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| Can you spot the made up fact? |
- Japanese research has concluded that moderate drinking can boost IQ levels.
- The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth is called Arachibutyrophobia.
- Macadamia nuts are not sold in their shells because it takes 300 pounds per square inch of pressure to break the shell.
- Florida: An elephant tied to a parking meter must pay the regular parking fee.
- In Samoa, it is illegal to forget your wife's birthday.
- In Alabama it is illegal to stab yourself to gain someone's pity.
- In the UK it is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- London taxis (black cabs) must carry a bale of hay and a sack of oats.
- Descendants of Sweeney Todd, the cannibalistic barber, founded a sausage factory in Somerset, England after the First World War.
- The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
- Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
Answer is now in the comments section!
8 comments:
Hi Bazza - I have no idea ... but on a vaguely educated guess ... I'd say the macadamia one is the odd one out - you'll tell us later no doubt. Cheers Hilary
Hello Bazza, The problem with your quiz is that these days, we can believe almost anything, when we see what is actually happening! I do know that macadamias do have very hard shells, but you can buy them in the shell, with a groove sawn in, and a metal key to twist open the nuts.
--Jim
Ha ha... insane proposals, all of them!! The word queue is a word we use all the time, but Americans are not familiar with it. So I will select that option.
Interesting: I will post the answers in a few days but, supposedly, all but one of the statements is true!
Well, the made up fact is that Sweeney Todd has no descendants - because he is a fictional character.
All of the other statements are (supposedly and in some cases unbelievably) true!
I would not have guessed the made up one. Especially after reading about the elephant at the parking meter in Florida. Maybe in India, but in Florida?
Sherry: Crazy isn't it? Obviously some of those laws and bye-laws must be ancient!
LOL- I knew Sweeney Todd was not real but some of those other 'facts' gave him a run for the money! lol Have a great night- Diana
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