Wierd Yet True
All these facts that are on this page are completely TRUE
A square mile of fertile land has more than 32 million earthworms wiggling underneath it!
Forty percent of women give their pets a middle name.
The first air freshener for the home was tested in the 1930's at the Lion Hous at New York's Bronx Zoo.
The shrine to music museumn at the University of South Dakota includes a Tibetan Clarinet made from a hollowed out human leg bone!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open
And you think that learning the Gettysburg address is hard: In Kyrgzstan, some tribes pass down their history in poems. One 1,100 year old poem is half a million lines long and takes three weeks to recite!
A rattlesnake can still bite you even after it's long gone . Its reflexes last as long as a half hour after it dies!
Singapore has the only zoo in the world that's open at night.
When comic book creator, Mark Gruenwald died, his body was cremated and then his ashes were mixed with the ink used to print the 12 part Squadron Supreme comic serise.
Peanuts are beans.
Mice have been bred in every colour except yellow and green.
Legendary movie director, Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It dissapeared after a surgeon did one nip and tuck too many.
In 1897, the US Army tested wheether soliders should use bikes instead of horses for military maneuvers. Although bikes were cheaper and didn't have to be fed, the two wheelers got two thumbs down.
In freestyle dancing, pet owners and their pooches get down together to the beat of their fave tunes.
Golf balls used to be made of leather and stuffed with feathers.
The one food that cockraches won't eat is cucumber.
As far back as the 16th century, yo yos were used in the Philippines to kill snakes in the fields.
Last summer, zookeepers at the Edinburgh zoo in Scotland had to rub suntan lotion on the penguins to keep them from getting sunburnt.
A whale researcher submerged a microphone underwater and launched ORCA-FM, an all whale sounds station in Vancouver, BC. (If any of you know where this station is, and what the station NUMBER is,email me.)
The coomon eggeater snake can swallow an egg four times the size of its head.
Telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell wanted people to say "Ahoy!" when answering the phone.
Dog teeth were used as money in New Guinea's Admiralty Islands.