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1. In 2000, the 'impossible' Eternity puzzle was solved by an unemployed mathematician - he won the £1 million prize and the inventor had to sell his home to pay it. :eek:
2. A litre of vinegar is heavier in winter than in summer. :cool:
3. A snail's teeth are arranged in rows along its tongue like the edge of a saw. When it eats the snail cuts through its food using this serrated tongue. :p
1. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. :crying:
2. A pregnant goldfish is called a 'twit'. :lol:
3. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. :p
1. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. :eek:
2. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. :D
3. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. :p
I must try this, whenever I get a chance to have champagneQuote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
1. Over 95% of fifteen-year-olds have already developed some decay in their permanent teeth. :eek:
2. Oaks and Poplars are struck by lightning more frequently than any other trees in England. :searchme:
3. In Spain you must always place your right foot in a boat before your left. To step in the other way is to incur almost certain disaster. :p
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Originally Posted by Perdita
1. Ludwig van Beethoven believed that his brain was timulated if he poured ice cold water over his head while he was working :eek:
2. If you have an I.Q. of 180 or over you are literally one person in a million. :cool:
3. The planet Uranus was originally named after George III 'Georgium Sidum'. It was not named after the Roman god until 1850. :)
1. The daily outflow of the Amazon would be enough to supply the USA with two hundred times its daily municipal water requirement.
2. Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.
3. Teflon is the most slippery substance in the world.
1. Ancient Chinese belief held that sperm came from the brain. :hmm: Does this confirm the rumour that some men think with their privates instead of their head?
2. The USA had no national anthem until 1931. :nono:
3. Some of the dams built by beavers are as much as fifteen metres long. :eek:
1. The first man to be imprisoned for a traffic offence was ironically the first motorist Nicholas Cugnot, who drove his steam-powered tractor into a stone wall, at the top speed of six and a half kilometres an hour. :wall:
2. You can make up for a deficiency in vitamin A by eating young dandelions. :p
3. One psychological study has revealed that women talk about men three times as often as men talk about women. :D