*A celebratory marker*
The word 'checkmate' in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means 'the king is dead"
Kissing helps prevent tooth decay
Butterflies smell with their feet
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
*this one is my favorite* In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her cheating adulterous husband but she may only do it with her bare hands.
Horses can't vomit
Pigs can't look up in the sky
In 1779, a bill proposing that women using makeup should be punished for witchcraft was put forward to the British Parliament
5% of the world population lives in the US but 22% of the world's prisoners are held in the US
All swans in England are property of the queen and king
Women are more likely to go a psychiatrist than men are. (but women probably freak out more than men though)
The first product to have a barcode scanned was Wrigley's gum
Honeybees never sleep
Benjamin Franklin was offended about putting a bald eagle as the national bird because he thought that other people were trying to make fun of him because he was bald
most lipstick have fish scales
The Germans tried to copy Coca-cola and came up with Fanta. (I like Fanta better)
Everyday is 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
The national orchestra of Monaco has more people than their army
Earthworms have 5 hearts
If an Amish man has a beard, he's married
If a native Hawaiian woman has a flower on her right ear, she's available. The bigger the flower, the more desperate. (funny how girls are wearing them here now. I'm going laugh if i see a girl wearing a huge one on her right ear)
Birds in urban areas have developed a short, fast 'rap style' of singing
The lion costume in the Wizard of Oz was made from real lions. (I wouldn't want to wear that)
Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection
Ghandi didn't allow his wife to take penicillin to save her life from pneumonia but took quinine to save himself from malaria
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Fanta is gross.... I like Dr.Pepper or Pepsi better, anway. :)
That's really funny about the flowers!!!
Oh my goodnes those are really funny facts. I didn't know that hospitals is a main source of disease. Which really surprises me is that kissing reduces tooth decay( this gives teens a reason to kiss) not really. And i bet a chinese women could kill her cheating husband with just their bare hands.
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