- On an online auction website in Shanghai a cell phone number of 135 8585 8585 was sold for 1.5 million because in Chinese it sounds like “ let me, be rich, be rich, be rich.”
- In Tokyo, Japan a funeral was held for the eggs and chickens destroyed from the bird flu.
- The term pica (defined as the consumption of un edible things) comes from the magpie bird who eats almost anything.
- The number of pink plastic flamingos sold outnumbers the number of pink flamingos living in the US with over 20 million sold.
- In the medieval times, Great Britian had an egg throwing festival to see which choir boy could catch an egg thrown by a priest at exactly noon.
Today's research collected through: The Mental Floss Fact Generator, a countless number of Bathroom readers, and a Ripley's Believe It or Not flip calendar.
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