The bizarre facts below are from the 1998 Australian Disney Adventures Calender.
Thanks to Disney Online.

  • A group of Rhinoceros is called a crash.
  • One quarter of all creatures on the planet are beetles.
  • Bubble gum and fairy floss were invented by dentists.
  • Seaweed is used to thicken icecream.
  • A giraffe's tongue is 45cm long.
  • An average woman consumes approximately 20kg of lipstick in her life.
  • Out of 20000 species of bees, only 4 make honey.
  • You use over 70 muscles to say one word.
  • It's against the law for monsters to enter the town of Urbana, Illinios in the U.S.A.
  • Eskimos have over 100 words for ice.
  • Giant squids have eyes as big as watermelons.
  • Only 5% of the ocean floor has been mapped as precisely as the moon.
  • Eels have two hearts.
  • In spring, a blue whale will eat up to four tonnes of food a day, that's about twice as much as a well fed human eats per year.
  • Lobsters have pale blue blood.
  • The mantis shrimp has an extending claw that can punch a hole through a glass jar.
  • Starfish don't have brains.
  • Icthyomaniacs are people who are crazy about fish.
  • 99% of all animal species that ever lived on Earth are now extinct.
  • Plants that are not cared for will cry for help, a thirsty plant will make a high-pitched sound that is too high for us to hear.
  • Snakes have one lung.
  • Antarctica is a desert.
  • Males lions can sleep for up to 20 hours a day.
  • A group of crows is called a murder.
  • Slugs have 4 noses.
  • It takes a plastic container 50000 years to start decomposing.
  • The longest sausage made in Australia was 11 kilometres long.
  • In Switzerland, it's against the law to slam your car door.
  • Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
  • Koalas are excellent swimmers.

    The following bizarre facts were sent to me by a friend!

  • Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
  • Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
  • The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
  • There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
  • The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
  • A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
  • There are more chickens than people in the world.
  • Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
  • The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
  • All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
  • No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
  • "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
  • Almonds are a member of the peach family.
  • Maine is the only state in the US whose name is just one syllable.
  • There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
  • Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" -and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
  • A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
  • An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  • Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.
  • In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
  • Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
  • The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life."
  • A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
  • On an American one dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
  • It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)
  • Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
  • In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
  • The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz".
  • The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
  • John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
  • There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
  • Coca-Cola was originally green.

    What do you think? It's pretty interesting stuff isn't it? It seems that some people have too much time on their hands. (including me!)

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