Posted:Mon Feb 2, 2009 12:23 PM CST
Strange facts... yes I'm really into this stuff
Okay I've already posted sex facts but these are mostly just strange facts that I found.. enjoy!
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee
Slugs have 4 noses!
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly
A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is