19 October 2013

10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 47 (19/10/2013)






461.  In Albania, nodding your head means "no" and shaking your head means "yes."

462.  
Ringo Starr appeared in a Japanese advertisement for apple sauce. Ironically his name
         means "apple sauce" in Japanese.

463.  
The average US worker toils for two hours and 47 minutes of each working day just to pay
         income tax. Indeed, the average American pays more in taxes than for food, clothing and
         shelter put together.

464.  
There is cyanide in apple pips.

465.  
True spiders always have organs for spinning silk known as spinnerets.

466.  
Great Britain has the highest consumption of ice cream than any other European nation.

467.  
Every continent has a city called Rome.

468.  
The movie "Cleopatra" cost $44 million to make in 1963. The same movie would now
         cost $300 million to make taking inflation into account.

469.  
A species of dolphin is born naturally blind in the Indus and Ganges rivers in South Asia.
         These dolphins have a highly sophisticated sonar system and swim on only one side of
         their body.

470.  
Kermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott, a childhood friend of creator Jim Henson,
         who became a professor of philosophy at Purdue University.



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