3 Facts/Stories of the Day

[Perdita]

1. In 2001, a paraglider from Breganz, Austria, survived a 4,500 foot fall unhurt. He then slipped over while picking up his glider and broke his shoulder.

2. In 2001, a Russian woman defied medical odds and grew a new set of teeth - at the age of 104.

3. Relatives who can't wait to see the latest addition to the family can cuddle a bag of rice shaped like the newborn baby. A rice shop in Japan developed the idea and is swamped with made to measure orders. The bags of rice can now be sent to distant aunts and cousins, which weigh the same as the baby and are printed with its face and name on.

[Perdita]

1. Brazilian football referee Carlos Jose Figueira Ferro was facing divorce after he pulled a lacy pair of red knickers from his pocket instead of a red card.

2. It was reported that a contractor had been employed to build a submergedf bridge in the Sea of Galilee to enable tourists to walk on water

3. In 2001, a tv vet was paid £250,000 over five years to find out why cats like to tear up sofas.

[Siobhan]

3. In 2001, a tv vet was paid £250,000 over five years to find out why cats like to tear up sofas.

He could have given me the money and I would have told him in 2 seconds.. cause they can!!

[Perdita]

1. The wolrd's largest peanut was 10cm long

2. American supermarket giant Wal-Mart employs the most people worldwide.

3. The shorted war ever was between Britain and Zanzibar, it lasted 38 minutes.

[Perdita]

1. A woman in Marica has been cahrged with assault and trespass after allegedly biting her boyfriend on the genitals while he slept. Accordint to authorities, the 25-year-old broke into her boyfriend's house while he was asleep and bit him on what is reported as 'his private area'. The woman was arrested and charged over the inciden, which tooke place in the aptly named Dickie County, North Dakota.

2. The concave-eared torrent frog is the only amphibian known to communicate by using ultrasound.

3. 15lbs of agave pulp are needed to produce one litre of tequila.

[Perdita]

1. French kings Henry III and Louis XVI as well as Napoleon and Alexander the Great all suffered from a fear of cats.

2. The medical name for a fear of cats is ailurophobia.

3. If you have half an avocado left over, don't remove the stone. Storing it in the fridge leaving the stone in will stop the flesh browning so quickly.

[Trinity]

I am rather scared of cats, too.

[Perdita]

I love them, there is nothing scary about them Snakes, however, are a totally different story

[Trinity]

My hubby is petrified of snakes.

When he was on a job in the congo he had to sleep in a tent in the jungle, and every night they had to check under the tent for snakes before they went to bed


I really really do not like cats. I hate the way they creep along the backs of sofas and pounce on your lap, and the way they dig their claws in when you scream and jump up.

My gran had one - I was pertified - and I have never got close enough again to change my opinion.

[Siobhan]

I love them, there is nothing scary about them Snakes, however, are a totally different story

I love Cats.. but my daughter is terrified of them...