AMUSING IRRELEVANT FACTS

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Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WW I.

Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought
he might be retarded.

In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.

In one town in California, there is a $600 fine for detonating a nuclear
weapon inside city limits.

About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still
sitting on it.

You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any
other weather.

An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have
recently eaten bananas.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early
1500s.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in
2000 B.C.

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.

The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones -
Bhutan.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the
pets in their wallets.

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Bubble gum contains rubber.

You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.

Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in
Jello.

Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.

Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of
people.

Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over
his head.

In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the
bills.

About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more
money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]

It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.

Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.

Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as Pres.
Bush in 1991. And, rightfully so.

Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the
western Pacific.

LOL @ the einstien fact :D

Nice list herealone. Keep em coming!

and..

 Bhutan is the happiest country in the world..  i.e. a country with highest 'Gross National Happiness (GNH)'.

GNH value is proposed to be an index function of the total average per capita of the following measures:

1. Economic Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical
   measurement of economic metrics such as consumer debt, average income
   to consumer price index ratio and income distribution
2. Environmental Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical
   measurement of environmental metrics such as pollution, noise and
   traffic
3. Physical Wellness: Indicated via statistical measurement of physical health metrics such as severe illnesses
4. Mental Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical
   measurement of mental health metrics such as usage of antidepressants
   and rise or decline of psychotherapy patients
5. Workplace Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical
   measurement of labor metrics such as jobless claims, job change,
   workplace complaints and lawsuits
6. Social Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical
   measurement of social metrics such as discrimination, safety, divorce
   rates, complaints of domestic conflicts and family lawsuits, public
   lawsuits, crime rates
7. Political Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical
   measurement of political metrics such as the quality of local
   democracy, individual freedom, and foreign conflicts.

Nepal wud  have been same too., if Nepal has done the same thing as Bhutan did.,

kicking all fokatlal bahun leaders out of the country.,

but one day we will.,

jai nepal

nepal is even behind this small dragon kingdom, shame on us. their education sector is stronger than ours. thanks to the impotent leaders of nepal. now, we have madhises as ministers. all fuuccked up.

There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.

Mosquitoes have teeth.

Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.

Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."

In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

Aztec emperor Montezuma had nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both frontlegs in the air, the person died in battle;
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle;
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

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No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.

Sherlock Holmes never did say "Elementary, my dear Watson."

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you can't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

agree with nepali gorkha

Some of those weird facts and my interpretations:

About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still
sitting on it.
It's a good practice, for sooner the filth is flushed away the less foul smell for the next person waiting outside. I call it "drop n' flush" policy.

A Woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
Next time I get confused whether a person is male or female I might have to feel that person's heart with one palm and feel mine with the other. It sure sounds like a perfect recipe for getting a bitch slap from a tom boy.

Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
God forbid but if the insect doctor says my pet cockroach has a terminal cancer and has only one week to live, then I will  definitely go ahead and cut off it head so that it will live longer.

The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
The smaller the bodily size of a species is, the larger is its population except for humans. Think of millions of microbes on a piece of filth and limited number of gigantic elephants in the wild.

Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over
his head.
He was not the only one. Bizarre habits of other genuises include:
The poet Friedrich von Schiller used to keep rotten apples under the lid of his desk, open it, inhale deeply and compose.
Colette first picked fleas from her cat, then wrote.
Voltaire used his lover's naked back as a writing desk.
It's said that Edgar Allen Poe wrote with a cat on his shoulder.
T.S. Eliot preferred writing when he had a head cold.

Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.
They make incredibly nutrient-rich manure.

Mosquitoes have teeth.
However, it's the female mosquito that sucks (your blood). No wonder they say the female of the species is more deadlier than the male.


27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
It's that 27% that had difficulty getting laid (even in college).

Aztec emperor Montezuma had nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
Most likely that chap was able to devise a secret fiber-rich dietary formula for himself.

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
Duh! Why do you think he invented the light-bulb in the first place?
Here is another instance when the adage, necessity is the mother of all inventions, held true. Dayton, Ohio was such a boring place to be living in that the Wright Brothers had to invent the airplane to get the hell out of there.

lol...nice interpretations broda.... :D

That phone thing about Bhutan is bullshit.... I have made phone calls IN Bhutan in 1980.

And that GNH thing about Bhutan is bullshit too. Nepal has tons of happiness as well,..... ask Prachandey. It depends on whose happiness is measured. What Bhutan has is gross National Happiness..... it is so gross because it is explicitly for one segment of the people. Happiness indeed.... one can smile and smile and be a villain!

