Random facts
Hey world,
so today's a good day. Allan's home so I have someone to talk to. Ahscroft is gone. Oprah went well. And there's lots of dogs with sweaters outside. I was reading this Tony Kushner essay and he pulled out this fact that during sex, each partner swallows close to a quart of the other's spit. I thought that was interesting so I spent a nice portion of the morning looking up random facts. I've listed the one's I like below. Hoping maybe someone else will smile.
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The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on all of the band's albums.
Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world, and ten times more effective than valium.
There are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together)
The cigarette lighter was invented before matches.
you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider
China has more English speakers than the United States.
Belief in the existence of vacuums used to be punishable by death under church law.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Shakespeare spelled his own name several different ways.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana
It took engineers 22 years to design the zipper
Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.
The inventor of Vaseline ate a spoonful of the stuff every morning
When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine
One in 500 humans has one blue eye and one brown eye
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing
No one knows where Mozart is buried.
cows can smell odors six miles away
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
It is possible to go blind from smoking too heavily
The Dallas-Fort Worth area has more residents - 5,221,801 - than 31 U.S. states. For example, Arizona has about 5.1 million residents.
The Stethoscope was invented by Dr. Rene Laennec in 1816, because he was too embarrassed to listen to a young pretty woman's heart.
The moons of all planets are named after Greek gods, except for the moons of Uranus, which are named after Shakespearean characters
There was no grass during the time of the dinosaurs
Albert Einstein's last words will never be known. He spoke them in German, but the attending nurse didn't speak German and so couldn't recall what was said.
and finally....
If you want to email the current Pope, his email address is john_paul_ii@vatican.va.
so today's a good day. Allan's home so I have someone to talk to. Ahscroft is gone. Oprah went well. And there's lots of dogs with sweaters outside. I was reading this Tony Kushner essay and he pulled out this fact that during sex, each partner swallows close to a quart of the other's spit. I thought that was interesting so I spent a nice portion of the morning looking up random facts. I've listed the one's I like below. Hoping maybe someone else will smile.
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The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on all of the band's albums.
Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world, and ten times more effective than valium.
There are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together)
The cigarette lighter was invented before matches.
you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider
China has more English speakers than the United States.
Belief in the existence of vacuums used to be punishable by death under church law.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Shakespeare spelled his own name several different ways.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana
It took engineers 22 years to design the zipper
Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.
The inventor of Vaseline ate a spoonful of the stuff every morning
When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine
One in 500 humans has one blue eye and one brown eye
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing
No one knows where Mozart is buried.
cows can smell odors six miles away
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
It is possible to go blind from smoking too heavily
The Dallas-Fort Worth area has more residents - 5,221,801 - than 31 U.S. states. For example, Arizona has about 5.1 million residents.
The Stethoscope was invented by Dr. Rene Laennec in 1816, because he was too embarrassed to listen to a young pretty woman's heart.
The moons of all planets are named after Greek gods, except for the moons of Uranus, which are named after Shakespearean characters
There was no grass during the time of the dinosaurs
Albert Einstein's last words will never be known. He spoke them in German, but the attending nurse didn't speak German and so couldn't recall what was said.
and finally....
If you want to email the current Pope, his email address is john_paul_ii@vatican.va.