Weird facts

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Stuff you didn't know

*According to studies, men prefer to have white bedrooms and women prefer to have blue bedrooms.

*Author Robert May considered the names of Reginald and Rollo before he settled on "Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer."

*An artist from Chicago named Dwight Kalb created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of ham.

*Bernd Eilts, a German artist, turns dried cow manure into wall clocks and small sculptures. He is now expanding his business to include cow dung wrist watches.

*Finnish folklore states that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko instead.

 

*For 47 days in 1961, the painting "Matisse's Le Bateau (The Boat)" was hanging upside down in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Apparently none of the over 116,000 visitors seem to have noticed.

*In 1943, the July issue of "Transportation Magazine" had an article entitled "1943 Guide to Hiring Women."

*French artist, Michel Vienkot, uses cow dung as paint when he creates his pictures

*In 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast.

*January is named for the Roman god Janus. Janus was a temple god who could look forward and backward at the same time.

*Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables

*Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa

*Native Indians have been known to paint their doors blue, which they believe keeps the bad spirits out.

*January is named for the Roman god Janus. Janus was a temple god who could look forward and backward at the same time.

 

  1. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
  2. In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
  3. If an orangutan belches at you, watch out. He's warning you to stay out of his territory.
  4. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thoughthe might be retarded.
  5. The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
  6. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're stillsitting on it.
  7. In 1984, a New Jersey man opened a summer camp for Cabbage Patch dolls.
  8. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.
  9. How can you tell when a gorilla is angry? It sticks its tongue out.
  10. In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary formally married her 50-pound petrock.
  11. In 1980, the Yellow Pages accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under frozen foods.
  12. 1,200 college students streaked at the same time in Boulder, CO in 1974.
  13. In 1977, a 13-year-old boy discovered a tooth growing on his left foot.
  14. In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
  15. In the early '80s, a toad was discovered that meows instead ofcroaking.
  16. In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
  17. About 96% of all American children can recognize Ronald McDonald.
  18. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
  19. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
  20. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
  21. The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
  22. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
  23. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
  24. Watch out for flying hockey pucks - they travel at up to 100 mph.
  25. America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
  26. 98% of American drivers think they drive better than anyone else.
  27. In 1681, the last dodo bird died.
  28. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
  29. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
  30. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
  31. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
  32. Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
  33. What color was Christopher Columbus's hair? Blonde.
  34. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
  35. The most extras ever used in a movie was 300,000, for the film Gandhi in 1981.
  36. Every person has a unique tongue print.
  37. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
  38. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
  39. When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit
  40. Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets. 
  41. Bubble gum contains rubber.
  42. In high school, Robin Williams was voted "Least Likely to Succeed."     
  43. Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
  44. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
  45. Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
  46. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
  47. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
  48. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
  49. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
  50. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
  51. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
  52. It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas. 
  53. Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
  54. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
  55. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as Pres. Bush in 1991.
  56. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.
  57. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
  58. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
  59. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
  60. Mosquitos have teeth.
  61. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
  62. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
  63. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
  64. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
  65. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
  66. Captain Kangaroo won five Emmy awards.
  67. 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
  68. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
  69. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
  70. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
  71. "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo
  72. There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes. Their scientific name is Lycopersicon lycopersicum, which means "wolf peach." They are cousins of the eggplant, red pepper, ground cherry,  potato, and the highly toxic belladonna, also known as the nightshade or solanaccae
  73. The combined wealth of the world's 250 richest people, is greater than the combined wealth of the poorest 1.5 billion citizens.
  74. 100% of lottery winners have one thing in common, they all are over weight.
  75. The wealth of the richest three people on the planet - Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and the shared wealth of the Walton family, whose patriarch founded Walmart - is greater than that of 47 of the world's countries.
  76. There's a place in Texas called Ding Dong.
  77. The world's longest street is located in Canada. Toronto's Yonge Street runs 1,900 kilometers/1,190 miles from the shores of Lake  Ontario past Lake Superior.
  78. Antarctica, the world's fifth largest continent, was not sighted by Europeans until 1820.  It is so cold at the south pole that the temperature never rises above -16 C (3 F).
  79. Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, i.e.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.
  80. Each hour, enough water flows from the mouth of the Amazon River, to fill Lake Erie - one of the "Great Lakes"
  81. In the "developed" countries of the world, about 28 million pregnancies occur each year.  Half (50%) of them are "unplanned", and 36% of them end in abortions. About140 million babies are born each year to the 1.5 billion women of child-bearing age (15 - 44).
  82. Sunglasses were orginally invented in China in the 13th century.
  83. In the USA, domestic cats kill an estimated 1 billion wild birds each year
  84. The fastest known tornado was the so-called Tri-State Tornado of March 18, 1925.  It cruised along at a recorded 73 mph (117 km/hr).
  85. The first message sent in Morse Code on May 24, 1844 was, "What hath God wrought".
  86. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina state song. 
    The only animals able to see behind them without turning their head are the rabbit and the parrot.
    In most milk commercials, they don't really use milk. They use white paint and a little thinner.
     Every person has swallowed a spider at least once in his/her lifetime while sleeping.
     Infants are not born with kneecaps, they don't develop until they are 2-6 years old.
    A pack-a-day smoker loses approximately 2 teeth for every 10 years they have been smoking.
    Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button.
    The average computer-user blinks only 7 times per minute.
     Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.
     When you sneeze every bodily function stops--even your heart.
     40,000 people a year are injured by toilets.
     The toothbrush was invented in 1493.
     A house fly has a lifespan of one month.
     Only 7% of the entire population is left handed.
     A streched out wire, clothes-hanger is 44 inches long. 
    The average chocolate bar has atleast 6 insect's legs in it.
     Cat pee glows under a black light.
    A boy once found a tooth growinging out of his foot.
     If you put salt on a worm it will turn inside out.
    The average human eats 8 mosquitoes/spiders/cockroaches in their lifetime at night. 
    A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair. 
    The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in  Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. 
    Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

         Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.

           Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand

            Initially golf balls were made out of wood. After that they were made out of leather which was stuffed with feathers. 
             In th Pentagon, USA, they use up to 666 rolls of toilet paper each day!

           There are three golf balls sitting on the moon

            Tiger Woods was introduced to golf at nine months of age by his father

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