- Dinosaurs sometimes had accidents!
Quite a few fossil bones have been found with factures in them.
- Did you know that the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." contains all of the letters of the alphabet
- During the Secession War, when troops returned to their cartels without casualties, they would write “0 Killed” on a big plate. That’s the origin of the expression OK.
- Mosquitoes have teeth.
- An average person laughs 15 times a day.
- Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump...luckily :)
- Cockroaches can live for nine days after loosing their head, and then die from starvation.
- Right-handed people live 9 years longer than left-handed people, in average.
- It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
- Pentagon has two times the number of toilets it needs. When it was built, the law required separate toilets for black and white people.
- The name Jeep comes the American military abbreviation G.P. - General Purpose vehicle
- If a statue of a horseman has both horse's legs in the air, the person died in a battle. If only one leg is up, the person died of the wounds from the battle. If all four legs are down, the person died by natural death.
- Multiply 111 111 111 x 111 111 111 = 12 345 678 987 654 321
- Every king in cards represents one of the great kings: spades – King David, clubs – Alexander the Great, hearts – Carlo the Great, diamonds – Julius Cesar.
- Duck’s sounds don’t produce echo and nobody knows why.
- American Airlines saved 40 000 in 1987 by taking out one olive from the salad that was served in first class.
- Coca Cola was originally green.
- You cannot suck on your own elbow.
- Quarter of all the storks in the world live in Poland.
- In spite of the belief, donkeys are one of the most intelligent Equidae. For example, they use the hair on their chin to see if a fence is electrocuted and they won’t step onto a dangerous place, unless their master steps on it first.
- The oldest city in France is Marseilles. It was founded by the Greeks in 600 B.C.
- In Oregon, the law forbids tracking horse races or symphony concerts.
- In Norfolk, no woman was allowed to go out on the street without a corset. There was a special corset inspector.
- In Finland, Donald Duck cartoons were forbidden for a long time, because he never wore any underpants.
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