Thursday, April 28, 2005

Did You Know?

*That you have more sweat glands in your hands & feet than anywhere else in your body
*That George Washington had to borrow money to get to his own inauguration
*It was illegal in Nazi Germany to name your horse 'Adolph'
*Queen bees only use their stingers to kill other queen bees
*The Roman emperor Nero married his male slave Scotus in a public ceremony
*There are an average of 50,000 earthquakes in the world every year
*One in ten truck drivers is a woman
*Playing cards in India are round
*Flies can get athlete's foot
*Eskimos have over 100 words for ice
*An ounce of gold can be drawn into a wire 500 miles long
*2.2 pounds of steak cost about $51 in Tokyo
*Mosqitoes prefer biting you if you've just eaten a banana
*Ulysses S. Grant was arrested during his term of office as President for speeding on his horse
*People in China don't eat cheese
*Kansas law prohibits catching fish with your bare hands
*Armadillos can walk under water
*If an orangutan belches at you he's warning you to stay out of his territory
*Americans spend $8 billion a year on pornography
*Attila the Hun was a dwarf/midget..(sorry..I mean a 'little person')
*If your body temperature was only 86 degrees, you could live to be 200
*96% of American children can recognize Ronald McDonald, but not George W. Bush
*A butterfly has as many as 12,000 eyes
*Snakes' ears on in their jaws

Never forget....the more useless information you have crammed in your head, the more excuses you can have for forgetting something important.

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