26.11.08

Fun facts to share at Thanksgiving!


My girlfriend and I love to tell each other "fun facts" and then laugh really hard because, well, they are hiilllarrrious sometimes. Here are some to share if there is a lull in conversation tomorrow at the dinner table. (or just tell everyone anyway)



This day in History: 1789 -- Today marks the first National Thanksgiving Day. It's also the day the first college fraternity was founded in 1825(Kappa Alpha at Union College, NY); and the first recording session by the Liverpool music group The Beatles under that now famous group name (1962).



Fun Facts:

*North Carolina is the nations top sweet potato producer, Illinois is the the top pumpkin producer, and Wisconsin is #1 with cranberries.

*The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

*40% of McDonalds profits are from Happy Meals.

*It takes 12 hours for food to digest.

*A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.

*In the latter part of the 18th century, Prussian surgeons treated stutterers by snipping off portions of their tongues.

*All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

*Armadillos, opossums, and sloth's spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.

*All polar bears are left handed.

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