Not-Quite-Amazing Facts
Oddities. The supernatural. The world of the bizarre. All my life, I have been fascinated by amazing facts. And so, I sent a team of researchers around the globe, searching for outlandish oddities and incredible trivia. They returned with facts so amazing... so incredible... so fantastic they could hardly be believed! Which stands to reason, because it turns out most of these "facts" were just B.S. those guys thought up on the plane ride home. What a waste of money! Still, I've got space to fill. So let's look at some other facts, ones that maybe aren't so amazing. Let's enter the world of the credible but true...the world of Not-Quite-Amazing Facts!
Fact: There are well over one dozen bones in the human body. If you were to lay them out end to end, they'd stretch for several feet!
Fact: Jupiter may be the largest planet in the solar system... but it boasts less phones booths than the tiny European principality of Monaco!
Fact: The Aztecs had no word for "pudding."
Fact: It easier to smile than frown. Smiling uses only 17 facial muscles while frowning takes 42. However, it only takes 24 muscles to smile at someone sarcastically while giving them the finger.
Fact: Ancient rock pictures, recently discovered in a prehistoric cave in France, reveal that as early as 2 million years ago, cavemen were really bad at drawing!
Fact: "Napoleon" is a palindrome for "Noelopan"... a made-up word which has no meaning!
Fact: Those amazing animals! It's common knowledge that kangaroos carry their young in pouches and ants can lift many times their own weight, but few realize that an ant can't lift a kangaroo.
Fact: The Millennium Dome in London, England is the largest enclosed space in the world. If you were to completely fill it with people, then your band must be pretty good.
Fact: Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1879. Ironically, it was the solution to exactly the same problem he'd been working on!
Fact: A chameleon can change colors to match its environment yet, come on, you can still see there's a chameleon there.
Fact: The tallest man in recorded history, who lived in a remote village in Kenya, stood well over six feet!
Fact: Many have heard of the Great Wall of China, the world's largest manmade object and the only human construction visible from orbit. But fewer have heard of the Okay Wall of China, which is also pretty good.
Fact: There are over two hundred words in the English language.
Fact: The Sun constitutes over 99% of the total mass of the solar system and has shone for over 4.5 billion years. If it were shrunk to the size of a golf ball and placed on the pitcher's mound of Yankee Stadium, it would most likely burn many of the players.
Fact: Eskimos have over 17 words for snow. Yet, they still get sick of talking about it.
