“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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More from the fascinating fact file.
Here are a few more things that you didn’t know you didn’t know.
Enjoy.
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There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
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A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye
can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
So the book is wrong!
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A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
– especially by her parents!
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If you plant an apple seed,
it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree
of a different type of apple.
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Andorra, a tiny country between France & Spain,
has the longest average lifespan:
83.49 years.
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“The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick”
is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
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‘Duff’ is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.
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Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible.
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Abraham Lincoln’s ghost is said to haunt the White House.
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Only female mosquitoes bite.
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The past-tense of the English word “dare” is “durst”
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Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”
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Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
(and ninety percent of that ninety percent have no clue where they are going!)
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The volume of the earth’s moon is the same
as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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The New York phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII.
The New York phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.
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King Louis XIX ruled France for about 15 minutes
– he succeeded with abdication of Charles X
only to abdicate in favor of Henry V.
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Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves
when they rode past their king.
This custom has become the modern military salute.
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Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
(and all new babies look just like him, except your own of course!)
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“Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.” – makes a lot of sense.
The only thing that saves them is that the city is laid out on a grid, if it was like London they wouldn’t stand a chance.
You don’t need to go as far as London, take them to Queens of Brooklyn and you’ll see fear on their faces.
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Love the factoids … especially about ways of making change for a dollar … plus the tongue twister was a twisted hoot!
Thanks. Could you say it fast? I failed miserably 😦
We could battle for who is the worst!
If truth be told I even have bother saying that one slowly!
I think I’ll stick with helping Peter Piper to pick up a pack of his pickled peppers,
LOL … oh well … we can both pass on trying it.
Since mosquitoes use blood to produce eggs, or in some species more eggs, its only the female who needs to risk her life by blood-feeding. As usual, the survival of a species depends on the women. 😉
Maybe so, but the guys look after the really important stuff like beer and football. Cheers 🙂
Interesting to know the past form of dare, I didn’t know this before.
I’ve heard older folks use the word a lot, and I always thought it was just a local dialect thing, but it turns out they were right all along!