Monday, November 17, 2008

Fun Facts with Professor Williams

Over the weekend I read several books, one of which was a 1,200 page book of strange and often useless facts. I have listed some of the more interesting ones below.

TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

In the early 1970's the NASA conducted an experiment to see how long astronauts could live on water, vitamins and their own feces. The experiment was conducted at SMU Campus in Dallas, Texas with 14 first year law students. After 7 weeks the project was suspended. Conclusion: Indefinitely.

Dust was invented by unemployed cleaners in Bulgaria in the late 1600's. Since then the invention multiplied exponentially and is out of control.

When you play a country music album backwards your dog recovers, your truck runs again, your wife comes back and you get out of jail.

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