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STRANGE and INTERESTING True Facts about Our Life
- Yogurt is one of only three foods that taste the way they sound. The other two are goulash and squid.
- In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
- The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
- If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
- Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
- Coca-Cola was originally green.
- The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
- If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
- The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
- The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
- Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
- In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "Goodnight, sleep tight."
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Judith Saxton
Four rooms
English
