As A Matter Of Fact, It's A Statistical Coincidence!

I wrote in my last blog that I love a coincidence, or strange fact or statistic.

I'm one of those irritating people who remember things that are of no use to man or beast. I couldn't remember information that would save my life in an emergency, but I could easily tell you the names of the seven dwarves (Sleepy, Grumpy, Dopey, Happy, Bashful, Sneezy and Doc).

Why does my mind remember the useless and forget the important? Although I'm always in great demand when it comes to pub quizzes. So here a few useless facts and stats that I hope you might find as interesting as I do, but don't expect them to change your life, or benefit you in any way.

A yawn usually lasts for about six seconds.

Most heart attacks occur between 8am and 9am.

Pepsi Cola had a slogan, 'Come alive with the Pepsi generation'. But when it was translated into Chinese it read, 'Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave!'

Coca-Cola didn't do much better either, Ke-Kou-ke-la in Chinese means 'bite the wax tadpole'

The religion of the Todas people of southern India forbids them to cross any kind of bridge. (Even one over troubled waters?)

The belief in the existence of vacuums used to be punishable by death under church law. Then the lord god Dyson appeared, and all was forgiven. (They might have been worried about other vacuums, though).

George Martin, the producer of the Beatles was the best man for Spike Milligan. Spock was the best man for Captain Kirk! (William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy).

Believe it or not, more suicides happen in spring, the winter months have the lowest number.

Schizophrenics hardly ever yawn, (Boring!)

The average new-born baby cries 113 minutes a day. Whoever came up with this stat has never sat up for seven hours a night with a screaming shit machine in their arms!

One in every eight boss/secretary relationships ends in marriage. They all end marriages though!

The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's. Shit Christmas presents though!

There has never been a sex change operation in Ireland.

James Brown, Louis Armstrong, Chico and Harpo Marx all spent part of their childhood in a brothel, though not the same one, as far as I know.

There's a place in Newfoundland called 'Dildo'.

A few genuine song titles: 'If my nose was full of nickels, then I'd blow it all on you!'

'Mama, get a hammer, (there's a fly on papa's head)'.

Questions that are unanswered.

Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

More unusual facts (check them out, don't take my word for it)

Panama hats are made in Ecuador.

A camel hair brush is made from squirrel fur.Where do they get the squirrels? The buggers in the wood where I live are faster than a speeding bullet. But when one bit through our electricity supply we found they weren't quicker than electricity, and now we have a squirrel-shaped blackened stain on our loft wall to prove it!

Catgut, formerly used for stitching wounds, was from sheep and horses.

My wife knows if I have money in my wallet just by the way I walk.

Ninety percent of movies released in the US are porn films. The other ten percent are crap!

Tom Cruise's full name is actually Thomas Cruise Mapother IV

The word Sunday is not in the Bible. 'Thou shalt not' is over-used, though, in my opinion!

At the age of three, Elizabeth Taylor danced for King George V. I don't know why, or in what circumstance?

I could fill a book with the rubbish that litters my mind, but I will leave it there for now, though I will no doubt bore you with other strange facts at a later date!