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Facts and Props Editor Bennett Cerf challenged Dr Seuss to write a book containing exactly 50 words. The result? Green Eggs and Ham. Nearly 30 percent of Dalmatian dogs are born with complete or partial hearing loss. Both the flesh and the pit of avacados are toxic to most species of bird, Just as some people talk in their sleep, sign language speakers have been known to sign in their sleep. According to a Wall Street Journal study, there are only 11 minutes of actual football action in an average NFL game. Charlie Brown's dad was a barber. Through the first half of the 20th century, only one Best Picture Oscar winner was filmed in color: Gone with the Wind. President Gerald Ford was offered contracts with the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions. Ringo Starr is the oldest of the four members of the Beatles. Though he was the last one to join the band, making him the "youngest" Beatle. The number 4 is the only number with the same number of letters as the meaning of its name. Amazing, considering there must be trillions of numbers! Don't tease the jaws of a Venus flytrap; each jaw can only close a few times before dying. The Green Bay Packers got their name in 1919 after the Indian Packing Company gave the team $500 to buy equipment. Before it became PG, the "parental guidance" movie rating was known for one year as GP (for General audience, Parental guidance suggested). When you crack a whip, the tip is moving faster than the speed of sound. That is why it "cracks", instead of making a "wooosh" sound. You probably know (or are) a couch potato, but may not know that the term is the legal property of Robert Armstrong, who trademarked it in 1976. -40 degrees Fahrenheit and -40 degrees Celsius are identical. That's the point at which both temperature scales converge. Seashell fossils have been found high in the Himalayan mountains, suggesting that the land was once underwater. Editor Bennett Cerf challenged Dr Seuss to write a book containing exactly 50 words. The result? Green Eggs and Ham.