Random Facts

I took these from "Encyclopedia Brown's 3rd book of Weird & Wonderful facts." by Donald J. Sobel.



Men who snore outnumber women 12 to 1.



Nearly twice as many men as women have to be rescued by lifeguards.



At the 1908 Olympics in London, England, U.S. track star Forrest Smithson won the 110-meter hurdles while carrying a Bible in his hand for inspiration.

The loudest snores in the animal kingdom are elephants, camels, sheep, cows, dogs, cats, gorillas, chimps, buffalo, and zebras.

Dead, 36 mosquitoes cover 1 square inch. Alive, 2 mosquitoes, free of enemies could produce enough offspring in 1 season to cover the earth with a layer of mosquitoes more than a foot deep.

Alphonso, King of Castile, hated the odor of garlic so much that in 1368 he passed a law to protect himself. No one who had eaten garlic could appear before him for at least a month.

In bygone days the feast at a Bedouin wedding was a marvel of stuffing. To start with, a fish was filled with eggs. The fish was then baked inside a chicken. The chicken became the stuffing of a whole sheep, which was roasted on a spit. The roasted sheep was sewn inside a camel, which was baked in a specially built oven. Gross.

Werner von Braun, the foremost German rocket scientist in WW II, failed both math and physics in high school.

The U.S. office of Education paid Boston University $219,592 to teach collage students how to watch TV.

First- born kids are usually the smartest, though they don't have as many friends as other kids. Last-born kids are commonly the most popular on the playground.




The Philadelphia Eagles gained less than 1 yard per rushing play for the entire 1940 season.



Albert Von Tilzer, who composed "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" in 1908, had never seen a baseball game and couldn't have cared less.

The nation's longest-overdue book was borrowed in 1823 from the U. of Cincinnati Medical Library. A work on febrile diseases, it was returned on December 7, 1968 by the borrower's great-grandson. He was not asked to pay the $2,264 fine.