“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Today a few more freaky facts for those interested in having a few unusual things to say when the opportunity arises.
Enjoy.
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There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.
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If you ate too many carrots, you would turn orange.
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Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
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At the age of 26, Michelangelo began sculpting his monumental statue of David.
He finished it seventeen months later, in January, 1504.
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There is a doggy disco held in Italy every year where owners can dance with their dogs.
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Each person’s ears are unique.
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More people are afraid of spiders than death.
Amazingly, few people are afraid of Champagne corks
even though you are more likely to be killed by one than by a spider.
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The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch instead of the female.
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In 1958 Entomologist W.G. Bruce published a list of Arthropod references in the Bible.
The most frequently named bugs from the Bible are:
Locust: 24, Moth: 11, Grasshopper: 10, Scorpion: 10, Caterpillar: 9, and Bee: 4.
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Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.
Well they can’t see until it’s too late 🙂
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A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins
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The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic,
and she provided twenty-five years of service.
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When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it.
Only 706 survived.
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Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.
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fasab 
Never knew about the sister ship. Meanwhile, the first one about the insects in the human body has me wonder if that is fact or legend.
Some of these could be legends right enough, but this is a ration of bugs to humans and has to be approximate.
Would love to see the Italian dog disco!
I haven’t got anything on the Italian disco, but you might like a bit of Spanish Merengue 😉
Whoops! Damn computers!!
Interesting conversation starters.
I hope they don’t turn out to be conversation stoppers 😉
Never realised pulling on your pants could be so dangerous. One can only presume that they were standing at the top of the stairs and fell…
Yes, tricky things trousers 🙂