Supposed True Facts.

[padi56]

More than 200 people are admitted to British casualty departments every year from trying to open beer bottles with their teeth.

The people of East Anglia used to mummify cats and place them in the walls of their houses to ward off evil spirits.

Johnny Vegas's real name is Micheal Pennington.

Donald Duck cartoons were banned from Finland cos he doesn't wear pants.

Tasmania has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.

Everything weighs 1% less at the equator.

In Albania nodding the head means 'no' and shaking the head means 'yes'.

The USA's flag has been changed 26 times.

Switzerland is the richest country in the world.

Your body contains enough lime to whitewash a small garden shed.

The size of your foot is approximately the same size as your forearm.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Spencer Eldon was the name of the baby on the cover of Nirvana's album Never mind.

Terry Kath the front man of the band Chicago, killed himself in a game of backstage Russian Roulette in 1978. His last words were 'Don't worry it's not loaded'

Almost all of the villains in the bible have red hair.

On average it takes 600 grapes to produce a bottle of wine.

In Uruguay, drunkenness is a legal excuse for having an accident while driving.

Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of having an empty glass.

In Fairbanks, Alaska it is illegal to feed alcohol to a moose.

The average driver will be locked out of the cars 9 times.

King Kong was Adolf Hitler favourite movie.

The F-word was spoken 206 times in the film Scarface.

Jean-Claude Van Damme was the alien in the film 'Predator' for almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The odds of dying during a football kick about is one in 25,000.

Iguanas, Koalas, and Komodo dragons all have two penises.

Polar bears are left handed.

Elephants are known to stay standing after they die.

13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.

40% of women have hurled footwear at men. (sound familiar)

If a 20 a day smoker inhaled a week's worth of nicotine in one go, they would die instantly.

Statistically the safest age to be is 10 years old.

27% of women own vibrators.

There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a Big Mac bun.

Every year the average person eats 428 insects by mistake.

[JJ Irani]

Thanks, Padi.....all very interesting, but I may have to disagree on the last one....depending on what kind of insects you're talking about, of course!!

[AJC]

[Seadweller]

Nice facts, I'm off to bore my friends.

[JJ Irani]

Originally Posted by Seadweller

Nice facts, I'm off to bore my friends.

Screw the boys and 'bore' the girls!!

[padi56]

If a 20 a day smoker inhaled a week's worth of nicotine in one go, they would die instantly.
This one is very true