Sunday, September 10, 2017

STRANGE, ODD OR MERELY INTERESTING THINGS: PART III


- Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

- Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

- An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!

- The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

- The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.

- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

- In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb".

- The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

- Men can read smaller print then women can; women can hear better.

- It is impossible to lick your elbow.

- The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

- The average number of people airborne over the U.S. any given hour: 61,000

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