Useless Facts

• The ZIP in “ZIP code” means Zoning Improvement Plan.
• Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
• It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
• Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
• 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
• The “save” icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.