Quirky Facts

To all of the other quirky individuals out there be proud because you don’t need to follow the crowd. You are truly unique in more ways than one!

1. When intoxicated, ants always fall over to their right side.

2. Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
Brilliant man. This naturopathic ritual stimulates the brain.

3. For $14,000, a company can take your ashes and compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one.

4. More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products that are made for right-handed people.

6. An elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia, accidentally served margaritas to its students, thinking it was lemonade.

7. Austin High School in Texas removed candy from its vending machines. Now, some enterprising students are earning $200 per week dealing in black market candy.

8. Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

9. A Brussels Airlines flight to Vienna was aborted because the pilot was attacked in the cockpit. The attacker was a passenger’s cat.

10. David Bowie thinks he is being stalked by someone who is dressed as a giant pink rabbit. Bowie has noticed the fan at several recent concerts, but he became alarmed when he got on a plane and the bunny was on board.

11. A party boat filled with 60 men and women capsized in Texas after all the passengers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach.

12. Shrinkage: The Eiffel Tower shrinks 6 inches in winter.
Among other things

13. Albert Einstein never knew how to drive a car.

14. Astronauts cannot burp in space. There is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

15. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ restroom during a dance.

16. Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton Look-Alike contest.

17. 65% of Elvis impersonators are of Asian descent.

18. All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” read 4:20.

19. 100% of all lottery winners gain weight.

20. Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.
Notice all of the above are protection devices with the exception of the laser printer

21. Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

22. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
SOME women that is LOL

23. Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.

24. Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

25. Go figure: Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
Makes perfect sense to me