Monday, December 6, 2010

Did you know?

Did you know:

~The Margherita pizza was fashioned after the Italian flag; red tomatoes, green basil and white mozzarella cheese. It was named after Queen Margherita, who requested to eat pizza so she would know what her people ate.

~Female platypuses don't have nipples; milk seeps out of patches of skin on their abdomen and their young lap it up.

~Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing gas in a spacesuit damages it. (Can you imagine the pressure!?!? Pun intended.) :-P

~By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

~Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

~Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.

~A mouse can fit through a hole the size of a ballpoint pen.

~If you drop a tarantula, it will shatter.

~There is no word in the English language that rhymes with "month".

~Most lipstick is made with fish scales.

~Elvis had a black belt in karate.

~The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache on a standard playing card.

~There is one slot machine per eight inhabitants in Vegas.

~The names of Popeye's 4 nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye and Poopeye

~It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while sitting on the curb in St. Louis.

~Over 2,500 left handed people are killed each year from using products made for right handed people.

~Porcupines float in water.

~Google is an amazing tool for finding cool, useless facts!

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