Cool True Facts around the world

These cool facts from around the world are all very true and just show what a crazy world we live in:

In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female.
Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death.

In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman's genitals, but is prohibited from looking directly at them during the examination. He may only see their reflection in a mirror.

Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a corpse. This also applies to undertakers. The organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or piece of wood at all times.

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.

There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time...
Reason: Under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins to marry.

In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. The husband's lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired.

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England -
but only in tropical fish stores.

In Cali, Colombia, a woman may only have sex with her husband, and the first time this happens, her mother must be in the room to witness the act.

In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, it is illegal for a man to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time.

In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: Prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only "in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises."

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Starfish don't have brains.


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• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
  
  
• The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
  
  
• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
  
  
• A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. I know some people like that!
  
  
• A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
  
  
• A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
  
  
• During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance.
  
  
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! That explains it!
  
  
• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
  
  
• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
  
  
• The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
  
  
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
  
  
• The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." There was never a recorded Wendy before.
  
  
• The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
  
  
• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
  
  
• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
  
  
• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
  
  
• The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
  
  
• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
  
  
• The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
  
  
• Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
  
  
• By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
  
  
• Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
  
  
• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
  
  
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
  
  
• Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
  
  
• An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
  
  
• The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
  
  
• The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
  
  
• Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Not to mention the other drawback.