strange but it’s true

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.*Politics is a murky business, even in Finland.  The truth was that back in the late 1970s Markku Hopopainen introduced an economy measure to reduce the spending on comics in Helsinki libraries.  It was mischief-makers who distorted the facts and claimed the action was because of Donald's lack of pants in the comic strip.

• In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
• Every person has a unique tongue print.
• Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
• 'Kemo Sabe' means 'soggy shrub' in Navajo.
• In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
• Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
• Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
• In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
• About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
• You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.
• An average person laughs about 5 times a day.
• Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

• Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

• The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
• A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 mph.
• The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
• The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
• A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
• The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
• In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
• Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
• Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
• Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
• Bubble gum contains rubber.

• You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.