IJMC - Everything You Didn't Know You Wanted To Know
I mean it folks, this is everything you didn't know you wanted to know.
Everything else you want to know, you know you want to know it. And there
is nothing left that you want to know that you don't know you want to
know. And if you followed that, you deserve a degree in Science and
Technology so you can do technical writing...(told ya you'd be mentioned
in tonight's post, just changed the how. Good luck.) -dave
AMUSING IRRELEVANT FACTS
1. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the
first time are teenagers.
2. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I.
3. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents
thought he might be retarded.
4. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
5. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're
still sitting on it.
6. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in
any other weather.
7. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
8. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who
have recently eaten bananas.
9. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
10. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
11. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
12. The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early
1500's.
13. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by
Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
14. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't
give her coffee.
15. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
16. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't
wear pants.
17. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
18. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no
telephones - Bhutan.
19. Every person has a unique tongue print.
20. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
21. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
22. Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures
of the pets in their wallets.
23. Bubble gum contains rubber.
24. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
25. Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
26. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands
in Jello.
27. Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several
weeks.
28. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
29. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of
people.
30. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water
over his head.
31. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the
bills.
32. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in
South Bend, Indiana.
33. About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it just to make
more money.
34. It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in
Kansas.
35. Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
36. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
37. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as
President Bush in 1991.
38. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in
the Western Pacific.
39. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
40. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
41. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in
1992.
42. Mosquitoes have teeth.
43. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
44. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
45. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard
Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
46. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for
food.
47. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
48. 27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is "a
meaningless existential hell."
49. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on
when patients would die.
50. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant
"plenty of excrement."
51. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
52. "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
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