weird - things that will make you say 'Really?'

[The Straight Story]

WEIRD !!!!!


The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

More here:
http://www.indianchild.com/weird_information_humor.htm

[bixente]

1. I suppose this one is relevant:

There is only one time zone in China.

[KSinTX]

2. A person uses about 57 sheets of toilet paper each day

It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them! (That number applies to the keys I have placed in various locations and forgotten where I put them)

[DarkTirade]

3. If I recall correctly (and I've got so many weird facts running around my head

that I could be way off), but I remember reading something about the origin of the word 'assassin'... it was actually a group of warriors in the middle east named 'hassassin' or something to that extent. And the word managed to migrate over here with a slightly twisted meaning.

[China_cat]

4. They were named that because they ate hashish

before going out to kill, as followers of Hassan. So the word was in use long before Shakespeare.

[DarkTirade]

5. Well, the word 'assassin', yes, but not necessarily 'assassinate'.