Weekly World News Facts
Weekly world news, one of the most weirdest tabloids ever (seriouslly, at least 80% of the stuff in there is fake), puts two pages of facts in their magazine every every week, here are a few that I found.
If a praying mantis is quick, it will catch and consume a hummingbird. (How big are those? And how small is the praying mantis?)
Of 33 deaths by dog attacks in the US, pitbulls were responsible for 27. (And everyone wonders why I'm scared of dogs...)
Tyra Banks was the first black woman to appear on Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue.
The Sahara Desert compromises an area as large as Europe.
A violin contains 70 separate pieces of wood.
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
Aww...More then 10 thousand birds die a year from smashing into windows. (Bad memories of my cats catching the stunned birds...)
Your heart beats 3 billion times in an average lifetime.
Beaver's teeth is so sharp, it was once used as knife blades by some native american tribes.
M&M stands for Mars and Murrie, the surnames of the men who created the chocolate treats in 1941.
A lumberjack named Andrew Jergens invented Jergens Lotions in 1881 (Thats where that stuff came from??? Maybe being a lumberjack gave him rough hands and he needed to soften them up ;) Or for other reasons...*grins*)
In the 1500's to the 1700's, doctors prescribed tobacco as a cure for bad breath. (ok...thats just dumb)
Cranberries, blueberries, and Concord grapes are the only fruits native to North America. (whoo hoo! something about Canadians!)
Peanuts aren't nuts...they are beans. (uh...why aren't they called peabeans, or something then? lol)
Attilla the hun, who ate two of his sons, died of a nosebleed on his wedding night. (ouch....I wonder if he got a chance to get lucky?)
Horror film director Micheal Findlay died when he was decapitated by a helicopter blade in 1977.
Despite the rumour, Jayne Mansfield was not decapitated in her fatal car crash in 1967. The rumour started when her wig fell off.
Lmfao...The hypodermic needle was invented in 1853 in belief that it would prevent morphine addiction. The doctors believed that it wouldn't be addictive if it bypassed the digestive tract.
Root beer was in invented in 1898 by Edward Adolf Barg. (Is he the guy who invented Barq's root beer? Barq's has bite!)
FBI agents couldn't carry guns until 26 years after the agency was established.
Male monkey's go bald just like human men.
The 'you are here' arrow on maps is called the 'ideo locator'. (lol)
South Dakota has the only state bird from Asia, the ring necked pheasant.
Brontolotgy is the study of thunder.
Cat's can't move their jaws sideways.
Researches have found out that a chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but a monkey can't.
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen. (sniffle, sniffle...achoo!)
Leslie Howard died in 1943 when a German fighter plane shot down the civillian airliner he was riding in, from Lisbon to London. He had recently finished filming a movie, in which he portrayed R.J. Mitchell, the man who designed the British Spitfire fighter plane.
The Eiffel Tower is 984 feet high.
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body...(oi *wink wink*...lol)
