These have some 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.
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. Try it!
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 effects a dogs 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.
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, also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
36.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could
see his moves. That's the pposite of the norm.
37. Bubble gum contains
rubber.
38. Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
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.
43. In India it costs less to have sex
with a prostitute than it does to buy a condom.
44. Chewing gum
while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
45. 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.