Funky Facts.

When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.

Coffee is the second largest item of international commerce in the world. The largest is petrol.

An American aircraft in Vietnam shot itself down with one of its own missiles.

The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.

Richard II died aged 33 in 1400. A hole was left in the side of his tomb so people could touch his royal head, but 376 years later some took advantage of this and stole his jawbone.

Albert Einstein was once offered the Presidency of Israel. He declined saying he had no head for problems.

At the age of 12, Martin Luther King became so depressed he tried committing suicide twice, by jumping out of his bedroom window.

Sir Isaac Newton was obsessed with the occult and the supernatural.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother, they were both deaf.

Peter the Great had the head of his wife's lover cut off and put into a jar of preserving alcohol, which he then ordered to be placed by her bed.

The warriors tribes of Ethiopia used to hang the testicles of those they killed in battle on the ends of their spears.

Eau de Cologne was originally marketed as a way of protecting yourself against the plague

In parts of Malaya, the women keep harems of men.

It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.

Some moral purists in the Middle Ages believed that women's ears ought to be covered up because the Virgin May had conceived a child through them.

The childrens' nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses' actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century.

During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax put on men's beards.

Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.

Marie Currie, who twice won the Nobel Prize, and discovered radium, was not allowed to become a member of the prestigious French Academy because she was a woman.

It was the custom in Ancient Rome for the men to place their right hand on their testicles when taking an oath. The modern term 'testimony' is derived from this tradition.

In 1911 3 men were hung for the murder of Sir Edmund Berry at Greenbury Hill, their last names were Green, Berry , and Hill.

Hindu men believe(d) it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marring a tree first. The tree ( his third wife ) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.

The great Russian leader, Lenin died 21 January 1924, suffering from a degenerative brain disorder. At the time of his death his brain was a quarter of its normal size.

When shipped to the US, the London bridge ( thought by the new owner to be the more famous Tower Bridge ) was classified by US customs to be a 'large antique'.

Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. His reply: ' if you were my wife, I would drink it!'.

There are 240 white dots in a Pacman arcade game.

King Solomon of Israel had about 700 wives as well as hundreds of mistresses.

In 1939 the US political party 'The American Nazi Party' had 200,000 members.

People in Siberia often buy milk frozen on a stick.

The two highest IQ's ever recorded (on a standard test) both belong to women.

During the Medieval Crusades, transporting bodies off the battlefield for burial was a major problem, this was solved by carrying a huge cauldron into the Holy wars, boiling down the bodies, and taking only the bones with them.

Due to staggering inflation in the 1920's, 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 German marks were worth 1 US dollar.

George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

Ethelred the Unready, King of England in the Tenth-century, spent his wedding night in bed with his wife and his mother-in-law.

The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.

Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.

Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.

Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.

The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."

The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.

A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.

The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.

If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

 Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
 
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin Look-alike contest.

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

 Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

In ancient England a person could not have sex unless they had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the Kind, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while having sex. The placard had F.U.C.K. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it.