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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Real Amazing Facts 30

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
 

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
 

Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
 

The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."
 

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
 

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
 

Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
 

TIME Magazine’s “Man of the Year” in 1938 was Adolf Hitler.
 

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.