To: Freedom4US
Just marking this thread to come back later, however since this thread is educational...
* There is an annual ghost mela held in Madhya Pradesh?
* Switzerland attracts the most suicide tourists?
* Sicily is seen upside down from an Italian village?
* A new Japanese jeans actually slows down ageing?
* In ancient times, iron cost more than gold?
* Silver can destroy 650 disease-causing bacteria?
* That Mahavira wasnt really the founder of Jainism?
* The words lakh and crore do not exist in English?
* Theres a fruit that smells like shit but tastes like heaven?
* The banana could be extinct in 10 years?
* There is a plant that goes searching for water?
* The Puffer Fish contains a poison that is 500 times deadlier than cyanide, yet its a delicacy in Japan?
* Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.
* A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
* It is impossible to lick your elbow.
* Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of
Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market
that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
* In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
* 7% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
* The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be
the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
* By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at Primary school.
Most people who read this probably tried to lick their elbows.
93 posted on
07/27/2003 3:56:38 AM PDT by
BushCountry
(To the last, I will grapple with Democrats. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at Liberals.)
To: BushCountry
* In ancient times, iron cost more than gold? I doubt that very much.
Glass, however did at one time hold that dinstinction.
As did, I believe, aluminum.
119 posted on
07/27/2003 6:46:45 AM PDT by
Publius6961
(Californians are as dumm as a sack of rocks)
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