Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The chances of you dying while travelling to get your lottery ticket are greater than your chances of winning.

During WW2 an American plane crashed on a Japanese island. There were 9 men on board, of whom 8 were captured and eaten. The one survivor was George H.W.Bush.

(08-12-2018 18:47 )Carl43a Wrote:  During WW2 an American plane crashed on a Japanese island. There were 9 men on board, of whom 8 were captured and eaten. The one survivor was George H.W.Bush.

Now that's the perfect example of sod's law?

Shame Dumbo Donald couldn't have died in a plane crash anytime prior to 2017.

If you have red eyes after swimming, it is not because of the chlorine. It is a result of the chemicals in the pool mixing with other people’s urine.

It is believed that if you eat fast food on a regular basis, you will consume about 12 pubes a year.

McDonalds anyone?

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

The Oscars given out during WW2 were made of wood.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that a man could not beat his wife with anything wider than his thumb.

Perfect names for a collective group of animals:


A murder of crows

A crash of hippos

A tower of giraffes

A zeal of zebras

A parade of elephants

A mob of emus

A sleuth of bears

A shrewdness of apes

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backward while dancing.