Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
~John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester~
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Top 100 Fun Facts | 21-4022.
25% of all bottled water (in the US at least) comes from the city tap.
23.
To encourage their young to train for combat, adult lions pretend to be really hurt by the cubs’ nips.
24.
Every kind of milk is breast milk.
25.
In 1913, a survey was carried out among US children working in tough conditions in factories. 412 of the 500 surveyed children said they would rather continue working in the sweatshops than face the “monotony, humiliation and cruelty” of school.
26.
The Indian village of Marottichal put a ban on alcohol. The entire population turned to chess and now boasts 100% chess literacy and the nickname of “Chess Village”.
27.
The human heart can squirt blood to a distance of 30 feet.
28.
Soviet tenor, Victor Ivanovich Nikitin, had such a captivating voice that as he sung to his Soviet comrades, the German troops on the Eastern Front during WW2 stopped their fire to listen to him.
29.
Orange juice tastes bad after you’ve brushed your teeth because the toothpaste blocks the sweetness receptors on your tongue.
30.
The name Australia contains three A's and each of them is pronounced differently.
32.
Scotland’s national animal is a unicorn.
33.
It takes 42 facial muscles to frown but only 17 muscles to smile.
34.
An apple in the morning will keep you more awake than a cup of coffee.
35.
Grocery stores in France are forbidden by law to throw away the food they haven’t sold. They must donate unused edible food to charities or make sure it gets processed into animal food or composted.
36.
In 2005, a group of women from Kampala, Uganda who make their $1.20 USD per day by breaking rocks into gravel, sent an impressive $900 USD to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
37.
The American football huddle was invented in 1892 by Paul Hubbard, a quarterback from an all-deaf Gallaudet University, to stop the opposing team from reading their signs.
38.
The US Military buys copious amounts of “Liquid Ass” – a terribly smelling f*art spray – to train their emergency medics for the stink of the battlefield.
39.
There is a village in England called Shitterton. The sign with the village name was so popular among tourists that Shitterton finally had to put up a 1.5 ton stone with the village name inscribed into it to stop the constant thieving.
40.
Funny town names:Shitterton, England
Hell, Michigan
Why, Arizona
Whynot, Mississippi
Bas*tardstown, Ireland
Batman, Turkey (at one point, they threatened to sue Warner Bros)
Beaverlick, Kentucky
Bitchfield, England
Boring, Oregon (became a twin city with Dull, Scotland)
Bra, Italy
Catbrain, England
Cockburn Town, Turks and Calcos Islands
Cocks, Cornwall
Condom, France
Dicktown, New Jersey
Embarrass, Minnesota
Cut and Shoot, Texas
Faggot Hill, Massachusetts
Fingringhoe, England
Gay, Georgia
Hooker, Oklahoma
Hop Bottom, Pennsylvania
Hospital, Ireland (the village has no hospital)
Kill, Ireland
Knob Lick, Missouri
Lost, Scotland
Middelfart, Denmark
Normal, Illinois
No Place, England
Ofakim, Israel
Onancock, Virginia
Once Brewed, England – not far from Twice Brewed, both in Northumbria
Pennycomequick, England
Police, Poland
Rectum, the Netherlands
Scratchy Bottom, England
Six Mile Bottom, England
Rottenegg, Austria
Surprise, Arizona
Swastika, Canada
Te Puke, New Zealand
Thong, England
Three Cocks, Wales
Useless Loop, Australia
Vulcan, Alberta, Canada
Wank, Germany
Wankum, Germany
Weed, California
Westward Ho!, UK
Worms, Germany
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Good morning everyboomie.
Wow, I wonder how many of those town names will get bleeped out.
We finally saw the sun again here at about 6:30.
I should have taken a picture of it. It would have lasted longer I'll bet.
That reminds me, last week while I was hunting arrowheads, I lost one of the lenses from my sunglasses. I didn't even notice until I got back home.
I guess I was too engrossed in my hunt to notice.
I drove all the way home with them on my face as a matter of fact.
I walked around that field for over 2 hours on Saturday, and didn't find the lens, but Walking around out there on Monday I found it.
They are prescription glasses, but it's a very old prescription. In fact I bought them when I lived in St Louis.
They're still good sunglasses.
Have a happy day everyone.
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