Random Facts no one needs to know

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Post your random facts that no one needs to know:

1.- Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth,
which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor
of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.

2. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed
in plane crashes.

3. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually
turn white.

4. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer
than left-handed people do.

5. "Go!" is the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.

6. No president of the United states was an only child.

I think there might be something else like this here, but...

1. Elvis was a natural blonde.

2. "Kangaroo" comes from an aboriginal word meaning "I don't understand you"

3. French nuclear testing in the Pacific startled pigeons in London.

4. Infrasound from car engines can make crocodiles sexually aroused.

5. Pug nosed dogs have the same skeletal structure as a wolf foetus.

Sociopaths cannot see people as people. Merely as objects.

Chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than they are to any other apes.

Humans are the only apes that can swim.

Archaeologists have discovered Neanderthal blades with an edge of one molecule thick, five times as sharp as a surgeon's scalpel.

Teleporters are actually being invented.

So if Ned Flanders is about to turn 68 and he is in perfect health, then I should live a very long life as well.

Tim

Oh, great...I'm going to live a short life...Bloody Hell.

I'm a Lefty, by the way.

I'm left handed too. I'm interested in the prepensity for Aspies to be left handed. Is there any hard evidence out there?

no, your reading into things too much. i am right handed, the ratio is probably the same as NT. I would like it if we were allowed to hae SOMTHING which is our own, oour person, NOT the syndrome, thanks.

During the filming of Kung Fu,the lead actor was often thrown into sources of water because he refused to take a bath and smelled.(he was also reported to have been taking LSD during some episodes.)

Queen Elizabeth used to use pot during her periods to eleviate some of her symptoms.

Romeo and Juliet were only about 13 years old,as written by Shakespeare.

Yogi can "inhale" water into their rectums to give themselves enemas.

Yogi pass a cloth through sinuses by snorting it up nose and pulling it out mouth(I had a friend who did this with metal necklaces for beer money...great trick,if you dont mind sinus infections.)

Americans committed genocide on Native American population.

During the Renaissance(?) women used to paint their faces with a lead based paint which killed some of them.They also put drops of Belladonna in their eyes to increase pupil size,which is a sign of sexual arousal.

The wealthy in Greece and Italy used to use lead lined vessels to serve their wine and got lead poisoning.

"mad hatters" went made "mad" because of their use of toxic metals in processing of hats.(I think it was mercury used in felt processing?)

I dont know if those are correct but I read them some where and decided to believe them until prove incorrect

Napoleon was average height for his decade and country of origin(5'7".)

Man is the only mammal who doesn't have a bone, in his penis.

Yes, those are!

Chances of being struck by a bounced off bolt of lightning - 1 in 600,000.

I hate onions.

How fast does glass crack?

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.

The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are 1 in 2,000,000.

Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree.

Clams are all male at birth, only becoming female when the need arises.

There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs being lost at sea.

A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.

At one 'feeding', a mosquito can absorb one and a half times its own weight in blood. On a related note, a mosquito will drink itself to death when taking blood from a human; it will drink so much that, when attempting to fly away, it's body will be split in half by the blood forcing its way out.

In France, it is legal to marry a dead person.

There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing.

The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.

In Medieval Europe, it was common for nobles to marry their sixteen-year-old sons to twelve- year-old girls.