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UNQUESTIONABLY
STRANGE FACTS!
The following nuggets, drawn from
various sources, are unquestionably strange, weird, bizarre, trivial,
outlandish and, occasionally, even a little upsetting. They’re also
all true. We offer them as a possibility for a fun (or serious)
offbeat inspiration or ingredient in one or more of your upcoming
promotions. Your counselor can help you select appropriate or related
products.
- Of Christopher
Columbus’ famous trio of ships, the Nina and
Pinta were caravels, while the Santa Maria was a
nao.
- Broccoli has a
primitive nervous system; it can actually feel
pain to a tiny degree.
- 81.3% of people say
they’d tell a male acquaintance or co-worker his
fly was unzipped.
- All the world’s
termites outweigh humans 10 to one.
- Andrew Jackson –
yep, the ex-prez, the guy on the $20 bill — was
reportedly never quite sure if the world was round
or really flat.
- In Oklahoma, you can
be arrested for making faces at a dog.
- Wet sand weighs less
than dry sand. Absolutely no idea why.
- In an average year,
the public parks of London are doused in 1 million
gallons of dog urine.
- Tastebuds have a
lifespan of 10 days.
- Theogenes,
considered the greatest gladiator of ancient
times, killed 1,425 opponents during his career
(circa 900 BC). His preferred weapon was spiked
leather mitts.
- Earmuffs were
invented by Chester Greenwood (at age 15) in 1873.
- People who need real
hobbies, part 37: A guy in South Dakota carved the
alphabet on a standard-sized pencil with a chain
saw in 40 minutes.
- Most drinking water
is about 3 billion years old.
- Unbelievably, the
USA is not the number one consumer of Coca-Cola in
the world. It’s not even second, but third.
China and India, respectively, hold the top two
spots.
- Notable Australian
inventions include zinc oxide ointment, the
utility vehicle, cardboard wine boxes, cochlear
implant devices, portable beer coolers and
ultrasound.
- In most ads, print
included, the time displayed on watches is 10:10.
(It used to be 8:20, but advertisers thought a
smile was better than a frown.)
- A fully-ripened
cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
- Firehouses have
circular stairways because back when horses pulled
the engines, they figured out how to climb
straight stairs.
- More collect calls
are made on Father’s Day than any other day of
the year.
- There are two credit
cards in the country for each person.
- Most people spend
45% of their time listening, but they only
remember 20% of what they hear and can recall only
half of something immediately after hearing it.
- The glue on Israeli
postage stamps is certified kosher.
- The shortest
complete sentence in the English language is “I
am.”
- Coney Island has had
three of its rides certified as New York City
historical landmarks.
- Bats fly with their
hands, not their arms, and can achieve speeds of
up to 60 mph.
- “Pinocchio,” in
Italian, means “pine eye.” And there’s
more – in the original written story, old Pine
eye deliberately squashes Jiminy Cricket because
he finds him bothersome.
- In Sanskrit, the
word “war” translates into “a desire for
more cows.”
- Every day, the human
heart pumps approximately 1.5 million ounces of
blood.
- Mark Twain never
went beyond (or even graduated from) elementary
school.
- Over 250 left-handed
people are killed each year by using products
designed for right-handed people.
- The opposite sides
of a die (that’s half a pair of dice) always add
up to seven.
- In 1999 prices, a
taxi from midtown Manhattan to downtown Los
Angeles would run $8,325.
- The most popular
name for privately-owned boats is Obsession. (Does
Calvin Klein know this?)
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