| Bet you didn't know this stuff... Here's some history for you. Next time you are washing your hands, and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s: Most people got married in June, because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, as time passed they were strating to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. |
| On a BAD day The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later they were both eaten by a killer whale. ********* A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current she whacked him with a handy plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm in two places. Till that moment he had been happily listening to his Walkman. ********** Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits. |
| Amazing facts: If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enought sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. ********* If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. ********** Banging your head against the wall uses 150 calories an hour. ********** Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. ********** On average people fear spiders more than they do death. ********** The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. ********** It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. ********** A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. ********** Polar bears are left handed. ********* A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. ******** Some lions have sex over 50 times a day. ******* Butterflies taste with their feet. ******* Elephants are the only animal that can't jump. ******* An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. ******* Starfishes haven't got brains. ******* Coca-Cola was originally green. ******* Nutmeg is extemely poisonous is injected intravenously. |
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