Amazing-But-True Facts, Part I
HRinNH
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Amazing-But-True Facts!
[ul)Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.[/ul]
[li]The term "bank teller" originated in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, when banks began hiring low-paid workers to "tell" throngs of frantic depositors that their money was gone.
[li]The brand name "Jelly Belly" was created in 1982 after Nancy Reagan made a much-publicized quip about her husband's 20-pound weight gain.
[li]The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
[li]Scandinavian berserkers used to cut out their eyes before battle to spare themselves the sight of the carnage they invariably wrought.
[li]Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they've been removed.
[li]Comic duo Cheech and Chong were originally known as Spic and Span before changing due to pressure from Chicano organizations.
[li]The city of Slaughter, Texas (population: 11,284), has never had a homicide occur within its boundaries.
[li]Rubbing Tabasco on one's upper lip before bedtime is an effective temporary cure for sleep apnea.
[li]British pop singer Baby Spice is the great-great-great-great-great-great-grandniece of Archduke William Pinkley-Hogue of Standishfordshire, making her 103rd in line for the throne of England.
[li]The curved shape of a hockey stick is a throwback to prehistoric use of mastodon tusks in a similar game.
[li]A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
[li]Fish have "dandruff" caused by flaking skin, and it is impossible to filter all traces of it from drinking water.
[li]Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
[li]The first case of the common cold was diagnosed in 1611 in Stratford, England. The patient? John Common, who coincidentally gave his cold to William Shakespeare who said the new malady exacerbated his lovesickness, thereby inspiring several of his most fondly remembered sonnets.
[li]"Hello Kitty" began as part of a covert propaganda campaign originally proposed by Prime Minister Tojo during World War II.
[li]When in heat, female hippopotami secrete an oil with a flavor similar to strawberries. Kalahari bushmen use the oil to make flat-bread treats for children.
[li]If an average human scrotum were stretched until all its wrinkles were smoothed out, it could hold a basketball.
[li]Ingesting small doses of ink over an extended period of time will change your eye color slightly.
[li]To commemorate ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, U.S. playing card manufacturers replaced "staffs" with "hearts" as the fourth suit in the deck. The world soon followed.
[li]In 1960, a then-unknown Dan Rather auditioned for the voice of cartoon character Dudley Do-Right but was turned down by animator/director Jay Ward.
[li]When subjected to an electric current of at least 50 volts, a cat's tail always points toward the north.
[ul)Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.[/ul]
[li]The term "bank teller" originated in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, when banks began hiring low-paid workers to "tell" throngs of frantic depositors that their money was gone.
[li]The brand name "Jelly Belly" was created in 1982 after Nancy Reagan made a much-publicized quip about her husband's 20-pound weight gain.
[li]The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
[li]Scandinavian berserkers used to cut out their eyes before battle to spare themselves the sight of the carnage they invariably wrought.
[li]Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they've been removed.
[li]Comic duo Cheech and Chong were originally known as Spic and Span before changing due to pressure from Chicano organizations.
[li]The city of Slaughter, Texas (population: 11,284), has never had a homicide occur within its boundaries.
[li]Rubbing Tabasco on one's upper lip before bedtime is an effective temporary cure for sleep apnea.
[li]British pop singer Baby Spice is the great-great-great-great-great-great-grandniece of Archduke William Pinkley-Hogue of Standishfordshire, making her 103rd in line for the throne of England.
[li]The curved shape of a hockey stick is a throwback to prehistoric use of mastodon tusks in a similar game.
[li]A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
[li]Fish have "dandruff" caused by flaking skin, and it is impossible to filter all traces of it from drinking water.
[li]Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
[li]The first case of the common cold was diagnosed in 1611 in Stratford, England. The patient? John Common, who coincidentally gave his cold to William Shakespeare who said the new malady exacerbated his lovesickness, thereby inspiring several of his most fondly remembered sonnets.
[li]"Hello Kitty" began as part of a covert propaganda campaign originally proposed by Prime Minister Tojo during World War II.
[li]When in heat, female hippopotami secrete an oil with a flavor similar to strawberries. Kalahari bushmen use the oil to make flat-bread treats for children.
[li]If an average human scrotum were stretched until all its wrinkles were smoothed out, it could hold a basketball.
[li]Ingesting small doses of ink over an extended period of time will change your eye color slightly.
[li]To commemorate ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, U.S. playing card manufacturers replaced "staffs" with "hearts" as the fourth suit in the deck. The world soon followed.
[li]In 1960, a then-unknown Dan Rather auditioned for the voice of cartoon character Dudley Do-Right but was turned down by animator/director Jay Ward.
[li]When subjected to an electric current of at least 50 volts, a cat's tail always points toward the north.
Comments
I'm going to have to investigate # 17 (any volunteers?) Some of those basketballs would have to be mighty small!
A no-brainer. They do this because they always have to view evidence of deductions.
ps: Judy's problem is she's either done limited research or did so in dim light. I believe that fact.
I would hate to find out how they determined this. Surely the experiment had to be tried since there is no way to determine the actual elasticity by using a formula, is there?
I guess another possibility is that they documented the worst case of epididymitis the medical communty has ever witnessed.
My guess is probably the same guy who determined that tonsils bounce pretty well for the first half hour after they've been removed... what concerns me is that Judy wants to test the scrotum theory - those Texans are a rare breed, for sure. x;-)