Did you know.......

[Kate]

· Approximately sixty circus performers have been shot from cannons. At last report, thirty-one of these have been killed.
· It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".
· In the name of art, Chris Burden arranged to be shot by a friend while another person photographed the event. He sold the series of pictures to an art dealer. He made $1750 on the deal, but his hospital bill was $84,000.
· November 29 is National Sinky Day; a day to eat over one's sink and worship it.
· On average, there are 333 squares of toilet paper on a roll.
· The numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.
· If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birth place is listed as a post office box in Albuquerque.
· The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years.
· The Tokyo World Lanes Bowling Center is the largest bowling establishment in the world. It has 252 lanes and one very tired pinsetter.
· The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, that's 70 straight days!
· Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language—823 words without a period.
· The 1997 Jack Nicholson film - "As Good As It Gets", is known in China as "Mr. Cat Poop". Bruce was the nickname of the mechanical shark used in the "Jaws" movies.
· Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
· Under the law of Mississippi, there’s no such thing as a female Peeping Tom.
· Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
· In Saudi Arabia, a woman reportedly may divorce her husband if he does not keep her supplied with coffee.
· Prior to 1900, prize fights lasted up to 100 rounds.
· Not all Golf Balls have 360 dimples. There are some as high as 420. Thereare also all different kinds of dimple patterns.
· The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
· No one seems to know why people blush.
· Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
· Men have more blood than women. Men have 1.5 gallons for men versus 0.875 gallons for women.
· In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot.
· Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
· There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.
· You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.
· Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
· Spiders have transparent blood.

[diveross]

There are 666 sheets of paper on double sided toilet paper !!!

[Noel Johnson]

Some golfballs have over 500 dimples... the shapes of the dimples equate to the flight of the ball. Top Flite make one that doesnt even have round dimples...

Noel, Avid golfer and anorak...

[NeilB]

My wallet has exactly 600 baizas in it....wifes gone shopping.

Don't suppose you needed to know that

[Finless]

Originally Posted by Kate

Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.

Whether they need it or not!

[jlwarlow]

Originally Posted by Kate

Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.

I'm one of them, but I only sneeze for bright sunlight Closing one eye can usually prevent it though

[CotoChris]

Originally Posted by Kate

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· Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
· .

Is that so when men pick their noses it won't reach their brain?

[Alun]

Originally Posted by Chris Guimaraens

Is that so when men pick their noses it won't reach their brain?

You are at the wrong end of the body there if you want to reach the male brain!

[dlegros]

Originally Posted by jlwarlow

I'm one of them, but I only sneeze for bright sunlight Closing one eye can usually prevent it though

Me too, never tried closing one eye though.

For the truly anorakish, it is called a photic sneeze.

Dom

[Ian@1904]

Originally Posted by Kate

In Saudi Arabia, a woman reportedly may divorce her husband if he does not keep her supplied with coffee.

This happens in the UK too. Just ask Mrs Hicks.