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DID U KNOW !!
here i chose 4 u some did u knows i think am ganna reply al least as much as i did in the next week

In a study of 200,000 ostriches
over a period of 80 years,no one reported a single case where
an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

It is physically impossible
for pigs to look up into the sky.

****A pregnant goldfish is called a twit


****More than 50% of the people in the world
have never made or received a telephone call.

****Horses can't vomit.

****The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick"
is said to be the toughest tongue twister
in the English language.

If you keep your eyes open by force,
they can pop out.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months,
two rats could have over a million descendants.
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ONCE AGAIN MORE DID YOU KNOWS
Wearing headphones for just an hour
will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700
times.

In every episode of Seinfeld
there is a Superman somewhere.


A duck's quack doesn't echo,
and no one knows why.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide
are caused by people sitting on them
and photocopying their butts.


Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Like fingerprints,
everyone's tongue print is different.


Over 75% of people who read this
will try to lick their elbow.

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ONCE MORE DID YOU KNOWS?

Wearing headphones for just an hour
will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700
times.



In every episode of Seinfeld
there is a Superman somewhere.


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

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide
are caused by people sitting on them
and photocopying their butts.


Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Like fingerprints,
everyone's tongue print is different.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.[ I KNOW I ALREADY SAID SO ]


Over 75% of people who read this
will try to lick their elbow.

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 6. Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

7. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

8. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

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

10. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

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No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

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

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid
airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

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

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.


Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being
seen wearing them in public.


Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

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

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
A snail can sleep for three years.

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left handed.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

1. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

2. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"

3. Almonds are members of the peach family.

4. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

5. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
11. The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosesl.

12. The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.

13. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A.

14. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

15. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

16. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

17. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

18. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

19. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

21. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

23. There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the,there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

24. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. *comment below*

27. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

28. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

30. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti

31. 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.

33. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

34. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

35. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

36. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.

37. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

38. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."

39. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.


If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.


(Hardly seems worth it.)


If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas
s produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

(Now that's more like it!)


The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out
to the body to squirt blood 30 feet...

(O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)



A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it
starves to death. (Creepy.)


The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the
length of a football field.

(30 minutes... lucky pig... can you imagine??)



The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

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Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)




Butterflies taste with their feet.

(Something I always wanted to know.)


The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

(Hmmmmmm........)


Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer
than left-handed people.

(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)



Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

(OK, so that would be a good thing....)


A cat's urine glows under a black light.

(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)



An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

(I know some people like that.)




Starfish have no brains.

(I know some people like that too.)



