Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The Bible is the world’s most shoplifted book.

It is illegal to carry an ice cream in your back pocket in Kentucky.

About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV positive.

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.

One in every 9000 people is an albino.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.

Spades - King David

Clubs - Alexander the Great,

Hearts - Charlemagne

Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years there were no reported cases of an ostrich burying its head in the sand.

Here are the Queens on cards
Queen of Spades: Athena
Queen of Hearts: Judith (Biblical figure)
Queen of Diamonds: Rachel (Biblical figure)
Queen of Clubs: Argine (an anagram of Regina, Latin for "queen")

The king-queen-valet format then made its way into England. As early as the mid-16th century the card was known in England as the knave (meaning a male servant of royalty).

The two tiny holes drilled in every BIC pen is to ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen, which helps the ink flow to the tip.

Ketchup originated in China as a boiled-down brine of pickled fish and spices called ‘ke-chiap’.

If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin, and no friends or family to prepare funeral or mourn over the body, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.