Weekly Fun Facts

Now that I am feeling much more human, we are back on schedule for our weekly fun facts. As we have had in the past, these are fun facts gathered all over the place so that once you have them, you can amaze your friends with your depth and breadth of useless trivia. Hopefully some of these fun facts will cause you to stop and think, and then grin to yourself. Enjoy:

For all of you who may use Colgate toothpaste, did you know that they faced a huge marketing obstacle while trying to sell their toothpaste brand in Spanish speaking countries? Colgate translates into the command, "go hang yourself". There are probably some children out there, when asked to brush their teeth, would probably hang themselves rather than brush their teeth...

Did you know that large kangaroos cover ore than 30 feet with each jump? Remind me not to aggravate a large kangaroo, I most likely can't run as fast as they can jump...and I do know they can box...

How many diets have you tried? Since we have entered another new year, there are many people looking for new ways to lose weight. Here is a different way to burn calories....you consume one tenth (0.1) when you lick a stamp. The problem with this statistic is that the majority of stamps now come essentially pre-licked... so perhaps if we try to lick an already sticky stamp, we burn more calories??? I'm not going to try that...

Did you know that Dragon boat racing is the 8th most popular sport in the world? Have you ever seen Dragon boat racing? Where do they find the dragons? (only kidding...)

For those of you who need your math fix - Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits... and I don't have a calculator with that many decimal points...nuts...

There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the United States than there are real ones... that I believe, have you been to Florida lately?

Did you know that the short phrases of organ music played at baseball games are called a tucket?

Some of us "older" folk remember the term Dungarees. How many of you young-en's out there know that Dungarees is another word for Denim (aka blue jeans, Levis...)

Now for some more animal trivia - Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes under water...don't know why they would do that if they only live in streams?

The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph, now that explains why I still can't squish those little buggers....

Thinking back on Flamingos...did you know they are pink because they eat shrimp? So...if I eat that much shrimp, will I be pink too??? ewwwww.....

Lastly for this week, did you know that all porcupines float in water? I pity the porcupines that got thrown into water to be a part of THAT study.

Hopefully you had fun with this week's edition of Weekly Fun Facts. Have fun amazing your friends, family and coworkers with this useless, but enjoyable trivia.

Until tomorrow...