Strange Facts II

• If you lined up all the slinkys ever made in a row they could wrap around the Earth 126 times.
  
• In medievil Japan, dentists extracted teeth with their hands.
  
• Technically speaking, a female "dude" is known as a "dudine."
  
• Belgains have tried to deliver mail using cats. It didn't work.
  
• In ancient Egypt, pillows were made of stone.
  
• In the middle ages chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac.
  
• Ancient Rome had a rent-a-chariot business.
  
• In snow skiing, most men fall on their faces while most women fall on their behinds.
  
• Ropesville, Lariat, and Loop are all towns in Texas.
  
• The average cat has 24 whiskers.
  
• Fort Worth Texas was never a fort.
  
• There are more telephones than people in Washington D.C.
  
• The Oval Office is only 22 feet long.
  
• When astronomer Tycho Brahe lost the tip of his nose in a duel he replaced it with a gold one.
  
• The fish reel was invented around 300 A.D.
  
• Grocery shoppers spend an average of 8 minutes waiting in line at the supermarket.
  
• The average cost of a movie ticket in 1940 was 24 cents.
  
• If you are standing on a mountain top and the conditions are just right you can see a lit match from 50 miles away.
  
• There are 68,000 miles of phone line in the Pentagon.
  
• When the golf ball was introduced in 1848, it was called a "gutta-percha."
  
• The average car in Japan is driven 4,400 miles per year, in the U.S. its 9,500 miles per year.
  
• The gnomon is the thing that casts the shadow on a sundial.
  
• The oldest person to ever be issued a driver's license in the U.S. was 109.
  
• The Statue of Liberty's fingernails weigh about 100 pounds apiece.
  
• A rouleau is another name of coins wrapped in a roll of paper.
  
• A single pair of Elvis' underpants has an estimated value of $1,300.
  
• In the 13th century, Europeans baptized children with beer.
  
• The typewriter was invented before the fountain pen.
  
• Before Prohibition, the most common form of drinking beer at home was drinking it out of a bucket filled at a local pub or brewery.
  
• The U.S. has never lost a war in which mules were used.
  
• Louis XIV owned 413 beds.