Amazing Facts 3rd

# Ancient Egyptians kissed with their noses instead of with their lips.



# I've never had premonitions, but I think one day I might

# Kissing each day will keep the dentist away. Kissing encourage saliva to wash food from the teeth and lowers the level of the acid that causes decay, preventing plaque build-up



# Pnigophobia is the fear of choking on fish bones

# Mercedes Benz cars are named after Mercedes Jellinek, the daughter of Emil Jellinek, the Austrian businessman who founded the company.



# A "quinquagenarian" is someone in their fifties.

# The country of Andorra has a zero percent unemployment rate.



# Sony's first product was a rice cooker.

# A cocktail of gin and vermouth is called a Gibson if it has an onion in it. A cocktail of gin and vermouth is called a martini if it has an olive in it.



# Before "SOS" was introduced as the most recognized distress signal, the signal was "CQD." "CQ" stood for "seek you" and "D" stood for "Danger"

# Because of their racing metabolisms, hummingbirds are always two hours away from starvation.



# The 1912 Olympics was the last time gold medals were made entirely of gold.

# Pregnant mothers carrying boys are less forgetful than those carrying girls.



# In the Czech Republic, peas are thrown at brides and grooms rather than rice.

# Anyone in good enough condition to run three miles a day is in good enough condition not to have to.



# Honeybees, turtles and termites are all deaf.

# The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci.



# "Paraphilia" is the technical term for sexual deviation or perversion.

# Lions sleep almost 20 hours a day.



# "Caterpillar" means "hairy cat" in Old French.

# Waterskiing was originally called "plank-gliding" in England.



# There are more germs in the human mouth than in the anus.

# The first issue of Playboy, in 1953, which sold for a mere fifty cents, was never dated, because Hugh Hefner assumed he'd never publish another.



# Badminton used to be known as "poona." 

# Giraffes were at one time referred to by Europeans as "cameleopards," believing giraffes were the offspring of camels and leopards.



# Japan's Tokyo Zoo closes for two months each year to give the animals a break from visitors.

# A cockroach breaks wind every 15 minutes.



# Because of heavy traffic congestion, Julius Caesar banned all wheeled vehicles from Rome during daylight hours.

# During the film Don Juan, John Barrymore delivers a grand total of 191 kisses to a variety of different women, at the rate of one every 53 seconds.



# Phagophobia is the fear of swallowing.

# The average woman uses about 7,000 words a day. Men use around 2,000



# The colors yellow, red and orange are used in fast food restaurants because those are the colors that stimulate a hunger response.

# The black lines on a basketball are called the Channels.



# Nostophobia is the fear of returning home.

# Stygiophobia is the fear of hell.



# The common mousetrap was invented by the same guy who invented the machine gun—Hiram Maxim.