Unusual Facts

Here are some unusual facts that you can use to prove superiority to your friends:

• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
• Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
• A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
• People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
• When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop....even your heart. This is why people have always said "God bless you" after a sneeze.
• Only 7% of the population are lefties.
• 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
• Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
• The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
• The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
• The average housefly lives for one month.
• 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. Don't ask how.
• A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
• The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
• Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
• The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
• Among the music catalogues that Michael Jackson owns the rights to, is the South Carolina State anthem.
• In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
• Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
• The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
• Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
• Humphrey Bogart and Princess Diana were seventh cousins.
• If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green

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Birthdays on May 3rd

1937 - Frankie Valli
1928 - James Brown
1919 - Pete Seeger
1903 - Bing Crosby
1469 - Niccolo Machiavelli

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 Todays Pic Dump

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Blast from the Past

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Afternoon Randomness

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Todays Quote

Birthday Girl

Golda Meir

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Golda Meir

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Golda Meir

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
Golda Meir

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
Golda Meir

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Golda Meir

Being seventy is not a sin.
Golda Meir

Don't be humble... you're not that great.
Golda Meir

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
Golda Meir

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
Golda Meir

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
Golda Meir


I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
Golda Meir

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
Golda Meir

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
Golda Meir

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Golda Meir

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
Golda Meir

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
Golda Meir

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Golda Meir

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Golda Meir

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