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10 Apr, 2008

Random facts 5

Posted by: robertstevenson In: Interesting stuff

Any month that has a Friday the 13th also has a Wednesday the 25th.

John Madden is an accomplished ballroom dancer.

In 21 states, Wal-Mart is the single largest employer.

Jim Gordon, drummer of Derek and the Dominos (”Layla”), killed his mother with a claw hammer.

One of Hewlett Packard’s first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher.

Eric Clapton did not play the very famous first riff on the song “Layla”. That was Duane Allman. Clapton comes in later.

As you age, your eye color gets lighter.

There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.

The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.

The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.

Illinois has the most personalized license plates of any state.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
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2 Responses to "Random facts 5"

1 | Lenka Bliss

April 11th, 2008 at 8:27 am

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Uh :S Thanks for the last one. I’ve just eaten whole chocolate bar :S

2 | Steve

April 11th, 2008 at 11:04 am

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I didn’t need to know that about chocolate bars, but I can hardly wait to tell my wife!

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