GENERAL RANDOM FACTS

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Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte both suffered from epilepsy.

It is widely held that hair on a corpse continues to grow. This macabre belief might be due to the fact that some tissue shrinkage occurs when one dies The hair only appears to have grown, because the skin around each hair has receded somewhat.

The average adult stands 04 inch taller in the morning than in the evening, because the cartilage in the spine compresses during the day.

It was the accepted practice in babylon 4,000 years ago that for amonth after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the 'honey month' or what we know today as the 'honeymoon'.

One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.

There are 49 different foods mentioned in the Bible.

The fastest moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.

Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital.

Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.

During the Renaissance, fashionable aristocratic Italian women shaved their hair several inches back from their natural hairlines.

Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.

Bette Midler, Barry Manilow and many other famous vocalists got their start in a New York City club called The Continental Baths.

The term 'throw one's hat in the ring' comes from boxing, where throwing a hat into the ring once signified a challenge. Today it nearly always signifies political candidacy.

In Papua New Guinea there are villages within five miles of each other that speak different languages.

The story of Noah's Ark was written earlier than the biblical version - in the Sumerian 'Epic of Gilgamesh' The 'Noah' of this epic is Utnapishtim, who is supernaturally warned to build a boat in which to survive the deluge. Similarity extends even to the sending out of birds to see if dry land has appeared.

The act of sneezing is called 'sternutation'.

In the 19th century, craftsmen who made hats were known to be excitable and irrational, as well as to tremble with palsy and mix up their words. Such behavior gave rise to the familiar expression 'mad as a hatter'. The disorder, called hatter's shakes, was caused by chronic mercury poisoning from the solution used to treat the felt. Attacking the central nervous system, the toxin led to behavioral symptoms.

A seagull drinks salt water because it has special glands that filter out the salt.

The first letter Vanna White ever turned on Wheel of Fortune was the letter T.

The Great Lakes contain 6 quadrillion gallons of fresh water, one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water. They are the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world.

In Siberia, in 1994, a container full of marijuana was discovered in the 2,000-year-old grave of a Scythian princess and priestess, among the many other articles buried with her.

Car manufacturer Henry Ford was awarded Hitler's Supreme Order of the German Eagle.

US presidents who were survived by their fathers: John F. Kennedy and Warren Harding.

The Indian atlas-moth has a 12-inch wing span.

During World War II, Americans had the idea of fitting bats with miniature bombs that would then be dropped as they flew over the enemy.

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