Strange Facts...
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister
An average of four people are killed each year by falling vending machines. rofl
You are more likely to die from a champagne cork than a poisonous spider.
If a dead body is left in a swimming pool too long it explodes. mrgreen
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. eek
You are more likely to be killed by your fridge than win the National lottery in England.
There are 52 cards in a standard deck and there are 52 weeks in a year. There are 4 suits in a deck of cards and 4 seasons in a year. If you add the values of all the cards in a deck (jack=11 queen=12, etc.) you get a total of 365 the same as the number of days in a year.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows! eek
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! eek
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet! (I checked!)
Chewing gum is outlawed in Singapore because it is a means of "tainting an environment free of dirt."
You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
In Lehigh, Nebraska it's against the law to sell donut holes. rofl
Lawn darts are illegal in Canada.
In Idaho a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.
Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
It is against the law to whale hunt in Oklahoma. (Think about it...)
In New York State, it is still illegal to shoot a rabbit from a moving trolley car.
Vermont, Alaska, Hawaii, and Maine are the four states in the U.S. that do not allow billboards.
In some smaller towns in the state of Arizona, it is illegal to wear suspenders.
In Pennsylvania, Ministers are forbidden from performing marriages when either the bride or groom is drunk.
In Thailand, the left hand is considered unclean, so you should not eat with it. Also, pointing with one finger is considered rude and is only done when pointing to objects or animals, never humans.
In Pakistan, it is rude to show the soles of your feet or point a foot when you are sitting on the floor.
In 1845 Boston had an ordinance banning bathing unless you had a doctor's prescription.
It's illegal in Alabama to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church. rofl
In parts of Alaska, it's illegal to feed alcohol to a moose. (Oops)
You're subject to fines and/or imprisonment for making "ugly faces" at dogs in Oklahoma.
Christmas was once illegal in England.
In Italy, it is illegal to make coffins out of anything except nutshells or wood.
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