Weird Facts

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Okay so here is a game where you just give one weird or cool fact that you know. I really am not sure if this is qualifies as a game...so If the admins or mods don't like it go ahead and delete it.

But I've been learning a lot of weird facts from my friends I-phone.

My weird fact:

Adolf Hitlers favorite movie was King Kong

Each year, approximately 250,000 American husbands are physically attacked and beaten by their wives. (I know about 5 of those guys, XD)

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116yrs old.

A survey reported that 12% of Americans thin that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

The better a cranberrie it the higher it will bounce into the air.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles (161 km) an hour. (Thats nasty I dont want to know why I know that.)

In all casinos they don't have any clocks
one year it was so cold niagra falls froze salid
A police officer on average catches 11 people running a red light where a camera catches 48
Elephants are the largest land mamel

Christmas comes from a monk named St. Nick. He would give children toys and they decided Dec. 25 would be the day he would give toys.

At one point in live- whales were four feet, had four feet, and were land creatures.

Fried Crickets taste like sunflower seeds (I have actually ate one with my cousin...to prove I did love her (

All the clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 10:10...so are many commericals with clocks.

There's no windows in a casino

Some muslims believe washing your face with cow urine washes away sin

In Spain * i think* there is a thing were they jump over babies to get the devil from it's soul.

In Tennessee, you are to have atleast one bath every year

Halloween is a pagan holiday in which witches celebrate to thank their Gods and Goddesses, not the devil

7% of people believe Elvis is still alive

John Hancock was the first to sign the Declartion of Independence hence why his name is the biggest

Not everyone signed the DoI on the 4th

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson * I think* both died on July 4th within two hours of each other

Butterflies taste with their feet.
Birds taste with their noses.

Many sailors used to wear gold earrings so that they could afford a proper burial when they died.

Some very Orthodox Jew refuse to speak Hebrew, believing it to be a language reserved only for the Prophets.

A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal during World War I.

Born 4 January 1838, General Tom Thumb's growth slowed at the age of 6 months, at 5 years he was signed to the circus by P.T. Barnum, and at adulthood reached a height of only 1 metre.

Because they had no proper rubbish disposal system, the streets of ancient Mesopotamia became literally knee-deep in rubbish.

The Toltecs, Seventh-century native Mexicans, went into battle with wooden swords so as not to kill their enemies.

China banned the pigtail in 1911 as it was seen as a symbol of feudalism.

The Amayra guides of Bolivia are said to be able to keep pace with a trotting horse for a distance of 100 kilometres.

Sliced bread was patented by a jeweller, Otto Rohwedder, in 1928. He had been working on it for 16 years, having started in 1912.

Before it was stopped by the British, it was the not uncommon for women in some areas of India to choose to be burnt alive on their husband's funeral pyre.

There was a man who was both a dwarf and a giant in his life time. Growing up, he was about 2 or 3 feet until he was 21 where he started growing till he was 7 feet. He was damanged so bad that he spent the rest of his life in bed

Ivan the terrible claimed to have 'deflowered thousands of virgins and butchered a similar number of resulting offspring'.

Before the Second World War, it was considered a sacrilege to even touch an Emperor of Japan.

An American aircraft in Vietnam shot itself down with one of its own missiles.

The Anglo-Saxons believed Friday to be such an unlucky day that they ritually slaughtered any child unfortunate enough to be born on that day.

During the eighteenth century, laws had to be brought in to curb the seemingly insatiable appetite for gin amongst the poor. Their annual intake was as much as five million gallons.

Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.

The Nobel Prize resulted form a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.

The cost of the first pay-toilets installed in England was tuppence.

Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.

In 1647 the English Parliament abolished Christmas.

Mao Rse-Tang, the first chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, was born 26 December 1893. Before his rise to power, he occupied the humble position of Assistant Librarian at the University of Peking.

Coffee is the second largest item of international commerce in the world. The largest is petrol.

King George III was declared violently insane in 1811, 9 years before he died.

In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.

For Roman Catholics, 5 January is St Simeon Stylites' Day. He was a fifth-century hermit who showed his devotion to God by spending literally years sitting on top of a huge flagpole.

"TYPEWRITER" is the longest word you can create within one line of keys on the keyboard.

When George I became King of England in 1714, his wife did not become Queen. He placed her under house arrest for 32 years.

The richest 10 per cent of the French people are approximately fifty times better off than the poorest 10 per cent.

Henry VII was the only British King to be crowned on the field of battle

During World War One, the future Pope John XXIII was a sergeant in the Italian Army.

Richard II died aged 33 in 1400. A hole was left in the side of his tomb so people could touch his royal head, but 376 years later some took advantage of this and stole his jawbone.

The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.

The Puritans forbade the singing of Christmas Carols, judging them to be out of keeping with the true spirit of Christmas.

Albert Einstein was once offered the Presidency of Israel. He declined saying he had no head for problems.

Uri Geller, the professional psychic was born on December 20 1946. As to the origin of his alleged powers, Mr Geller maintains that they come from the distant planet of Hoova.

Ralph and Carolyn Cummins had 5 children between 1952 and 1966, all were born on the 20 February

Butterflies taste with their feet.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

 On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

John D. Rockefeller gave away over US$ 500,000,000 during his lifetime.

Only 1 child in 20 are born on the day predicted by the doctor.

In the 1970's, the Rhode Island Legislature in the US entertained a proposal that there be a $2 tax on every act of sexual intercourse in the State.

Widows in equatorial Africa actually wear sackcloth and ashes when attending a funeral.

The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 116 years.

A tree makes around 80,500 pieces of paper

Your thigh bone is stronger then concrete

In las vegas it is illegal to pawn your dentors

Dust is mostly dead skin cells

If someone goes crazy in space the proper way to detain them is with duct tape

turtles can breathe through their bottoms ( I got it from a useless facts book)

- Chihuahuas have moleras, a soft spot in their skulls. They are the only breed of fog to be born with an incomplete skull

-KFC's famous advertising slogan "finger licking' good" was translated in Chinese as "eat your fingers off."

-A cough releases an explosive charge of air that travels at speeds up to 60 mph. Sneezes can actually exceed the speed of 100 mph

-The DeCheseaux comet had 7 tails that panned out like a peacock.

-Mickey Mouse's first words were "hot dogs" in a 1929 short.

A tree has an IQ of 4

It takes two days for a snail to mate xD

169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves in a game of chess!

Elvis actually wanted to be an actor, not a singer - ironically, he wasn't that good of an actor, but one helluva singer :D