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Butterflies taste with their hind feet. Only female mosquitoes bite. Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep. STRANGE LAWS During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who wore a beard was required to pay a special tax. It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona. In the country of Turkey, in the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death. A Virginia law requires all bathtubs to be kept out in the yards, not inside the houses. STRANGE GAMBLING NOTES In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven. STRANGE BODY NEWS The human tongue tastes bitter things with the taste buds toward the back. Salty and pungent flavors are tasted in the middle of the tongue, sweet flavors at the tip. (Try it!) A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour. It is impossible to sneeze and keep one's eyes open at the same time. (Try it!) STRANGE MISCELLANY "Breath," by Samuel Beckett, was first performed in April, 1970. The play lasts thirty seconds, has no actors, and no dialogue. In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. |
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