Betcha’ Didn’t Know…..Vol. 2. Interesting Facts.

*Each king in a deck of cards represents a great king (ruler) from History:
Hearts – Charlemagne
Clubs – Alexander The Great
Spades – King David
Diamonds – Julius Caesar

*The San Francisco Cable cars are the only National Monuments that are mobile.

*“Tom Sawyer” was the first novel ever written on a typewriter.

*Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.

*On average, there are 61,000 people airborne over the U.S. every hour.

*It costs $6,400 to raise a medium-sized dog to the age eleven.

*38% of North America is wilderness.

*Africa, however, is surprisingly only 28% wilderness.

*Alaska has the highest percentage of people that walk to work.

*Licking your elbow is impossible.

*The soda Coca-Cola was green originally.

*Women can hear better than men, but men can read smaller print than women can.

*There is more money printed for the board game Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury every day.

*Cartoon characters Fred and Wilma Flintstone were the first prime time TV couple to be shown in bed together (instead of two twin beds separated by bedside table).

*The word GOLF is a part of the English language thanks to the Scottish, who invented the game. They named it “Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden.”

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