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Yes, it's the return of the useless facts
107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today. Makes you feel safe, doesn't it?
1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.
3 out of 4 optometrists wear eyeglasses.
A fierce gust of wind blew 45 year old Vittorio Luise's car into a rover near Naples, Italy, in 1980. He managed to break a window, climb out and swim to shore--where a tree blew over and killed him. How's that for irony?
A golden razor removed from King Tut's Tomb was still sharp enough to be used.
According to the Texas Department of Transportation, one person is killed annually painting stripes on the state's motorways and roads in America.
According to a law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
Adolf Hitler was Time's "Man of the Year" in 1938, and he only had one testicle.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952.
Albert Einstein's last words were in German. Since the attending nurse did not understand German, his last words will never be known.
Any Russian man who wore a beard was required to pay a special tax, during the time of Peter the Great.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
Approximately 98% of software in China is pirated.
At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.
Bamboo (the world's tallest grass, you know, the stuff Pandas eat) can grow up to 90 cm in a day.
Eating chocolate was once considered a temptation of the devil.
Even though cockroaches have been on the Earth for 250,000,000 they have not changed at all.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times it will not be heads 5000 times but more like 4950. The head picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. They taught us something completely different in Maths.
If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birth place is listed as a post office box in Albequerque.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and six days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. And you'd have one HECK of a sore throat!
In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50-pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people. Oh man!
In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death. Bring this law here!
In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either "unbathed" or "poorly dressed".
In certain parts of India and ancient China, mouse meat was considered a delicacy.
During Queen Victoria's reign, it was illegal to be a homosexual but not a lesbian. The reason being that when the Queen was approving the law she wouldn't believe that women would do that.
In Hartford, Connecticut, America, it is illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sundays.
In his book, "The Insects," naturalist Url N. Lanham reports that the aphid reproductive cycle is so rapid that females are born pregnant.
In relation to its size, the ordinary house spider is eight time faster than an Olympic sprinter. Not surprising really, they always manage to out run me!
It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California, America. Those crazy surfers!
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
New Zealand was the first country to give woman the vote, in 1890.
No one knows where Mozart is buried.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Robots in Japan pay union dues.
Shakespeare spelled his OWN name several different ways.
Talking on a cellular phone while driving is against the law in Israel.
The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. It was published in New Haven, Connecticut in America, by the New Haven District Telephone Company in February, 1878.
The largest prime number is 13,395 digits long; more than the number of atoms in the universe.
The radio-active substance, Americanium-241 is used in many smoke detectors.
The world's record for most children to one mother was 69 children. Bet she was fat afterwards.
¤Two wrongs may not equal a right, but three rights do equal a left.
Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles per hour.
When the Titanic sunk there was 7,500 lbs of ham on it.
You are more likely to win the state lottery than to be attacked by a shark.
I hope you are better educated now than when you first woke up this morning (and I don't mean from school!)
107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today. Makes you feel safe, doesn't it?
1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.
3 out of 4 optometrists wear eyeglasses.
A fierce gust of wind blew 45 year old Vittorio Luise's car into a rover near Naples, Italy, in 1980. He managed to break a window, climb out and swim to shore--where a tree blew over and killed him. How's that for irony?
A golden razor removed from King Tut's Tomb was still sharp enough to be used.
According to the Texas Department of Transportation, one person is killed annually painting stripes on the state's motorways and roads in America.
According to a law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
Adolf Hitler was Time's "Man of the Year" in 1938, and he only had one testicle.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952.
Albert Einstein's last words were in German. Since the attending nurse did not understand German, his last words will never be known.
Any Russian man who wore a beard was required to pay a special tax, during the time of Peter the Great.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
Approximately 98% of software in China is pirated.
At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.
Bamboo (the world's tallest grass, you know, the stuff Pandas eat) can grow up to 90 cm in a day.
Eating chocolate was once considered a temptation of the devil.
Even though cockroaches have been on the Earth for 250,000,000 they have not changed at all.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times it will not be heads 5000 times but more like 4950. The head picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. They taught us something completely different in Maths.
