Weird Facts
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles. No standard 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight The albatross drinks sea water. It has a special desalinization apparatus that strains out and excretes all excess salt. In Clarendon, Texas, there is reportedly a law on the books that lawyers must accept eggs, chickens, or other produce, as well as money, as payment of legal fees. Cats purr at 26 cycles per second, the same as an idling diesel engine. A dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 times a second, bees and houseflies 200 times, some mosquitoes 600 times, and a tiny gnat 1,000 times. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic." The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan. All porcupines float in water. Non-dairy creamer is flammable. When opossums are playing "possum," they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
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