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| Subject: strange But TRUE Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:46 pm | |
| Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes! [same goes for london most likely?]
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult! [you been warned]
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel![now we know why flights are so expensive eh]
ANDY > It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second! [not really worth saying no more eh?]
Porcupines float in water! [author has not tested this yet ok]
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
Cat urine glows under a black-light! [oh ok?]
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside! [not yet tested lol]
The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206! [ok who's been eating my bones?]
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin! ewwwwwwwwwwwww
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women! [WHY?]
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
Strange but true laws lol
In Texas, it's against the law for anyone to have a pair of pliers in his or her possession.
In Philadelphia, you can't put pretzels in bags based on an Act of 1760.
Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane.
In Corpus Christie, Texas, it is illegal to raise alligators in your home.
In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal.
It is against the law to mispronounce the name of the State of Arkansas in that State.
In Illinois, the law is that a car must be driven with the steering wheel.
California law prohibits a woman from driving a car while dressed in a housecoat.
In Memphis, Tennessee, a woman is not to drive a car unless a man warns approaching motorists or pedestrians by walking in front of the car that is being driven. [hahahaha]
In Tennessee, it is against the law to drive a car while sleeping. [hmm ?]
In New York, it is against the law for a blind person to drive an automobile. [duhh]
In West Virginia, only babies can ride in a baby carriage.
In Georgia, it is against the law to slap a man on the back or front.
A barber is not to advertise prices in the State of Georgia.
In Louisiana, a bill was introduced years ago in the State House of Representatives that fixed a ceiling on haircuts for bald men of 25 cents.
In Oklahoma, no baseball team can hit the ball over the fence or out of a ballpark.
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