Blog Post #20

Funny random facts:
1.If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
2.The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
3.The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There wasnever a recorded Wendy before
4.Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wearpants.
5.Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie ChaplinLook-alike contest.
6.The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
7.Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury
8.111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
9.In ancient England a person ! could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it.
10.Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party? A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
11.There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the US than real ones.
12.A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
13.We are in the middle of an ice age. Ice ages include both cold and warm periods; at the moment we are experiencing a relatively warm span of time known as an interglacial period. Geologists believe that the warmest part of this period occurred from 1890 through 1945 and that since 1945 things have slowly begun freezing up again.
14.an island is defined as being an islandonly if it is big enough to sustain 1 sheep
15.If you told someone that they were one in a million, you'd be saying there were 1,800 of them in China