Food For The Thought 3

[mysteriouza]

* Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
* Kermit the frog is left-handed.
* If you see a rainbow, you must have your back to the sun.
* The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
* The world's record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours.
* You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.
* A new born expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.
* Whales die if their ecosystem fails.
* Florida's beaches lose 20 million cubic yard of sand annually.
* Naturalists use marshmallows to lure alligators out of sand.
* It takes a ton of water to make a pound of refine sugar.
* Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is the most pest-ridden tree in the jungle.
* In deep space, most lubricants will disappear.
* The average person can live 11 days without water.
* There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.
* There are 336 dimples on a regulation of a golf ball.
* King Henry III of France, Louis XVI of France and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia ( fear of cats).
* Before 1850, golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.
* Clocks made before 1687 had only one hand, the hour hand.
* The principality of Monaco consists of 370 acres.
* There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.
* During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required to pay a special tax.
* The first couple to be shown on bed together was Fed and Wilma Flintstone.
* Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly than the US treasury.