Here Are Some AMAZING FACTS & TRIVIA (First Edition)

To impress your friends and dazzle your enemies!!

• Your average rattlesnake can strike at 5.9 feet per second. My advice is to stand at least 6 feet away.
• Who was the very first athlete to go on Twitter? Shaquille O’Neal.
• Former Soviet party member Mikhail Gorbachev and his grand-daughter starred in a Pizza Hut commercial in Russia
• The deaths-head moth artwork on the “Silence of the Lambs” movie poster is actually by Salvador Dali and is of seven naked women posed like a skull.
• Hate mosquitoes? Did you know they kill 725,000 people a year? Now I REALLY hate them!
• Sheep don’t recognize each other after they’ve been sheared. Hmmm. . . maybe they need name tags?
• The world’s biggest gingerbread house? It’s in Brian, Texas and it’s 60′ long, 40′ wide, 10′ tall, and it’s 100% edible!
• Hey, who’s the voice of SIRI? It’s voice-over actor Susan Bennett, who used to be a back-up singer for Roy Orbison.
• According to the CDC, more people died of alcohol poisoning than overdosing on painkillers & heroin combined.
• Every Easter, Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts hides not eggs but kegs of beer in the local forest for students to hunt and find.
• Raw kidney beans are extremely toxic and are rendered inert after being cooked. Never eat them raw or you can suffer severe abdominal pains.
• In China, if you’re filthy rich, you can avoid jail time by hiring a body-double to take your place in prison.