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Tell me a strange fact... =D?
Hay, I'm bored here.
Tell me a strange fact about you, or anything in general. =D
Thanks in advance,!
22 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
Hehe (: x
- ?Lv 61 decade ago
1. Before the Boston Tea Party, the British actually lowered tea taxes, not raised them.
2. England’s King George I was actually German.
3. Abel Tasman “discovered” Tasmania, New Zealand and Fiji, on his first voyage, but managed to completely miss mainland Australia!
4. Ethnic Irishman Bernardo O’Higgins was the first president of the Republic of Chile.
5. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same day – the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
6. When the American Civil War started, Confederate Robert E. Lee owned no slaves. Union general U.S. Grant did.
7. Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II and George V were all grandchildren of Queen Victoria.
8. Karl Marx was once a correspondent for the New York Daily Tribune.
9. Josef Stalin once studied to be a priest.
10. Henry Kissinger and Yassir Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize. Gandhi never did.
11. The Constitution of the Confederate States of America banned the slave trade.
12. The Finnish capital of Helsinki was founded by a Swedish king in 1550.
13. The “D” in D-Day stands for “Day” – “Day-Day”
14. There was a New Australia in Paraguay in the 1890s.
15. A New Orleans man hired a pirate to rescue Napoleon from his prison on St. Helena.
16. Like Dracula (Vlad Tepes), there really was a King Macbeth. He ruled Scotland from 1040 to 1057.
17. In 1839, the U.S. and Canada fought the bloodless “War of Pork and Beans”.
18. Despite the reputation, Mussolini never made the trains run on time.
19. The world powers officially outlawed war under the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact.
20. Ancient Egypt produced at least six types of beer.
- 1 decade ago
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It took engineers 22 years to design the zip
What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common? All were invented by women.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist
Coconuts kill more people in the world then sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts
California has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
A gun invented in Germany during W.W.II actually could shoot around a corner.
Frogs do not drink water
If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
there some facts 4 ya.??? :D
- Anonymous4 years ago
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
:)
- 1 decade ago
Ok then here's one for you, since being dumped by my wife I find it impossible to have a relationship lasting more than one night, I just find women boring after I've been there. Now I'm a committed globetrotting whore monger laying the rod all over the world and loving it. All aboard next stop Ghana.
Source(s): living the life - Anonymous1 decade ago
If you place a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
- 1 decade ago
Apparently there's something like 65 lego bricks in the world for every living person. Not sure the truth in that though
- Anonymous1 decade ago
- I have a twin sister.
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- Your foot as the exact same size as the distance from the bottom of your hand to your elbow (your forearm).
- A male's hair grows faster than a female's.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Apparently it is legal to shoot a Welshman in Chester with a Bow and Arrow, if you seem him on the street After midnight