Interesting FactsI got this from one of my daily joke emails. I thought it was quite interesting to share: 111 111 111 x 111 111 111 = 12 345 678 987 654 321 If a statue in the park representing a person on horseback has both front legs in the air, the person is died of wounds received in combat; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. There is no word in the English language that rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple. Clans of old who wanted to get rid of their undesirables without killing them used to burn down their houses - hence the expression "getting fired". Canada is an Indian word meaning “large village”. In the United States, there are two credit cards for every person. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the others signed on August 2, but the last signing was not added until five years later. “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. The term “the whole 9 yards” comes from World War II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their planes on the ground, the ammunition belts for the .50 caliber machine guns measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammunition at a target, the target got “the full 9 meters.” The most common name in the world is Mohammed. The word “samba” means “rubbing the navels”. The international telephone code for Antarctica is 672. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. Until 1965, driving was on the left on the roads in Sweden. The conversion to the right was done on a weekday at 5 p.m. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day was chosen to avoid accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that *it* was change day. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the Berlin Zoo's only elephant.Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" so that it rhymes with "rejoice." In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam." Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." Every year, more people are killed by donkeys than die from them. in air accidents. The term “It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye” comes from ancient Rome.