Next thing you know, Ben's gonna be kicking me off...

Let me first say that knowone knows what the capitol of australia is. Ben, i'm sorry but i finally gave into the beast within me. I joined facebook. I'm sorry that i have disapointed you. a few random facts that I have found:

- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why. (try it sometime.)
- On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily
- There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
- The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before
- The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War 2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo
- If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death
- By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot Sink into quicksand
- Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin Look-alike contest
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
- Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson"
- The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries
- The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone
- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910
- The youngest pope was 11 years old - 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- 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
- In ancient England a person ! could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.U.*.K. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where that came from.
- 60 % of statistics are made up...
- There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the US than real ones
- 2,500 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers (watch out pat!)
- The Roman Catholic Church did not acknowledge that the earth revolves around the sun until the mid 1990’s
- The only word in the English language to contain three back to back double letter combinations is; Bookkeeper
- Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits
- A can of SPAM™ is opened every 4 seconds (im doing it right now)
- A novel with 50,000 words, non of which contained the letter ‘E’ was written by Ernest Wright!
- You consume one tenth (.1) calories when you lick a stamp
- A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not
- If a word has two consecutive vowels, and both are pronounced, a diaeresis [dy-AIR-ih-sis] is used. Diaeresis are two dots over a vowel. Example: ä or ö. For instance; the word noel. Noel is actualy spelled Noël. This is used in English, though it is not commonly written.
- In 1977, George Willig was fined $1.10 for climbing the World Trade Center building
- There are only 18 countries richer than Bill Gates
- Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names (reminds me of Kentucky)
- The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies
- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years thats enough for today