Friday Facts 6! Woo hoo!

Friday Facts is back in a proper manner! This week’s edition is chock full of facts you will never need in your entire lifetime. But no one comes online to do beneficial activities, so I’m helping netizens to further waste their precious times by bringing you another set of 10 very useless facts. Enjoy!

 

♦ A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meerkat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a ground squirrel. ♦

Make sure you don’t attempt to explain this to anyone with dyslexia, ADD or OCD. By then you will wish that you are a prairie mongoose meerkatdog ground squirrel.

 

 

♦ An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. ♦

Which human is responsible for this finding? So someone would actually bother to intoxicate ants and watch which sides they fall on. No wait, does spraying them with insecticide qualifies intoxicating them? Oooh! Now where is me insecticides?

 

 

♦ The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina. She gave birth to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother’s Day), at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days. ♦

I found this disturbing. A look-up on her in Wikipedia gives me this: “There was never evidence that Lina Medina’s pregnancy occurred in any but the usual way, but she never revealed the father of the child, nor the circumstances of her impregnation.” Last year I watched a documentary where a boy in Kazakhstan was pregnant with his own twin brother. It was something medical world called “foetus-in-fetu“. It struck me as odd that two cases of foetus-in-fetu occur in Kazakhstan. One is of Alamjan Nematilaev and the other was Mourat Zhanaidarov. From the name alone, this two cannot be the same person. The scary part in both cases was that the foetus was still alive when it was in its brothers, living as parasites off them.

 

 

♦ Attila the Hun (invader of Europe; 406-453), Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), Pope Leo VII (936-939), Pope John VII (955-964), Pope Leo VIII (963-965), Pope John XIII (965-72), Pope Paul II (1467-1471), Lord Palmerston (British Prime Minister, 1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (US Vice President, 1908-1979), and John Entwistle (The Who’s bassist, 1944-2002) all died while having sex. ♦
Make love, not war. And if you die in the process….well, tough luck. At least you probably had fun dying. I know, I know. It sounds so wrong.

 

♦ When movie directors do not want their names to be seen in the credits, they use the pseudonym “Allen Smithee” instead. It has been used over 50 times, starting with “Death of a Gunfighter” (1969). ♦

I don’t have a witty commentary for this, so I’ll do the right thing by directing you to the proper Wikipedia entry.

 

 

♦ Mercury is the only planet whose orbit is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit. ♦
I have no idea what an ‘orbit coplanar with its equator’ means but it makes me sound intelligent and sophisticated if I add this fact here. Since I’m not blessed with having both brains and beauty, I will settle with brains. Hey, if a woman can have fake 32E boobs, why I can have a ‘coplanar with its equator‘ capable fake brains.

 

 

♦ Tiger Woods’ real first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname “Tiger” in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier his father had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War. ♦

Good thinking Wood Sr! ‘Eldrick Wood’ wouldn’t have sounded so…celeb-ish. We forgive this name faux pas you have committed because you make up with it by putting another weird name that goes weirdly weird with the last name, but still better by miles from the original. I know I overused the weird word. Nevermind that. I wonder if Wood Jr had mickey taken out of him with that name while in school? He’s rich now so he might be laughing all the way to the bank, but deep down inside I’m sure his name has traumatized him. I know. He told me. Celebrity males loves hanging around fake women and I have a fake ‘coplanar with equator‘ brain, remember?

 

 

♦ Julius Caesar’s autograph is worth about $2,000,000. ♦

I was born a day after his assassination, 2029 years later. Has nothing to do with the above facts but I’m in need of an ego boost. So envy me. Please. My self-worth and self-esteem depends on it.

 

 

♦ There have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Graham Bell over rights to the patent of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history. ♦

Had he still be alive now, he would have faced mass torts litigations against irate parents whose daughters are on the phone 23 hours a day. Mr. Bell, this is a good time to continue being dead.

 

 

♦ The Toltecs (a 7th century tribe) used wooden swords so they wouldn’t kill their enemies. ♦

Hindus believe in afterlife and past life, so I bet Mahatma Gandhi had something to do with this. Even back in the 7^th century he was relentless.

 

 

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♥ Sharing is caring. Do it or I’ll turn you into a mongoose. And because ‘orbit coplanar with its equator’ decrees that you should subscribe to this blog, go ahead. Do it. But only if you want to. But hey, who are we kidding, you do want to. Right? Right?

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Right..? ♥

 

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