20 Things: You'll Never Need to Know

This is 20 Things, a new segment on The Cheese Face Page. This week, 20 facts you'll probably never need unless trying to impress family.

1. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
2. The citrus soda, 7-Up, was created in 1929; '7' was selected for the original 7-ounce containers and 'up' for the direction of the bubbles.
3.Barbies full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
4. 101 Dalmations, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney films where both parents are present and don't die throughout the movie.
5.The word "samba" means "to rub navels together".
6. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
7. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
8. A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
9. Reindeers like to eat bananas.
10. In 1912, a law passed in Nebraska where drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all while blowing their horns and shooting off flares.
11. Most collect calls are made on Father's Day.
12. An 18th century German named Matthew Birchinger played 4 musical instruments, including bagpipes, was an expert calligrapher, and was the most famous magician in his day, performing tricks with the cup and ball that have never been explained. Yet Birchinger has no arms, legs, thighs, and was less that 29 inches tall.
13. It's illegal to hunt camels in Arizona.
14. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
15.In 1778, fashionable women in Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod strapped to their hats.
16. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 ft.
17. A palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same forward and backward: Ex: "Red rum, sir, is murder"; "Ma is as selfless as I am"; "A man, a plan, a canal- Panama", "Nurse, I spy gypsies. Run!", and "He lived as a devil, eh?"
18. Tom Sawyer was the first book written on a typewriter.
19. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111=12, 345, 678, 987,654,321
20. Statues in parks: If the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one leg in the air, the person died from wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

This has been 20 Things. Now, go impress your Great-aunt Agatha.

Cheese Face out.