Sunday, December 05, 2004

These are some weird facts which some of us might not have heard before:

These are some weird facts which some of us might not have heard before:

1. A Saudi Arabian Woman Can Get A Divorce If Her Husband Doesn’t Give Her Coffee.

2. A Shark Can Detect One Part Of Blood In 100 Million Parts Of Water.

3. A Rat Can Last Longer Without Water Than A Camel.

4. Your Stomach Has To Produce A New Layer Of Mucus Every Two Weeks Otherwise It Will Digest Itself.

5. The Dot Over The Letter ‘I’ Is Called A Tittle.

6. A Raisin Dropped In A Glass Of Fresh Champagne Will Bounce Up And Down Continually From The Bottom Of The Glass To The Top.

7. A Person Cannot Taste Food Unless It Is Mixed With Saliva.

8. A Male Emperor Moth Can Smell A Female Emperor Moth Up To 7 Miles Away.

9. George Washington Grew Marijuana In His Garden.

10. A Giraffe Can Clean Its Ears With Its 21-Inch Tongue!

11. In Lebanon It Is Legal To Have Sex With A Female Animal, But Illegal With A Male One.

12. 40% Of Mcdonald’s Profits Come From The Sales Of Happy Meals.

13. Every Person Has A Unique Tongue Print.14. During The Chariot Scene In ‘Ben Hur’ A Small Red Car Can Be Seen In The Distance.

15. Einstein Couldn’t Speak Fluently When He Was Nine. His Parents Thought He Might Be Retarded.

16. On An Average, 12 Newborns Will Be Given To The Wrong Parents Daily.

17. Warren Beatty And Shirley Maclaine Are Brother And Sister.

18. Chocolate Kills Dogs! True, Chocolate Affects A Dog’s Heart And Nervous System, A Few Ounces Enough To Kill A Small Sized Dog.

19. Money Isn’t Made Out Of Paper, It’s Made Out Of Cotton. Before The 1950’s It Was Made From Hemp. The Stem And Leaves Of A Marijuana Plant.

20. Most Lipstick Contains Fish Scales.

21. Orcas (Killer Whales) Kill Sharks By Torpedoing Up Into The Shark’s Stomach From Underneath, Causing The Shark To Explode.

22. Donald Duck Comics Were Banned From Finland Because He Doesn’t Wear Pants.

23. Ketchup Was Sold In The 1830s As Medicine.

24. Leonardo Da Vinci Could Write With One Hand And Draw With The Other At The Same Time.

25. The Number Of Possible Ways Of Playing The First Four Moves Per Side In A Game Of Chess Is 318,979,564,000.30. Both Hitler And Napoleon Were Missing One Testicle.

26. Upper And Lower Case Letters Are Named ‘Upper’ And ‘Lower’, Because In The Time When All Original Print Had To Be Set In Individual Letters, The ‘Upper Case’ Letters Were Stored In The Case On Top Of The Case That Stored The Smaller, ‘Lower Case’ Letters.

27. There Are No Clocks In Las Vegas Gambling Casinos.

28. There Are No Words In The Dictionary That Rhyme With: Orange, Purple, And Silver!

29. The Numbers ‘172’ Can Be Found On The Back Of The U.S. $5 Dollar Bill In The Bushes At The Base Of The Lincoln Memorial.

30. Leonardo Da Vinci Invented Scissors, Also, It Took Him 10 Years To Paint Mona Lisa’s Lips.

31. Bruce Lee Was So Fast That They Actually Had To Slow A Film Down So You Could See His Moves. That’s The Opposite Of The Norm.

32. Bubble Gum Contains Rubber.

33. Human Birth Control Pills Work On Gorillas.

34. The First Cd Pressed In The Us Was Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born In TheUsa’

35. By Raising Your Legs Slowly And Lying On Your Back, You Can’t Sink In Quicksand.

36. Cat’s Urine Glows Under A Black Light.

37. Celery Has Negative Calories! It Takes More Calories To Eat A Piece Of Celery Than The Celery Has In It To Begin With.

38. Chewing Gum While Peeling Onions Will Keep You From Crying!

39. Guinness Book Of Records Holds The Record For Being The Book Most Often Stolen From Public Libraries.

40. Astronauts Are Not Allowed To Eat Beans Before They Go Into Space Because Passing Wind In A Spacesuit Damages Them.

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