WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF THE STRANGE AND BIZARRE
Did you know:
- Oklahoma is the U.S. state with the highest population of Indians, yet has no Indian Reservations
- Walt Disney was afraid of mice
- The average family will spend $250,000 (thats a quarter million dollars) on each child from the time he/she is born until he/she turns 18
- There are, on average, 259 raisins in a box of Raisin Bran and 388 in a box of Premium Raisin Bran
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
- In 1797 James Hetherington inventented the top hat and wore it in public. He was arrested for disturbing the peace
- I can't wear crew socks. My calfs are too big.
- Thomas Henry Huxley invented the word agnostic in 1869 because he was tired of being called an athiest
- The largest snowflakes were 15 inches in diameter and 8 inches thick
- The most mentioned woman in the bible is Sarah at 56 times
- An Italian deck of cards has no queen
- I have no little toe nail
- London police photographed the eyes of Jack the Ripper's victims because they thought his image might be recorded in them
- In 1952 Einstein called income taxes the "most difficult thing to understand"
- None of the passengers on the Mayflower had middle names
- The oldest tree on earth is a 4,500 year old bristlecone pine named Methuselah
- By the time he died in 1910, the king of Siam had fathered 370 children (Damn)
- Every lake in Ohio is manmade
- Your odds of getting murdered are one in twenty thousand
- The odds of being injured by a toilet seat in your lifetime are 1 in 6,500 (I can attest to that)
- The annual odds of dying by falling from your bed are 2 in 1 million
- The odds that you will become famous enough to be mentioned in a history book are 1 in 6 million
- The longest one sylable word in the English language is "screeched"
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
- Charlie Brown's father was a barber
- American car horns beep to the tone of F
- In medievil Japan, dentists extracted teeth with their hands
- Technically speaking, a female "dude" is known as a "dudine", not "dudette"
- Belgains have tried to deliver mail using cats. It didn't work
- The Statue of Liberty's fingernails weigh about 100 pounds apiece
- The U.S. has never lost a war in which mules were used (Send them jackasses to Iraq)
- In Venice, Venetian blinds are known as "Persian Blinds"
- Adolph Hitler had his own private 15 car train named Amerika
- Police are sometimes called the "fuzz" because London police used to wear fuzzy helmets
- Spains Queen Isabella bathed only twice in her entire lifetime (Again, damn)
- The word "gullible" is not in the dictionary
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2 comments:
There appears to be a Kenwood Indian Reservation in OK.
Let's just say it involves a loose toilet seat and some pinching and leave it at that.
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