Friday Fun Facts!

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Friday's Fun Facts

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Well, it's another Friday in BAD! Kitty Land, and we all need to let off steam, laugh and be grateful for Friday's! So... being that I have had a great response from all of you out there about the weekly Friday Fun, I'll be keeping this feature going as long as you all enjoy it. Here's this weeks wacky and fun stuff that I have searched for and now bring to you...

• In 1972, a group of scientists reported that you could cure the common cold by freezing the big toe.
• The ancient Egyptians recommended mixing half an onion with beer foam as a way of warding off death. (OK, no kissing for you if you mix these two things! Yuck!)
• A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
• A Connecticut Toy maker, Hero builders, sells action figures of President George W. Bush, Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which are all major figures tied to the September 11, 2001 WTC attacks.(double icky!)
• A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day. (OK , all I have to say is...I pity the person who had the job to figure this one out.)
• Back in 1919, the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff made headlines by grafting monkey testicles onto human males. ( Makes me glad I'm not dating anymore!)
• A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy.
• A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy. (I will never say Jiffy...trust me.)
• Australia has had stamps that actually look like gems. In 1995 and 1996 they used a special technology to make the stamps look like diamonds and opals. (Oh, I want some of these!)
• A rocket-like device can be traced back to Ancient Greece when a flying steam-powered pigeon was built out of wood.
• Adolf Hitler was one of the people that was responsible in the creation of the Volkswagen Beetle. He came up with the idea of producing a car that was cheap enough for the average German working man to afford. (Oh, I wish I didn't know this one now, I so loved my super beetle, Red Betty!)
• After the Krakatoa volcano eruption in 1883 in Indonesia, many people reported that, because of the dust, the sunset appeared green and the moon blue. The moon was said to appear blue for almost two years. (New meaning to once in a blue moon.)
• The full name of the Titanic ship is R.M.S. Titanic, which stands for Royal Mail Steamship.
• Celtic warriors sometimes fought their battles naked, their bodies dyed blue from head to toe. ( Ohhh, cool!)
• In the spring of 1975, a baby in Detroit fell 14 stories and landed on Joseph Figlock, who was walking below. A few years later it happened again. Figlock and both babies survived. ( lucky, lucky)
• Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes. ( Wow, that's a lot of books!)
• Among the Buganda people of Uganda, the widows of a deceased king have the honour of drinking beer in which the dead king's entrails have been cleaned. (ICK!)
• Arabic numerals were not invented by Arabs, but were invented in India by the Hindus.
• Before 1883, the three-cent U.S. stamp was also used for advertising. The advertisement was located on the back of the stamp for various products. (Makes me wonder, did that mean that coupons were left on the tongue)
• During the 16th century, newly married couples in France had to stand naked outdoors while the groom kissed the bride's left foot and big toe as part of traditional customs. ( I hope they all married in the summer!)
• On May 9, 1999 approximately 600,000 gallons of whiskey flowed into the Kentucky River during a fire at Wild Turkey Distillery in Lawrenceburg. (Let the river run! Wahoo!)
• David Rice Atchinson was President of the United States for exactly one day. This happened due to a glitch in American law at the time.
• Have a great day all, and smile... it's Friday! Heather www.badkittyartstudio.com