Amazing but true facts

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Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.

The term “bank teller” originated in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, when banks began hiring low-paid workers to “tell” throngs of frantic depositors that their money was gone.

The brand name “Jelly Belly” was created in 1982 after Nancy Reagan made a much-publicized quip about her husband’s 20-pound weight gain.

The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.

Scandinavian berserkers used to cut out their eyes before battle to spare themselves the sight of the carnage they invariably wrought.

Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they’ve been removed.

Comic duo Cheech and Chong were originally known as Spic and Span before changing due to pressure from Chicano organizations.

The city of Slaughter, Texas (population: 11,284), has never had a homicide occur within its boundaries.

Rubbing Tabasco on one’s upper lip before bedtime is an effective temporary cure for sleep apnea.

British pop singer Baby Spice is the great-great-great-great-great-great-grandniece of Archduke William Pinkley-Hogue of

Standishfordshire, making her 103rd in line for the throne of England.

The curved shape of a hockey stick is a throwback to prehistoric use of mastodon tusks in a similar game.

A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.

Fish have “dandruff” caused by flaking skin, and it is impossible to filter all traces of it from drinking water.

Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.

The first case of the common cold was diagnosed in 1611 in Stratford, England. The patient? John Common, who coincidentally gave his cold to William Shakespeare who said the new malady exacerbated his lovesickness, thereby inspiring several of his most fondly remembered sonnets.

“Hello Kitty” began as part of a covert propaganda campaign originally proposed by Prime Minister Tojo during World War II.

Ingesting small doses of ink over an extended period of time will change your eye color slightly.
The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren’t for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.

The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

If
you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous.
If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is
that of a vegetarian.

The world’s smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

None of them is real..

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