Random Thoughts V4.0

Some unwrapped mummies had a total bandage length of about 1.5 miles.
Although it’s only 2% of our body weight, the brain uses 20% of all oxygen we breathe, 20% of the calories we take in, and 15% of the body’s blood supply.

Income tax was first introduced in England in 1799 by British Prime Minister, William Pitt.

The coccyx is the only bone in our 200+ bone system that serves no purpose.

The Aztecs had a primative form of basketball called “ollamalitzli.” The difference from today’s sport is that the first person to get the ball through the ring high above the ground had the right to collect the clothes right off the backs of everyone watching the game.

If you were to guess at a number chosen between 5 and 10, you would be wrong five out of six times.

Donna Griffith is credited with the longest recorded bout of sneezing. It lasted 978 days, from January 1981 to September 1983.

According to old historical opinion, Valentine’s Day is a good day to prepare eels for the purposes of magic. It was once believed that eating an eel’s heart would give sight of the future.

The youngest person to receive a driver’s license is a 14 year 8 month year old by the name of Andrezej Makowski.

The most miles ever put on a car is 1,615,000 miles on a 1966 Volvo P-1800.

Renee Descartes, the 17th century philosopher and mathematician, is the person responsible for “x” being the universal variable in algebra.