Here are some of the strange but true facts which I found interesting and selected as I was browsing the web site www.strangefacts.net.

* In 1980, workers in a Las Vegas hospital were suspended. They had bet on which patient would die first.
* Earlier in China, doctors received their fees only if patients were cured.
* By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
* Lightning strikes the earth about 6,000 times per minute.
* Lobsters have blue blood.
* Chocolates can kill dogs.
* Ketchup was earlier sold as medicine.
* Rubber bands last longer in refrigerator.
* Dreamt is the only word ending with ‘mt’.
* Plastics take 500 years to break down.
* It’s impossible to sneeze with eyes open.
* In Bangladesh, kids are punished and jailed for cheating in final exams.
* It takes yard of sugarcane to make one sugar cube.
* Traffic lights were used even before the invention of cars.
* A normal person laughs five times a day.
* Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.
* Only one person in two billion will live up to 116 of age.
* On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
* 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the age of 30.
* In the 1800s, if anyone failed to die after committing a suicide, they had to face the death penalty.
* Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.