1. There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess
2. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine
3. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
4. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.
5. Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday
6. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads
7. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.
8. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".
9. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks.
10. Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.
2007-11-25 23:11:56 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
Mouse sex lasts 2.5 seconds...
Now, THAT'S fast.
2007-11-26 03:03:15 · answer #1 · answered by Lady Godiva 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, is sometimes said to have "invented" the name Wendy with this story. He wanted to use an uncommon name for the girl, so his original name for the character of Wendy was "Mia Angela Carol Darling." The name Wendy came about because Barrie's friend, poet William Henley, called Barrie "friend". Overhearing this word, Henley's 4-year-old daughter Margaret could only pronounce it as "My Fweiendy" or "Fwendy-Wendy". In fact, the name was already in use in both the United States and the United Kingdom, but was extremely rare. The Peter Pan stories popularized the name, at first in the UK. Wendy is related to the Welsh name Gwendolyn, and was used by Barrie at a time when Welsh names were making a resurgence in England.
2007-11-25 23:17:01 · answer #2 · answered by RanaAurora 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
i have heard a few of them before, but the ones i havent seen...theyre brilliant. makes me wanna go play chess!
in the 1830's, lots of things were used as medicine. one was said to cure anything from sore and stiff joints to colic in horses! quite a different world we have now, with all the regulations on those things!
i wonder if those newborn mishaps are ever corrected....
2007-11-25 23:23:09 · answer #3 · answered by rhay ♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nice facts! I can't believe u are so smart! Smarty Pants. I only know question number 9. Lol!☺
2007-11-25 23:17:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
wow the last two i never expected! Great facts, you should add some more like, "your stomach has to make a sheet of mucus over itself so it won't digest itself!" you can word it better im sure. Thanks for the facts! ♥
2007-11-25 23:21:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question, I was wondering the same thing myself
2016-09-21 00:03:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-11-25 23:15:22 · answer #7 · answered by sameer k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm shocked at this information!......and amused at the same time!!! Love it! *star*
2007-11-26 00:01:01 · answer #8 · answered by Andrea H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
wow amazing
2007-11-25 23:59:42 · answer #9 · answered by Mrs. Helena Lomax 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
every time i post a question, even if its the simplest one, they cannot offer me a proper informed answer on this website. wtf happened to people who really make the effort to write an answer?
2016-08-26 08:12:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