“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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If its facts you want we have them!
So here is another selection.
If you can’t find something you don’t know in here then you know far too much.
Enjoy.
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“Kemo Sabe”, the name Tonto called The Lone Ranger
means “Soggy Shrub” in Navajo Indian.
The Tonto in Spanish means “a fool”.
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Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as medicine.
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Killer whales have such a good sense of touch
that if you dropped a pill into a bucket
and feed it to the orca
it would eat the fish and spit out the pill.
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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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Knitted socks discovered in Ancient Egyptian tombs
have been dated back as far as the 3rd century AD.
Oh mummy!
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Larry Lewis ran the 100 yard dash in 17.9 seconds in 1969,
there by setting a new world’s record
for runners in the 100 years or older class.
He was 101.
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5% of Canadians don’t know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem,
but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
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7% of Americans don’t know the first 9 words of the American anthem,
but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
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85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
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99% of the solar system’s mass is concentrated in the sun.
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There is a company in Taiwan makes dinnerware
out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
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About 70% of Americans who go to college
do it just to make more money.
(The rest are just avoiding reality for four more years.)
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America once issued a 5-cent bill.
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The Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew named Cuitlahuac,
whose name meant “plenty of excrement.”
Now there’s revenge for you!
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Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of
their unwanted people without killing them
used to burn their houses down
– hence the expression “to get fired.”
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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland
because he doesn’t wear pants
– the little pecker!
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Marijuana is not as chemically addictive
as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today
is because in the 1930’s cotton growers lobbied against
hemp farmers whom they saw it as competition.
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Special playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII.
If captured, they could be soaked in water
and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
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The three best-known western names in China are
Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
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Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill,
‘If you were my husband, I would poison your coffee’.
To which Churchill replied,
‘If you were my wife, I would drink it’.
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fasab 
First I knew of many of these …. great Churchill quote.
Good man and ……. good man! 🙂
There was lots here I didn’t know, no matter how obvious some of them seem. 😉
Well, as they say, now you know. So do I, if I can remember them 😉
Jesus Christ is actually Asian, but I know what you mean.
Churchill’s quote is one of my favorites.
Interesting about the sun, although most people think it is all concentrated around them.
I’m going to have to say that just because you are born in stable it doesn’t make you a horse, but I know what you mean too 🙂
I must protest! Donald was never banned here…it’s just a big media beat up 🙂 http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/finland.asp for the full story! That particular politician is still around…
I thought you might respond to that one 😉 But it’s good to know that some politicians in Finland are just as dumb as they are everywhere else – kinda proves my theory!
Oh yes, we have our fair share!
I do love the Churchill quote. One of many good ones from him.
There have been a number of times in both our and Europe’s history where seemingly trivial money was represented on paper (or cloth). There’s a special name for it, but danged if I can remember it right now!
And didn’t Hearst go after marijuana, because he feared using the marijuana pulp for newsprint, and he owned a few million acres’ worth of trees? Or am I just stoned? 😉
You may well be right about Hearst, those types would manipulate anything to their own advantage.
I feel smart today – I knew the words to both anthems! I can sing all but the French part of the Canadian national anthem & most of the American anthem.
I’d say that puts you well ahead of most folks, well done.
Ok, here goes: Go, Larry, Go! I mean, Jesus Christ. Richard Nixon. Elvis Presley! Awesome.
That’s fame for you 🙂