General Chat

Do you care that........

1. On average, women utter 7,000 words per day. Whereas men manage just over 2,000 2. 15,000 people fainted during George V’s funeral 3. The Indonesian fruit bat has a wing span equal to the height of Tom Cruise 4. There are 1,600 calories in a pint of hippo milk. To burn off the calories you must bang your head against a wall for 10hrs 30mins 5. In 1992 a phone card sold for US$42,000 in Japan. It was the first card issued in that country 6. A 1938 presidential commission said that the US would never reach 140m. In 1950 the population was 152m 7. Brendan Maguire was voted sheriff of San Mateo County, California in 1986 with a majority of 81,679. Unfortunately he had been dead for 2 months 8. The silkworm moth has eleven brains 9. There are at least 250m bubbles waiting to burst out of every bottle of champagne 10. More people have heart attacks and more cars break down on a Monday than any other day of the week 11. In 1986, 4m Americans were alcoholics 12. Over 67% of people admit to urinating while in public swimming pools 13. In a UK supermarket, 13 women became pregnant after manning till number 11. The management renamed the till 10a 14. In 1995 traces of cocaine were found on 40% of all used banknotes returned to the Bank of England. In the USA the figure was almost 75% 15. More people are killed in Malaysia from falling coconuts than from poisonous snake bites 16. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear 17. If all the wasted nails in old wooden pallets were recycled they could make 380,000 car bodies 18. Rio de Janeiro has more plastic surgeons than public health doctors 19. Koalas are the laziest animals in the world, they sleep for 22 hrs a day 20. the average number of witnesses to a UFO sighting is 2.2, of these 68% are male