Friday, September 7, 2007

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WAT A FACT





· Robin Hood's real name was Robert Fitz Ooth.

· March 9 is "Useless Facts and Trivia Day."

· The common silkworm has eleven brains, but it only uses five of them.

· English has 26 letters in its alphabet. Tamil has 248.

· Wallpaper was first used as a decoration for Chinese tombs.

· Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar.

· There are 3,000 types of lice.

· Vibrators are illegal in Alabama. A law makes it illegal to "produce, distribute or otherwise

sell sexual devices that are marketed primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs."

· Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.

· The first Olympic games to be televised were the 1936 games in Berlin.

· Room temperature is 68 degrees Fahrenheit.

· The word for a misheard lyric is "mondegreen."

· Soldier Field is the oldest field in the NFL.

· All spiders are cannibals.

· Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers—Moe,

Curly and Shemp.

· Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.

· Thirty-seven percent of all Christians describe themselves as born-again or evangelical.

· "Scelerophibia" is the fear of burglars.

· The original name for Mickey Mouse was Mortimer Mouse.

· There is a species of moth that lives entirely on cow tears.

· Iguanas have two penises.

· Eighty percent of millionaires drive secondhand cars.

· Ancient Rome had rent-a-chariot businesses.

· "Fraternity" was once a term used by thieves to describe themselves.

· Australians are the heaviest gamblers in the world.

· "Menophobia" is the fear of menstruation.

· Seven percent of Americans think Elvis is still alive.

· The mass of the Sun is about two trillion, trillion, trillion tons.

· Every hamster in the U.S. today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930.

· Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.

· According to the polls, the most disliked animal in the world is the snake.

· In 1916, Georgia Tech's football team beat Cumberland University 222 to 0.

· The average human brain accounts for two percent of a person's total body weight.

· The American Automobile Association (AAA) was founded with the sole purpose of warning drivers about police speed traps.

· A group of peacocks is called an "ostentation."

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