1. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white, due to low budget.
2. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
3. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
4. One in ten people live on an island.
5. The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head.
6. There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas.
7. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
8. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
9. Back in the mid to late '80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
10. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S
2007-11-25 23:45:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome".
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
2007-11-25 23:46:42 · update #1
harsh : it's true! theres a billion chinese people, about a third of them are adults who are well educated and can speak english.
In the states, about 200 million adults....
2007-11-25 23:52:15 · update #2
ok survivor. nice to have someone who knows
2007-11-25 23:54:26 · update #3
haha, very interesting!!!
2007-11-25 23:48:21 · answer #1 · answered by McHaggis Scoticus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not true about the butterfly being originally called a flutterby. Butterflies were so named after the bright yellow brimstone butterfly. (Butter fly) Then all other similar creatures got called by the same name.
2007-11-26 07:53:10 · answer #2 · answered by survivor 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm one of those 10% that live on an island!
Australia!
2007-11-26 07:50:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Whoa I'm gonna star you. That's really kewl about the Shell thing.... 0_o
2007-11-26 07:49:29 · answer #4 · answered by gadfgfrsdfer 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow...that really was quite interesting!
Have a star!
2007-11-26 07:49:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
wow interesting
2007-11-26 07:57:49 · answer #6 · answered by Mrs. Helena Lomax 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanks, I needed that today. Why can't I be the one who lives on a island?
2007-11-26 07:50:30 · answer #7 · answered by replexgirl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are all those stuff really true?
2007-11-26 07:50:12 · answer #8 · answered by mica 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
cool....
but i've doubt on the chinese one.
2007-11-26 07:49:30 · answer #9 · answered by harsh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting facts, but what is your question?
2007-11-26 07:48:26 · answer #10 · answered by Robert B 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