Monday, May 22, 2006

It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona...

and other random facts I found amusing today:

One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.

Manhattan Island of New York City was purchased for $24 from the Algonquian Indians in 1624.

The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'

The Bible is the most-shoplifted book in the world.

No one knows where Mozart is buried.

If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court.

In an average hour, there are over 61,000 Americans airborne over the United States.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.

If your stomach didn't produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, it would digest itself.

First-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older!

A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.

New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.

1 Comments:

At 1:25 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Too bad we weren't born a little earlier Annie...we could have been Olympians!!

 

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