GREAT FACTS ABOUT THE BUSSINESS

• Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WW I.

• Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

• In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.

• In one town in California, there is a $600 fine for detonating a nuclear weapon inside city limits.

• About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

• You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.

• An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

• Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

• Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

• The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

• A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

• The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.

• The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

• The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

• The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

• In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.

• Every person has a unique tongue print.

• Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

• Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

• Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.


There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

• Most lipstick contains fish scales.

• Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.

• Mosquitoes have teeth.

• Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.

• Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

• The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

• When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

• Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

• 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."

• In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

• Aztec emperor Montezuma had nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."

• Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

• "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.

• If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both frontlegs in the air, the person died in battle;
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle;
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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