True Facts 4

(thanks to Barbara Bassett)

Fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.Married men change their underwear twice as often as single men.There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet.3.9% of all women surveyed say they never wear underwear.Superman is featured on every episode of "Seinfeld", either by name or pictures on Jerry's refrigerator.85% of the men that die while having sex are cheating on their wives.Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitchesPercentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90Percentage of mammal species that are monogamous: 3Chances that a burglary in the United States will be solved: 1 in 7One third of the land in the United States is owned by the government.The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.Between 1942 and 1944, Academy Awards were made of plaster.John Madden is an accomplished ballroom dancer.In 23 states, Wal-Mart is the single largest employer.Jim Gordon, drummer of Derek and the Dominos ("Layla"), killed his mother with a claw hammer.One of Hewlett Packard's first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher.Eric Clapton did not play the very famous first riff on the song "Layla". That was Duane Allman. Clapton comes in later.There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.There is a two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand. The Kea likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.Illinois has the most personalized license plates of any state.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 front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.There are no venomous snakes in Maine.The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result, the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.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.