Wednesday 4 June 2008

Did you Know/ (And do you care?)

In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. (I know some people like that.)

Starfish don't have brains. (I know some people like that, too)

The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth.

When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.

St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was not Irish.

The lance ceased to be an official battle weapon in the British Army in 1927.

Sliced bread was patented by a jeweller, Otto Rohwedder, in 1928. He had been working on it for 16 years, having started in 1912.

An American aircraft in Vietnam shot itself down with one of its own missiles.

Coffee is the second largest item of international commerce in the world. The largest is petrol.

Only 1 child in 20 is born on the day predicted by the doctor.

The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 116 years.

The British did not release the body of Napoleon Bonaparte to the French until twenty days after his death. (I bet that caused a stink!)

Admiral Lord Nelson was less than 1.6 metres tall.

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