Anyone in
England who reaches the age of 105 will
receive a telegram from the Queen or King on every birthday.
Issur
Danielovitch Demsky was born on 9 December
1916, but most people know him as Kirk Douglas.
Steve
Martin's first movie was 'The Jerk'.
Worms
are hermaphroditic, they have both sets of
sexual organs on their bodies.
On
15
April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over
1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by
Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book
described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an
iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of
Roertson's fictional ship was the Titan.
A
recent medical
development will include a small amount of nitroglycerin in the tip of
a new Durex condom to stimulate erection during intercourse. "The
CSD500 condom contains a chemical in its teat, called glyceryl
trinitrate (GTN), which is absorbed by the skin and causes blood
vessels to dilate."
Penguins
can jump over 6 feet.
The
water in the Dead Seas is so salty that it far
easier to float than to drown.
When
you blush, your stomach lining also reddens.
A
lightning strike in the Democratic Republic of Congo killed all 11
members of one soccer team while leaving the opposing team in the match
untouched, leading to accusations of witchcraft by the survivors.
The
average person makes about 1,140 telephone
calls each year.
The
most extras ever used in a movie was 300,000,
for the film Gandhi in 1981.
Sharks
are immune to cancer.
An
American aircraft in Vietnam shot itself down
with one of its own missiles.
Barnacles
on ships are not plants, but animals.
The
natural substance the violin bows are strung
with is horse hair.
The
Goliath frog of West Africa is nearly three
feet long.
The
Matami Tribe of West Africa play a version of football, the only
difference being that they use a human skull instead of a more normal
ball.
A
decoction of dandelion roots and leaves is an old
remedy for dissolving urinary stones and gravel.
In
1979 Dr. Christian Barnard was offered $250 000
by the American National Enquirer to perform a human head transplant.
A
census in 1920 revealed that fewer than one
Eskimo in 46 has ever seen an igloo.
The
average human produces a quart of saliva a day
-- about 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.
Lightning
strikes about 6,000 times per minute on
this planet.
In
Papua New Guinea there are villages within five
miles of each other which speak different languages.
At
the deepest point, an iron ball would take more
than an hour to sink to the ocean floor.
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