1. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Super bowl.
2. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.
3. Conception occurs more often in December than any other month.
4. The theme song separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show.
5. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
6. The most popular boat name is Obsession.
7. If you were to spell out numbers, you would have to go to one thousand before you would find the letter "A"?
8. Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
9. Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
10. There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
11. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
12. Snooping in your medician cabinet is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party.
13. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight".
14. It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon.
15. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"
16. Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
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