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http://www.banzai.net/sublime/strangefacts.html
My god, so many of these are wrong, but so many are right, I presume the writer has picked them all up from elsewhere...
It has the "Duck Echo" one and loads more, but some I've not heard, like:
* The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.
* In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'
* Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.
* A flush toilet exists that dates back to 2000 BC.
* Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
* The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive--so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
* Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age
* Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle. (Not heard that said about the Napster)
* According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.
* The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
* George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
* In the film 'Star Trek : First Contact', when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible .. but New Zealand is missing.
* 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
* The province of Alberta in Canada has been completely free of rats since 1905
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
* The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
* Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
* On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan.
* Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
* It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breath-alyzer to read 0.
* In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette.
* There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
You may wish to check out the craziness on the rest of the site...
My god, so many of these are wrong, but so many are right, I presume the writer has picked them all up from elsewhere...
It has the "Duck Echo" one and loads more, but some I've not heard, like:
* The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.
* In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'
* Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.
* A flush toilet exists that dates back to 2000 BC.
* Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
* The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive--so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
* Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age
* Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle. (Not heard that said about the Napster)
* According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.
* The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
* George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
* In the film 'Star Trek : First Contact', when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible .. but New Zealand is missing.
* 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
* The province of Alberta in Canada has been completely free of rats since 1905
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
* The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
* Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
* On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan.
* Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
* It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breath-alyzer to read 0.
* In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette.
* There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
You may wish to check out the craziness on the rest of the site...
