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Interesting facts

// February 26th, 2004 // Personal

via Toby who doesn’t have a blog but sends me tons of this shit via email every week:

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise except for Venus,
which rotates clockwise.

A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

Chocolate kills dogs.

Armadillos can be housebroken. Armadillos can walk underwater.

The very first bomb dropped by the allies on Berlin during WW2 killed the
only elephant in Berlin Zoo.

0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a moose.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.

Babies are born without knee caps. The develop them around 2-6 years of age.

On average, 100 people a year choke to death on ball-point pens.

Update: Also from Toby, some interesting questions about these interesting facts

If a jiffy is 1/100th second, what is a jiffy bag?

If babys have no kneecaps, how come they are so kneedy?

If a rat cat last longer than a camel without water, then why isn’t the
desert swarming with them?

If you look at all the planets (except) from the other side, won’t they be
going clockwise? And don’t they all go in weird directions all over the
place anyway?

A hippo might be able to run faster than a man, but a hippo can’t utilize a
double barrel shotgun.

0.3% of traffic accidents in Canada may involve a moose, but 95% probably
involve cars.