Fwd: [tm_community] Bizarre FACTS

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Here are some very wierd and boring facts:

+---------------------- Bizarre Food ----------------------+ FACTSIf you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. Potato crisps were invented by a Mr. Crumm. Chinese eggs that are sold as delicacies in Singapore are often 100 years old. The same concoction used to give Salt & Vinegar chips their "bite" is also used to create reusable liquid hand warmers via a dramatic chemical reaction releasing a lot of heat. A can of Spam is opened every 4 seconds. As the cheese ripens, gas bubbles are formed by the chemical reaction. As the bubbles break, the holes are left in the cheese, which gives Swiss Cheese its characteristic look. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie! +--------------------- Bizarre Useless --------------------+ FACTS White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (For-merly of the Monkees). Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself. 101 Dalmatians and Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, Hancock and Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. +--------------------- Bizarre Death ---------------------+ FACTSBeing struck by lightening and killed is statistically most likely to occur while in the state of Florida.Before discovering malaria is passed to humans through mos-quitos people believed it came from bad air.For centuries the fear of beng buried alive was so prevelant that in Europe there was a group called The Society for the Prevention of Premature Burial.In ancient Rome a person could be executed for singing rude songs.The Chinese Heredity Jar is a traditional earthen container carried in funeral processions. One of its uses is to be used in a children's competition in which each child tries to stuff the most food for the deceased into the jar.Chicago mobster Al "Scarface" Capone died of complicatons from syphilis.