Weird NewsFunny Facts    Categories Crime & Law Entertainment Sex Life Animals Tech & Science Health & Food Business & Politics Other About... Stunning-Stuff.com brings you extremely weird news and odd, funny facts from all over the world. Have fun browsing our web site! Google Home Other Weird NewsFunny Facts You are browsing the category Other. The facts are ordered chronologically. DateText AscendingDescending  Total: 104    Displaying: 61-80 << 1 2 3 4 5 6 >> The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses. Antarctica is a desert. Icthyomaniacs are people who are crazy about fish. Eskimos have over 100 words for ice. The names of the continents all end with the same letter as they start with. Coincidence? The very first Olympic race, held in 776 BC, was won by Corubus, a chef. 365 different languages are spoken in Indonesia. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! The longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is lollipop. The name for having a fear of long words: Hippopotomonstroses­quippedaliophobia. Ironic, isn't it? Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone! The word "four" has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value. "Skepticisms" is the longest word that alternates hands when typing. On average people fear spiders more than they do death. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable". India never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history. Every year some 50 million cars are added to the world’s roads. The major air-polluting industries are iron, steel and cement. Total: 104    Displaying: 61-80 << 1 2 3 4 5 6 >> Random Funny Facts Zero point energy is a source of energy which is released when atoms stop moving, at -273 Celcius. During warm weather hippopotamus's secrete sweat that is pink. This substance not only cools them down but also helps fight infections of the skin. Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts. You cannot sneeze with your eyes open. Two-thirds of the world's executions occur in China. Google Statistics 129 Weird News Stories 437 Funny Facts Since Mon, 02 Feb 2004 [ Crime & Law | Entertainment | Sex Life | Animals | Tech & Science | Health & Food | Business & Politics | Other ] [ Contact | Advertising | Disclaimer | Link To Us | Help ] Copyright © 2003-2005 Stunning-Stuff.com. All rights reserved.