Things you didn't know!

[Stephen Robb]

=: 50 Useless Facts :=

1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

3. The dot over the letter i or j is called a tittle!

4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuosly from the bottom of the glass to the top.

5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why!

7. A 2"x 4" is really 1½"x 3½" (Yank sizes!)

8. During the Chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can been in the distance.

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily, world wide!

10. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants!

11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during WWII
were made of wood!

12. The number of possible moves at the start of a game in chess, 4 moves for white and black is 318,979,564,000!

13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with 'orange', 'purple' or 'silver'.

14. The name "Wendy" was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded "Wendy" before in records!

15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in Berlin Zoo!

16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death!

17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w the film down so you could see his moves!

18. The first CD pressed in the USA was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA"

19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby!

20. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you could not beat your wife with anything thicker than your thumb! (So pickaxe handles are out!)

21. The first product "Motorola" started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was "Victrola", so they called themselves "Motorola".

22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet!

23. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand!

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

25. For Fun, Charlie Chaplin once entered anonymously, a "Charlie Chaplin look alike contest". He won third prize!

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

27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".

28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards whilst dancing!

29. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher!

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

31. Astronauts are forbidden to eat beans before going into space, because passing wind in a space suit damages them!
(Reminds me of a line from Billy Connilly "You must be as welcome as a f@rt in a space suit!")

32. In the movie Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart NEVER said "Play it again Sam". What he said was "If you can play it for her, you can play it for me, so play it!"

33. It is impossible to lick your elbow!

34. A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out!

35. A shrimp's heart is in it's head!

36. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried it's head in the sand!

37. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky!

38. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit!

39. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call!

40. Horses can not vomit!

41. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English Language. (Even more so when your p*ssed!)

42. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you could rupture a major blood vessel in your neck or brain which could lead to death. If you keep your eyes open by force it's possible to rupture an eyeball!

43. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months two rats will have over a million decendants!

44. Wearing headphones for just an hour, will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times!

45. If the American Government has no knowledge of Aliens, then why does "Title 14, Section 1211 of the code of Federal Regulations, implemented on the 16th July 1969, makes it illegal for US Citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?"

46. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman some where.

47. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them photocopying their bums!

48. Most lipstick contains fish scales!

49. Like fingerprints, everyones tongue print is different!
and lastly...

50. Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow!

One more useful fact:

Just because these are claimed as facts, doesn't mean they are necessarily true!

Originally posted by Stephen Robb
[Snippity snip] .......5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.........

[Snippity snipped]

Well..... thank god i'm not a ferret.... i would have died years ago

[aliferste]

At least 4 of them are myths

[Dave Stones]

16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death!

i thought scorpions were immune to their own venom. or is that something else?

[Tricky]

Originally posted by aliferste
At least 4 of them are myths

Is that not a female moth?

[Stephen Robb]

Originally posted by Graham
One more useful fact:

Just because these are claimed as facts, doesn't mean they are necessarily true!

I have absolutely no idea! I just aquired it and thought it would be for a crack! Took a long time using only two fingers, not like these clever people who can use all fingers at 10,000 knots!

Kink- afraid I am not an authority on the life style of ferrets but what you say it has a interesting conception! (excuse the pun!)

Dave- Yes I thought that to, after watching a many Discovery program!

Tricky and Aliferste- I suppose it could be a moth with a lisp who is only 16!

Hi Stephen
Where did you get these titbits from? Was it online or elsewhere?
Just wondering.... since i've seen a few of these on Penguin wrappers

[Stephen Robb]

Originally posted by kink
Hi Stephen
Where did you get these titbits from? Was it online or elsewhere?
Just wondering.... since i've seen a few of these on Penguin wrappers

Sorry I don't eat Penguins as they have small stiff feathers that get in your teeth, but I do like biscuits with chocolate on!

I get most of my material (I feel a copyright breathing down my neck here! ) from all sorts of places (we have to keep this family channel clean, don't we!). But to be truthful, I have been skidding around all sorts of places (URL's) since early 1996.

God, that was a long time ago, and at that time it was Telecentral, and they charged £12.99 pm for their ISP plus dial up charges (no freebies then) which were the basic 3-2-1 we have now! Get your email and get straight off type thing! They were based in Cardiff or Swansea and I believe they are still there!

No, there were lots of free software sites (not anymore though) and places like that, where you can get this stuff. A couple of friends of mine have relatives in IT and that sort of thing and they pick up loads of little snippets here and there, and it usually ends up with me, and I pick out the best and string it together.

Sorry, I get told I talk and smoke too much!

[Salu]

There is over 1000 times more bacteria on your dishcloth than your toilet seat!

[Dave Stones]

i use antibac washing up liquid... it says it removes the bacteria on my dishcloth and sponge

whether i believe it or not is another matter...

[Salu]

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

i use antibac washing up liquid... it says it removes the bacteria on my dishcloth and sponge

whether i believe it or not is another matter...

For a student that's remarkable.

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by Graham

One more useful fact:

Just because these are claimed as facts, doesn't mean they are necessarily true!

I was reading them and thought.....if Graham sees this I bet he says.....and you did!
You are correct though!

[etccarmageddon]

Originally Posted by Salu

There is over 1000 times more bacteria on your dishcloth than your toilet seat!

you obviously havent seen the state of my bog seat!

[Salu]

Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

you obviously havent seen the state of my bog seat!

In that case, I hope you have a dishwasher?