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Sat 21 Jan, 2006 12:29 pm
The world camel population is 19,627,000.
...and...
The leech has 32 brains, 32 more than most humans.
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
Squids can commit suicide by eating their own tentacles.
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
In 1977 there were 37 Elvis impersonators in the world. In 1993, there were 48,000. At this rate, by the year 2010 one out of every three people will be an Elvis impersonator.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
(I think that solves our Iraq situation!!)
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
(70% of people who read this will try it)
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
(ten points to anyone who can find all 315 of them!)
Odds that you'll be killed by a plane falling from the sky: one in 25 million. Odds that it will happen today: 1 in 7 trillion.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets every year.
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
(that would be me!)
Well, I'm out of random facts for now. Anyone know any more?
The average annual intake of caffine per capita in Finland is 145 grams
Number of states in the US that can be typed on a single row of letters on a typewriter keyboard.
1 (Alaska)
Australia is the only country that is also a continent.
Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.
Pumice is the only rock that floats.
Four is the only number that has the same number of letters in its name as its value.
The king of hearts is the only king in a pack of cards that does not have a mustache.
The bloodhound is the only (non-human) animal whose evidence is allowed in an American court of law.
That's scary about the Elvis impersonaters, isn't it!
Donald Duck cartoons were banned in Finland because he has no pants!
Beer was made legal in Iceland in 1982.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
(according to CSI: New York )
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