Scrolling through some of my old files I found a sheet with some interesting facts. After I read them my mind feels like it just finished a game on pinball machine - from one fact to the other until it looses itself in the paradox of black holes.
Enjoy :D
Walt Disney got the idea for Mickey Mouse from watching mice play in a garage, where he was forced to work, because he could not afford to rent an art studio.
More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world
A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.
"Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
The lunula is the half-moon shaped pale area at the bottom of finger nails.
One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
$203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
1 kg (2.2 pounds) of lemons contain more sugar than 1 kg of strawberries.
11% of the world is left-handed.
25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
259200 people die every day.
3% of all mammals are monogamous
80% of animals on earth are insects.
80% of arrested criminals are male.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
t takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
85% of men who die of heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
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