Fun Facts

 

Some facts are unique, some are funny and many produce this type of response "wait, what."  Here are a few examples!

10)    Start off with my personal favorite fact - according to a recent Swedish study, playing golf will add five years to your lifespan.  FORE!

9)    Take one penny and double it every day for 30 days and you will have over five million dollars by the end of the month.

8)    There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos. 

7)    Dolphins and mobsters sleep with one eye open. (I made up the mobsters part.)

6)    Speaking of mobsters, have you ever noticed how much the electric chair looks like the chair in your dentist office.  That's because it was developed by a dentist.

5)   Elvis was born with blond hair, but wanted a more edgy look and dyed his hair black- he used black shoe polish to touch it up.

4)    The average person spends six months of their lifetime waiting on red lights-- honk - honk!! 

3)    Although Mickey and Minnie Mouse are quite the couple, they have never married on the big screen.  However, the actors who provided their voices were secretly married for over 18 years.   

2)    The inventor of Pringles potato chips has a portion of his ashes buried in a Pringles can.  BTW, how does the Pringles guy on the can eat any chips since he doesn't have a mouth?

1)    One of the most unusual tax returns ever filed with the IRS was by Fred Flintstone.   A refund was generated, but stopped at the last moment because the zip code did not match his Bedrock address.  The zip code used was 70777 which belongs to Slaughter, Louisiana.  Everyone knows Fred lived at 345 Cave Stone Rd. in Cobblestone County which is in the Midwest. 

Note:    The picture above is the airport runway that separates the Rock of Gibraltar, (British Colony) and Spain.  To go from one country to the other, you must cross the runway.  Planes have the right of way.