“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Here is another very random selection of strange facts from fasab’s files.
As with other in this series, by the time you have read these you will know more than you did and possible more than you want to.
But have a look anyway.
Enjoy.
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The adult electric eel can produce a five hundred volt shock,
which is enough to stun a horse
– and I don’t mean a seahorse!
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As an iceberg melts, it makes a fizzing sound
because of the compressed air bubbles popping in the ice
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Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address
at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996
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The mythical Scottish town of Brigadoon
appears for one day every one hundred years
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A rainbow can occur only when the sun
is 40 degrees or less above the horizon
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The most common injury caused by cosmetics
is to the eye by a mascara wand
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The sound made by the toadfish when mating underwater
is so loud that it can be heard by humans on the shore
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In America, approximately 20% of children between
the ages of 2 – 7 have televisions in their rooms
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Families who do turn off the television during meals tend to eat healthier.
This was regardless of family income, or education
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Two out of five people end up marrying their first love
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Forty-one percent of women apply body and
hand moisturizer at least three times a day
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Scientists have determined that having guilty feelings
may actually damage your immune system
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The first box of Crayola that was ever sold
had the same eight colours that are sold in the box today
consisting of red, blue, yellow, green, violet, orange, black and brown.
The box was sold for a nickel in 1903
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The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon.
This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time
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According to psychologists, the shoe and the foot
are the most common sources of sexual fetishism in Western society
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Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball
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The first company to mass produce teddy bears was the Ideal Toy Company
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Flight pioneer and pilot, Orville Wright,
was involved in the first aircraft accident.
His passenger was killed.
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The mother of famous astronomer Johannes Kepler
was accused of being a witch
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In the past 60 years, the groundhog has only predicted
the weather correctly 28% of the time.
The rushing back and forth from burrows
is believed to indicate sexual activity, not shadow seeking
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fasab 
That’s interesting about rainbows – I’m going to presume we don’t get too many here during summer… This I need to follow up on 🙂
Don’t forget the pot of gold at the end of it if you find one!
I thought I’d try and keep quiet about that part 🙂
My parents never let our TV be on during meal times. Not even a news program, that they wanted to watch. It was like a religious ritual!
They did you a favor. I think it’ a good system and the facts seem to bear that out. The same ban should apply to cell phones too!
I wish that we could return to the time before cell phones and pagers, then whatever it is will have to wait until you get home! With the advent of technology, the is no place that you can hide. If Bin Laden were still alive, he could attest to that.
I wish we could too, but I fear it is going to get worse, not better.
That’s one good thing about mortality, one of these days our torment will end!
Ya ready for this one? You know it’s coming.
Dillinger was also good at stealing signs and second, but when it came to gate receipts they had to draw the line.
🙂 It’s a wonder he didn’t try to make off with the gates too!
The groundhog is accurate 28% of the time? Wow – that’s about 27.9% more than Columbus weathermen! 😀
Maybe they’re just performing some kind of weird sex thing too 😦
Doubtful. That requires accuracy at some point, too, and these guys are definitely in the “can’t-hit-the-broadside-of-a-barn-at-point-blank-with-a-shotgun” category!
🙂
I find it creepy most sexual fetishes were about feet & toes which I find to be an incredible turn off! Eeeeewwww!
It is a strange one right enough. Do you think there is a link to women’s fascination with buying shoes?
Now that’s an interesting thought . . . maybe women have a thing for buying shoes because the guys in their lives find pretty feet so sexy?
I knew there had to be a reason – or is it an excuse 🙂