Well, it has been a while. How is the world? Peachy I hope. (Oh, how I love fruit
...) I have had a spontanious need to share random, useless, and strangly interesting facts with all those who may stumble upon my sacred stomping grounds!! (I mean this world) Let us begin.
Did You Know:
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[*23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.]
[*35% of the people using personal ads for dating are already married.]
[*The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.]
[*A man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted.]
[*The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.(Thats right..there is no escape...)]
[*California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.]
[*Farmers in England are required by law to provide their pigs with toys.]
[*Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.]
[*About 1 in 30 people in the U.S. are in jail, on probation, or on parole.]
[*Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.]
[*Jedi is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.]
[*All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.(Smart clams
...)][*Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.]
[*Clinophobia is the fear of beds.(O.o I'm sure that'll be helpful someday...)]
[*"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"! ]
[*An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.]
[*Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.(
It's good to be modern!)[*Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.]
[*Dueling is legal in Paraguay, as long as both parties are registered blood donors.]
[*In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through peoples clothes.(
And how many did they recall?)][*Apples are 25% air.]
[*Bananas aren't fruit! They are a type of herb.]
[*Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made of grass.]
[*Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed for marketing reasons.]
[*Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.]
[*According to U.S. laws, a beer commercial can never show a person actually drinking beer.]
[*Almonds are a member of the peach family.]
[*A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes.]
[*Contrary to popular belief, possums, squirrels, chipmunks, and mice do not carry rabies.]
[*At birth, a panda bear is smaller than a mouse.]
And that's it for today! I hope you enjoyed those completely useless (unless you aspire to being on jeapordy...) facts and got at least a laugh out of a few of them!! Thats all Folks!!
*Facts courtisy of Factsville.com
