amruta_570
December 27, 2005, 02:38 PM
• Honeybees, turtles and termites are all deaf.
• The para****e was invented by Leonardo da Vinci.
• "Paraphilia" is the technical term for sexual deviation or perversion.
• Lions sleep almost 20 hours a day.
• "Caterpillar" means "hairy cat" in Old French.
• Waterskiing was originally called "plank-gliding" in England.
• There are more germs in the human mouth than in the anus.
• The first issue of Playboy, in 1953, which sold for a mere fifty cents, was never dated, because Hugh Hefner assumed he'd never publish another.
• Badminton used to be known as "poona."
• Giraffes were at one time referred to by Europeans as "cameleopards," believing giraffes were the offspring of camels and leopards.
• Japan's Tokyo Zoo closes for two months each year to give the animals a break from visitors.
• A cockroach breaks wind every 15 minutes.
• Because of heavy traffic congestion, Julius Caesar banned all wheeled vehicles from Rome during daylight hours.
• During the film Don Juan, John Barrymore delivers a grand total of 191 kisses to a variety of different women, at the rate of one every 53 seconds.
• Phagophobia is the fear of swallowing.
• The average woman uses about 7,000 words a day. Men use around 2,000
• The colors yellow, red and orange are used in fast food restaurants because those are the colors that stimulate a hunger response.
• The black lines on a basketball are called the Channels.
• Nostophobia is the fear of returning home.
• Stygiophobia is the fear of hell.
• The para****e was invented by Leonardo da Vinci.
• "Paraphilia" is the technical term for sexual deviation or perversion.
• Lions sleep almost 20 hours a day.
• "Caterpillar" means "hairy cat" in Old French.
• Waterskiing was originally called "plank-gliding" in England.
• There are more germs in the human mouth than in the anus.
• The first issue of Playboy, in 1953, which sold for a mere fifty cents, was never dated, because Hugh Hefner assumed he'd never publish another.
• Badminton used to be known as "poona."
• Giraffes were at one time referred to by Europeans as "cameleopards," believing giraffes were the offspring of camels and leopards.
• Japan's Tokyo Zoo closes for two months each year to give the animals a break from visitors.
• A cockroach breaks wind every 15 minutes.
• Because of heavy traffic congestion, Julius Caesar banned all wheeled vehicles from Rome during daylight hours.
• During the film Don Juan, John Barrymore delivers a grand total of 191 kisses to a variety of different women, at the rate of one every 53 seconds.
• Phagophobia is the fear of swallowing.
• The average woman uses about 7,000 words a day. Men use around 2,000
• The colors yellow, red and orange are used in fast food restaurants because those are the colors that stimulate a hunger response.
• The black lines on a basketball are called the Channels.
• Nostophobia is the fear of returning home.
• Stygiophobia is the fear of hell.