Here, culled from hundreds of magazines, newsletters, syndicated columns, wire services and news releases, are some bits and pieces too silly to expound upon but too weird to neglect:
— Razor blades last longer if between shaves you immerse them in baby oil.
— Horse collars were invented about 1000 A.D. Before that, horses pulled objects with their tails.
— There are about 91 billion pennies in circulation in the United States.
— Officially, the meter is now defined as the distance over which a ray of light will travel in 1/299,792,458th of a second.
— Denmark recently issued postage stamps featuring some of the country`s favorite comic-strip characters.
— The rim of a quarter has 119 grooves.
— U.S. mushroom production has doubled since 1983.
— Insomniacs sleep only 43 minutes less a night than regular people.
— Sleeping pills increase sleep by only 25 to 35 minutes a night.
— For 2 of every 10 people, the second toe is the longest.
— Women`s feet smell worse than men`s.
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— Fifty-seven percent of cat owners consult their pets about important matters.
— More than 224 casket companies have gone out of business in the last 14 years.
— Women who spend lots of time together synchronize their menstrual cycles.
— One in three college students believes it is important to be a millionaire before the age of 35.
— Thirty-six percent of adults eat out on an average day.
— American women buy $1 billion worth of nail-care products each year.
— There are about 10,000 taxidermy shops in this country.
— The ”bug room” at the Smithsonian Institution houses 20,000 dermestid beetles, whose job it is to pick clean the skeletons of animals and ready them for storage.
— The Indian name for Bryce Canyon is ”red rocks standing like men in a bowl-shaped canyon.”
— Some coffee shops in Amsterdam sell marijuana-laced pancakes called
”space cakes.”
— The remote areas of New Zealand are known as ”wop-wops.”
— Walrus bulls eat as much as 100 pounds of food a day and often weigh the same as a midsize car.
— Stuffed animals can help adults relieve stress because the toys remind grown-ups of the less-troubled days of childhood.
— The shortest verse in the King James version of the Bible is John 11:35–”Jesus wept.”
— About 47 percent of America`s 150,000 bartenders are women.
— Psychologists have undertaken a study of which types of people are the biggest bores and why.
— One in 20 secretaries eats a 650-calorie lunch.
— The glue on a postage stamp contains 1/10 of a calorie.