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1 - A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
2 - The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"
3 - 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.
4 - Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David;
Clubs - Alexander the Great;
Hearts -Charlemagne;
and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
5 - Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
6 - Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
7 - An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
8 - The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
9 - The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
10 - Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
1 - A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
2 - The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"
3 - 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.
4 - Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David;
Clubs - Alexander the Great;
Hearts -Charlemagne;
and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
5 - Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
6 - Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
7 - An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
8 - The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
9 - The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
10 - Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
