Strange But True
- Cuba’s humming bird is 5.7cm long, weighs 14.2 g, lays eggs which are 0.6cm long and will fight birds 4 to 5 times bigger than itself.
- The nose of a dog is so sensitive that it can tell the difference between a tub of water and a tub of water with a teaspoon of salt in it.
- 23 percent of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them to photocopy their butts or genitals.
- Whale eyes are the size of a grapefruit.
- Robots can carry out surgery while the surgeon watches a video and directs the robot from a computer.
- Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
- Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were seventh cousins.
- 1961 was the most recent year that could be written upside-down and right side-up and appear the same.
- Sponge Candy was invented in Buffalo, NY.
- Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
- Napolean conducted his battle plans in a sandbox.
- Armadillos can be house broken.
- Sharks are immune to cancer.
- Horses lift their heads up high to look at something far into the distance. To see things that are closer, they lower their heads.
- They have square watermelons in Japan. They stack better.
- The world’s tallest roller coaster is located in England and reaches a peak height of 72 meters
- One in five of the world’s 2.5 million medical doctors are Russian.
- Man releases over a billion tons of pollutants into the Earth’s atmosphere every year.
- The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
- One of the ingredients in ice cream is seaweed.
- The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock 3 times each morning.
- Benjamin Franklin was the inventor of the rocking chair.
- Male lions can sleep for up to 20 hours a day.
- The hippopotamus gives birth under water.
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
- The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
- Clinphobia is the fear of beds
- The music group Simply Red is named because of its love for the football team, Manchester United, who has a red home strip.
- In Cleveland, Ohio, it is unlawful to leave chewing gum in public places.
- A maverick is a cow that escaped getting branded.
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