Some funny (but true) reading

Submitted by 1922 on Wed, 01/05/2005 - 13:56
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  1. Places

  2. The prison on the island of Sark has got place for two prisoners.
  3. The most murderers in Great Britain come/came from Yorkshire.

  4. Daily life

  5. According to the American food quality control, 100 grams of tomato paste are not allowed to contain more than 30 fly eggs.
  6. A human being normally blinks 25'000 times a day.
  7. While barking, dogs don't bite.
  8. Icebergs have an average weight of 20'000'000 mill. tons.

  9. Language

  10. A Frenchman says: "Every frenchman always lies."
  11. In Bulgaria, people shake their head to say "yes".
  12. The most common first name on earth is Mohammed.

  13. Religion

  14. In the Bible, cats are never mentioned.
  15. In Ancient Egypt, the fart was considered as a sort of divinity.
  16. Since the Hungarian prince Janos Hunyadi saved the Occidental world by beating the Turks in 1456 in Belgrade, the bells of the Catholic churchs daily ring at 12 'o'clock high (to pay gratitude to Hunyadi).

  17. Famous people

  18. Charles I. was the only King of England to be beheaded.
  19. Hercules had shoe size 12 (US).
  20. The cardinal Mezzofanti was able to speak 114 languages and 72 dialects.
  21. Benjamin Franklin invented the rocking chair.
  22. To date the United States have had 44 (!)presidents. In 1849, David Atchison became president for only one day.
  23. Cervantes only had one arm.
  24. King Louis XIV of France only bathed three times in his life.
  25. French poet Gérard de Nerval went walkies with his lobster.
  26. According to the mathematician Michael H. Hart the 15 most important people in are (in order): 1. Mohammed, 2. Newton, 3. Jesus, 4. Buddha, 5. Confucius, 6. Saint Paul, 7. Tsai kun (inventor of the paper), 8. Gutenberg, 9. Columbus, 10. Einstein, 11. Marx, 12. Pasteur, 13. Galilei, 14. Aristote, 15. Lenin.
  27. According to Umberto Eco, the name 'Martini' was defined by Ernest Hemingway, whose favourite barkeeper was called Martini and who always drank a cocktail of gin and neuilly prat in that bar.
  28. Groucho Marx often stated that he collected the thinest books in the world. Three of them were: "The mysteries of English cooking", "Italian hero sagas" and "1'000 years of German humour".
  29. There is little known about Saint Patrick, except that he wasn't Irish.
  30. The American President Lincoln had a secretary called Kennedy, and the President Kennedy had a secretary called Lincoln.
  31. Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII, had 12 fingers (6 on each hand) and 3 breasts.
  32. Two years after his death, Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated.
  33. Ernest Hemingway wrote all of his novels while standing.

  34. History

  35. In the 18th century, unsuccessful suicide attempts were punished, with the gallow.
  36. Till 1819 the cutting of trees was punished, with the gallow.
  37. In 1896 Great Britain and Sanzibar were in war for 38 minutes.
  38. In 1933 only four penny pieces were minted in Great Britain.
  39. In England in 1386, a pig was hanged for having killed a child.
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Thanks to Hanswilhelm Haefs for his wonderful book "Das ultimative Handbuch des nutzlosen Wissens"!

Rushmore01/05/2005

lol Cats are NEVER Mentioned?? cats are great! they are 10x better than dogs. now i know i may have hit a tender spot with, well..everyone but its not that i don't like dogs, too tell you the truth i'm kind of scared of the bigger ones thats all, when they bark really loud! lol plus cats are funny :-)

192201/05/2005

On this point I absolutely agree with you!

lukeprog02/03/2006

Why all the spoiler tags?

192202/04/2006

I thought it'd make reading more interesting.