A List of Ten Strange or Weird Facts
Whether you're planning a quiz or just like knowing the strangest trivia, here are ten weird and strange things you probably never knew and might want to use to impress people!
1) A typical person is said to sweat about half a pint of perspiration from their feet during a typical day!
2) It is reckoned there's enough phosphorus in the average adult human body to make over 2,000 matches!
3) Centuries before antibiotics were discovered in modern medicine Australian aborigines used to search for mould located in the shade of trees to successfully treat wounds.
4) The patron saint of toothache sufferers is St. Apollonia.
5) T. E. Lawrence - famed as Lawrence of Arabia in WW1 - had to write much of his book Seven Pillars of Wisdom twice because he left the original manuscript of the book on a train and it was never found.
6) The gold roof of the Krakow cathedral in Poland was badly dissolved by acid rain produced by the burning of fossil fuels like coal.
7) Up to 20% of all road traffic accidents in Sweden are said to involve a Moose.
8) According to the New York Times published 10th December 1903, any research into 'aeroplanes' was a waste of time and money. A week later the Wright brothers made their historic first flight in North Carolina.
9) The New York Times printed a story in 1920 that ridiculed the rocket experiements being carried out by Dr Goddard. The newspaper graciously printed an apology for its mistake nearly half a century later, on 17th July 1969, while Apollo 11 was en-route to the Moon.
10) Mr Michael Mellor spent 8 months of 1994 posing as a traffic cop in England before he was found out to be a fake and fined.
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