Tuesday, August 05, 2008

totally unnecessary knowledge...

I don't know

1 - 50% of female polar bears also have a penis.
2 - American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.
3 - Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
4 - An adult giraffe’s kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
5 - The longest word in the English language, with all of the letters in alphabetical order is “Almost”.
6 - In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
7 - The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
8 - 75% of people will believe any made up statistic.
9 - The brain continues sending electrical wave signals for 37 hours after death
10 - Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people.
11 - Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
12 - Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
13 - During their periods womens middle fingers shrink. No one knows why.
14 - A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
15 - In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.

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