Unbelievable things

U.S. President THOMAS JEFFERSON Received A Gift Of Two GRIZZLY BEARS In October 1807 And Kept Them On The White House Lawn For Months !

The EIFFEL TOWER Expends And Contracts Up To 7 Inches Per Day As The Structure's Metal Reacts To Heat From The Sun !

ORGANISMS That Live Within Rocks Are Known As ENDOLITHS, And Some Have Adapted To Consume The Rocks Themselves As A Food Source !

HOT BUTTON ISSUE In 2008 France's Nuclear Safety Authority Found That Hundreds Of Elevator Buttons Across The Country Had Been Made With Radioactive Metal !


THE EARTH'S GRAVITY Is Only About 10% WEAKER On The International Space Station That It's Here On The Ground !

KING ALFONSO Of Spain Who Ruled From 1886 - 1931. Was So Deaf That He Hired An "Anthem Man" Whose Job Was To Tell The King To Stand Whenever the National Anthem Was Played !

THE FAIRY QUEEN A 153 - Year - Old STEAM LOCOMOTIVE, Still Operates Between New Delhi And Alwar, India !

FOUR EYED FISH ! Of Central And South America Have Eyes Divided Into halves Allowing Them To See Above And Below The Water At The Same Time !

IT'S AGAINST THE LAW In Houma, LA, To Operate Barber Shops On Sundays And Mondays. Just Ask Barber CLYDE SCOTT, Who Was Caught Working On Monday, May 19, AND TICKETED !

LARRY JOHNSON Of California Left His Finances And Possessions To Juniata College, Including His Car, His $1.3 Million Condominium, HIS HANDGUN And a Collection Of 1,500 CDS, ALONG WITH THE TASK OF CARING FOR HIS CAT !

"CHESS BOXING" Is A European Sport Alternate BOXING And PLAYING CHESS, Winning By Knocking Out Their Opponent Or Declaring Checkmate !

An Estimated 300 MILLION People Play BASKETBALL In China . A Number More Than TWICE THE TOTAL POPULATION OF JAPAN !

ALEXIS LEMAIRE Of France Can Find The 13th ROOT Of A 200 - DIGIT NUMBER, Calculating The Correct Answer In HIS HEAD From Among 395 TRILLION Possible Answers, In Under 71 SECONDS !

During a 27 - HOUR Surgery In Bihar, India, A Team Of 30 Doctors Removed 2 EXTRA ARMS, 2 EXTRA LEGS And AN EXTRA TORSO From 2 - Year - Old Girl, LAXSHMI TATMA !

EVERY MONTH For 33 Years, An Anonymous Donor Has Left A MONEY - FILLED ENVELOPE At A Police Station In A TOCHIGI, JAPAN, With Instructions To Help The Needy !

The GEMSBOK Of Africa Can Exist Without Drinking Water.

BARRY MCROY Was Saved From A SHOOTING In Walterboro, S.C., By A DVD In His Jacket POCKET Which Stopped THE BULLET !

THE SUN Emits Light In The Form Of Many Colors That Combine To Give Us WHITE LIGHT On The Earth.

BRIAN "YOUNG GUN" KRAUSE Of Jackson, Mich, USA, Spit A Cherry Pit 56 FEET, 7 1/2INCHES, To Win The 2008 International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship, OUT - SPITTING HIS FATHER, THE DEFENDING CHAMPION, BY 6 INCHES !

On July 15, 2008, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE Helped Carry Two Dead Balinese Nobles Through The Streets In Their 90 - FOOT - HIGH PYRES And Thousands Of Onlookers Attended The Ensuing Cremation !

SKAMANIA COUNTY, WASHINGTON, USA, Ordinance 69 - 01 Details Penalties For Harming A SASQUATCH - A Mythical Beast Whose Existence Has Never Been Confirmed !

SLEEPY CEPHALOPOD ! The Australian Giant Cuttlefish SPEND 95% OF IT'S DAY RESTING !
80 - YEAR - OLD BERNT AUNE Of Norway Received A Cornea Transplant In 1958, From A Man Born In 1885, At 123 YEARS OLD, Aune's Cornea Is Believed To Be The OLDEST LIVING HUMAN ORGAN !

Unusual Deaths

Aeschylus

Aeschylus was a famous Greek dramatist who died in 456 BC.

A prediction that he would be killed by a blow from heaven

came true when an eagle carrying a tortoise dropped it on his

head.

King Alexander of Greece

He died after being bitten by his pet monkey in 1920.

Francis Bacon

This Elizabethan philosopher caught a chill while trying to deep-freeze a chicken by stuffing it with snow. He died in 1626.

Hilaire Belloc

Although bornin France, Hilaire Balloc was an English writer and member of parliament. He died in 1953 after a burning coal fell out of his fire and set him ablaze.

Jerome Carden

Carden was an Italian Physician, mathematician and astrologer. He starved himself to death in 1576 that his own prediction of his death would come true.

Madeleine-Sophie Blanchard

Madame Blanchard was the widow of pioneer balloonist jean-Pierre Blanchard. She was killed in Paris in 1989, when fireworks set fire to her balloon.

Lord Carnarvon

Carnarvon was an amateur Egyptologist who financed the excavation of Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922. Several months after opening the tomb, Carnarvon died suddenly from a mosquito bite. This began the legend of the curse of Tutankhamen.

Isadora Duncan

This American dancer was strangled in 1927 by her scarf. It became caught in the wheel of a Bugatti sports car in which she was a passenger.

Anton Dvorak

The Czech composer died in 1904 of a chill which he caught while train-spotting.

Harry Houdini (Erich Weiss)

Houdini was a famous escapologist who claimed he could withstand being punched in the stomach. He died in 1926 – after being punched in the stomach.

William Huskisson

Huskisson was a British member of parliament. He was run down by a train during the opening of the first railway in 1830.

Frederick, Prince of Wales

Frederick was the son of George II and heir to the British throne. He died in 1751 after being hit by a cricket ball.

Jean-Baptiste Lully

This Italian – French composer died in 1687 after accidentally stabbing his foot with a stick while beating time. The short conductor’s baton came into use soon afterwards.

Thomas Midgley

Midgley was an American inventor who was strangled in 1944 by a machine he had invented to help him move after contracting polio. He invented three products that have since been found to be environmentally harmful: lead in petrol, CFCs in fridges and aerosols, and the insecticide DDT.

Prince Philippe

Prince Philippe, heir to the Frensh throne, was killed when his horse tripped over a pig in the streets of Paris in 1131.

Pliny the Elder

Roman writer Pliny was choked by the fumes of the erupting volcano Vesuvius in AD 79.

Sir Thomas Urquhart

Urquhart was the Scottish author of books with extraordinary titles such as Logopandecteision. He died laughing when told of the Restoration of Charles II in 1660.

William III

This British king died in 1701, after a fall when his horse stumbled over a molehill. His opponents drank a toast to the mole, calling it “The little gentlemen in black velvet”.

Interesting Facts

Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known.

The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.

Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.

A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.

A Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.(the Wright brother's invented the airplane)

There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.

One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

The word "set " has the most number of definitions in the English language;1928

Slugs have four noses.

Sharks can live up to 100 years .

Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.

Kangaroos can't walk backwards.

About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday.

The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.

The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.

Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency .

Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.

There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.

The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002 .

Octopus have three hearts.

If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange.

The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.

1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.

The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.

Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.

Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.

Most cats are left pawed.

250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.

You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!.

Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.

An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.

Bone is five times stronger than steel.