Funny Factoid Friday Again, And Another Eighteen Universal Truths

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

This funny factoid Friday I have a few more Universal Truths. As before, that does not mean that every one of them applies to everyone, but weirdly most of them do.

And if you are wondering after you read this, the answer is yes, I have put aside a thin piece of wood specifically to stir paint (you’ll see what I mean later!). Oh dear :o(

Enjoy!

1) Some days you see lots of people on crutches.

2) Every bloke has at some stage while taking a pee, flushed half way through and then raced against the flush.

3) Old women with mobile phones look wrong.

4) Its impossible to look cool whilst picking up a Frisbee.

5) Driving through a tunnel makes you feel excited.

6) You never ever run out of salt.

7) Old ladies can eat more than you think.

8) You can't respect a man who carries a dog.

9) There's no panic like the panic you momentarily feel when you've got your hand or head stuck in something.

10) No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers.

11) Despite constant warning, you have never met anybody who has had their arm broken by a swan.

12) The most painful household incident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug.

13) People who don't drive slam car doors too hard

14) You've turned into your dad the day you put aside a thin piece of wood specifically to stir paint.

15) Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal his or her nose.

16) Bricks are horrible to carry.

17) In every plate of chips there is a bad chip.

18) Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. 

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Do You Know…. Yes, It’s Another Flipping Fun Filled Factoid Friday!

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

It’s Friday again and what better day to indulge in a little more factoid fun. Start your weekend off full of useless knowledge that you can impress and bore your friends with.

Enjoy!

Do you know….

That 80 percent of Harvard students graduate with honors

That the chances that a burglary in the US will be solved are 1 in 7

That the government owns one third of all the land in the US

That they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM.  Why?

That James Buchanan was the only US President to remain a bachelor

That the only first lady to carry a loaded revolver was Eleanor Roosevelt

That the only US President to win a Pulitzer was John F. Kennedy, for "Profiles in Courage"

That the only US President to be awarded a patent was Abraham Lincoln, for a system of buoying vessels over shoals

That the US President who discovered a new proof for The Pythagorean Theorem was Jimmy Carter  (I think is was hidden under the oval office carpet)

That cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there, duh?

What happens if you are in a vehicle going the speed of light and you turn on the headlights?

That honey is the only food that does not spoil

That a Hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards

That Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes

Why is the word “lisp” spelled with all the letters that people with that affliction cannot pronounce?

That a pig is the only animal besides human that can get sunburn

That ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water

That an eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it

That in the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees

That for some strange reason Americans drive on parkways and park on driveways.

That polar bears are left-handed

Why is “dyslexic” such a difficult word to spell?

That when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio

That Eskimos never gamble  -  I bet you didn’t know that.

That the world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910

That the youngest pope was 11 years old

That Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school

That proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses

That when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo

That Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner

What would happen if you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height?

That your nose and ears never stop growing

Why isn't “phonetic” spelled the way it sounds?

That Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined  -  Uranus!  -  No, Jupiter.

That they have square watermelons in Japan ... they stack better

That Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation

Why your nose runs and your feet smell?

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Today Is Friday The Thirteenth, Unlucky For Some – Here’s Another Test

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

Personally I think its bad luck to be superstitious. Nevertheless a lot of people think that a Friday which falls on the 13^th of the month is a day where ‘luck’ tends to be bad rather than good. Today they might have something – here’s another test :o(

As usual some are difficult, some are easy and some are just tricky, but you can fine the answers way down below

1.  July and August are two consecutive months with 31 days each. What other two consecutive months have 31 days each?

2.  What is the opposite of not good?

3.  Two girls played four games of checkers. Each girl won 3 games. How can this be?

4.  Two mothers and two daughters went to lunch. The meal for each came to $1.10. The total bill for all the meals came to $3.30. How did this happen?

5.  Which of the following sentences is correct?

Nine and five are thirteen.
or
Nine and five is thirteen.

6.  What states contain just four letters, three of which are vowels?

7.  "How much will 1 cost?" "20 cents," says the clerk in the hardware store. 
"And how much will twelve cost?"

"40 cents."
"Okay, I'll take nine hundred twelve."

"That will be 60 cents."
What was the customer buying?

8.  What types of animals can jump higher than a house?

9.  Rearrange the letters of NEW DOOR to make one word.

10. What familiar continuum is expressed by the following words:

flushed, New Jersey town, cowardly, naive, depressed, dye-stuff, flower.

11. In the following line of letters, cross out six letters so that the remaining letters, without altering their sequence, will spell a familiar English word. 

B S A I N X L E A T N T E A R S

12. Give the first names of the following people:
Dante, Rembrandt, Michelangelo

13. An eskimo, even if he and his family are on the verge of starvation, will not attempt to eat a Penguin's egg. Why?

14. What is the main characteristic of an Hawaiian snake?

15. Supply the missing number: 77, 49, 36, 18, ____ .

16. Spell JOKE.
      Spell FOLK.
      Spell POKE. 
      Spell the word which means the white of an egg.

17. Kansas City and St. Louis are 240 miles apart. A train leaves Kansas City travelling towards St. Louis at 60 mph; another leaves St. Louis at the same time, travelling towards Kansas City at 40 mph. Which train will be farther from St. Louis when they meet?

18. If a man is 6 feet tall and weighs 300 pounds, how many hard boiled eggs can he eat on an empty stomach?

19. A child is born in Boston, Mass., to parents who were both born in Boston, Mass. The child is not a U.S. citizen. How is this possible?

20. Carrie Cotter was born on December 27, yet her birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?

21. What 8 letter word has 7 consonants and 1 vowel?

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ANSWERS

1.  December and January.

2.  good.

3.  They did not play each other.

4.  There were just three women -- grandmother, mother, daughter.

5.  Neither is correct -- 9 + 5 = 14.

6.  Ohio, Iowa.

7.  House Numbers.

8.  All animals -- houses can't jump.

9.  ONE WORD.

10. Colors of the Rainbow.

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet.

11. B A N A N A (Cross out the letters: S I X L E T T E R S)

12. They are the first names.

13. Eskimo is at the North Pole; Penquins are at the South Pole.

14. They don't exist.

15.  8.

16. A L B U M E N (NOT yolk! -- that's the yellow part!)

17. When they meet, they are the same distance from St. Louis.

18. Just one. After that, his stomach isn't empty.

19. The child was born before 1776.

20. Carrie lives in the Southern Hemisphere.

21. STRENGTH. There may be others...