Fascinating Irrelevant Facts

1. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
   
   
2. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
   
   
3. "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
   
   
4. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
   
   
5. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
   
   
6. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
   
   
7. An average person laughs about 5 times a day.
   
   
8. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
   
   
9. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
   
   
10. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 mph.
    
    
11. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
    
    
12. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
    
    
13. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
    
    
14. Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
    
    
15. Bubble gum contains rubber.
    
    
16. Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
    
    
17. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
    
    
18. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured iced water over his head.
    
    
19. It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
    
    
20. Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
    
    
21. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
    
    
22. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.
    
    
23. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
    
    
24. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
    
    
25. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
    
    
26. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

[ Author Unknown -- from 'Will and Guy' (guyn@computerperformance.co.uk) ]