Useless facts!!

Today, Rajyotsava day in bangalore. The day when the state was found.. Dont know much about its history. and i dont know more than this, just enjoying the day :-).

After playing good cricket in the morning we came home fully tired. I made pongal + daal for brunch. Dont ask me how it tasted like! Miles to go :-).

It started boring after noon. I asked my roomie to browse some interesting website. he suggested me, "why dont you search for "interesting website" in google. I searched, first few from the search result was junk. Google had hiccups in giving the good result which came only in the next page of the result :-). It was a page full of facts, useless facts, but still interested me.

I browsed through the website for almost an hour and found many of those so-called useless facts, interesting to me. I thought of sharing few of them here. my comments are marked in green. For complete referrence: http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/uselessfacts/

History

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children. - Wow, what a man!! (padayappa dialogue) ;-)

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

Animals

Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat. Rabbits never walk or trot, but always hop or leap.

Snakes who have the genetic mutation of having been born with two heads have a hard time eating, because the two heads generally fight over which gets the food.

Cows are the only mammals that pee backwards.

It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound. - and a man takes just 7 seconds to finish it!

The ostrich egg yolk is the biggest single cell in the world.

Most cows give more milk when they listen to music - ithu theriyama naama "raama rajanai" romba ottitom ;-)..

The bite of a leech is painless due to its own anesthetic. - but it committed suicide by biting my friend ;-)...

Inventors

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. - the da vinci is more than a artist.. he is suspected to be one of the Illuminatis.

To an observer standing on Pluto, the sun would appear no brighter than Venus appears in our evening sky.

Dating back to the 1600's, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of mercury. -- they would have faced lots of thermometer thefts ;-)..

Strange laws

In Saudi Arabia, a woman reportedly may divorce her husband if he does not keep her supplied with coffee. In Hartford Connecticut, it is illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sundays. enna kodumai saravanan ithu?

Surveys (from US)

Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.

The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

Someone within 200 miles of your town claims to have had direct contact with a monster, ghost or other unexplainable being.

A recent Gallup poll shows that 69 percent of Americans believe they will go somewhere after death. And almost 70% beleive in rebirth!!

Focus group information compiled by CalComp revealed that 50 percent of computer users do not like using a mouse.- Oh I have company!!

P.S. This is my 100th post. I know I have taken long time to this. (like Sachin taking 20 balls for scoring 5 runs to reach hundred ;-) )..