: Subject: True Facts > > They're not kidding ! > > 1) Debra Winger was the voice of E.T. > 2) Pearls melt in vinegar. > 3) It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather > for a year's supply of footballs. > 4) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for > dating are already married. > 5) The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: > Marlboro,,Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. > 6) It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. > 7) Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the > palm of their hands. > 8) Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from > the sale of vodka. > 9) The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." > uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union > to Test > telex/communications) > 10) The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without > repeating a letter is UNCOPYRIGHTABLE. > 11) STEWARDESSES' is the longest word that is typed with only > the left hand. > 12) No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, > silver and purple. > 13) "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English > language. > 14) Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 > pitches. > 15) A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. > 16) The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the > days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses > were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up > straight staircases. > 17) The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." > (Thus the > name > of the Don McLean song.) David Spark (West Riding of Yorkshire)