If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birth place is listed as a post office box in Albequerque.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and six days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. And you'd have one HECK of a sore throat!
In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50-pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people. Oh man!
In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death. Bring this law here!
In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either "unbathed" or "poorly dressed".
In certain parts of India and ancient China, mouse meat was considered a delicacy.
During Queen Victoria's reign, it was illegal to be a homosexual but not a lesbian. The reason being that when the Queen was approving the law she wouldn't believe that women would do that.
In Hartford, Connecticut, America, it is illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sundays.
In his book, "The Insects," naturalist Url N. Lanham reports that the aphid reproductive cycle is so rapid that females are born pregnant.
In relation to its size, the ordinary house spider is eight time faster than an Olympic sprinter. Not surprising really, they always manage to out run me!
It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California, America. Those crazy surfers!
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
New Zealand was the first country to give woman the vote, in 1890.
No one knows where Mozart is buried.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Robots in Japan pay union dues.
Shakespeare spelled his OWN name several different ways.
Talking on a cellular phone while driving is against the law in Israel.
The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. It was published in New Haven, Connecticut in America, by the New Haven District Telephone Company in February, 1878.
The largest prime number is 13,395 digits long; more than the number of atoms in the universe.
The radio-active substance, Americanium-241 is used in many smoke detectors.
The world's record for most children to one mother was 69 children. Bet she was fat afterwards.
¤Two wrongs may not equal a right, but three rights do equal a left.
Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles per hour.
When the Titanic sunk there was 7,500 lbs of ham on it.
You are more likely to win the state lottery than to be attacked by a shark.
I hope you are better educated now than when you first woke up this morning (and I don't mean from school!)
NO! No more!
Yet MORE useless facts!
All the clocks in 'Pulp Fiction' are stuck on 4:20.
About 96% of American children can recognize Ronald McDonald.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
According to one poll, nearly 3/4 of all American women wear a bra that is the wrong size.
America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men. Sickos.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
An estimated 6,000 American teenagers lose their virginity every day.
An Indian woman can legally wed a goat.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
At one time in Holland it took four years to train to be a hatmaker but only three years to train to be a surgeon.
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan, the American president.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.
Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott".
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4
Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7
Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where he/she grew up: 1 in 2
Chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac in the Middle Ages.
Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.
City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong
Coca-cola was originally green.
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
David Prowse was in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
Despite the many rat-infested slums in New York City, rats bite only 311 people in an average year. But 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
'Dreamt' and 'pre-empt' are the only English words that end with "mt".
Drivers tend to drive faster when other cars are around. It doesn't matter whether they are in front, behind or beside them.
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. Talk about taking advantage!
During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's timeless classic of the sea, 'Moby Dick', only sold 50 copies.
Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.)
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters. Nice and easy to learn then.
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall in America, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
The last dodo bird died in 1681.
In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary formally married her 50-pound pet rock.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
In 1980, the Yellow Pages in America accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under frozen foods.
In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
In 1984, a New Jersey man opened a summer camp for Cabbage Patch dolls.
In 1987, a 1,400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed in Ireland. Woo, bet that tasted good.
In high school, Robin Williams (the actor) was voted "Least Likely to Succeed."
In Kentucky, America, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas, America.
Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
Lee Harvey Oswald's (Presidential assasin) cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
Men get hiccups more often than woman.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as Pres. Bush in 1991.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
No one knows why, but 90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
Number of American states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star. Idiots.
Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: Pig.
Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird.
Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica.
Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor
Roosevelt.
Only food that does not spoil: honey.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80.
Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50.
Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7.
Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World:70.
Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43.
Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36.
Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90.
Percentage of mammal species that are monogamous: 3.
Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58. Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85.
Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3
Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
Portion of potatoes sold that are French-fried: 1/3
Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12
Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
Race car spelled backwards is race car.
Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many places -- refers to "40 days," they meant many days.
Right now you are wasting your time reading this. Na, not really! You're better educated for it!
