Some Useless Facts!
February 2005
Somre more useless facts for your edification!
Did you know:
* That snails can sleep for three years without eating?
* The average adult spends 77 minutes a day eating?
* Margaret Thatcher ids Honorary Vice-President of Blackburn Rovers football club?
* In Florida it is illegal to sing in a public place while wearing a swimming costume?
* A BUCCULA is a little used term for a double chin?
* Fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle?
* Four percent of the food we eat will be eaten in front of a refrigerator with the door open?
* The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced?
* Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female patients?
* The ant always falls over to its right side when intoxicated?
* It takes 17 facial muscles to smile and 42 to frown?
* An average 4 year old asks more than 400 questions a day?
* In a recent 5 year period 24 residents of Tokyo died while bowing to each other?
* MAGEIROCOPHOBIA is the intense fear of having to cook.
Extracted from the World's Greatest Book of Useless Information by Noel Botham
The Editor