I’m already getting a little bored with Christmas so here’s my change of pace. Mish Mosh is always interesting and it will help to get me out of this holly, jolly, mindset I’ve fallen into. Weird and strange facts which someone (maybe even you) will find interesting.
- Women tend to shave approximately 412 square inches of their bodies, while men shave only 48.
- Tap water in New York City is considered non-kosher, as it has been found to contain microorganisms that qualify as shellfish.
- December is the most common month for children to be conceived.
- Fingerprints are unique to each individual, of course, but the same goes for tongue prints and lip prints.
- A pound of peanut butter is made up of 720 peanuts.
- During his nine-year reign as pope (beginning in 955), John XII was charged with multiple sexual acts and toasting the devil with wine. He was allegedly killed by a jealous husband.
- Confederate volunteers in the Civil War were paid $11 per month in 1861. Their pay was increased to $18 per month by 1864, but by then the currency was almost worthless.
- As General George Patton crossed a bridge over the Rhine River into Germany during World War II, he stopped in the middle and urinated into the river.
- The working title of the Beatles hit “With a Little Help from My Friends” was “Bad Finger Boogie”
- The human heart produces enough pressure to squirt blood more than 30 feet.
I already feel better since ridding my brain of all this holiday insanity, if only for just a few minutes. I’m afraid that I’ll be back at posting about the holidays and Santa and reindeer and mistletoe and snow and Christmas cards and OMG please stop me now.
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