Due to popular demand {not really}, I'm posting more useless information. Really it's because I haven't had anything interesting or fun to post about lately. So here you go.
In the Middle Ages, Japanese women painted their teeth black to look more beautiful.
Between the years 1992 and 1994, the town of Avon, Colorado, held an annual Bobfest for people named Bob. In 1995, however, the series ended. It's founder and organizer, Tom Britz, announced that he was tired of running it. "I met one bad Bob," he said, "and it spoiled the bunch."
Kangaroos and Emus cannot walk backwards, which is why they were selected to appear on the Australian coat of arms.
On May 6, 1996, gondoliers in Venice stopped serenading passengers following a ruling that singing would turn them into freelance musicians and therefore liable to contribute to a state pension fund.
In 1999 in the United States, 907 people took out insurance against turning into vampires or werewolves.
In Turkey, the turkey is called the "American bird".
A day on Mars lasts twenty-four hours and thirty-seven minutes, almost the same as an Earth day, but a year is 686.7 Earth days.
A poll in the United States in 1997 revealed that 92 percent of respondents believed that space aliens are already living among us.
February is the only month that can pass without a full moon. This last happened in 1999 and will next happen in 2018.
Walt Disney originally called Mickey, Mortimer Mouse, but his wife Lillian thought Mortimer sounded pompous and suggested Mickey instead.
4 comments:
I don't count as popular demand? :)
Those are some interesting facts. I think Lillian Disney was right Mortimer sounds like motor oil. I wonder if the popularity would have been the same if it had been that instead of Mickey. Thanks for the random facts. I am in a blogging stump as well.
All very interesting. However I don't know what to do with this information now. :)
I love your useless information fridays!
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