John Glenn, the American who first orbited the Earth,
was showered with 3,529 tonnes of ticker tape when he got back.
A python is capable of devouring a pig whole.
Comfrey
(herb) baths were popular before the wedding night to attempt to repair
the hymen and thereby apparently restore virginity.
The female
Praying Mantis eats her mate after sex. During the act the female will
hook her large arms around to hold him in place and start nibbling
away. The sex drive is so strong in the male that he can continue to
copulate even if his partner gets a little peckish before he's
finished.
In 1984, a New Jersey man opened a summer camp for
Cabbage Patch dolls.
After snails mate, they both lay eggs.
A human sheds a complete layer of skin every 4 weeks.
The Moa bird of New Zealand, which became extinct
four hundred years ago, was over ten feet tall.
Eau de Cologne was originally marketed as a way of
protecting yourself against the plague.
Each of us generates about 3.5 pounds of trash each
day.
When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called
Happy Rabbit.
Spiders' webs are a traditional natural clotting
agent, when applied to a cut they quickly stop the flow of blood.
The most commonly printed four-letter phrase in the
English language is "close cover before striking" (on matchboxes).
The most-played song, heard over 8 million times, was
'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling'.
The average American uses eight times as much fuel as
anyone else in the world.
Every 24 hours a leaking water faucet with an opening
the size of a pin will waste 170 gallons.
Las Vegas has more churches per capita than any other
U.S. city.
The crystalline quartz, Amethyst was once believed to
prevent drunkenness.
The walking catfish can live on land.
The Turk's consider it unlucky to step on a piece of
bread.
There is no point in England more than 75 miles from
the ocean.
Elephants have been known to remain standing after
they die.
Someone constructs 12 new golf holes every day.
New Orleans elevation is -4 feet (below sea level).
Ivan the terrible claimed to have 'deflowered
thousands of virgins and butchered a similar number of resulting
offspring'.