All the clocks in 'Pulp Fiction' are stuck on 4:20.
About 96% of American children can recognize Ronald McDonald.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
According to one poll, nearly 3/4 of all American women wear a bra that is the wrong size.
America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men. Sickos.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
An estimated 6,000 American teenagers lose their virginity every day.
An Indian woman can legally wed a goat.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
At one time in Holland it took four years to train to be a hatmaker but only three years to train to be a surgeon.
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan, the American president.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.
Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott".
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4
Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7
Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where he/she grew up: 1 in 2
Chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac in the Middle Ages.
Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.
City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong
Coca-cola was originally green.
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
David Prowse was in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
Despite the many rat-infested slums in New York City, rats bite only 311 people in an average year. But 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
'Dreamt' and 'pre-empt' are the only English words that end with "mt".
Drivers tend to drive faster when other cars are around. It doesn't matter whether they are in front, behind or beside them.
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. Talk about taking advantage!
During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's timeless classic of the sea, 'Moby Dick', only sold 50 copies.
Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.)
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters. Nice and easy to learn then.
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall in America, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
The last dodo bird died in 1681.
In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary formally married her 50-pound pet rock.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
In 1980, the Yellow Pages in America accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under frozen foods.
In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
In 1984, a New Jersey man opened a summer camp for Cabbage Patch dolls.
In 1987, a 1,400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed in Ireland. Woo, bet that tasted good.
In high school, Robin Williams (the actor) was voted "Least Likely to Succeed."
In Kentucky, America, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas, America.
Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
Lee Harvey Oswald's (Presidential assasin) cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
Men get hiccups more often than woman.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as Pres. Bush in 1991.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
No one knows why, but 90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
Number of American states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star. Idiots.
Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: Pig.
Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird.
Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica.
Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor
Roosevelt.
Only food that does not spoil: honey.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80.
Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50.
Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7.
Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World:70.
Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43.
Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36.
Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90.
Percentage of mammal species that are monogamous: 3.
Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58. Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85.
Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3
Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
Portion of potatoes sold that are French-fried: 1/3
Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12
Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
Race car spelled backwards is race car.
Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many places -- refers to "40 days," they meant many days.
Right now you are wasting your time reading this. Na, not really! You're better educated for it!
The average blokes beard grows 1 nanometre before the razor is put down.
Yes, it's the return of the useless facts
107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today. Makes you feel safe, doesn't it?
1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.
3 out of 4 optometrists wear eyeglasses.
A fierce gust of wind blew 45 year old Vittorio Luise's car into a rover near Naples, Italy, in 1980. He managed to break a window, climb out and swim to shore--where a tree blew over and killed him. How's that for irony?
A golden razor removed from King Tut's Tomb was still sharp enough to be used.
According to the Texas Department of Transportation, one person is killed annually painting stripes on the state's motorways and roads in America.
According to a law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
Adolf Hitler was Time's "Man of the Year" in 1938, and he only had one testicle.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952.
Albert Einstein's last words were in German. Since the attending nurse did not understand German, his last words will never be known.
Any Russian man who wore a beard was required to pay a special tax, during the time of Peter the Great.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
Approximately 98% of software in China is pirated.
At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.
Bamboo (the world's tallest grass, you know, the stuff Pandas eat) can grow up to 90 cm in a day.
Eating chocolate was once considered a temptation of the devil.
Even though cockroaches have been on the Earth for 250,000,000 they have not changed at all.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times it will not be heads 5000 times but more like 4950. The head picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. They taught us something completely different in Maths.
If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birth place is listed as a post office box in Albequerque.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and six days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. And you'd have one HECK of a sore throat!
In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50-pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people. Oh man!
In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death. Bring this law here!
In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either "unbathed" or "poorly dressed".
In certain parts of India and ancient China, mouse meat was considered a delicacy.
During Queen Victoria's reign, it was illegal to be a homosexual but not a lesbian. The reason being that when the Queen was approving the law she wouldn't believe that women would do that.
In Hartford, Connecticut, America, it is illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sundays.
