List 3: OMG facts
LOL, so this one wasn't on the list. BUT I thought I would post it anyways because it is very amusing.
- Only 2% of Earth's human population has red hair
- In the States, Farmville payers outnumber real farmers 60:1
- In Hong Kong the wife of a husband who commits adultery is legally entitled to kill the mistress in any manner desired - but she may only murder the husband with her bare hands.
- Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere in the world, there is a duck watching you.
- There are weird similarities between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
Both were shot in the back of the head in the presence of their wives.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. Lincoln was shot in the Ford Theatre. Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln, made by Ford. Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater. * Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908. Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
- The Bible is the number one most shoplifted book of all time.
- In 1979, a woman jumped off the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, and LIVED.
29-year-old Elvita Adams jumped off of the observation tower on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building. As luck would have it, a 30 mph gust of wind blew her straight back up and she landed on a ledge on the 85th floor. She suffered only a fractured hip, and a security guard promptly brought her back inside through a window.
- As of 4/20/10 Lady Gaga's Bad Romance was the number one most viewed video on YouTube with 185,247,313 views (as of 4/20/10). It would take 108,554.3615 years to watch it that many times.
[ I just checked, and now it has 205,000,000 views!]
- In Japan, they have square watermelons that sell at the equivalent of $82 american.
- The letters "ough" can be pronounced 10 different ways: There's "cough" (which rhymes with "off"), "enough" (which rhymes with "stuff"), "dough" (which rhymes with "no"), "through" (which rhymes with "do"), "thought" (which sounds like "awe"), "plough" (an alternative spelling of "plow"), "hiccough" (an alternative spelling of "hiccup"), "hough" (an alternative spelling of "hock"), "lough" (an alternative spelling of "loch"), and "thorough" (which has a different pronunciation in the UK than it does in American English).
- Jellyfish EVAPORATE in the sun, they are 98% water
- 99% of the species that ever lives on earth are extinct.
- Only 2% of Earth's human population has red hair
- In the States, Farmville payers outnumber real farmers 60:1
- In Hong Kong the wife of a husband who commits adultery is legally entitled to kill the mistress in any manner desired - but she may only murder the husband with her bare hands.
- Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere in the world, there is a duck watching you.
- There are weird similarities between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
Both were shot in the back of the head in the presence of their wives.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. Lincoln was shot in the Ford Theatre. Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln, made by Ford. Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater. * Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908. Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
- The Bible is the number one most shoplifted book of all time.
- In 1979, a woman jumped off the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, and LIVED.
29-year-old Elvita Adams jumped off of the observation tower on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building. As luck would have it, a 30 mph gust of wind blew her straight back up and she landed on a ledge on the 85th floor. She suffered only a fractured hip, and a security guard promptly brought her back inside through a window.
- As of 4/20/10 Lady Gaga's Bad Romance was the number one most viewed video on YouTube with 185,247,313 views (as of 4/20/10). It would take 108,554.3615 years to watch it that many times.
[ I just checked, and now it has 205,000,000 views!]
- In Japan, they have square watermelons that sell at the equivalent of $82 american.
- The letters "ough" can be pronounced 10 different ways: There's "cough" (which rhymes with "off"), "enough" (which rhymes with "stuff"), "dough" (which rhymes with "no"), "through" (which rhymes with "do"), "thought" (which sounds like "awe"), "plough" (an alternative spelling of "plow"), "hiccough" (an alternative spelling of "hiccup"), "hough" (an alternative spelling of "hock"), "lough" (an alternative spelling of "loch"), and "thorough" (which has a different pronunciation in the UK than it does in American English).
- Jellyfish EVAPORATE in the sun, they are 98% water
- 99% of the species that ever lives on earth are extinct.