Monday, September 23, 2013
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Here is the top 10 random facts you didn't know before :-
1-Ernest Hemingway bought the shotgun that he used to kill himself at Abercrombie & Fitch.
2-Aborigines, whose culture reaches back to the last Ice Age, have names for (and can locate) mountains that have been under the sea for 8,000 years.
3-Per head of population, Britain has 13 times as many accountants as Germany.
4-In 1937, comic acrobat Joseph Späh survived the Hindenburg airship disaster by jumping out of the window.
5-Until the 19th century the English word for actors was ‘hypocrites’.
6-In Japan only 2% of adoptions are of children; 98% are adult males aged 25 to 30.
7-Gerbils can smell adrenaline and are installed in airport security areas to detect terrorists.
8-The penalty for adultery in ancient Greece involved hammering a radish into the adulterer’s bottom with a mallet. Radishes were a lot longer and pointier in those days.
9-Aerosmith have made more money from Guitar Hero than from any of their albums.
10-An estimated 150,000 people die in the UK every year because only 7% of Britons know how to give first aid.
Top 10 random facts you didn't know
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Here is the top 10 random facts you didn't know before :-
1-Ernest Hemingway bought the shotgun that he used to kill himself at Abercrombie & Fitch.
2-Aborigines, whose culture reaches back to the last Ice Age, have names for (and can locate) mountains that have been under the sea for 8,000 years.
3-Per head of population, Britain has 13 times as many accountants as Germany.
4-In 1937, comic acrobat Joseph Späh survived the Hindenburg airship disaster by jumping out of the window.
5-Until the 19th century the English word for actors was ‘hypocrites’.
6-In Japan only 2% of adoptions are of children; 98% are adult males aged 25 to 30.
7-Gerbils can smell adrenaline and are installed in airport security areas to detect terrorists.
8-The penalty for adultery in ancient Greece involved hammering a radish into the adulterer’s bottom with a mallet. Radishes were a lot longer and pointier in those days.
9-Aerosmith have made more money from Guitar Hero than from any of their albums.
10-An estimated 150,000 people die in the UK every year because only 7% of Britons know how to give first aid.
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