Amusing Facts - 2

Robin Hood's real name was Robert Fitz Ooth.

March 9 is "Useless Facts and Trivia Day."

The common silkworm has eleven brains, but it only uses five of them.

English has 26 letters in its alphabet. Tamil has 248.

Wallpaper was first used as a decoration for Chinese tombs.

Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar.

There are 3,000 types of lice.

Vibrators are illegal in Alabama. A law makes it illegal to "produce, distribute or otherwise sell sexual devices that are marketed primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs."

Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.

The first Olympic games to be televised were the 1936 games in Berlin.

Room temperature is 68 degrees Fahrenheit.

The word for a misheard lyric is "mondegreen."

Soldier Field is the oldest field in the NFL.

All spiders are cannibals.

Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers—Moe, Curly and Shemp.
 

Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.

Thirty-seven percent of all Christians describe themselves as born-again or evangelical.

"Scelerophibia" is the fear of burglars.

The original name for Mickey Mouse was Mortimer Mouse.

There is a species of moth that lives entirely on cow tears.

Iguanas have two penises.

Eighty percent of millionaires drive secondhand cars.

Ancient Rome had rent-a-chariot businesses.

"Fraternity" was once a term used by thieves to describe themselves.

Australians are the heaviest gamblers in the world.

"Menophobia" is the fear of menstruation.

Seven percent of Americans think Elvis is still alive.

The mass of the Sun is about two trillion, trillion, trillion tons.

Every hamster in the U.S. today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930.

Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.
 

According to the polls, the most disliked animal in the world is the snake.

In 1916, Georgia Tech's football team beat Cumberland University 222 to 0.

The average human brain accounts for two percent of a person's total body weight.

The American Automobile Association (AAA) was founded with the sole purpose of warning drivers about police speed traps.

A group of peacocks is called an "ostentation."

The name of the Wicked Witch of the West's head winged monkey in The Wizard of Oz was named Nikko.

Elephant trunks can hold four gallons of water.

India is also known as Bharat. Bharat was the name of an ancient Hindu king.

The average age of Forbes magazine's 400 wealthiest individuals is 63.

In Vermont, the ratio of cows to people is 10-to-1.