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.

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