Fantastic Facts 2015

From November 2015:

 13.   Jackie Bibby holds the record for sitting in a bathtub with the most live rattlesnakes.  He sat in a tub with 35 of them.  (The mortician later theorized that alchohol may have been involved.  :-))

14.  George Washington died in the last hour of the last day of the last week of the last month of the last year in the 18th century.

15.  The most children born to one mother is 69 (!!!)   From 1725 to 1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.

Source for all entries in 2015:  Trivia for the Toilet.  Gavin Webster, Fall River Press

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From July 2015:

8.  The correct response to the Irish greeting, “Top of the morning to you” is “And the rest of the day to yourself” !

9.  Cats step with both left legs, then both right legs.  The only other animals to do this are the giraffe and the camel.

10. During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

11.  The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, which employs over a million people.

12.  Americans consume 42 tons of aspirin per day.

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 From June, 2015

4.   In 1972, scientists reported that you can cure the common cold by freezing the big toe.  (!?  My question would be how the heck did they discover this?)

5.   The bark of the redwood tree is fireproof.  Fires in redwood forests take place inside the trees.

6.   A duck’s quack doesn’t echo – and no one knows why.

7.    Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.  (Fill in your own line here – so many present themselves!)

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 From January, 2015

1.  There were 15,700,003 Model T Fords manufactured – all in black!

2.  The Chinese ideogram for ‘trouble’ depicts two women living under the same roof.

3.  Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published a novel called Futility.  The story was about an ocean liner that struck an iceberg on an April night.  The name of the ship in his novel – The Titan.