Just a few strange facts

- The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!

- The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye

- Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

- Slugs have 4 noses!

- More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!

- One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet

- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails

- The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'

Who Was Les Paul?

The Gibson Les Paul, along with the Fender Stratocaster, is on of the world's most recognisable and iconic electric guitars. But who exactly is Les Paul?
Born Lester Polfus, Paul was working as a Jazz and blues musician in the Thirties but found himself incresingly dissatisfied with the primitive electric guitars on offer. Early attempts resulted, in 1941, in one of the world's first solid-body electric guitars. In 1951, the Gibson Guitar Corporation built a guiter based on Paul's designs and persuaded him to endorse it. Gibson has not looked back since, and its guitars are the instruments of choice for musicians past and present, from Jimi Hendrix to Slash of Guns N' Roses. Now 91 Les Paul is still to be found gigging weekly at a New York jazz club.gibson.com

A bowl of the UK version of Kelloggs All-Bran contains 133% more salt than the US version and a bowl of the UK version of Special K contains 31% more sugar than the US version. (according to the Guardian 26.10.06)

Another Friday 13th Fact

Friday the 13th it considered unlucky in English and Portuguese-speaking cultures. In the Spanish speaking world it is Tuesday the 13th that brings bad luck.

Some sources say that a fear of Friday 13th may be the most widespread superstition in the United States.

Cattle are responsible for 3% of the UK's greenhouse gasses, each cow could produce as much as 500 litres of methane per day. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6046340.stm

Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday 13th

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.