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Weird Interesting and Disquisting facts!!!

Journal Entry: Fri Sep 18, 2009, 1:50 PM
Dear diary... i'm jocking :P
So tonight its a breezy stormy night, the wind is howling and lightnings are shreding the sky in half... its a night for horror and strange tales next to the fireplace! But since there is none here to tell me stories neither i own a fireplace, here are some funny, disquisting and interesting facts of this world :D ENJOY!! (zomg i started so dramatically) :giggle:

Did you know that:
No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God

In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her cheating adulterous husband but she may only do so with her bare hands.

Adding a drop of olive oil and lemon juice to an ice cube then running it over your face gives you better results than some expensive skin care products.

You will weigh less if you weigh yourself when the moon is full

Honeybees never sleep

80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women

Horses can't vomit and pigs can't look up in the sky

In Arizona it is illegal to have more than two dildos in one house

Most lipsticks have fish scales

The oldest dog died at the age of 29

Not only the fur of the tiger is striped but also its skin

The Germans tried to copy Coca-Cola and came up with the drink Fanta.

Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

The largest potato was grown in Lebanon by Khalil Semhat near Tyre. The spud was 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds)

Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.

Earthworms have five hearts

If an Amish man has a beard, he is married.

If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate)

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.

Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.

The Pope's been known to wear red Prada shoes.

Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.

Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five liters of cooking oil a year.

Watching television can act as a natural painkiller for children

The egg came first.

The age limit for marriage in France was, until recently, 15 for girls, but 18 for boys. The age for girls was raised to 18 in 2006.

The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth's surface.

The two most famous actors who portrayed the “Marlboro Man” in the cigarette ads died of lung cancer.

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.

The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.

The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.

9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."

Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.

There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.

On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.

Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.

Napoleon was terrified of cats.

The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback."

The world's record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours.

The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in seven months. They died of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning and being thrown from a horse.

The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.

A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.

The ampersand (& ) was once a letter of the English alphabet.

During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required to pay a special tax.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

Average number of days a German goes without washing his underwear: 7. :giggle:

The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

First novel ever written on a typewriter: "Tom Sawyer."

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades--King David, Clubs--Alexander the Great, Hearts--Charlemagne and Diamonds--Julius Caesar.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know your there

In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose

There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all

The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk

"Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed

More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products

:D i hope it was good for you as it was for me :giggle:

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