'Blimey, I never knew that' amazing facts

[Twinkle Toes]

All left-handers are evil. FACT!

 

[Guy Fawkes]

#6 all Polar Bears are left handed

#7 their hair is also transparent.

Each hair is clear hollow tube. Polar bears look white because each hollow hair reflects the light, and their skin is actually black.

Their babies are much smaller than human babies when they're born. They are the size of a rat and weigh little more than a pound. They can grow to full man size in a year if they have lots of food.

 

[Norman Potting]

Pope John Paul III was a huge enthusiast of the Southdown Bus company and had a replica of Jarvis Brook depot built at the Vatican and stocked with a roster of old buses. On his days off he used to get one of the Cardinals to drive around Rome in an old Leyland Titan whilst he played at being the conductor, much to the confusion of the locals.

...Must get my medication sorted.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Tombstones were originally put over graves so that the dead could not escape.

Producing Palm Oil - hailed as a future bio fuel, can produce carbon emissions 10 times that of petroleum

In France, advertising wine on TV is banned

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Facts about cats:
- If you electrocute a cat with a current of at least 50 volts, it’s tail will always point north

- In 19th century Belgium, cats were employed to deliver letters until they discovered the cats lacked the discipline for work in the postal service

- The composer Brahms detested cats so much that he used to sit at his window in Vienna and shoot that them using a homemade harpoon made from a bow and arrow

 

[severnside gull]

- The composer Brahms detested cats so much that he used to sit at his window in Vienna and shoot that them using a homemade harpoon made from a bow and arrow

I knew there was a reason I liked Brahms

 

[Guy Fawkes]

And some about coffee:

- Coffee is a Christian beverage and the drink was Baptised by Pope Clement 8th

- The most expensive cup of coffee in the world is made from a bean that has passed through the digestive track of an Asian Palm Civit Or Toddy cat and sells for about $500 (USD) per kilogram

- In 1656 the grand visiair of the Ottoman empire prohibited coffee and closed the coffee houses of Turkey, the penalty for drinking it was to be sewn alive into a leather satchel and thrown into the Bosforus

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Michael Jackson:

- was a former Jehovah witness

- The original name for the hit single Billy Jean was Not my lover, since Quincy Jones feared people were going to mix up Billy Jean with the Tennis player Billy Jean King

- The first time he performed the moonwalk, his neighbour Frank Sinatra rang him at home to say it was the best performance he has ever seen

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Pope Paul II suffered a fatal stroke while being rogered by a page boy in 1471.

 

[wahoo]

the average length of an flaccid penis should be around 9 inches (that makes me slightly above average , which is nice)

 

[Brixtaan]

There is a town in Argentina called Fray Bentos

 

[desprateseagull]

There is a town in Argentina called Fray Bentos

and here;s its wiki page..

Fray Bentos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[cardboard]

Slugs have 4 noses

 

[cardboard]

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

 

[cardboard]

The colour red doesn't make bulls angry, they are colourblind

 

[defrocked priest]

Caesar salad has nothing to do with Julius Caesar. The salad was invented in Tijuana Mexico in the 1920's.

 

[Vic's Stick]

#3
The people of Albania are not allowed to say any word containing the letter 't' on Wednesdays.

This is absolutely true. Infact Albania now has two Tuesdays to get round this problem.

Before this ruling the Albanian government found that the whole country slipped into a deep depression and the suicide rate rose sharply because they could not show Norman Wisdom films on a Wednesday due to the fact that his character Norman Pitkin contained the letter 't'.

 

[Brighton TID]

The people of Bali only have one of four names:

Wayan
Made
Nyoman
Ketut

 

[Simster]

There is a town in Argentina called Fray Bentos

and here;s its wiki page..

Fray Bentos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So it would appear that it is actually in URUGUAY.

 

[Nibble]

The top speed of any replacement bus service is 7mph

The post Office is legally bound to have 4 cashiers on the tills at anyone time except for busy times when they can reduce this to 1 cashier who speaks no English.