Sunday, 15 September 2013

More fascinating stuff.

The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in the solar system combined.

Hot water is heavier than cold water.

Polar Bears are left handed,

The city with the most Rolls Royces per capita than any other is Hong Kong.

Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.

Barbies measurements if she were life size would be 39-23-33

The only food that will never spoil is honey. Jars have been found from many years ago and a still edible.

The parachute was invented by Da Vinci

The first book ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times. More likely to be 4,950, as the head picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

The housefly wings beat in the middle octave of 'F'

The longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.


Los Angeles's full name is 'El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porcuncula'

An ostriches eye is bigger than its brain.

Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny was allergic to carrots.

Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Sonny and Cher.

Al Capone's business card said he was a furniture dealer.

Wilma Flintstones maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal and Betty Rubbles was Betty Jean McBricker..

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

If NASA sent birds into space they would die. They need gravity to swallow.

Tippex was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (formally of The Monkees).

If a statue of a person is on a horse and the horse has both legs in the air, the person died in battle, It the horse only has 1 leg in the air, the person died from wounds received in battle, and if the horse has all four feet on the ground, the person died from natural causes..

STEWARDESS is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.

The old saying 'Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey' comes from the old Civil war cannons, the balls were stacked in a pyramid shape onto a piece of metal called a Brass Monkey. If the temperature dropped below freezing, the metal base would contract and the cannon balls would roll off..

Armadillos have 4 babies at a time and they are always the same sex.

Ernest Vincent Wright once wrote a 50,000 word novel without using the letter 'E'.

In 1939, the New York Times, predicted that TV would fail, because people didn't have the time to stop and stare at a screen..

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