When I woke up this morning, I immediately decided to ignore Christmas for a few more days. The decision was caused by a combination of things but primarily due to the last 25 Christmas Rom-Com’s I had to watch at the insistence of my better half. One more passionate but interrupted kiss and I will run screaming from the room. Let’s just amuse ourselves for a little while longer before the Christmas elf makes the next 2 weeks a green and red nightmare.
- The insults “moron, “idiot”, “imbecile,” and “cretin” were all once official medical diagnoses.
- The penis of a Barnicle may reach up to 20 times its body size.
- The highest possible legal score on a first turn in Scrabble is given by the word “muzjiks,” scoring 128 points. The world record for the highest score on a single turn is “quixotry” for 365 points.
- The FBI had a 1427-page dossier on Albert Einstein.
- “Queueing” is the only word in English with five consecutive vowels.
- A cow burps up to 280 liters of methane per day.
- Two thirds of the world’s people never seen snow.
- Woodrow Wilson is the only president to have had a PhD.
- Aldous Huxley died on the same day John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
- From a height of 3 kilometers, it takes 30 minutes for a snowflake to reach the ground.
- In the United States, 12% of women with MBAs are divorced or separated, compared with 5% of men with MBAs.
- In any given day, more people in India travel by train then by plane in the entire year.
- One American in 6500 is injured by a toilet seat during their lifetime.
- Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is larger than Manhattan.
- Ladders are dropped on Los Angeles freeways more than any other item.
- Every year, an average of 12 Japanese tourists in Paris have to be repatriated due to severe culture shock.
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