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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.
- 60 Minutes is the
only prime-time TV show with no theme music.
- A man in Wisconsin
balanced 5,555 matchsticks on a one-inch wide test
tube. (Maybe it’s time for a real hobby, pal?)
- Alexander Graham
Bell refused to keep a telephone in his study
because its ringing was too distracting.
- There are only 46
states. Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and
Massachusetts are actually commonwealths.
- The Great Pyramids
of Egypt, which consist of 14 million sandstone
blocks, were originally gold-capped and covered
with limestone.
- The only
English-language word that ends in the letters
“mt” is “dreamt.”
- Cats have 32 muscles
in each ear. (“Hear, kitty?”)
- Chrysanthemums,
daffodils, morning glories and narcissus are all
poisonous.
- Central Park is
larger in area than the country of Monaco.
- Holy rollers! In
Caracas, Venezuela, many streets are blocked off
on Christmas Eve so people can rollerskate to
church.
- On the ground, a
group of geese is a gaggle. In the air, it becomes
a skein.
- All pedigreed
beagles are bred to have a white tail-tip, so
hunters won’t accidentally shoot them.
- Albert Einstein
couldn’t speak fluently until he was nine. His
parents thought he was mentally retarded.
- Egyptian Pharaoh
Rameses II, whose name adorns one of the
best-selling brands of condoms, fathered over 160
children.
- Donald Duck’s
middle name is Fauntleroy.
- In an average day,
men spend 26 minutes cleaning house and 15 minutes
preparing meals. For women, it’s 59 and 51
minutes, respectively.
- Mosquitoes have
killed more people than every war ever fought
combined.
- Tiger shark embryos
fight each other to the death while still in the
womb.
- Abraham Lincoln was
the only U.S. president who was awarded a patent,
for a system of buoying vessels over shoals.
- In England, the
Speaker of the House isn’t permitted to speak.
- Texas is the only
state that allows residents to cast absentee
ballots from space.
- The words “United
States” or “America” are never mentioned in
the “Star Spangled Banner.”
- Forty percent of
teenaged girls who wear Britney Spears-branded
clothing consider themselves popular vs. only 21%
of those who wear Christine Aguilera-branded
apparel.
- Owls are one of the
few birds that can see the color blue.
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