Strange But True: Parked car

By Lucie Winborne

  • The average lipstick has 293 swipes.

  • In Missouri, if you are under 21, you can be charged with illegal possession of alcohol without even taking a breathalyzer test if you happen to be found taking out empty alcohol cans and bottles in your trash.

  • The first-ever Olympic Games was won by a chef.

  • There is a fish (salema porgy) that when eaten causes severe hallucinations lasting up to 36 hours. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it served as a party drug during the Roman Empire.

  • Warm and light colors appear closer, while cool and darker colors appear farther away.

  • Chloroform was once touted as an asthma cure. Unfortunately, this would eventually result in the deaths of patients who had overdosed during an asthma attack.

  • According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at least 50% of ladder-related accidents involved individuals carrying items while they climbed. Additionally, each year, more than 900,000 people receive emergency room treatment from ladder-related injuries.

  • Ninety-five percent of the average car's lifetime is spent being parked.

  • Biologists have found that plants exhibit competitiveness among strangers of the same species, but are more accommodating toward their siblings.

  • Left-handed people are more likely to use fountain pens.

  • Tsutomu Yamaguchi was one lucky fellow. He was in Hiroshima for work when the first A-bomb hit, made it home to Nagasaki for the second, and lived to be 93.

  • The eyes of the celestial eye goldfish are bigger than its stomach.

Thought for the Day: "It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad." -- C.S. Lewis

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