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January 12, 2017

* FACTS 31

Hi Friends!

1. There are currently more than 300 registered superheroes in the United States.

2. There is a city in Turkey called "Batman."

3. A shampoo containing real beer was marketed in 1970s under the brand name "Body On Tap."

4. San Francisco's Four Barrel Coffee bans their customers from "Taking about annoying hipster topics' in their premises.

5. A fortune cookie company once got the lottery numbers right, resulting in 110 winners and an investigation.


6. In Stockholm, there is a speed camera lottery where good drivers can win money from the fines of speeding drivers.


7. There's a city named 'Licking' and a town named "Butts" in the state of Missouri.

8. A 13-year old boy at a Florida school was once arrested for disruptive behavior; turning off his classmates' computers and excessive farting.

9. Chuck Norris was born one day before Nazi Germany surrendered.

10. Google's new employees called 'Noogles', are initiated by having to wear a propeller beanie cap on their first Friday.

11. Nokia was once famous as a manufacturer of toilet paper.

12. Hurricanes in Australia were originally named after local politicians that the weather man did not like.

13. Taco Bell's slogan in the mid 1990's was 'Make a Run for the Border'.

14. British police officers carry a teddy bear in their cars to comfort children after an accident.

15. A woman won the New Jersey lottery twice and now lives in a trailer park. She spent it all gambling in Atlantic City.

16. A man once wore 70 items of clothing in a Chinese airport to avoid paying the airline's extra baggage charge.

17. A high school played Justin Bieber's 'Baby' as a fundraiser between classes.Students had to pay to stop it. $1000 was collected in 3 days.

18. At MIT, you can earn your "Pirate Certificate" by taking courses in pistol use, archery, sailing, and fencing.

19. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Librarians in the United States.

20. There is a book titled "Everything Men know About Women', that is filled with about 128 blank pages.

Enjoy!