03/03/25 Grif.Net - Unusual Facts
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[Each month in 2025, we wander unsupervised down memory lane, repeating the Grif Net email/blog posts for an entire week from 25 years ago (from March 2000). I found out my attempt at humor has NOT gotten better in passing years, but lots that were funny THEN are still funny NOW.]
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart. This is why people have always said "God bless you" after a sneeze.
Only 7% of the population are lefties.
40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. Don't ask how.
The average housefly lives for one month.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened. Ask me how I know.
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
If coloring wasn't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
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Dr Bob Griffin
"Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!"
