Interesting Facts

I found new set of amazing facts for you, dear friends, here they are:

King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.

Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.

Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out"?

Why do toasters always have a setting that burns toast to a horrible crisp which no decent human being would ever eat?

Why is there a light in the fridge and not one in the freezer?

If Jimmy cracks corn and noone cares, why is there a song about him?

Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?

If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?

Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?

1. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

2. A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out.

3. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.

4. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

5. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

6. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

7. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

8. Horses can’t vomit.

9. Sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

It staggers the mind.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca Cola was originally green.

Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.

Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men. Women can also smell better than men.

Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

Cost of raising a medium sized dog to the age of 11: $6,400.

The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years.

Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.

Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.

A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.

There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved roads.

Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California.

With a mere 1.4 million people, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union.

01. The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.

02. In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death.

03. In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman’s genitals, but is forbidden from looking directly at them during the examination. He may only see their reflection in a mirror.

04. Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a corpse. This also applies to undertakers; the sex organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or piece of wood at all times.

80.5 million
Estimated number of mothers of all ages in the United States.

65%
Percentage of women in Mississippi and Arkansas, ages 15 to 44, who are mothers. The national average is 55%.

81%
Percentage of women 40 to 44 years old who are mothers. In 1976, 90% of women in that age group were mothers.

2.0
Average number of children that women today can expect to have in their lifetime.

2.6
Average number of children that women in Utah can expect to have in their lifetime. This state tops the nation in average number of births per woman. Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont have the lowest average number—1.7 births.

1. It takes about 48 hours for your body to completely digest the food from one meal.

2. It’s against the law in Willowdale, Oregon, for a husband to curse during sex.

3. Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.

4. In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.

5. It’s illegal in Newcastle, WY to have sex in a butcher shop’s meat freezer.

6. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

7. Jaguars are frightened by dogs.

8. Holland has the densest population per square mile of any nation in the world.

Since 1927, TIME Magazine has chosen a man, woman, or idea that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year." Though TIME's list is not an academic or objective study of the past, the list gives a contemporary viewpoint of what was important during each year. There are many interesting facts about the list:

* Charles Lindbergh (1927) was the first, and the youngest, person to receive the distinction. He was 25 years old.

* Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, the woman whom English King Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry, was the first woman to receive the honor - 1936.

These figures are circulating on the internet and on usenets. I can’t vouch for their scientific approach and method. I don’t even know who conducted this survey and when. This survey doesn’t address the diseases or hurt caused from promiscuous sex. Nevertheless, the figures are worth sharing.

Latino women have sex more often than either Blacks or Whites, who get down at roughly the same rate.

Women with a Ph.D. are twice as likely to be turned on by the thought of anonymous sex as women who never got a bachelor’s degree.