Facts

- Typewriter is the longest word you can spell by using only letters on the same line on a standard keyboard....

- There has never been an only child that has become the president of the U.S.A...

- Legislation passed during WWI (First War World) making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed...

- China has more English speakers than the United States...

- Due to precipitation, for a few weeks per year, K2 is taller than Mt. Everest!!

- Mel Blanc, the voice of bugs bunny was ironically allergic to carrots.

- The shortest war on record: between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted just 38 minutes...(after that they been together drinking a cup of tea).

- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

- Eskimoes have hundreds of words for snow but none for hello.

- The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feer at all times

- Naked rambling is legal in Switzerland.

- In UK, a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants

- In England is legal for a male to urinate in public, as long it is on the rear wheel of his vehicle and his tight hand is on the vehicle.

- It is illegal to be a prostitute in certain Italian cities if your name is Mary.

- If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

- Waltzing Matilda the title of Autralia's most famous song, is German for "carrying a backpack".

- The Northern bank in Northern Ireland UK: That bank fell victim to the then largest bank robbery of British history, who were owned by the national Australia group, introduced the plastic 5 sterling note to Britain.

- Ironically, the french languaje has 17 different words for "surrender".

- In Saudi Arabia, a women can legally file for divorce if her husband fails to provide her with coffee.

- In two American states it is actually against the law to drive a car without a steering wheel.

- On January 2nd 1939, the, Adolf Hitler was named "Time magazines" man of the year 1938, astonishingly edging out Ghandi himfelf.

- New Zealand and Australia are the only countries south of the equatro to have won medals at the Olympic Winter games.

- Karate was actually invented in India, but was developed further in China.

- The sound a duck makes when it "passes wind" is exactly the acoustic opposite from its "quack", therefore, it cannot be heard similtaniously.

- A "jiffy" isan actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

- The only 15 letter word that can be spelles without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"

- Female koala bears have 2 vaginas and male koala bears have forked penis

- Istanbul in Turkey is the only city in the world to be located in two different continents

- Only 2 democracys have ever gone to war with eachother in history

- In certain areas of the US it is illegal to burp or sneeze in a church.

- There is a city called Rome on every continent of the world

- It is illegal to have a pet dog in Iceland.

- More copies of the IKEA catalogue are now printed per year than the Holy Bible.

- In certain parts of America, in order for it to be officially regarded as a pickle, the pickle must bounce.