Assuming Rudolph is in front, the number of possible way to arrange Santa's other eight reindeer is 40,320.
Divide your weight by six to get the approximate number of quarts of blood in your body.
A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
The Monongahela River's name translated into English means "high banks breaking off and falling down in places."
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.
During his life time, the average male eats 50 tons of food.
Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
The human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap and enough iron to make a single one inch nail.
Most heart attacks occur between 6:00 a.m. and noon when blood pressure naturally rises.
Twenty-six astronauts have reported seeing UFOs while in orbit around the Earth.
Fingernails grow four times faster than toenails--about two hundredths of an inch per week.
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth...and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
Your brain uses 10 times more oxygen than the rest of your body.
Because the eyes work harder when viewing objects up close, particularly on a computer monitor, it is the proximity of the VDT screen to the eyes that causes eyestrain, not "radiation" emitted from the screen.
Albert Einstein didn't talk until he was four years old.
"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Most precious gems are actually colorless. Their color comes from impurities in the stone than act as pigmenting agents.
Gordon Sumner, the rock star and actor known as Sting, got his nickname from the yellow-and-black jerseys he used to wear, which fellow musicians thought made him look like a bumble bee.
A lightning bolt heats the air around it to three times the temperature of the sun's surface.
For every shark that takes a bite out of a human being, humans kill about a million sharks.
Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
They live an average of 77 years and have the longest lifespan in the United States - nuns.
Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
A giant squid's eye is the largest of any animal's, exceeding 15 inches in diameter.
The shoestring was invented in England in 1790. Prior to this time, all shoes were fastened with buckles.
The state of Kansas once passed legislation rounding off the value of Pi from 3.14159265... to an even 3.
The average American adult has 23 decayed or filled surfaces.
The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
Until 1890, Vatican choirboys were castrated to keep their voices from deepening.
Gymnastics is the only sport more popular with women than with men.
In 1879 a drug was introduced to treat morphine addiction. The drug: cocaine.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself. How they tested this I'm afraid to ask.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.
Alaska has the highest percentage of Baby Boomers; Utah the lowest.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
On average, an adult laughs about 15 times a day; a child laughs 400 times.
In medieval England beer was often served with breakfast.
The lens of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.
The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
The telephone area code for a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean is 871.
There are more stars in the universe, than grains of sand on all the beaches in the world.
On the day that "The Wizard of Oz's" Judy Garland died, a tornado touched down in Kansas.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
"111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321"
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
At 90 degrees (F) below zero your breath will freeze in midair and fall to the ground.
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
3000 cows are needed to supply the leather for a year.s supply of NFL footballs.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
If there were ever an ocean big enough, Saturn would be the only planet that could float.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The Hewlett Packard computer company.s first product was an automatic urinal flusher.
All the coal, oil, gas, and wood on Earth would only keep the Sun burning for a few days.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
At Old English weddings, guests through shoes at the groom.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
Your hearing is not as sharp on a full stomach.
The last United States train robbery took place in 1933.
A 1,200 pound horse eats about 15 lbs. of hay and nine pounds of grain everyday (seven times its own weight each year).
Einstein couldn.t read until the age of nine.
The two lines that connect the bottom of your nose to your lip are called the philtrum.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
1/100th of a second is called a "jiffy".
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
"J", the youngest letter in the English alphabet, was not added until the 1600s.
It takes around 200,000 frowns to create a permanent brow line.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
The fastest-moving land snail is the common qarden snail whose top speed is 55 yards per hour or 0.0313 mph.
The most common time to sight a UFO is 11pm.
There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.
The right lung takes in more air than the left.
On average, Americans buy 1.5 toothbrushes a year.
60% of the swimsuits sold in the U.S. never get wet.
It takes about 30 minutes for an aspirin to find a headache.
In Nepal, Mt. Everest is known as "Gauriosankar".
Los Angeles Police Department ballistics experts say that the fastest bullet is fired from a .223 caliber rifle and travels at 3,500 feet per second, more than 3 times the speed of sound.
If an octopus is hungry enough, it will eat its own arms.
The knee-high measurement of an average-sized grasshopper is about 1/2 inch.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
A group of cows, twelve or more, are known as a "flink."
In a survey of 5,000 U.S. nurses, 40 percent said they would not recommend the medical facility where they worked to a relative.
The ancient Romans died their hair with bird droppings.
Only pharoahs were allowed to eat mushrooms in ancient Egypt.
What area of your body has the most bacteria? Between your toes.
Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital.
Ratio of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who are hearing impaired: 3 in 5.
The Yo-yo is believed to be the second-oldest toy in the world after dolls. The Greeks played with yo-yos as far back as 500 B.C.
You use 15 different muscles in your face to laugh.
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
A group of ravens is called a murder.
Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
Only about half of all spiders spin webs.
Kangaroos are lactose-intolerant.
Charles Darwin's cousin invented the IQ test.
Goats can.t legally wear trousers in Massachusetts.
Niagara Falls was created by a glacier.
Abraham Lincoln hated being called "Abe".
5% of Americans let their dishes pile up for a couple of days before washing them.
Clams can live as long as 150 years.
In ancient China, doctors received their fees only if their patients were kept healthy. If the patient's health failed, the doctor sometimes paid the patient.

