Bottom of the News… Friday, October 2, 2009

Good morning everyone and welcome to the bottom of the news. Today I am going to share with you some “not so important THINGS that you really don’t need to know,” in other words useless info to impress family, friends and fellow workers…

• The strongest muscle in the body is your toungue.
• Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 years old.
• Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
• The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagra Falls froze completely solid.
• There is no Betty Rubble in Flintstone's chewable vitamins.
• Banging your head against the wall uses 150 calories per hour.
• Right handed people live on average, nine years longer than left handed people.
• Polar bears are left handed.
• A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
• the shortes war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896; Zanzibar surrended after 38 minutes.
• Donald Duck was originally banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in airplane crashes.

And there you have it, THINGS that you don’t REALLY need to know as the Bottom of the News on this October 2, 2009!

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