The bizarre facts below are from the 1998 Australian Disney Adventures Calender. Thanks to Disney Online. A group of Rhinoceros is called a crash. One quarter of all creatures on the planet are beetles. Bubble gum and fairy floss were invented by dentists. Seaweed is used to thicken icecream. A giraffe's tongue is 45cm long. An average woman consumes approximately 20kg of lipstick in her life. Out of 20000 species of bees, only 4 make honey. You use over 70 muscles to say one word. It's against the law for monsters to enter the town of Urbana, Illinios in the U.S.A. Eskimos have over 100 words for ice. Giant squids have eyes as big as watermelons. Only 5% of the ocean floor has been mapped as precisely as the moon. Eels have two hearts. In spring, a blue whale will eat up to four tonnes of food a day, that's about twice as much as a well fed human eats per year. Lobsters have pale blue blood. The mantis shrimp has an extending claw that can punch a hole through a glass jar. Starfish don't have brains. Icthyomaniacs are people who are crazy about fish. 99% of all animal species that ever lived on Earth are now extinct. Plants that are not cared for will cry for help, a thirsty plant will make a high-pitched sound that is too high for us to hear. Snakes have one lung. Antarctica is a desert. Males lions can sleep for up to 20 hours a day. A group of crows is called a murder. Slugs have 4 noses. It takes a plastic container 50000 years to start decomposing. The longest sausage made in Australia was 11 kilometres long. In Switzerland, it's against the law to slam your car door. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. Koalas are excellent swimmers. The following bizarre facts were sent to me by a friend! Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. There are more chickens than people in the world. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt." Almonds are a member of the peach family. Maine is the only state in the US whose name is just one syllable. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" -and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A." A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life." A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. On an American one dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!) Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz". The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. Coca-Cola was originally green. What do you think? It's pretty interesting stuff isn't it? It seems that some people have too much time on their hands. (including me!) © K. Ramsden, 1997-2007. All rights reserved.