Strange But True---Odd Facts and Bits of Wisdom

It's been a while since I published my last list for all you knowledge seekers.

1.  Technically snow is considered a mineral.

2.  Someone paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore in "Some Like It Hot"

3.  Some toothpaste containes antifreeze.

4.  Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of fears.

5.  Galileo went blind studying the sun through telescopes.

6.  The average american throws out 1905 pounds of garbage each year.

7.  Alexander the Great was buried in a vat of honey.

8.  The average American senior citizen takes 14 prescription drugs.

9.  Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tage sold at auction for $6,600 in 1992.

10.  Mosquito's have teeth

11.  The index finger is the most sensitive.

12.  Rats can live longer without water than camels can.

13.  Most Hippopotamuses are born under water.

14.  At his heaviest President James Madison weighed 98 pounds.

15.  Average U.S. students attend school 180 days per year, in China it's 251 days.

Hope you enjoyed the list.  For those of you who like these lists you should look into buying "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader".  There are over a dozen of them, they are BIG books and they are just filled to the brim with odd knowledge.