Fun Facts II

• On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
• Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
• Almonds are members of the peach family.
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
• Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
• A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to theproduction of Guinness beer.
• The bubbles in Guinness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
• Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
• Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
• A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
• It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
• Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
• The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
• The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
• Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
• Horses and Rabbits cannot vomit.
• To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
• Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
• When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing". They actually pass out from sheer terror.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
• The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
• Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I.
• Every person has a unique tongue print.
• Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.