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!
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