UNBELIEVABLE
(Investigator
118, 2008 January)
Did you
know
that:
- Kublai Khan
had 5000 resident court astrologers?
- A doctor
talked Hitler’s mother out of an abortion?
- Pope Paul
III
had 45,000 prostitutes on his payroll?
- More people
are killed by champagne corks, than by poisonous spiders?
- Failed
suicides in 19th century Britain were hanged?
- In
Connersville, Wisconsin, no man may fire his gun while his female
partner is having an orgasm?
- The penalty
for masturbation in Indonesia is beheading?
- 7% of
Americans believe Elvis is still alive?
- Elizabethan
women drank puppy urine to improve their complexion?
- 40,000
Americans are insured against kidnapping by aliens?
- Until the
19th century urine was used as a morning mouthwash?
- Millions of
Egyptian mummies were used for locomotive fuel in the 19th century
because wood and coal were in short supply?
Read Unbelievable
Facts (over 2500 of them) by Geoff Tibballs.