Weird facts

Day 1,170, 15:15 • Published in Ireland Ireland • by Ronan Donovan

1. California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.

2. Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.

3. Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.

4. In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined!

5. You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.

6. There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

7. A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal during World War I.

8. Albert Einstein was once offered the Presidency of Israel. He declined saying he had no head for problems.

9. In 1939 the US political party 'The American Nazi Party' had 200,000 members.

10. Dublin is home of the Fairy Investigation Society.

11. In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

12. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

13. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

14. Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.

15. In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.