I'll bet you didn't know...
From a local paper.
- In the course of a lifetime, the average person will, while sleeping, eat at least 75 assorted insects and 15 spiders.
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue-print is different.
- The phrase "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is thought to be the most difficult tongue twister in the English language.
- Norway eats more spicy Mexican food than any other European country.
- It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
- If you wanted to walk to the top (Sky Pod) of the CN Tower you would have to climb 2,579 stairs.
- John Lennon's middle name was Winston in honour of Winston Churchill.
- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English Language.
- Between 1937 and 1945, Heinz produced a version of Alphabet spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of tiny pasta swastikas.
- Queen Elizabeth was honoured in 1952 as Time Magazine's Man of The Year.
- The Latin translation for Volvo is "I roll".
- More than 50% of all the world's people have never made or received a telephone call.
- It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
- A duck's quack does not echo and no one knows why.
- Thirty-five per cent of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
- There are 63,000 people airborne over N. America in any given hour.
- 111,111,111x111,111,111=12,345,678,987,654,321. Incredible!
- The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- It is physically impossible to lick your elbow.
- The average cost of raising a medium-sized dog to the age of eleven is $6,750.
- Only two percent of the population still plays solitaire with real cards.
- There are more collect telephone calls on Father's Day than on any other day of the year.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
- At least 87% of the people reading this will try to lick their elbow. LOL
From a local paper.
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