I'm bored....how about some weird ol' facts!?

It's physically impossible to lick your elbow. (Trust me...I tried! ;)

The main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch each year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building!

A snail can sleep for three years.

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

A crocodile cannot stick it's tongue out!

Yaaaay!! Interesting and Strange Facts!

No one knows where Mozart is buried.

Under extreme stress, some octopuses will eat their own arms.

Black bears are not always black. They can be brown, cinnamon, yellow, and sometimes white.

'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.

If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

People with blue eyes are better able to see in the dark.

An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.

Men laugh longer, louder, and more often than women.

Unlike dogs, pigs, and some other mammals, humans cannot taste water. They taste only the chemicals and impurities in the water.

And now, the long awaited Strange and Interesting Facts!

• The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
  
  Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
  
  Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
  
  The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
  
  A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
  
  Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
  
  Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!
  
  Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
  
  The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
  
  Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!

Finally! Some More Interesting Facts!

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!


Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs
has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

For more, Read 50 Things Everyone Should Know!

Christmas Facts!

Here are some very interesting facts about Christmas, and Christmasy things!

Holly
The sharply pointed leaves were to symbolize the thorns in Christ's crown and the red berries drops of his blood. Holly became a nativity tradition.

Presents
The tradition of gifts seems to have started with the gifts that the wise men brought to Jesus. The exchanging of gifts between people started in about the 1800's.

Reindeer
The reindeer probably came from stories of the Norse God Woden who rode through the sky with reindeer and 42 ghostly huntsmen. Clement Moore's famous poem A Visit from St. Nicholas (T'was the Night Before Christmas) sealed the image of Santa Claus, his reindeer and the magical flying sleigh loaded with sacks of presents.

Santa Claus
The original Santa Claus, St. Nicholas, was born in Turkey in the 4th century. He was very pious from an early age, devoting his life to Christianity. He became widely known for his generosity for the poor. At the time, the Romans held him in contempt. He was imprisoned and tortured. When Constantine became emperor of Rome, he allowed Nicholas to go free. Constantine became a Christian and convened the Council of Nicaea in 325. Nicholas was delegate to the council. He is especially noted for his love of children and for his generosity. He is the patron saint of sailors. He is also of course, the patron saint of children. The Dutch kept the legend of St. Nicholas alive. In the 16th century Holland, Dutch children would place their wooden shoes by the hearth in hopes that they would be filled with a treat. The Dutch spelled St. Nicholas as Sint Nikolaas, which became corrupted to Sinterklaas, and finally, in Anglican, to Santa Claus. The image of Santa was originally a man in a long brown robe and furs carrying a cross and wine flask with a holly crown on his head. In 1885, a Boston printer, Louis Prang, first devised the red-suited Santa and this theme was later developed by the Coca Cola advertising artist Haddon Sundblom in the 1930'sThis produced the modern image of a jolly character in a red suit trimmed with white fur.

Stockings hanging on your mantel...
According to tradition, Saint Nicholas left his very first gifts of gold coins in the stockings of three poor girls who needed the money for their wedding dowries. The girls had hung their stockings by the fire to dry. The tradition has modified itself, from gag gifts , to small inexpensive but useful gifts.

The Candy Cane
In the late 1800's, a candy maker in Indiana wanted to express the meaning of Christmas through a symbol made of candy. He invented the idea of bending one of his white candy sticks into the shape of a Candy Cane. He incorporated several symbols of Christ's love and sacrifice through the Candy Cane. First, he used a plain white peppermint stick. The color white symbolizes the purity and sinless nature of Jesus. Next, he added three small stripes to symbolize the pain inflicted upon Jesus before His death on the cross. There are three of them to represent the Holy Trinity. He added a bold stripe to represent the blood Jesus shed for mankind. When looked at with the crook on top, it looks like a shepherd's staff because Jesus is the shepherd of man. If you turn it upside down, it becomes the letter J symbolizing the first letter in Jesus' name. The candy maker made these Candy Canes for Christmas, so everyone would remember what Christmas is all about.

"Silent Night"
In 1818, an Austrian priest Joseph Mohr, was told the day before Christmas, that the church organ was broken and would not be prepared in time for Christmas Eve. He was saddened by this and could not think of Christmas without music. He wanted to write a carol that could be sung by a choir to guitar music. He sat down and wrote three stanzas. Later that night, the people in the little Austrian Church sang "Stille Nacht" (Silent Night) for the first time.

Lump of Coal
According to tradition, giving a lump of coal in the stockings of naughty children comes from Italy.

More Christmasy Facts!

And Some More Strange and Interesting Facts

And today we have a special addition on....BUGS!!! =)

• A butterfly has to have a body temperature greater than 86 degrees to be able to fly.
• A cockroach can change directions up to 25 times in a second.
• A colony of bees have to fly almost fifty-five thousand miles and tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.
• A flea can jump 150 times its size. That is the same as a person able to jump up 1,000 feet in the air.
• A butterfly's taste sensors are located below their feet.
• A house fly's feet are 10 million times more sensitive than a human tongue.
• A scorpion can have up to 12 eyes.
• Bees can communicate with other bees by dancing. Their dance can alert other bees as to which direction and the distance nectar and pollen is located.
• A butterfly can see the colors red, green, and yellow.
• Cricket chirping can tell the temperature outside. Counting how many times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds and then adding 40 to that number will approximately tell you what the temperature is in Fahrenheit.
• For every human in the world there are one million ants.
• In a lifetime, on average a honey bee produces 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey.
• Lady Bugs really are not bugs. They are actually beetles and their correct name is The Ladybird Beetle.
• Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue more than any other color.
• And Finally..........Fried spiders taste like nuts. (Blahhhh)
  

Phew, this one is a long list!! :-D Heheh!

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And Finally.......

More interesting and strange facts!

• Cows sweat through their noses.
• Deer sleep only 5 minutes a day.
• Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.
• Coffee was first known in Europe as Arabian Wine.
• Dogs can't decipher size. That's why little dogs are mean.

Sorry it had been sooo long, I ran out of facts a long time ago, so I had to search for these! Hahaha! =)


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Even More Interesting (And Strange) Facts

• The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
• If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself. (Yuck!)
• Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
• I'm running out of Interesting Facts

That's all interesting, right?

Some More Interesting (And Strange) Facts

My friend sent me a never-ending amount of Interesting Facts!

• If a statue in a park is of a person on a horse that has both front legs in the air, then 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; the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

• Starfish have no brains.

Interesting, no?

Some Interesting (And Strange) Facts

Well, here are a few strange, interesting and perhaps little known facts a friend of mine sent me a while ago. Enjoy!

• Studies show that if a cat falls off the 7th floor of a building, it has about 30% less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the 20th floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

• It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is 'uncopyrightable'.

• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

• A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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