down at the same time, it would cause a tsunami large enough to engulf the United States.

These are just some "so called" facts I found. I hope you enjoyed them.