I Never Knew That!

• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• Sherlock Holmes never did say "Elementary, my dear Watson."
• Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with rejoice."
• The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
• The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
• 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."
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.