CAROLINA NATURALLY: The 25 Most Important Questions in the History of the Universe

Sunday, October 12, 2008

1. What Makes No. 2 Pencils So Darn Special?
2. Who’s That AOL Guy Who Eerily Knows When You’ve Got Mail?
3. Where Does Nougat Come From?
4. Is There One Move That’s More Likely to Win a Game of Rock-Paper-Scissors?
5. Which Came First, the Can Opener or the Can?
6. How Does a Word Become a Curse Word?
7. Can a Pregnant Woman Drive in the Carpool Lane?
8. Why Do Battery Letters Skip from A to C? Was There Ever a B-Cell Battery?
9. What Does McDonald’s Have in Common with the CIA?
10. Why Does Hawaii Have Interstate Highways?
11. Why Do Most Snooze Buttons Only Give You Nine More Minutes of Sleep?
12. Why Do We Call Them Grandfather Clocks?
13. Was Turkey a Bird or a Country First?
14. How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck if a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood?
15. We Know Nothing Better Has Come Along Since then, But Who Invented Sliced Bread Anyway?
16. Why Is It Called "Blackmail?"
17. Is It Possible to Own Property on the Moon?
18. Why Can’t You Tickle yourself?
19. Human Meat Isn’t Appetizing, But is It Healthy?
20. Can You Actually Sense Weather with an Injured body Part?
21. Why Won’t Pineapple and Jell-O® Be Friends?
22. What are Sea-Monkeys®, Anyway?
23. How Many Pounds of Chimpanzee are Needed to Defeat the Average Human?
24. Why are Grape-Nuts® Neither Grapes Nor Nuts?
25. How Many Licks Does It Take to Get to the Center of a Tootsie Pop?

Believe it or not, the answers to these questions are here.