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10 Strange But True Facts
10 strange facts from around the world. They say that truth is stranger than fiction, judge for yourself, with these strange facts.
- If you are visiting Tokyo, don’t forget to take your push bike with you, as it is the fastest form of transport on journeys averaging fifty minutes or less.
- If you fancy a game of cards, then take a good look at the Kings, notice anything? the King of hearts is the only King that bothers to shave, he is the only one without a moustache.
- The next time you are in Paris, then a visit to the louvre is a must, while there take a look at the Mona Lisa, you may notice that at sometime, someone sneaked in and shaved her eyebrows off.
- The next time you go to fill up your car with a few gallons of gas, spare a thought for the poor guy who has to fill the Boeing 747, this gas guzzler consumes over 57,000 gallons of fuel.
- Back to crazy laws for this one, if you have a bucket of beer, and you are in St Louis then you must not sit on the curb to drink it, it is illegal to do so.
- If you cut the head off a cockroach and think that you’ve killed it, then think again, this animal can survive for several weeks in a decapitated state, it will however eventually die of hunger.
- This one is a matter of necessity being the mother of invention, as the inventor of the light bulb Thomas Eddison was scared of the dark.
- If you think that chewing gum is a relatively new thing, it’s not as a piece that has been found has been dated at around 9,000 years old.
- It’s hard life being the male of the species, as we are six times more likely to be struck with lightening than the fairer sex.
- And lastly I think we should all take a leaf out of the books of squirrels, these green minded creatures plant millions of nuts around the world every year, trouble is they forget where they put some of them, result millions of trees.
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It’s perfectly legal for an Englishman to shoot a Welshman in the eye with an arrow from the walls in Chester.
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Very interesting collation of weird and wonderful snippets. Already knew about the cockroach one! I like.
Now if that decapitated cockroach can’t see where it is going, it must surely bump into a lot of walls…remember that it has no antennae, sense of smell, sight, nor anything else going for it since it’s brain is gone!
So…my question is this; is it still alive just because it’s moving around? Or is a brain not necessary in selected lower life forms? Does it have another smaller brain socked away somewhere? And why am I asking these questions when just the thought of a headless cockroach scampering around my house makes me want to stomp on it?!!! 
ICK! ^-^
Great post!..very interesting and really nice ones..must read..thnx for sharing.
Meh. Yawn. Hope you realize airliners get great mileage for that massive amount of gas, and not all cards are the same.
Nice trivia. I learned several new things today.
Thanks for sharing,
-Resounding Glass
I love the last one:)
So is it legal to drink beer from a vase while sitting on the gutter in St Louis?