ly Speaking.
AMAZING BUT TRUE FACTS by ANDREW GOFF:
85. The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.
86. A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.
87. The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.
88. The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.
89. King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.
90. Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.
91. In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.
92. Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and .. when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.
93. Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
94. Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.
95. Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.
96. Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.
97. You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
98. To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.
The creator of the question mark. He's a jerk.