Random Facts

Here are some random facts I have leanred from several different websites:
-Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words

-Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year

-It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World

-Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump"

-Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.

-If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death

-Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day

-Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

-Barbie's full first name is Barbara Millicent Roberts

-Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.

-In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

-You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

-There is a city called Rome on every continent

-Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

-The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man

-Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

-Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle

There are some strange, useless, interesting facts. :)
Sources:
http://www.world-english.org/facts.htm
http://www.pmbc.com/fact.html