Monday, March 31, 2008

Strange but True

Here are some fun facts that are strange, but true!!

Loony Laws:
-In Canton, Ohio, you have one hour to report your missing lion to authorities.
-in Denmark you cannot wear a mask.
-in Utah it is illegal to cause a catastrophe.
-In Brookfield, Wisconsin, it is illegal to use another person's phone to make a prank call.
-In Acworth, Georgia, all citizens must own a rake.
- In West Virginia you CAN take road kill home for dinner.

Strange Science:
-The slowest animal in the world is the three-toed sloth.
-An albatross can sleep while it flied. It dozes while cruising at 25 mph.
-Skin is the body's heaviest and biggest organ.
-Peanuts can be used as one of the ingredients in dynamite.
-The continent of Antarctica is the only continent with no trees.
-A lump of pure gold the size of your thumbnail can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
-Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Wacky Words:
-"The" is the most commonly used word in the English language.
- Pternophobia: the fear of being tickled by feathers.
-There are no words in the English dictionary that rhyme with orange or silver.
-Uncopyrightable and dermatoglyphics are the longest English words in which no letter is repeated.
-Apocolocynposis: the fear of turning into a pumpkin.
-A somnambulist is a sleepwalker.
-Arachibutyrophobia; the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
-octophobia: the fear of the figure 8.
-The sentence "Rats live on no evil star" reads the same backwards and forwards.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Sasha,
I really love wacky facts like these! Mind if I put some/all of them on my blog sometime? I am sorry I haven't really left comments on here but somehow I saved a past page and so I never saw any updates! I'm going to have to go back a few months to catch up! TTYL. Olivia

kuznetsovfamily said...

Yeah, go right ahead, you can take anything you like from our blog! Feel free to comment away, i get email updates saying when comments appear! we just don't get lots of them! ~sash

Anonymous said...

these are so wild- where did you find this list?

Anonymous said...

i them from my art teacher's planner. they have those at the top of every page.....those we the best of them all!

Anonymous said...

i them from my art teacher's planner. they have those at the top of every page.....those we the best of them all!