Fact 3

• Linda Wolfe is the most married women in the world.  She legally married 23 men one after the other; each marriage ending in the divorce of death of the husband.
• There are no cemeteries in San Francisco, CA (excluding the federal National Cemetery at Lincoln Way)
• Married men tip better than unmarried men
• India never invaded any country in her history
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• In Scotland, people throw stinking crud like eggs and sauces on their brides.  That was apparently not true, thanks for those who pointed this out.  Scottish throw confetti like many how it is in many countries. In some other countries, they throw rice.
• Natural pearls melt in vinegar
• Licorice (or liquorice) and avocado are among the food that sets the mood for love making
• An olive tree can live up to 1500 years
• The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F"
• Cleopatra married two of her brothers
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
• The tradition of brides carrying a bouquet of flowers started with the brides trying to hide their body odor
• Buttermilk does not contain any butter
• Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen
• The earth is about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons in weight
• A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.  I was corrected on that by a friend who stated that :  The goldfish has a memory of 3-months instead of 3 seconds.  Also provided: Goldfish "can be trained to memorize mazes for up to one month, and can be trained to press levers for food, even at a specific time of day. The sale of fishbowls (due to their inability to provide sufficient oxygen and the possibility that they may stunt growth) have been banned in some countries"
• There are 86,400 seconds in day
• The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515
• Ants never sleep
• The human brain is 80% water
• On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.  Was corrected about that, it is actually a Canadian flag.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, victim, silver or purple.  I was corrected about "orange" by a friend:  ((taken from an episode of Stephen Fry's QI show) Blorange - is a place in Wales.  Also: Gorringe - is a common English surname of many, amongst whom there was Henry Honeychurch Gorringe, the guy who brought Cleopatra's Needle to NY Central Park!
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.  She actually had a normal set of 10.  The mistake was caused by a clump of sand on her feet during a photo shoot when she was known as Norma Jeane.
• If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white
• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law that stated you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. (Appears to be an urban legend.  The rule of thumb refers to a primitive way of writing measurements before a standardized system.  The thumb width at that time was considered closed to about 1 inch - maybe on average, the thumbs of our ancestors were thicker!)
• 'Jedi' is an official religion in Australia with over 70,000 followers.
• Church of England has apologized to Charles Darwin 200 years after his birth