1. Economic Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of economic metrics such as consumer debt, average income to consumer price index ratio and income distribution (Average income is a bullshit concept unless income disparity is taken into account (that is my opinion)....... Bhutan has billionaires as well as folks who forage for roots in the forest to quell hunger.... that does not mean other countries don't have similar situations, but this certainly does not make Bhutan the happiest)
   
2. Environmental Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of environmental metrics such as pollution, noise and traffic (Of course! Kick out one sixth of the population, move new ones into the area, empty land, and plant forest.... when selected human life becomes subordinate to random trees, happiness is a debatable concept....)
   
3. Physical Wellness: Indicated via statistical measurement of physical health metrics such as severe illnesses (While the ruling elite fly to Bangalore, Vellore etc for routine medical check ups on government funds, villagers in critical conditions are carried on improvised stretchers by ten to twelve people over 50 to 100 kilometers to the nearest basic health unit which usually does not have a doctor attending..... happiest?)
   
4. Mental Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of mental health metrics such as usage of antidepressants and rise or decline of psychotherapy patients (Psychotherapy in Bhutan? You are kidding, right? It is jhakris, 'Pows' and lamas that handle such, and other medical issues in most parts of Bhutan.)
   
5. Workplace Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of labor metrics such as jobless claims, job change, workplace complaints and lawsuits (Workplace complaints and lawsuits? In Bhutan? Give us another few decades, if not centuries, to get there, ok. Please!)
   
6. Social Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of social metrics such as discrimination, safety, divorce rates, complaints of domestic conflicts and family lawsuits, public
   lawsuits, crime rates (Discrimination... ever heard of "no-objection certificate"? you need to have a 'bhutanese look' to get anywhere.... discrimination is the everyday ritual of the ancient Bhutanese political and social system. And yes, you don;t look your boss in the eye.)
   
7. Political Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of political metrics such as the quality of local democracy, individual freedom, and foreign conflicts. (Local democracy? In Bhutan? individual freedom? I am not even giong to say anything here!)

No hard feelings, but someone's gotta say it.

can bhutanese speak in nepali language? or only some of them can speak?...or only some can understand but not speak.

coz there's a girl from bhutan in my uni...and she says she doesnt understand nepali.

there are three distinct bhutanese nepalese - i forgot the names. but most of them are kicked out now. bhutanese used to speak broken nepalese before. i dunno now.

We Bhutanese speak Nepali as it used to be spoken in Ilaam and Jhapa. Nepali enough? Oh yeah, lot more Nepali than the gibberish spoken around Ratna Park. We would look confused if you should walk up to us and say "Hett Kyaaa Jhyaaaau garyaaa!" because that is not Nepali enough for us.

(The term "Bhutanese" is parallel to "American." There is no American ethnicity, language or religion. Bhutanese are citizens of Bhutan, but there is no ethnic community or a racial group called Bhutanese. It is a population of approximately 700,000 people made up of as many as 14 different ethnic groups. There are some who still wear animal skin for clothes. There are some who dress up like Tibetans. There are some whose dialects have no scripts. There are some who are animists. It is a small panorama of colorful people. The government wanted to paint this patchwork of colors into all dull grey and hence the political problems and the eviction which some would like to gleefully characterize as 'they all got kicked out')

The most predominantly spoken language is Nepali. The southern plains is pure Nepali. In the north, especially the capital, most of the people understand Nepali. If you are new, lost and need to speak to a stranger in Thimphu, try Nepali. Chances are s/he will understand you and can answer you well.

Heerealone, you should watch out. She might call you to it when you let slip something in Nepali that you shouldn't. Any Bhutanese that gets as far as the US as a student understands Nepali, speaks it and even some Hindi. About 45% of the population of Bhutan used to be nepali and Nepali was taught in schools until as late as the late eighties when the attack on the culture tradition and language began.  With about 100,000 evicted, there are still close to 2 lakhs Nepalis in Bhutan. Two government ministers are Nepalis: Thakur Singh Powdyal as education minister and NL Rai as minister of communications. When I was a kid, there used to be a government-sponsored magazine called "Bhutan ko Pratibimba" replete with stories of ghosts and poems and random stuff. The government mouthpiece, Kuensel, is published in Nepali, Dzongkha and English. The BBS has radio programs in Nepali too. I am not sure about the TV since I have not watched Bhutanese TV yet. So, yes, Bhutan has as many Nepalis as there are people of Tibetan or Indo-Burman origin there.

 

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.


send them to the NBA