- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.
- Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
- 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 causes.
- An average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
- A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time equal to 1/100th of a second.
- An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
- The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
- Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
via: www.wwco.com
good.especially d one about horses