Tuesday, March 24, 2009
♥ 1:54 AM
Mao Rse-Tang, the first chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, was born 26 December 1893. Before his rise to power, he occupied the humble position of Assistant Librarian at the University of Peking.
Coffee is the second largest item of international commerce in the world. The largest is petrol.
King George III was declared violently insane in 1811, 9 years before he died.
At the age of 12, Martin Luther King became so depressed he tried committing suicide twice, by jumping out of his bedroom window (on the first storey).
It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.
The Turk's consider it considered unlucky to step on a piece of bread.
The two highest IQ's ever recorded (on a standard test) both belong to women.
Hindu men believe(d) it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marring a tree first. The tree ( his third wife ) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again.
The Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with the Roman God of the sea, Poseidon, and ordered his soldiers to throw their spears into the water at random.
The Dutch in general prefer their french fries with mayonnaise.
In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.
SUPER LOL.!! I {HEART} http://home.bitworks.co.nz/trivia/human.htm AND ITS ALL THANKS TO GUNA AND THE FABULOUSLY BORING POLY LECTURES. SIGH.
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