Assorted Facts 1
There was a time in Japan where a wife being left handed was a ground for divorce.
There was an army general during the Liberia Civil War who used to lead his army into battle naked. His nickname was "General Butt Naked." Joshua Milton Blahyi (his real name) is now an evangelical preacher in Monrovia.
More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.
Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and influenza ravaged whole nations.
More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.
In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.
The human tongue tastes bitter things with the taste buds toward the back. Salty and pungent flavors are tasted in the middle of the tongue, sweet flavors at the tip.
A French bride was arrested at her wedding reception in 1995 for stabbing her new husband with the knife they had just used to cut the wedding cake.
The term "best man" dates back to the times when Scotsmen kidnapped their future brides. The friend of the groom who had excelled at the abduction was acclaimed to be the best man.
All of Henry VIII's wives were related to each other.
Your teeth start developing (in your gums) 6 months before you are born.
When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.
There was a book written fourteen years before the sinking of the Titanic happened titled "Futility" by Morgan Robertson. This book was remarkably similar to the tragedy that happened to the Titanic in 1912.
There was a molasses flood in Boston on January 15, 1919 that killed 21 people and injured 150 people.
There was a post office on the Russian space station Mir. Visiting cosmonauts would use unique postal "markers" to stamp envelopes and other items as having flown aboard the Mir space station.
Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after as little as two days.
Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
Between 1949 and 1981, one man notched up 104 bigamous marriages in 15 countries. The bigamist who used so many aliases that nobody knew what to charge his as - was finally brought to justice in 1983 and sentenced to 34 years in jail. He died in 1991.
Every day, 26,000 couples get married in China.
A Mexico City couple got married in 1969 after an engagement lasting 67 years. Both were 82 when they finally took the plunge.
Tokyo was once known as Edo.
MasterCard was originally called MasterCharge. More at creditcards
Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 metres.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
The US nickname Uncle Sam was derived from Uncle Sam Wilson, a meat inspector in Troy, New York.
The living does not outnumber the dead: since the creation about 60 billion people have died.
Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
After the French Revolution of 1789 selling sour wine was considered against national interest and the merchant was promptly executed.
Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
The most populated city in the world - when major urban areas are included - is Tokyo, with 30 million residents.
A fathom is 1.8 metres (6 feet).
For 3000 years, until 1883, hemp was the world's largest agricultural crop, from which the majority of fabric, soap, paper, medicines, and oils were produced.