Friday Facts

A lazy post that I am trialling as no bugger reads beyond Fridays. A little light fun...here are some Friday facts for you to amaze/bore your friends with.

Oh...and the "doctored" picture of Jennifer Aniston? Just the sad fantasy of a middle aged bloke who finds this brightens his day up. Definitely one for the boys.......

• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
• The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
• A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That explains a few mysteries....)
• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
• The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)
• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
• The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
• The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so the called themselves Motorola.
• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

Later, Grocerjack