Three of the following are FACTS…one is a FIB (scroll down to find out which one!)
1. Less than 15% of men in the United States are six feet tall or taller . . . less than 4% are at least six-foot-two. In the NBA, 87% of the players are taller than six-foot-two.
2. The first book ever sold on Amazon was a book “The Crying Game“. Someone bought it in July of 1995.
3. Knock-knock jokes got popular in the 1930s when a guy named Alf Landon was running for president against FDR. He picked a former Army colonel named Frank Knox as his vice-presidential candidate, and knock-knock jokes about him were a hit.
4. Barney the Dinosaur was originally going to be a talking blanket, then a teddy bear that came to life . . . but eventually he became a dinosaur.
AND THE FIB IS…(scroll down)
#3!
3. The first book ever sold on Amazon was a book about artificial intelligence called “Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies”. Someone bought it in July of 1995.
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