In his book, "The Insects," naturalist Url N. Lanham reports that the aphid reproductive cycle is so rapid that females are born pregnant.
In relation to its size, the ordinary house spider is eight time faster than an Olympic sprinter. Not surprising really, they always manage to out run me!
It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California, America. Those crazy surfers!
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
New Zealand was the first country to give woman the vote, in 1890.
No one knows where Mozart is buried.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Robots in Japan pay union dues.
Shakespeare spelled his OWN name several different ways.
Talking on a cellular phone while driving is against the law in Israel.
The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. It was published in New Haven, Connecticut in America, by the New Haven District Telephone Company in February, 1878.
The largest prime number is 13,395 digits long; more than the number of atoms in the universe.
The radio-active substance, Americanium-241 is used in many smoke detectors.
The world's record for most children to one mother was 69 children. Bet she was fat afterwards.
¤Two wrongs may not equal a right, but three rights do equal a left.
Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles per hour.
When the Titanic sunk there was 7,500 lbs of ham on it.
You are more likely to win the state lottery than to be attacked by a shark.
I hope you are better educated now than when you first woke up this morning (and I don't mean from school!)
107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today. Makes you feel safe, doesn't it?
1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.
3 out of 4 optometrists wear eyeglasses.
A fierce gust of wind blew 45 year old Vittorio Luise's car into a rover near Naples, Italy, in 1980. He managed to break a window, climb out and swim to shore--where a tree blew over and killed him. How's that for irony?
A golden razor removed from King Tut's Tomb was still sharp enough to be used.
According to the Texas Department of Transportation, one person is killed annually painting stripes on the state's motorways and roads in America.
According to a law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
Adolf Hitler was Time's "Man of the Year" in 1938, and he only had one testicle.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952.
Albert Einstein's last words were in German. Since the attending nurse did not understand German, his last words will never be known.
Any Russian man who wore a beard was required to pay a special tax, during the time of Peter the Great.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
Approximately 98% of software in China is pirated.
At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.
Bamboo (the world's tallest grass, you know, the stuff Pandas eat) can grow up to 90 cm in a day.
Eating chocolate was once considered a temptation of the devil.
Even though cockroaches have been on the Earth for 250,000,000 they have not changed at all.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times it will not be heads 5000 times but more like 4950. The head picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. They taught us something completely different in Maths.
If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birth place is listed as a post office box in Albequerque.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and six days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. And you'd have one HECK of a sore throat!
In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50-pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people. Oh man!
In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death. Bring this law here!
In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either "unbathed" or "poorly dressed".
In certain parts of India and ancient China, mouse meat was considered a delicacy.
During Queen Victoria's reign, it was illegal to be a homosexual but not a lesbian. The reason being that when the Queen was approving the law she wouldn't believe that women would do that.
In Hartford, Connecticut, America, it is illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sundays.
In his book, "The Insects," naturalist Url N. Lanham reports that the aphid reproductive cycle is so rapid that females are born pregnant.
In relation to its size, the ordinary house spider is eight time faster than an Olympic sprinter. Not surprising really, they always manage to out run me!
It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California, America. Those crazy surfers!
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
New Zealand was the first country to give woman the vote, in 1890.
No one knows where Mozart is buried.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Robots in Japan pay union dues.
Shakespeare spelled his OWN name several different ways.
Talking on a cellular phone while driving is against the law in Israel.
The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. It was published in New Haven, Connecticut in America, by the New Haven District Telephone Company in February, 1878.
The largest prime number is 13,395 digits long; more than the number of atoms in the universe.
The radio-active substance, Americanium-241 is used in many smoke detectors.
The world's record for most children to one mother was 69 children. Bet she was fat afterwards.
¤Two wrongs may not equal a right, but three rights do equal a left.
Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles per hour.
When the Titanic sunk there was 7,500 lbs of ham on it.
You are more likely to win the state lottery than to be attacked by a shark.
I hope you are better educated now than when you first woke up this morning (and I don't mean from school!)