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Interesting Facts

Interesting Fact and Tidbits:

  • Hopscotch originated as a training exercise for Roman soldiers.
  • Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled "Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden"...and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
  • Golf balls were first made of leather stuffed with feathers.
  • The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
  • Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
  • If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
  • What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common? They were ll invented by women!
  • Bowling was invented by medieval monks. They pretended the front pin was the Devil.
  • Martha Washington’s silver service was the source of the silver that went into making the first U.S.coins.
  • The oldest continuously inhabited city is Damascus, Syria. It has been inhabited since at least 2000 B.C.
  • Dice have been discovered in the excavations of a site near Nineveh.
  • Elephants, lions, and camels roamed Alaska 12,000 years ago.
  • The Egyptians trained baboons to wait on tables.
  • Lacrosse was first played by Native Americans. They called it “The Game of the Creator.”
  • The ancestors of the horse “Eohippus” were only about a foot tall 60 million years ago.
  • Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales were not considered suitable for children when first written. One review claimed they were “positively harmful for the mind.”
  • Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland is totally heated by underground hot springs. It may be the cleanest (pollution) capital city in the world.
  • The coldest temperature ever recorded in the norther hemisphere was in the village of Oymyakon in Siberia. The temperature of -71 C (-96 F.) was recorded in January, 1964.
  • Coal and diamonds are made of the same chemical element, carbon.
  • There are more different kinds of insects alive today than the total of all the different kinds of animals added together.
  • Cockroaches have an amazing ability to survive. If the head of a cockroach is removed carefully (so it doesn’t bleed to death), it can survive for several weeks. It will starve to death. Scientist theorize that if Earth was destroyed by a nuclear attack, the cockroach might be the only animal to survive.
  • Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil.
  • Bees must collect nectar from about 2,000,000 flowers to make a one pound honey comb.
  • I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg.The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

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