[Friday Funny] Strange but True

[The Friday Funny]

Several years old I'm afraid!

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These are some weird but true facts which you 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.  For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it.  As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results.  This is true for all foods.

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!  Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system, a few ounces being enough to kill a small 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 to 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. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint the Mona Lisa's lips.

31. 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.

32. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

33. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

34. 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.

35. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.

36. 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.

37. Bubble gum contains rubber.

39. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'

40. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

41. Cat's urine glows under a black light.

42. Celery has negative calories!  It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

44. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

45. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

46. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

47. Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.

48. Pearls melt in vinegar.

49. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

50. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

51. The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

52. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.

53. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.

54. Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

55. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

56. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
    Spades    -  King David;
    Clubs     -  Alexander the Great;
    Hearts    -  Charlemagne;
    Diamonds  -  Julius Caesar.

57. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

58. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

59. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

60. Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating

61. The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

62. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday 13th."

63. The man who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on 'Star Trek' is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.

64. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

65. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

66. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20 (am or pm?).

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Peter SJF Bance
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