Saturday, September 30, 2006

True (Mostly) Facts

One of these is fake. See if you can find it!


An 18th-century law still on the books in Vermont makes it illegal for a woman to lick a stamp in a public place.
Anthropologists have discovered a tribe of South American monkeys with a rudimentary system of government analogous to our own three-branch form of government.
Constipation kills nearly twice as many people as diarrhea, mainly because the former mostly afflicts the old and weak while the latter mostly affects young, strong children.
It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.
If you fill a standard 750ml wine bottle with live hornets, their angry buzzing will resonate at precisely the right frequency to shatter the glass.
During his famous "Blue Period," Pablo Picasso invented the substance that eventually became known as Play-Doh.
Every year in the fall, Niagara Falls is shut down for maintenance for 24 hours. The flow is diverted using a massive series of pipes and spigots built for this purpose in 1837.
The rare Chilean hummingbird has been known to suck blood from animals like a giant mosquito.
Tap dancers frequently forget to breathe normally during difficult routines, resulting in an average of 200 tap dancing-related tragedies per year.


Rock and roll didn't show up until Geno was born because it was waiting for him.

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