“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Hello again and welcome to another rummage through the fasab fact files.
As random as ever, this selection covers many centuries and many countries so you should find something of interest.
Enjoy.
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1 in 5 of the world’s doctors are Russian.
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The Nullarbor Plain of Australia covers
100,000 square miles (160,900 km) without a tree.
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In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character,
received 800,000 fan letters.
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Nerve impulses to and from the brain
travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.
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Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows
to mourn the deaths of their cats.
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Canadian researchers have found that
Einstein’s brain was 15% wider than normal.
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Isaac Asimov is the only author
to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
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The shortest British monarch was Charles I,
who was 4 feet 9 inches.
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Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
(Something to do with his mother no doubt!)
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Camels chew in a figure 8 pattern.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry,
because there is no gravity,
so the tears can’t flow.
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There are 1,792 steps in the Eiffel Tower
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A silicon chip a quarter inch square
has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer,
which occupied a city block.
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About a third of all Americans flush the toilet
while they’re still sitting on it.
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Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice president Al Gore
were freshman roommates at Harvard.
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In eighteenth century England,
women’s wigs were sometimes 4 feet high.
These remarkable headdresses were dusted with flour
and decorated with stuffed birds, replicas of gardens,
plates of fruit, or even model ships.
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In 1976 a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift
officially married a 50 pound rock.
The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people.
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In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
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John has a long moustache was the coded signal
used by the French Resistance in WWII
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