Friday, September 19, 2008
im giving credit to julia and dielli
their posts make me want to find out more
1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why
8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
14. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." There was never a recorded Wendy before.
15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
23. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
Kangaroos can't walk
~ Albert Einstein married his first cousin.
In the eighth grade, Elvis Presley got a "C" grade in music
A snail can have about 25,000 teeth
A zebra is white with black stripes.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
It took engineers 22 years to design the zipper.
Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Li is the family name for over 87 million People in China.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952.
