Random Facts!!!

• Zoophobia is the fear of animals.
• Members of the Nazi SS had their blood type tattooed on their armpits.
• At horserace tracks, the favorite wins less than 30% of the time.
• The Pantheon is the largest building from ancient Rome that survives intact.
• Until the 1870s, baseball was played without the use of gloves.
• In ancient China and certain parts of India, mouse meat was considered a great delicacy
• Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka
• There are more people alive today than have ever died
• The Japanese Santa Claus is a woman
• Chaetophobia: a fear of hair
• Fourteenth century physicians didn't know what caused the plague, but they knew it was contagious. As a result, they wore an early kind of bioprotective suit which included a large beaked head piece. The beak of the head piece, which made them look like large birds, was filled with vinegar, sweet oils and other strong smelling compounds to counteract the stench of the dead and dying plague victims.
• John Milton used 8,000 different words in his poem, 'Paradise Lost.'
• Lobsters are scared of octopuses The sight of one makes a lobster freeze
• A man in average spends about 106 days out of their lives shaving
• Dogs don't 'sweat with their tongues' as is often said. The only sweat glands of significance on a dog are in the soles of their feet. Dogs cool themselves primarily by rapid breathing, which is why they pant after running. When a dog sticks its tongue out, he does so because it is moist and evaporation helps to cool it not because he is sweating
• Nose hair serves the same purpose as the air filter in your car
• The term 'the whole 9 yards' came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got 'the whole 9 yards.'
• Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue
• City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong
• The anemometer is an instrument which measures the force, velocity, or pressure of the wind.
• Infant beavers are called kittens.
• Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand and write with the other--at the same time