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Useless Facts
Ok...no reason in particular for adding this to the site.....It's
really strange what you can find on the Internet these
days!
A man filed a lawsuit against his doctor because he survived
longer than what the doctor had predicted.
A surfer once sued another surfer for "stealing
his wave." The case was thrown out because the
court was unable to put a price on "pain and suffering" endured
by the surfer watching someone else ride "his" wave.
By law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain
confidential for seventy-two years
Centuries ago in India, a person could get their nose
chopped off for breaking the law.
David Rice Atchinson was President of the United States
for exactly one day. This happened due to a glitch in
American law at the time.
In Israel, religious law forbids picking your nose on
Sabbath.
In Quebec, Canada, an old law states that margarine must
be a different colour than butter.
In the 1985 Boise, Idaho mayoral election, there were
four write-in votes for Mr. Potato Head.
India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
Serving ice cream
on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas.
A blink lasts approximately 0.3 seconds.
If you sneeze, hiccup and pass gas all
at the same time, you explode!!!
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups
for approximately sixty-nine years.
A person infected with the SARS virus,
has a 95-98% chance of recovery.
A person will burn 7 percent more calories
if they walk on hard dirt compared to
pavement.
A sneeze can travel as fast as one hundred
miles per hour.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Only female mosquitoes bite. (mmm...better
not comment on that one)
A barnacle has the largest penis of any
other animal in relation to its size.
A chicken once had its head cut off and
survived for over eighteen months, headless.
A female ferret can die if she goes into
heat and cannot find a mate. (I know
some guys like this)
The world camel population is close to
19 million.
Did you know that humans and dolphins
are the only mamels that have sex for
pleasure
A fall of 30 feet can be survived my most
cats. (We should verify this one)
A group of crows is called a murder.
A leech has 32 brains.
A rabbit's teeth never stops growing.
They are kept worn down by gnawing on
food.
The average human will eat 8 spiders
while asleep in thier lifetime.
A squash ball moving at 150 kilometers per hour
has the same impact of a .22 bullet.
Approximately one out of four injuries by athletes
involve the wrist and hand.
Basketball superstar Wilt Chamberlain holds 56 NBA
records. (also known to hold other, non-basketball
records)
In 1953, racecar driver Tim Flock raced at Nascar
with a monkey in the seat beside him.
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord
Perry said, "They'll
put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On
July 20, 1969, a few hours after Apollo 11 landed
on the moon carrying Neil Armstrong, Gaylord Perry
hit his first home run.
In 1986, a drunk fan got into a pace car at Talladega
Superspeedway, and started joyriding on the track
in front of a nationwide audience. The police cruisers
who had to chase him around the track were not
amused when they caught and arrested him
On November 29, 2000, Pope John
Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem
Globetrotter."
Racecar driver Lee Petty once left a pitstop and
did a full lap at Nascar with a pit crew member
still on the hood.
The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round
of golf are one in 67 million.
The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a
half inches high.
There are 122 pebbles per square inch on a Spalding
basketball.
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended
workers for betting on when patients
would die.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is
the fear of long words.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne
will bounce up and down continually from
the bottom of the glass to the top.
Before she became a famous sex therapist,
as a young woman, Dr. Ruth Westheimer
was a trained sniper in Israel.
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