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It.s illegal to ride an ugly horse down the street in Wilbur, Washington.
The skin on your eyelid is one one-thousandth of an inch deep (the thinnest); the skin on your back is one-fifth of an inch (the thickest).
According to research, you.ll blow your nose about 250 times this year.
Cows can be identified by noseprints.
There are 2,598,960 possible hands in a five-card poker game.
A group of frogs is called an army.
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents are present and don't die throughout the entire movie.
An electric eel's charge is so potent it can knock a horse unconscious from twenty feet away.
70% of house dust consists of human skin.
Artichokes are flowers.
Elephants breathe 12 times a minute.
It's impossible to snore in the weightlessness of space.
Mosquitos have 47 teeth.
An ecstatically weeping woman paid $8,625 at an auction for a pair of horseshoes worn by Mr. Ed.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. (Right, Shair?)
The first tennis balls were stuffed with human hair.
The average blink of an eye lasts one-tenth of a second.
The average American uses 12 gallons of water while showering.
Abe Lincoln's favorite sport was wrestling.
In the Middle Ages, you were supposed to throw eggs at the bride and groom.
In Lawrence, Kansas, it.s against the law to carry bees around in your hat on city streets.
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the number of injuries caused by plug-in air fresheners is 1,823.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Tomato ketchup was once sold in the U.S. as a medicine.
Snakes can get malaria.
Only 30% of humans can flare their nostrils.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Ducks can get the flu.
Siberia means "sleeping land."
In the Leaning Tower of Pisa, 6 of the tower.s eight floors are without safety rails. More than 250 people have fallen to their deaths since 1174.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
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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."
Maine is the only state 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.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
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 @ home!)
Mr.Rogers is an ordained minister.
A golden razor removed from King Tut's Tomb was still sharp enough to be used.
Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. The 117,000 volumes were carried by 400 camels trained to walk in alphabetical order.
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition, from 1910-1911, the word toast was borrowed from the Old French toste, which has the Latin root of torrere, tostum, meaning to scorch or burn.
Acting was once considered evil, and actors in the first English play to be performed in America were arrested.
All of the officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated.
All office seekers in the Roman empire were obliged to wear a certain white toga for a period of one year before the election.
At the turn of the last millennium, Dublin Ireland had the largest slave market in the world, run by the Vikings.
Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant plenty of excrement.
Before the 1800's there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet.
Czar Paul I banished soldiers to Siberia for marching out of step.
Dog Days: Days of great heat. The Romans called the hottest weeks of summer canculares dies. Their theory was that the Dog Star (Sirius) rising with the sun, added to its heat and the dog-days (about July 3 to August 11) bore the combined heat of both.
During 18th century France, visitors to the royal palace in Versailles were allowed to stand in a roped-off section of the main dining room and watch the king and queen eat.
During the Cambrian period, about 500 million years ago, a day was only 20.6 hours long.
During the Depression, banks first used Scotch tape to mend torn currency.
During the eighteenth century, books that were considered offensive were sometimes punished by being whipped.
Everyone believed in the Middle Ages--as Aristotle had--that the heart was the seat of intelligence.
Evidence of shoemaking exists as early as 10,000 B.C.
Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem 'The Star Spangled Banner' after being inspired by watching the Americans fight off the British attack of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem became the words to the national anthem.
High-wire acts have been enjoyed since the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Antique medals have been excavated from Greek islands depicting men ascending inclined cords and walking across ropes stretched between cliffs. The Greeks called these high-wire performers neurobates or oribates. In the Roman city of Herculaneum there is a fresco representing an aerialist high on a rope, dancing and playing a flute. Sometimes Roman tightrope walkers stretched cables between the tops of two neighboring hills and performed comic dances and pantomimes while crossing.
If a family had 2 servants or less in the U.S. in 1900, census takers recorded it as lower middle-class.
If we had the same mortality rate as in the 1900s, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.
If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birth place is listed as a post office box in Albequerque.
In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.
In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death.
In certain parts of India and ancient China, mouse meat was considered a delicacy.
In midieval England, beer often was served with breakfast.
In the 1700's, you could purchase insurance against going to hell, in London, England.
In the 19th century, the British Navy attempted to dispel the superstition that Friday was an unlucky day to embark on a ship. The keel of a new ship was laid on a Friday, she was named H.M.S Friday, commanded by a Captain Friday, and finlly went to sea on a Friday. Neither the ship nor her crew were ever heard of again.
In the Great Fire of London in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only six people were injured.
In the marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other.
In Turkey, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.
In Victorian times, there was an intense fear of being buried alive, so when someone died, a small hole was dug from the casket to the surface, then a string was tied around the dead persons finger which was then attached to a small but loud bell that was hung on the surface of the grave, so then if someone was buried alive, they could ring the bell and whomever was on duty would go and dig them up. Someone was on the clock 24 hours a day- hence the grave yard shift.
Income tax was first introduced in England in 1799 by British Prime Minister, William Pitt.
It cost more to buy a car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to the New World.
It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.
January is National Soup month.
Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness.
53,312 inmate lawsuits were filed nationwide in 1995.
A Virginia law requires all bathtubs to be kept out in the yards, not inside the house.
According to British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
Christmas was once illegal in England.
George Washington is the only man whose birthday is a legal holiday in every state of the U.S as of a few years ago.
Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
In a tradition dating to the begining of the Westminster system of government, the bench in the middle of a Westminster parliarment is two and a half sword lengths long. This was so the government and oppositon couldn't have a go at each other if it all got a bit heated
In Alaska it is illegal to shoot at a moose from the window of an aero plane or other flying vehicle.
In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
In Hartford, Connecticut, it is illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sundays.
In Italy, it is illegal to make coffins out of anything except nutshells or wood.
In Jasmine, Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300 km of a private home.
In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice-cream in your back pocket.
In Texas, it is illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.
In the UK, there is no act of parliament making it illegal to commit murder. Murder is only illegal due to legal precedent.
It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California.
It is illegal to frown at cows in Bladworth, Saskatchewan.
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.
Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize witchcraft.
107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today.