Random Facts
- During a woman's menstrual cycle, her middle finger is supposed to be much more sensitive.
- Liticaphobia- Fear of lawsuits.
- The head of beer does disappear if you put your finger in it, but first you must rub the side of your nose. These oils from your skin react with the foam, which causes the head to break down.
- Lockiophobia- Fear of childbirth.
- If you send a husband and wife to a store separately to purchase beer, they will only return with the same brand 15% of the time.
- Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things.
- Linonophobia- Fear of string.
- Male kangaroos do not have pouches.
- Nike, in Greek mythology, is the goddess of victory.
- The world's first combat jet fighter was the Me-262 which was deployed by Nazi Germany. The jet, while extremely fast, was not invincible. Within a week of being deployed, a Me-262 was shot down by an American P-51 propeller-driven fighter.
- The word 'hippopotamus' is Greek for 'river horse'.
- Mycophobia- Fear or aversion to mushrooms.
- Limnophobia- Fear of lakes.
- Nosocomephobia- Fear of hospitals.
- The condom was originally made of sheep intestine. It was invented by a Dr. Condom in the early 1500s for Henry VIII. Seems that Henry wanted to sleep with various women without leaving any evidence (i.e. children). You can still buy these condoms in specialty stores, but they do not protect against HIV or any other sexually transmitted diseases. [Editor's note: cute theory, anyone got some research on this?]
- Every 28th year has the same calendar. As an example of coincidence: 1961, the year in which the Berlin Wall was put up, would have had the same calendar dates as 1989, the year in which it was torn down. Your twenty-eighth birthday falls on the same day as when you were born. Also, in a period of 28 years, the same calendar will reappear 3 more times in between, either in whole or in part, starting somewhere in this cycle: six years after the first, then eleven years later, then six years later, then five years later, totalling twenty eight years. This pattern has only been broken at the dawnings of the 20th, 19th and 18th centuries, because of a 15th-c rule declaring that years ending in 00 that are not divisible by 400 will not be leap years. But 2000 will have the same calendar as 1972.
- 1912 was the first time all 6 inhabited continents participated in the Olympics
- The biggest beetle with scientific name Goliash is the size of the pebble what David put in his sling to kill giant Goliash
- Bacillophobia- Fear of microbes.
- Carrie Fisher is now a best-sellingwriter and is in demand as one of Hollywood's best script re-writers.
