Sixty Amazing-but-True Facts!

o In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in

contact with Pepsi.
o The increased electricity used by modern appliance parts is causing a
shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole
will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the
coast of East Africa.
o The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some
gerbils are actually born pregnant.
o Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing
prehensile penises.
o Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even
though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered
copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.
o Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the
itching and swelling.
o The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the
fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.
o The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was
owned by Frank Sinatra.
o The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's
no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.
o Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit"
to a sneezer was never repealed.
o Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak
like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to
hear the sound.
o SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.
o Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of
whiskers.
o Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will
overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send
any more spam.

o Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

o The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in
Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.
o The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during
research into how bumblebees fly.
o You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17
percent bauxite.
o Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first
latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious
reasons.
o Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.
o The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the
scrotum of a cadaver.
o The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests
who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would
instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to
catch them.
o A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice
of singer Barry White.
o The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop,
who left his "signature" on the keyboard.
o The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-
hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a
4-lane concrete freeway.
o King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.
o Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM,
microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their
foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of
collapsing in extremely high winds.
o In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and
consequently died of starvation.
o Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have
buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with
* and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911
system.
o Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
o Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after
President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.
o Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching
a three-hour baseball game.
o Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real
camels.
o You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by
wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
o To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra
urine.
o Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth
during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure
drops to five out of ten.
o A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed
against carpet.
o A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study
promoting the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health
benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far
outweigh the negative social connotations.
o Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in
Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members
have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.
o Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some
tribes use it for lantern fuel.
o At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer
balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.
o Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.
o If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and
leave behind its weight in honey.
o Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a
blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
o Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can
blow out your eyeballs.
o Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or
more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from
running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive
purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."
o When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold
Krugerrands in his small intestine.
o Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.
o Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription
found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical
to the recipe used today.
o If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be
carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological
make-up is that of a vegetarian.
o When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a
crying baby.
o In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda
in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the
models' turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a
staple shortage due to rationing of metal.
o Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing
together two Cool Ranch Doritos.
o Napoleon's favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.
o The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in
Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.
o Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot
swim backwards.
o In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil
at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
o It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to
Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.
o The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having
nine primary whiskers.
 o hgsdhstrh shfdghgThe original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes
from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to
impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The
proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun.
o The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops
in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

#1146, Phase 5, Mohali

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