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Trivia
This
World We Live In
Rubber
Girl - Suzanna Perkins, age 13, of Williamsburg, Kentucky,
can wrap her legs behind her Head!
Customised Novel Writer - Norbert Klugman of Germany creates
personalised novels for customers that cost $21,000 each!
Doctor Santa - During a Christmas party in Delray, Florida,
Russell Poulton, dressed as Santa Claus, saved the life of
Dorothy Milton when her heart stopped!
Trash Kitten - Oscar, a kitten in New Zealand, survived being
tipped into a trash compactor and dumped in a landfill before
being rescued by bulldozer operator Russell Chamberlain!
Zap Jacket - Yolita Nugent and Adam Whiton have developed
a "No-Contact Jacket" for women that delivers a
jolt of electricity if the wearer is attacked!
Sound Heat - If you yelled for eight years, seven months and
six days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat
one cup of coffee!
Doctorate @ 15 - Thatagat Avatar Tulsi of Bihar, India, is
studying for his Doctorate in Physics at the Indian Institute
of Science, at the age of 15 years only.
Blind Writer - Hans Christian Andersen, creator of fairy tales,
was word-blind. He never learned to spell correctly, and his
publishers always had the spelling errors corrected.
Barbie Doll - Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Layers in Mona Lisa Paintings - X-rays have revealed that
there are three different versions of Mona Lisa under the
first image!
Hotel Transportation - The Windsor Hotel in Beth, England,
transports guests to local tourist attractions by carrying
them in a 17th century Sedan Chair!
King Chocolate - A lump of 1500 year old chocolate discovered
in the tomb of a Honduran King was put on display at the American
Museum of Natural History in New York!
Classic Car Radio - Jay and Jason Plugge of Sunnyvale, California,
have invented a car radio that plays the engine sounds of
Classic Cars, inlcuding Ferraris and Corvettes,from the 1950s
and 1960s!
Explosive Survival - Harebell Childress of Rose Township,
Michigan, survived an explosion caused by lightning that struck
his home 10 years ago. After rebuilding his house, he survived
another explosion caused by a propane leak, that destroyed
his house!
The
Living End!!!
* A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds
after it is been decapitated.
* Over 2500 left handed people are killed each year from using
products made for right handed people.
* A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
* Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the
death of their cats.
* Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.
* A body decomposes four times as fast in water than on land.
* The tiny poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill over
2200 people!
* On average, people fear spiders more than they do dying.
However, statistically you are more likely to be killed by
a champagne cork than by the bite of a poisonous spider.
* Cockroaches can live for nine days without their heads,
at which point they die of starvation.
* In Erwin, Tennessee an elephant was once hanged for murder.
* About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
* On average, right-handed people live 9 years longer than
their left-handed counterparts.
* A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds
after it is been decapitated.
* The leading cause of deaths for children between the ages
of 1 and 4 are motor vehicle crashes.
* When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense
to go. The first sense lost is usually sight. Then follows
taste, smell, and touch.
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